Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1910, Page 10

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'ersonal checks, except on Omaha or esstern exchanges. not -cr.pud STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION. Etate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss e B. Teschuck, tre a complete coples of The Dlll L M Evening and Sunday Bee pnnu: Aauring th llwth of January, 1910, was as follows: 48,440 | tional amendment | not, 7.3280 | 1. |to tax Incomes | bonds is not prompted by a desire to | exceptio |tion In favor of state bonds? Returned coples Net total. Dally average. 4,273 GEORGE B. TESCHUCK, Subscribed | and sworn to Uelore e xhis ‘et e et Ja 1910 ROBERT HU Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city teme porarily chould Rave The Beo walled to them. Address will bo changed as oftem as requested. If Philadelphia cannot settle its street car strike, it might go to Cleve- land tor advice. The fashionable dress suits for men are to have a shawl attachment. Why not a fascinator? Chicago papers are all talking about A safe and sane Fourth of July. Put it in cold storage for a while. A constitutional amendment to change the date for the appearance of the ground hog will be in order. —— It is no wonder that Council Bluffs lost the convention on the flip of a coin. When it comes to coin, bluffs sel- dom work. It is rather peculiar that the ‘City of Brotherly Love" should be the scene of the worst strike riot of the whole year. What's in a name? Auto show sales must be a good deal like an auction in which the owners and their agents do all the bidding and the other fellow pays the price. The statement of the Banta Fe vice- has absolutely no refer- ence to prolonging the ties of life, Unless warm weather comes along pretty soon so that the ‘‘helpful hen' can get busy the price of Easter eggs Wwill mateh the price of Easter hats. How fortunate for us that .while Senator Tiliman is off watch by reason of impaired health, Senator ‘‘Jeff” Davis 18 on deck fully qualified to per- form. —_— Many a prize fighter has lost the belt before, but never until Stanley Ketchel had his stolen, has it been taken away from the owner without a tight. It looks as though it would be some time before the Btate Fencibles of Philadelphia would be heard from again. They did not do much but get licked. Such little mistakes as that of a Jury signing the wrong verdict, as (u the Towa case, might result sometimes | in a poor devil getting hanged and | portant factor. Capitalizing the Tax. The debate on the income tax at Washington is revolving around the point whether the proposed comstitu- would, or would empower congress to impose a tax on incomes derived from invest | ment in state and municipal bonds, and whether taxes on such instrumentali ® | ties of local government would not im- | pair the borrowing power of our states Evening Bes (without Sunday), per weak. 6¢ | and municipalities. From the standpoint of constitu tional law these questions are interest- ing and posesibly intricate, but they simply ralse dust to hide the real mat. ter in controversy. The objection urged to vesting congress with power derived from state protect the credit of the states so much |as it ts by a desire on the part of in- vestors fn such bonds to escape taxa- tion, and it is not a tax on the income from the bond, but that tax capitalized which is at stake. Suppose congress should levy a tax of 1 per cent on all incomes without it would leave the relative value of income-producing properties exactly as they are. Suppose congress should levy such a tax with an exemp- Then, other things being equal, state bonds bearing 5 per cent interest would be worth more than an industrial bond bearing b per cent Interest to an extent equal to a capitalization of 1 per cent of the annual income. On future is- sues of state bonds no appreciable dif- ference would be felt, because on new purchases the investor would figure the income from the current rate of in- terest and would buy at a price to pro- duce that rate. On all existing hold- ings of exempted securities, however, the imposition of a tax on incomes from all other sources would produce a rise In market value propartionate to the capitalization of the tax. This is ot mere theory, but is the lesson of practical experience which has been demonstrated time and time again, Imposing a tax which becomes a fixed charge on one class of property and not on another simply results to the benefit of the present owner of the exempt property, and a distinction in source of income subject to an income tax would have the same effect. No Monopoly On Culture. In the fascinating narrative of her personal experiences which the late Helena Modjeska is giving her multi- tude of friends and admirers through the Century magaizine, describing her first tour of the country with its bur- den of one-night stands, she interjects this sage remark, ‘I have heard peo- ple say, ‘What does it matter how the play goes in such a small town as this?' 1t is a great mistake. Men and women of culture can be found everywhere, even in the smallest cor- ners