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Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.


Virtue for profit will become vice for more
profit.
Kindness is q seed that never finds a bar
rem soil.
The best friendship is that which brings
out the best in us.
What we call destiny often il only a mat
ter of determination.
The true man fears the power Of sin more
than its punishment
Mending your ways is the best way Of
mourning over them.
II you would lose all force think always
Of your own feelings
You can tell the character Of any age by
the place II gives to character.
II you cannot hate hypocrisies and evfl
you are not likely to love virtue.
Many a man who is proud of being wicked
is really only weak in the head.
The man who never thinks of the feelings
OF others is sure to be devoid OF epidermis
himself.
A man never has any trouble about his
habits when he is carried away by some
great work.
Success often means to get what others
want, but what you do no longer have any
appetite for.
Many pulpits waste so much time on an
invisible devil that there is neither light
nor heat left for msn--Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
A DESIRABLE BRAND OF BOOZE.

During the dark days of the war of
the rebellion, so the story goes, Gen
eral Grant was apparently sulking in
his tent before Corinth, Iuka, the
Hornets Nest" or some of those
other battlefelds of the south, refus-
ing to consult or confer with the mem
bers of his stan who were advising re-
treat and holding councils OF war TO
determine the best way out of the
mess. Complaints were made and
stories circulated to the effect that
General Grant was on a big drunk and
President Lincoln was advised of the
situation. The veracious historian re-
ports that Mr.. Lincoln expressed de-
sire to know what brand of whisky
General Grant was drinking and ex-
planned that he would like to supply
generous quantities of the same brand
to other generals in the union army,
According to advices from the
Congo country, another brand Of in
toxicants has been discovered that
might serve splendid purpose, IL in
PRODUCED in this country and used un-
der proper restrictions and regula-
lions. The report states that the
Congo natives, so long as they are
sober, are tricky, treacherous, thieves,
robbers, murderers and wholly bad.
AS soon as they get at their favorite
drink, however, they are moved to
confess all the wrongs they have done
while sober. They tell all about what
they have stolen, the murders they
have committed, the crimes perpe-
trated against their fellow men and
the public and. in effect, sponge the
slate of its list of their misdeeds.
Even the Woman's Christian Tenn
peranee Union might be willing to sus-
pend their campaign against the rum
demon for the common veal If this
brand of IRE water could be imported
from the Congo country and used ju-
dieiously in America. Think of the
good that might come If this confess
sion-produeing intoxicant could be
supplied to Hartman, ]. P. Morgan,
John d. Rockefeller, Rogers. Lawson.
George Gould and all the captains Of
industry and corporals Of high finance
with an invitation to a little gathering
where a stenographer would take
down the stories of how they got IT.
What might be accomplished by having
the Congo drink substituted for cham
payne at banquet of the life insur-
ance managers or the dinner Of the
ofhcials OF the trust companiesl How
much trouble might be saved II city
ofheials in a town like st. Louis. San
Francisco. New York and Philadelphia
had Congo cocktails served as they
have towels and soapl How much
bettOF the civic life Of the nation
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
THE JOY OF A TASK.

Detroit Free Press.
Bend TO the task, my brother, that rises
at break of day.
Turn TO your struggle smiling and fear
lessly go your way;
Faint hearts are merry makers after their
work is done,
But a brave man laughs at danger and
smiles when a tasks begun.
In the thick of the fight my brother, in
the heat Of the battle now,
When your shoulders are stopped with
burdens and the sweat is upon your
brow;
When the weight Of your task Expresses.
when you're weary at heart and faint,
Take one step more In the distance; 90
forward without complaint
When the shadows OF evening Iengthen
and the sun slips in the sea,
And night spreads her sable mantle, hiding
the road from Thee;
II you carried your burden bravely, and
struggle to do your best,
You'll have earned from the God OF Slum-
Der a sweet and unbroken rest.
So bend to your task, my brother, and
smile as you go your way,
Though your road is beset with troubles,
you'll come to the close Of day.
And you'n take to your couch at evening"
with sense OF your duty DONE
For it's half the battle, brother, 70 smile
at a task begun.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
Personal AND OTHERWISE.


