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Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
M BOILED DOWN.

Affection is never guilty of affectation.
A lust is an appetite in the seat of the
will.
Heaven ranks by service and not by
salary.
Our principles are simply our habits of
thinking.
Little individual kindnesses make the
way for the universal love.
It's only when our virtues are lonesome
that they feel like Boosting.
You cannot hide your vices under adj
vertisements of your virtues.
Training a child in orderliness may be
training a man in righteousness.
The people who raise the row in a
church seldom raise the revenue.
If there were enough peace keepers the
peacemakers would not be needed.
We are ready to forgive in our friends
the offenses that have not hurt our corns.
He who saves all his kindness for the
good comes to believe there are none
worthy of It.
1t takes more than chemistry OF soils to
grow a crop and more than theology tc
grow a character.
When a man thinks that his reason has
the reins on his passions he is often mis-
taking the tugs for the lines.
Most of us come pack some day to the
thorns that spring from the harsh words
and acts of our own sowing.-Chicagc
Tribune,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Troubles of the Accountants.

Expert accountants and professional
b%ookkeepers are sighting all sorts Of
troubles in front Of them arising out
of the corporation income, tax en-
grated on the new tariff law. The
phraseology of the law is naturally
open to various constructions as is the
phraseology Of nearly every law, but
more han that the basis on which the
tax on corporate net revenues is to be
adjusted is pronounced by them to be
%unscientific and violative Of every rule
of safe and sound accounting.
The question ~propounded by the tax
gatherer is to be, What are the net re-
ceipts of the corporations for the pre-
ceding calendar year after making GER
tain specified deductions? Taking the
basis of net receipts instead Of net
earnings, is denounced as ~unscientific
because actual collections and outgo
are not necessarily the same as actual
revenue earned and obligations in
CURED. The arbitrary fixing OF the
calendar year Tor all corporations, not
withstanding the fact that the oorpor-
ate year may overlap from one year to
another. also makes It incumbent on
such corporations to balance accounts
and charge off various Items Of ex-
pense a second time instead of only
once. The penalties of the law for fail
ure to comply with its requirements
are likewise held up as t%hreateningly
dangerous to corporations whose book
keepers make unavoidable mistakes.
There is no doubt that the new cor
poration tax law e a great deal OF
work for the accountants and auditors,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
The Latest in L%ocomotion.

Invention is travelling fast in its
quest of faster locomotion until we
have grown accustomed to the rapid
supplanting of new devices designed
to revolutionize travel. The turbine has
developed amazing possibilities of
speed for the steamship. Automobiles
and airships have added their measure
Of bewilderment to the rapidity of
flight over the earth's surface and
above it. But railroads have continued
to be our chief traffic-bearer and rail-
roads, as we know them, seem to have
reached the limit of their capacity for
speed.
Practical operation has just been
demonstrated, however, of a new form
of railroad that appears to merit all
that it's inventor claims for it, a swift
ness exceeding 100 miles an hour in
comparative safety. Louis Brennan
who became famous through his inven.
tion Of the torpedo which bears
his name, found the world skeptica'
when he announced some time ago thai
he could combine the gyroscope anC
monorail into a practical form of loco
motion, yet that is what he is nov
credited with having accomplished
In his public demonstration in England
a few days ago he used a f~orty-foot ca,
carrying forty passengers, operated
over a single rail in an upright posi-
ton by two huge horoscopes. An cleo
trio motor kept the horoscopes revolv
ing and drove the car al high spec,
along stretches of straight track ant
around sharp curves with an easy an,
comfortable motion.
Now that this achievement is OF
ficially applauded as the beginning o
a revolution in railroading, we ma
look for it's present application as a
least a possibility. Every boy who ha
ever spun a top will at nee recognize
the principle of the invention, which,
completely successful, will Transform
an ancient toy into an agency TO
mans fastest flight.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Housinr the state unirersity.

