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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15

have him sentenced for lying and stealing 1t
sometimes happens that the death sentence is
commuted to exile and then love laughs at such
barriers as land and water and ten to one the
maiden steals away to the island and Joins her
banlshed lover When this occurs, the woman
as well as the man, has given up every claim to
consideration by the people Of her tribe She
may nevermore roam beside the streams Of her
girhood or search the forests for bark. She, too,
is an eviIe for 1ife
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15
The Lumber of the Southwest

HE lumber industries of this country
| have now reached a point when they
must turn their attention to Southern
IaySNN! and Pacific States for the future supply
S--=-==s&g of timber. In recent report OF the
Census Bulletin the estimated quantity
of merchantable timber on lands owned by lum-
bermen was 2l5.0DO0G0,0O0 feet; of this
amount G2,000. .OO0,000 feet are found in the
southern group OF States. while the States Of
California, Oregon and Washington are estimated
to have 5000, 100000 feet 1t is worthy of
note in this connection that while the general
average for the entire country of merchantable
timber per acre Is G100 feet the average for the
Pacific States is 24,500 feet, an indication of the
size Of the gigantic redwood trees for which that
part Of the country is Justly famous.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15

RINITNALS are, of course, frequently
mentally deficient, but usually they
are in full possession of all their bod
lily faculties Yet the French Press
has recentlN boon nrchtlN stirred by
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15
Exile for Thieves and Liars

~ up in northernmost Siberia where
hot sutry days are beyond The imaei-
nation and King Winter enjoys
twelvemonth's reign there dwells one
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15
The Firemen of the Forests

lHE Canadian fire ranger goes into the
woods the first of May and stays till
4 the first of October, writes A. F. I'm
derhill in the Four Track News. Two
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15

Roller skates were invented by a Dutchman
named Merlin about $50 years ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-15

A worker bee invariably dies a result of using
its sting
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.


The cure for our own cares is care for
others.
There is nothing heroic in a homemade
heresy.
Only dead creed can be embalmed to
phrases
The secret of being a saint is being a
saint In secret.
You cannot lift up the people on whom
you look down.
No man loses any of his own light by
kindling IT In others.
mans sensitiveness usually is in in
verse ratio to his service.
They seldom transgress any law who
follows where love leads.
It's no. use looking like a lemon when
you talk of loving your neighbor.
The people who are praying to be nothing
are answered before they begin.
The only way to make sure OF clean
heart is to watch against the little smuts.
Most Of us would rather do lot OF regu-
lation abroad than practice a little right
eousness at home. ..,
Many think they are defending faith
when they are only fighting against the
necessity OF thinking. .-r.e- ..
It's wise old world that waits for the
Endorsement Of everyday honesty on the
checks Of extraordinary holiness.
It's no use spending Sunday praying the
Lord to enter your heart, when you are
spending the week barricading II with bad
business-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14

1t is certainly amazing that in this
era of enlightenment a judge on the
bench should find it incumbent upon
him to protest publicly against the re-
peated declarations of jurors that they
could not render impartial verdicts
based upon the law and the evidence
before them because of bias created by
thir corporate employment. Assum-
ing that these jurors have been truth
full in their answers, II is Incompetent
sible how any free-born American citiA
zen. when called to perform duties of
citizenship upon a jury, can consider
himself in any way obligated to as
sumo the point of view Of his en-
ployers as II they, instead of he, were
passing upon the case.
The Bee maintains, as it has always
maintained, that If the laborer Is
worthy of his hire the employe who
does his work faithfully and conscien-
tiously and receives payment at the
agreed rate owes his employer nothing
further. The employer has no more
right to dictate or demand that his en-
ploye shall vote the same ticket at the
polls that he votes than he has to re-
quire him to worship God in the same
church in which he worships The
employer has no more right to expect
subserviency to his interests in jury
box than he has to require an employe
to enlist for him in the army or to
serve for him in the navy. After the
employee has finished the task for
which he is paid he still has RESPONSE
bilities of citizenship to discharge
which may or may not be identical
with the desires of his employer, but
as a citizen he must be guided by his
own conscientious convictions rather
than by what he thinks his employer
would like to have him do.
The limits of employment may be
hazy and ill-defined, but they stop far
short of the ballot box and the jury
room. An employe would be migrate
full who sought willfully to injure his
employer, but should 1t become a
choice for him between patriotic citi-
zenship and subservient employment,
patriotism must always be paramount.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14

