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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

the bread-eating world. The con-
sumption is apparently as elastic as
the supply. When the crop is big and
prices low the people eat more wheat
bread than usual. When there is a
short crop and consequent high prices
the people economize or find other
breadstufs, so the law OF supply and
demand works to a nicely and without
causing n suffering or much real in
convenience.
The significant feature of Mr..
Smiths book is his prediction that the
worlds production Of wheat will be in
creased without much difficulty to as
much as 5000, OOO, 900 bushels when
the demand warrants It. Irrigation,
dry farming, improvement of.the yield
and the opening of new wheat-growing
lands are relied upon to produce this
increase. Canada, Argentina, China,
Manchuria and Turkey are cited as
lands suitable, under proper condi-
tions, for wheat growing, while in the
United States it is expected that in
tense farming will result in very ma
terially increasing the present average
yield.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
SERMONS BOILED DOWN,

There is no faith without some feeling for
our fellows.
Faith is not a balancing pole for the man
on the fence.
Refuse %another's burden and you lose
your own blessing.
A great sorrow may be the fitting for
some great service.
1t takes more than a loathing OF hell to
lead to heaven.
You never will find good in a boy by the
detective method. =,
The clinkers always take credit for the
full head of steam.
That is not a good life which does not
find living a glad thing.
Men who are doing a big business never
need a busy sign.
Bearing your cross does not relieve you
from paying your taxes.
The world never agrees with the man
who tries to swallow it whole.
Nothing impoverishes a good deed quicker
than thinking of its profit.
You cannot improve your view of heaven
by climbing on your brothers. back.
It's the little happinesses we SOW that
give us the harvest of perpetual pleasure.
The saddest people in this world are those
who are always fleeing from sorrow.
A rabid defense Of creed is often accom-
panied by a remarkable Indifference to
deed.
The favorite circus in the average church
Is that Of whipping the devil around the
stump.
The people who are too lazy to run in
the race always get up a perspiration over
the way the prizes go.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
AK-sAR- BEN.

II is meet and proper at all times
that all the people should celebrate
together the elimination OF a summer
OF effort in an autumn of harvest and
plenty. And the people OF Nebraska
have never had more reason for joy
Gus harvest home demonstrations than
this season. A bo%unteous yield has
rewarded the efforts Of the husband
man, and the nocks and herds have in
creased, and in all material ways the
condition of the inhabitants of the
state has been improved.
This is why Ak-Sar-Ben comes with
an especial invitation. The carnival
itself merely draws together many per-
sons, each bent for the time on avoid
ing care and indulging with no re-
straint in the light pleasures of the
holiday time. But Ak-Sar-Ben really
means much more han this. It has
It's serious side, although that is fire.
q%uently overlooked in the amusement
that it affords.
The carnival period is merely the
outward showing of an end to the sum-
mer activities of the organization, but
it is not its chief purpose. If Ak-Sar-
Ben stands for anything at all, It is
for a systematic effort to bring into
closer communion the inhabitants of
the region that surrounds Omaha, to
advance their acquaintance with one
another and to foster the spirit of CO.
operation so necessary to substantial
growth. 1t would take a long time to
recount all that has been accomplished
along these lines, but an incident of
the last summers campaign was the
bringing to Omaha Of a large delega-
ton of representative men from Lin
coin and the establishment anew of
friendly feelings between the capital
and the metropolis.
1t is such achievements as these that
make Ak-Sar-Ben useful to the state,
and its great possibilities in this way
is not to be forgotten even during the
time Of the carnival. Much similar
work remains, and Ak-Sar-Ben will
continue without cessation until the
rule of the great king is firmly estab-
lished and the people of the kingdom
are united in a single purpose to ad-
vance its general prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
THE WORLDS WHEAT FIELDS.

