Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1910, Page 6

’hn-: OMAHA® bAllX BEE. rouNn:u BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. - ——y IWATER, EDITOR. VI(TOR aha’ ‘ol\o"k‘c as Entered at class matter. TERMS OF !‘;B' RlP‘nUN Daily Bee (Including per week lbo Daily Bee (without "Su m per week 10c Dally Bee (without ), one ]ur “oo Daily Bee and Sunday, one year......... 8. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evenm‘ Bee (without Sunday), per weck éc I-' (with Sunday); per week 16c , one year.. 2.0 one’ E (’ Cl tion adh ol, n Bulldln . OmaliiThe n? 4 B 41 (Ymaha—’ Cn\y—loul(h and N. Counetl Bluttsih Scoct irest. llncflln—&u l.ll Bulldi Chies ette Buil ing, New orl—lim 11011102 No. 8 Weat Thirt -mm Str w gton— enth Street, N W. f'% COl DENCE. Cot lc-uomdsunx to news and ed- itorl atter sl d be addressed: Omaha itorial s Department, REMITTANCES. by drafi ss or postal order blishing Company. {ved jn payment of oun checks, except on ‘or eastern sxchanges, not accepted. S /4 am STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State 9( Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Geotge B. Tzschuck, treasurer 'he ublishing Company, being dul ways that the actual number of full te coples of The Dally, Morn- g an nday Bee printed dur- h;r the month of Deeember, 1009, was 0,880 17 41790 18 41,880 lflll‘l n " Bepartment. 19 288833528828 Total . Returned coplom:..... Net Tatal. Daily ) m B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. “"““‘\1‘.’. in my presence and sworn to betors e this fied t day, of December, 1905. Notary Public. q-burluu leaving the city tem- -*u-flv should have The Bee il _ Address will be 'n as requested. Can you wtite it right? — Now for the real test of the same old resolutions. I traffid in railroad passes fs an iniquity, St. Paul is still a sinner. — o ] Boston now appears convinced that the backbone of Indian summer is broken The cofltravotllu of 1909 gave the old Shakespeareéan dispute a much- needed rest .T“A..n; concludes that a’ white © Chrigtmes igrnot all that it has been cracked up to be. 'Does Parls realizo that 1t 1a largely that reputation which draws its annual invasion of tourists? ——— Barbarous Mexico, to inflict upon Zelaya the cruel and upusual punish- ment of keeping quiet. In starting out on the new year, re- member that Janus holds the monop- oly' for being two-fe Vale, 'wos and all its transitory troubles of Which we have all had oc- casion to say. so many unkind things. It 1y TP Beginning with Monday, the Wash- ington correspondent wiil have to fold the wings of fancy and deal with stub- bern, facts. fto) R—— The jece man will contemplate the January thaw with much satisfaction. The''fee crop was getting entirely too big for bim, Bridge is getting to be the great ‘manfd'with Manhattan and Brooklyn. Another hand has just been dealt acrogs thée East river. —_— " The conservation fight must be get- ting }vely in the northwest, when a reseivition Indian can make & paleface dllll’lo‘ attorney take to the woods. A The mturmue tniun of the 1909 vaudeville show was the vacillating, if not veraclous, Eskimo. What raclal headliner is billed for the 1910 per- formance? . The. snowhound easterners do not seem to have wakened the Duncans with their knocking to a realization of the mecessity for American clothes in place of their scanty Grecian ral- ment. With thp.ipeices of hogs soaring away abaye $4 the number coming to market ally growing less. To a¢- count for ‘this paradox it is suggested that the Jt er h too busy counting his money. ‘ i A good re.oluuun for the New Year will be to stand up for Nebraska, pa- tronize Nebraska institutions and fos- ter Nebraska's gtowth, and remember that whaswer helps any community within tugawqm help them all. Zelaya reached the capital of Mex- fco much better off than the Austrian prince who segt the famous dispatch, “All 18 save homor.” The ex- president of Nicaragua had three va- llses stuffed to bursting with good United States money, o “Uncle Joe" has made much Jess noise during the Christmas recees than the insurgents. But this'(s a habit that has been noted pefore, also that when it comes to transacting business “Uncle Joe" cuts more ice than the insurgents and democrats combined. e The New ' Year. The year just closed was one of un- usual activity in all directions. The word was ‘“‘forward,” and mankind generally felt the impulse to greater achievement. Not only in a material, but in moral and intellectual ways was a distinct advance noted. It