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Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
GRATIEYING.

The Bee is in receipt of a letter from
a well-known specialist, practicing in
this city, suggesting that our people
might be interested TO know that
Omaha has really had a safer celebra-
ton of the Fourth of July this year
than heretofore, in spite of the fact
that the country in general shows a
continued bad record. Quoting from
this letter:
The records in the offices Of our eye and
ear men show nine injuries, three being
serious. Last year ~twenty-eight, of which
nine were serious. BY serious I mean
material loss Of sight or hearing.
It is my impression that the credit for
this improvement is to be divided, part to
the awakened conscience Of our dealers and
part to the efforts of the police to enforce
respect Of our laws.
With this much gained, perhaps II Is not
too much to hope that we will eventually
do away with explosives entirely, limiting
displays to the more beautiful and less
dangerous of fireworks.
It is certainly gratifying to know
that Omaha has made progress in the
safe and sane direction. What has
been done can be improved upon and
the shortened casualty list for Omaha
this year should be shortened still
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Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

July days throw humanity in the shade.
Cop Gus persp,rat.on is a sign OF a booster
corn crop.
Nebraska's corn-ucCpia grows more cor
pulent with every round of the glazing
sun.
Calculations of intimate friends pace the
value of the Grover Cleveland estate a
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Chicago's arid belt is irrigated by $50
saloons. In two years high license put 81
saloons out Of business there.
The presence Of the sheath skirt on the
parade at Asburys Park, y. j., and It's
failure 10 create a disturbance Is stronger
proof than an excursion ticket that the
great moral censor Of that resort is away
Off-on a vacation.
P~resident-elect ObaldIa Of Panama is be
IL we'd to be a Montana man who dis guises
his identity by giving a slight Spanish
twist 20 the family mountain name. OIL
Baby. Then, again, lie may be a shining
victim OF hair renovatUrs.
II the city Of Cleveland sticks for a year
TO a local law just passed fl will have the
sanest Fourth IN the land next year. No
fireworks or n~olse-makers viii lie al owed.
The ten lives sacrificed there two weeks
ago have not been wholly In vain.
The tenth biennial confession Of how the
Blenders shuffled of Is promptly ds.
credited by the sheriff who particle attd
in the chase OF the famous killers. The
Bender mystery is a Kansas institution,
and Kansans resent every attempt 70 turn
0 N the light.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Baltimore American: A New Jersey
pastor has devised the plan OF passing
cigars around to the men Of the congrega-
ton so that they can smoke during service.
For the sake of religion It is TO be hoped
that tho pastor is a good Judge Of cigars.
Washington Post: Wear the smile that
won't come off. Laugh and be happy.
There is health giving tonic in the laughter
that comes from a happy heart. Disease
and death abide In solemnity and morbid
ity." said a Washington pastor who is
promulgating a happiness religion" There
may be a difference Of opinion as to
whether such sentiments are theological,
but everyone will agree that they are
mighty good advice.
Brooklyn Eagle; The American Unitarian
association has placed advertising contracts
with thirty-two daily papers and twenty
one weeklies and will pay for the publica-
ton of pertinent paragraphs making clear
the Unitarian view. This Is practical mis-
sionary work. The churches will be crowd
ed as soon as they master the art of news
paper advertising, because what they have
to offer is something every man feels the
need of at times. Repetition, in the right
way, viii lead all the stray sheep into the
fold.
New York Press; Bishop Potter, It will
be recalled, preached at Holy Trinity
church, Brooklyn, during Lent, this year.
on 1.-THE Healing Touch" A man with the
abundant faith attested throughout tina
beautiful sermon, is, indeed, grit about with
the armor of truth. and his recovery is not
so much a coincidence, or a consequence
following medication and nursing, as it is
an effect flowing from his serene and holy
life. Fortunately for the distinguished
patient, he did not have to read the dis
couraging bulletins issued by the doctors.
Kansas City Times: The Michigan pastor
who is to be tried" by a commission on
a charge of horse trading may become a
man OF importance-at least a man of dis
~tinction. 1t seems that Pastor Ehle pre-
sides over the congregations of New Bur
falo, Derby, Galien, Three Oaks and Lake
side, a considerable "circuit, % and one re.
curing a good horse or some other reliable
Conveyance" Now, II a preacher, de-
pendent on som means of transportation
in the performance of the arduous duty of
attending five flocks has a chance to make
a good horse trade, shall he be called ia
account for improving it? The ironical
thing about this matter is that If the
preacher had been the victim instead Of
the victor, his congregations probably
would have felt sorry for him. but might
have been slow to condemn the trade itself.
1t is all right for members Of the church
to be "shrewd,' but a pastor must show
no capacity for getting ahead in material
things, except on donation" DAYS.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
VACATION FOR THE HORSE s,