Crop experts and economic theorists
have been busy for years predicting
the coming of the time when the
growth of population, the constant in
crease in the consumption of wheat
and the exhaustion of the area suitable
for wheat cultivation would bring a
worldwide famine. Only a few years
ago Secretary Wilson of the Depart
ment of Agriculture stated hat the
date was not far distant when the
home consumption, would cease to be
a wheat-exporting nation. Nautilus,
the English economist, undertook to
prove that a check would ultimately
have to be applied to the increase
In population in order to avoid a food
famine. Within a month, Sir William
CrOokes, in an address before the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science, argued that in a few
years the worlds demand for wheat
would overtake the supply. In the
meantime the good old Mother Earth
is going right along, increasing the
yield of the staple from year TO year,
meeting all demands and showing no
symptoms of reniging on the work.
Rollin e. Smith of Minneapolis has
published a book on Wheat Fields
and Markets of the World" that con-
tains assurance enough to satisfy even
the most timid that the worlds bread
box is in no danger of being found
empty for ages to come. Mr.. Smith
shows that the wheat yield annually is
now much larger han the early experts
dreamed possible and that the prospect
for largely increasing this yield are ex-
eellent. The worlds wheat crop in
1897 was 2,226, 600. 900 bushels, while
it was S,414,O 900, 900 bushels in 1905,
an increase of so per cent in nine
years. He shows, too. that a decrease
Of as much as 800, 900 900 bushels In
a years crop does not appear to AFFECT
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULP,

Baltimore American: A missionary who
has been holding Wall Street meetings de-
clares there are over 100000 n~on-church-
goers In New York. He has evidently
struck the right place to find a few.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: A clergyman in
a New York interior town has refused a
$500 addition to his salary. 1t isn't so much
the expense of the remuneration as it is
the pastors extraordinary display of per-
sonal courage.
New York Tribune: In railing against
our civilization as a humbug the Rev. DR..
Long of Brooklyn, christian Socialist, -
has not even the merit of originality. Many
years ago that distinguished social philoso-
pher, Truthful James, raised the query, 'Is
our civilization a failure, and is the eau
casian played out?' And that, too, was at
the conclusion Of an arduous investigation
of some phases of applied sociology which
not even the studies of the Rev. DR.. Long
nave surpassed.
Springfield Republican: The New York
Review, a Roman Catholic literary maya
zine, %blmonthly, has suspended publication
from lack of patronage. 1t was started at
st. Joseph's seminary, Dunwoodie. West
chester county, N. Y, three years age and
its motto was "Ancient Faith and Modern
Thought" The pope had nothing to do
with its failure, it appears, but the indif-
ference of the Catholics. for Rev. James F.
Driscoll, the editor, says, only about 1000
Catholics in the country were sufficiently
Interested to pay 81 a year" And, he
added: I'VE also came in for a great deal
of criticism, both at home and abroad,
for our alleged advanced thought. Father
Lepicier of the college of propaganda at
Rome, criticised some of our contributions
with particular vlgor in his classes"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
lNDIA,s HIDDEN GOLD.

OficiaIs of the British government
have renewed the agitation for the
adoption of some plan by the govern
ment that will draw the hidden wealth
of India into the channels of trade.
AS yet the authorities have not decided
upon any plan of action, but they are
showing deep anxiety over the estab-
lished fact that something more than
81, 500, 000,O 900 in gold which has gone
into India in the last half century has
never returned, despite efforts of the
British government to change the cur
rency system of India by placing the
rupee on a gold basis and by offering
rare inducements to the Indians to in
vest their wealth in British railway
and other securities. The boarding
still goes on, the Hindus paying a pre-
MUM for gold and hiding it as rapidly
as it comes into their possession.
Evidently it has not occurred to the
British authorities to try the policy of
fair treatment as an inducement for
the people Of India to use their gold
in the channels of trade. Instead of
treating the natives as serfs, maltreat-
ing them and denying them any social
intercourse between government Off
Gals and the higher classes, a policy
of seeking to improve their commercial
and industrial relations might work
wonders. While attempting to subdue
and repress India. the British have
done nothing to encourage the natives
to take part in the development of the
natural resources of the great empire.
The result is that famine and pesti-
lence are almost chronic in a nation
with a population of 0 5000, 900 per-
sons and a soil capable Of great devel-
opment. The education Of the natives
and their encouragement to improve
their farms and become self-supporting
would do more than the enactment of
laws by Parliament to induce India to
reveal it's hidden gold.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
PUBLIC SCHOOL TRAINING.

