Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1910, Page 10

THE OMAHA SUNDAY Bm ml NDED BY EDWARD l(OFFWATFl‘L Viezon ROII:WATI‘.R. EDITOR . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. % %o Jally Bee (Including Sunday), per wee! Daily Bee ((wuhml“l‘!und .;'” :r woek. l@ one year..}4.00 Bes and Sunday, on year.. .60 DELIVERED BY CARRIE! valn( Bee (without Sunday), per week vening Bee (with Sunda per week Sunda, , one yur Sat "Addrens all complaing 0f Irreguiarities i delivery to Cll.v irculation Department. OFFICES Bullding. Omaha—~The weg) “fourth ana N. Houth om.n- itle Bullding. Counch Lincol ,,.fi.L arauette Bullding \rw ‘ork—Rooms 1101-1108 No. 34 West hirty-third Street Washington—738 Fourteenth Streot, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. lons reluting to news matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Bditorial Department. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order pavable 1o The Bee Publianing Company. Only 2-cent stamps recelved in payment of accounts. Personal checks, except on ha or eastern exchanges, hot accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, £s.: George B. Taschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company. being Auly sworn, #ays that the actual numper of full and complete coples of The Daty, Morning, Kvening and Sunday Bee printed di month of January. 1910, wa 1. ¥ «15 ott Btreet. mal Total . Returned Net total., Datly average. . GEORGE B. 'rzscuucx. Subscribed 1 d nr- r n my before re this fln Y ol. .fl‘nu”’° ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public, Subscribers leaving the oity teme Most every man can forgive and for- get his worst enemy so long as it is himself. It ought to be eminently proper to refer to the color of a peroxide blonde'’s hair as gold brick. It is drawing close to the time when the early robin will be looking ‘around for cold storage worms. Kan, City reports 317 cased of measles within the city limits. Now, that 18 what we call a measly shame. Maybe the reason why Philadelphia has & suburb called' Bustieton is be- cause of the peculiar shape of the city. Many lawyers like to go fishing for the professional tralning they get out of it—after they return to their of- fices, For one supposed to be so cold- blooded and fcy former Vice Presi- dent Fairbanks has made things pretty warm in Rome, —— With the hum of industry going on all around the dove of peace is hav- ing n hard time hearing the squeak of thut Central American riot, Now. thi Chicago man has fost au oye playlng hand ball, it has been proposed that the list of rough and hazardous games be lengthened. The case of the preacher's son at Lincoln who dislocated his cervical vertebra while washing his neck is proof agaln that a good thing may be overdone. Ferhaps the New York bank mes- senger who lost a $10,000 bill made a migtoke and purchased a ‘“‘ton" of coal and a couple of dozen ‘“‘fresh” eggs with it. — i is economical to be sick in New York. The milk combine in that city, charging 9 cents a quart for milk to regular customers, sells it to hospitals for 6% cents. —— A number of inquirles have been made recently as to the whereabouts of Diekema, who wants to be speaker and whose name sounds like a break- fast food or a new religious sect. ——— Ex-Governor Odell of W York says he knows when he lg politically dead. It would be a great beuefit to modern olvilization if he would pub- Yi#h & book giving the symptoms. “One wife in nineteen is an angel,” says Emil Von Mueller, the bigamist. The ordinary man, however, would be willing to forego eightcen experl- ences If he could get the angel first. — Omaha shows up in the weekly bank clearings table with an increase of 42.9 per cent over the same period of a year ago. If the clearings reflect the volume of business, Omaha cannot have much of a kick coming. In addition to securing a divorce from her husband, Mrs. W. Gould Brokaw is to recelve a pitttance of $15,000 a year alimony and the right to kiss anyone she pleases without Mrs. Marilla M. Ricker of Califor- nia has begun bher campaign for the oftice of govermor. If Mrs. Ricker will take the advice of the average “has-been” she will comclude that a| humblé cot with happiness is better than a governor's mansion with petty- | coat politics therein. d | ditional. Donations with ltnngl to Them. A man who wants to make a dona- tion to any institution for eddcational or charitable purpoges has a perfect right to fix the conditions of the gift, but the same freedom he enjoys, to give or not to give and to stipulate the conditions of the gift, carries with it & correlative right on the part of the favored institution to accept or not to accept the limitations which may be imposed. These remarks are occasioned by the controversy precipitated over the proffered conditional gift of $5600,000 to Princeton university and the refusal of the university to accept because of the strings