'hthI itN run IHE hOhCE -
Postoffice officials opened a real
complex problem when they decided
a few days ago that every horse owned
and used by this branch of the public
service in Washington should have
a thirty days annual vacation, to be
passed in a fine pasture five miles
from the national capital. The Of
ficials took the position that the horses
were among the most faithful servitors
of the government and were entitled
to their annual leaves, the same as
other clerks and employees. Humani-
tarians and societies that make 1t their
business to look after the protection
and comfort of animals applauded and
the department officials began to feel
rather proud of themselves until faced
by a charge Of discrimination.
The rural delivery carriers of the
country, some 80, 0 in number, have
come forward with the plea hat their
horses are entitled, by the department
ruling, to the same consideration that
the city beasts of burden are to re-
ceive. Compliance with the claims of
the rural carriers would entail a con-
siderable expense and the department
officials have been compelled to modify
their order, for the present, holding
that the rural carriers horse, that Is
driven over the country roads, with
the scent of green fields and lush
meadows in its n~ostrils and the chance
of a nibble of green stuff at the close
of the days work will have to get
along without his annual vacation un-
til the postal revenues find themselves
on more chummy terms with the dis
bursements.
The action of the p~ostoffice author
tiles should, however, accomplish good
in calling attention to the need of &C.
~casional rest for the horse, in or out
Of the government service. The horse
that works in the city should have a
vacation Just as we'll as the man who
works in the city. The horse usually
works harder than any man, is ex-
posed to more diverse weather, has
harder taskmasters and receives less
consideration. 1t was born to the
open air, the green pasture and the
running water. It's feet were not de-
signed to be curbad with iron and
beaten on stone pavements. Its sleek
coat was not formed by nature fol-
the CALLING collar and the rough
traces. It a been broken to work
but rest from It furnishes as much re-
lief and recuperation of strength and
vigor to the horse as it does to work
broken man. The horse should dc
better work after q restful vacation
lust as a man will.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
REL1rrLING TIE nFFtcE.

Defining his conception OF the presi-
dency for the current Golfers. Mr..
Bryan begins by asserting that the
presidents power for good or for harm
is often over-estimated Explaining
that our government is a government
Of checks and balances, he undertakes
to show how powerless the president is
over legislation, except as a majority
of the house and senate concur with
him. Even in the enforcement Of
law" he continues, "he is hedged
about by restrictions, these r~estric-
tons being the necessity of prosecuting
offenders in the courts. and Of secur-
ing senate confirmation for his ap-
pointment of officials through whom he
must act"
The whole tenor Of Mr.. Bryau's con-
ception Of the presidency is that the
office is by no means so exalted as
can be filled by a man of mediocre
ability without endangering the repub-
lie. This is the first time, we believe,
that any man has sought the office of
president on the plea that if elected he
can do no serious harm. It is the first
time, so far as we know, that any can
didate for the presidency has dwelt On
the binding qualities of his platform
promises and at the same time empha-
sized how impossible 1t is for him to
carry them out.
Everyone familiar with American
history, however, knows that the power
of the presidential office can scarcely
be over-estimated. The last democratic
president before the war of the rebel
lion unquestionably did more to
paralyze the government and make 1t
%unprepared for war than all the seces-
sion leaders put together. The inca
pacity of President Buchanan cost the
nation thousands OF lives and millions
Of dollars. When Andrew Jackson, al
though elected as a republican, tried
to turn over to the democrats, he gave
us another example OF the incalculable
harm that can be inflicted by misuse
of presidential power. Fortunately,
we nave had few democratic presidents
and few instances where the presiden-
tial office has not been administered
intelligently for the country's good, but
the power and responsibility belonging
to the president have constantly in
creased and expanded with the growth
of the nation and are, today, greater
than ever before since the time of
Washington.
The presidents power for good
corresponds with his power for harm
and is practically limitless. The big
gest man the country possesses is non
too big for its biggest office.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
AN opERA-BouFFE REVOLUTION.