Despite the fact that the public
school system of the United States is
conceded to be the best in the world,
critics are always ready to find fault
with 1t, and some recent pointing out
of shortcomings appears to be with
fair show of warrant. Postmaster
General Meyer has recently issued an
appeal to the teachers of the country
to cooperate with the postal authori-
ties in an effort to tighten the work of
the dead letter Office. General Meyer
explains that an average of 5000 let
ters are daily sent to the dead letter
office for lack Of proper directions and
he believes that much could be done
to lessen this evidence of carelessness
OF ignorance If the teachers of the ma
ton would give frequent short talks
to pupils on how to address letters
plainly and properly.
The second criticism Of the public
schools comes from Colonel Charles
w. Larned of West Point, who, in an
article in the North American Review,
reports that of 351 young men-90
per cent of whom were the product of
the public schools-who applied for
admission to West Point 223 were re-
jected because of their lack of knowl-
edge of spelling, history and other
forms of rudimentary education.
Colonel Larned proposes to have the
curriculum at West Point enlarged in
order to give the cadet applicants a
training they have not received in the
public schools.
In addition to the criticisms of Post
master General Meyer and Colonel
Larned a writer in the Delineator has
an article entitled Whats the Matter
With the Public Schools?" in which
the results are given of a number OF
investigations in different public
schools of the country. Stress is laid
upon the lack Of th~oroughness of pub
lie school children in reading, spelling
and the simpler branches. The testi-
mony of 1000 business men who have
employed grammar school graduates
was cited to show most unsatisfactory
results. The writer sums up by con-
Guiding that in the public schools too
much attention is given to French.
German, geometry, music and what
not at expense of the essentials.
All of this has been discussed before
and the situation is tragic and deplora-
BILE enough. The school system is
faulty, perhaps, but it would be more
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
A WORLD WIDE MENACE.

No section of the United States,
however remote from the sea coast or
removed from the usual highways Of
travel, can afford to be unconcerned at
the danger that menaces the civilized
world by the prevalence and spread of
the cholera in Russia and in the Phil
ippines. The possibility of an cpl
demic of cholera in America is greater
than IL was in 1892, when the disease
left a path of death across the CONT
nent. transportation improvements
have reduced the world to small pro-
portions n thus added unusua ia
%cilities for the spread of the contagion.
Without desiring to pose as alarm
lists, physicians who have made a study
of the cholera are calling attention to
the fact that the plague is attacking
civilization by the same route as when
it made its former memorable appear
ance in 1892. It has reached the Rus
sian capital from India. Then it
found its way to England and crossed
the Atlantic, appearing at Quebec. 1t
reached the United States through De-
troit and then spread across the CONT
nent, sparing but few sections of the
country and causing deaths by the
thousands.
While great Advancement has been
made in all lines of medical science,
the cure for cholera has not been dis
covered. Physicians are not real sure
of the cause of the disease, although
all agree that cleanliness in person and
surroundings, and care in the matter of
diet are the best precautions against
the plague. To that extent every indi-
vidual can be a volunteer in the war
against any possible spread of cholera.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
personal AND OTHERWISE.

1.-The Big Wind" is the title of a story in a
current magazine. It does not refer to the
campaign.
What is Oyster Bays loss will presently
become C~incinnati's gain. The former queen
city needs special advertising.
The young ruler of Portugal gets $1,000 a
day for expenses and anxiety Of mind. This
sum marks the top notch of kid salaries.
Divorce papers serve to bring out the true
names Of actors and actresses. The papers
filed in Nevada by Nat c. Goodwin against
Maxine Elliott were merely entitled Harry
Mcmillan, plaintiff, against Edna Good
rich"
The father Of an eligible daughter in Mis-
souri, thought he could show that the appli-
cant for her hand wasn't in her class. The
y~oungster put the old man to sleep and
when he came out of II the marriage cere-
mony was over. "Bless you my children,
muttered pa as he blinked the mourning
eye.
A pamphlet issued by the California Earth
quake commission devotes twenty pages to
listing the hundreds of after-shocks follow
ing the great disturbance OF April IS, 1906.
The record covers fourteen months. The
dNlNN AN6aAh hNa oAo NE ehPSl AAhOuE
n unworthy Of mention in the daily
prints.
1.-The product of a New England con-
science. tinctured with Yankee caution.
was the message attached to a recent con-
tribution OF $500 to the United States treas
ury conscience fund. From other remarks
in the accompanying note 1t appears the
fellows conscience required twenty-eight
years to open the combination to his purse
Some lean, lank. dyspeptic scribe with
an Atwood crouch, breaks into print to dis.
credit the universally conceded good nature
Of fat men. you never can tell by the
looks OF fat men," he roars, whether they
are pleased or ugly. As a matter OF fact,
they can't look any different. so they get
credit for a whole lot OF good nature that
don't belong to them. A fatty may feel like
kicking the crutch from under a cripple or
throwing the soup at his grandmother, but
his beefy face still wears the same old
grin. and everybody that passes him by
imagines he's handed 'Sm the jolly hail"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