tied to it. It has become al- most a habit for wealthy people en- dowing public or semi-public institu- tions to make their contributions con- The usual condition is that they shall become effective only when an equal or proportionate sum s raised by solicitation from other sources. While it is true that this was only one of the conditions of the rejected gift tendered Princeton, yet if the trustees had stated as their reason that they did not care to go out on a begging expedition to glorify a benefactor who would not let go of his money unless others were forced to match him they would have com- manded the approval of a large num- ber of intelligent people. If the Princeton incident serves to make all these institutions more cour- ageous in saying what conditions they are willing to have attached to their endowments and to refuse offers that have objectionable strings to them it will serve a good purpose. Income Tax Progress. It is practically decided that Illinois will be the second state recorded as ratifying the income tax amendment to the federal constitution, Alabama to| having been the first to act through its legislature. The speech made by Senator Borah last week, answering the objections raised by Governor Hughes of New York, who in his mes- sage nurged rejection because the amendment as drawn does not specific- ally exempt incomes derived from in- vestment in state and municipal bonds, is sald to have had such telling effect on those who heard it as to have elicited from Senator Root an expres- slon of concurrence in the position taken by Senator Borah, and the as- surance that the New York senator would soon give public utterance to his dissent from Governor Hughes. Senator Borah seems to be laboring under the apprehension that the amendment will be defeated by the in- fluence of accumulated wealth exerted to prevent ratification in those states where large fortunes are concentrated. This, however, does necessarily follow, for the advocates of thé income tax have conceded from the start that New England, New York and the states im- mediately surrounding would, for the most part, have to be counted against the proposition. Under the comstitution it will re- quire the afirmative action of three- fourths of the states, and at present it would take twelve states to prevent. 1t Arizona and New Mexico are admit- ted to the umion it will take thirteen states to prevent, so the income tax may be a factor in the admission of these two territories to statehood. 'In all probability, however, Arizona and New Mexico will have a chance to vote on the income tax amendment before final ratification or rejection, and the chances are they will favor rather than oppose. It took more than two years to rat- ify the first ten amendments after they were proposed, and only ten states were needed to ratify at that time. It took over three years and a half for the eleventh amendment. The twelfth amendment went through Jn less than a year, as did also the thirteenth. The fourteenth and fifteenth each required two years, and all the amendments so far adopted had comparatively little opposition to overcome. Notwith- standing the lack of confidence of Sen- ator Borah, there is no reason to be- lleve the amendment is not making progress as fast as it should, especially in the light of the history of other amendments. —ee Tree Culture in Nebraska. A house is being built in a nearby Nebraska county out of lumber sawed from cottonwood trees planted by the owner in 1866, The trees are of great size and although the lumber will be used for only rough work, yet from what is known of Its durable qualities it will probably last as long as it is ever needed. This instance recalls another, simi- lar, except that the returns were greater. A poor quarter of Nebraska land was sold lo a young easterner twenty odd years ago, of which twen- ty-four acres were impossible for farm- ing. The young man planted the tract to catalpa trees, fenced it and let it take care of itself. Five years ago he sold the largest timber to the railroad companies for ties, The culling out of the biggest trees has been going on ever since and recently his books showed $5,000 revenue from the land. He has his young forest yét, for he has regularly replanted the spaces with young trees. Tree and forest planting can be car- ried on successfully in this country on waste lands, swampy tracts, side hills and other lands. Not much care ia necessary and eventually there is good money in it, The government is plant- ing forests successfully, so are a num- | ber of raliroads. The Union Pacific has | started tree ralsing and the Southern | Pacific has been doing it for many years. 