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Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

1T Is easy to make poetry about roses.
But like TO take neglected weed and
see II can't make It into song"
Isn't that a beautiful philosophy II life?
And II is the idea of girl who is just
sixteen years and five months old
Pretty Dorothy Hamilton is mischiev-
GUS, happy. fun-loving. affectionate child
but she has the soul OF a poet and she
uses her whole healthy young body to
express her spirit. She dances with grace
and charm to little poeticSl stories that
she herself writes and she talks about her
work with sincerity and wholesome Joy
in what she is doing that makes you like
hearing about her dancing almost as well
as seeing IT,
And her work is so beautiful that next
year she is TO dance at Chautauqua. She
will be the first dancer TO appear before
this conference, and II is left to this mere
child TO win such dignified recognition for
the art OF dancing.
This is how the story of New York
girl in moderate circumstances and with
no one to help or teach her has evolved a
style OF dancing all her own and has
taught herself steps from the simplest to
the most complicated
Her great blue eyes sparkle almost as
much as her golden curis as she leans
forward and talks In a sweet voice that
helps her supple body express poetry
How did l come to dance? Mother says
l danced a bit when / kicked in the
cradle! And l can't remember when l
was not longing 10 dance
| II saw Genee when l was eight and
promptly went home and wrote her, a
postal card. In the romances the great
artist always answers and aids and en-
! eourages You. l don't suppose my impu-
dent little postal ever got to Genee Any
way, the answer never got TO me. This is
what l wrote:
Dear Grill want to be like you when
! get big. l am your s-year-old friend,
Dorothy Hamilton
! Dorothy laughed with delight at her
"reminiscences, and added. I'm not much
Ike that fairy am I? / just grow and
grow like the beanstalk Jack climbed.
Wei. l went on trying to dance, and /
used to make the girls at my school angry
BY telling them that I had to go home and
take my dancing lesson. When they asked
! who my teacher was I always replied
seriously that ! was studying with Doro-
thy Hamilton. ! had faith in my teacher.
too. She took such pains with me, She
made me work two and three hours get
ting steps that didn't come right
Il got steps, but never a whole dance
until one night I dreamed the story OF
The Spirit OF the Wheat l woke mother
right mp TO show it to her. and when she
said she liked my little story-dance of the
spirit OF the grain crossing the barren
fields and making them bloom with her
blessing to men. Immediately wanted to
make up an eneorel And the light falling
through the lace curtains gave me the in
spiration for 'Moonbeams and shadows
dance. Mother sat and waited for me 70
work Il out And she vas as proud as
was when had two ydanoes all dreamed
out
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

fold; first to secure the good will of the
six nations, and second. to devise means
for the common defense.
II was seen that war with France was
inevitable, and il was quite natural that
the colonists should endeavor TO get the
powerful Iroquois on their side. But
apart from the matter OF the Indian
alliance, IL WAS felt by the leading men Of
the colonies that In the coming struggle
with France II was imperative that there
should be between the scattered colonies
some, kind OF organic unity and concord.
AS Franklin put it in the standing motto
at the top OF his newspaper. the Phila-
delphia Gazette-.IJnite or Die"
Franklin. 20 whom all eyes turned,
proposed the following plan Of general
government, to be administered by a
chief magistrate appointed by the Crown.
and a grand council OF forty-eight mem
bers. to be chosen by the several provincial
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

In March, 17Sl-seven years after the
meeting OF the first Continental congress
and the government under which the
revolution was TO be fought out went
into immediate operation.
AS has been intimated, it was not
much OF a government; but loose-Jointed
and clumsy as it was it served in a way
to hold the revolted commonwealth to-
gether for some ten years. until they
had won their independence and were
ready for the union OF the constitution
under which we lIve-and under which
We hope to continue living for genera
tons and ages 10 cone.
And 30. IN the light OF the present
thinking. as We cannot help thinking, OF
the almost inconceivable greatness OF our
eountry-it is interesting TO bark back
TO the modest. and for the time being
unavailing, attempt that was made by
tRe men Of the Albany congress OF lT54
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
A Girl worth Winning,