Pittsburg follows the Omaha example o.
muzzling dogs.
Merely as a guess. not prophecy. straw
hats will be in style about the Fourth o.
July.
The fortune left by New York's silent
Smith shrunk from S75,OOO0oO to 90
when It was introduced to the tnheritanot
tax law.
Dom Luis Philippe, son OF King Carioi
Of Spain, is about to go a-wooing &c
neighbortng courts. He is q years OF age
and wears his name in eighteen sections
The finding OF a can containing $50
in a Philadelphia briokyard lends yellow
color TO the belief that the statehousf
contractors sought IN vain TO bury tbs
graft.
A tower 100 feet high Is projected for the
Allegheny court house al Pittsburg. The
iron city is willing to take the risk foI
an occasional whih OF untainted atmos-
pherA
Critics who have performed surgical
operations on Kipling's Songs OF Martha
would have some warrant for cutting IN
II they, too, received 30 cents word for
their work.
The government expert commissioned 10
view and examine the condition OF Missis-
sippi valley CLANS has reached the spot
ana announces that he can perform his
duty without a stenographer.
An Alabama embszzler who made OF
with 100000 Is pronounced financially In
sane" Had he taken 5000 and left the
balance OF the roll he would have gone
down on the record AZ crazy
A Missouri girl Of the doubling class
who insisted on getting CLOSE to nature
in a storm. was knocked silly by a hall
stone as large as a hens egg" Where
ignorance is bliss tits folly to be shown"
President Msllen Of the New York, New
Haven q Hartford railroad declares the
oompanys property is worth twice as much
a. It's capitalization, but the assertion Is
not Intended to help tax assessors in per
forming their duty.
At the rate Of progress toward home
rule scheduled by the BiTrell bill, orators
whose delightful imagery picture Ire
land. a nation" on festive occasions, need
not revive the manuscript for some years
70 come.
New York's thirst IL wonderful IN lie
vigor and a marvel to measure. The table
Of iiquid measure long since abandoned
the Job 20 the money scale. A little over
tSoooo0,ooo cancelled last years BILL and
this years thirst 10 esteemed more dim
cult 10 satisfy than any Of It's predecessor,
Little old New Workers may be pardoned
for oooAHionaiiy forgetting the climate.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12


TIE GERM OF THE TRUST OCTOPUS
The publication Of the ofilcisl report
Of the debates and proceedings of the
Nebraska constitutional convention
held in 1871 discloses among many
other interesting things the germ Of
the modern trust octopus. 1t seems
that the convention undertook through
special committee of which General
Charles F. Henderson was chairman
to arrange for taking down in short
hand all that transpired during its
sessions, in order that posterity might
be accurately informed as to all the
lights and sidelights thrown upon the
workmanship of their new constitu-
ton. This committee, with leave of the
convention, solemnly submitted the
following report, which was unani-
mously adopted:
/. The only shorthand reporters to their
knowledge within the state are John T.
Bell, John Hall. Dan Brown and John
Gray, who form a business partnership
2. These gentlemen are competent, re-
sponsible and well fitted for the work.
3. They agree to give their undivided
services in reporting and transcrihng the
proceedings during the convention and have
the copy ready for the printer as speedily
as require by him.
l. They demand for this service $50 a day
during the session of the convention.
5. This is as cheaply as the work can be
done and the compensation is below the
usual rates paid.
Your committee therefore recommend
that Messrs. Bell & Co. be employed at
the rate of compensation asked for the
purpose named.
1t will not take a microscope to dis
cover through this report the modern
trust octopus in it's infancy, although
1t seems to conform more to the type
of benevolent trust about which we
some times read. Having corralled all
the stenographic talent within the
young state into a business combine
of four partners this incipient trust
had the constitutional convention COM
pletely at it's mercy. II was do bust
ness with the combine or do no busi-
ness at all. To think that under such
circumstances demand should be
made to be allowed to perform the
work for & compensation below the
usual rates paid" testifles to the pa
triotism. loyalty and self-sacrifice Of
these original trust promoters.
With this illustrious example before
US a public apology is due from those
who have commended that no good trust
could ever exist.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12