of the country.” We wish this observation of ‘Mod- jeska's, a dramatic artist of foreign birth in a strange land, could be brought home forcibly to those who delude themselves with the idea that |there may be a monopoly of culture and that the cultured people of our country are all huddled together in a few big cities of the east. If culture consists of the qualties of refinement and appreciation of good literature, good music, good art and good drama, it is something which s subject to neither patent nor copyright, nor can it be cornered by margining with wealth. Culture is not an exotic, re- quiring pecullar soil and climatic con- ditions, nor does it thrive only n big population centers. As Modjeska truly says, men and women of culture can be found every- where, “even in the smallest corners of the country,” and the cultured peo- ple of the interfor will measure up on the averagh with those at the hub of New England or overlooking the Pal- igades of the Hudson. More than that, {he depth to which culture reaches in the strata of our population is steadily increasing, and it is safe to say that we have a greater proportion of cul- tured people today than ever before in our history, —_— Social Demands of Our High Schools. As the school year is drawing nearer its close the social side of high school life becomes more and more of an im- Club hops, organiza- |tion proms, class fetes and other so- | clety functions tend to make the spring season of the high school year one round of wearying social indulgence. that would be altogether too much of |80 marked is this tendemcy in some a joke. According to the press dispatches, the Tibetans have elected a new Dalal Lama, but it must be a mistake. The Tibetans held neither convention nor primary and heard not a single key- note epeech. ——— The increasing iImmigration is pretty &:0C proof ihat the high cost of living in this country is not keeping anyone from coming here to better his condi- | tion, because conditions abroad are, by comparigon, just as discouraging to the ambitious wage-worker as ever, The total vate in the special election held in Sioux City, which resulted In the adoption of a commission form of government, was only ‘about 5,000. Sioux City would hate to have its cen- Sus population bullt up on this figure by multiplication at the usual ratlo. If the House of Lords is being so everlactingly abused, why do not the members of that body appeal to the mothers of American heiresses. Poor little things, they would be taken into the bosom of the family and protected from sueh unkindness as has been soming their way communities that these functions are the most expensive and formal of the year and when the closing days of school have come the young people may well ask for a vacation. It may be questioned whether or THE OMAHA SU) DA\' pronounce modern edueation a failure and a @ back to the progress of af- fairs, Of course this can be effectively denied, but it can not be denied that soclal diversions outside regular school training are altogether too often over- done. In many sections the demand is rising for a revision of high school work for practicality. It is a good idea and will probably benefit education by changing some of its details. But one of the things which may well be loaked after while seeking to make our high school more effective for real educ tion would be to rationalize and bring to a commonsense basis the gocial de- mands which custom makes on high school young people. Europe's Preparations for Roosevelt. A reception of which any monarch of the old world would be proud\is to be accorded Theodore Roosevelt, a priv- ate American citizen, when he emerges from the African continent. Royalty and commons, learned socleties and scientific ‘associations vie with each other in preparing to do him honor. All the resources of the social secretaries of Europe are being taxed to the utmost for :the oc- casion. It is a still greater dis- tinction that nearly ull the ambassa- dors to America should be called home to act as masters of ceremonies on | these occasion But the true genius of Ameriean life often rebels against pomp and circum- stances, longling for simplicity as man |to man. America could be no better represented in this regard than in the person and personality of Mr. Roose- velt. He Is not courting ostentation, but has asked that he may be received as a man of letters and a naturalist, the significance of it all being that he reallzes he is no longer the official representative of the nation, but a private citizen instead. There is probably no other man so popular the world over as i1s Mr. Roose- velt. The vigor of his efforts in all the offi which he has held show him possessed of the true spirit of Amert- canism augumented and supplemented by a well balanced individuality and an intensely practical mind. His whole career is tempered with the principles of justice, sterling manhood, integrity, and consideration for humanity. The nations of the world recognize this and their acknowledgment of it to Mr. Roosevelt, himself, is the greatest com- pliment of all. ““The history of nations is made up