1t is » practical thing for them, l(or by careful culling and cutting it THE involves little expense or replanting and continues to be a great source of profit. The story is told of Prince Bismarck that he made a fortune from the trees planted along the public highway. As a young man Blsmarck was in ordinary circumstances and seeing the need of pruning the shade trees along the pub- lic highways asked for the privilege of doing it. The authorities not only gave him the privilege of doing the work, but also gave him the timber. He cut thousands of damaged trees, had them sawed into lumber and sold, and at the same time replaced these trees with young fruit trees, elms and poplars. In this way he not only profited him- self but gave back to Germany Iits shaded highways more beautiful than ever, Why Choose the Store? Why should it be considered menial to do housework for others and highly proper to keep house for one's self? This is a question of more than ordi- nary importance in these days of the great development of the department store business and the increasing aban- donment of home life. It presents a problem which is troubling both those who have families of girls and those who have homes to keep, and its solu- tion seems far from discovery. Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, the author- preacher of Topeka, discusses this sub- ject in his book, ‘‘Malcom Kirk.” His idea is that an educated girl can do housework with social credit to her- self, if she will. His theory is well worked out and illustrates, in story form, how the prejudice can be over- come. The solution is a good one, but, unhappily, is only theory. There {s some doubt about its put- ting a young woman on & higher plane, socially, to clerk in a department store than it does to keep house. True, the clerk wears better clothes on week days than does the housemaid, but not on Sundays. It may be that she is more often sought as a wife, but she is said to be no more often a success as a wife. She does not have afternoons off during the week and she can never sit down at 3 o'clock to read and spend two hours in quiet, She does not have her room and board furnished her and seldom gets a wage sufficient to make up the difference. The American girl is noted for her desire to be’ inde- pendent financially and soclally. She also desires to be ‘free from the drudgery of the dishpan and the wash- tub.” A clerkship will make the last possible, but the harsh, unkind, pur- chasing public, strict overseers and vicious temptations of the modern commercial world greatly offset the advantage of so-called financial inde- pendence. As for the ‘drudgery’” of house- keeping,” there is drudgery im every occupation and profession known to humanity. A trained nurse rightfully ranks reasonably high in the social world, but the drudgery, dirty work, washing, housework and cooking which & nurse has to do is astonishing. Yet it is honorable work of a high or- der which attracts the daughters of cultured families who are proud of their profession, with just cause. One of those beautiful characters whom it is a blessing to meet and to know once rebuked a group of women who were discussinig the “drudgery of housekeeping” by saying: “‘The way to get rid of the ‘“‘drudgery of house- keeping” is to call housekeeping a pleasure and a blessed privilége. If one's heart is right there is little drudgery about it more than about any other occupation.” Education and Literary Tastes. It must not be inferred by the re- sults of an investigation in Wellesley college, for women, that the average person of education reads light things and cares for nothing of importance. The majority of the people of the col- lege and university type may be said to choose literature from the stand- point of enlightenment rather than mere entertainment. Although this Is not alwaye true, yet it is happily true of the majority. A pari of the report of the committee whicii investigated the condition in Wellesiey follows: Thelr chiet literary exerclse, outs'de of the class rooms, consists in skimming through the dally papers and devouring & In view age college found out is the more surpris of the inability, of the av girl to Alscuss current events. Of the 430 Wellesley students, 165 regularly read a| daily paper. Do they read thé editorials? OMAL magazine fictiom * * * * What has been |, says the committee, inquiringly. No, they don't. They do more than skim the head- | lines and absorb the soclety column, but few pretend to read what does not in- terest them. Here and there is found (he girl who does read the newspapers as a whole, but she is rare. Almost every girl In college reads a weekly or monthly maga- zine. The girl who finds time for nelther is the rare exception. The magazines are, in most cases, read for their fiction. The demand for short stories is almost uni-| versal, but that is not because we are at | Wellesley, but because we are modern and | American. Of the 450 girls, only thirty-six have read a blography In the last few | months. The blographies are mostly those | of Alice Freeman Palmer or Carla Wenckebach, Essaye were read by a few. | The average American college girl| is not very different, when she is in| college, from what she has been taught to be when at home. She is very apt to do as she sees others do in her own family and naturally think that thul is all right.