faulty II effort were made TO adopt any
great part Of the remedies suggested.
Every critic. as in the instances cited,
proposes some addition TO the course
of study. Better results unquestion-
ably would follow the tightening of
the burdens OF the pupils. AS It is,
they have too much to worry about
without being asked to listen to lee
lures on postal affairs or given instruc-
ton in bookkeeping and bill collecting.
If there is any demand for a change it
is that mofe attention be paid to the
essentials and less to the frills.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
THE NEW TURKISH QUESTION"

The civilized world has a more or
less direct interest in the affairs of the
sultan of Turkey. The Turkish ques-
ton has occupied much of the atten-
ton of the diplomatic world for more
than a half century and the religious
and missionary organizations Of the
world, particularly Of this country,
have given more energy, effort and
money to reform in Turkey than to
any other benighted nonchristian coun-
try, China not excepted, The Turkish
people have been slow to accept these
overtures intended for their uplifting,
but the developments Of the last few
months hold promise of a real up
heaval in the sultan's domains in the
near future.
The new Turkish Parliament, under
the constitution granted last month
by the sultan, will v at Constan-
tinople at the middle of November, but
there are indications that the Young
Turk" party will not wait until that
time to carry out some Of it's reform
plans, the most significant of which
demands the abdication OF removal of
the present sultan. The movement
for reform has gone to the extent that
even Mundji Bey, the diplomatic rep
resentative of Turkey at Washington,
is quoted as declaring that he does not
consider himself the personal rep
r~esentatiye Of Abdul Hamid, but of the
whole Ottoman empire" and he
further declares that Hamid is "a man
without a vestige Of real power, a de-
tested autocrat mindful only of his
own safety"
II is one of the peculiarities of the
Turkish character that the people have
always had a high regard for the sui
tanate, showing great respect for the
office, while often holding contempt
and hate for the occupant Of it. Rev.
olution, abdication and assassination
have figured in changes of sultans for
many years and surface indications are
that Abdul Hamid is now slated for
removal from the throne by one of the
established methods.
The civilized world will not shed
many tears over the prospect of Abdul
Hands prospective retirement from
the Turkish throne. Crafty, cruel,
shifty, cowardly, he has done nothing
for the good of his OWL people, while
he has done too much to keep the di-
plomatic relations of Europe more or
less strained. His empire is bankrupt
and it's people oppressed with a tax
burden not witnessed elsewhere In the
modern world. Relief through the
new Parliament is expected, but the
thinking Turks know hat the sultan's
promises cannot be relied upon and
they have no confidence In real reform
so long as he remains on the throne.
With Abdul Hamid out of the way,
there is hope and some prospect that
Turkey may take advantage Of its
position on the main highway of the
worlds and more or less
rapidly raise a free and progressive
state on the wreck of the imperial
autocracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Boys will be boys
How about the glrls?"
Oh, they have to be whatever fashion
dictates" -Louisville Courier-Journal.
Bucolic Bridegroom-we want good
rooms, mister. We're on our wedding
Hotel C~lerk-Then you want a bridal
suite.
Bucolic Bridegroom (deflantly drawing
the brides arm through his)-No, l don't.
l got the sweet already. -Baltimore Ameri-
can,
THAT fellow what's calm on laughter
seems to be a young man Of steady
habits"
ITO burned steady. Can't the critter
ever miss a MISREPRESENTATION Herald.
Miss Gobbs. aren't you, old man?
HObbsLAI was, once. But after what she
said to me last night I'm not going to pay
any more attention to her.
Blobbs-Gee! What did she say?
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Leader.
ter in the style to which she has been ac-
customed?
~Cholly-Yes, sir.
Mr.. Jones-Then you're an IDIOT, and you
can't have her!-Judge.
e-Here is a thrilling account of the
way in which that daring woman climbed
to the top of a mountain which is five
miles high. Wonderful, isn't it2
She-Yes. What did she wear?
Mother, 1 want to get married this win
ter"
VERY we'll, my daughter. But don't
throw yourself away"
"Oh, no; 1 am going to marry an ice
man.
81 must say, dear, I think a coal man
would be more s~easonable. "-Philadelphia
Press.
"She admits that she was blinded by love
and for a time thought he was her ideal
of a man."
what opened her eyes?'
"a report from Bradstreet's that her very
considerable big brother brought home."-
Nashville AT'erlcan.
This country will never forget George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abra-
ham Lincoln"
Never" answered Senator Sorghum,
least not so long as every man who
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

