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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Indiana pas
tor who lost his we'll filled pocket book
searched for it all day and then prayed all
night that he might find II. He searched
again the next morning and found It, but
he wouldn't have found It II he hadn't
searched.
New York World: A Des Molnes clergy
man who has reformed a drunkard by
hypnotism warns the public against the
use of hypnotism by ~unscrupulos and I'M
cody persons. But who is to be the Judge
of the righteousness of the hypnotizer's
purpose-the hypnotizer7
Boston Herald: The death of Father
John of Cronstadt" removes one OF the
most popular and most original personali-
ties that the Orthodox Greek Church Of
Russia has known. A mystic, a faith
healer" and a promoter of many charities,
he was respected and loved by the laity
more than any other priest of the church,
and had touch with their purses. He re-
manned popular with royalty and with the
nobility down to the last. But his grip on
the people was lost when he chose the
side of reaction and absolutism against the
side of progress and constitutlonalism.
Here is one Of the plainest cases in eccles-
fastical history of a man who might have
been a prophet becoming only a courtier.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
SERMONS ROLLED powN.

No man can own any moro than he can
carry In his own heart.
The best evidence Of a hungry soul Is
It's hunger for work 70 do.
Every man must buy the riches Of ex-
perience with his own coin.
The things you really stand for are re-
vealed to those you run after.
No man can take iniquity into his creed
and keep It out OF his character.
No prayer meeting Is long enough that
dose not reach to the market place.
Most users OF sarcasm think more Of its
sound than Of the service It might render.
There Is never room at the top for the
man who thinks it was built for only one.
The man who hasn't the vigor to be vi
cious usually prides himself on his vir-
tues.
The welfare OF the world may depend
partly on whether you can whistle in the
rain.
Some of the virtues Of our friends grow
out OF the graves where we have buried
their faults.
Too many when they attempt to leave
their sins make the misake Of holding
farewell meetings.
Our example when we are on parade has
no Influence at all compared with the eff
feet of our everyday living.
You may have a right to your own sor-
rows, but you nave no right to throw their
shadows in another's wa~y.-Chicago Tri-
bum
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
THE REBuLLpLNa or MEssLNA.


Writing of the earthquake at Mes
sina, f. Marion Crawford expresses
the belief that the ancient port will
be permitted to remain a cemetery
and a new city founded somewhere
farther removed from the dangers of
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
Mr.. Crawford has written many
stories of Italian life and is accepted
as an authority on Italian history and
Italian affairs. but he fails to appre-
ciate Italian nature or human nature
if he really expects Messina to be
abandoned.
Messina was old when Christ was
born. For more than a thousand years
prior to hat time the Sicilians and
.Calabrians knew of it's exposure to
earthquakes and eruptions and genera
ton after generation suffered the eff
fects of them, each confident, however,
of escaping a repetition of the city's
history. Messina was almost COM
pletely destroyed about 1876 years ago,
and yet before the fires had been en-
tirely suppressed in the ruins, the
work of rebuilding Messina had be-
gun. The new city was made more
beautiful than its predecessor, and it
is certain that the Messina yet to be
born will be larger and more beauti-
full than the Messina which was turned
into a cemetery in the closing hours
of 1908.
The sites Of cities are seldom
changed by catastrophes, even when
there is reasonable certainty of recur-
rence. The hope that the recurrence
may be long delayed is usually sufi-
cient to cause spirited activity in the
rebuilding. San Francisco, greater
and bigger than ever, has risen over
the ruins caused by an earthquake a
few years ago and in spite of the fact
that scientists all agree that the
region is almost certain to be again
visited by earthquakes. Galveston,
almost completely destroyed by a tidal
wave, has been rebuilt on the old site,
uOAS ms Nv as VI II ~" ~ "
masonry wall which may or may not
withstand the force of a wave such as
swept the city to almost total destruc-
ton. Johnstown has been rebuilt in
the same gulley that formed a mill
race for the food that washed the city
off the face of the earth. All along
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers towns
are built on the river. bottoms with the
certainty that they will be d~isastrously
flooded each spring. Man is appar-
emily never willing to confess his fear
of or defeat by nature.
So it may be taken for granted that
Messina will be rebuilt. 1t occupies
a position which has made 1t COM
mercially important since the days of
Greek a%scendancy. Its soil is fertile,
its climate perfect and the force of
habit is as strong with Italians as, with
other people,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
KIsER DOESN'T WANT MUCH,

q. f. Kiser in the Record-Herald.
| would sing a song of heartiest thanks
II 7 were twenty-three or four
I'd be thankful for the chance to make a
Without the need Of working any more;
I'd be thankful II my income were about
Ten thousand dollars yearly-oh, Ia
shout
with giadness that would make the
echoes roar.
I'd be thankful IT,. instead of working
daily
the plains,
l might far in the southIahu sauhler
gayly
flowery lanes;
ia be thankful II l had a touring car
In which TO travel blissfully and far
From where ] need must toll for
meager gains.
Ia be thankful II ia come from DER the
And lad the right to wear a %coronet,
And by some multimillionaire's fair
daughter
Though her father ate his wheatcakes
With his knife,
And had never studied grammar in his
ia be bulsins out with th-ankfulness,
you bet
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
PASSING OF THE PIONEERS.