would be II the Congo mixture we're
administered with the oath OF ONCE.
The prospect would be indeed en-
trancing we're It not for the domestic
ny in the ointment Suppose the
American housewife should get on to
the potential powers of Congo booze
and insist that her husband do his
drinking at home. The woman's
Christian Temperance union and the
temperance organizations would find
their occupation gone. On sober sec
ond thought, or second sober thought,
Congo may keep its favorite tlpple,
leaving America the brand that makes
its patrons cunning rather than con-
fiding.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
HoMEoPA THO HOME RULE.

The Irish, who have saved every
country but their own, are in painful
quandary as to the degree of enthusi-
asm or scorn they should show over
the bill providing for alleged home
rule in Ireland. For once the domi-
mating influence in the British Parlia-
ment has been honest with Ireland.
Mr. Birrell's bill does not pretend to
grant Irish home rule, but offers some
thing equally as good" with a prom
Use Of future concessions and improve
ments If the Irish show an appetite
for it.
Mr.. Birrell's proposition gives the
Irish people a real and substantial
part in their local government by plac-
ing the educational, industrial and ag-
ricultural interests of the country un-
der the direction and control of those
they may select as their representa-
tives. 1t creates a council or govern
ing board of 106 members, eighty-two
of which are to be selected on fran
chise basis. The council has no power
of taxation, but will have final author
ity in the disposition of revenues
amounting to 100000 per annum.
The British government retains pos
session of the agencies for the admin
istration of the law and the mainte-
nance Of order. 1t will continue to
be represented at Dublin castle by
lord lieutenant, who need, however,
no longer be a Protestant, and who
will control the Irish constabulary-
the feature of the bill to which the
Irish nationalists will most strongly
object,
The advocates of home rule for Ire
land are placed in an awkward posi-
ton by the bill. They know, as do
the promoters of the measures, that
it Is a compromise, an artificial
scheme aimed at party ends by dex-
trous trimming between opposing
forces. While the bill is ostensibly
supported by the liberal ministry, now
In power, the fact remains that the
liberals piped low on the Irish ques-
ton during the campaign that carried
them into power and do not feel
pledged to any radical action. While
the measure is thus distasteful to the
home rule advocates, they are In doubt
as to whether 1t is better to accept it
on the theory that half loaf is bet
ter than no bread" or to reject it and
take chances of securing no conces-
sion that would constitute a step, even
short one, toward their ultimate
hope of home rule, pure and simple.
The powers of self-government, how
ever limited, gain strength II only by
continued exercise, and this Is the CO
gent argument in favor of the accept
ance of the half-hearted concessions
to Ireland's demands, made possible by
the proposed bill.
No Irishman worth his salt will be
satisfied with the present measure any
more than he can be satisfied to rest
content with the miserable conditions
of his country, and If accepted it will
be with the clear provision that it
must not prejudice Ireland's claim on
justice nor prevent the country from
prosecuting its home rule campaign
until the reforms demanded are fully
accomplished. by piecemeal or other
wise,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
B0RN-A PRINCE.