will not o | be alleged that any of the problems of life were settled duting the last twelve months, but many of them were moved R distinctly nearer to probable solution. The activity of the year brought with it turmofl and strife, but these are the essential accompaniment of progress. Peace means stagnation, and there was no peace in 1909, For 1910 the outlook is most en- couraging. The future beckons eter- nally, und the restless ambition of man’s rature spurs hfm on to greater attempts and greater achlevements. So each New Year finds him less and less ingclined to waste his time in retrospec- tion, and more resolved to do better things. Experience 18 still the one safe guide, but the fruits of experience may be enjoyed without hampering the present with the incubus of the past. At the beginning of the new year it is well to close the books, strike a bal- ance, carry forward the eredit or debit and take up the work at hand with new energy and determination, For Omaha the year dawns with un- usual promise. Nineteen hundred and nine was a record year in all material ways for the citizens of Omaha, and yet the progress in commerce and in- dustry was not greater than that made intellectually and morally., The pro- gram for the year beginning today con- tains nothing but encouragement, The business outlook was never better. The industries of the city were never more active and prosperous and the men who are concerned in the development of Omaha's greatness were never more alert or in earnest. The forces that go to make for a city’s growth In a social way are equally active. Never since its foundation could Omaha look back on a year with more satisfaction than will be afforded by a review of 1909, and never was there a year presenting greater promise than 1910. It merely requires persigtence along right lines to bring Omaha to what it ought to be, the great metropolis of a region of un- paralleled resources where progressive people can find ample scope for ambi- tious enterprise in & social atmosphere that is unexcelled. Our lmghbor’l New Leaf, The American peupl,é cannot but feel sympathy with the Nicaraguans in their rejoicing over the opportunity for destroying monopolies since the flight of the dictatorial spollsman, Ze- laya. While the dawn of the new year finds the inhabitants of our neighbor- ing republic with its house not com- pletely IB‘l in order, still so much en- lightened progress has Beén madé that the revoluuon-troub!ed country may be considered as having turned over a new leaf with some effect. True, the way to good behavior was pointed out by the United States, but the earnest applicatfon of the wise resolutions rests with the Nicaraguans themselves, and they have thus far manifested a genuing' desire for re- form. By seizing so instantly upon the chance of ridding .themselves of so many obnoxious oppressions operating under the conceéssions of the dethroned tyrant, they indicate an intentfon of removing industrial oppression, a chief bar to progress. With the United States for a godfather, not only Nicaragua, but also other Central American states can greet the new year as giving prom- ise of happiness and peace. Discovery of & Soul. The decision of the New York su- preme court that the corporation has a soul and that it can be punished under the law for acts done in fits name is & long step forward toward common se and equity, and in its far reaching effects is apt to prove epoch making. Courts have been held blamable for slavighly following prece- dents sometimes based on wrong premises, among these being the long heralded doctrine that corporations have no souls, a perpetuation of a legal fiction devised to enable corpora- tions to escape tha consequences of the common law definition of conspiracy. In the rapid evolution of modern finance and commerce, men took ref- uge under the eorporation plea from the possibilities of prosecution as gen- nine conspirators. As the New York decision states, the practice of organ- izing corporations was extended largely for the purpose of avolding the pen- alties for 1llegal acts. 8o flagrant has begn the flaunting of immunity in the face of the people under the boast that the corporation was the cloak witere offénders might find for themselyes secure sanctuary beyond the reach of the law that it is safe to say that the denial that. cor- porations had souls to reach or bodies to chastise: has been :responsible for most of the enmity aroused in the public mind against them. . The annal of our courts are filled with case