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Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
THE UNTvERsTrr OF NEBRAsKA.

THE UNIVERSITY or NEBRASKA.
The change in the executive head
of the University OF Nebraska comes
at n time that is peculiarly op%portune.
It will probably be putting it too
strong to say that the period is crit
zeal, but the new chancellor has an
unusual opportunity at present. The
work Of the university can be made
even more effective than It has been
by a vigorous and progressive admin
istration Of its affairs. While COM
plete harmony between the several de-
partments of the great school exists,
with closer team work the highest re-
suits may be had.
In personnel the faculty of the Uni
verslty of Nebraska stands remark
ably high. The individual professors
take first rank in their several
branches and are devoted to the work
they have in hand. This has been
proven on a number of occasions,
when one or another of the professors
at the University of Nebraska has de-
clined to be tempted to another insti-
tuition by an offer Of higher salary.
This patriotism is a great asset in the
university life, and should be taken
fullest advantage of. What is needed
at the university is a mar Of broad
executive ability and personality
strong enough to effect a virile organ
ization and to weld the several depart
ments into a complete whole. Chan
cellor Avery appears to possess these
qualifications. He has before him a
splendid chance to accomplish a great
work, and with the united support of
the regents and faculty of the uni
versity and the people of the state he
should be enabled to place the Uni
versity of Nebraska at the very top of
state schools. 1t is an opportunity
worthy his utmost endeavor, and his
course will be watched with great in
terest by those who wish only the best
for the University of Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

It's never wise to trust the man who
trusts no one.
The ills that follow our lusts we usually
charge up to our luck.
The most ridiculous coward in the world
Is the man who fears ridicule.
Life always disagrees with the man who
tries to take its cake all at once.
When a mans religion gets in no farther
than his head It all runs out readily at his
lips.
When we say we hate flattery we usually
mean we dislike to hear 1t In the third per-
son.
Some people do not know the difference
between fearing God and being afraid in
the dark.
1t is a good sign Of sense as we'll as Of
secrecy to keep to yourself the things you
do not know.
The troubles often is that we listen TO the
voice of conscience while yielding to the
push Of desire.
The saddest thing about the life that min
listers to no one is that It never knows
what It has missed.
The man who has q grudge against the
universe always finds all the cactus
punches there are in it.
Imaginary Ills quickly come to constitute
something more substantial thar an imag-
mary hindrance Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

If you don't receive what you want, It's
wise to forget It.
Besides it's other qualities, Christmas is
a sure enough give away.
Shipments of American alarm clocks to
Hong Kong renders certain the awakening
Of China.
Esperanto has broken out in the subways
of Boston. Train guards defend themselves
with slabs of Greek.
The Congressional Record takes it's place
among the select few publications which
believe they are funny enough without the
comic supplement.
Chicago plckpockets have so systematized
their operations that no two of them work
the same side of a block. Shoppers are
thus assured of a breathing spell between
pinches.
Mexioo's smelly oil we'll which furnishes
metals sixty miles away and smothers peo-
pie at short ang could give a packing
scenter a lead of fifty-nine miles and beat
1t under the wire. -
William Tell. ~Pocahontas, George WASH
ington's Ratchet and Paul Revere are now
among the branded dreams OF tradition. A
century hence some merry iconoclast may
arise and assert that George L. Miller was
not the father of Omaha,
The New York World insists it is entitled
to active membership in the Ananias club,
but the investigating committee report that
the Big Stick could not preserve harmony
with Laffan and Pulitzer in the same
bunch. The latter must tarry in Jericho
and cultivate whiskers.
The siNtieth anniversary number of the
New York Independent, issued last week,
presents an impressive perspective of the
journalistic and literary giants of the period
covered by the life of the noted weekly.
The pictorial galaxy of editors and contrib
utors embraces many distinguished people,
whose names and marks are familiar.
From Henry Chanler Bowen, the founder
and editor down to Hamilton Holt, present
managing editor. the roster of writer's en-
braces such names as Leonard, Bacon,
Richard Salter Storrs, Joshua Leavitt,
Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, Ed
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

