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Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
M IN SHORT METER.

Putterers usually want to be promoter.
OF piety.
Picking flaws we are almost sure to miss
essential facts.
The poorest way to make up your mind
is to lock II UP.
When a man is hungry for praise he
usually needs criticism.
Service for an honest race means prog
ress in the heavenly race.
Our personal systems Of ethics usually
are determined by our appetites.
No one is ready for living without a mo-
tive that drives them to loving.
Most men could be fairly good II they
did not have to live with ~neighbors.
Many who pray In public would have us
think that they practice in private.
When religion Is only an exercise instead
OF q life folks do not work at II much.
NO wonder many pray for a home an
heaven when they have so much Of he'll At
home.
The only way to have the conscience
ready for emergencies is to exercise IL At
all times.
You cannot get children to reverend. q
a God whom you do not represent as re-
spectacle.
Your theory Of the divine fatherhood has
no value without your practice Of the
brotherhood.
Many preachers are trying to educate
the tauenders and leaving the leaders to
their own wayB.-ChioaFo Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19

why. II is idle TO 60 over hat story
again. That abandonment always was
under way and il is safe to say that
IL always will be. The congestion of
poor foreigners in the large cities is
another regrettable feature of Mr..
Hills account which has no remedy.
If they had the skill and the inclina-
ton these people could not obtain
farms. Nor could they gradually
climb up to ownership by way of farm
labor.
Yet there are disadvantages in the
large towns which might be expected
to drive people to the more secure life
IN the farms. The endurance Of in
science and harshness is notifying.
The living from hand to mouth among
the best paid wage earners and the
consciousness that the power to work
hangs on the turn Of business which
opens or shuts the factory or shop
door are depressing to manhood and
well-nigh uncomfortable when there are
wife and children to provide for.
Taking 1t in the bulk as we know
it we give up the hope that there will
be for many years, IL ever, a reversal
of the current. Many men make money
on farms, live in abundance, increase
the productiveness and have wealth to
leave to their children. There are
more of them than the philosophers
imagine, but not enough to meet Mr..
Hills requirements. There Is no
recipe for providing enough. If the
public authority could create fondness
for farm life, could implant it in the
characters of boys and girls, could call
forth energy and ability to improve
farm productiveness, the balance
might be restored. Dependent as it
is on the inclinations Of human be-
ings, the predestined change appar-
emily is in one direction. If we perish
we perish.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Baltimore Americans: The Pennsylvania
pastor who promised the girls OF his congre.
cation boxes OF candy II they brought
young men TO church now says that he was
merely joking. This Looks as II the girls
had been entirely too successful in their
sweet mission.
Chicago Inter ocean: The churches are
crying for more ministers, more young
men Of brain and heart. hope and spirit
for their valiant enterprise. Therefore we
believe the public should be made TO rea-
lize that with the demands of the day for
efficient service and the increase in the
cost OF livinE-especially in our large cities
the salaries Of these self-sacrifcing men,
who are ever willing to serve to the ut
most, should be raised to a more tina liv-
ing scale and be paid as promptly as any
other business obligation.
Charleston News and Courier: A priest
has suggested that the entire question Of
suffrage should be settled in a new way.
He denies hat women have any inherent
right to vote, or men. His idea is tina
only married people should AVE any say
In the government Of the country, that
votes should be by families, and tina the
number OF votes which each family should
have should depend on the number Of liv-
Ab ShAluIons the NUMBER OF votes lncreaS-
ing in more than simple ratio, according
to the number Of children. II this sugges-
ton were adopted Utah could outvote the
rest Of the Union.
New York World The closing Of a home
for disabled clergymen near Philadelphia
Is ascribed to the prohibition Of the use
OF tobacco by its inmates, In accordance
with a stipulation to that effect In the
founders will Priets and ministers Of all
denominations smoke. The long-stemmed
clay "churchwarden" pipes testify by their
name to old ecclesiastical sanction Of the
practice. Smoking II a form Of self-indul-
gence. But is the habit of sufficient
moral seriousness to be Viewed as a ques-
ton OF conscience with a man Of religious
vocation, or a matter of taste merely For
decayed clergymen whose life-work is over,
smoking would appear to be as innocuous
morally as for mariners In q snug har-
Dor,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
Do They Need a Newspaper

