Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1909, Page 4

e e ——————C _THE OMAHA DALY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Bntered at Omaha pestoffice as second cla#s matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (Inciuding Sunday), per week lse Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week 100 Daily Bee (without Sunday), one year $4.00 Dally Bee and Sunday; one year (T DELIVERED HY CARRIER Evening Bee (without SundAy) per week 6c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week 100 Bunday Bee, one yea s 7 Saturday Bee, one year... ... 160 Address all complaints of irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFIGES, Omaha—The Beo Bullding South Omaha—Twenky-fourth and N. Counncll Bluffe<15 Sgott Street. Lincoin—518 Little Building Chicago—148 Marquette Bullding. New rk—Rooms 1101-1102 No. Thirty-third Street. Washington—7% Fourteenth Street, N. CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to news and ed- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps recelved In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omabha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. U West w. STAT ENT OF . CIRCULATION. Douglas County, as.: B. Taschuck, treasurer of The Publishing Company, being duly rn, says that the actual number of fuil and complete coples of The Daily, Morn- ing, Evening and Synday Bee printed dur. State of Nebraska, Gaorge Beo ing the month of November, 199, was as follow 42,070 10. 17. is 19 20, 21. Total. Retarued ot Totay Luiy Average Glku, B, TZSCHUCK, Treasurcr. SULSCIivcu 10 Y presence and sworn to Liibie iue Lis AsU Guy of Deceinder, 18.9, eui) M. P. WALKER, Notary Pubile. Subscribers leaviag the city tem- porurily should have The Bee malled to them, Address will be changed often as requested. i The New ‘Year's horns in New York will also gound taps for Tammany. for a change of customs in the customs service, Now the struggle begins to make one's subconscious self forget the terminal 9, by tlonists. want to turn on the tap at Washington, Chicago m:y_be e;;&;E to make the punishmrent--of its coal grafters soot the crime. “For it Is always fair weather when good fellows get together” at a bar as- sociation banquet. —— The householder who has been suf- fering from furnacitis will beam upon the rising mercury. A kaleldoscope has no more changes than the latest edition of “Who's Who in the Rallway World."” It looks as though the Arctic ex- plorers carrying keys to the citles had left the north gates open. — One of the dlsadvantages of hasty Iynchings s shown in the case of Cairo, which now thinks it strung up the wrong man. \ The attention of old Doctor Stork is invited to his neglect of a great state in letting the supply of school children run dewn in Tow: The annual report of the great waste in fire losses in the United States may give the world the impression that we have meney to burn, —— In executing their decision to clean house in their departments, the cabi- net members will need something more than a feather duster. ———— The reports being filed with the gov- ernor prove that if Nebraska does nothing else, it feeds its charges at the state institutions well. — After they have been running. their newspaper a Iittle while, the girl strik- ers of New York will wish they were back making shirtwaists, —_— The time tables for 1910 show no change in the schedule of the water wagon, which will doubtless continue as a loeal accommodation, — An appropriate New Year's gift for your neighbor .who hasn't cleaned his sidewalk would be a snow shovel tagged “Good resolution No. 1. | e— Accordiug to the Interstate Com- merce commission, the railroads' atti- tude toward the victims of overcharges is “Youyr money back when you get it.” The Omaha Elks will now toss their antlers In new quarters, the luxury of which proves both the taste and the prosperity of the lodge. They are to be congratulated. A Cincingati street car magnate has been adf@sted for not Keeping his cars warin @noughi He probably expected the wrath of the patrons to malintain the mékous equilibrium. Dr. MV' coustruction of thé busi- ness belief that one has not a right to do as he pleases with his own, differs from that of the manipulators who be- leve that*ley have a right to d6 they please with what isn't thelr own Talt's Policy of Work. ““Acts rather than declarations,” the keynote of Mr. Taft's reply to an ins quisitive caller, is a ferse presentation of the attitude that has been con- sistently maintained by the president since he entered upon his office. His inaugural address and his first message to congress, thus far his only ofclal utterances, were models of brevity; into