after case in which the people sought vainly to bring corporations tg book for their transgressions, always {0 be met with the same deflant reminder that the corporation had.no soul. It'is this which has been 8o largely responsible fof the growth of monopolistie aggression; it is this whjch has hindered the people in their stance to greed; and this legal fiction has been the basis of the special pleading’of those shining legal (| Mghts to whom the public would nat ally turn for relier from injustices, but who would' Invarjably utilize the no-soul” argumert as & ‘loophole for the eacape of the corporation conspir- ators. No greater New Year's gift to the ] e THE BEE public could have been deviged than this court decision, for thia discovery to the world of the soul of the cor- poration must come to mean mortal combat for those unjust Interests that have been skulking behind the legal fiction now so effectually demolished, The judges who announce the new doc- trine clearly must have grown weary of hearing the old ery as voiced in the particular case at bar, that the “cors poration had neither soul, conscience nor feeling,” and must have felt a glow of righteous fellowship with truth and justice in announcing that “the court had reached a different con- clusion.” The decision is death to an old lle; the practice that is sure to follow it will mean the end of many of the corporation tyrannies which the people have suffered, for the corpora- tion now stands before the public with its soul exposed, and it Is vulnerable for its venality to the violated law. Snloon L\cema in Oml.ln. Once more the annual nightmare for the Fire and Police board of Omaha is over. The matter of saloon licenses for the coming year has been adjusted. The action of the board will commend itself to fair-minded advocates on both sides of the liquor question. No effort has been made to oppose zealgts on either side. Champions of the wide- open policy will find no consolation in the attitude of the excise board, nor will the defenders of prohibition find therein much encouragement. The citizens in general, however, will see in the action taken a determination on the part of the Fire and Police com- missioners of Omaha to enforce the law and secure its observance as far as possible, Applications for new sa- loons were turned down, applications for permission to change location of certaln saloons were denied and others that had become notorious as evil re- sorts were rejected. In all of these matters the board acted with due de- liberation, and for the purpose of se- curing the best possible conditions un- der the law. Matters of law on which there was a dispute were submitted to the courts for adjudication, and on the decisien of the court the action of the board will be based. Saloon men are entering on a new year with full knowledge of conditions under which they will be permitted to do business. They will not ‘be sub- jected to change of contract such as was enforced by the operation of the early closing law. They know that the law s operative, and they know that the authorities will insist on its strict observance. In all ways the license board appears to have acted wisely, and if the liquor dealers will consult their own interests they will assist, in every possible way, the Fire and Police board in carrying out the work so well begun. League Agumt Combines., Organization of a national trust league, now under way, with headquarters at the ecapital, may be regarded as an effort to erystallize the sentiment of the consumers against excessive prices 'charged for some products which have fallen into mo- nopolistic hands. The means of oper- ating a national boycott, however, in the effort to bring prices to a popular level, may involve the promoters in some legal difficulties, for while the primary boycott is possible without conflict with the statutes, still the courts have shown themselves hostile to some measures for enforcing it. It must be admitted, however, that the consumers are but following the lead of the United States government, for it is but a few days ago that some of the officials at Washington decided that the purchasing agents in their de- partments should not be permltte{i to buy supplies from a corporation which had been declared to be illegal because operating in restraint of trade. It will be interesting to observe how sincere the mass of consumers are in their ex- pressions of hostility, for their sincer- ity may be gauged by the eagerness with which they take hold of this weapon now