Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 4, 1915, Page 14

i | ¥ 78 - ¥ - gagement. © tled industries and equal suffrage. FOUNDEP BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROGF“AT!ZR DITOR Froprle or. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND nrvrr«fn:fl'ru Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS 0’ lLB!(‘R'P‘rInN By oarrier By mall per mn‘r;h per ‘;‘"m they never have before life, liberty and the pur- | fl'; .:&n:&"‘:fin . e, & suit of happiness. With our country's inde- ~ Ry AT > /1 pendence of all other nations has come the dig- | M:ny.l"re only.. 20C......0 2.0 pity and power of true greatness, a condition Bend notice of change of address or complaints of Hmw -rfly in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Rr.MX'I‘TAN( E' » Oily twe H draft, express o~ pestal order. .'n'{' ;»".3'.;- stal K recelv ed in r\-sm-mt of small ac- Personal ¢! e('kl except on aba and castern counts exchange, not acce| OFFICES. Omaha~The Bes Bullding. Bouth Om: z18 N lherl Lincoln—26 Little Buflding Chh Hearst Fuildin New York—Room 1108, 286 Fifth avenue. Louls—-508 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—72% Fourtesnth Bt N W, F?RI}ESP&NZ £ ol mmunications to news an g um'f'r'uf{’er to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. poalnadbmmtnhiEbeteut—————— JUNE SUNDAY CIRCULATION, 46,724 '‘Siate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss Dwight Williams, circulation manager, says that verage Sundey cireulation for the month of June, DWIGHT WILLIAME Circulation Manager, Subscribed in m_' rmunm and aworn to before day of July, 191 e, this 30 OLEEAT IUNTER, Notary Publie Submribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- lnuwfllhoohmduofununqnutod. e R ERRAIN 32 gfifi. *Thought for the Day numuflunucm‘wflmn. Tts hues from heaven so freshly born? With burning star and flaming band It kindies all the sunset land: O tell me what its name may be,— Is this the flowsr of Liberty? It is the banner of the free, The dumlm of LMly. Oliver Wendeli Holmes. The Stars and Stripes forever! 3 Overtime vigilance . work is the price of safety. ) In case of doubt, summon a physician or “hasten to a hospital, S——— Now, Mr. Weather Man, be a good fellow, and do your best for us. CEEp——— Shoot firecrackers if you must, but let the othér side of the pond monopolize the killlng. / E ] 'muuulnauwnwna W and she is a very young las- GQM v m stul, fiuu‘dfihfi.urdtu _dashing * flw-‘mm»mmxm- l’ilv-'ll- “The original package of liberty would experi- cu_.mnmmflth some of ' Mr. Bryan has not yet fully explained just mwhy he called off his Chicago speech-making en- He will probably tell us about it be- 'tore long. Note that the competition for the expected ‘vacancy on the federal bench in this distriet is No notion of * Conundrum: If all our Nebraska dempcratic were unable to land a reserve bank in this have they a pole-hock long enough to cap- the democratic national convention? Fourth of July e.kbn- be no difficulty in keeping up {the pitch of enthusiusm & little longer to em- - brace the date of the visit of the famous Liberty bell. X -i-fi-fi-—-‘ MMNMhm. capitol Washington must be crazy. The wasting of 5ood bomb at a fime When congress is not in lfiauum explained in no © other way. : Em——— hfllhflfi Progress for Women. . Regardless of suffrage and non-suffrage amu. \legielation. advancing the welfare of ~ womankind has. marked attention from - atate ln-uqt odies 'during this year: A _ summary of legislative activities shows a variety Jof laws, in ‘direction of mothers' _ 'pensions, regulation of working hours in speci- Mothbers’ pension laws were first time in Kansas, Montans, New Hampshire, New York, Oklaboma, Tennessee and Wyoming., In eight other states existing pension laws were amplified. Grants to depen- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE for the Independence D No Fourth of July in all the :mmlrrn records is more significant than the ofle we greet today as the anniversary of the nallnn'n birth The day has been signally marked on many occasions, but its present ohuerv-neo.flll be most notable. It finds the United States n! peace, when all the other great powers of the | world are at war. Our people are enjoying a8 that flows from the high privilege of politieal liberty, shared in common by all the people The ideals of the Declaration of Inde- pendence as yet have not been wholly attained, but they never have been lost sight of, and equality before the law is still assured to all Americans, As the days go by the great repub- lic grows stronger, because of the faith of the people on which it is founded. The Fourth of July is properly observed as the anniversary of a4 momentous event in human history, but the