- No one can blame her, for | unless girls and boys are taught to pick out literature of the right kind and read it for what there 1s in it they are not going to follow that plan, as a rule, independent of home influence and guldance. College girls and boys are more friv- olous during college cays than they are later. What they ‘do during their four years of college is not significant | of what they will do afterwards in life. 1A SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 13, 1910 All college people are inclined toward good-natured frenzy from jnst the ex- uberance of animal spirits and the lack of responsibilities, If we expect young people to read good literature we must do as did our own parents and make the reading of the best books a popular thing in the home. If reading good literature make up education, ana we have every reason to believe that it does, then the popularity of good reading at home will do much toward completing our education and doing away ‘“‘with the defects in our modern educational sys- tem" that the club women of Topeka, | Kan,, have been pleased to point out. More Land for Homesteads. If pending measures are enacted | congress will soon return to the public domain more than 4,000,000 acres of land from tracts hitherto held within forestry reservations. The land is un- guitable for forests, although largely suitable for irrigated farming, and has been wisely recommended for settle- ment later on. Statey’ having large government reservations have found some fault be cause of the burden of taxation thrown on the necessarily sparse population. Every state wishes to have its vacant land settled and under cultivation as soon as possible, not only to equalize the burden of taxation incident to af- fairs of state, but also by increasing its agricultural population to increase its prosperity. A large unoccupied public domain not suitable for forestration is of no benefit to either state or nation. A large agricultural population means great produetion of the staples and necessities of life, hence the Increase in the amount of méney flowing into the state and consequent increase in the valuation of all properties. That the government has been wise in with- holding land for forestry is willingly acknowledged, and that it is wise in |’ returning for ultimate settlement lands unfitted for forestration must also be conceded. The government reclamation service has opened hundreds of millions of acres of barren lands for profitable farming. The deserts of the west have been changed into farms of even more profit than some of the famous Missiseippi valley farms. Wherever irrigation is possible great wealth is possible of production. Some have sald that the reclamation service 18 to be the salvation of the farming inter- ests of this country, if it needs any salvation. The more land under cul- tivation the better for the individual states, the more prosperity for the in- dividual inhabitants thereof and the more stability for the nation. Not that it makes much difference, but the dificulty of shaking off par- tisan bias is again fllustrated by “the committeé appointments of the Ne-|' braska State Bar association just an- nounced by President Ryan, who would be put down in the political di- rectory as a dyed-in-the-wool demo- crat. Of the four committees the chariman of the legislative committee is a democrat who ran for supreme judge last year, the chairman of the committee on legal education is a dem- ocrat who ran for supreme judge six years before that, the chairman of the conimittee on inquiries is a democrat who ran for supreme judge about six- teen years ago and the chairman of the committee on judiciary is another democrat who ran for supreme judge three times. Among the committee chairmen no republican is in evidence. Crown Prince -Frederick danced long and hard with all the American young women at a recent soecial ball in Berlin. Incidentally, he also got his portrait in the papers and a big writeup of his personal attrac- tions. It doesn't strike us as being exceptional that onme should like to dance with American beauties. William Spenkmgiot Senator Tillman’s sult | for possession of his son's children, the New York Independent explains | that under an ancient South Carolina law which still lingers, all the right of the children belongs to the father, no matter how unworthy he may be. It Senator Tillman sees this, look out for another pitchfork rampage. Perhaps me nnouncemaut that the tate expense is Governor bent. Indlanapolis News, The ten-page pamphlet by the immigra- tion commission, which cost $659,992.67, shows that there are some forms of lit- erature that are even more expensive than Notes of Jaunal Nature New York World. The cost of the necessaries of