Discussing, in the Independent, the
activity Of the new converts to woman
suffrage among the women of the
400 and the suffrage meetings held
in the marble palaces at Newport, Mrs.
Ida Hustled Harper concludes that the
greatest need Of the movement Just
now is "a live, aggressive suffrage
newspaper, published in New York,
free from all control except that of
the national association" and that II
this should materialize as the direct
result of the newly acquired influence
it would be ample justification. There
doubtless exists, among both advocates
and opponents of woman suffrage, a
wide difference Of opinion as to what
constitutes its greatest need, and no
great unanimity on Mrs. Harper's no.
ton that a daily newspaper organ is
the chief lacking element.
No one would have any serious OBJ
jections to the woman suffrage folks
having a mouthpiece Of their own in
New York, just as the Christian Sci
ence folks have established one in
Boston. 1t might be a money-making
venture-then, again, 1t might be a
money loser from the start. 1t would
doubtless give the women a vent for
a great deal of at present pent-up emo
ton. But so far as assisting mate
rally in the propaganda is concerned
there is room for doubt. None of the
newspapers run by mere men fence
out the doings of the suffragettes, but,
on the contrary, most of them treat
the suffrage movement, along with
other oddities, as special features and
give their meetings, parades, speeches
and demonstrations even more space
than would be accorded the same
events revolving around actors of the
male sex.
The s~uffragettes command special
attention right now, because they are
women, which they might not have If
they had newspapers of their own at
their call. If acquiring a daily news
paper all to themselves were to work
out to put ONE suffrage on the same
level in the other newspapers with the
male suffragists 1t might be a loss in
stead of a gain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE

No matter how partisans feel about It,
there Is some gain in having a new trail
added to the Cook tours.
Methuselah's astounding age of $50 al.
legged years has been revised down to that
Of an ordinary piker Of 70 years and 8
months.
Henry watterson and his "star-eyed
goddess are touching elbows with dukes
and duchesses in London. and doesn't care
who knows It.
Jersey Justice again vindicates itself. For
one woman to call another "rubberneck''
does not constitute ground for legal action
in New Jersey.
Tourists bound for Alaska might as we'll
leave their small change. Nothing less
than two bits is recognized in that fringe
of the continent.
A polar controversy between two men
and a mountain climbing controversy be-
tween two women promises to keep the
country awake for awhile.
President Taft's remarks on postal saw
ings banks make the dellverance of the
mixer association look like a mermaid
without a leg to stand on.
Senator Tillman is laundering with I'M
common fervor on the southern chautau-
qua iCTCull-AI ln6 usual rates, BOX Of
flee returns do not indicate a bowling sue
cess. ' -.. ...
Assurances are given out with the usual
solemnity in New York that hotel rates
will be stationary for the crowd expected
at the H~udson-Fulton festivities. All you
have to do is to take the elevator to
reach them.
II the newspaper men of the country
could cut loose from party ties and boost
just once for the profession, Governor
Johnson of Minnesota would have a walk
away for any office in sight. Besides
himself there are fourteen members Of the
fourth estate" quartered in the state
house at st. Paul.
A group Of monuments in the Kenosha
(Wis) city cemetery, erected by an ag-
nostic thirty years ago, each of which
bore inscriptions flouting religion and inn
mortality, are to be taken down and de-
stroyed. Surviving members of the ag-
nostic's family are not in sympathy with
his craven sentiments.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
Why Leave the Farms {