The death of William P. Snowden,
who has been very generally accorded
the honor OF having been the first per-
manent white settler in the city of
Omaha, again emphasizes to our citi-
zens the steady passing of the pio-
neers.
The first survey of Omaha was be-
gun in the late spring of the year 1854
and completed during the following
summer and autumn. For anyone old
enough TO vote to have lived here at
that time would have presaged an age
OF 76 now, or six years more than the
biblical three score and ten. The
late "Bill' Snowden had reached his
.eighty-fourth year and had made prac-
tically all of his career after his serv-
ice in the Mexican war right here in
Omaha. Only a few other pioneers
still remain whose coming dates back
from the first year Of the city's found
ing.
To grasp the full meaning of the
changes that have occurred under the
eyes of living persons by which a bit
OF barren prairie has been transformed
into the magnificent city which over
looks the Missouri today suggests
miracle working. Omaha's pioneers
builded far better than they knew.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

THE SENEGAMBIAN Nv THE WOODPILE.
Neither the senate nor the house
agrees with the president about the
secret service. its use and the legisla-
tlon affecting It. Usually admitted
facts bear but one construction, but
congress reads the records differently
from the president. The result is an
oyerplus of steam from both ends OF
the capitol, in which the executive is
charged with assailing the dignity OF
the legislative, invading the preroga-
tives OF ongress and using the secret
service to pry into the personal and
private affairs Of members. The sen
ate has ordered a more specific inquiry
into the workings of the secret service,
the house has refused to receive the
presidents message, alleging that II
was beneath dignity to do so, and indi-
vidual members of both bodies are fill
ing the Congressional Record and the
public prints with explanations and
more or less direct attacks upon the
president. All of which is calculated,
If not designed, to obscure the merits
of the controversy.
Congress was at a hopeless disad-
vantage from the first in its bout with
the president over the use of the secret
service, as its very opposition placed
it In the attitude Of trying to hamper
the authorities in their efforts to run
down law-breakers and uncover crime.
The president has asserted that he has
intended no attack upon any member
of congress-, but he has, by citing the
records. made an u"nanswerable argu-
ment upon the necessity for maintain
ing a secret service that shall be USE
full and effective. The effort of con-
gress to assume an air of injured inno-
cence and offended dignity does not
alter the case in any degree, or shake
popular support of the presidents de-
mand for removing the limitations put
on the secret service appropriation.
While surface indications point to a
great breach between the president
and congress-, with continuous quarrel
until the presidents term expires, 1t
will undoubtedly develop that there is
a deep motive back of the agitation
designed to keep the executive and
congress apart. But about forty ac-
tual working days yet remain to the
Sixtieth congress, and there are four
teen main appropriation bills to be
passed. making the time for c%onsidera-
ton of general legislation, demanded
by the public, at best exceedingly lin
tied. The big corporations and the
powerful interests that are opposing
the bill increasing the powers Of the
Interstate Commerce commission, that
are retarding the postal savings bank,
that are blocking statehood for Ari-
IONA and New Mexico, that are against
the Improvement of the inland water
ways, that object to a real employers
liability law and that are fighting a
dozen or more measures urged by the
president and approved by the people,
will gladly fan the flames between the
president and congress to make sure
that. legislation on these subjects will
be impossible at this session. This is
the Senegambian in the woodpile.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

We have it on the most direct au-
thority that when the municipal home
rule plank was being written into the
last democratic state platform the
question was, asked right out loud
whether or not IL meant an elective
police board for Omaha, and that, If
so, it should be SO stipulated in the
platform, but that a long and effective
protest was Immediately registered by
the Douglas county spokesman. If
the platform-makers meant to promise
Omaha an elective police board, why
didn't they say so?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