The authorities charged with the
management Of Nebraka State univer-
sity are beginning to realize that the
next big problem before them is that
of housing the institution. Housing the
university as It exists today presents a
difficult enough task. but the still
more important demand is for a far
seeing plan hat will not only provide
for present needs. but will be adapted
to the vastly expanded requirements
of the not distant future.
While buildings and campus, in
themselves, by no means make a uni
versity, the rapid growth Of our state
university has prevented adequate at
%tention being devoted to this feature.
Nebraska's university compares we'll
with similar institutions of other pro-
gressive states in everything but ma
terial surroundings. 1t is significant
that it waited for the perfection Of a
plan for comprehensive development
Of the medical department at Omaha
to emphasize and accentuate the
marked defects of the building group
Of the parent institution at Lincoln.
The problem of suitably housing the
state university is not to be worked
out owe night. 1t involves the question
whether it is better to try to extend
the present cramped location or to
transplant the university bodily to a
new site free from existing encum-
brances and affording ample room to
grow. 1t involves the question of style
of architecture and landscape garden
ing. 1t involves the question of fixing
the boundary line Of the university's
activities. 1t provides the question OF
the relation of the institution to its
student body and to the city of Lin.
coin as a business center and a socia.
community. The problem of housing
the university calls for careful and de
liberate consideration, and yet the de
4 cision cannot be too long deferred.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Sell 100 Kinds
Mineral Waters

We sell over 100 kinds Imported and
American Mineral Waters, and, as we OBJ
tain direct from springs or importer, can
guarantee freshness and genuineness.
Boro Lithia Water, bot, soc; case, $500.
Boro Lithia Water, pints., dozen, $1.50;
case 100, $1,000.
we are distributing agents in Omaha
for the celebrated waters from Excelsior
Springs, Mo-, and sell at following prices:
Regent, quart bottle, sc; dozen, 81. 25;
case, so bottles, $500.
Sulpho-Saline, buart bottle, 26c; dozen,
S2.25; case. so bottles, $500.
Sulpho-Saline, quart bottle, Csc; dozen,
$3.50.
Soterian, quart bottle, 1Oc; dozen. $500.
Sdterian, pint bottle, 15c; dozen, $1.50.
Soterian Ginger Ale. pint bottle, 15c:
dozen. $3.50,
soterian Ginger Ale, quart bottle. 25o:
dozen, S2.25.
Diamond Litha, Navigation bottle, 4Oc;
case, 1 dozen, $500.
Crystal Lithia, five-gallon jugs, each,
$500.
salt sulphur, five gallon jugs, each,
$2.25.
Delivery free to any part of Omaha,
Council Bluffs or South Omaha
SHERMAN O MCCONNELL DRUG co.
10th and Dodge.
OWL DRUG co., 18th ana barney.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Getting the Ringleaders.

From the latest announcement i'm
plicating men higher up in the sugar
frauds it is evident hat the watch
word of the government is, Let no
guilty man escape against whom
there is evidence warranting prosecu-
ton.
The difficulty of securing tangible
proof appears as great in these sugar
fraud cases as In the notorious whisky
ring frauds which burdened the second
term Of President Grant. In hat his
toric episode it will be remembered
that while the administration was not
directly involved, officials OF the reve-
nue. department we're found to be in
league with the crooked distillery in
terests and that because of the intri-
cate care with which the plot was per-
fected Secretary Bristow of the Treas
ury department was confronted with a
gigantic task in ferreting out the
offenders. Ultimately the men higher
up were caught and nearly $50 indict-
ments brought against distillers and
revenue officials, conviction of the
ringleaders being finally secured. AL
though the government had been de-
frauded of nearly $1,7O0,O00 before
the extent of the conspiracy was mani
fest, the people had the satisfaction of
seeing the whisky ring broken up and
the conspirators either placed in prison
or made o~utcasts for life.
Corruption in the customs collection
occasionally crops out in spite of the
utmost vigilance and the sudden in
fusion of new blood is having a visible
effect on the health Of the service.
Powerful interests nave assailed the
activities of the administration in pur-
suing the sugar frauds just as they
assailed those attacking the whisky
ring in Grants time, but having
started in to clean house Uncle Sam
must do a thorough job and car be nc
respecter of persons.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Home for the Holidays.