ing attention and the officials of the
great city of New York sought to see
which could show him the most
marked attention. Even Williams
Travers Jerome, the s~elf-called reform
district attorney Of New York, Joined
in the chorus of adulation and went
to one of his customary extremes in
praising the man whose name has
been a byword and reproach to Amer
lean civic decency for many years.
1t was a BETTING act for Rabbi
Wise to make public declaration CON
corning the banquet and to denounce
Richard Croker for what he is, the
type of a political leader to be alb
hored and condemned by all good citi-
zens. Rabbi Wise properly declares
that no matter how lovable a charac-
ter Croker may be personally, no mat
ter how good he may be to his family
and his friends, no matter how correct
his personal habits and mode Of life
may be. his official career marks him
as an undesirable citizen, the honor
ing of whom only brings disgrace upon
those who participated in the banquet.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
THE FUTURE OF THE INDIAN.

1t is decidedly unusual to find the
head of a government bureau planning
for the abolition of his position, but
that is practically the hope expressed
by Francis e. Leupp, commissioner of
Indian affairs, in his annual report,
one of the most interesting documents
that has come from the government
printing Office in many a day. Mr..
Leupp takes pains to show the prog
ress the Indian has been making to-
ward citizenship and ability to take
care of himself and indicates the early
approach of the time when most of the
work now being done by the Indiap
bureau may be dispensed with and the
Indian allowed to shift for himself.
Mr.. Leupp's report is filled with
concrete statements of the progress
being made in the education and ad-
vancement of the Indian. He shows
that the blanket" Indian, the greasy
old warrior who used to sit around
and draw rations from the govern
ment, has become obsolete. Most of
the Indians OF the day have received
some education and nearly all of them
have developed a business ability that
enables them to take very good care
of themselves in their dealings with
the white men. Where the allot-
ments of lands have been made the
Indians, instead of being robbed by
land agents and promoters. as was
woefully predicted, have turned
farmers, stock raisers and ranchmen
and have been adding to their prop
erty values. In many parts of the
west the Indians are the actual leaders
in the work of retaining land by irri-
CATION and thousands of them are
earning good wages every yea in diff
ferent kinds of farm, ranch and rail
road work.
The commissioner takes a radical
and, we believe, thoroughly justified
position against the nonreservation
Indian schools. He declares that the
whole method of conducting these
schools Is conducive OF unwholesome
conditions for young people who have
been always accustomed themselves,
and are descended from an ancestry
always accustomed, to the freest open
air life" He believes that the In
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
MATCHMAKING 4 PRESIDENT.

The city of Washington is going to
ton to cover the cost of the ceremo-
MES attending the Inauguration of the
next president. The position is taken
by the residents of Washington that
the inauguration is a public affair and
that the heavy cost of 1t should not
be borne by the population of Wash
ington.
1t is not at all likely that congress
will give much heed to the request
for an appropriation and there is no
good reason why it should. While the
government makes no appropriation
for the Inauguration, there is nothing
in the official requirements of the
event that would call for the outlay
of money. 1t is required only that
the president escort the president
elect from the White House to the
capitol, for which a government car
riage is used, and that the chief JUS
tice of the supreme court administer
the oath of the Office to the new presi-
dent. There the official part of the
proceedings ends. The elaborate pa
rades, the inaugural ball and all the
social features of Inauguration week
are entirely unofficial and If the peo-
pie want them they should pay for
them.
The record will not show that the
people OF Washington have suffered
any financial loss by these Inaugural
lions. On the contrary, there is usu-
ally a surplus left after each of them.
Hotel men, restaurant keepers, the
street car companies and saloon men
contribute literally to the fund, know
ing that they will get big returns on
their investment. The sale of SOU
venirs, seats on the reviewing stands,
tickets to the inaugural ball and other
privileges is productive of a good
sized fund and the expense is never
heavy. The government usually do
mates the use of the pension building
for the inaugural ball, where thou.
sands of guests pay IS each for the
privilege of stepping on each others
toes and smothering in a jam fol
hours, just to see the president and
his wife, with a few dignitaries, make
a sedate circle of a white-roped areha
that is not much bigger than a prize
ring, London rules. The chief cos
of the inaugural is the hiring of car.
riages and horses, the employment o
a few bands for the parade and the
expenditure of some money for extra
workmen, guards, teamsters and the
like. The burden is not one which
should Cypress the citizens of Wash
ington and not one which the rest O.
the country should be asked to share
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

