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Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
A FAMINE IN CHORUS GIRLS.

New York and Chicago theatrical
managers are announcing a near-fam-
inc in chorus girls and shrewd man
ayers and their press agents are keep
ing the public informed as to the sup
ply and demand of available front row
beauty with as much accuracy as sta
pie stocks are quoted each day by the
ticker and in the published market re-
ports. We doubt If the general pub
lie becomes very much %perturbed over
the reported shortage, while a goodly
portion of the theater-going populace,
particularly in the west, will be dis
posed to wish that chorus girls, at
least of the kind usually sent on tour
ing trips, were even scarcer.
Theatrical managers have only
themselves to blame for the shortage
of the chorus girl crop, or rather for a
demand that has increased out of all
proportion with the supply. Year by
year the producing managers have
been turning their attention and en-
ergies to musical comedies, burlesque
and spectacular affairs, oustlng the
legitimate drama from its place, and
thus creating an unusual and abnormal
demand for chorus girls. Even an or
binary or garden variety of musical
comedy these days has to be backed
up with a bevy of pretty girls and the
supply is far short of the demand.
Show girls are needed by the hun
dreds and by the thousands. They may
not be able to sing we'll enough to war
rant the use of the word chorus in
referring to them, but youth and
beauty and figure make up for vocal
shortcomings.
The famine in the chorus is not due
to any lack of pretty American girls.
That is one crop that eve fails in
this country. 1t is due, doubtless, to
the larger growth of common sense
among American girls and the knowl-
edge that the illusions, which form the
chief charm Of the stage to the audi
ence, does not linger after the curtain
has fallen. The American girls are
learning hat the chorus girl has no
life of unalloyed pleasure, but that, If
she does her work conscientiously and
we'll, the long hours, the broken rest
and other ~hardships are not compen-
stated by the weekly wage she receives.
There will always be plenty of hand
some girls, ready to try their luck on
the stage, but the famine in competent
chorus girls is easily explained.
There's a famine in competent help In
every line of activity, in the real as
we'll as the mimic affairs of life.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

People who make trouble always talk of
their trials.
True fruits are not unwilling to be hidden
by the leaves.
The man who can be bought always
thinks he cannot be caught by his buyer.
The greatness OF any occasion depends
on the man more than on the moment.
Nc man is good enough for heaven whose
goodness does not make men happy.
He cannot make much of himself who
thinks Of making the most only for himself.
Pessimism is the power of entertaining
all the aches without eating any of the
apples.
The great difference between men is more
likely to be in persplration than in inspira-
ton.
Sidestepping a moral issue is evidence
not of intellectual agility, but of moral
obliquity.
It's a strange delusion of many that God
can have no new thoughts when once they
have spoken.
Men will bother little over the breadth OF
your opinions unless you have, too, depth
of convictions.
There may be more religion in cursing as
though you liked 1t than in praying as
though 1t hurt you. q
It's usually the man who has learned how
hard It is to begin to think who denounces
intellectually Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Alaska has been busy for several
years sending an annual gold contribu-
ton several times as large as the
original purchase price of the territory,
but now comes to the front with a
promise, made through the geological
that is of more value than all of the
yellow metal washed from the frozen
creek beds in the Klondike or sifted
from the beaches at Nome. According
to the latest report of the government
officials all of those estimates showing
that the coal supply of the nation will
be exhausted within the next century
or so may be torn up and used for
starting the furnace fires. Alaska has
coal to burn. An expert of the geo.
logical survey has just made a report,
the result of several years investiga-
ton, in which he offers the following
cheering assurance:
The mineral coal in the ground in Alaska
has not yet been definitely estimated, and,
whatever estimates are made, for some
years to come will doubtless be subject
to wide expansion as further geological ex-
ploratlons are carried forward, but 1t is
proper to say that the coal resources Of
the territory are very great, and that they
will be figured in hundreds Of millions and
even billions of tons.
Billions of IONS of coal" has a
warming sound and the geological sur
vey reports indicate that the estimate
of the coal deposits in that country
have not been exaggerated. The ex-
plored and known coal area of Alaska
already is approximately 10000
square miles. Practically one-fourth
of the Alaska country has not been ex-
plored. Should that area develop coal
fields the worry over fuel for the flu
ture. might be postponed for centuries.
The Investigations that have been
made of the Alaskan coal deposits have
been confined to the coast and show
that coal exists along the entire coast,
from one end of the country to the
other. The coal ranges from low
grade Ignite to the best of anthracite
and bituminous, equal to any found
in the Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia coal fields. Enough has already
been learned of the extent of these de-
posits to warrant the government ex-
perts in assuring the country that
Alaska can supply the nations wants
for fuel for generations to come, ever
If no additional coal areas are dis
covered.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