Dear Miss Fairfax: / am 10 and have
been accepting attentions from a young
man of the same age for about three
months He has become very fond OF
me, but my feelings toward him at
present are simply the same as they are
toward the other young men OF my ac-
uuaintance | would like you TO kindly ad-
wise me as to whether you think ] ought
to continue, as / do not wish to monop-
Ollie his time and attention and enjoy
myself at his expense II cannot, in
time, reciprocating by learning to love him
as he loves me at present. My parents
and friends think very highly OF him;
n. T. F.
Not enough girls are fine enough to
stop TO consider the question OF the mans
feelings in a case like yours. But think
that the very fact that you are so con-
siderate OF this young mans feelings in
dicates that you have some fondness for
him. II the opportunity presents tell him
OF your friendly sentiments and that they
are friendly-and nothing more. But don't
sacrifice a friendship 10 mere chimera
of fear for a situation that may never
rise
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

To marry a person whose tastes are
not similar to your own.
To marry out of your own class either
socially, financially intellectually or
morally.
To cut out the jolly because you are
married. During courtship flattery is an
aid to success. After marriage it is a
necessity.
To fall into the error of thinking that
matrimony gives one the privilege OF
eating onions. wearing frowsy clothes
and telling unpleasant truths in the home
circle.
For a husband or wife to curtail the
others personal liberty. The man who
opens his wife's letters and the woman
who goes through her husbands pockets
will inevitably come to hate each other.
To try to live together twelve months
in the year.
To be separated too much.
To try to live with either his family
or her family.
Not to settle the money question before
marriage.
To appeal to outsiders to arbitrate their
family spats.
To try to live-in a boarding house or
hotel The lack of a home is the first
aid to divorce.
For the wife not to have plenty Of work
to do to fill up her hands and thoughts.
To marry until the woman has had her
| fill of admiration from men, and the
man is tired of running with the boys.
For the man not to throw responsibility
| on his wife's shoulders and make her
| feel that she must be his real helpmeet.
instead of doll to dress up and play
| with.
Not to have children.
Not to play together. The man who
takes his amusements always among men
and the woman who goes to nothing but
hen parties will soon find out that they
can be happy apart.
And the greatest mistake is to marry
without love. If there is plenty of that
nothing else much matters.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

Is now, took It for an electric balloon
which Mr.. Edison was supposed nightly
TO send heavenward for no other APP
parent reason than to mystify his fellow
man.
II was the birth of a legend, which
seems to have the tenaclty of life that
characterlzes all mythology. and Edi-
sons electric balloon. or ball has become
as firmly established in popular-tradi-
ton as william Tells apple, or George
WashinRton's hatehet.
Only last evening a gentleman said TO
me; What was that bright light saw
In tho west an hour sgo3 Was II Edi-
sons electric ball2
II guess II must have been. for l never
saw a star 80 bright an that, and II is
gone now. so ] suppose they have drawn
st down. What do they do Il for, any
way? / have often heard OF IL, hut I
never heard any explanation given OF
Mr. Edison's idea In sending Il up. Is
he trying TO communicate with Mars9"
My inaulring friend had some difficulty
In believing mo when told him that the
light he had seen. and which anybody
can see an hour after sunset at the pres
ent time. was great planet in the sky,
the earth's twin sister. and not an cleo
trio lamp suspended in the air.
Tho circumstance that appeared 10
trouble him most was the exceeding bril-
lance OF tho phenomenon. He could
hardly be persuaded TO believe that any
star or planet could possibly shine like
that.
why" he exclaimed. at Is as bright
az an arc light. and steady as a coach
lamp, and yet you tell me that II is 100,
0oe.00 miles away and shines only re-
Elected sunlight"
IAN OF which is perfectly true" said
and bright as II looks now Venus will
be far more brilliant during the early
summer, because IL is constantly getting
nearer the earth. and consequently loom
ing larger TO our eyes"
But 1t isn't going to hit US, I hope
mo danger. Planets cannot run OF
their road like automobiles and railroad
trains Venus circles around the sur
about $,00o,0oo miles inside the earth's
orbit, Their paths are like two circular
tracks, one within the other. and havine
the sun at their common center.
Whenever Venus is on that side of Il,
orbit which Is farthest from tho point
where the earth happens TO be, at thai
time, In its orbit. the two planets are OF
opposite sides OF the sun. and as fai
apart as they can ever get.
But Venus travels faster than tn,
earth, in a smaller orbit. so that from
time 10 time IL comes around into tina
part OF its orbit which Is between the sun
and the earth. That Is what Il Is begin
ming TO do at the present time. But tn,
curve % its orbit. as Il swings in be
tween the earth and the sun, will gradu
ally bring IL nearer 10 us until It reaches
the point where its orbit ana the earth
are the closest When Il arrives there
some months hence. II viii be exaetl
between the earth and the sun. and afte
Il has passed that point II viii 20 owe
into the morning star. and cease 70 b
visible in the evening.
so II becomes alternately morning an
evening star. and this Il has been doll
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
The Albany Statesman