them were compressed his views of such matters as were necessary to a statement of policy and a campaign of legislation. But in his executive ac- tivities the president has impressed the capital with the fact that his is an ad- ministration of work, and’all his ener- gles have heen bent toward facilitating such congressional enactments as ghall be deemed necessary to promote the general welfare in the vital problems of the day. The president has demonstrated his constructive ability, thanks to which much headway was made in the early weeks of the congressional session pre- ceding the holidays, usually given up to marking time; and when the na- tional legislature reassembles next week it will find matters shaped so well that expedition will be the order of the day if the members adopt the president’s policy of work. While due deliberation is essential to the enact- ment of all laws, still the public will be only too glad to have congress fol- low the Taft program of ““Acts rather than declarations.” An Inquiry of Purpose, Mr, Taft has demanded that the in- quiry into the record of Secretary Bal- linger be thorough and complete. Not only will the affairs of the Interior de- partment be gone into, but the presi- dent, himself, will take such part as he legally may in the inquiry to the end that nothing shall be covered up or left untold. Mr. Taft has taken this stand because of the sneering sug- gestions that he has “put the Ballinger matter up to congress,’’ the object of the opposition being to convey the pub- lic impression that the president is seeking to evade responsibility. Mr. Taft has publicly declared his' confi- dence in the integrity and ability of Secretary Ballinger, and on such declaration he is willing that such an investigation should be made. Not only this, but he is willing to assume whatever share of such inquiry as may rightfully belong to' an executive so that congress will not have to take en- tire responsibility, In this purpose Mr. Taft is proving the strength of his faith in his own administration. More could not reasonably be asked, and the muck-rakers should suspend opera- tions pending the result An Unwelcome Legacy. Among the unfinished businéss of 1909 which comes as an unwelcome be- quest to 1910 is the matter of railroad troubles. The prolonged strike of switchmen in the northwest is again at an acute stage, with a possibility of spreading, while in the east the rail- roads are approaching a date when a general strike is possible. wolye/u) In the case of the northern switch- men a conference at the White House is scheduled for today, which may or may not be productive of results. En- listing the good offices of the president as a mediator is of no avail unless both sides approach him in a spirit of fair- ness, and even a presidential concllia- tion board cannot be expected to achleve the best results for the good of all if those possessing an excess of power use their advantage in an unfair way. The general eastern situation is still a matter for conferences between managers and men, and it is possible that both sides, recognizing the grav- ity of the situation, may adjust their difficulties without involving the traf- fic of the roads. Regardless of its sympathies con- cerning the issues involved, the public would regard a general strike or lock- out as a national calamity, to avert which every effort of diplomacy and patience ought to be employed. A new year threatened with stagnation of its commerce augurs fll for happiness and prosperity, and the country is a unit in the desire to see this dark cloud ob- scuring the rosy dawn dissipated into vanishing vapor, The Problem of the Moros. Colonel Hoyt's recommendation that the Moros be segregated from the rest of the Filipinos and be restricted to a reservation will be met by the anti- imperialists with the objection that we must not repeat in those islands the hardships that were deemed necessary by the government during the white man's advance into the Indian lands. But there is to be sald for the pro- posal that it is at least as humane as letting the Moros run at large in fugi- tive bands, a savage menace to the | peaceful inhabitants, and themselves subject to slaughter when they go on the warpath. Most of the Filipinos are satistied with the beneficent condition in which they find themselves under American rule, and would like to be permitted to pursue their industrial ways, toward a general prosperity. This is only pos- sible now because of the armed pro- tection afforded by United States troops, a force which could be greatly reduced if the Hoyt plan were put'into practice. v While this government ‘cannot af- ford to render any injustice against