What a merry, old-fashioned flavor
arises from the little paragraph in the
current news. simply stating that the
president will spend the Christmas
holidays In the White House with his
family" Here is presented a picture
OF home-gathering which will in
stantly appeal to every American fam
lily, father returned from his journey
ings and the children back from
school. The responsibility of official
position disappears for the time and
the chief executive becomes the man Of
family, closely akin to all other fathers
similarly celebrating the annual festiv-
tiles at the h~earthstone.
Christmas at the White House con-
jures up a scene Of holly and ever
green, with good cheer toning Official
dignity, and with substantial comfort,
elbowing its way good-naturedly
toward Preside and table, for a time
RELOCATING the formalities OF state. In
contrast with the pomp Of regal pal
ace, the very name White House is
suggestive OF the simplicity OF Ameri-
can traditions. and the quiet announce
msnt OF the plan for a family reunion
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
The Missionary Pathfinder.

Inclusion of a bequest of nearly
$4,000 900 for foreign missions in the
recent will of an American millionaire
afforded opportunity for the custom
airy criticism Of those who are opposed
to this particular cause. Adherents of
the Christian church are familiar with
the apostolic doctrine OF their faith
which commands to "go forth into all
the world and preach the gospel to
every creature" and believe that for
eign missions are but an exponent of
this fundamental. But as a matter Of
fact the missionary is more than an
exponent of a religious propaganda.
AS a matter of business, to put the
matter in it's basest light, money spent
for missions is a form of investment
on which returns are expected.
Any merchant familiar with the de-
velopment Of the worlds commerce
will testify that trade follows the mis-
sionary. That has been the expert
ence in all lands. Our own country was
originally opened up TO tramc largely
through the fundamentally of the re-
ligious apostle Of civilization and the
nomenclature Of the west is full of
relics of those early pioneers. The
missionary does not force his creed
upon any native; indeed, in many
lands the converts are few and far be-
tween; but wherever the mission is ex-
tended, not only are the civilizing
forces of the white man fostered
among a people who are benefited by
them, but also the commerce Of the
white man takes a new foothold and
begins a further advance, so that prac-
ticaIly. as well as ethically, the occa,
sional gift of a few millions to the
cause Of missions is not to be con.
sidered money thrown away
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
AN Oh sAYIN' OF MOTHERS.
John d. Wells.

John d. Wells.
The older that a body gifts
The better, seems t me-,
He reckolects the folks an jokes
An things that used Z be;
Like other night, whilst settin' there
An rompin' through the years.
An driftin' on the back'urds way,
i swan / heerd my mother say:
Go wash yer neck an ears!"
1t took me back fer forty years,
An rs a boy again.
With same dislike fer water that
Was natural TO me then;
j seemed t feel my speerit rise,
An feel my boyish tears
A-rollln' down In same Oh way,
Like when my mother used Z sayi
GO wash yer neck an ears!'
Clean neck an cars you Teckolect
Was purt' nigh disgrace
There van no sense In washin' 'cept
Perhaps a body's face!
We used { think that mas was made
To add to boyish keers,
An stand around in bossin' way,
When boys vas tiredest, an sayi
go wash yer neck an ears!"
An yit I'll warrant that tonight
Your like { go { bed
In same OF room, with locust bloom
A-droppin' overhead
on shingle roof, an hold yer breath
With all YOU boyish fears,
An hear OF mother softly creep
Upstairs an ask y: Don to sleep7-
Didju wash yer neck an ears?"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
The Family Unit of Society.