James j. Hills SOLDERING belief that
there will soon be a shortage of wheat
in America and his appeal to people
to apply their energies to renewing the
fertility of the farms direct attention
once more to the rapid change from
farming to urban life in our country.
Ex-President Rposevelt's Commission
IN Country Life made no tangible
progress toward a solution of the
enigma. made no explanation of how
to be happy though farming. 1t would
not pay the nation to offer sufficient
cash in prizes to transfer capable men
from factory or Office to agriculture.
OF incapables there are too many al
ready on farms as in other places. If
all our intelligence needs is the answer
to Mr.. Hill's question as to why the
urban population has grown out Of
its old relative proportion the task is
easy, A railroad civilization and an
industrial civilization apply irresistible
forces to the making of villages into
" "a oAu WV 10 AAlO SllAtbs IL IdlSS
were on a rigid mileage basis the large
centers would still have advantages
which would make them larger. The
basis of rates in practice operates to
accelerate the change from large to
larger towns.
Comfort is a stronger attraction
than money to the family. It is not
certain that the average man might
not prefer farm life to town life. But
the farmers wife and children are at
a disadvantage in all the activities
that appeal to them. Company,
clothes, school, amusements, So
phistication, a doctor around the cor
ner and a church in the next block are
compared with scanty visiting, long
trips to school and church, unceas-
ing work over the bare act of satisfy
ing appetite and ~unceasing anxiety
over the accidents and dangers Of ILL
ness, and few mothers or daughters
would hesitate. A man individually
needs not to feel discomfort. There is
no other occupation in which a man
can obtain as much for his exertion.
He has a secure livelihood, food and
warmth. S~ustenance comes almost
without thought, certainly without
doubt or worry. A little energy and
study increase his accumulations from
year 10 year. More than all, the land
owners ability to be his W master
has a fascination for a man Of a spark
OF character. City growth, say what
we will, unavoidably tends to a rela-
tion of master and servant. Not only
in the kitchens and stables does the
relation tend to multiply, but in mer-
camille and professional life there is a
progressive disappearance Of personal
kindness and a progressing indiffer-
ence which soon becomes insolence and
cruelty on one side and shiftlessness
on the other. Men feel these things;
that is, men who have grown up nat
urally. They prefer the standing that
every farmer has in his community to
any amount Of earnings, luxuries or
a~musements. II is not the man, but
the boy who has abandoned the farm
tor the city, and every one OF Us knows
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
METHUsELAH PUSHED OFF.
Venerable Ancient ShOFn of His
distinction.
A. I'LL I'LL

New York World.
stealing the years away from men. There
is also the higher criticism which in a
London paper argues that Methuselah, in
stead of being a seasoned veteran Of 800,
was merely o fine elderly gentleman a
shade undor 70. The year Of ancient reckon
ing, we are told. was a moon cycle, or a
month Of about twenty-nine and a half
days. By this token Adam lied at about 10.
Later there seems to nave been a read
justment, placing five lunav months to the
year, by which means the It's years of
Abraham become u Of our common
t~welvemonths. while the 1SO-year-old Isaac
Of Biblical times would be "A today.
For most of US the shock OF such age
trimming calculation will center about the
diminished Methuselah. Here stood a fig
ure which had represented to the races of
men, almost since history began, the maxi
mum and the supreme marvel Of human
endurance. A old as Methuselah" is a
venerable byword. Yet If teh higher critic
Ms right, the old man Of the BibIe was at
his death still in the mellow years OF one
who might serve in the United States sem
ate or in a ticklish year be nominated for
the vice presidency. We have centenarians
who can give scriptural longevity a handi-
Joe" Cannon is less than six years behind
the Methuselah mark as revised down
ward.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
ABSTINENCE AND TEMPERANCE.
Words That Are All Too Frequently
Misapplied.
DR.. Abbott in the Outlook.

DR.. Abbott in the Outlook.
Total abstinence is not a synonym for
temperance. Temperance 10 the control Of
the appetites so that they shall serve their
legitimat purpose, which is TO keep the
body in good condition for the work the
spirit has for It to do. To drink too much
coffee may be as Incorporate as to drink
too much beer. I have been told of a
Christian man Who was Informed by his
doctor that he had a serious and insidious
disease, and that his health demanded OF
him that he discontinue the use of meat.
He went straightaway home and ordered
and ate a large steak, a food OF which
he was inordinately fond. He was as truly
Incorporate as II he had drunk a quart Of
whisky. Intemperance is not confined to
the saloon nor to the homes OF the poor
our extrsvagant and prolonged dinners
are no less a form OF intemperance. The
modern habit Of making the dinner table
an occasion for public speaking is an eX-
cellent habit. What is not excellent is our
custom Of eating so much before the
speaking that the orators are untitled to
speak and the audience is i'll fitted TO
listen. I have attended many public din
ners. A happy accident gave me the only
one / ever attended which / thought was
truly hyglenic. When I reached the club
house l was met with the that
the steward had mistaken the date and
no dinner was prepared. The efficient
committee scurried around, found in the
larder Of the club enough wholesome food
to satisfy all reasonable appetites, and
we sat down to a dinner Of four courses
soup, beef, salad, and ice
- a.TgakFFY1 aNFapHpn for the Epaial
speaking, and got to bed about the time
social speaking generally begins. We hold
up our hands in horror al the excuses OF
the ancients, who ate until they could eat
no more, and the rest for haitian hour
after meals which the cigar required. No
rational driver thinks Of feeding his horse
Immediately on stabllng after a hard morn
ng's drive; nor will he start him out for an
Afternoons drive with the oats still I'M
diEsStsd
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
Taft in The West