even the wild Moros, and while it has no desire except to administer to these savages the kindliest control pos- ible, still in the Philippines as in our own land the greatest good ‘o eatest number wust be considered, and any just method of relieving the peaceable inhabltan(s ‘of f1’ ‘trade for the northwest. THE BEE ity and bloodthirstiness of the savage element, is worthy of consideration. Milking the Comsumer. New York state has earned a debt of gratitude from the nation for fits successful prosecution of its ice com- bine, and now it Is earning another in its exposure of its milk manipulators. The first step in the rapacious progress of this combine seems to have been to pour into the corporate stock all of the water commonly reputed to be in the milk, and then the schemers proceeded to milk the public at a more prodigious rate than it milked the cows. The evi- dence already adduced shows that on a tremendously inflated capitalization the profits were so exorbitant that dividends of 22 per cent were declared. Yet, not content with that, the com- bine calmly proceeded to squeeze an- other cent from the consumer on each quart of milk served. This extra cent was the final straw the overreaching manipulators now have to reckon with the law public will stand for a great deal, but guch flagrant injustice in juggling with the absolute necessities of life finds the consumer ready to declare radi- cally for the fullest punishment possi- ble to be administered to the ringlead- ers convicted. nd 1ue The Year for Omaha. Nineteen hundred and nine is clos- ing with a balance sheet in favor of Omaha, and with 1910 comes a pros- pectus as favorable as any ever laid before the citizens. The growth of the city in all directions and along all lines has been greater during the year than was hoped for. Every outward evi- dence of material prosperity is at hand and the continued activity in the work- shops and stores of the city is proof, also, that the expansion of business is but the normal growth of the commu- nity and therefore permanent. Omaha business men have been very alert during the year and have won many points in the competition of These suc- cesses have encouraged them to greater efforts. The new enterprises which have come into Omaha during the year have proven thrifty, while the estab- lished ones have grown apace, so that in every material way the city has ad- vanced, while the social life of the community has kept pace in its devel- opment with the commercial and in- dustrial. Omaha is growing, and is growing fast, and, best of all, is grow- ing along right lines. Sir Horace Plunkett is qualified to support the advice he is giving Amer- ican farmers. His experience with agriculture in Ireland, where the soil was greatly impoverished by successive planting of a single crop, justifies his views .and warnings in telling the American farmer to beware of mis- takes made in older countries. Right this county to begin to practice some of the improvements in methods sug- gested by men like Sir Horace Plunkett and James J. Hill Dr. Dudley’s announcement that the aurora borealis is a frozen-up gas named neon, is one of those'entertain- ing announcements which hardly helps the practical citizen interested in keep- ing his meter thawed out and his light bills lighter. But the word neon will be welcomed with avidity as a synonym for aurora borealis by the members of the newspaper head writers’ union. Just as people were bllnn;xlly forget- ful of the polar explorers, Commander Peary succeeds in getting back into the limelight by acquiring frostbites in Maryland. If these Arctic travelers ex- pect to acquire real reputations they must manifest ability to withstand the terrors of the American climate, which seems able to slverthe polar regions points, Governor Shallenberger now sug- gests to Governor Stubbs and Governor Haskell that the guaranty law confer- ence be made part of the program at the John Hayes Hammond dinner in Washington next month, at which place the assembled governors will probably table the whole matter, Judge Letton's endorsement of the jury system in theory, and his sugges- tions for its betterment in practice, come as the result of experience as well as observation. The reforms are practical, and if adopted would have great effect in accelerating progress in the courts. “Bill” Oldham wants an extra ses- sfon of the leglslature in order to get a | rehearing for some of the bills that were beaten in the regular session. What reason has he to think that the legislators would do something they refused to do & year ago? now With theological seminarians strik- ing against the ancient languages and presidents of universities advising