While George AIDE was laboring un-
der the responsibilities imposed upon
him as a delegate from Indiana to the
convention at Chicago and Augustus
Thomas was rehearsing his speech,
seconding the nomination of Bryan at
Denver, the near-republic of Paraguay.
South America, was pulling off an
.opera-bouffe revelation that would
have been worth dollars to either of
these eminent playwrights If given
proper attention. All the conditions,
climaxes and scenic effects are ready
at hand and the situation needs only
the gifted pen of the playmaker to pre-
pare it for presentation on the boards.
The revolutiontsts have been gain
ing decisive victories In Paraguay and
have forced the retirement OF General
Benigno Ferriera, the president OF the
country and have named a new minis
try, which has been recognized by
most of the independent states OF the
country. Paraguay is of a portion OF
South America that achieved its In
dependence from Spain in 1911 n
has been electing it's rulers by revolu-
ton ever since. When the ms become
insolent and the outs outrageous, the
stage is set for a revolution and the
winner is connected with the treasury.
Paraguay is about as large as New
York and Pennsylvania combined,
with a population of about 100000,
spread thinly over the southern third
Of that area, with n bare sprinkling of
| Spanish whites and half-breeds who
control the government and take turn
about fighting for it. 1t is an agricul-
tural country, devoted chiefly to The
production of cattle, tobacco and tim
Der. Its entire export trade is about
as big as that of an Omaha jobbing
house OF the larger grade and its i'm
ports hardly worth counting.
The striking feature Of Paraguay,
however, is that 1t is almost a manless
nation. After the long var with
Brazil and Argentina, about a quarter
Of a century ago, Paraguay appeared
in the census reports with nine women
to one man, and the latest reports
show hat there are still four women
to every male member o. the popula-
ton. An American consul in a recent
report states that "the Paraguay men,
who. on account of their scarcity, are
at a premium, sit idly by, smoking
cigarettes and drinking the whisky Of
the country, while the women do all
the work" Apparently the men have
no recreation except the semi-occa-
%sional revolution. The current news
simply serves to call attention to
opera-bouffe conditions such as exist
in no other country.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
THE KERN NOMINATION.
Rivals Head of Ticket I'm Number of
Defeats.

Cleveland Plain Dealer Qnd. dem.)
John w Kern, twice defeated for COVER
nor of Indiana, is picked for running mate
for Mr.. Bryan, twice defeated for presi-
dent. 1t is thus a ticket Of the twice de-
feated that the Denver convention gives
the country. In spite Of the apparent
weakness of an appeal based on two candi-
dates thus distinguished, It is possible that
the convention did the best II could. Demo-
cratic hope Of success rests in no small
measure on the carrying of New York,
Ohio ard Indiana. The party in this state,
through It's sorry split over the question
Of control, took itself out of the reckoning.
Had New York been able to present a sat
isfactoTy candidate for vice president Mr..
Bryan was ready to accept him, but demo-
cratic Affairs in that state are in such con
dition that II was impossible to get a man
to unite all factions. The man Of sufficient
ability ard prominence could not be found
who was neither tainted with Hearstism,
handicapped by the support Of Parker nor
compromised by Tammany's fight on Nc
Carren. OF the three important states
to be considered this left Indiana alone,
and probably MIR. Kern was the best
available man from this narrowed field.
Governor Johnson, Judge Gray or ex-
Governor Douglas would, Of course, made
a vastly stronger man for tail Of the Dem
yer ticket, 1t was impossible to convince
either Of the first two to accept and II
would have been a waste Of ammunition
to give the nomination to Massachusetts,.
for the democrats OF that state promise
Eothing for the ticket. For the opposite
reason. that the democrats will have the
south anyway. the convention did not con-
slider 1t worth while to give the vice presi-
dency 10 that section. Had Missouri been
wiling 10 unite on Governor Folk he might
have been the convention choice, ard II
would have been a popular one In the
party. Perhaps, after all. john W. Kern
was the best the Denver convention could
do.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19