New York World: The impression gained
from the career of John Alexander Dowie,
against whose estate claims exceeding
100000 have been filed, is that he gave to
Zion. City talents which would have shone
with great brilliance in Wall street.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The pastors who
are endeavoring to bar certain popular
songs from the repertory of the young
men in whom they are interested might
do well to get the composers Of these
songs to write something equally tuneful
that would be up to the pastoral standard
Somebody said long ago that the devil
shouldn't be given all the good music.
Springfield Republican: The extent of
the Salvation Army organization is hardly
comprehended by the public, notwithstand
ing the accounts from General Booths
campaign over Europe, in India, Australia
and now in South Africa, but it is really get
ting to be almost as catholic as the Roman
church. So 1t has to sustain a secretary
for foreign affairs and that official, T.
Henry Howard, is now in this country.
He was the organizer Of Army corps and
posts in Australia and has been commits
sioner in various anche Of the work
for more than a quarter of a century.
Boston Herald: The Rev. Dr.. Philip S.
Moxom of Springfield makes an emphatic
protest against religious REVEALS and gives
1t as the lesson of his experience that they
lead only to an artificial and hectic sort
Of religious enthus. asm that In the end docs
more harm than good to the churches en-
ploylng such methods. More good, he
opines, can be done by a dozen earnest
and quiet workers than by all the florid
and artificial exhorting which crops out
in REVEALS. However, DR.. Moxom is fond
of shocking his more fervid evangelical
brethren occasionally,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Beneath the enthusiasm and general
inconsequential debate ~engendered by
the waterways convention at Chicago
lies a purpose deep enough and
broad enough to concern the en-
tire country. The movement for
a more general utilization of the nat
ural facilities for transportation at
forded by the n~avigable streams of the
United States is taking on a concrete
form. 1t is a demand OF the steadily
that some more extensive use be made
of the great rivers of the United
States. No country in the world is so
favored naturally, but of late years no
country has made so little use of its
natural advantages in this regard as
has the United States. The railroads
drove the steamboats, out Of business.
not because the railroads furnished
transportation more desirable as re-
CARDS certainty, but because the rail-
roads had all the advantage as to
celebrity. The rapid development of
the country back from the rivers was
also a strong point in favor of the rail
roads, but the time has come when
the railroads cannot properly take care
of all the business that depends upon
them, and the slower, cheaper method
of moving the bulkier commodities of
trade is again called for.
In Chicago great stress was laid
upon the construction of a deep water
canal that will connect Lake Michigan
with the Mississippi river and the i'm
provement of the Mississippi so as to
permit of deep-draught vessels moving
without hindrance between the Gulf OF
Mexico and the lakes. This is, OF
course, a very desirable feature Of the
general program, but il would seem to
be wise to provide for the improve,
ment of existing water courses before
entering upon extensive construction
of artificial ways. The difficulty thai
has stood in the path of improvement
of the water courses of the United
States for a long time has been the
failure of the champions Of the cause
to agree upon a program, Whenever
the advocates OF waterway transporta,
tion will concentrate upon a definite
line of action, results will certainly fol
low.
The letting of a contract for an
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
personal AND OTHERWISE.