of the achievements of its great men."” As the great men of a nation compel and receive the respéct and esteem of the world so is the nation itself hon- ored, Thus this greeting of the nations of Europe {s an honor to America which we may all share, Influence of Forests On Climate. Several weeks ago it was announced that Prof. Willls L. Moore, chief of the United States weatber bureau, had denounced the prevalent notion that forests increase rainfall and prevent floods as based principally on imagina- tion and unsupported by facts. The detailed report made by Prof. Moore to the house committee on agriculture, containing the data on which this con- clusfon rests, is now at hand and pre- sents some most suggestive material. Prof. Moore, and no one in this country has higher recognition as an authority on climatology and meteor- ology, admits that he, himself, has changed the opinion he previously held on this gsubject. He formerly belleved that forests controlled the flow of streams and that climate was so af- ! fected by cutting away the forests that drouths very largely increased and the well-being of future generations was seriously menaced, but he has been lately convinced that the facts and fig- ures fail to support these inferences. Not that forest preservation and fores- \ tration are not imperative or desirable for mahy other reasons, but that this one argument often used in behalf of forestration is not a sound and valid argument. In his report Prof. Moore brings to- gether scientific observation which goes to show that marked climatic changes are essentially universal and not local, whereas the influence of for- ests on climate, if they exert any influ- ence, must be purely local. The rem- nants of great forests are found in many places in this and other coun- tries, indicating that the streams re- cede first and that the forests are last to disappear; that instead of the re- moval of the forests drying up the streams, the drying up of the streams preceded drouth that killed the forests. Observations of moisture precipitations | going back as far as records have been | Is much easier to blame it on the re- | kept, in some cases for nearly a hun- dred years, fail to disclose any large variation for ten-year averages, not- not our drift Is to overtrain the young | withstanding the tremendous changes people of high school age, Soclety standards in school are naturally high and are getting higher. Young men must furnish carriages and flowers and | the young women must wear gowns of are expensive in themselves, to say nothing of the amount of effort and money spent in the management of the whole atfair. As a rule the prime movers in these elaborate social events are financially able and willing to “see them through,” although those in- volved in the whirl may not all be so blessed. Under all circumstances, whether parents are able to allow the young people concerned to go the limit, so- clally or not, the exaggerated social ll!e'{;l high school days creates new jdeals, so exacting as to be injurl- ous, If the immediate years following schgol and college life are full of ir- responsibility and soelal frivolity, busi- ness and professional men are led to In the forestration of the country around about. Among these tables are the measurements taken here at Omaha for thirty years. Arrunged in ten-year periods, these precipitation ,elnbor-le and tashionable make. These | figures show an average for the first and third periods greater than for the second, although that for the third is still smaller than that for the first, whereas the prevailing notion would have it that the rainftall should be in- creasing here because the trees and foliage in this vicinity are notoriously more plentiful than they were thirty years ago. Prot Moore also combats the asser- tion that there is a marked tendency | to increasing floods in this country as a result of deforestration. Precipita- tion measurements and river stages averaged for periods of years show a ratio entirely independent of the re- moval of the forests which were sup- posed to hold the moisture captive, equalizing the flow of water in the 'l!rolmn and preventing floods. | Hitchcock may get away Prof. Moore declares that, notwithstanding the destruction of our forests, floods are not of greater frequency or greater duration than formerly. A child is apt to believe that the rustling of the leaves on the trees makes the wind blow. If Prof. Moore’ observations and conclusions are sus tained, the long cherished theory, that forests make moisture rather than that moisture makes forests, will have to go in the same class with the delusion that the leaves move the wind instead | of the wind moving the leaves. The Cost of Sickness. According to Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks of Cornell university, the cost of sickness to the United States may be conservatively estimated at $1,000,- 000,000 annually. In this is included only such sickness as incapacitates peo- ple from working and requires medical attendance. Minor aliments not requir- ing a physiclan's services would add $250,000,000 more. Prof. Jenks gets at it by figuring the loss through sick- ness on the average by every member of the population to be thirteen days every year, and erts that by proper care probably nine-tenths of this loss could be saved. To prevent this would, of course, housing, proper exercise and rational dlet and abolition of various excesses | and abuses. The contemplation of the colossal figures suggests, none-the- less, that it is worth while to try to do something to put the doctors out of business. It might be far more satis- factory, and much more economical, to introduce the system credited to the sickness waste Chinese—for the patients to pay their | physician for the time they are well.