the elimination of the modern foreign tongues, the speaking of United States appears to be more than holding its own. The editor of the World-Herald 1s still busy trying to nominate a ticket for the republicans of Nebraska. As long as his actions are not binding on the voters he may be permitted to in- dulge in his amusement. New England, the best traditional judge of “rum’ in the country, ap- plauds Mr. Taft’'s judicial interpreta- tion of the whisky question; the Hub never fails to respond to the proper spokesman, The Unfon Pacific people promise te OMAHA, FRIDAY, | ot | him to undertake the illustrations. building that they make with thelr high-class trains. If this {s so, a new local record will be established. It will be six weeks before the naked eye can see Halley's comet, but in the meantime any slippery sidewalk will produce a galaxy of constellations without a moment's notice. An eastern rajlroad man, newly pro- moted in authority, has been adjudged insane for advancing salariés. He might have been cured of that if they had left him on the job. A Current Expenwe. St. Louls Globe Democrat. Americans pay $1,200000000 a year for something they can’t define—electriclty. But they will not worry about the dic- tionary as long as the current is in good order. The Shine of Prospe; Cleveland Léader. The company which controls most of the dlamond output of the world is opening more mines to meet the growing demands the market. So prosperity sparkles from America to Africa. v. Chenp at the Price, Washington Herald. A good deal of adverse criticism has been indulged in at Mr. Andrew Carnegle's ex- pense because that gentleman recently sug- gested hie willingness to provide a fund of $20,000,000 for the possible preservation of South American peace. As yet, how- ever, nobudy has denied that it would be cheap at that price. Men Behind the Naval Guns, Philadelphia Record. Svery battleship that is launched means nearly 1,000 officers and men to be added to the naval establishment or taken from other ships. Captain Usher, assistant to the chief of the bureau of navigation, re- ports that to man our whole fleet in peace would require 3,662 officers and 60,902 men, and in war it would require 88%0 officers and 72,281 men, and more battleships are to be added annually to our establishment, Perjury u Common Crime. 4 Buffalo Express. Even a casual observer cannot have failed to notice that there ls much false evidence given in our courts. The fact is thrust upon one's attention. Not only n sensational murder trials, but in almost every clvil proceeding or quasi-judicial in- vestigation which s of sufficlent general interest to gain publicity, the reported tes- timony i always contradictory, and nearly always to such a degree as to be utterly irreconcilable. There seems to be little or no regard for the sanctity of an oath, and vet with this multiplicity of instances of reckless or wicked swearing one rarely hears a word of reproof from the bench, and, to judge from the number of prose- cutions, perjury would seem to be the rarest of crimes. LOOKING FORWARD TO 1910, Things Will Turn Up if You Guide the Plow. Leslle's Weekly. If we are to make the most of 1910, we must enter it saying, this is to be the best year in ihe history of the world and of my own life as well. Wilkins Micawber is no patron saint of prosperity, but it all discouraged people start the new year In high hope that something is going to “turn they will Melp to turn something up before many weeks. Robert Louls Stevenson's is not “heppy thought” for children without ‘Interest to older folk: now is a good time for the farmer “}fl‘e world is so full of a number of thing: I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Was ever the world more full of things than ow? Ts it not enough to make one happy, simply to live in these wondrous days? The globe has been made small by the'ease with which men girdle it and the rapidity with which one part converses with ‘the rest. The races are becoming better acquainted than ever before in all history. Becret forces of earth and alr hear the voice of man and obey, and the end is not yet. Keeping step with all material advance is a sense of mutual in- terest, binding more closely all grades and classes of soclety—a growing unity of the race. In our own fair land a steadily rising aveérage of clvie and commercial and social righteousness is a sign of the times. No, the millennium has not dawned; but, taking it all in all, it has never be- fore been so near. — ' MARSHAL OF ROUGH RIDERS. How Frederick Remington Started on Road to Fame. St. Louls Republic. Back in the ‘eighties, when Theodore Roosevelt was running a cattle ranch on the Little