The business Of the busy world may
be resumed. Royalty may shed its air
of expectancy and suppressed excite
ment and get back to talks OF war
peace and bridge whist. The stork
may go back to it's never-ending pill
grimage, carrying an ordinary basket,
having, after a tedious and unex-
planned delay, delivered that important
package at the palace of the Bourbon
dynasty, complying with all the forms
Of courtly etiquette. The publishers Of
the city directory of Madrid need hold
the pages open no longer. 1t is a boy,
to be named Capet, and will probably
be baptized as Alfonso, after his doting
father.
To the Spanish people and the world
this advent of an heir to the king and
queen of Spain is matter of exceed
ing importance. fraught with political
significance and carrying possibilities
that may greatly influence the future
of the proud old nation. But, just the
same, there is the human side to it
all, the same curiosity, the tense mo-
ments, the mingled feelings of enthusi-
asm and emotion that marks the birth
in the peasants hut and the following
exchange of congratulations and cigars.
The average American, however, will
be disposed to feel q little sorry for
the tiny visitor at the royal palace at
Madrid. Report tells how King
Alfonso, proud as a peacock, entered
the reception room accompanied by the
camarara mayor, or mistress of the
robes, carrying a huge silver tray, upon
which was lying the newborn royal
babe, covered with delicate lace gar
ments; how Premier Maura took
charge of the precious bundle and,
after a whispered conference with the
camarara mayor, communicated the
fact to the distinguished company of
potentates, courtiers and functionaries,
in the words, Gentlemen, it is a
prince"
Somehow that does not sound right
to American ears. Why did not
Premier Maura shout, IT'S boy" and
slap the minister of the interior on
the back and start the Handwriting
while one of the court funkeys was
passing the Flor de Punkos? The lit
tie stranger begins life with terrible
handicap by having been born prince
instead of a boy. For him there will
be no kindergarten, no rough and tum-
BILE bouts at the old swimmin' hole, no
follow the leader" ehases through
streets and across country, none of the
fights and frolics and Joys and sorrows
that enter into the development of the
boy. He is destined to a life of royal
espionage and court etiquette, the
pampered hampering certain to elm
mate most Of the red corpuscles be-
fore he arrives at the age when he
must assume the royal duties to which
he has been bornA
Americans will not withhold congrat-
ulations to King Alfonso and Queen
Victoria on the birth of the prince,
but the congratulations will be ex-
tended with the mental reservation of
regret that the heir was not born a
bow
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12

In his plea for lower taxes made be-
fore the State Board Of Assessment the
tax commissioner of the Union Pacific
is quoted as saying that his company
paid taxes amounting to RseS per mile
for its entire system and SASS per mile
In Nebraska. Either the tax commits
sioner manufactures his own statistics
for each occasion or the ofacial report
OF the Union Pacific lie wide OF the
mark. In the annual report Of the
company for the year ending June 80
1908, the total amount OF taxes paid
is given at si,7o2, sO2 and the mileage
of the entire system at fraction over
b,es4. Making the division. we have
tax payment of Just $500 per mile
II the average for the whole system Is
only $500 per mile and that for Ne
braska Sass per mile the Union Pacinc
must be an even more successful tax
Shirksr In the other states traVsrsed
BY Il than It IL in Nebraska
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
Helping People to sslf-HelD.

In America we are just learning that the
greatest gift You can give a blind man is
the ability to earn his own living. Denmark
extends that boon to the halt and manned
as we'll as 10 the blind. 4 workman crippled
in a Danish factory knows precisely what
to DO. He goes to the school for disabled
workers and learns to support himself
without the lost arm or leg or finger. as
the case may be. The school has made an
exhaustive study Of trade chances for
crippled folk. It provides TOOLS food. medi-
cine and free orthopedic treatment for its
unfortunate pupils, buys their work as
soon as It is salable and once they know a
trade finds them positions,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
Cheaper Life Insurance.

bpTIHBIItIU NNlao5'T 1sgVuUIIV0lI'
The first to become law OF the measures
growing out of the agitation for cheaper
life insurance was signed by Governor Guild
eaturday-this being a bill to charter the
Mutual Direct Life Assurance society"
which starts with a guaranty fund OF $780,
900 and aims to sell insurance ''over the
counter or without the use Of an expen-
sive agency system. Whether It proves a
success or not will depend largely upon
the disposition of its officials to avoid other
extravagances OF the old-line companies,
particularly salaries, and their ability to
keep the public acquainted with the con-
Germ and the lower net costs of insurance
which 1t Is to provide.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
CANNED VOICES.
Possibility of the Photograph as n
Historic witness.