life is coming down. A stock exchange seat sold | Baturday for $82,000, against a record of $01,000. At this rate the 1,100 seats on ‘change are worth only $92,200,000. Demonstration of Karnestness, Washington Herald After having sald, “I hope my pockets will be turned inside outward,” Secretaty Ballinger announces his determination to |employ an attorney or two. This shows :m'w deadly In earnest the secretary really st Kept in the Dark. Philadelphia Ledger. Gentlemen who glibly explain that meat 18 high because people demand the cholce cuts have not made clear why these cuts carried with them on their upward fMght the humble chuck steak and the soup bone. Col Storage Tags. Brooklyn Bagle, The bill to regulate cold storage should provide that a brass tag be tied to the bony part of every bit of meat that goes into this retainer stating thereon the date of the killing. Eggs ought to be classified and dated. The arctic night which some food spends in these ice boxes is alleged to be ten years long. Mexican Justice and Americans. Sioux City Tribune, Americans employed on Mexican rail- roads long since learned to dread Mexican Justice. It is so permeated with hatred of the “gringo” that its courts administer in- Justice when a ‘‘gringo” ls at bar. The case of Cook is an instance. With not & straw of evidence against him, as conductor, with the theft of goods by his brakemen, the judge finds him guilty of ‘contributory negligence” and sends him to prison. His case lends confirmation to the stories told in “Barbarous Mexteo.” OLD-AGE PENSIONS. Encouragement for the Thriftiess at the Cost of the Thrifty. Pittsburg Dispatch. In view of the growing dlscussion of old age pensions and their adoption in England and Germany, it Is interesting to note that & commission on that subject appointed three years ago In Massachusetts to con- sider the subject has just lsaued its report, filling & volume of 50 pages. From pub- lished summaries its work seems to be earnest and thorough. At present we can give no more than the leading conclusions. The commission finds strongly against any plan of noncontrib- uting old age pensions such as has been introduced in England. This it condemns on the ground of encouragement of un- thrift at the cost of the thrifty, a disinte- grating effect on families and an un favorable influcnce on the rate of wages. At the same time it strongly approves of Van Nordens sold their interest in the | Van Norden Trust company and its afflliated banks not long ago to capl- talists who ‘control the Carnegle Trust company, may throw some light on | that $28,000 touch for which an anx- ! jous public is still awaiting the true explanation. ey Champ Clark is said | mit himself as to his candidacy either | tor the office of speaker or for the 1912 democratic nomination for the presidepcy. Champ evidently wauis 10 stay on good terms with a certain dis- tinguished Nebraskan for a Jttle while longer. e e A cutlery concern actually has the nerve. to advertise at this late stage| a penknife with handle carrying por- traits of Bryan and Kern. Must have \ overestimated the demand of the last| campaign and had a lot of dead stock | J. N. Haskell, dolng farm loan business left on hand. " e e One of the officers of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters has lately proclaimed & set of rules jntended to help prevent chureh fires. We thought the effort of the church was constautl to make the fires burn brighter n‘ stronger. According to the World-Herald, the only candidate for governor who is en- titled to do his campalign traveling at | rallway service, and has not plans of contributory retiring pensions for public employes and commends to large employers the policy of retiring allowances for their aged workmen, all based squarely on the principle of contributions to the fund by the employes themselves. HOMES AS THEY SHOULD BE. The Real Article Well Worth Striv- ing For, Cleveland Plain Dealer. The ‘“‘young man of today”. is so often viewed with alarm and regarded with solic- itude that moral homilies about him have lost their force. Somebody s always saving him in a new way until he grows rather tired of being saved, Here, however, Is a bit of true gospel that will appeal to him—and it may likewise ap- peal to his parents. “The homeless home,” says a Cleveland minister, Is the greatest danger to the young man of today. An un- sympathetic home has more peril in it than the saloon, the gambling den or the street. The home should be a home In the truest sense of the word, and not a mere place to eat and sleep.” The danger is negative, of course, but it drives the young man to positive evils. He wants comfort and sympathy, and If he doesn’t get them where he lives he will go ) | elsewhere, It is easy nowadays to find comfort and diversion. There are the theaters, the ho- tels and cafes, the clubs, the saloons and bowling alleys and other places less worthy of mention, but