legislatures The council was to have
power to declare war, levy troops, raise
funds. regulate trade, conclude peace
and do such other things as may be need
full for the promotion Of the general vel
fare.
Franklins plan was finally adopted and
copies Of II were sent to the colonies for
their consideration but nothing came
OF It.
The royal governors favored it. but the
people opposed II, on account probably
OF the fact that the royal governors were
in favor of It, In addition to their dis
like for the idea of tho Chief magistrate
appointed by the Crown" the people
were MORALLY afraid Of the Grand
Council idea.
The spirit of local self-government was
strong among the colonists, and they
were haunted by the suspicion that the
grand council might prove to be the
octupus for strangling their liberties.
Hence it turned out that the albany
plan" went up in smoke. Some of the
colonies rejected it wlthou, a word OF
debate Not a single colonial legislature
favored IL. Massachusetts was inclined
to adopt it. but at a monster mass meet
ing in Boston It was holly denounced
as being "subversive Of liberty" and
nothing moro was heard of II.
But notwithstanding all this, the i'm
portant fact remains that to the Albany
congress belongs the honor of havinE
launched the attempt which was finally
L., union
under which we live today-the indie
structible union of indestrutible states. -
Twenty years after the collapse of the
work that he'd been done by the Albany
statesmen the first Continental congress
met at Philadelphia September 9, 1714-
one Of the most fateful dates In history
After a debate of four weeks duration
the delegates passed the resolutions which
the great Chatham declared were "un-
surpassed by any state papers ever com
posed in any age or country
| The resolutions declared that the Ameri-
can people had the free and exclusive
right to leeislate in their own provincial
legislatures, and that this right they
would not suffer themselves to be de-
prived Of" The gage Of battle was Thus
clearly thrown down. and it was up &c
the king to let the patriots alone OF
flight.
| out of the Continental congress grew
the first real union of the colonies-th'
first government that enabled the col
onies to act with anything like unsnimitN
the Articles Of Confederation.
The articles were ratified by Maryland
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
Thomas Edison and Planet Venus
Modern Mythology Has Strangely Linked the Inventors
Name With Beautiful Evening Star.

from time immemorial. Yet many INTEL
ligent people are so unobservant with re-
gard to things in the heayens which are
constantly about and above them, that
they are surprised every time the planet
Venus reappears In the evening sky.
They forget that they have seen II
before In the same position, and equally
brilliant, and they try to account for the
dazzling phenomenon by imagining II to
be an artificial star invented by Edison.
"The time that elapses between two
successive appearances of Venus in the
role OF evening star is only 5S4 days. So
short Is human memory. when II Is not
recalling a debt, or cherlshing an injury;
and so indifferent is average human in
telllgence when Il has TO deaf with things
beyond the narrow limits of this in
fintesimal little earth"
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