Big Horn, in Wyoming, one of his nearest neighbors was “Fred” Reming- ton, whose death we mourn today. This young man—the proprietor of an inheri- tance of $200,000, according to his cowboy neighbors—lived in great splendor in a house which was filled with the products of his brush and excrcised a generous hos- pitality while running a small “road ranch' for the raising of horses. (A road ranch, be it known, was Wyomingese for an es- tablishment consisting of a large tract of land held on a sort of glorified squatter's tenure adjacent to a plot of ground heid In fee simple, controlling the available water.) In course of time Mr. Remington's hos- pitality and absorption in art so far im- paired his capital, aecording to the sc- count current among his former acquaint- ances, that an additional source of income was necessary. Mr. Roosevelt rode over to his neighbor's house, told Remington of his contract to prepare a series of ar- ticles for The Century Magazine, and asked This was the occasion of the artist's desertion of the brush for the pencil. At that time the photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge of animals in mo- tlon were & new thing under the sun. Mr. Remington studied with intense interest these records, showing the legs of the horse In the positions they actually as- sumed in its various gaits, till then un- known to artists. Over the results of this study he cast the garment of his fancy. The result wes & type of art the realistic appeal of which was summed up by Walter B. Stevens In his criticism of the magniri- cent group of cowboys—shootant, as heral- dic phrase might put it—which the artis. modeled for the St. Louls world's fair: “The men are drunk; the horses are drunk; even the pistols aie drunk!" It were a worthy task for a eritic of art and manners to determino just how much of the apotheosis of the rough rider is ow- ing to the deeds and words of Roosevelt and how much to the pencil of Remington. The men who have been moved by Roose- velt's words have thought in terms of Rem- ington's pictures. They have seen his cayuses, and his Alkali Ikes and Cherokee Charleys have been mounted thereon. Mr. Remington was but 48 years oid; but he was a tireless worker, and his ar- tstic fame s secure. He has by his pencil interpreted to the east and the middle west the drama of the frontier—now, ala vanished forever. He caught it In its last and most characteristio phase and made it & part of all of us. It is not neecssary to count years; this is enough for the lifc rom the constatt menace of the rapac- | -ake the same tine with thelr mew | ork of any man. DECEMBER 31, {every man, woman and child is dressed in 1909. New Year Customs Observances that Signalize the Entrance of the New Year tirst day of the year. Social visits to the homes of friends and acquaintances was an almost universal rule. It was a genial, kindly custom, frultful of happiness and heartiness and good will. The making of measured by the fat or lean condition of the card basket. But with characteristic recklessness the custom was overdone— sluughtered In the house of its friends Soclal rivalry crept in and fashionable | trills drove simplicity out of business, was wined and ¢ined to death. When the Dutch burghdrs used to wander from stoupe to stoupe in the old Bouwerie | of New Amsterdam; when thelr good | fraus made brave display of finery and | friendship was mutual and its expressions genuine; when the very ceremony ltself dignified the men and women who took part In It, then the custom was at its full in beauty and in sentiment. “And it was along those lines of honest thelr youth and age. It linked old friends together firmer in all 'generations, for while mothers and daughters did the active honors of the day, dear old grandmothers sat in places of state and recelved their annual homage of affection and rever- ence.” Little remains of the old custom. Its place Is taken by midnight revelry far more demoralizing than the worst feature of the old order. New Year's day recelves more attention in Scotland than anywhere else. The Scottish elders celebrate the day with a supper party, and as the clock “chaps” twelve, friend greets friend and wishes him *a gude New Year and mony o' them.” Then, with great formality, the door Is unbarred to let the old year out and the new year in, and all the guests sally forth into the street to ‘“first foot their acquaintance. In Edinburgh a great crowd gathers around the church in Hunter square and anxiously watches the clock. There s absolute sllence from the first stroke of twelve until the last. The old folks go to bed; not so the youws. Kach girl is ex- pecting the “first foot" from her sweet- heart, and