patriotic American will make every day a Glorl- ous Fourth in practice. ( Alfalfa and the Megrims. Here comes a convention of doctors at Chi- cago, with the startling announcement that a sovereign remedy, a veritable panacea, for the blues has been discovered. No longer need any- body mope in the dumps, the prey to disquieting thoughts, to worry and care. One little dose of | a simple will chase the glooms far into the darkness from whence they come, and invite the joys to revel in happy abandon. Just a sip of Medicago Sativa, and away goes your sorrow, your interest in life revives and your appetite for earth’s good things is renewed. That name may give you pause, and make you doubt the efficacy of the new drug, but when you realize that it is the extract of alfalfa, you'll realize at once that the doctors are modest in their presentment. The restorative properties of alfalfa have long been known in the west, It first brought new life to a range country, de- nuded by nibbling herds; then it put vitality into the feeding pens and dairy barns, and it has even been commended by some enthusiastic sup- porters as a substitute for bread and butter in the dally dietary of man. Therefore, those of us who are superficially familiar with the won- ders already achleved by alfalfa are quite will- ing to believe that its fluld extract will do all the doctors report, and even more. As was written of a certain delectable distiliate on a long gone by occasion: It amooths the wrinkles out of care, And makes ace high look like two pair.” Let us welcome this latest beneficence of the great perennial.of the prairie and look forward with confidence to its unfolding still further capacity for the service of mankind. EE— The News of the War. Ever llnu the oufbreak of the war many somplaints have beén heard charging the news- papers with printing, disseminating, unreliable or | one-sided news. Most of these complaints have come from partisans finding the news not ex- actly to thelr liking or falling to find in the newspapers appeals ~ or alleged exposures which they would like to see printed to promote the cause of the side with which they sympa- thize. On this point it is gratifying’to have the judgment of a neutral, thoroughly qualified to give expert opinion purely from the standpoint of news gathering. If anyone anywhere is more competent to speak on this score than is Chester 8. Lord, for more than forty years on the staff of the New York Sun, and for thirty-two years its managing editor, but retired from active newspaper work since 1918, it would be hard to find him, and this is what he says; 1 havg read constantly and with very great a tention the lcan newspaper presentation of. this war—and with supreme pride In that newspaper achlevement. Almosg every day we hear the sneering remark, You cannot belleve anything the new papers say about the war'” To which I reply: You can belleve almost everything they say In their news columns, and you may read their comments and In- ferences with assurance that they have not falsiffed facts in reaching conclusions. It has been difficult to obtain quick reports of military movements or of batties for the reason that correspondents have not been permitted to accompany the armies, and censors have over-censored all Information: yet, reviewing the moaths of the conflict, we fail to recall any serlous misrepresentation of facts ard conditions. We understand with substantial accuracy how many men each power has the fleld, where the armies are gathered, what losses have been, the reserve resources in men, munitions and money: also just what advantage has been gained and lost. Our news- papers have spared neither effort nor expense. They present the news from each national capltal with equal Impartiality, printing every officlal report ex- actly a8 it is given oul. In presentation of the causes of the war and of responsibllitica for the declars- tions of war, the American uewspapers have ex- hausted almost every resource for obtaining the in- telligent - opinions of emipent statesmen, learned Jurists, distingulshed authors and writers, educators, cabinet ministers—the best minds representing all the nations In comflict. The spirit of fairness was never more manifestly attested than In the throwing open of newspapers\ columns in indefinite number to anybody of any account who had anything to say for any nation. I do not recall any stupendous event, sither within memory or in history, that has been so voluminously, so fairly, so honestly recorded. Mr. Lord's statement of the case is 80 pointed and so clear that ft requires no emphasis. Just put it down that never before since the dawn of dent mothers with one ehild'range trom $19 to $256 a month, with 35 per month for edch