| To put every graduate n medicine on | a liberal pension would be a paying investment, even if only half of the $1,260,000,000 of the sick cost could be saved. Working To;vud Better Citizenship. | A striking feature in American af- fairs during the present winter has been the exceptionally large number of investigationswinto graft, unfaithful- ness, bribery, irregularity in financial affalrs, an overturning of laws standing on the statute books and criminal procedure. The press has been full of these cases and new indictments and new investigations bid fair to ‘“keep the ball rolling” for months to come, The charges range all the way from ‘“‘spiritual wickedness places” to political brigandage and brutal crime, and the individuals in- volved vary from the highest in politi-/ cal and industrial life to the lowest in the makeup of society. The number leads to the question if |, { there 18 really degeneracy working into the fabric of our national affairs or rather, if social and civic consciences have been more sharply aroused to expose comiuion conditions for correct- tion. Affairs are no worse than they have been, otherwise investigations would not have to do with transactions of years passed, some of them even ex- tending back well into the last cen- tury. It may develop that we are simply undergoing a readjustment whose results will produce conformity with changing conditions. If one may judge from matters brought to light through this legal ac- tivity, a greater sense of civic respon- sibility now prevails among us and is modifying the previous tendency to consider lightly civic and political duty. “The child is not going to be a citizen, but is already a citizen,” we are told, “‘and should be taught that he is preparing himself to perform clvic service.”” Good citizenship means much to the individual American and what is going on will serve to increase its value as a public asset. Mr. Bryan has proposed the estab- lishment by our government within the limits of the canal zone of an American college for the ben=fit of South Americans who find it inconveni- ent to go further from home in search of instruction In American history and ideals of government. This looks like treason to that Bryan school of citizen- ship which he wanted planted at Lin- coln to furnish education to South Americans at the expense of Ne- braska’s taxpayers. One of the unconsidered trifles that makes for the present high cost of living is the dally fire tax of $1,§00,000 paid by Americans.—New York Independent, There are a lot of unconsidered trifies which help make up the total of | the cost of living, but which the polit- ical demagogues prefer to ignore. It publican tariff. —_— 1t looks as if the postal savings bank bill would come to a vote in both houses of congress before the present | session adjourns, but if it is delayed long enough our own Congressman to Hurope again without recording himself as he did the last time when the tariff bill Was up. It might be well to make sure that the corpse is actually dead before the coroner is called. An Indiana’ young woman nearly froze to death in the snow while friends were sending for the coroner, but fortunately revived when taken into the house Louis W. Hill, president of Great Northern Tallroad, was lost re- cently in his private car. If anyone finds a stray rallway president wander- ing around loose please notify the lost and found department of the Great Northern. —— The man who backed his gon up [to a pile of lumber in broad daylight require unharv‘ long | in high| the | 27, 1910, and carried off 3,000 shingles belong. ing to the other fellow, is certainly entitled to special consideration. No such an exhibition of freedom has been manifested since the Japanese ‘‘res cued” the valuables of the U 8. 