there {s much stratagem dis- played in outwitting her occasionally and having some serving mald or grandmother open the door to her lover. The weather is carefully observed at this season, for it is supposed to betoken the future. There is a rhyme current in During the eighteenth century_ all work was laid aside on the afternodh of the 31st, and the men of the hamlet went to the woods and brought home loads of juniper bushes. Each household also pro- cured a pitcher of water from “the dead and living ford,” meaning the ford in a river by which passengers and funerals crossed. This was ‘brought in pertect silence, and without being allowed to touch the ground in its progress, as con- tact with the earth would have destroyed the charm. The rites next morning were supposed to protect the household against witch- craft, the ‘“evil eye” and other devil- ments. The father rose first, and, taking the charmed water and a brush,” treated the rest of the family to a vigorous bap- tism. Coming back, all doors and win- dows were closed, and the juniper boughs were put on the fire. When the smoke reached the suffocating point the fresh air was readmitted, The Russians have a very pretty cus- tom. On each New Year's day a pile of sheaves s heaped up, and the father, after seating himselt behind the pi'e, asks the children if they can see him. Upon thelr replying that they cannot, he says he hopes the crops will be so fine the coming year that they will hide him in the fields. The Russian New Year Is twelve days later than ours, and Is & gala occasion for all. There is a grand celebration of mass in the morning and the rest of the day ls devoted to con- gratulatory visits. Good wishes that can- not be personally conveyed are inserted in the newspapers. In military and official circles cere- monfal visits are pald. On New Year's day the unmarried women and men send servants into the streets, or go out them- selves, and ask the names of persons they meet. These, it is belleved, are the names of persons they will eventually marry When midnight is reached, each member of the fami'y salutes the other with a kiss, beginning with the head of the house, and then retire, after wishing each other a “Happy New Yeai The Norwegians and Swedes spread their tables for all who may come in and in Stockholm there is a great banquet in the exchange, given to the king and his family. On this occasion the monarch mingles with his people as eltizen to citizen, in true democratic fashion, The aged Emperor Franz Josef, of the dual monarchy Austria-Hungary, spends part of his New Year's day evening with his people ot the “Buerger ball” or cl.i- zens' ball, which is given at the city hall | in Vienna. In his younger days the gal- lant monarch was often seen on these oo casions to lead off the cotillion with one | of Vienna's most fascinating ‘cltoyenne bourgeolse.” . The Danes greet the new year with a tremendous volley of cannon, shaking old Copenhagen at midnight to its very foun- dations. It s considered a delicate com- pliment to fire off & gun or a pistol under the bedroom window of one's friend at a very early bour. The dwellers in Cape Town, South Africa, are an exception (o the general run of English colonists. After the custom of the early Dutch settlers, they celebrate New Year for an entire week. Bvery house has its full share of visitors, and their best. No business is transacted ex- cept to seek amusement. At the end of the week everybody again settles down to busi- nes In the Indian empire the dayswhich cor- responds with our New Year is called The Japanese New in Various Countries of World. January ®. By this time all accounts have been adjusted and all disputes set- Up to a score of years ago Amerlcans :l’;"'” ';“':";""’f oo k! e’ :’"“'"”": had a distinctive way of observing the e RIS, SU starte out to visit relatives and friends In distant places earting " . cession, in which all trades are repre- New Year calling cards chlled fofth the|gented, Drums and stringed Instruments artfatic talent of the printing craft, and |ure played by numerous bands and wax the popularity of host and hostess was figures are sold by the thousand PERSONAL NOTES. his parents on Christmas and handed them @ present of $,000. This is & pralseworth: Improvement on the prodigal son business. E. Milton Cutting of Andover, Me., Is 8 years old, was until a short time the oldest Maine guide In Although not engaged in active servic the work of- braver assembling of all that was £o0d|ficially, he still goes hunting and seems to eat and drink; when there Were WArm (o obtain great enjoyment from the sport claspa of hands and honest wishes fof| Mo’ iiglen F. Troy of Auburn, N. Y health