addi- . tlonal child under 16 years of age. The maxi- history have the people of any country in the world been kept so well, so promptly, so fully mum rate . of earning s living, e B IR N K wuboy e ,AJ s e Ay was established In Kansas. “alm of these helpful laws assistance to widows with to mothers with -children insane or in prisen, or are in four states establish a for women and boys under ‘in Massachusetts, fix an Aud & maximum of New Mexico rights of hus- equal footing, and Oregon “for equal work of men and ! mnlw‘nuhdlp( the end so fairly informed of all the movements and by-plays of a Ereat war as have the readers of American newspapers during the last year, —— . Moving Justice Up to Date. Although the law in its administration is re- puted to be the most conservative of human institutions, we have a striking example of moving justice up to 4ate in a recent decision of & New York court holding that & steamship company, in this age of wireless, has no right to bury at sea, without the consent of relatives, a passenger who dies after the vessel has left port, In this case the steamship company con- tended that the practice of immediate burial at sea 1s countenanced by custom, but the judge ruled that no such eustom would stand in yiew of the facilities now afforded by wireless teles- ruphy, no matter what sound basis it might have had fn the past. Carried to vitimate length the logie of this would be to consider a person on shipboard to have exactly the same legal rights as if he were on land, and finally to ex- m ‘most of the many-century-long aceumu- Iation of Mulwmm THE JUL \fm Ponrmm DIAZ, | Paris, was Mexico's “‘grand old man. dark spots there may be on the record long rule, what he accomplished for Mexico and the OMAHA SUNDAY BEK w‘m Just dled In exfle In Whatever who has history of that country whenever it is written. I saw and met Diaz just before the outbreak of the Madero revolution, now almost five yéars ago, when he was the central figure of the festivities marking a century of Mexican independence, and his death makes my chservations of that event at the time again pertinent. In the celebration of the centennial anniversary of Mexico's first blow for freedom the ceremonies have focused in the ringing egain by the president of tho repiiblic of the self-same bell upon which the curate Hidalgoe sounded forth his “Grito de Dolores” years before. By a peculiar goincidence the birthday | of President Diaz aleo falls upon the eve of this date, affording an opportunity to make the holiday honor the personality of the ruler as well as the idea of self- government which his rule is supposed to typify It was our fortune to witness from specially good vantage ground the principal head-line acts on the cehtennial program. We were to have an audience with the president and view the historic pageant from the palace. Comparatively little difficulty was en countered in gaining wdmittance to the bullding and only the usual waits for our turn for presentation. Of Ccourse, we were not the only ones—in fact, we were the most somber among the gaily dressed diplomats and brightly uniformed officers, provincial dignitaries in native gala garb and palace attaches attired with equal brilllance. As the line moved slowly through one chamber after another we could examine the rich fur. niture and handsome wall decorations. At the far end of the last room the visitors passed in front of a raised platform on which the president stood with his cabinet members behind him. He shook hands as each person was presented by name and usually added a word to the greeting. ‘‘You have my felicitations on your birthday,” sald. “T am very pleased,’’ he replied. As I surveyed him hastily he did not look 80 years old. His hair and mustache, to be sure, are growing white, but are strong reminders of the jet black they once were. Mis eye Is keen and his factal features firm, but not noticeably lined by age. He wore simple evening dress with a broad silk band of the Mexican tri-color—green, white and red—across the shirt bosom He did not seem to be as tall as T had expected— probably five feet elght inches—but then he looked more impressive the next day, when I saw him driving past in fuil military uniform and coat breast laden with glittering decorations lnd Jeweled insignia of honorary rank. I All this was but a prelude to the grand historical pageant which was to portray the striking scenes in Mexico's gnward progress. In front of the palace, stretching as far as the eye could reach, was one dense mass of humanity. Tt would be a rash guess to hazard an estimate—surely not less than 100,000 people —and the efforts of police and soldlers to keep open the space in front of the reviewing windows were in vain. The