Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1910, Page 12

THE OMAHA SUNDAY .’m}: OMAHA SUNDAY : BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter, | TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, | Dally Bee (including Sunday), per week.léc | Dally Bes (without Sunday), per week..10 Daily Bes (without Sunday), one year..}.00 | y Bee and Sunday, one year. J6w DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evenln; Bee (without Sunday), per week 6 vening Bee (with Sunday), per week....10 Bunday Bee, one year.. Baturday Bee, one yea Address all complaints of irreguiur delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omahat-The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. | Council Bluffs—15 Scott Street. Lincoln—618 Little Building. Chicago—145 Marquette Buildin New York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. Thirty-third Street. Washington—72% Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal payable to The Bee Publishing Company. | Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of | mail accounts. Personal checks, e Omaha or eastorn exchange, not & STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. George B. Teschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ®ays that, the actual number of full and complete copies of Daily, Mornin; Bvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, 1910, w 1. 42,800 a. 42,910 3. U West rder 142,850 -43,760 42,870 1,284,540 10,421 4,374,119 43,40 UC, Treasurer. Bubsoribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day of May, 1910. M. P. WALKER, Notary Fuolie Returned coples . Net total Subscribers leaving the city tem- rily aho have The Bee matled to them, Addresses will be changed as often as requested. Somehow the word, comet, is sug- gestive of comic opera. Dr. Hyde was unable to convince the Jury that he was Dr. Jekyll. ‘Would it not be funny if they dis- covered that after all the comet had a bob-tail. The democrats have Harmon in Ohio, but they still lack the “y” to go with him. | Why did not Dr. Cook bring back the comet instead of the North pole? think to Those astronomers who talk up in the millions all the time ought to make good financiers. Thus far Milwaukee's socialist mayor has given that city an unex- pected surprise party. Mr. Bryan spoke of being away from us for six weeks in such a sad tone, | Well, we will try to bear up. 1f Battling Nelson thinks Uncle Joe cannot hit some let him be seated in the house and start something. His admirers declare that Mayor Gaynor has saved $4,000,000 for the city. 1s that why he and Mr. Hearst fell out? Perhaps that storm that swept away an Oklahoma town is the same one that is sweeping away the governor of the state? > A college professor has figured out that this is 1913 and not 1910, but as we have lost his name we cannot give him the desired publicity. \ —_— At any rate those astronomers will pardon us if we incline our ear the other way from now on when they mention the comet. An observer remarks that Speaker Cannon never walks, meaning that he is not given to that sort of exercise. Yet no one has ever heard of his crawling. —_— Having got his, J. Pierpont Morgan Bays the day for accumulating colos- sal fortunes has passed. Now is the time, then to begin passing the for- tunes. Two St. Loulsans are fighting in the courts over a coop of game cocks. A good chance for & young lawyer o win his spurs.—St. Louls Times. Yes, and become the cock of the ‘walk. If those lifornians succeed in The Confidential Stenographer. The breach of trust committed by a stenographer in the office of the se retary of the interior in peddling out information given him in confidence has failed to strike a responsive chord, notwithstanding his explanation that he had been made to believe himself a | confidential clerk to the government rather than to his superfor officer. It | is only on the theory that the can be condoned, and it is creditable to the American sense of fair dealing that even those who have no sympathy for the victim have displayed no enthu- slasm over the recreant stenographer who will probably have trouble in com- { manding the confidence of a new em- ployer to the extent of being entrusted with any information that he would not want published to the world. The cold reception accorded the coup of the faithless stenographer is, we submit, a good sign, and still more reassuring is the extreme rareness of the occurrence in which a stenographer betrays confidence. There are proba- bly in this country hundreds of thou- sands of stenographers and personal secretaries holding the most intimate relations with the business of their employers and entrusted with informa- | tion whose betrayal might mean finan- | cial ruin or disgrace, and yet it is sel- dom, indeed, that perfidy is uncov- ered in such places. Although the | stenographer as a new member of the industrial household has not been edu- cated up to the high code of profes- sional morals supposed to surround the relations of lawyer and client, physician and patient, priest and parishoner, a high sense of honor and fidelity /is as much in evidence among the ranks of the stenographers as a whole as among the representatives of these professional classes. It goes al- most without saying that inviolable re- spect of confidence is the prime es- sence of the stenographer's work, and that there are so few mercenary traitors and spies4n this militant army deserves appropriate tribute. Fortunate Child of the West. One of the most serious problems perplexing the large eastern cities is how to protect the health of the child. 