and happiness and prosperity for|yy, iy learned in Iroquols legends and the year that was just begun; when the dictionary In the six Iroquols dialects, has |daga reservation by adoption into the Clar of thé Snipe. Nineteen-year-old Herbert Kester of Over ton, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, democracy and of honest affection,” 98YS |reached his home with the skin of the a writer, bewalling its decay, “that It Was|jgrgest bear killed in Pennsylvania this kept up through tle early days of the|geqson, which he had shot about two miles land, down to the fevered and (mpnll('xujhum Forksville. When the meat was ones of a few years ago. It made family |brought in later it welghed close to 400 ties stronger, for litle boys went hand |pounds, in hand with their fathers on this Tound; | A¢ (ne recent election n Johannesburg, then as chums and afterwards @s pro-|Africa, Harry Graumann was chosen tectors of their sires; only to repeat Inimgyor of the clty. Writing to an English their own paternal experiences those of |ysier a correspondent says: “Mr. Grau- mann is a young and deservedly popular man, a leader in the industrial world and the first Jew to receive the high distine- tion.” Instead of referring the whole disputed matter to the Copenhagen wise men, the Board ot Trade of Worcester, Mass., means to find out for itself whether Wallace k. Tlllinghast has really been flying all over New England at night. If he hasn't, the board wants a lot of sensational storles throttled, because this isn't the kind of advertising Worcester seeke. SMILING REMARKS. Caller—How pleased you must be to find that your new cook is a stayer. Hostess—My dear, don't mentlon it! She's a stayer all right, but unfortunately she's not a cook.—Boston Transcript. “‘Professor, is t the belief that ev a universe in i “My dear sir, yol on human creduiity e _any foundation for particle of matter is ‘can found any belief —Chicago Tribune, “See here, you swindler: suburban property owner, “when you sold me this house you said that in_ three months I wouldn't part with it for $10,000." “Well, you haven't have you?' demanded the real ‘estate man.—Philadelphia Record. exclaimed the “People interested in aerial very sensitive, 1 suppose.” “I don't see why. “You don’'t? Isn’ subject with them? transit are it naturally a soar —Baltimore American, “I_understand that you owe everything Hactlknt. GRich Mibk: to vour wife," "said” the tactless rela- It New Year's Eve the night win bloweth [ "' answered Mr. Meekton, “but I south will it I don't stop playing bridge with It betokeneth warm and growth; f 5 Wi b % N$ ‘Sest. miidbs milks -and. fsh An tté sess her and her mothe: Washington Star. It north, much c and storms there| pjitle Jack Horner told Now he pulled will ' be; out his plum, If east, the trees will bear much fruit; “I stuck in my thumb instead of putting It northeast, flee it, man and brute. my foot in it he exclaimed Herewith all agreed he had_the makings of a politiclan in him.—New York Sun. “I believe I'll open a dramatic school,” #aid the seedy-looking man. “Why? You er have been on the stage, have you?" asked the preacher. ‘Then how do you expect to be able to teach people to act?” t's simple enough. You're teaching people how to be angels, aren’t you? Have Caste temporarily loses caste. Kveryone who can afford It wears red garments They throw red powder at one another and mix it with water and squirt it from eyringes on passersby. This is taken in €ood part as snowballing s by us. Year's day falls on The visiting lasts for three days, and lot- ters of congratulations are sent to those They go to thelr favor- Ite tea gardens and there Is a grand pro- After having been absent and unheard for twenty years an Indiana man returned (o who mythology, and Is the author of an Indian been honored by the red men of the Onon- } Flashed over b “Herald How far can your ancegy be traced ? He~Well, when my grandfather resigned his position as cashier of & cowatiy bank they traced him as far as Chipa, but he got away.-Pittsburg Observer. \ THE CLOSING YEAR. - 4l By George D). Prentiee.. 