President Tsft's review Of the tariff
law at Winona will be the basis Of all
party discussion Of the subject during
the campaign OF 1910. II sets forth
the republican position authoritatively
The position is that while the party
majority in some details, particularly
the wooden schedule, did not reduce
the rates az much as they might safely
have been reduced, in the general
handling the rates were reduced
equitably. II the bill had been vetoed
or lost by one vote, the presidents
judgment is that It would have been
an unwise sacrifice OF the business In
terests of the country. Speaking of
the party's duty and interests, he said
that 1t would have been also a sacrifice
Of the solidarity, efficiency and
promise-performing power of the
party to have projected into the next
session another long tariff discussion
and thereby probably delayed or de-
feated other legislation of the first
rank in value to the country.
Mr.. Taft expressed qualification that
the republican members Of congress
who voted against the bill are seeking
further action within the party and
not breaking away from 1t to give aid
and c"ountenance to a party which does
not believe in protection. This posi-
ton is impregnable as a choice Of
tactics in party leadership. If the
party has passed a bill fair toward the
various elements of American popula-
lion and necessary to uphold the wage
paying manufactures 1t has met the
convictions of the party and conserved
its welfare. The party, east and west,
north and south, can ask or expect no
more. The party voters will be pleased
with the presidents exposition of party
duties. They will sustain the party
majority and keep 1t in power. The
republican party did not promise to
reduce the tariff to the point Of intro
foreign importations that would
demorallze the business of American
factories. What it did promise it per-
after full investigation and
discussion before public opinion.
For himself in signing the bill and for
the majority in passing it, It was a suf-
fcient justification that the choice was
between maintaining party solidarity
on a good bill and breaking it into
or minor contentious over
u"nessential points.
Mr.. Taft has come into the west, as
he said he would, without subterfuge
or evasion. In plain terms and with
an honest mind he has told his
thoughts on the tariff and laid down
his future policies. There is not a
doubt that his constructive, definite,
moderate views, c~ontrasted with the
demoralizing, vindictive, upsetting
purpose of the opposing democratic
organization, embody the preference of
the average American voter. BY pur-
suing this course Mr.. Taft will have
and conquered republican
opinion in the west.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19

which go to make up what lie called
the cost Of living. In due course of
calculating from market experience
signs Of coming reduction ought to APP
pear, but the practical and unchange-
able forces of expanding demand are
working toward higher cost. 1t is a
prospect Of prosperity to producers
and Of higher expenses to family life.
The authorities even predict hat by
the close of the current year the prices
Of commodities will reach those of the
high tide years of 1906 and 1907. The
suggestion creates hopefulness and
confidence among producers and deal
ers and some doubt and apprehension
in the army of householders.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
Railroad Damage Claims.