urges, a family would get, for the
price Of n servant. the services Of .
series of specialists in every line Of
homework. The result could not be
other than satisfactory and would re-
lieve housewives Of much of the worry
that now consumes them.
The scheme sounds pretty. It
sounded so when first advanced by
Edward Bellamy and as it has since
been rehearsed and rehashed by many
Of his poor imitators, but it is ques-
tionable If IL would work well in
actual practice. Still, 1t would be
worth trying, Just to give the Ameri-
can housewife the satisfaction Of hav-
ing her dishes washed by a soulless
corporation.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.


Everybody keeps tellln' u.s." complained
Tommy Tucker, TO buy our Christmas
presents early. Why don't somebody start
the fashion of eatin' the Christmas dim
ners early ?'-Chicago Tribune.
Santa Claus brought me a little baby
sister for Christmas" confides the small
He did? That was finei" answered the
Yes; an it's tn only present me an
Freddie got that papa hasn't broken al
ready windin' It up an shown us how
1t uns."-Judge.
Briggs-Even divorce, nowadays, offers
no sure relief.
Griggs-How so2
Briggs-Why, in nine cases out of ten a
Life.
rs this DR.. Smith,
well, this is Mrs. Jones. I wish you
would come over as soon as convenient;
my cuckoo clock has a little throat
trouble. "-Harpers Weekly.
How many servants does Mrs. Higbee
"None.'
Strange. She knows all about her neigh.
bors' affairs. Puck.
Mrs. Skandell was telling me a story
today about that odious Mrs. Galley" be-
gan Mrs. Jigley.
thought you hated gossip"
"Why-er-so I do, but, OF course, I can't
hate it thoroughly until I know Just ex-
actly what 1t is.'-Catholic Standard and
Times.
Are young men who stay late really as
Questionable as the funny men pretendH"
he inquired.
mot If their intentions have been made
known" answered she.
Then 1t was up to Herald.
-
Her Husband-What reason have you
for thinking Mrs. Black liberal In her re-
ligious views?
His Wife-Why. she contributed a cake
to O rival church affair.oChicago News.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

dams should be educated on the reser-
vations instead Of being carted on to
some eastern school and taught in
lines that car be OF no real value to
them when they are compelled to re-
turn and earn their living among their
own people. He urges that the Indian
be taught agriculture, stock raising,
fruit culture and like arts and sciences
instead of being educated as stenog-
raphers, lawyers and in professions
that will do him no good and may
cause real harm by making him dis
satisfied with his natural surroundings
among his own people.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
EFFECTS or CHEAPER POSTAGE.