80 many conditions there militate against robust development that even medical experts and scientists are up in the air. School authorities in particular find the task a grave one. In New York City, with its big tene- ments and squalid quarters the peril of childhood is grave and calls for ceaseless vigilance from medical men who have given deép thought to the art of combatting conditions besetting childhood. The simple matter of pure air, which, of course, children of com- fortable parents may obtain, is one of the essentials to good health so diffi- cult to get into the lungs of the young- ster who comes from an unsanitary hole, romps only the narrow, busy lanes of commerce and attends, per- haps, a school none too well adapted to the exigencies of health. Here in the west we sometimes imagine ourselves confronted with problems in the health of the children at large, but wherever that is the case it is simply because somebody has | failed to avail himself of natural con- | ditions amply adapted to the child’s well-being. We are too prone out here in this broad dominion of od's glorious out-of-doors,” to discount our inherent blessings—pure air, plenty of green grass and shady trees and room enough for armies of children. The child of the west is the child of for- tune and if taught to appreciate and realize on his extraordinary advan- tages in this respect, the lesson would help make him a better child and a more useful citizen in later years. The Crime of Blind Credulity. The crime of blind credulity is one of the oldest offenses in the category of sin and one of the least excusable. Wise men and ignorant commit it and | its perpetrators are its first involun- tary victims, though society generally helps pay the penalty. It is the stock- |in-trade of the mountebank and the |demagogue. 1t thrives on emotion and impulse, but cannot exist against | sane, sober judgment and deliberate | torethought. | The sensational press is one of the | products of unquestioning ecredulity. It came into being at a time when the | country was enjoying unbounded pros- | perity and men were drunk with | visions of big things. promoters saw this and, being good judges of human nature, they saw how prone men were to exaggeration, how easy it would be to make things | bigger, to toy with public confidence. Unscrupulous | ing a careful system of jurisprudence to verify or disprove this presumption When appearances may be deceptive it may be well not {o be over cred- ulous. The Royal Funeral. The pageantry of King Edward's funeral not only suggests the costli- ness of burying a British ruler, but end | also the thought that it will require justifies the means that such treachery | several years more of democratic sov- ereignty to wean England away from Here is the most popular king Great Britain has had, the most progressive and informal, at whose obsequies every form and custom of royal dynasties are invoked in the expression of na- tional homage in solemn reminder of the tenacity of tradition. Edward VII has been referred to as ‘England’s first diplomat,” but whether that be true or not, he was a potent factor in advancing Britain's cause abroad, in promoting the princi- ple of constitutional government and establishing world peace, and but for his wise conservatism in the closing months of his reign he would undoubt- edly have left the throne on trial, but instead he had done more than any other monarch to vindicate the system of limited monarchial government and stay the tide of public sentiment drift- ing toward its overthrow. And yet not even such a life, nor the example and influence of such a man, could suffice to set aside the panoply of royal mien at his own bier and tomb. As great as had been his predisposition toward democracy, even greater was the indulgence of his people in the hol- low forms of the past. Yet the ultimate lesson is a whole- some one. KEdward’'s funeral, while most imperialistic in outward aspects, was at the same time the most popular demonstration of the kind that was ever made in historic London, and re- flects the love the people felt for their king. Following the gilded carriages of crowned heads from other nations and representatives of republics, one ex-president of the United States, came the people, the proletariat, as it were, bowed in a grief as genuine as that of the nobility This, together with the deeper significance of the entire dem- onstration—a for constitu- ted authority—is a lesson the world may study with profit; the lesson that underneath the ostentation of royal habit is the sced of true democracy which the lamented king sowed in the hearts of his people. reverence Faith Cure for the War Fever. The