8§ North Dakota from the ocean Incubators are handy things. Be gides raising chickens in them they are /now being used to test seed corn. Per haps, after a while, a fellow may be able to hatch any sort of a scheme In them, guch as a political |speech. It is recommended for that | purpose, and also for brooding over a grouch. The raised rates on live stock trans. portation are now sald to hit the farmer. It begins to look as though | everybody were getting hit this winter and if it s not for one thing it is for another. It {s up to some one to hit the cause of all this trouble and stop the general slugging bee. New Jersey has awakened and, while 8o thoroughly in the grip of the big- gest trust known, is starting an fin- vestigation into the methods of the meat trust in that state. Sometimes the worm turns and bites the other ;fellow The Wyoming man who had to have |a plank bed instead of a hospital cot and fresh air cooled to 18 degrees be- low zero in order to be comfortable, has very evidently been leading the simple life, The Pinchot-Ballinger controversy | threatens to end up in just where it began—a long-drawn-out row with good “‘space filling” testimony for slow winter months. Make it Tweuty-Three. Denver Republican. | A Harvard professor declares that a man | can live on 20 cents a day. It is a pretty safe prediction that the heirs of the man who does it will never try the same plan. Auother Ox Gored. Kansas City Star. In Philadeiphia the corrupt traction com- pany, which for years has debauched the politics of the city, has suddenly become | almost deafening in its clamor for law and order. Whe Cares for Equ Sioux City: Tribune. Former Governor Sheldon's plan for a Nebraska prohibition law in which two | prohibition votes will annul three license Vvotes might prove effective, but it would hardly be equitable ity ¢ Boston Globe. Major Woodruff of the army medical corps takes sharp issue Wwith some college theorists who think that the regular army soldier is overfed. The soldier boys, | no doubt, will agree heartily with Major ‘Woodruff. Bumper Crop of Hay. Chicago Tribune. Battling Nelson appears to have had his day, but you can't use him as & frightful example when depicting the emptiness of a pugllistic career, He made his hay while the sun shone, and he has the proceeds of his crop profitably salted down. The Uplift in Africa. ‘Washington Star. After this touch of high life every African village owes It to itself to lay In a supply of high hats, frock coats and brass band instruments. The tide of popu- lar interest has turned toward the dark continent, and there is no telling when a reception commitiee may be needed. Economy and Congress. Chicago Tribune. Tiie people complain of high prices and Inadequate incomes, without realizing how much the situation Is aggravated by the vast expenditures of the national govern- ment. If it were to take leas from them | they would have more money to spend. It they, could be made to see that, con- gress would suddenly become economical. Public sentiment would demand It That sentiment is lacking and hence there will | be no economy in appropriations. Con- gress will appropriate all the money in sight and some more. i | \ 4 Uncle Sam’s R | New York Times. “Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us a farm,” sang the ploneers of the west, but the Little Father Is rich now when Uncle Sam has little left to give Russian families settling in Siberia recelve 1,000 acres from the government land office, and each allotment contains forest, meadow and arable land. Moreover, the | Little Father has spent $1,600,000 in settling medical men in the colonized area, $375,000 on schools and hospitals, $750,00 on and $210,000 on agricultural machinery. | “This teaches, my dear little boys and dear | Httle girls,” the good teacher will say, atter bidding them to write the figures on a slip to be pasted on a fly leaf of nmrl geography books, “that there are worse things in the world than an absolute mon- all keynote | To kee) want to do. can't keep young may bappen when you're youn Baving is fins, excellent, provided oIng to live 1o hing after vou've dona without What's to be_dot No riak o¢ | our sweet eternal policy means saving plu At the bank own Inclination to shake the Mb{ ourself and be assured. Don't fou, ¢ deposit a part of yo ing w! The bank simply p company pays much more. The Equitable Life ou bocl The Company which ml 1ts death B, H. PICKARD, OPER. H FA ANTON LUNDSTROM, J. 0. PHILLIEP! GEO, M. youns is somathing And about by not thinking about it. dwelling on those terrible thi no longer. ou oan find out In advace enough to make the sa Not only 18 your life Inmured, but vou are {nsured against 'w bank when you see a “sure thing.”" Insure 2 ot the wife and kiddies run the ng not oniy lack of syrup. but actually « 1t F, No bank in the worls Commonsense and Life Insurance wo all rought You if you are alwava that That's why mostly some &mlo save, At you are ing worth the stinting, It's a mean tobmooco for a week, to hike into th it anvhow? Basyl A lifs tneu ling into the long slesp with §14. youl risk of ha no cakes at all. an {nsurance nom‘ln k what FtH put 1 t m- |- urance in as stros Bquitable, Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES trongest in the World™ e claims on the day it receltves them, H. D. NEELY, Manager. Merchants National Bal!g_gulldmg, Omaha ABSOCIATE AG! RNTS CHARLES VULTEE, Y NFEL\' W. G,_ROMIG F. BECKMAN. cumor\ SERMONS BOILED DOWN Sympathy may speak best in silence, | Strength Is largely a matter of discover- | ing alltes, Many @ thorn lies hidden in soft words. Infiuence 18 our shadow faliing ¢ beyond our reach. | No man Is right with God who s askew with his fellows. | The way to get even with your detractors 18 to disappoint them. For the understanding of others the heart 18 the best philosopher. There 1s no noyrishment in the bread of life when you use it as a club The more serfous a man is the more he knows the value of & smile. The religlon you can leave ai home will never get you a home forever, Youy religion was born in the wrong piace | it the happiness of a child frritates it. | Come to know folks by love and you will not need to do much guessing about God. You can let loose a lle in a second, but | some have spent their llves trving to catch up with one.