Some figures put out on behalf of
the railroads exposing the tremendous
increase in the amounts paid out for
loss and damage to goods transported
and injury to persons during the last
ten years are expected to elicit a SYM
pathetic response. According to these
figures, which no doubt have been
carefully and accurately compiled, 1t
cost the railroads of the United States
last year $56,7OO,0Oo to meet damage
claims, as against $47,25S.587 in 1907
and $12,1S2,O03 in 1898. Payments
on account of injuries to person in
creased 254 per cen in a decade and
on account of loss and damage to
property 437 per cent. During the
same time it is further represented
that the gross earnings of all the rail-
roads increased only 1870 per cent. On
the face OF It this looks like a very
bad showing, and it would be a de-
cided reflection on American railroad
management were there no other con-
s%iderations entering In.
First and foremost, the volume of
traffic has increased tremendously in
the last decade, even though the gross
earnings in money may not have
grown at the same percentage rate.
To produce the same revenue, for ex-
ample, three passengers must now be
hauled at 2 cents a mile for every two
that were formerly hauled at 3 cents
a mile, and similarly on freight wher-
ever rates have been reduced. In
other words, reduction OF revenue does
not necessarily reduce liability for
damage.
In the second place, the abolition of
the free pass and the stoppage of the
rebate have undoubtedly had much TO
do with increasing damage claims. A
man with a pass in his pocket was not
likely TO ask for compensation for
some minor accident or Inconvenience.
The shipper who was getting rebates
regularly would not be apt to put in a
claim on the slightest pretext, With
pass and rebate favors cut on st is
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
THE SACRIFICE OF AUTUMN.
METROPOLITAN Magazine.

Metropolitan Magazine.
The thickets open now to view,
Their russell curtain rent and worn.
And now the gaunt white limbs show
through
The scarlet remnants that the trees,
Like outcast kings, across the breeze
Flaunt I'm the hoyden Autumn's wasting
morn.
The blue smoke of the hillside fires
Drift out by circles, ring on ring,
And fleets of cloud, like spent desires,
Sail up along the west and south
Gray argosies; but Autumn's mouth
Tastes richer juices than these ~galleons
bring.
Her hair blows loose, her glpsy gown
The briers have shredded, and her breast
cleans bare; now stained with red and
brown,
Her eager hands, too full to hold,
Still gather from the gorgeous void
The mellow burden Of her wandering quest.
So over vine-land, moor and dale
She runs, the earth-lust In her eyes,
And scatters far along her trail
Crushed fruits and yellow, ripened grain.
And splashing vlntaRes that stain
Her careless feet with gold and purple
dyes.
Before her now the sheer cliffs fall
To desolate reaches of the deep;
She hears the wintry sea-bird's call:
She pauses, dreaming; down the stone
Her gathered sacrifice is blown;
And round her beat the misty wings OF
Sleep.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19

China and its scholars can tell the
rules of morality belonging to the
problems of the awakening, but they
are not up on the fighting habit. Hence
Japan does as it pleases in Manchuria
and Europe plays a sort of poker game
to divide railroad contracts in the
Hankow trade territory. We hesitate
to advise, but a little tincture Of the
Joy Of battle for the ashes of our sires
would not hurt.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
Cost of Living.

Market experts mention a law of
commodity prices under which a re-
duction may be looked for when an
old maximum has been reached in a
rise. In other words, commodity prices
are rising toward the highest recent
record in March, 1907. The advice of
these authorities is that while we
might begin to look for lowering prices
the outlook is that the causes of ad-
vances have not yet exhausted them
selves and that commodities have not
yet felt the full effect Of expanding
demand. More income has been put
into consumers pockets in industrial
centers. Losses from disease have
been partly responsible for the shrink
age in the hog supply. Drouths and
COMBINATIONS of dairy herds have in
part caused increased cost OF prices in
dairy products and provisions, Re
vival of building operations explains
enlarged incomes in some Industrial
classes, including those connected
with hardware materials, tools and
other iron and steel articles.
The peculiar s~o-called law of the
oscillation from a former maximum
level Of prices does not work with GER
tsinty, according to this analysis. The
obvious causes of high prices remain
until they are naturally removed. The
supplies Of meat-producing animals
have shrunk and there are few indi-
cations Of enlargement. For fifteen
months there have been practically
continuous advances in commodities
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19

Mayo w. Hazeltine cannot die for
gotten of the cub element in newspaper
Offices. At one time he had the repute
of receiving the largest salary paid to
a regular writer in the country. In
that day $500 looked like support
ing a wife. The figures have since
grown with the beefsteak and butter
market.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19

The south clamors for a great bank
and trust company to finance the cot
ton crops. The hot-blooded south is
so domesticated by sordid commerce.
that II eats out of the hand Of the
wealthy classes. The only real cham
pion of Jacksonian democracy left il
farming In Nebraska. and he is count
ing up his money at the close OF the
ChautauQua season