nations of the world may advo- cate the limitation of armaments as the surest step toward international peace, but it is plain that they are not going to cease building strong de- fenses so long as one nation has a doubt of the other’s sincerity. This is more a matter of faith than it is of peace after all. When the powers can thoroughly depend on each other's in- tentions to refrain from war and to carry out an agreement to limit the munitions of war then and not until then will they enter into and abide by such an agreement. But this faith is an advanced step in economy of human progress wu;h has hardly yet been reached, and until it is reached the Mohonk conferences land The Hague tribunals must have patience with those practical men of affairs who hold to the belief that large armies and strong navies are the surest conservators of world peace in this day of restless ambition. Decrying the wisdom of erecting formidable armament as a means of in a better position than any other to test the power of example in leading the nations into the paths of peace. Doubtless true, but regardless of national prowess, no nation is apt to go far in such a leadership until it had absolute knowledge tnat every other formidable government would follow its course. FKor our nation to go it alone would be a showing of faith unprecedented. i The Third Degree. In his address as president of the International Association of Police { Chiefs’ meeting at Birmingham Major Richard Sylvester, head of the police | department at Washington, was moved to enter protest against “‘the wheel of |sensations” that has been made to re- | volve around the so-called ‘‘third de- Egrefl“' charging upon the police of most of our cities a systematic practice of | inhuman torture on prisoners in order | to force confession of crimes from in- nocent and guilty alike. “I am con- vinced,” he declares, “that no such barbaric acts maintain generally, or the ceremonies of its ancient courts. | amity, we are told that ““our nation is | | They contrived a fake newspaper and even moderately, among the intelligent | panned it oft for a bona fidé article, protectors of lives and property, who, filling it chiefly with ridiculous state-|on the other hand, have repeatedly in catching the comet by the tail, they should summon Jack Johnson to come and jump aboard. Maybe that would satisfy his craze for speed Although J. Warren Keifer shook his fist in the face of fate and pro- claimed that the new tariff was not high enough, even at that, they could not defeat him for renomination. Still our anti-war senators probably will admit that it may be better to *“joge our heads in building up a great navy” than to lose them because some other nation has a greater navy. Can anybody imagine that the most distinguished American in the funeral procession of King Edward did not feel uncomfortable with those humble ments of its own greatness. They {found that Mr. Barnum was right | when he said the people liked to be | humbugged. | 1t is an element of mental and moral | weakaess to accept too much on faith, Thomas the Doubter is a stronger man for demanding proof of the nail prints he had not seen than the impulsive disciple who leaped to the conclusion {that it was his Lord because somedne | told him so. The faith of a Didymus that is founded upon the result of honest inquiry is more enduring than the spontaneous impulse of a credu- lous heart. The crime of blind credulity {s one against which men must always be on their guard If sclence and industry are to progress and the forces of nature show us the truth. The principle of flunkies shambling along beside his oArr! ‘with their powdered wigs and silk knickerbockers? aw that presumes every man to be fnnocent until proven gullty beyond a doubt quickly fortifies itself by provid- {these assemblages discussed the hu | mane handling of prisoners, endeavor- |ing to promote kindness on the part| of the police toward children and to | secure the respect and confidence of the good citizen for him in whom fis entrusted the care of that which is most valued.” While Major Sylvester is careful not to assert that the so-called “third de- gree'' infamies have never existed, he evidently wants the public to under- stand that progress is being made in police organization and police methods as it is in all our other public activi- ties and that the inhumane handling of prisoners is not the rule, but the exception. Instead of being a regular institution resorted to on all possible occasions by every metropolitan police force, as people might infer from the lurid dramas that have been woven around it, the so-called “‘third degree" atrocities are outlawed in all modern BEE: MAY (] 13 2, 1910. | policp departments, and are more |likely to break out among the amateur police of small towns than among the | trained crime hunters of the big cities. | The so-called “third degree” lends | itself, however, so readily to sensa- | tional treatment that we may expect to | continue to hear about ft right along,|to serve any great public good, nor but Major Sylvester's remonstrance against the unfair imputation of sys- tematic police barbarism