Democrats who have been inquiring
into the political history of Indiana
are not nearly so enthusiastic over the
nomination of John Worth Kern for
vice president as they were when his
nomination was announced. The Sc
lection of an Indiana man is meant,
as a rule, to indicate a desire to make
less doubtful a dubious result, but the
record fails to show that Mr.. Kern, in
his several attempts to secure office
at the hands of his fellow Hoosiers,
has developed any particularly strong
vote-getting abilities. Not having
been closely identified with either fac
ton Of the democratic party in the
state, to that extent he has both
strength and weakness, but no more
than any other colorless candidate who
might have been named from Indiana.
Mr.. Kern appears to be q respectable
American citizen whose qualities as a
statesman have not made him con-
spicious even in his own state and
have not made him known outside.
He supported Bryan in 1896, con-
fessedly from a desire to be regular
although he was openly opposed to the
Bryan platform. In 1900 he was NOM
mated for governor, avowedly to win
back the gold democrats to the democ-
racy. He ran 3,216 votes behind
Bryan and only 4O1 votes ahead of the
other democratic candidates for the
state ticket, being defeated by $4,000.
In 1904 he was again nominated for
governor and he and Bryan stumped
the state for Parker. He was defeated
by S4,374 plurality, while Parker was
defeated by 1924. The other can
didates on the democratic ticket polled
about as many votes as Kern, show
ing that their higher vote was due not
to the popularity of Mr.. Kern so much
as to the unpopularity OF Judge Parker.
Compared with Mr.. Sherman, Mr..
Kern has had no congressional expert
ence and no association with the
greater public affairs of the nation,
while Mr.. Sherman is equipped with
wide knowledge OF administration af-
fairs, in which he has been an active
participant for twenty years. Mr..
Sherman has been returned year after
year to congress by increasing MAORI
ties, while Mr.. Kern has reaped only
cumulative pluralities in his defeats.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
NEWSPAPERS CAMPAIGN COURTESY,

NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGN COURTESY
Our friends. the democratic enemy.
are already congratulating themselves
that their third-time candidate for
president is not quite in such a bad
way for newspaper support this year
as he was in 1896 and In 1900. TAX
ing comfort over this thought, our
amiable local contemporary, the World
Herald, insists that the number of i'm
portant newspapers that will give Mr..
Bryan positive support in the pending
campaign will be more numerous
something, of course, which Is not re-
markable in view Of the fact hat he
had practically no newspaper support
before-and also that the newspapers
opposing Mr.. Bryan are showing a
disposition to accord him "eminently
fair and honorable treatment" The
inference, of course, is that MIR. Bryan
in previous campaigns was subjected
to unfair treatment by opposing news
papers under the standards of fairness
that should obtain in a hot~ly-contestec
political fight.
1t is to this last inference that re
monstrance is herewith entered, OF al
the men in public life, who have beer
prominently made by newspaper pub
LEFTY, Mr.. Bryan is the n shinins
light. He has had more free advertis
ing In the last twelve years than an!
other one man and he has been mor'
considerably treated by far by oppos
ing republican newspapers than hay'
our distinguished republican leaders II
and out OF office by the h~ide-boun'
partisan Bryanite papers. Particu
larly In their news columns ave tn
newspapers politically antagonistic u
Mr.. Bryan given him the adyantag'
of a public forum, enjoyed by no othe
man, and Mr.. Bryan himself is OF
record in grateful acknowledgment
even for his first campaign Of 1885
when partisan rancor ran highest. Nj
Bryan has testified that the news re
ports of the two great press assocla
tions in that campaign were fair an
impartial and quite complete an
further that the special correspondent
assigned at different times TO handl
the news OF his campaign were "a
honorable body Of men and a credit t
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
SERMONS ROLLED DOWN.


The desired haven is not reached by sail
ing before the wind.
Many are willing to be soundly pious so
long as piety is all sound.
Bad times often come as a result OF too
much living for good times only.
Cyniclsm is the atrophy that comes from
refusing to realize our own ideals.
No man has said Amen to his prayers
until he gets busy answering them.
He who never said a harsh word Of any
one failed in his duty to every one.
The problems of any day are the indica-
lions Of the keenness of its conscience.
The needy can better afford to miss your
gifts than you can afford to miss the Civ
ing.
1t is hard to see in what way an imputed
Righteousness is better thar a borrowed
reputation.
II the man who boasts Of always saying
what he thinks were honest he would say
mighty little.
There's a lot of difference between serv-
ing one Of these little ones and kowtowlng
to one of our great ones.
No man is of much use in this world un.
I'll he has found something more attractive
than his personal happiness.
He who only prays Give US our daily
bread-with some butter, too" does not
pray at all and he dies Of hunger.
1t Is a good deal easier to shut out the
sights Of the worlds needy than It is to
evade your answerability for them.
Some think they must be in the beaten
way to heaven because they seem to be Sc
successful in beating their way there.
1t makes a lot of difference whether Won
think Of religion as a system of medicine
or as the simple life Of fun moral health
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
NIGHT IN BACHELORS HALL.
T. A. Daily.