The steady increase Of divorce is
generally regarded as a most ominous
menace to the progress Of the race.
That there has been o tremendous in
crease in the proportion of marriage
dissolutions, and that the rate of in
crease is still growing in this country
has been demonstrated over and over
by the statistics. Is the divorce evil
ultimately to disrupt the family as a
unit of civilized society? This is the
question that is self-propounded when
ever the subject of divorce is under
consideration.
1t is r%eassuring to find that the most
recent and most exhaustive study of
the divorce problem answers this ques-
tion in the negative. A volume Just
issued embodying the investigations Of
DR.. James P. Lichtenberger into the
facts Of divorce which he calls "A
Study in Social Cadsation" insists that
the modern increase Of family dis
union is produced by changing condi-
lions in the Industrial, economic and
social relations Of the sexes; that 1t is
due to the spread Of intelligence and
the emancipation of women manifested
in social friction that is irritating but
not necessarily destructive. The new
conditions make it necessary that
there be greater freedom Of divorce
rather than less, so that the family of
the future may be founded upon vol
untary will and not on external force.
Summing up his generalizstions, DR..
Lichtenberger formulates the follow
ing:
The single pairing family will persist
1t will be founded freely upon the natuIa
basis Of mutual attraction and prefer,
ence." 1t Will be entered into and per
petuated by choice. Subordination anC
domination will be eliminated. It will b,
the voluntary union Of one man and on,
woman, ~prospectively for life on the bash
of mutual respect, rights and privileges
An approximate equality Of actual or pc
tential economic opportunity will over
come sex dependence and an equal stand
ard OF morals will minimize sexual i'm
morality. Theoretical monogamy will tent
to become actual monogamy. The func
ton of the family will consist in the per
Ipetuation and education of the race
Economic burdens will be l%ightened. !
wifehood of choice and a motherhood 0
privilege will insure not more numerous
but better born children. The higher edu
cation and more systematic development
Of women will result in the better train
ing of the youth. The state may safel,
be entrusted with the problem of secula
education and the church with tho re
ligious instruction, but the home will con
tinue to be the only school adequate 70
the development of strong personality an
the attainment Of life in all it's highes
manifestations.
After all the alarms sounded owe
the admitted evils of divorce and al
the dire predictions Of certainty o
family chaos unless divorce is who'll.
suppressed, this statement from an un
biased authority, who has approaches
the subject as a scientific problem, a
least lets in a ray of hope to illumin,
the darkness of the future and to en-
courage faith that the family unit o
society will eventually be strengthener
by publication.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Reports Of the drawing power and prizes
Of horse shows are not posted c-onspicuously
on automobile row.
The reported prevalence OF appendicitis
among turkeys affords ample warrant for
the projected surgical operations.
AS a sort of apology for the vagares OF
Indian summer 1t may be said that an oc-
c~asional shower encourages the blooms.
Auto fatalities for ten and a half months
Of the year foot up z47, a record that prom
Uses to pull railroads off their high perch
A New York woman attempted 10 tell
a funny story to a friend and laughed her
Jaw out Of Joint in the operation. 1t must
amateur off so easily.
In distributing honors for the six best
sellers" Of the year, bookworms should not
exclude from the reckoning "The Life His
tory of Cow Tick" just issued by the gov
eminent. A ticklish subject which the
author scratches with masterful skill.
During the presidents journey through
southern saharas, reference was made to
~sazarao cocktails. mint juleps, champagne,
artillery punch and like mystic confections.
Nothing Of the kind appeared, OF course.
Merely traditions OF southern hospitality
put on paper through force Of habit by
dreamy reporters.
A bit of ancient history dug up by the
st. Louis Republic in connection with The
Century Club Of Newspapers shows the
uselessness Of suppression as a corrective
measure. The first and only issue OF the
first American newspaper, Public OBJ
s~ervanceS" printed in Boston. September
q. 1850, was suppressed by the authorities
because Il threatened 10 print the names
OF all the liars in Boston" The author
tiles reasoned that publicity would not
reform Boston in its infancy. How utterly
hopeless would be the task tPdaYI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

According TO the Lincoln Journal
the unless in Mr.. Bryan's ~disinclina-
ton TO himself as a candi-
date for the United States senate is to
be filled out, unless the other demo-
cratic aspirants get into such a
wrangle that they see no other way
out but to withdraw altogether and
leave the field free to him" With this
advance notice 1t behooves Mr..
Bryan's friends TO set all the other
would-be democratic senators at skies
and sevens with one another.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

Since Lady Cook has gone back to
England in disgust because she found
American too busy spending
their husbands money to bother about
sharing their husbands votes, we may
resume our own solutions Of the prob
lem Of how to keep our wives happy
though voteless.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

Now that IL is shown that the
women work in the fields to support
the lazy fellows who are always get
ting up those Central American revo-
buttons, We have less respect than ever
for the nsurrectionists. An army of
a~ble-bodied men might better be work
Ing for a living than %serambling tor
political spoils while the women toll
10 suPAaEt them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