held out to them. anti- Xenlge to All the Wor]d. The strides taken by the students’ missionary movement, as indicated in the annual report, must be gratifying A to all progressive interests as well as to those which are strictly religious, for it is apparent that these crusading volunteers are carrying to all the world a message of civilization. Moral awak- ening ang mental enlightenment are twin sisters, and in their spread of the gospel to the dark places of the earth the American emissaries are allies of the greatest of uplifting forces. The program indicated for the com- ing -year shows the vast scope of the movement, covering as it does such countries as Turkey, Russia, Japan, India, Africa and the turbulent sec- tions of Latin America, where the edu- cating force of the Christian students is bound to be an influence for all right living and good government, Even the worldly affairs of the work- a-day life are advanced by this move- ment, for it 1s well known that trade follows the misslonary, so that for practical as well as for ethical reasons the students will doubtless find even larger support in the future. Theirs is one of several unselfish institutions of the sort that are making the Amer- fcan known to the uttermost parts of the globe as a disciple of light and hope and happiness. —_— Some of the radical papers are mak- ing the ridiculous assertion that the government 18 in danger of breaking down because the president has to de- vote time to such matters as deciding what is whisky, It is the president’s sworn duty to execute the I , AMOng ()\{AHA SA JANUARY 1, 1910. which ds the pure food enactment. The government will never ecrumble be- cause the president is competent to render so judicial a decision as Mr. Taft's Interpretation of the applica- tion of the pure food law to the pro- ducts of the distilling interests. Its opponents will have to discover some more horrible warning than that. —, Cotton growers are to be given in- struction in the art and sclence of rals- ing and harvesting the cotton erop sim- flar to that furnished grain growers by the National Corn exposition at Omaha. The National Cotton and Cotton Products éxposition to be held at At- lanta will be sufciently comprehensive in scope to make it of immense value to cotton producers. The endorsement of the project by the press and the people of the south is an indication of its certain success. is any talking to be done in Mexico, it will be looked after by the head of the government. At last the quondam dictator has run up against a real one. Diaz is not a man given to talk, and he will hardly tolerate the guest who does nothing but talk. It is a case of the Mexican’s axe for the Nicar- aguan’s words. The court of St. James no longer means London to New Yorkers, but instead Gaynor's country home over in Long Island, the Mecca for politiclans during the holiday week in spite of snowdrifts. The dash of the job hunt- ers over the frozen meadows must have excelled the reputed swiftness of the only original pole hunters, Governor Shallenberger is to inves- tigate, under the Sackett law, the offi- cial conduct of the village board of Brady., It is a pretty far jump from a city the size of Omaha to a commu- nity in which there are but forty-three freeholders, but the Sackett law seems to be broad énough to make trouble for all, Mr.. Wickersham appears to have out-Knoxed Knox in his’denunciations of the tobacco interests. ‘‘Iniquitous, bushwhacking depravity, inhibited by a civilized conscience,” is an indict- ment which might make even Nicar- agua's malefactor squirm. What a change has come over the spirit of the south to welcome a frost, its old-time enemy. The planters find that the fruit withetands the cold, but that to the insect pest the freeze is fatal. Jack Frost is at last gettipg a good reputation. So Swift the Pace. Indianapolis News. Congresg is to investigate the high cost of living. By the time congress gots through ldvestigating, it probably will be that it will have to be in- e Let it Go wnt That, Brooklyn Eagle. A eourt of Inquiry is still at work on the shooting up. of Brownsville, August 13, 1906, Why not acknowledge that it Is a dark mystery, and let it go at that? The coun- try will aecquiesce willingly In such a finding. An Unprofitable Asset. St. Louls Republic. I Becretary Knox s wise he will be content to let Mexico take the deposed dic- tator of Nicaragua off his hands. A dip- lomatic white elephant is about the most unprofitable asset any government can take upon its