Now is the time to plan for a safe and
sane Halloween.
The clamor around the palace of King
Peter of Servia would be less annoying
to Peter If he was sure that no bombs
were concealed in the crowd.
The Balkan war cloud is no bigger than
a mans hand because the interested
powers are not disposed to show their
hand at this stage OF the game.
The yelled prophet of st. Louis achieved
much applause this year by refusing to
prophesy which way Missouri was going.
The task was too much for him.
A New York judge, who believes pub
licity to be something OF a moral fumi-
CANT, refused to seal the papers in a di-
vorce case in which a preacher was
named as correspondent.
After Investigating the cause of the
fire which destroyed a large part of Bos-
toms suburb, Chelsea, a local judge
places the burning cigarette, as a fire
bug, on a limit with Mrs. O'Leary's COW.
New York's new way of dealing with
chauffeurs who smash the speed limit
law is to give them one day In Jail for
every mile on the hour gauge One who
hit up a thirty-mile gait is now doing
thirty days.
A Detroit man who welded a merry
widow a few years ago did not have a
suspicion of her advanced years until her
grown son by a former husband drove
one into his head with a fist. That woke
him up and he hiked for a divorce court.
The upheaval in southeastern Europe
reyives fond recollections of Tirnova,
Bulgaria's ancient capital, which pro-
voked a flood of humorous reflections
some thirty years ago. Photographers of
today Tirnova the pun just as the old
boys did.
PhIladelphians meant no reflection or
the memory of William Penn when they
observed founders day with parades of
militia, regulars and marines. against
which the Quaker leader exhorted while
living. But William has been dead quite
awhile and Philadelphia has moved con-
siderable.
The courts of Indiana have affirmed
the light OF the state TO seek forfeiture
OF the charters OF the hotel companies
at French Lick and West Baden, two
health resorts Of southern Indiana, where
sulphur water flows and the tiger
flourishes. The state does not object TO
the flow OF water nor the coming of
health seekers, but seriously objects 10
the maintenance of the "tiger." whereby
the distinguished patriot Tom Taggart,
WAKES rich
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
IT'S ALWAYS MORNING.

c. b. Fisher in Circle Magazine.
IT'S always morning somewhere In the
Somewhere the Dawn leaps up with flush
strong-iimbed and beautiful and thrilled
with hope.
And courage for the labor of the day.
TITS always morning somewhere in the
world.
IT'S always morning somewhere in the
world.
A freshening breeze from islands far away,
The dew of meadows and the song OF birds,
Laughter of little children, open eyed,
And toll to prove the mettle of a man,
'Tis always morning somewhere in the
world.
'Tis always morning somewhere in the
Somewhere the elfin Morning, laughter-
Tipped,
Is hiding meath the dripping wayside
leaves;
Somewhere, beyond another stretch of dark,
Thine own lost youth awaits thee, clad In
light.
IT'S always morning somewhere in the
world.
IT'S always morning-and It's also night,
For some, long shadows of the afternoon
Creep over toll unfinished, limbs that fail;
To some, night cOmeth, I'm her bosom, rest;
Someone takes up their tasks on hills OF
dawn.
IT'S always morning somewhere in the
world.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

other wing Of the Omaha High school
must bring home to the older residents
of the city in a very forcible way the
thought of its recent great growth.
Men who are still young and active in
the local business world were Omaha
High school students in the days when
the old building on the hill was new
and was thought to be sufficient for
all demands for many years to come.
The development of the Omaha schools
has been a large part of the growth of
the city, and n of its chief sources
of local pride is the fact that the pub
lie schools have not been permitted at
any time to lag behind in the general
progress of the community.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
OF NJ