The democratic party cannot af-
ford to have the slightest suspicion
OF Standard Oil Affiliations attach to
It's national organization" says the
New York World. The democratic
party has a lot of things this year that
&c cannot AFFORD.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

The rules of the house in congress
against which Mr.. Bryan so eloquently
declaims are the same rules in force
in that body when Mr.. Bryan served
a member of a democratic congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
AUTUMN LEAVES.

Agnes Blanche Hickey in Washington
Herald.
Failing, falling leaves,
Softly falling leaves;
Symbol in their silent flight
OF Swallowed hopes that once were bright
Idols, visions of delight,
Dropping, dropping out of sight
As the leaves,
The falling leaves,
TIL softly falling autumn leaves.
Fading, fading leaves.
Bright, but fading leaves;
Like the loved who on our way
Walk beside us for a day,
Ere the soul deserts the clay,
Leaving nothing but decay,
As the leaves,
The fading leaves,
Tho bright, but fading autumn leaves.
Floating. floating leaves.
Gently floating leaves;
Borne by wind. as we by Fate
Through our sphere of love or hate,
Or patient learning how to wait,
Until we drop from llfe's estate
AS the leaves,
The floating leaves,
The gently floating autumn leaves.
Whirling, whirling leaves,
Madly whirling leaves!
Emblem in their boisterous play
OF the frolics of the gay,
Dancing, sporting on their way,
Careless of the yesterday
Or tomorrow. All, but they
Are but leaves,
Whirling leaves,
Only whirling autumn leaves.
Gold and crimson leaves,
Brown and withered leaves!
Each a wordless message gives
To the heart that joys or grieves;
Every soul which feels, p%erceives
Natures loneliness, receives
Some deep lesson from the leaves,
The gold and crimson leaves,
The brown and withered leaves,
The falling, fading, floating, whirling
Autumn leaves!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

The French court of cessation is to
have another try at the Dreyfus case.
The world would be pleased to have
the Dreyfus Ease passed upon by the
French court of cessation.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

wall Streets Morals" is the title
of an editorial in theNew York World.
That's another case of the substance
of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

We insist that Mr.. Bryan is not do
ing the right thing by his home town.
His prolonged absence from Lincoln
has knocked into a cooked hat all the
expectations built on the money which
was to be coined out of the pilgrims to
FairYieW.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

The first information Governor
Haskell received when he arrived in
Chicago from Oklahoma was that he
had resigned the treasurership of the
democratic national committee.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Complaint is made that children in
the public schools are not taught to
write letters properly. Recent politi-
cal Developments would indicate that
the pupils should be also taught how
to burn letters properly.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Some rather questionable characters
are listed among the donors to the
Bryan campaign fund, but no one has
yet heard of any tainted money being
reflected.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Chairman Mack says that Candidate
Chanler will set the Hudson river
country on Ere. All opposed to having
the Hudson river country set on FIRE
will naturally vote against MT. Chan
Ter.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

lis there any Improvement in Amer
lean art?" asks the New York Sun.
An inspection of the political banners
forces a negative answer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Mr.. Berry is running for Office on
the democratic ticket in Pennsylvania.
He will be a canned Berry in Novem-
hAr.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

ulists unless they thought that by be-
ing so mlsbranded they might get votes
they could not get with their real
identity disclosed.