hands. Consolation for the Left. Denver Republican. Fortunately the merchants all hold cut price carnivals immediately after Christ- mas so that the one who didn't get what was expected can save a little money through having waited. One of the nice little adjustments of the whirligig of time! Mysteries Cleared Up. Brooklyn Eagle. Mr. Taft decldes that there are four. dif- ferent kinds of whisky, and that when compounded they may be called “blends,” a name which pleases the makers and ap- peals to the fancy of those who are thirsty. “Stralght whisky” {s not the kind-taken without a ‘chaser,” but it fs the brand that is made by ageing in charred oak barrels. No man can boast he takes his whisky stralght unless he cal's for the No. 1 kind, labeled by order of President Taft, In clarifying this subject, the 135,000,000 gallons per year concerning mysteries they were never able to penetrate of their own will. GREATEST YEAR FOR GIVING. Astonishing Liberality, Toward Many Good Causes. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. A summary of large public benefactions In’ the United States during 1909 gives a total of $141,250,000, which is $40,000,000 be- yond any former year and double the ag- gregate of 1%8. A third of the amount was bestowed on publie education, which has always figured at' the head of the list. Some of the gifts are from persons who led exceedingly simple and quiet lives and whose wealth proved to be much greater than was supposed. Their plans to dispose of It were also unknown until their wills were read. During the last decade largo benefactions In thils country have ex- ceeded $500,000,000, a fact that will be viewed as surprising in any other nation. The movement on this scale is distinetly Amer- fcan. Something must be credited to the fact that this {s the wealthiest country in the world, but other races are rich and not disposed’ to give to anything like this ex- tent. Gifts In the United States amounting 10 $10,000,000,000 Is a couservative estimate for the next century. Although this country has long led all others In liberal provisions for public edu- cation the gifts this year for the purpose footed up nearly $60,000,000. Publie libraries have multiplied to such an extent that the pply has almost overtaken the demand. Numerous departments of sclence have been expanded by gifts. Endowments have been glyen for the study of certain de- structive dise 4 for the promotion of the health of the people in general. Hos- pitals have not been overlooked, but many more are needed, and on a larger basis. Museums for art collections have been geri- erously. remembered and deserve a great deal more, Their utilities apply to bu ness as well va the social and reereative life of the people. Special funds, like that rewarding acte of herolsm, mark the broad- ening out of philanthropy in & country Whose success in self-government is certain 0 be thoughtfully observed by every elivil- ized community. New Year Songs A Tear for the 014, a Oheer for the New, Vocalized in Tones Fitted fto the Day. Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky! The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year i8 dying In the night: Ring out, wild bells, and let him dle! Ring out a slowly dying oaw And ancient forms of party strife; Ring In the nobler m of lite, With sweeter munners, purer la Ring out old shapes of foul disea: RIng cut the narrowing lust of gold; RIng out the thousand wars of old; Ring In the thousand years of peace! Ring in the vallant man and free, The larger heart, tho kindlier hand; Ring out thf darkness from the land, Ring In the /Christ that is to be! ~Tennyson. My Thanks, Old Year. Good-bye, old year. You have not brought me wealth, Nor have you brought me fame; But you have not deprived me of good health, Nor plunged me Into shame; And there were mornings when I rdse To do my work with glad good cheer. For those fair mornings—each of those— My thanks, old year. Good-bye, old year. youth, Nof my few gifts increase; But you have served to teach me how, in truth, To go my way in peace; And there were days when 1 was glad To render honest Service here. For each dear lesson I have had My thanks, old year. Good-bye, old year. me woes, You gave me strength to bea You have not greatly multip! Nor dragged me to despair; And there are friends whom 1 may please With praise they chance to overhear. For these fair lfanon- —oach of these— M thnnka, old year. i E. Kiser In Record-Herald. A New Year Revellle. Oh. do not say the Old Year dies; 1t lives, and