Possibility or the monograph as u
Historic Witness.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The arrival in this country Of phono-
graphic records OF the voice of the Ger
man emperor, to be preserved at the con-
gressional library and at Harvard uni
versity, calls attention to the possibilities
OF the photograph as a historical witness,
If they had such things as monographs
when Demosthenes lived, we of the TWEEN
tieth century should be able now to hear
the voice Of the mighty ancient whose
oratory has come down to us as tradition.
We could compare him with the orators
OF our time and discover for ourselves
whether he was, after all, so great. Think
what a queer sensation we should feel
to hear the voice of Julius Caesar ad-
dressing the Romans; to hear the Emperor
Nero playing a solo upon his flute or re-
citing one OF his verses; TO hear the voice
OF St. John preaching in the wilderness;
70 hear william Shakespeare speaking
Hamlet's soliloauy or Abraham Lincoln
delivering his Gettysburg address.
Hereafter, however, II will be the privi-
Iege of mankind 10 hear the voices OF
men after they are dead. When they
themselves have turned to dust, Theodore
Roosevelt, Emperor William. Edward VII.
Marcella .sembrich, Enrlco Caruso, Mark
Twain and others of the great eonstelia-
ton OF today will give their messages Of
politics or song or philosophy to the races
OF earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
DOMESTIC PI.EAsANTRIEs.

They say soothing music win make food
more dgestible."
81 don't believe It. My wife always sings
IHllabys while baking biscuits "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Ahl pretty lady" said the fortune teller.
husband2"
Not much" replied Mrs. Galley, Two
Gom wbs to learn b Where my present husband
Well, Mr.. Cashit is your daughter get
ting the higher education2"
guess she's getting about the highest
education going. baltimore American
Knicker-strange they didn't name the
baby after It's rich uncle.
Bocker-No. he looked at It and said
Bet. give them $1,000 not to do it-smars
There's a fool born every minute"
Sometimes two fools
'Huh?"
you have twinbrother, haven't youPt
Cleveland Leader. -.,s,- III. .s r--.... n
Miss Pechis," said Mr. Timmid, at thu
other end OF the sofa, III were TO throw
We'll" replied Miss Pechis, I'D say YOU
We're the LATEST man ever aw."-PfiilaS
delphia Press.
IF you should meet an old beau and no
Il should be angry"
but If he should not7"
Times.
Gaddie-I should think. now that your
wife's been dead over r year, you'd look
around and get good one this time.
HenpecR-My! I'd like to, but 1 wouldn't
Gaddie-why not9
Henpeck-Because Maria told me if I
did she'd come back and haunt me.-Cath-
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12

otherwise alarmed. He has been
studying the law of supply and de-
mand and he knows that n the oats
crop cut is a little Short and the wheat
output few bushels shy Of last years
record he is going to get 40 much for
his summers work as he did last year,
and perhaps more.
The farmer lie a busy man on a down
grade, and even Wall street will be
astonished 70 discover what he will be
able to accomplish in the months be-
tween planting and harvest time.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
DEscENpANrs OF THE sIoNBRs.

jamestown proposes to call a re-
union in the time of the exposition Of
the descendants of the fifty-six men
who signed the Declaration of INDIE
peudence and committees are already
at work corresponding with officers Of
the different colonial and patriotic So
cieties of the nation with view to Sc
curing a list of those who can trace
their ancestry, even by devious routes,
to some member of that group that
framed the most remarkable code Of
constitutional principles the world has
known. AS these descendants are To-
Gated and identified they will be Of
'fered special inducements to visit the
exposition and bring their friends.
I Americans have a natural and last
ing pride in the signers, based almost
solely upon their work and not at all
upon their ancestry or their personal
ity. THAT all men are created equal"
was a declaration contained in the
opening sentences OF the document, q
declaration accepted in q much nearer
literal sense today than was possible at
the time of it's PRONUNCIATION. Pride Of
ancestry is as commendable today as
ever in the nations history, but it has
ever weighed less than the pride OF
achievement. The American is meas
ured by his deeds rather than by the
accomplishments of his parents, and
the dissolute scion Of an honored sire
is lost in the struggle for recognition
with the rugged, honest son Of the
hnmblest toiler.
The reunion OF the signers may
serve a purpose in letting the country
know what has become of the de-
soendants Of the men whose work has
made such an indelible impress on the
national life and history, but it will
fail to attract any particular attention
or admiration to the descendants un-
less they are worthy on their own ac-
count.