base the claims. They we're allowed
on the unveriied lists made out by
officers who, there is reason to believe.
were often hand in hand with the
hooters and who also dominated the
new government in spite of the pro-
tests of the honest but weak President
Palma.
1t may we'll be doubted that the
tenth part OF the s57 1900, 900 soldiers
claims already paid was Legitimate or
that anything like the tenth part of
the money ever reached original claim
ants, whether honest or fraudulent.
The bulk of it was absorbed by specu-
lators and plunderers who succeeded
in making the Cuban masses their
dupes and the Cuban government their
tool. Through II all Senior Silveira is
shown to have been a potential factor
and the treasure with which he has
now absconded to have been in his
hands in pursuance of these opera
tions. The disclosures already made
imply more of the same character to
follow and pour a flood of light on
some peculiar phases of Cuba Libre."
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
TELL ME, we WINGED WINDS.

Charles Mackay.
Tell me, We winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do ye not know some spot
, where mortals weep no more?
Some lone and pleasant dell,
Some valley In the west,
Where, free from toll and pain,
The weary soul may rest?
The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low,
And sighed for pity as 1t answered: No"
Tell me, though mighty deep,
whose pillows round me play,
hnowst thou some favored spot,
Some island far away,
Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sighs-
Where sorrow never lies.
And friendship never dies?
The loud waves, rolling in perpetual flow,
stopped for awhile, and sighed to answeri
And thou. serenest moon,
That. with such lovely face.
Dost look upon the earth,
Asleep in nights embrace;
Tell me, in all thy round
Hast thou not seen some spot
Where miserable man
May find happier lot?
Behind h o cloud the moon noe withdrew IN VICE.
mo"
Tell me. my secret soul.
o, tell me, Hope and Faith.
Is there no resting place I
From sorrow, sin and death1
Is there no happy spot
Where mortals may be blest,
Where GRIEF may ind a balm,
And WEAKNESS a rest2
Faith, Hope and Love, best bonds to NOR
tails given
Waved their bright wings and whispered
Eyes, in heaven!'
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
TIE LOOT OF CUBA.

The sensational flight of Manuel
Silveira from Havana with funds esti-
mated from 100000 to $2,00O,00O
belonging TO New York firms Incident
ally directs attention to the footing of
the Cuban treasury through alleged
soldiers claims which bids fair to de-
velop into a great scandal and which
is especially interesting at this juno
ture. The New York banks for which
Silveira acted as an agent have been en-
gagged since the island republic was
set up in business in extensive and i'm
mensely profitable operations in claims
for arrearage pay on account of service
in 1.-The army of liberation" the enor-
nous aggregate of s57, 200 having
so far been paid therefor out of the
Cuban treasury and S3,500,000 more
appropriated. BY far the greater part
Of these claims are well understood to
to have been utterly fraudulent, but
the financing of the gigantic system
of loot was mainly engineered from
New York, the pay warrants having
been bought up for as low as per
cent of their face and rarely higher
than 10 to 10 per cent. The American
spectators, while making large allow
ances to their Cuban agents and con-
federates, still reaped for themselves
millions Of profit. On their part the
latter organized popular clamor and
irresistible combines of lobbyists to
put the bonding measures through.
Ihereupon the warrants long before
bought up for a trifie by powerful
American spectators were converted
into cash at par with interest.
When It is recalled that arrearage
pay claims of over $4,000 alleged in
surgent soldiers were formally ap-
proved, whereas careful inquiry by the
United l,tates authorities failed to dis
close J1ore than 1000 men in arms,
some idea OF the magnitude of the loot
can be formed. but on top Of that there
is tbs fact that practically no authentic
original records existed on which to
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