on its serried seroll Are writ those deeds that must arise, Some year, to front and fright your soul! That year and last all your years Gone by are what you made them; make Of this New Year from your oid tears One year serene, immaculate. ¢ You could not give me If you have brought my foes, Remember, willingly or no, As ordered by the Anclent Laws, However heedless you g0, You are a Soldier in the Cause; The world has need of every man With manhood in him, aye, and more In the New Year now waking than In all the ages passed before. The sun is up, the bivouac end: The reveille 'Is sounded clear: A _moment and embly"’ sends The echoes sounding far and near; Your place is on the firlng-line, Where'er your laggard feet once trod, Be ready for the last divine Command: the “Forward march!"” of God. ~R. W. Kauffman in Circle Magazine, Resolve. As the dPad year is olasped by a dead De- cem| 8o let \nur dead sins with your dead days lle. A new life is yours, and a new hope. Re- me T, lember, ‘We build our own ladders to climb to the sky. Stand out In the sunlight of Promise, for- getting, Whatever the Past held of sorrow or wrong. We waste half our strength in a useless renetun{. We sit by old tomhs in the dark too long. Fave you missed in your alm? Well, the mark 18 still shinirg. Did. you faint in the rloe? ‘Well, breath for the n Did the clouds rive you back? But see yondar' thefr 1inin, Were you tempted and fell? - Let It servé for a text. As each year hurries by let it join that procession ofr :}fel;,{ shapes that march down to t, take ‘While you take vour: place in the line of Progression, With your eyes on the heavens, your face to the blast. 1 tell you the future can hold no terrors For any sad soul while the stars revolve, If he will stand firm on the grave of his errors, And, instead of regretting, resolve, solve, It s never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all Into rulns your life seems hurled, For ne‘f'"huw the light of the New Year is glldin; The wan, worn face of the bruised old wor —Blla Wheeler Wileox re- Al Almuul 1910, The train of the Old “Year is lost to sight, But in mem'ry has its existence; Its clang and its racket are lost to the ear, Its smoke mellowed out into distance, And we wait on the platform the train of the New, With cagerness hail its advances; We know not what good things 1t in store, But are willing to take our chances. has The train of the Old Year bore tourlsts galore, Some agreeable, some most contrary; And some with faces exceedingly dark, And some were exceedingly mer: There were Blunders aplenty and Sorrow and Pain, Regret and Folly and Care; There were grim-visaged Toll and, to him, Peace And Joy beamed Yith radiance there. close There were Hope lnd Depression, sat_side by side, And Courage and Doubt and Achieve- Ana who ment, Happiness, Health, And, next to them, ment. There were bad faces, its place ned to brighten and strengthen the too; Contentment and sad-eyed Bereave- truly, but each in od, As s.uuuws in plctures may not be left out Lest the meaning Lo misunderstood. Thess tourists ‘NoIR traetars frorm - 0ld Nineteen-nine, With others (oo’ many to name And the whole “pack and posse’ board Nineteen-ten I expect—to continue the game. Then_here's to the dawn of the Happy will make us hold our lives And, as in'a pleture: its dark places serve But to make the bright places shine clearer, —BAYOLL NE Omaha. TRELE. In the Month of Jan. FIRST WEEK, Hear the sinners swearing off! Hear the joyous crew Vowing how thiy're going to doof Naughty things they do! Swast reform is in the air. Tis a splendid plan, Cutting vices everywhere In the month of Jan!! SECOND WEEK. Hear_the sinners weakening! Hear their sorry plaint!! How the crowd is murmuring, “Hard to be a saint!” 'Tis not easy to be good— Mighty few who can In this surging multitude In the month of Jan. THIRD WEEK Hear_ the slipping sinners slide! Hear 'em climbing back!! will weaken when they're Vows are getting slack. Taking on_ their former ways, Now beneath the ban— These are very trying days In the month of Jan! FOURTH WEEK. Business is resumed again All along the line! All these once converted men Now are going fine. There has been an awful thaw In the saintly clan— Seems to be a sort of law In the month of Jan! ~John Kendrick Ranas in Jndes Best tried; ST NATI[]NA[ BANK N N[BRA kA 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, The published statement t November 18, showed - that this bank had out 000 of Assets, *09, anding \In- terest bewring certificates