The foot ball warrior is now coming
in for his little brief time upon the
stage, but nothing that he can do will
ever place him on a par with the base
ball man, who is going into winter
quarters. A nation is largely lee
ured by tho character of its games,
and the healthy and vigorous outdoor
pastimes hat attract the attention of
it's youngsters are a certain index to
it's character. The game of base ball
is strenuous, calling for the very best
of the men who participate in it. It
requires a clear brain, steady nerves
and strong muscles, and that it is so
thoroughly understood and so gen.
orally played by Americans is an indi-
cation OF the general nature of the ma
ton. The devotion given to base ball
is but an example of the earnestness
with which the American has taken up
all problems of life, and of the energy
that has placed this country far in ad-
vance of any the world has ever
known.
In four base ball leagues this year
National, American, Western and
Southern-the last game of the
schedule was necessary to determine
the %pennant, and in no league an extra
game had to be played before the
championship could be awarded-the
first such instance since the Nationals
organization in 1875.
The season Of 1908 goes down in
history as the greatest of all years.
Something like SIT, OOO, 900 was paid
at the gates of the hundreds OF parks
over the country. A~ttendances Of TO-
900 became common and those OF 3d.
900 were registered several times,
What does il all mean? One thing is
that the American people have a great
national sport in whose fairness and
cleanness they place the most implicit
confidence, Were there the slightest
suspicion that base ball as played and
carried on today under the direction
of the National commission was not
ION the square" conditions would be
very different. The patronage given
the game is all the testimony its gen.
uineness requires. Base ball p-ossesse.
an indeinable magic that is unique
The charge of commercialism has beer
made against this country, yet not ever
the most strenuous struggles for com,
mercial advantage will half compare
with the effort men and women OTTER
exert TO see a single game of ball. Al
midnight Thursday, the day the Cubs
beat the Giants for the National league
pennant, a policeman passing by tn,
main entrance to the Detroit parl
found a lone man hanging around the
gate. When he demanded to know
what the man was there for at tina.
time of night he got the reply, II an
here to get the first grandstand sea.
to the game Saturday" What othel
pursuit of pleasure or business is Their,
that will drag men from their beds a
midnight and hold them in lonely vigi
through hours OF darkness and day
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
WHAT'S IN A CHEESEi

Experts at the Department of Agri-
culture have been at work again and
the result is an interesting, If some
what technical, dissertation on cheeses,
how they are made, what they are
made of and all the details connected
with the business. The experts an
nounce in an Introductory note, that
there are 229 known varieties of cheese
and that no two of these are at all
alike except that they have milk in
some form as the basis. Milk Is the
foundation of all cheeses, but the SUI
perstructure may be made of anything
from sage to s~oapstone, depending
upon the within of the cheese builder
and the taste of the consumer.
Cheese making is n of the oldest
arts, or trades, or habits, under which
ever classification. 1t was an article
Of diet back in the hazy times of his
tory and has never lost out with chan
! ging fashions. It is found in the plains
of South America, on the shores of the
Mediterranean, in the passes of the
Alps, on the banks of the Rhine and
the Rhone, on the steppes of Siberia,
in the cottages of the peasants, in the
palaces of princes and on lunch coun-
tiers of the civilized and semi-civilized
world. Age does not wither nor Gus
tom stale the infinite variety of cheese.
There are cheeses in existence and
growing stronger every day that are
older, than any existing government.
One particular cheese is mentioned as
being over 200 years old and rejecting
great credit on the family that pos
sesses it. over in Switzerland they
have a pleasant custom of making a
cheese at the birth of a child and eat
ing 1t at his funeral feast, or at the
funeral of his son Or grandson.
According to the government bulle-
tin cheese can be made from milk and
anything else that is handy around the
house. Rennet, extract of thistle
blooms, withania berries, acetic acid
and other agencies are used for cur
ding purposes. It is made of SKINNED
milk, cream, buttermilk, reindeer milk,
goat milk and any old combination
with a milk basis. II is made hard OF
soft; 1t is made in cakes as small as
your thumb and it ONE in packages
as big as a grindstone. 1t is sun
cured, smoke cured, cured in garrets
cellars, stone quarries, in trees or in
caves; it is wrapped in bark. in fine
linen, in oiled skins; it is made with
whisky flavor. with sage filling. with
eggs, butter. sugar, salt, cinnamon
nuts or anything else that may please
the palate.
The reports of the experts raises an
interesting question as to what action
the inspectors of the pure food NV will
take when it comes to examining
cheese? From the formulas set forth
in the pamphlet under discussion it ii
Gificult to imagine how they would &C
about TO adulterate a cheese.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
FooIish

st. Louis Globe-Democrat..
Twelve years ago the prediction was made
by democratic statesmen that the Fourth
of July would be put out Of business as a
result of republican policies. On the con-
trary, the anniversary still survives and Is
annually celebrated with increased ardor,
not only in the land of its birth, but in for
eign lands as well.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Mrs. Howard Gould testihes that her
husband had the habit of winking at
actresses on the stage. Howard should
get an expert oculist to testify in his
behalf.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

The Indianapolis News asserts thai
the six greatest women in the country
are Julia Ward Howe, because Of her
patriotism; Jane Adams, because of
her reform work; Helen Keller, because
of her perseverance; Maude ~Ballington
Booth, for her work in uplifting the
fallen; Frances Folsom Cleveland, an
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
Activities of the Campaign.
Baltimore American.