der OF courage on his part to continue
his efforts until the work has been
done thoroughly. II he succeeds in
checking lawlessness and protecting
life and property he will not only DIS
charge an imperative obligation to the
citizens of Tennessee. but he will set
an encouraging example to other
states OF the south whore feudists,
Night Riders and desperadoes in gen.
eral have brought discredit on the
states OF whose citizens a great ma
jority are law-abiding. but where GER
tain types of law-breakers have been
able to defy authority with impunity.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Rreathes there a girl on earth today
with hair that's slowly turning gray, VINO
in the mirror scans her head and ne'er
unto herself hath said, as she let's out a
soulful sigh: 81 really think | ought 10
dye?"-Emporia Gazette.
Mrs. Ka Flippe is down with double
pneumonia"
'That woman always did go to extremes
in everything Chicago Record-Herald,
How do you know your husband is not
a good poker playeT?"
"Because,' answered young Mrs. Tork-
ms, mo good poker player could be, as
popular as he is with other poker play
ers. Washington Star.
DO you have domestic puzzles too IN
addition to your business ones?'
do |? ] had one on my hands lately
that made me walk the floor ar nights in
deep distress
''Dear me! What was it,"
1.-THE baby ."-Baltimore American.
sometimes when alone said the senti.
mental maid, II sit and dream Of my ideal
man ,
"That is your cue to wake up" rejoincd
the practical girl. Dreams always go by
contraries, you know. Chicago News.
Young Wife-John was so mean this
Christmas to dear mamma
Friend-What did he do?
She liked as a present something appro-
pirate for the house-somethILg antique
and characteristic.
Friend-Well?
Young Wife-He-he sent her a knocker.-
Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
WHAT'S THE NATTER WITH THE
DOCTORSf


That u~p-to-date monthly magazine
which goes by the name of American
Medicine contains a breezy editorial
discussion in it's last issue under the
heading, What Is the Matter With
the Medical Profession?" The most
casual perusal of the dissertation that
follows will quickly convince the most
skeptical that a lot of things have
used to be filled by the family doctor.
Among other ailments from which the
medical profession is suffering, accord-'
ing to this skillful diagnosis may be
enumerated:
The general practitioners sphere OF use
fulness has been contracted until about the
only thing left for him to do is first aid"
work, or to act as advance agent for his
friends, the surgeon and the specialist.
Medical men, themselves, are certainly
to blame for many of the conditions which
now confront them. with an almost fatu-
Gus adherence to the archaic tenets of by
gone days, they have chung to the idea that
the practice of medicine is something so
far removed from business or trade that
the consideration Of ways and means by
physicians is ignoble, If not diverting.
Had medical men studied their patients
as assiduously as they have diseases; had
they realized that the one great demand
of the sick is for prompt effects, or, at
least, prompt action; had they realized that
certain ends Justify certain means, we
would not find today doctors of divinity
treating hysterical women and hypochon-
driacal and neurotic men by laying on Of
hands and soothing words"
The real trouble with the medical pro-
fession after all may be that it has over
estimated the intelligence of the people.
The public has asked for medical fiction,
the occult and the hysterical, and we have,
alas, betrayed them by telling them the
truth.
If there is any more useful man among
men than the genuine. simon-pure doctor Of
medicine, we have yet to meet him, and we
doubt II he exists. The American people
will, doubtless, have to experience some
great affliction to realize the real worth
of their doctors, and when the time does
come they will not be found wanting.
Pity the poor doctor. Between the
specialist on one side. the faith curist
on the other and his own innate mod
esty and devotion to an obsolete eth
ical code preventing him from blazing
his talents forth to the world, he has,
indeed, fallen upon hard lines. The
chief trouble is that the doctor has not
yet awakened to the miserable exist
ence he is leading and medical col
leges continue to urn out annually,
If not o%ftener, hordes of new prac-
titioners to follow in the footsteps of
those who have gone before and wait
for the great affection that is to make
the people appreciate them at their
true worth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

An actress who was seeking a di-
vorce from her actor-husband at Sioux
Falls was surprised to have the decree
granted without any testimony, until
the judge on the bench calmly re-
marked, hqve seer him act"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

John w. Kern that he is
going to make a determined effort TO
be elected United States senator from
Indiana. That name sounds familiar,
but we can't recall Just now what he
has done to make himself famous.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
4 GIorious Mission.

lhll4uelp'A" N'~"'N
No war fleet that ever was launched TO
bombard dsfenseless cities and TO destroy
enemies was ever sent on SO glorious a
mission as that OF the American squadron
that Is approaching the coast OF Sicily
with the purpose Of succoring the victims
OF earthquake and conflagrauon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

The Agricultural department states
that a hen attains its best laying ca
pacity in its third year. There seems
to be a dearth of 3~-year-old hens.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

At any rate, IL is to be noted that
since that fateful occasion no other
land law v~iolators have been SEN
fenced to six hours Imprisonment in
the Omaha club.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

DR.. Wiley complains that the alb
sinthe used in this country is adulter-
ated. The impression prevails that
any adulteration added to absinthe
would lessen it's power for evil.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