no less frequented, where there is brightness and comfort and vom- panionship. And to some of these places the young man is sure to gravitate If his home is gloomy or unsympathetic. It ls because of the lessening attractiveness of homes that such places flourish. The home Is & place to live in. Comfort- able chairs and couches, fireplaces that are used and furnaces that work, plenty of lights wherever lights are needed, warm rugs and walls tastefully tinted and hung with good pictures, good meals and ade- quate provision for casual lunches. music and sunlight and a general sinvsphers of cheerfulness, sympathy and toleranc these are the things that uake home ren) to the much discussed Young man. What though he does muss things up and leave footprints on the floor and an odor of to- in the parior? There are things ble than perfect order an# in housekeeping. Qur Birthday Be m!(i February 13, 1910, General Jumes Allen, chist of the sigi.al | to refuse L0 COM- | oorpy of the United States army, is just (1, General Allen ix an Indlanian by birth and a8 graduate of West Point. He 18 a visitor to Omaha nearly every year (o inspect (he signal corps station at Fort Owahit, which is under his jurisdiction. ' Victor Rosewater, editor of Tra liee, Is |3 today. He has been activ:ly'engaged 'n editorial work with The Hee for almost | seventeen years. James N. Hill, son of James J. Hill, with important interosts in the Burlingt:r Great Northern and Northern Pacific rafl | roads, is celebrating his 40th birthday. Wr, Hill began at the bottom of the ladder in slopped g - ing up. with offices in the New York Life bullding, was born February 13, I¥i6, at Nheepscott, Me. Mr. Haskell graduated from Bowdoin college in 1896 and located in O)maha the next year. Henry Rosenthal of the Peoples Store was born February 18, 1¥75, at Baltimore He becam associated with hiv brothers in the mercantile business and is now v president and secretary of tha propviei corporation. Frank, P. Manchester, secretary of the Omaha Grain exchangs, was born Fsbroury y 13, 1880, He is an Omaha hoy and & grad- uate of the Omaha High school and the Nebrasks State university” Shallen- berger, the present democratic incum- ind saving money lise th tose &l of lon which en years. permane: A comf it an his own old age. A J. 0. PHILI.!PPI E. COOPER, " AA TON LUNDSTROM, ammme— SERMONS BOILED DOWN Life is never art * untl through duty passes to delight A man's wind In ch his welght outside. Too many want to be sirens where light- houses are needed. Happiness Is in the discovery things that really matter. You may know many men by the mo- | tives they see In others. | Essays on problems are always more pop- | ular than essays at them. | It is more important to get ready to live than to be prepared to dle. it { urch gives no clue m\ ot & god with nothing more to be. One fool sets a fad and you know the rest by their trotting after him. One ought always to get more in his work than he hopes to get by it If. e CoRi- heavenliness will @ oare of it Koiks who are aiways giiding mandments often are dodging behind them. Those who make & success of attempting nothing always sneer at the great souls who fail. —Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The early robin is wise enough not m’ become a target for snowballs, Kansas City has the stage set for a new | version of Dr. Hyde and Mr. Jekyll. Boston’s naval engagements brought to | the firing line fashionable gold lace and lingerie. The limit of skyscrapers fixed by St Louls is 250 feet in height, or twenty-two | storles. Missourlans anxious for higher altitudes can hire flying machines. Chicago refuses to admire the narve of John L. Sullivan In claiming Chicago as his home and his occupation as “litera- ture.” The dual role is unthinkable in Chicago. President Taft is accounted a gracetul waltzer and something of an expert with a golf stick, but the real test of his prowess. will come when he twirls a shil- lalah in Chicego March 17. Bvery school bo¥, past or present, will have to be shown before belleving that the principal of a school in' Washington, Pa., birched 100 boys at one session. Pos- sibly the school is a sanitarium for molly- coddles. The ability of an imported medium to tickle with her toes the ears of the table holders while her hands were tled to a chair, comes under the head of what prizo fight reporters describe as “nimble | footwork." | Maryland and Virginla are up against the problem of reducing the governor's colonels to a peace footing. The former state ls inclined to abolish the sartorlal | glory and the latter state would cut the | number of colonels In half. Should the south set the pace indicated, what color- | less spectacles inaugurations will be. Woman's Invasion of man's preserves brings out rare bunches of trouble. One of the number who exercised the inalien- able right of handing her fiance the mit- ten is made defendant In a breach of promise, damages $25,00. Rather a large sum to pay for the measure of the man. | The color of the money hasn't yet blinked | his sight. DOMESTIC PLEABANTBIIE. Penelope—1 hear it's s all off between you and Vietor, What was the trouble? Mehitabel—His absent-mindedness. The other m.m forgot that 1 had already accepted , and he proposed again.