Aztecs, headed by Montezuma, accompanied by their different tribal allies, were to march forth to receive Cortez and his Spanish invaders with their native auxiliaries. To get the costumes and appoint- ménts as nearly correct as possible, books and pio- torial charts In the libraries of two worlds had been | ransacked, und I have mo doubt that the procession which we watched was as nearly a counterpart, cx- cept In numbers, as that famous historical company could have at this late day. Montezuma and his war- riors were indeed resplendent In.every color of tha rainbow; they were not equipped, however, for com- batting the Spanlards, crude as were their imple« ments of war, and the stories of those frightful con- flicts are more understandable after this .ocular de. ‘monstration of the unequally matched forces. Following the mummers came five or six allegorical floats, lematic of agriculture and {ndustry and cer- tain j of the federal unlon. The floats were more or less on the order of our Ak-Sar-Ben floats, yet without the eleetrical fllumination and being for day- light use, perhaps a little more finished in appear- ance. They were tastefully designed and not over- loaded, and the living tableaux were at least at- tractively selected figures, au maturelle and not en masque The evening demonstration found the plaza It any- thing still more crowded than did the morning Pageant. The time to the fateful hour of 11 was de- voted to band congerts, outsidé the palace, and to a’sort of reception within it. ‘The guests merely promenaded up and down the long state chambers, talked in groups or clustered about the windows. It was an officlal gathering, such a party as may be seen at a diplomatic reception in our own White House, but I belleve less brilllant. The womern' were luxuriously gowned and jeweled, but hardly up to our standards of feminine veauty. Precisely at the hour the president waved a silk green-white-red flag across the window and pulled a ®old cord that brought peals from the bell which tho great Hidalgo once sounded. From the multitude below came a tremendous shout, the bands began 1o play, rockets rained over the fire-outlined towérs and dome of the cathedral, and the ohurch bells through- out the oity clanged and bellowed as if mad. This performance, 1 am told, is gone through every year on the eve of the 16th ot September, but of course the one hundredth was entitled to an extra halo and Inspired with accelerated patriotism. Strange, is it not, that Mexico should have a Liberty Bell coiresponding so closely to our famous old Liberty Bell, which is about to make a trip across the continent, and “#top off in Omaha™ on the way? The Mexican Liberty Bell, hanging up close to the eaves of the National palace, is not 8o easily examined a8 our own, where It is exhibited in Independence hall in Philadelphia. One can see, however, that it is o very much'smaller bell, and Its ciear tone proves that it has not been cracked by over.strain in the cauee of liberty, But for Mexicans it arouses the same pa- triotie fervor that our Ll Bell will excite among the thousands upon tho of young and old as they view it for the first time, and are reminded hy it of the stirring deeds out of which came the birth of the wonderful American republic, which we are all acclaiming today. . The glorious Fourth, being the 19th anniversary of our country’s lldema.nu, was celebrated in Omahs. For the parade Colonel . ¥ Smythe was the marshal of the day. Douglas streét ‘mever before presented such & sight as was witnessed on its broad, smooth surface. I seemed that the #0.000 people in Omahn were al] crowded in the space between Ninth and Fif- teenth. ' The first specialty was & greased pole fifteen feet high, which twenty-five or thirty ventursome boyx tried to climb. The greased plg race ulso amounted to | ‘'very Jittle, because it was utterly impossible to mase room enough in the street to let the pig run. In the bicycle race Johnny Hitchcock carried off the prime; in the foot race, Hank Coodrums; in the sack race, Harry Purdy; in the ball throwing, . A. Grant. Meanars. Colpetzer, Troxel and Kountse had private displays of fireworks from their residences that were Ereatly admired The tire boy ounldth«—-lvuhmruhqhon- #elves and the hook and ladder wagons. The burlesque Salvation Army in the parade was & base libel on the old Salvationists, for whoever heard of & good old Salvationist drinking beer, and in the street at that? rmmummmrmwmm-m mu..mmmnm—umwu plied the carriages free of charge. Nathan Rosewater of Clevaland I visiting hie brother, Bdward Rosewater, for & day or two. ! of his | Mexicans will constitute the biggest chapter in the | Just 100 | flluminations and tireworks | 1915. 