should have a hearing The ‘“Back-to-Nature” Fake. The philosophical interludes which Mr. Roosevelt ‘sandwiches into the narrative of his African hunting ex- periences have more than once chal- lenged our attention, and warrant al- lusion to the home thrust which he gives to the “back-to-nature” fake in the last installment of his serial con- tribution to Scribner’s. The notion that man is at his best in his natural state, and that the ap- proach of the millennium must come through the abandonment of civilized arts and a reversion to a state of na- ture is a common preachment. It is a remnant of the tradition that the golden age was enjoyed by primitive man and the conclusion that another golden age will be ours only when we restore the conditions of ancestral life. Mr. Roosevelt's e@xperiences in Africa have evidently confirmed him in the belief that the “back-to-nature” cry is on a par with the nature fake, for he says: It is only fn nightmares that the average dweller in civilized countries now undergoes the hideous horror which was the regular and frequent portion of his ages-vanished forefathers, and which is still an every day incident in the lives of most wild creatures. But the dread is short-lived, and its horror vanishes with instantaneous rapidity. In these wilds the game dreaded the lion and other flesheating beasts rather than man. Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation—these are the normal endings of the stately and beautiful creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prat- tle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness; although all they would have to do would be to look at the birds in the winter woods, or even at the Insects on a cold morning or cold even- ing. Life is hard and cruel for all the lower creatures, and for man also in what the sentimentalists call a “state of nature The savage of today shows us what the fancied age of gold of our ancestors was really like; It was an age when hunger, cold, violence, and iron cruelty were the ordinary accompaniments of life. 1f Mat- thew Arnold, when he expressed the wish to know the thoughts of earth's *‘vigorous, primitive’ tribes of the past, had really de- sired an answer to his question, he would have done well to visit the homes of the exIsting representatives of his ‘“‘vigorous, primitive’” ancestors, and watch them feast- ing on blood and guts; while as for the “pellucid and pure” feelings of his imagi- nary primitive maiden, they were those of any meek, cowlike creature who accepted marriage by purchase or of convenience, as a matter of course. If the existence of the semi-savages in darker Africa is anything like what we would have to endure if we should really go back to nature, no one of sane mind would for a moment think of making the exchange of his own ac- cord. While gazing at the inspiring pictures of human beatitude on the threshold of civilization by the work and worries of these later artificial innovations, it is worth while remembering that the man who is nearest to nature is in all probability also furthest from comfort and con- tentment, and absolutely devoid of all the countless enjoyments which are today freely in ' possession of the humblest member of civilized society. Charm of Buffalo Bill, A storm of friendly protest greets | Buffalo Bill's announcement in the | |east that this will be his last year in the Wild West business. The most conservative newspapers of New York and other large cities editorially ex- press the hope that Colonel Cody may yet decide to stay with the show as long as he lives. This is genuine and not feigned ad- | miration for a man who for nearly land and over the sea leading a host of cowboys and Indians merged in late years with rough riders from many inations, exhibiting a congress of un- undisturbed | Moreover, it thirty years has gone up and down the | honest nowadays d% they ever were says additional reason to take credit in his achievements. Whatever may be said of the Inter- jor department stenographer’'s verac- ity, his sense of duty is peculiar. Thus | far what he revealed does not appear does it seem that its concealment could have ever become a public in- jury. The fact is violation of this sort of trust stamps a man below the standard of honor required in men of such confidential position. “Uncontaminated soul, {llustrious leader, peerless philosopher, pure- minded advoeate of the people,”’—that is what they called Mr. Bryan in New York and he stood for it all until John Temple Graves got up and said, “From the tip of his eloquent tongue he has plucked three presidential nominations.”” Then he protested. It is all right to say that pleasure has taken its toll of Jim Jeffries in the intervening years, but to talk about Delilah having shorn Samson of his locks is a little strong, since Jeff never wore whl?w,rs. | Hired Honks Out of Date. St. Louis Globe-Democrat The farmers of the west will not look at a candidate for office who does not do his cumpaigning in his own automobile. Long Distance Touch. Baltimore American. Liberia wants the United States to help in refunding its $1,000,000 debt. The world seems to look