New York World The Rev Richard
Smith. British harvest festival preacher
has attained world fame by a phrase
MAN. says he, makes more noise driv-
Ing one motor car through the streets OF
earth than the Creator makes driving His
whole army Of stars through the streets
OF heaven" Fine, but based on an as
sumption. How does the Rev. Richard
presume to measure the sound of that
harmony of the spheres which not even
the most advanced science has as yet been
able to detect?
Cleveland Plain Dealer: II we may &C.
cept the expert opinion OF the famous son
OF famous father pulpit eloquence has
SUFFERED decline. According to Rev.
Thomas Spurgeon, son of the late Rev
c. II. Sturgeon, the sermon Of today is
no longer the power IL was. It is possible
the modern sermon may be couched in
equally forcible language, but its influence
can not be compared with that welded
by the eXhortations OF a generation or
more ago. The pastor today faces a very
different audience, an audience that is
at once critical and largely unimpres-
sionable. II doesn't ask for rhapsodes
It is impervious TO warning lessons il
refuses to have its feelings narrowed up.
This was not the congregation the old
time giants of the pulpit faces. They
were not handicapped by such considera-
lions as temper the eloquent hight of
the preacher of today
Brooklyn Eagle: A clergyman of OF
tawa has frightened his town and his
people by advocating the confessional as
an adjunct of the Presbyterian church.
Yet there need be no occasion for alarm.
In the fret place, the Presbyterian or
ganization lacks the temporal authority
OF the Roman hierarchy, so that no COM
municant would feel compelled to own
up 10 his pastor: but, in the next place,
there are doubtless thousands enrolled In
the Protestant denominations, or unen-
rolled in any, to whom confession OF sins
would be not a duty. but a Joy. Many
men and more women long for the privi-
lege of unburdening minds made heavy
with conscience and seeking advice, or
even inviting reproof and penalty Haw-
thornes Miriam, the New England Pur-
itan, seeking the confessional in Rome
as an ease to her soul. is no unnatural
picture OF what many would choose 20
be and do were the confessional provided
in the other churches, as It is in those OF
the Catholic faith. In some of the Church
OF England establishments that perpetu-
ate a high" ritual the confession Is not
discouraged. II cannot be claimed as a
right by the Protestant clergy, but Il
might be claimed as privilege by the
members Of the Protestant congregation.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Almost 200 white girls are married to
Cinnamon in Chicago. Doubtless they did
the best they could,
Educational circles in Indiana are worry
ing over the question, Can q school
teacher play poker?" Just watch 'em,
The Sox and the Cubs may jangle as they
will, but the jingle of the money in the till
proves that It pays to play winning ball
The comic opera government of the Is!e
of Pines keeps its press agent in good
humor with the proceeds of weekly ice
cream socials.
Merely as foreword the statement is
made that the turkey crop is all right and
cranberries are tinted to match the COB
bler's comb.
The whirligig OF the season brings anus
ing changes. Here is the ice man, so
roundly berated few weeks ago, chortling
joyfully as the coal man steps on the
grlddle
Let us help those who have not as much
as we have" said young Rockefeller to his
Sunday school class. Then he cautioned
the members to bring their own lunches to
a picnic he had arranged.
In spite OF the pure food law, Philadel-
phia hams preserved in boric acid have
been discovered. Whatever the faults OF
boric acid may be, II it preserved Philadel-
phla hams 1t must be mighty good stun.
A Chicago man who left a will for his
children TO contest also left a distinct i'm
preston OF his wonderful thirst. His valet
testified that he took 20 his room nightly
five or six bottles of beer, a quart Of
whisky, a bottle of buttermilk and two
bottles Of mineral water. These were usu-
ally empty in the morning." he added
without cracking a smile.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
FARM VALUES.