1 4 MUSINGS OF A CYNIC. Some men are cranks and ne are self-starters Lots of girls put on airs, even the alr of innocence. It requires a lot of magnetism to get | things coming our way. On the other hand we are also the ar- | chitects of our own misfortunes. in an argument some people give In and some never glve out. Some men are never neutral. They are ypnht‘r kicking or being kicked. There are times when the descent of man seems to consist of falling in love. Tell & woman that consistency is a Jjewel and she will tell you jewelry is vulgar. Love in a cottage is all right if the cottage is so small there i no room for doubt. . Fame is a bubble, but it is just as well to allow some one else to blow yours for you. | Some men are such uvnbelievers that | they woula actuaily question the sex of | the devil. Strangely enough, there is no similarity between our mansions in the sky and cur castles in the air. The one thing the average girl can’t undestand abont every man is why he doesn’t fall in love Wwith her. Many & woman Who thinks her face is her fortune doesn’'t have to carry any burglary insurance. | never \ TABLOIDS OF SCIENCE. Brewers have found that the ferment- ing power of yeast is Inereased by brief exposure to ozone. One quart of liquid soap Invented by | & Duteh chemist; it is asserted, will wash a man's hands 3,600 times. Reliable statistics show that of all the timber trees cut in our forests léss than half of the available wood material is actually used. Tests made by an Emglish electriclan have shown that it is possible for a sin- gle master clock’ to operate 80 other clocks strung along fifty miles of wire. It hae been estimated by a Berlin sclen- tist that the commercial value of the electricity in a flash of lightning last- ing one-thousandth of & second is 29 cents. One of the oldest irrigation ditches known to man has béen discovered re- cently In New Mexico. It is probably between 1,000 and 3,000 years old and lies in @ valley near Fort Stanton. By act of céengress the standard barrel will contain hereafter 7,06 cublc inches unless the cranberry is the commodity measured. Presumably even barrels pucker up on due provocation. Bach year thousands of bushels of strawberries o0 to waste because of low prices or some adverse condition. The Department of Agriculture has, therefore, prepared bulletins on the manufacture of berry by-products, which should help in saving this waste. A watch may be used to determine the polnts of the compass by pointing the hour hand at the sun any time of the day and then placing a small plece ofw) straight wire crosswise between the hour hand and the figure twelve, getting ex- actly halt’'way. The point of the wire which comes Between the twelve and the lour hand. always points due south. AROUND THE CITIES. Tacoma has installed motor equipment in its five department and semnt the fire horses to grass. Reading, Pa., has a curfew law which requires unescorted young wqmen to scoot off the street at 10 p. m. Chicago figures that 200,000 men are in- volved in the bullding trades strike. All are not idle. This is the open season for tishing. g Salt Lake City sold $300,000 of sewer and water honds to loca) capitalists “‘at par, accrued interest up to July 1, 1515, less $4,20 for comimission.” The bond inter- est rate is not stated. The borough president of Brooklyn jai Greater New York by proposing to aban- don thie new court house project because of the great cost, $17,000,000 to $30}000,000, A Kansas City man testitying in hi application for divorce sald that an | heritance of $2%5,000 by his wife banished | happiness from his household and led to separation. When wealth comes in at the window, love scoots throush the door. Nashville, Tenn., has a bunch of finan- cial trouble sundwiched with an official scandal. BEleven of the ocity's . cash books, covering the period from 18 to 1912, have disappeared and the city finance | commissioner and city treasurer been arrested. WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES. Mra. Georgla Welch, a widow, master of Corpus Christl, Tex., is bo- lieved to be the only woman In charge of a United States postoffice of the first clase. Mrs. Estelle Lawton Lindsey has been elected to the city council in Los Angeles. There are very few women in the coun- try who are members of councils. Los { Angeles honored another woman last | week, electing Mrs. Maud Crew Waters { to the Los' Angeles board of education. have \ Bullding Cleaners’ club of Boston, was i Union league convention in New York re- cently to serub she was a sickly woman, can stand. JMrs, Mary E. Fawceit of kenliworth, at the Oregon State Agricuitural school. She is a graduate of the Galema (IlL) High school and the Ohio Stato univer- sity, where: she was elected to the Phi