upon this country as the| first-aid-to-the-injured general station. Puncturing anm Argament, Pittsburg Dispatch. The argument that the income tax fosters perjury, and therefore should not be en- acted, seems to have a kick-back in it| when we read of the arrest of eminent citizens for swearing to false declarations about goods they bring home from abroad. Occupntion and Longevity. New York World. ; The deaths are recorded of a shipmaster, aged 84; a retired rived steamboat owner and Board of Trade operator of the same age, and a former locdmotive engineer who as 8. ‘The relation of occupation to longevity 1s one of the things science is slow in finding cut, Never H Century Magazine. It is a tribute to Mark Twain's original- ity and spontaneity that he has never had an imitator. During a career reaching back almost to the second series of the “Biglow Papers,” he has held the primacy as master of both gentle and ironic wit. Other humorists have come and gone, but he has remained a standard, national and, with all the flavor of the soil, unprovincial He was in his way as truly American as Abraham Lincoln. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. ) Judicial events in Kansas City indlcate that tears shed by jurymen are not a safe forecast of the verdict. What Mr. Roosevelt did for Europe Mr. Halley did to the rest of mankind. Every- body worth while sat up and took notice. Had astronomers ibeen famillar with the rules of the game, they might have con- nected with Mr. Halley's curves earlier in the innings. “Overwork,” says a hygienist, creates fatigue, stunts growth, invites disease, and causes Individual and social depression.” interferes with going to the ball game. Four cities are rivals for the appropria- tion and the honor of the officlal Panama exposition of 1915, San Francisco, Denver, San Diego and New Orleans constitute the melodious quartet. Practical standpatters, who assert that a college training doesn't pay, should get next to the Harvard student who has mastered the problem of high thinking by living on $1 & week, and then fade out of sight and hearing. Assurances are given George Is “onto his job" as early at 7 in the morning. A man who pulls down a v check of $6,438.35 a day has good ex- cuse for getting to his desk early and stay- out that King AT LAST!—A subetitute for a critical ones; a M1 diamond; a NATURAL gem that CA file one attempts 1o use upon it FIRST WEEK'S selling has bee, over these “White Sapphire: know, that you are wearing a “Whit expensive genuine diamond. 5 tlemen's studs, of tinest solid gold. Gifts and upward when mounted into gentle. men's rings of finest solid gold. and upward when mounted into gen- “White Sapphires" claimed “The Gift lines in profusion. 3D stone that is CUT one does NO uation and Wedding gifts. lose sight of the fact Mandelberg DELBERG'S 4\ N DIAMOND that escapes detection by Itke & diamond: faceted like a NNOT be scratched by the HARDEST patrons are enthusiastic know, does not NEED to e Sapphire” in place of the FAR more make extraordinary esteemed Grad 0, one must never rightly been pro silver and novelty n IMM and upward mounted into fancy rings solid gold. when ladies' in fine, and upward when mounted into lad- ies' ear rings of the purest solid gold. that th Store.” New 1522 Farnam Street SERMONS BOILED DOWN. He has no true faith in his god who has none In himself. The life of goodness leads to faith in the Boodness of life. The kingdom waits for every day kind- ness and justice. A crooked man is most likely to have a smooth way with him. The congregation is the best commentary on the creed of a church, It's better belng one small blast furnace than a dozen prairie fires, It 16 no use looking for wisdom on trees without roots in experience. The best preparation for a home In | heaven is making homes heavenly. It Is easy to prove your god by logic and still be an atheist In your lite, A man is always most likely to get lost when he is immersed In himself. If you preach without thinking you will find plenty to listen without doing. The world knows the church by the kind of people on whom she puts her Q. K. Faith as to what may be is more Im- portant than conviction as to what is The leaders are those who work hardest when they do not have to work at all, No man can love the oppressed weak who does not hate the strong oppressor. Some men never make any steam save by throwing cold water on other’s fires. Teach a child to dle in the hymns on Sunday and the temptations of the weak will take care of the rest.—Chicago Tribune, DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Marjorie—Didn't you see the mouse? Madge—Why, dear, 1 just couldn’t see it I had my old stockings on.—Judge. “I see that some pastor says churches should have press agents.' ‘Well, If they want to compete with the other press agents they'll have to engage some mighty clever photographers to make the publicity portraits of the ladies of the choir."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Why do you insist on my you when'you ask father agaln?" asked Ethelinda golng with for my hand “Because,” answered Claude, I don't want to,give him any more opportunities to présume because there are no ladies present.”’