Rarely, II ever, has there been 30
suspicious showing of any industry
as the bureau of statistics makes of
agricultural prosperity in every part of
the country. The result of the inves-
tigation is the more satisfactory be-
cause 1t compares the total values of
farms, including buildings, in 1900
and 1905, separating them into ten
classes according as the farms are de-
voted to cotton, rice, sugar, hay and
grain, live stock, dairying, tobacco,
fruit, vegetables and general farming
Thus the total value of the farm plant,
in round numbers, increased from
$16,600, 100000 in 1900 to $24,7OO,-
100000 in 1905. an astonishing incre-
ment in half a decade of $4,000
900, or over so per cent The contrast
of these totals would be incredible IL
the inquiry out of which they arise had
been less detailed and thorough, but
even II large deduction be arbitrarily
made from the 1905 figures the in
crease of value during the five-year
period is without parallel In all his
tory.
The causes assigned are manifold,
and, although in some localities land
values are reported to be speculative,
they appear in the main reflective of
genuine present and prospective uses
Intensive farming and the general in
PRODUCTION of scientific methods,
growth of urban population and bet
ter communication between town and
farm, irrigation and dry farming are
cited among the conditions which
have enabled the farmers to respond to
the demand for their produce. The
eontemporaneous activity In all me-
chanicai and commercial employments
has gone far toward establishing an
equilibrium in exchange of agricul-
tural and industrial commodities on an
enlarged scale, in which, of course, ex,
banding sales OF the latter in foreign
markets is a potential factor.
There is substantial reason to be-
llSNS lhdl the STOWIu Oh Iarm values
is for the most part legitimate and
abiding. Large allowance must in
deed be made for the vieissitudes of
the seasons and also for the equally
inevitable industrial reactions which
affect the farms. Nevertheless, the
fact remains that the main causes of
the uplift marked by the farm totals of
1890 and 1905 are permanent. No
forecast can ignore the continued
growth of the nonfarming population,
massed in cities and towns. both in
our own and in the other great in
dustrial countries. On the other hand,
the possibility Of greater farm produe-
ticn through improved methods and
cultivation of yet unoccupied land is
growing rapidly in the light OF science
and discovery.
? Measuring and inspiring as the
outlook is for agriculture in general,
no section has firmer ground for con-
fidence and hope, as this report strik-
ingly demonstrates. than the great in
terror valley region which is adapted
to general farming. and In no part of
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
TRANSFORMING IRON INTO GOLD.