'Shall ! tell YOU of the names of my
dances? Besides my first two there are
the Tale of the seafoam The Echo
Dance The Autumn Leaves Pans
Reeds and Christmas JOY They arc
all just what they sound-the simple
things we children all see and love. and
the things grown-ups must keep liking,
too. have only one sad dance-'The
Violinist in the Woods
my favorite dance is the 'Milkweed
Sprite.' 1t tells how the queen of the
fairies banishes one OF her maids be-
cause she thinks the poor little innocent
creature stole a bracelet. The fairy
comes 10 earth with only this 10 consile
her; She may take the form OF any
thing she wants to be. And the early
pink milkweed blossoms rioting over a
post in q barb-wire fence and making
the roadside lovely, seem the most bea3-
tiful things on earth to her SO she
takes that form, and all the nelghbor
flowers wonder why the little pink weed
seems SO sweet and kind and lovely.
The fairy milkweed is happy, but she
longs for her wings. One day the gar
dener Of Fairyland is cleaning an old
fountain and he finds the queens brace
let where she had dropped il when she
was admiring herself.
80 the queen sends for her banished
fairy and tells her she may come back
to Fairyland. But the little fairy knows
earth needs her and Fairyland can get
on without her. So she begs to stay and
asks only for her wings. And because
she is given her wings the milkweed al
ways floats up in foamy cloud OF white
as the season grows late.
That is the little dream story like
best 70 dance"
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
To You---WhO Never Came

BY ANN LISLE
I busted and hearth
made all fair.
And set the curtains high and wide
So the sun fell everywhere
/ put on my lovliest gown,
And blew my hair
For only the best had give
Was what I'd let you share
And many another
Because my home bright,
And was with ribbons and lace,
And my with Joy alight.
But still you away
You, with the heart you'd
While curtains blew in the eastern
And my flowers boomed in the
closed windows again,
And l curtains low
Lest my breathe Welcome" for all to share
welcome but you could know.
And after the dreary years
wonder
o the suffered place,
And. dreadng its gloom-rode
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
Making Friends.

Dear Miss Fairfax: l am a girl or lS,
but very often am taken for Is.
! have no girl or boy Triends 10 go
out with and therefore I'm always re-
naming home. I'm not a bad looking
GIRL go to business / dress up-to-date
and vet / can't make acquaintance.
Could you advise me in any way how
1 could have a good time like all other
girls?
Thanking you in advance. 1 remain,
respectively, q. I.
You are as yet too young TO go about
with boys, but you really should have
girl friends. Suppose you put all thoughts
of yourself into the background and meet
girls with a sweet manner and ready
sympathy and interest in their affairs
II there is some girl in your office who
attracts you, simply show your friendly
selling to her-that will win her interest,
'as we all like to be liked.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

star In the sunset
heavens think II
must be an earthly
electric light in
stead OF a celestial
world.
Twenty five years
ago. when I wrote
my first book on
popular astronomy,
| mentioned. in the
preface, the fact
that thousands Of
Ne W orke rs,
looking at Venus
when II was the
evening star Gas &c
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
ua.eI,s slide.

one word of criticism that should be
emphatic was the sight Of a common
straight-back chair in the place where
piano. IL was quite a violation OF the
prophecies TO have such a graceful aud
proficient accompanist as Miss Hazel
Smsllhorn slide into her seat. II IL is
TO be each person carry their own re-
volving piano stool under their arm this
should be publicly understood.-NeW
Canaan Comm Advertiser
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

y - - VI. ~
bany Congress"
The colonies
represented ere
seven in number.
n c " Hampshire,
NJ a s $ a c h u sets,
Rhode Island, Con-
necticut. New York.
Pennsylvania and
Maryland. T h ere
were In all twenty
five delegates, with
James Delaney, OF
New York, as chair
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
Class DistInction.

II always makes an editor feel the
injustice of class distinctions when he
sees that some prominent public man
has been forced by his physician 10
quit work for three days on account Of
an attack OF indigestion.-Ohio state
Journal
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

To marry a woman
because she is a
parlor ornament and
expect her to turn
into a kitchen utensil
as soon as the mar
riage ceremony Is
over. or to marry a
d T Ii n X en- rounder
and expect him to
be metamorphc $ c d
into a model of the
domestic virtues.
For either a man
or a W o m a n to
marry with tho in
tention of making
over the other ones
character to suit his
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
BY GARRETT p. sERvIss,

Mr.. Edison ought to feel greatly flat
tered. They have named the planet
Venus for him. They means people
who, whenever they see an extraordinary
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
By REV. THOMAS b. GREGORY

Among 1.-THE Men Who Made America
must be reckohod the little company Of
delegates who, one hundred and sixty
years ago last June, met in what is
knnu-r q ihn "a
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
Don't he Ashamed Of Your Home.