Beta Keppe. She took her master's de- &ree at the University of 1llingls. New York club women .are expecting to entertain 10,00 women at the blen- nial meeting of the General Federation of Women's clubs in June of next year. Mrs. Willam Grant Brown is chairman affect the women of the day. One satisfactory way of providing em- ployment for the surplus women of Emg- land, now that so many men are in the army, has been found in the street car | the resuit that women have proved such an unqualified success as conductors that’ estimated at from | post- | Bridget Dunn, président of the Olfice | present at the National Womaw's Trade | She says that when she began | People and Events The tional Federation of Musiclans reports that the American people spend $500,000,000 annually for music, besides the great variety of chin music turned loose without an orchestra leader. The law is bearing down hard on | Hoosjers these mellow days. An Evans- ville dad with more merve than discre- tion, was fined % and costs for spanking his 16-year-old daughter, who disobeved parental orders not to go out with her “bean.” While looking at his burning bulldings a few months ago, Tom Edison got an idea and developed it into & light to we- on the heimets of firemen, which will | enable thery to see through smoke. This may be beaten by a dévice which will Prevent spontaneous combustion. Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, has lost its champion pie baker, Sally Knauss, who passed away at It 's estimated ‘that in her fifty-elght years of active Joy-making, Sally made mankind her debtor to the tune of 1,000,000 ples. If Sally has not received a joy-ride across the Styx the ferryman doesn’'t know « | good recruit on sight. An extended Investigation of the protein and calory contents of the food pushed over the quick-lunch counters of New York City puts pork and besns at the head of the list. To make assurance doubly sure the ‘‘quantity of protein was | determined by the method of Kjeldahl and its calory content w tested by combustion in & Riche bomb-calorimeter. Boston's favorite energy-booster stands up to every test The most beautiful man in the world has been found in Hoston, and arswers to the nameé of Willlam Alfred Willlams, The accusation is quailfied by the state- ment that he hails from Pittsburgh. The diffioulty of reconciling the claim and the birthplace leaves the rest of mankind undisturbed in thelr notions of beauty reflected by a mirror. Sixteen years ago in a street in New York City two 4-year-old babies saw each other and became fast friends over their playthings. They went to the same scheols and graduated from the high school together. At a lumeheon given the graduates a few da g0, the en- gagement of the palr wi announced. Both are 2 and will wed at 22. The age of romance Is not wholly lost. | e —— OUT OF THE ORDINARY. “Hurrah!" was originally a tighting ex- clamation and ' is derived from the Slavonic “Huray' 0 paradive’’—the be- llef being that vallant fighters went straight to heaven if killed. A lightning bolt at Laurel, Del., struck a half-grown chicken and stripped it as clean of feathers as a new-laid egg, leav- ing the bird none the worse for the ex- perience, except the lack of covering. | SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. A Mexican who dwells in Acton, Cal., has been chopping and hauling wood for| the last fifty years, and now thinks of retiring from business and giving the young fellows a chan His age is 112, and be thinks he is entitled to a rest. Because of the scarcity of clocks i West Africa events are timed by the reg- ular daily occurrences. For example, a native wrote that she had received news of her sister's fliness “a little while be- forg the guinea fowls talk;” that is, about 5 o'clock in the morning. A Pittsburgh wan has a flock of In- telligent chickens “which, headed by « lordly rooster, march to meet him every day at the station and escort him home, crowing and cackling their delight. A man who can substantiate such a story as that has no need to weigh the caten of a fishing trip on officval seuies. From the Christian era till the present time, as statists and historians tell us, there have been less than 240 warless years. Up to the middle of the nineteenth century it was roughly computed that nearly 7,000,000000 men had died in battle sifice the beginning of recorded history, a number equal to almost five times the presént estimated population of the globe. | DIAMONDS We announce a SALE" of n‘mlnu nonu. from 'll are sellin ed at $50 are regul s at aqu..l h. ings— and Brmho-. l‘V el ! v’.mm m)ll. up. Guaran Opea Dally TUI Call or write A3 WANT YOUR ACCOUNT i ‘Prcm t 25 Ilp—wond * .l.’ll': rgain prices, Choose your mount- men's Ring: res Ear tyles. We also include n Face or Hunting 1d filled—all the standard movements—! gin, Waltham. etc. BASY Pittsburgh Dispatch: The church folks who were excommunicated at Huntingior W. Va, for refusing to give up dancing and card playing are also now exaspe: ated. They got the ex coming and goin. Houston Post: Brother Eaves told hia congregation Sunday that Christians crowd too much religion into one day of the week, but we do not understand by that he was alluding to those who spend the Sabbath fishing Brooklyn Bagle: A religious , meeting stoned by angered adherents of other sects In Plainfield, N. J., may convince pessimists that this old world is not ad- vancing fast or far. Sometimes we brag tol much about modern civilization St. Louls Republic: The Ackerly ex- posure of quarrels and bickerings over money matters among the Sunday forces will surprise no student of religious his- tory. There is one thing that religious work cannot stand—and that is atfluence. The history is all one way. The effect of too much financial prosperity om re- ligious organizations is always efther spiritual dry-rot within, along with emi- nent respectability without, or straight corruption. When religion grows finan- clally profitable look out for an instrgent movement! . DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. ;‘Oh, doctor, T'm so glad Wo st had such a scare. We thousht i first that the baby had swallowed a $ ®old plece.” “‘And )uu found out that he hasn't? ‘Yer, &nk_l'oodnal!. it's only a quar ~Boston Transcript "' sald the artist: I once lived in ttle room on the top flgor.” How nice!" rxl‘lalmer] the girl who reads about the gay life. “Only one flight uw to the roof garden! —Washington ar. te er. “‘Pa ‘sugrested that in conducting our club vaper. each should take a depart- ment with which she was most famillar. ““Then, dear wouldn't vou like to have ;:h rge of its make-up.”'—Baltimore Amer can. The Sultan—I want to speak to you about the light of the harem:. Grand Vizier—The beautiful Fatima? The Sultan—No the gas bills. They're getting toc goldarn high.—Philadelphia Ledger. Mr. Jones hed recently hecome the father of twins. The minister rped him on_the street to congratulate hl “Well, Jones.” he sald, hear that the Lord kas smiled on ¥ “Smiled on me?”’ repeated Jones. “He laughed out loud.”—Ohio Farmer, “Now, don’t talk too much when you &o to call on our neighbor, You may answer questions, of course. ' “That is all | ever do,’”” sald the child “And thev ask a great many questions. Lll( time they asked how much salary got and If he ever guarreled with Journal. —Kansas City INDEPENDENCE DAY. Minna Irving. From the shores of old Penobscot, Whiere the ocean's roar is heard. To the home of sweet magnolian And the clear-voiced mocking-bird. he pines, that whisper secreis ‘o _the pale moon overhead, To the Jive oaks in their mo There's a gleam of W' From the gray New England homesteads Framed in pear and apple trees, To the valleys and the vineyards By the blue Pacific seas: hom the rosy glow of morning ‘o the sunset's golden bars, Ovorv the land of freedom Is & sh of silver stars. North and south alike they glimmer, East and west the same they shine, ln th pllsce and the cabin, e palm and by the pine; Wnne the crowded city L'lnmnr- Where the sylvan waters call, Files the same immortal b‘nn\'l, W-vln: glorious for all. ‘Twas for this the Continenlll- Starved and suffered long ag Leaving footprints marked in (.'lmlon On the crust of frozen snow. the infant nation, From the s of Liberty, Made its rln:i:? na’ red. declaration To be fetterleas and free. Just one silken, starry standard, Broad .and bright enough, behold! For botii white and black torether To be sheltered in ‘ts fold Just one flag above a That, united, lead the To the: world's emanci And its independence WATCHES ON CREDIT I “AFTER THE FOURTH beautiful wide-spread ul values. Some. priced at $45 to $50, hers values, Al other Dia- 8o o ot et he.; eter all Iat: T this saie a Tine tine ‘ase, solid 1 N from $10 M. Saturday T 9:80. for Catalog No. §03. rices ran, Phone Douglas 1444 and our salesmen will call LOFTIS BROS. & CO. THE NATIONAL CREDIT JEWLERS 400 South 168h Wt., Omaba. Have You Got ang that today she can stand anything a man | 1ll, hes been appeinted dean of women | Really Desirable Property for Rent? Uan you offer unusual value to a tenant? Is your flat, store, apartment or house ealcu- lated to appeal to a particular tenant, both on account of its desirability and of the rental rates? y If yes, then you really have something to advertise, and you can make a winning advertising campaign in the. classified eolumns of The Bee with the expendi- ture that will wake but a slight inroad upon your first month’s rent money.