ThANSFORMING IRON tNIO GUILD.
j. ]. Hill of the Great Northern has
transferred to the United States Steel
company lands supposed to contain
about 5O0,000,00O tons of iron ore.
The accepted estimate of the entire
realizable ore deposits of the country
is $500, 100000 tons. AS the steel
company already controlled 1,000,-
100000 tons before the Hill transfer,
it is now master of three-fifths of our
total iron ore resources, an economic
fact which. since iron ore is a basic
element in industry, will bear very
serious bordering.
The iron ore lands embraced In the
Hill transfer, 1t is safe to assume, were
acquired at trifling original cost, the
title for the most part coming either
through railroad land grants or
through private entries under the ma
tional land laws by methods now
pretty we'll though not favorably
known. At any rate these tracts, con-
tanning a fifth of the country's work
able iron ore deposits passed from the
government, the trustee of the people,
for a mere song. Under the contract,
however, the Great Northern is to re-
ceive a minimum price of So cents a
ton for the ore, which is to be cumu-
latively increased "a cents per ton
per year, so that in a period of fifty
years the total price is estimated at
about sS50.O00.OOO. In addition the
road is to get so cents ton for haul
ing the ore to the docks at Duluth,
netting another handsome profit.
In view of these facts it would be
vain to deny that. though the philoso-
pliers failed in ages of search, we have
by corporation manipulation discov-
cred an alembic in which base metal
is infallibly transmitted into gold.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Gwendolen-How do you like the new
spelling, "kistY'
don't begin to. convey an idea of the thrill
when you-when you are-that Is
Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Keene-IIave all the other women
al rived?
The Maid-Yes'm-you're the last one
Mrs. Keene--Well. you'd better announce
me so that they can get through talking
about me before l go in.-Cleveland Leader.
II suppose. said the friend, the day after
the, the wedding, IT was rather hard to lose
wei, no." replied the brides father.
1T did seem as IL 1t was going to be hard
at one time, but she landed this fellow
Just as we were beginning to lose all
hope. American.
THAT new bride is always eating fudge.
She says her husband thinks 1t looks cute"
He's a wise Johnny. He knows that a.
long her mouth is filled with fudge she
can't talk cleveland Plain Dealer.
For goodness sake!" exclaimed Mrs.
Skrapps, what are you always complaining
for? You haven't anybody to blame for
your trouble but yourself"
oh, 1 admit l proposed to you. You
needn't be throwing that up to me-" re-
piled her husband, Observation-Disclosures
Yes %Yes, indeed" said Mr., staylate, boast
Really" replied Miss Patience Come
sitting yawn, and do your creditors
never complain about having to walt so
long?'-Phiadephia Catholic Standard
A BACHELORS soLILOGUY.
To We'd or not to wed;
That Is the question.
Whether tits better
To remain single,
And disappoint few women
For time;
or marry,
And disappoint one woman
For life?
-IiDpinoott'a MapazIna
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
HONESTY IN ADVERTISING.
Trend of the Times Decidedly for n
Square Deal.
North American Review.

North American Review
That advertising pays Is a fact now gem
orally recognized, but 1t is still an open
question whether truthful advertisements
produce results equal to those of an
nouncements which. IL not quite deceitful
are nevertheless obvious exaggerations
The first exponent OF paid-for publicity on
large scale was famous manager of
circuSes to whom was accredited the cynical
observation that the American people love
to be humbugged." 1t is a significant fact
however, that the practice of that able
Snowman did not conform to his precept
and that the continuance of his success
was really due to the excellence of his pro-
auctions. Doubtless he was as well aware
or this truth as anybody else, and merely
chuckled over the additional advertising
obtained at cost, through a witty OBJ
servation that could not fail to appeal to
the american sense Of humor. Second only
to the Snowman in using what seemed to be
daring innovation was the publisher of
story paper, who, also, always gave more
than he promised.
Not few ambitious emulators of these
pioneers mlstook the true cause OF their
successes and endeavored to achieve similar
benefits by mere announcements, without
regard to accuracy, to discover that lasting
gain could not be obtained in this manner
and year by year they have become more
heedful of the injunction that, irrespective
or Its inherent merit. honesty is the best
policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-14
NIGHT SCHOOL RESULTS.

The response to the great enlarge
in Cleveland O., which has been fore
most in developing this species of edu-
cational opportunity, is reported TO be
surprising to the school authorities.
The night schools have heretofore
been overcrowded, but the abrupt
doubling of the supply, instead of ac-
commodating the demand, as was
confidently expected, has only stimu-
lated 1t and raises at once the ques-
ton of further extension. The effect
of the night schools In cities where
the experiment has been most thor
oughly tried has invariably been bene-
fetal in marked degree and has found
a large and growing element to which
they are an inestimable blessing.
The very fact that such numbers of
youth who labor during the ordinary
school hours deny themselves rest and
pleasure in order to attend these
schools at night is proof positive that
the system meets a real want. Such
zeal, too often lacking in the more
fortunate attendants in the public
schools, also assures that public money
so invested will not be wasted, and, in
deed, that 1t yields the best returns in
all school expenditures. Such an in
terest manifested not only by youth,
but also by adults, in some cases per-
sons of foreign birth and In many
others working men who in youth were
deprived of educational advantage, de-
serves profound sympathy and from
every point of view is worthy of more
practical consideration than it has yet
generally received.