Dear Miss Fairfax: l am past II and
have a great many admirers and would
very much like to have some of them
call at my home but | do not think 1t is
fit for any outsider to see on account OF
its meagerness and the neighborhood il
is in l. therefore, have a great many
quarrels at home with my mother and
brother. which troubles and worries me
a great deal.
DO you think it is very wrong Of me
to meet them on the outside, as l know
that / can take care OF myself.
BRIGHT EYES.
Entertain your friends in your own
home. II they care so little for you that
they will not come into poor neighbor-
hood and even a shabby home in order
to be with you. their regard can never
bring you happiness.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
Marital
Mistakes
BY DOROTHY DIX.

To marry on insufficient means be-
cause when the bill collector begins TO
pound on the door Cupid Jumps out OF
the window.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07
Advice to Lovelorn
: ~ BHATRIoE xAIRRAx

No.
Dear Miss Fairfax: If two girls are
walking along the street and see two
young men who they would like to know
and the young men speak to them, would
It be all right for the girls to each intro
duce the other one, and the same with
the young men? DORA FARQUAR.
1t would be most improper An in
PRODUCTION must come from some one
who knows both parties to the intro
duction. What you suggest would merely
be a cheap and degrading filtration
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

Everybody Reads Bee Want Ads.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-07

The purpose Of the congress was two
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-13
Roosevelt May Not
Decline Nomination
on Republican Ticket
StecinI 10 The rclcrrnhh

Bridgetown, Barbados, May 10
Colonel Theodore Rooscvclt's South
American expedition arrived here to-
day on the way from Para. Brazil, to
New York. The Colonel and c. *.
Sherry and Leo l.. Miller, of the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History. were
elated over the success of the expedi-
tion.
will YOU be q candidate for the
presidency in 1852" the Colonel was
asked, rather bluntly.
Il cannot tell if ] shall run until
see what the later developments will
be, he answered. But If | do run it
must he on a Progressi' platform,
which the Republicans must accept
Although the Colonel's health has
much improved, he still Is somewhat
shaken by the attack of jungle fever.
He expects the abscess on his leg will
have healed by the time he arrives in
New York.
Colonel Roosevelt is going to Mad
rid to attend the wedding of his son
Kermit with Miss Willard. He de-
clined to say anything concerning the
Mexican situation, aud rdiculed his
suggested candidacy for governor of
New York
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-13
ROSE UNDERCOES
|. CROSS EXAM|NAT| ION
IN TRIAL OF BECKER
Informer Calmly Meets All Ques
tions Hurled at Him by
Defendants Counsel
SAYS HE WAS NEVER IN JAIL
Denies That Roscnthal Murder
Was Outgrowth of Gamblers
War in New York
SAYS HE WAS NEVER IN JAIL
Ry Associated Press

New York. May 13.-"Bald Jack
Rose. the informer. underwent the or
deal of cross examination to-day at
the trial of Charles Becker for the
murder of Herman Rosenthal.
Martin T. Manton. chief of Becker s
COUNCIL. began by asking Rose why he
changed his name from Rosenzweig to
Rose. Rose said he had changed his
name twenty-three years ago. He de-
MED that he had ever been in Jail dur
ing that time. Manton hurled at him
a long list of questions to bring out
the life the witness had led. Rose
calmly met each implication. denying
that he had engaged in petty larcenies,
that he had been associated with
women Of the streets. that he had
been a ''steerer" for an opium den.
Roses acquaintance with Rosenthal.
he said, dated back twenty-five years.
They had been twice associated in
business. He denied that they had
quarreled when this business connec-
ton was dissolved. 1t is a contention
of the defense that Rosenthal was the
victim of a gamblers war.