The fact that one Of those window
smashing suffragettes In London was
originally a Philadelphia Quakeress
did not offer itself as an extenuating
circumstance in the eyes OF the law,
and she will have a month in Jail to
reflect on the injustice of British JUS
tice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

at Yuletide reminds us all of the
wholesome fact that our presidents are
representative of us as a plain people,
and infuses the real Christmas spirit
into our lives in preparation for the
Thanksgiving celebration that inaugu-
rates the busy term Of gift-plsGning
and holiday-making, which is at its
merry best under the home roof-tree.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

That story about a flock of ducks
drowning by a sudden shower indi-
Gates either that the deluge was unpre-
cedented or else that the birds had be-
come accllmated to the extremely dry
atmosphere of one of the new prohibit
tion states.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

While we are Cataloging the modern
inventions to whose universal use we
have grown so accustomed, let us not
forget the stemwinding watch. Every
man of forty years can remember the
day of the watchkey. and the trouble
to keep It cleaned tut Yet who carries
one noW7
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

If the National Live Stock exchange
shall prove the oleomargarine tax re-
sponsible for the high price of butter,
there will be a lot of people sympa-
thizing with them in their effort to
get the tax eliminated.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Bryan nnd the senatorship.

~SprIngfieId RepubNcun,
The election in Nebraska for supreme
court judges shows such exceedingly small
republican pluralities-less than 1000 votes
that Mr.. Bryan may conclude next year
he could carry the state and the legis-
lature as an avowed candidate for United
States senator.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

Mr.. Gaynor's statement that he
spent no money in running for mayor,
likens his victory to that of Dewey, OBJ
tanned through a maximum of damage
to the enemy at a minimum of cost to
himself
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

With early statehood looming up,
the appointment as territorial COVER
MOI Of New Mexico is not half so
tempting as it used to be.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

1t is the early wet blanket of snow
that maketh the heart of the westerner
rejoice and the spirit of the seed to
sing through the winter Of a b~ounteous
springtime and harvest.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

And now some well intentioned folks
have set out TO prove that Halley's
comet and the Star of Bethlehem are
one and the same celestial visitor.
Another chance for heresy charges.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

News that the steel trust is absorb
ing the soft coal trust affords addi-
tional cause for governmental activity
In safeguarding for the future all coal
lands still in the public domain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

Everyone who has ever sawed
the biggest and hardest and knottiest
log in the woodpile, knows exactly
how Uncle Sam feels about getting
that Culebra cut half through at
Panama.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

The deeper the promoters of that So
ciety for the prevention Of infant NOR
tally go into their subject. the more
they will realize that they have under
taken the one thing, which in all the
world, is post worth while, Though
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

The western hymn writer who has
been detected as a horse thief, mani
tests the poets old-time carelessness
about the laws of the country, so long
as he is permitted to write the songs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

Lest we imagine that this is a dis
honest world. let us mediate on the
late General o. o. Howard, who spent
$12, 900 in the freedmen's bureau
work with never a charge Of graft.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

many strong forces not only OF ignor-
.ance but also Of civilization are arrayed
against them, starting the babies well
along a healthy life is more valuable
to any nation than the building of the
.fleetest and most powerful Dread
.naught.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

The National Geographical society
cuts no ice with DR.. Cook so long as
the Chautauqua circuit provides him
with pay dirt.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

The sudden termination Of the ca
reer of Earl Bullock, the boy bandit,
is a striking commentary on the text
1.-THE wages of sin is death"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Nearly out of Reach
Philadelphia Press.

PhiIadeIphia Press.
The poor, downtrodden ultimate con-
sumer'' gets the worst of it again. Radium
has been advanced from 81 to so q mill
gram. or 81, $4,000 at once. OF course, this
must be the result of the Ubiquitous tariff
law.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

The increase of fifty emit a bottle
on champagne is another sign Of a
hard winter among the poor barons
who have put up the prices of house
hold commodities.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
President Taft declares that he would
not have the south give upNe single one of
its traditions. And the south won't. It
won't even give up its ancient and re-
spected hook worm, not II it can help 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

Zbyszko looks like a new chrysan-
themum, but It's only a Polish champ
ion who expects to trip Wrestler
Gotch to the mat over his name.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

subscribers leaving the city tenn
DOrarIIy should have The Dee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

1t must seem rather good to Mr..
Taft to be at home once more with
no brass bands playing Hail to the
Chief"