Some time ago the leaders of the cam
pa gins of all parties were warning heir
followers against the dangers of apathy.
Whatever else may be charged against the
campaigning, no one can accuse anybody
concerned now Of being apathetic. On the
contrary, the interest is of the liveliest,
partly on the principle that the desire to
see a scrap springs eternal in the human
breast.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Indianapolis News.

But, of course, you can't expect such a
conservative and well-established commod-
iy as the pork chop to pay any attention
to any mere drop of so cents or so in the
price Of hogs on the frivolous market.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

salary than preachers get in amy other
town"
you ought to-" responded the Cincinnati
man. They have tougher material to wulk
on than any other town has.'-Chicago
Tribune.
'They say she's very generous
Generous? l should say she was. Why,
she supported her husband thirty-three
years and then retired him on a pension -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He-Madam, you spend too much money
In false hair.
She-And you do the same thing.
He-What do you mean?
She-You are always buying cigars ana
/ am sure in both cases 1t is money spent
I'm puffs.-Baltimore American.
Darling, I mean to prove my love Tor
you, not by words, but by deeds
ooh, George, did you bring the deeds with
you?"-Indianapolis News.
Pop"
Yes, my son."
when a person saws wood it means
they say nothing, don't it?'
Yes, my boy"
And do women ever saw wood?'
mo. women believe that saving WOOD Is
a mans "-Yonkers statesman.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Chicago republicans gained ~, 900
in the first days registration and the
democrats lost 5000. That's the
Bryan ray that is sweeping over the
country.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Two Bryan electors in Massachusetts,
have resigned from the ticket, explain
ing that they are going to vote for Mr..
Taft. Someone should move to make
It unanimous in Massachusetts,.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

California democrats are complain
ing that they have no real party SPELL
binders in this campaign. That is
hardly complimentary to Judge Parker
and George Fred Williams, who have
been stumping that state.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

A Boston nan was excused from
jury duty because he was writing a
book. Indiana would not be able to
cur a jury il that excuse was ac-
copied by Hoosier judges.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
Panama Digging.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The total remaining excavation at Pan
anna Is 81, 100000 cubic yards. and the work
is going on at the rate of over 1900 600 cubic
yards a month. By July 4. 1911, the digging
should be completed, which will be an in
teresting item for the day we celebrate.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Colonel Guffey of Pennsylvania has
r~epudiated Haskell. Apparently Col
onel Bryan is the only prominent dem
ocrat who refuses to condemn Haskell
or Haskellism.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

A st. Louis judge is considering the
problem, What are the household du-
ties OF a m~illionaire's wife?" II would
seem that a millionaire's wife ought
to be free from household duties.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Railroad stocks went off several
points in Wall street on account of
Bulgaria's declaration of ~independ-
ence. The next thing in order will be
an advance in rates on war clouds.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

embodiment of American wifehood
and motherhood, and Helen Gould, be-
cause of her philanthropy. Every man
in love knows at least one other
woman who should be added to the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Emperor William need not hope to
escape being accused OF backing Bull
garia's bolt from Turkey. He is al
ways suspected when anything hap
pens to threaten the peace of Europe
and. sometimes, he is suspected
wrongly.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
A FOrIorn Hope.
DhI1aaa1pbfo Draco

Bryan is so much frightened about the
situation in his own state OF Nebraska that
he is going to spend three days in a can
vass there. When the democrats get in
doubt about Nebraska it goes a long way
to shatter their claims to any part Of the
west.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Lord Rosslyn, who tried unsuccess-
fully to break the bank at Monte
Carlo, is going to be married for the
third time. The gambling instinct in
him can not be suppressed.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

An Iowa man who has been visiting
Texas says he saw frogs there as big
as chickens. lows men visiting Texas
should be careful about their drinking
habits.