The English have become most en-
thusiastie over the immediately-felt
effects Of the reduction of the rates
of letter postage between the United
States and Great Britain, a writer in
the Nineteenth Century predicting
that within a year will be seen the
completion of the universal penny
t2-cent) postage, as he defines it,
whereby any inhabitant of our planet,
white, black or yellow, may be enabled for
the sum of 1 penny to communicate with
any other at the lowest possible rate and
the highest attalnable speed-Englishman
with German, F~renchman, italian or Rus
sian; European with Americana; Asiatic
with Australian or African-so that when
one soul has something to say to another,
neither color, nor religion, nor creed, nor
diplomacy, nor national antipathy, nor lati-
tude nor longitude, nor poverty. nor any
other barrier, shall stand between them. 1t
is a grand yet simple assertion Of the
brotherhood Of %nations; it is a change that
threatens no interests and benefits all man
kind.
The growth Of the postal business
between the United States and Eng
land has been nothing short of re-
markable and it is expected that it
Will be e greater, under the re-
duced postal rates, as past experience
shows that whenever postal charges
are reduced there follows an enormous
increase in the number of communica-
lions sent by post. The London
Times, discussing the new postal
agreement, says;
The growth OF our American correspond
ence has been very marked during the last
ten years. In the report of the postmaster
general for 1898 It was stated that during
the previous twelve months we sent to the
United States 2S7,OO0 pounds weight of let
ters and postcards, and 2,27O,OO pounds of
circulars, book packets and newspapers. W.
received from the states 5000 pounds OF
letters and postcards and 1,5S6,OOO pounds of
other communications From the report for
1908, just published, 1t appears that the fig
ures are: Sent to the United States, 473, OC
and 3,2S5,0O pounds, respectively; from the
United States, 500. 900 pounds and 2,419, O0C
pounds. Thus 1t will be seen that the let
ters and postcards have Increased in bulk
during the last ten years by about so pei
cent, and that other communications have
increased by about so per cent. 1t is rather
curious to note also that, while ten years
ago the English mails were far more bulky
than those which came from America, the
reverse is now the case. the penny post
may be relied upon to produce even more
striking increases in the official figures dur.
ing the next ten years. ,.r
The new agreement for a 2-cent let
ter rate between the United States
and Germany will become effective on
January 1 and negotiations have al
ready been opened for a similar con-
v~ention with France. No foreign ma
ton of any Importance can afford not
to seek the new arrangement, now that
1t has been adopted by England and
Germany, and the prediction of the
writer in the Nineteenth Century
does not seem destined for long de.
layed fulfllment.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
BOSS CROKER AND THE JUDICIARY.

Rabbi Wise has performed a dis
tinct service to the cause of public
decency in raising his voice in protest
against the fulsome attention that is
being paid to Richard Croker since his
return to New York from a long stay
in Europe, where he went for his
city's good and his personal safety and
protection from prosecution.
Thirteen judges of the city OF New
York participated in a banquet given
&c Croker the other night and Wed
with each other in voiclng his praises
around the banquet board, just as
they would honor some man who had
performed a marked public service.
Women surrounded him with fiatter-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
SOLVING THE SERVANT PROBLEM

SOLVING THE SERVANT PROBLEM.
Mrs. Alice P. Norton, professor Of
household administration in the Uni
versity of Chicago, has adopted the
division of labor principle to house
work and is predicting that the solu-
ton of the servant girl problem will
be found In corporations organized to
furnish trained persons to do different
lines of housework, for long or short
Periods and to do the work in a bust
nessiike manner, subject to inspection
by cue al the captains of the servant
glrl Industry.
The plan appears to be for a con-
Germ to organize for the business OF
housekeeping and TO supply different
families just as other firms now sup
ply coal, and meat and ice and milk.
There would be, for example, a girl
who would cook breakfast for the
Jones family at 7 O'Clock and then
depart to get the s o'clock breakfast
for the Browns, making way for the
girl who would come in and wash the
dishes, while another would make the
beds, sweep and dust the rooms and
perhaps sort the family laundry and
prepare it for the woman who would
arrive later to do the washing and
scrub the floors, Lunch cooks and
dinner cooks would follow and other
servants would appear from time to
time to do the work in their special
line. Any complaint would be sent
to the headquarters Of the firm and
be investigated by an overseer or in,
spector.' In this way, Mrs. Norton
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
WOULDN'T Il
Baltimore American,

Baltimore American.
Wouldn't It be nice?
If children over all the land .r 81.
Were quite submissive to m
If little boys would never shout,
And little girls would never pout,
If pas and mas could always say, ...
"How very quiet It's today"
If children in condition prime
Were always as at Christmas time,
Wouldn't 1t be nice?
Wouldn't It be grand?
If young to old respectful were,
If age were held as something dear,
If parents and authority
Would in high estimation be,
If youngsters did not selves assert
In action plain, in language curt,
But were as mild in act and say,
AS they are this years holiday,
Wouldn't II be grand?
Wouldn't 1t be great?
If angry tempers in control ,
Were held by might of mind and soul
If on each life by passion swepP
A rigid watch of will was kept,
If every little ister-brother- .
Meier quarrelled, but dearly loved each
other,
AS when Christmas time was near
Wouldn't 1t be great2
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
RULES FOR RAISING BABIES.