totalling 1,984,210, irst N atlonal Bank of Omdhd i “FREE WHITE PEOPL Department Rule on Naturalisation Rejected by Courts, Boston Herald, Judge Lowell of the United States circult court in Boston has fallen in line with other federal judges in rejecting the con- tention of the Department of Commerce and Labor that Armenians are Asiatics and therefore not to be granted naturaliza tion papers hereafter, & rullng, by the way, as contrary to sense, precedent and sclonce as any] that ever lssued from a federal officlal's brain, which Is saying muoh. Judge Lowell shows that there is no basis in history, ethnology or eon- temporary fact for the claim that there I an Asiatic ' race including Armenlans Syrians and other peoples, against whom restrictions are now belng sought. More- over, he shows that the Armenlan peti- tioners in the case under review belong to a people that always have followed European rather han Aslatic modela in religion, literature and art, and that it is impossible to class them with the distinctly Mongolian types of Eastern Asia. More: over, he points out the difficulty the gov- ernment will have n enforcing its policy of exclusion of Aslatics, It It Is to affect all races originating there, Inasmuch as we long since admitted Jews without the slightest question, The thorcughness and scholarship of Judge Lowell's disc of the issue will make his ruling unusually important, and it should lead to. with- drawal of the ru'ing by the Department of Labor and Commerce. One cannot help speculating as to whence the pressure for this attack on immigrants from Western Asla comes. Is it from the same source as in the fight on the Pacific coast against the Chinese and the Japanese? There have been suggestions that its purpose was to justify and bolster up our unwarranted discrimination against the Japanese. But it that was its purpose it has falled, for the discussion of the question has served to emphasiza the truth that the true test for naturalization should be not that of color, birth or race stock, but of character and serviceabllity as future citizens, Many an Asiatic would win the honors in a competitive test for citizenship with some of the Europeans who are run through the mill of the naturalization courts. WEIGHT AND AGE LIMIT. Absurdities of Rule Enforced by = Ratlrond Company. Indianapolis New Nineteen employes of the Delaware & Hudson rallroad shops at Carbondale, Pa., have beeq discharged. The men say they were discharged becavse they welgh less than 150 pounds, and tkat others are to be let out for the same reason, the com- pany holding that a man welghing less than 15 ‘pounds has not the physical sirength {o do a full dey's work as the company ‘measures it. It is asserted that general orders have been Issued from Al- Leny that mot only all shop employes welghing less than 150 pounds be dis- charged, but also all who are over 45 vears old, And so, If all this is true, & new complication has been added to the strug- gle for existence. Heretofore physical size has not entered seplously Into the question of getting or holding a Job. Of course, men of large physique have naturally been selected for very heavy work, but except in the case of fighting men, such as sol- Qlers, sallors and police, a general order concerning size has been extremely rare. Now, & man welghing 150 pounds 1s not a large man, as men go In this country, but there are leglons of them who weigh less, and never will, through any course of training, be able to ucquire the speci- fied welght. Some of them have great physical strength, and, generally speaking, the man who weighs' less than 150 pounds will be more physieally active than the man who weighs more, with the physical activity decreasing in proportion to the inorease of weight. 'Bo a general order of this kind is not only an Injustice to the worker, but an Injustice to the emplover. The réjection of a 140-pound man to employ @ 160-pound man is just as likely to mean that an employer will get a less efficient one, and precisely the same result Is likely to follow the rejection of & 50-year-old man to employ a 40-year-old man. The fact of the matter {s that up to a pretty well advanced age, and down to a pretty light welght, the question cf ef- ficiency depends entirely on personality. Physical strength is much, but strength without willingness and ability falls far | short of furnishing the best of service, No hard and fast rules concerning weight and age can settle such questions to the best advantage. WHAT THE MINISTER SAID. The' walks