—Washington Star. “My husband laughecd at me this morn- ing late. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, New York World: The clergyman who declared in Atlantic City that girls smoke more cigarettes than boys might be em- barrassed if any one asked him for proof. Because there is no proof. Washington Herald: People are just as a Cleveland minister. Still, it does no harm to hope they will be even honester in the future—assuming that there are de- grees of honesty. Leslie's Weekly: A religious happening of couth humanity. What is that charm | Ithal has so fascinated the people of | the effete east and makes them reluc- tant to give up this annual festival? | How is it they have not grown weary, as is the habit of Americans, with a | constantly recurring to its promoters? The answer is that Colonel Cody, while perhaps enriching himself and business associates, has simply pre- sented to the world a picture of life in the west as it was in the frontier days | when he, himself, rode the plains usl a cowboy. It is a picture that wlll! | never lose its charm, nor its hold upon | the human heart. There is much in-| congruity, of course, between life as it | existed on the ‘“‘American desert’ thirty and forty and fifty years ago | and the representation as made in the Buffalo Bill show, but the essence is| there, the spirit is there and there is | enough of the living realities to con- | sérve the charm The/east is right; Colonel Cody, we all may feel, should be privileged to remain with his grand galaxy of rough | riders as long as he can ride with the| | grace and ease that now distinguishes {his dashing figure. But whether he | retires at the end of this season or not, | |he has earned the reward of having| always given the public the worth of its money and he has earned the greater reward of having kept alive, as no other agency has done, a spirit and a tradition well ‘worth preserving in the archives of our national affec- tion. The fact that Colonel Cody is a l!\‘ebr skan and started out his show trom Omaha in 1882 gives Nebraskans | « | demonstration | prews, hours before the time appointed the | that brings such rich financial returns | place of meeting, the Winter Circus, was some interest has been the controversy raised in Germany, by Prof. Drews, as to whether Jesus ever really lived or not ermany Is looked upon as a hotbed of | rationallsm, but when on a recent Sunday | the leading Protestant organizations ar- | ranged a great mass meeting to protest against the heretica) views of Prof. | stormed by a crowd of 20,000, only a fourth of whom could gain admitiance. ' . | Our Birthday Book May 22, 1910. | Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cor- nell university, was born May 22, 1954, at ing till 1 got as mad as a hornet.” “Why?" ‘Just because I heard him talking of wash sales and asked him to get me a tub suit at once.’’—Baltimore American “I cannot give you a favorable a until you have talked with my fath The young man seized his hat. “What's your hurry?” I take no chances,” replied the youth I am going to see your father before you can get to him."” And he hustled from land Plain Dealer. Rankin—How did 11l will of Scraggles” Fyle—You know he's been borrowing small sums of me from time to time for the last ten years? 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Corner 16th and Harney Sts. !'1 shut down on lending to him and began borrowing from him.—Chicago Tribune. Peck—I really think, my dear, that Miss Brown will make our son a good wife. Mrs, Peck (snappily)—And what, sir, do you ‘know about good Wives’—Boston Transeript. WHY COMEST THOU# Stephen Chalmers Stranger with flery name, Flame eyes and jewel'd train, Out of the sun's domain, Why comest thou? Waving a blazing brand, High in thy far-flung handj Thy hair a yellow strand, Swept from thy brow! Like, to come bird of prey, 1\ \Blotting the sun's ray, \ Circling and cireling aye— Whence? Whither? Why? What be thy name and will? Com'st thou for good or ill? Soaring athwart the hill, Brooding on high Art thou some fiendish star, . Leaving calm fields afar, Seeking fresh worlds to mar® Or, blown astray Striving to find a spot, Anclent and half-forgot, There, in some ordered 1ot, Thy head to lay Stranger with fiery name, Flame cyes and jewel'd train, Out of the sun's domain— Why comest thou? Prince Edward's island. Fie was professor of philosophy before being promoted to| the headship of this great institution. Dr. shurman has been entertained in Omaha by the Cornell alumni and has made several public addresses, always well recelved Paul Morton, president of the Equitable Life Assurance company and formerly sec- retary of the navy under President Roose- velt, is 53 today. Although his parents had located in Nebraska City, Paul Morton | was born in Detroit, and with his broth maintains the old homstead as an arbora- tum in memory of their father. Thomas H. Tibbles, now homesteader, | after running for vice president on the populist ticket, is celebrating his 70th birth- | day. 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