Two English mothers who declare
that they have never kissed their own
babies nor allowed anyone else to kiss
them have undertaken to instruct
other mothers Of the world in the art
of raising babies. They have posted
in the halls of their homes a series
of rules and have begun preach
ing their anti-baby-kissing doctrines
through the press of England. The
posted rules are as follows:
Don't kiss the baby.
Don't handle baby unless your hands are
very, very clean.
Don't bring baby's face close to your own
Don't allow baby to touch your face or
hair.
Don't talk, breathe, whistle. blow, cough
or sneeze into baby's face. We want him
to live.
Don't use your handkerchief to baby's
hands, face or mouth.
To some these rules will appear comical
or stupid, but they are not written as a
joke or without thought. Therefore, any
person infringing these rules after having
read them, will incur our displessure ex-
tremely.
We submit that parents who want
that kind of babies should be pre-
vented from having them. The hum
blest baby in the world was born to a
heritage from which it should not be
deprived. 1t was born to be kissed,
coddled, tossed and played with. It's
life would not be worth living if it
could not crawl in the dirt, now and
then, pull daddy's whiskers and its
mothers hair, The baby that has not
been crooned to sleep in the crook of
its mothers arm; that has not been
tossed and tousled by parents, rela-
tives and friends; that has not had its
tears dried and its sorrows kissed
away has missed the sweetest part of
the baby's life and the sweetest part
OF the lives Of others in it's home. An
a~ntiseptic, sterilized baby is a mis-
homer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
PROPOSED TIMBER TRUST.
United states and Canada should BE
Dominant Partners.

brooklyn Eagle.
Reports of a timber trust to control all
the standing timber in this country, Can
ada and Mexico, will require some little ex-
PLANTATION before they can be accepted in
full. How, for instance, would a trust get
control of the vast areas now held by the
governments Of the several Canadian prov
inces? Without those areas anything re-
sembling an international trust would be
impossible.
A timber trust is needed here and In
Canada, but it is a very different kind OF
trust from that said to be contemplated
by capitalistic interests in the west and
middle west. The dominant partners in IT
should be the federal, state and provincial
governments of the United States and Cam
ada, Forest preservation, like the improve
ment of waterways, is an international
question as well as a national one and
should be approached by the people OF
both countries in a broad and progressive
spirit. The prosperity of the future de
ponds upon the use we make of the natural
resources at our disposal today.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Chicago Record-Herald; If his satanic
majesty be a syndicate, as declared by a
Massachusetts preacher, 1t merely goes to
show that the modern process Of evolution
is the same in all lines of industry.
Boston Herald: A $500, 900 lot for a new
Christian Science church in New York City
would look like extravaganza for almost
any other denomination. It's different with
the First Church Of Christ, Scientist. It's
treasury continues to bulge out and run
over.
Baltimore American: A New England
minister rather startled his congregation
lately by saying he was glad he was In a
world where he could be lawless II he
wanted to, because there was more merit
in being virtuous. This would be very
helpful II all took the same view, but the
great trouble is that a large number OF
people, who. like the minister, can be law
less, want to be and are so.
Boston Transcript: Father Tierney of
New York. in reply to a question from a
parishioner, has declared that he will not
hear a confession by telephone. That its
secrecy might be easily violated by caves
troopers is only one Of his many objections
to the practice. Confessions from i'm
prisoned miners have been received by tele-
phone. but this was under circumstance
that justified the exception to the rule.
Philadelphia Record: The advocates of
forest preservation have turned their guns
D the destruction of evergreen trees for
Christmas uses. Rev. DR.. Macarthur de-
nounces the custom as a heathenish prac-
tice. He is right. no doubt, as to the folly
Of destroying the young trees, but wrong
in the matter of his epithets. 1t is a la
mentable habit of some good clergymen
to substitute prodding for preaching. sants
Claus cannot be downed.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

Former Senator Spooner objects to
being drafted for service in the cabi-
net. A man who gave up the senate
leadership in order to earn some
money in the practice of his profess
sion would have some trouble In coa
ing himself to accept a cabinet posi-
ton If It were offered.