were worse than e'er hefore; A worthy priekt who never swors, Fell on the ice and bruised him ‘sore. Though hard he tried his wrath to quell, He tore out. i¥Ing where he fell; Mr. Happy N. Y. has the floor. Swoar off, if you must, but don’t wrench » the megaphone. Last year's resolutions, brushed up, will serve and save labor. Turning over new leaves ls a dellcious exercise, warranted harmless. to the most delicate comstitution, For the 'steenth tima it, 1s proper to remark that good Intentions help to boom paving in certain localities. The larger the crowd on the wajer Wwgan the more touching will be the:note ‘Oh, how Dry I Am.” Y Prince Nicotine 18 booked for & series of short frosts. For him Is the fug of pipinge, off the pipe dreams. If the weather man. highly resolves to lrop the “boreal” scenter from his stock m hand, much of his past will be for- glven, What a glorlous year it would be if the owners sent their hammérs where good resolutions go.:That would be a mavement worth while. Agaln, profesflon” without performance s no lLimpression on; the, record. Be- sides, some knocker may Insist on ‘‘telling it to the Danes. ’ 0la habits aré like 0ld friends—not easily shaken. Gently handled they yleld to the master will as readily as'the stubborn hus- band admires’ the line of vision of the liplomatic wife. What a comfort 1s would be If some of the exuberant cheerfulness of today could be distributed over the remalning days of the year. “It ain't so great a credit," murmers the poet, “to sifig when all is bright, s ‘tls to face de sflddy toil dat keeps thing goin' right. An' dar Is several folks I knows dat earns @'khare o' praise vin' up some cheerfulness for ordinary ““These gamblers who prey upon the un wary in a great oity are’ifke ‘the wtars. “In what respect, I would like to know “Don’t they sin till late?"—Baltimore American. “What ' do_ you know nuom style and dressmakini ey wVery little. “And yet you aspire to critie!"—~Kansas Clly JDum.L a dramatio 41 trust you try to returtr good for evil said the high-minded m "' R0t onfy try. said M, Serins Barker “but I succeed. 'Bliggins !nvevgm one of y his cigars yesterday and_ him_one* of mine this mornin w.-mnmn Star, “Why did you throw up, your Job at old Spotoash's store?’’ “Well, to tell the truth, I a position on the labor questior “What was his position? “Why—er—the last time I saw him he was. Sltting -in_ his chalr lookin sternly at_me, and pointing straight to the door.” ~—Chicago Tribune, t like his Tom—I ocan't teach that Wilson girl to skate; it's no use trying. Dick—But v\h) does ana par-ln in want- In% to learn? om—Oh, she thinks she €ally S0 grace- tully.—Boston Transcript, Herbert—Dolly, Deareste, very only woman I ever ro ou are the ly and truly ved, Dolly Dearest—You sald that very same thing to Hilda I-m;nny only last week. She told me so hersel ‘Herbert—True; but that was only a dress rehearsal. This 1§ the first performance!— Bketch, S “Behold the wondrous beautles of yon sunset sky,” exclaimed the poet. “How prodigal nature is with its resplendent answered the busy publisher. in ent-minded tone, “it iy goin to throw in a_colored suppl ement overy day."—Washington Star. NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS, Ten resolutions New Year's Day so One got very thirsty, then therd were ) Nine resolutions, virtuous sedte; One smoked & berfecto, then thére wer: elght Eight stralght hea: ve One sat I & little game, then, thero wero seven, resolutious, leading w0 Seven resolutions, set agalnstall tricks; One let out & cuss word, then there were six. 8lx resolutiond, trying hard to thrive; One ate a Welsh rabbit, thep there were tive. Five resolutions, feeling very hoar; One went out to borrow, then lh(.r. were four, Four resolutions, stiff-backed as could be: One went down to Wall street, then there were thrge, Three resolutions, quite & sturdy crew, One got engaged again, and then there were two. i Two resolutions, holding off for fun; One of them began to speed, then theré was one. One resolution missed ‘ftie 'Wing sun, Busted all to flinders, then {here none. ; were “Jam the siippery walks to jell{” McLandburgh Wilson in Judge. A Happy New Year We wish to thank our friends and patrons for their generous patronage just - elosed of the year and hope for a communme of same for the ceming year. Wishing you one and all a Happy and Prosper- ous New Year. ‘Browning, \ King & Co B ; K/ CLOTHING, FURNISBHINGS AND HATS, é / FIFTEENTH ano DOUGLAS STREETS, OMAHA, R. B. WILCOX, Many — ne: ine. . |