— Chicago Tl Ih\lno “Has the new minister called on yet?" “‘No. fshioners who @ Baltimore Americ you He's calling first on thos able to afford meat. “Hello! What's the knot in your hand- kerchief for “My Lusband's gone to the country, and the knot is to remind me that he told me to think of him in his absence.”~Cinecin- nati Enquirer. Tfe—Darling, all 1 possess 1 lay at your foet. Sher-You are just like all the men—you insist' on- putting things where a woman will have to pick them up after you. But— I'll say yes, John.—Judge. Oaughter~Mamma, can't T have a little hopping this morning 0p—~N0, dear; there's the and 1 expect the taxidermist oston Transcript. to wonder,” sald Wil- “what the ornithological reason “T always used loughby, , monthly income as an addition; aratively small deposit with the Equitab) ndowment Income Contract is purchased The Equitable Life Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES PAUL MORTON, Prosident. “Strongest in the Worla" The Company which pays its death olaims on the day it receives them. H. D. NEELY, Manager. Merchants National Bank_Building, Omaha BBOCIA' PICKARD, [ FAY N hh.l,‘l |h~‘A | Springs, Mo., “Sight Drafts at Maturity” The average man I8 so busy making that lie does not at his family will his money within a few years after his death—unless they are rove the rule, Nine out of Would it not be the ¢ every ten familles lose all art of wisdom to furnish a sure, sateguard for wite and danghter? Be will not only d », but it will insure an income for ARLl-,s Vl'LT!Ch Cashier. ¥ BELKMAN We Sell 100 Kinds Mineral Waters We will sell over 100 kinds imported and merican Mineral Waters, and, as we ob- tain direct from springs or importer, ean uarantee freshness and genuineness. Boro Lithia Water, bot., 50c; case, .00, Boro Lith'd Water, pints, dozen, $1.50; cee, 100, $10.06. We are distributing agents in Omaha for | the “celebrated waters from Kxcelsior and sell at following prices: bottle, 2c; dozen, §2.35; Suipho- Saline, 50 2%c; dozen, .28, ; bottles, §8.4 Bulpho-slllne quart bottle, 26c; Soterian, quart bottle, 20c; doxen llfll Soterian, pint bottle, 15c; Ao Soterfan Ginger Ale, pint Ale, Regent, quart It is better to be & man striving up than | case, 50 bottles, $5.00. quart _botdle, 0. dozen, Bottie, .o,' quart bottle, 5ec; Diamond Lithia, 40c; case, 1 dozen, $4. Crystal Lithia, 6-gallon jugs, each, $2.00. t Sulphur, 5-gallon jugs, each, $2.25. Delivery free to any part of Omaii, | Council Blutfs or South Omaha. 16th and Dodge Sts. Owl Drug Co. lolh and lhrney Sts. Pkt R AT AR Try to make folks deeply happy and their | aogzen, $1. Soterlan_ Ginger | dozen, $2.95. half-gallon bottle, Optical Specialists We make a specialty of fitting Children’s Eyes YOU ENOW the proper care now saves a lifetime of EYE TROUBLE ) Prices reasonable. Huteson Optical Co, 213 South 16th St. was for there being no birds in last yea nests, but now it is clear as a pikestaff.” How do you account for it?’ queried Jiggers. ‘Why, look at the women's hats,” Willoughby, ~Harper's Week THE KING'S RING, Theodore Tilton. Once In Persia relgnec a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and Which, if held before his Gave him counsel at a gla Fit for every change and chance, Bolemn words; and these are they: dven this shall pass away sald Trains of camels through the sand Hrought him gems from Samarcand; Fleets of galleys through the seas Brought him pearls to match with these; Bul ne counted not his gain— l’\r‘;;mlrlen of }h‘a mine or main, at Is wealth?' the King we “Even this shall pass away i b In the revels of his court At the zenith of the sport, When the rlmn of all his guests Burned with clapping at his jests, He. amid his figs and wine, “rled: “Oh. loving friends of mine! leure comes, but not to stay, Even this shall pass away." Flghting on a furious field, Once & javelin plerced his shield, Soldiers, with a loud lament, Bore him bleeding to his tent, Groaning from his tortured side ‘Pain is hard to bear,” he cried ‘'But, with Ruuenco day h)’ dl)' Even this shall pass away.' Towering in the public square, Twenty cubits in the air, Rose his statue, carved in stone, Then the king, disgulsed, unknown, Gazing at his scul| ,:-kfll himisel Struck with paley, sere and old, Walting at the gates of gold, Spake he with his dying breat Uife | done, but what i death? ‘Then, in answer to the King, el @ sunbedm on hia rin Showing, by & heavenly “Even this shall pass away. PIANOS—GRAND AND UPRIGHT Purity of Tone, Velvety of Action, Lasting Qualities MAKES THIS PIANO SUPREME You Can See and Hear it at 1513 - 1515 Douglas Street