—Chicago Tribune. a_bunch of often fa SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. | Boston Globe: A Coney Island man called on President Taft to urge the adoption of a | “universal Christian flag," with a white | ground and blue center field in which rests a red cross, for use in the armies and | navies of the world. It is hard to see just what armies and navies have to do with Christianity. | Chicago Record-Herald: Belleving that men are able to pray better alone, a Kan- | sas City preacher has arranged to have the | men and women of his congregation Wo ship In separate rooms on prayer meeting | evenings. He has probably made a. serious | mistake if he has gone to any trouble for the purpose of providing a large room for | the men. Charleston News and Courler: A Balti- more minister declares that dancing is re- sponsible for more fmmorality than any other amusement, and quotes Cicero as saying that “No one dances unless he is either drunk or mad.” The learned minister | seemsyto have confused the sensuous dances | of the Imperial City with the wholly enjoy- able, artistic, delightful and unobjection- | able dances of the present day, our refer- ence not being, of course, to the dances exhibited on the stage. The Baltimore minister would certalnly be able to dis- tnguish between a Roman punch and one from the Chatham artillery of Savannah. | * PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Forty hammering rounds puts Cadillac, Mich., on the map. | One more day of February. Let Joy be | uncontined over the passing of the short | and ugly month. | Twenty-two wearers of the Carnegle | hero medals put the finishing touches on their courage last year by getting married. Mr. Falrbanks' visits to European cnnl-i tals serve s an advance notice of the big show when Rooseyelt appears in the main | tent. ‘ A succession of smashing noises and | compulsory exercise were needed to con- | vince the country that Philadelphia is fully | awake. Dr. Wiley says that in fifty years alcohal, i water and wind will run the world's ma- | chinery. The combination is golng some right now. Mr. Bat. Nelson Is not quite as ha some as he used to be, but a purse of $12,- 000 will help to ease the pain and reduce the swelling, Dispensers of summer sodas have reached the conclusion that a few more inches of foam will be more acceptable to consumers and the till, than a direct advance In price, Crunching bubbles will be a fashionable exerelse, According to the Massachusetts standard of beauty, as defined by Curtis Guild, Jr., . Pierpont Morgan's picture could not get a place in the chromo class. Pierp. does archy.” ' OLD INDIAN WARS WECALLED, || Batt rt | Recover Boston Transeript The lower house of congress has re cently passed a blll appropriating $25, WJ\ for the erection of a monument commemo- | |rating the officers and soldiers who {ull; IIII the two battles fought at Fort Re- | covery, O., In the Indian wars of Wash-| 'tngn-m first administration. To most Americans of today these are forgott battles, yet in proportion to the numbers | | engaged they were among the bloodiest on | record. The first of these s better known | as “St. Clair's massacre," though the (fl’m‘ does not fit, for It was a flerce confllct | { between St. Clalr's army and the confed- |erated Indlan tribes of what was then | “the west.” It occurred November 4, 1701, | and of the 1,400 men St. Clalr commanded sixty-two officers and 630 soldlers were killed and 20 wounded. The second en- gagement was almost three years later, | when the garrison of Fort Recovery, which | had been bullt on the scene of St. Clair's | defeat, repulsed the attack of the allied English and Indlans. On this occasion twenty-two American officers and 120 sol- | diers fell. Altogether there are more th 800 Americans who perlshed in this flerce | forest warfare buried near where they fell | Their graves are respected and local sen- | timent has set up some primitive metes and bounds for their resting place. The| rapldity of the advance of the white man acrose the continent is realized when it s remembered that though these battles were fought in the heart of “the Indian coun- try,” the battlefield is in Mercer eounty, Ohle, about ten miles this side the In- dlana line. Memorial for | proportions cf his pile | | enjoying not lean much on personal pulchritude, but even envious critics concede the handsome Some editors abroad, like sional brethren at home, trouble by their partiality for Bryanisms. | Lal Chand Falak, a publisher at Lahore, | India, is on trial for sedition, his offense | being reprinting one of Bryan's letters on