II. A. Daily.
They've gone away! It seems a year,
Aye! weeks OF years. since they were here's
And yet il was but yesterday
/ kissed them when they went away,
Away from all the scorChing heat
That grips this brick-walled city street.
And it was / who bade them go,
Though she, dear heart, protested so,
And vowed I'd find no Joy at all
Nor any peace, in Bachelors Hall.
| aughed at that, but she was right;
| never knew a saddeT might
Than this, while thus I tread, alone,
These silent halls | call my own.
l never thou I this place could change
So utterly ana seem so strange.
7 ne night is hot. and yet a chill
PCrVades the house; Il is 80 still.
! miss the living atmosphere
Tnat comforts me WEea they are here;
/ miss the sigh. lOng-drawn and detp,
The music Of refreshing sleep,
That undulatcs the gentle breast
OF weary motherhood at rest.
And in the unaccustOmod gloom
That shrD uds the small adioin ng room
l miss The means, the mufflCd screams,
or childhood troubled in its dreams.
Ana Is this all? Nay. more l miss
The strong, heart-thr'lling JOY, the bliss
Of wardinE, with protecting arm,
these precious hearts ana harm.
o! sing your song, all We who roam.
Your wis ful soTg of Home, Sweet Homes
But, Though unhappy is your lot.
You VIII not find "a saddnr spot
Ia all the world than Home. when they
VINO make IL Home have gone away.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
PASSING oF THE BLONDE.

A writer in the Contemporary Re
view presents a cause for alarm COM
pared with which the u~tterances Of
recent political platforms are flat, stale
and insipid. This writer predicts that
the blonde type of humanity is sched-
u,ed for early extinction and that the
brunettes will soon inherit the earth
and the fulness thereof. He has been
making investigations and inquiries
and has received an overwhelming ma
jority of evidence in favor of his asser-
ton that Everywhere the conclusion
is the samoa dark type supersedes
the fair"
This might be set down as the
product of a magazine writer's imagi-
nation were it not that Prof. Mason OF
the Smithsonian institution at Wash
ington, that repository of about every
thing old under the sun, ventures the
prediction that in six centuries the
blonde type will have vanished unless
something is lone to preserve 1t. Or
course, 1t will help some to have the
blonde with us for six centuries, but
the magazine writer holds no such en-
enlargement. He insists that the
blonde is disappearing rapidly as IL
were before our very eyes.
History fails to record how, when
and where the blonde complexion orig
mated. Some scientists have claimed
that the blondes originated in the Arc
tic circles where centuries of exposure
bleached them. Others contend that
the blonde complexion was the product
of scarce and unnutritious food, while
| others insist that they are perfectly
natural products of moist climates and
that the light tint is due to the super
abundance of water in the blood. These
theories really cut no figure, compared
with the horror of the thought that
the blonde is passing.
Back in the times of myth and before
historical accuracy began TO be felt in
the world, the blonde type was exalted
above the commonplace, The heroes
/ OF GIGek NY NlOloSF "NANt 'AhANeN -
out exception, described as fair as the
morning and with the pink and gold
of awakening day." and the highest
conception of the painters of the old
and new gods was 10 linn them Will
blue eyes and fair hair, the blue of the
sky and the pink and gold of the day
break.
History shows, too, that the blondes
Of the early days were of the aggres
sive type. They were the leaders II
war and the advanced reformers IL
civil life. It is even intimated that th'
blondes are burning themselves out be
cause they assume the burdens of wa
and leave the brunettes to stay at hom'
and thrive. Be all this as 1t may th'
investigations show that the blondes
are passing, both in the country anC
in the urban centers, and being re
placed by the darker-hued and darker
haired people in all parts OF the world
No one has undertaken to show