The Italian military authorities
have asked for an appropriation of
SIS 200, 900 for additional reforms in
the army. An appropriation to put
the soldiers at work removing the de-
bris at Messina would be more fitting.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Kansas democrats propose to start
a campaign of education to prove the
necessity" OF nominating Mr., Bryan
again in 1919. Republicans will not
obstruct the movement.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
speed scores Ga This Instance.

improved means OF communication and
transportation have minimized the distress
caused by a great calamity like the earth
quake in Italy. and there has likewise been
a great Improvement in The open-hearted
character Of the whole civilized world.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Senator Borah has proposed a law
which will forbid senator's and rep
resentatiyes in congress from hiring
out as counsel in matters in which the
United states is interested. Congress
sional sense of deoency should make
suGh a law Unnecessary ~
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Thc GcntIc nnnnce.
New York Tribune

To say that a dismissed official has
rheumatism in his leg" is much more
polite than to explain his removal on the
<. und of the good Of the service. They
order these things better in China. We
should borrow the expression.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

or course, there's no escaping the
man who insists that while a cold
wave may produce some discomfort, it
Is good for our health.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Patriotic Dream.

NVW lVTN NVTTW'
Cut from a special home weave, Mr..
Taft's Inauguration sui; may well be a
patriotic dream. AS there are 100 yards in
the piece il cannot be even figuratively, a
story made out of the whole CLOTH
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

The republican legislature of Ore
gon will probably do things to that
law which compels them to vote for a
democrat for the United States senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

The women are all referring to him
as "Chump" Clark since he told the
ways and means committee that So
was enough to pay for any Partisan
hat.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

"Cursed be thou, miserable liar"
says the Russian church to Tolstoi,
who is thus equipped with credentials
emitting him TO membership in the
Ananias club.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

That Philadelphia girl who has been
sobbing for six weeks may be training
TO act as a newspaper writer in report
ing trials like that of Hams and Thaw.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

All brooms and brushes, according
60 a trade report, have been advanced
10 per cent in price. It's a sweeping
charge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Senator Tillman was after timber
lands, although It is difficult to see
how a nan could do much expert work
with a pitchfork in the woods.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Walter Wellman says that President
Roosevelt's messages were written for
posterity. Congress may file a dis
senting opinion.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

indianapolis news
Panama has TO pay Colombia $4,000 a
year for ten years, but we're to furnish
the money. It's nice to have a rich and
generous foster father.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

"A congressman was held up and
robbed while or his way TO a card
game. The robber simply beat the
card sharps to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Republican optimists should be re-
minded that the south has the habit
of boiling Bryan in of years.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Perhaps congress will be discreet
enough next time to tackle a man who
mas not been practiclng daily with an
elephant gun.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

The news columns show a lot of
bowling in this town in spite of the
New Year resolutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

The president has discovered that
n soft answer will not turn away the
wrath of a congressman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Colonel Watterson calls the king OF
italy -four aces He's better than
that. He's a royal flush.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Some inventor should produce an
asbestos film for moving picture
shows.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Reports from Lincoln indicate that
wen a sweeping political victory may
not to be a clean victory.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

Subscriber leaving the city tenn
porariIy should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed rs often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Residents Of Washington are com
planning of dirty treets. Residents
of Omaha are tired of complaining.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

territories and insular possessions and
the Indian wards still under tribal re-
lations.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

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complete copies OF The Daily, MornlnB,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

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ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE

BY EDWARD RosEwArER.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-03
BAG" IS NO
 CHARM AGAINST POLICE

An inch square, made of dirty cloth on1 stuffed tight with wonder fuI ingredients unknown to all save one nersop on the face of earth, was tbe amulet that Gilbert Ivy. negr" btgh-rolIer. wore to make himself lin- mune from the police, says The At lanta Constitution.
 If was what Is vulgarly known m Darktown parlance as "kunRer pag'
 Gilbert being very high roller had orreat fears of the policemen and he maid conjure doctor $2 for the bag With it came the following directions:
 "EIeep it in your pocket and do not allow any person to touch IL Ohce every week soak 1t in whiskey."
 Having secured the good luck bag Gnbert proceded to do just as he nIeased and if pleased him 10 draw nistoI on negro who drives a dump cart for the city. Two policemen ar rested Gilbert and he laughed them to scorn. Hadn't he the Hunger bag" in his pocket? But he was arrested, much to his surprise. He was searched at the police barracks and when the turnkey took the conjure amulet from his pocket he had a conniptuous fit.
 It transpired that the evidence against Gilbert did not support the charge and the case was dismissed. Thereupon the lucky negro put his Munger bag" back in hIs pocket and exclaimed as he walked triumphantly from the court room:
 ''Dar. now. hress Gawd. doan know dat de perlice can't hurt yer ef yer gots de kunger wid yer?"