British rule in that country. Not only the cost of living, but the dif ficultles of living have become an acute problem with certaln New Yorkers hitherto the fat of the eity. May nor's crusade agalnst political barnacles has alveady reduced the city's payroll $1,- 100,000. The judge is quite expert in th ing the harpoon. | their profes- | accumulate Our Birthday Bookl February 87, 1910. Herbert G, Hoel, for McCord-Brady department manager company, was born in Omaba, February 2, 15 He has been in the grocery business with McCord-Brady company sinee 1889, representing the house | 2 the_road and as manager of various branched. | Charles Kiehnhoff, clerk in the general offices of the Burlington & Missouri Rail- | way headquarters, was born February 27, 1881, at Wauthena, Kan. He has been in the rallroad business for ten years, the last five in his present pasition. C. ¢ Wentsler, newspaperman, (s 42 years old. He was born In Providence, R. L. and by profession is an analytical chemist and pharmacist. His first news- paper work in Omaha was done on The Bee.. | \e’rne seas just to look Into my eyes. | ecy | pel But this is the thought |'"Tis father [ witn bi To keep up the markets, Ah, here's to the fathers! Their hands are nd Pay But d» ot for, o e A Y handie over 100 altogether. Crystal Lithia (Excelsior Springs & Diamond Lifhia "Wate Sulpho Saline Water, | Regent Water, Carlsbad lprmm v\.u«. French Vichy Water, at. Butfulo Lithia Waier, ¥ gal | Colfax Water, % DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Sha—H: LE] ia do you speculate? Harold—Weil, Gt I'm_engaged to you.—Lite, la You were a long time getting me, John, ear! “And | pet! you were a long time waliting, —The Circle. ilas the 2:30 train gone?" “Yes, ma'am; five minutes ago." When's the next train?" “Four-fifteen, ma'am." ‘“Thank goodness, 1'm In time!" Lipy cott's Magazine, » { She has postponed Jane is %o practical. wedding. indend! “Yes. She sald she knew she would ha to wait until eggs w per, or her o | without a wedding cake. —L eveland Plain Dealer. Does your husband play bridge well?" “Some portions of it," replied young Mrs. Torkins. “liverybody' says Charley is a good loser."—~Washington Star. ¥ Maud—Jack swears that he would tra- el—He ' called | usual? Maud—Not last night; [that 1t was raining on you last night, as he telephoned me too hard.—Boston | Transcript Wife—What sort of a play would you like o s Husband—Something lively, that keeps you awake, and has plenty of music in it Wife—Um. You'd better stay at home and take care of the baby.—Life. “Why do you pflrn\u in having muddy |N)0Ih ' Inquired the fastidious friend “TI'm_dlsgulsing mn«u an a farmerly plied Mr. Bliggin: want peopl Lo think 1 am pro: ‘Washington Star, Caller—I have elor brot owed misogynist. Mrs, y, Mrs. Jipes, thers isn't a word of truth in that, He's a Con- gregationalist.—Chicago Tribune Id that your bach- The Girl (rather weéarily, at 11:30 p 1 don't know a thing about base bali The Beau—Let me explain it to you. The Girl—Very well, give me an illustra~ tlon of a home run.—Judge, “Dr. Fourthly, don't you believe the time is coming when'the swords shall be beaten into plowshares and the spears into prun- ing hooks, and men shall learn war ne more “Indeed I do, :‘But when?' “About the time when that other prophs Is fulfilled—'and then shall the end ""—Chicago Tribune. m)—- Brother Millsap.” * THE NEGLECTED ONE. W. D The poets Nesbit in Chicago Post. have written of mothers - and wives, And_ sister ful charn Have told how our lives And set us no harm. laurel we'd bro Nor sllence the praise from the voice or the pen— and swecthearts of wonder- they've influenced all of in paths where we met with No take from a womanly ¢ we would bringg 0 That father d and then. ou no serves e kind word now who hustles from daylight to dark That comfort may come to the loved "Tis fath s each morn with the lark, rn Iallmr who loses the halr from his mm-r_\ and fretting o'er all of the s, 'Tis father who trudges along the highway th 10 up,.¢ e marts and But father has mot heen enshrined fn & song. Their h; horuih th eir hearts -r ever were DOsHes. As those that the wome as gentle, and certaln to v to relieve all the childish dis- ribte praise; Repeat all thel to womankind; lavish your r virtues again and again— get, through the toll-weary T ) PURE MINERAL SPRING WATER. Our firm has for 20 years been head- juarters for all kinda of Mineral Wa are carload buyers and dluxrmm-rn kinds Thnt fathar deserses a kind word and then. We enumerate a few Jug .. :;’q Suiper gal $a.28 400, $4.00 ‘Springs) 5 hn‘l‘ Ixcelsior Y% gal doz, AT at. bottle 280 -.98.35 280 1 dozen .. fron, "qt. "botle 1 dozen 8 bottle 300 1 dozen 4 85.00 ottle 400 1 dozen .50 Appollinaris 'Water, qis., pts. und Splits at lowest prices, \llnuez llulne« n Water, qt. bottle bottle .. dozen case . 9878 "bottle 1 dozen case .. Return alowance for boltles and fugs. Dellvery free in Omaha, Council Bluffs and South Omaha, Corner 16th and Dodge Bts, Owl Drug Co. 16th and Haruey Ste. COULD HIDE BENIND A STRAW, “She"” fed me on corn dodgers ha ny rock, began to weaken !l WHI'U)« !kl)hlu BL