4 “Tis midnight's holy and silence now Is brooding Iike & g le spirit o'er The still and pulseless world—Hark! on the winds The bell's deep tones are swelling='tls the nell parted eping past; wood, No funeral train on the stream and ye spotless shreud; the air is As by a mourner's sigh: and on yon oloud That floats so sl and placidly through heaven, The spirits of the seasons scem to stand—- Young spring, bright summer, autumn's solemn form, And winter with its aged Jlocks—and | breathe, In mournful cadences that come abroad Like the far windsharp's wild and touchs Ing wail, A melancholy dirge o'er the dead year, Gone from the earth forever 'Tis a time For memory and for, fears. Within "the deep, Stin t inmbers of the heart, a specter dim, Whose tones are like the wizard's volce of Time Heard from the tomb of Ages, points its cold And solemn finger to the beautiful 1 And holy visions that have passed away, And left no shadow of their loveliness On the dead waste of lite. That speater ts The coffin 1id of Hope and' Joy And, bending mournfully- above Sweet forms that slumber dead flowe Q'er what has pas: nd Love, the pale, there, scatters d to nothingriess, The year Has jone and with. it, many a_glorlous throng or hepny dreams. It's mark s on each brow, It's shadow in each heart. In its swift course It waved its scepter o'er the beautiful, And they are not. ‘It laid its pallid hand l')ll»n‘ the strong man, and the haughty 'orm Is fallen, and the flashing eve 16 dtm} It trod the hall of revelry, where thronged The Ivr\]ll(hl and joyous, and the tearful wal Of stricken ones is heard where crst the song And reckless shout resounded. It ‘Dasscd o'er The battle plain, where sword and spear and shiold, ‘ in the light of midday, and the rength Of serrled hosts {8 shivered, and the grass, Green from the soll of carnage, waves above The crushed and moldering skeleton. It came, And faded lke a‘‘wredth of mist at eve; Yet ere it melted in the ylewless air It heralded its millions to thelr home, Tn the dim land of ‘dreams. ' Remorseless Time! Flerce spirit of the glass and scythe!— what power Can stay him in his silent courée, or melt His fron heart to pity? -On, still on, He presses, and foreyer. , The proud bird, The condor of the Andes, that ean soar Through heaven's unfathomable depths, or brave ¢ The fury of the northern hurricane, And bathes his plumage in_the thunder's home, Furls his' broad sinks Jdown To rest upon his mountain crag—but Time Knows not the 'weight of sleep or weari- nest, And night's deep to bind His rushing pinions, wings at nightfall, and darkness has no chain Revolutions sweep O'er earth, like troubled visions o'er the breast Of dreaming sorrow; cities rise and sink Like bubbles on the water: flery isles Spring blazing from the ocean, and go back To thelr mysterious eaverns; mountains rear To heaven their bald and blackened cliffs, and bow [Thelr tall heads to:the plain; new smpires rise i f Gathering the strength of hoary centurles, And rush down like the Alpine avalanche, Startling the nation#; and the very stars, Yon bright and burning blazonry of God, Glitter awhile in their eternal depths, And, like the Pleiades, loveliest of their train, Shoot from their glorious pass away To darkle in the trackless vold—yet Time, Time, the tomb bullder, holds his flerce career, 2 Dark, stern, all-pitiless, and pauses not Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path, To sit and muse. like other conquerors Upon the fearful ruin he has wrought. spheres, and y A Recorc?: i Leo Slezak, the great tenor, Otello, Lohengrin, Tannhauser, in La Boheme. Amberol Records, dealer’'s today. Edison Phonographs $12.50 to $200.00 Edison Standard Records 3 There are Edison dealers everywhes play both E dealer or from us. Nebraska Nebraska 15th and Harney Sts., Omaha., Neb. Hooly, and Is a feast in honor of Krishna National Phonograph Co., 75 Lakeside Avenws, Orange, N. J represents the National Phonograph Co. in Nebraska, and carries over 100,000 Records in Stock among which are all of the Edison Records mentioned in the National Phonograph Co.’s announcement on this page today Geo, W. Mickel, Manager, now sings for you in the Edison Phonograph the same famous arias from the Grand Operas that the New York audiences pay $5.00 a seat to hear. singer Slezak is, is told in the following remark, quoted from the New York World the morning after a recent appearance of Slezak at the Metropolitan Opera House: ** Just how great a Caruso now has a rival.” Slezak has made ten records for the Edison, comprising the principal tenor songs from the more prominent roles of his repertoire —so that, while the New York opera goer pays $5.00 a seat to hear Slezak in one opera, with the Edison Phonograph and Amberol Records you get Slezak at his best in his ten best roles, including Rhadames in Aida and Rodolfo Only on Amberol Records can you get a full length rendering of these great arias—and only on the Edison Phonograph do you get Hear these great Slezak Records at any Edison Edison Amberol Records (play twice as long)$ .50 Edison Grand Opera Records - - .75 and 1.00 Go to the nearest and hear the Edison Phonograph n Staundard and Amberol Records. Get complete catalogs from your Cycle Co. Cycle Co. 334 Broadway, Council Bluffs, la.