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Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
Wells Warning to England.

II England does not pull itself together and
overcome its headlong plunge into national de-
generacy, It will not be the fault of II. G. Wells,
it's prophet. philosopher and guide For he has
given warning a-plenty.
. Mr. Wells is nothing II not frank. II Amer
leans sometimes feel the too keen sting of his
criticism, let them see what he says OF his own
England and the English In his new book, so
cial Forces. in England and America" The
volume opens with very philippe on the Eng
lish and a panegyric the Americans. The
text Of the lecture rests upon NJ. Blerot's avi-
ating OF the English channel. Wells was called
up at his country place by telephone from a
London newspaper office for an article on its
meaning. True, it was a Frenchman instead OF
an American who trumphed in the aeroplane,
but It served to remind Mr.. Wells of the ad-
vancement OF America also in awaiting and OF
the baekwardness OF Britain.
1T means, l take it, first and foremost for
us, that the world cannot wait for the English"
is his book comment. Then torrent of crit
icism, from which a few excerpts are quoted
II is extremely desirable that people should realize
that these foreign machines "a temporary and
incidental advantage. They are Just the first fruits
OF steady, enduring lead that the foreigner has
The toreigner is ahead OF us in education, He
makes better class OF man than do. His science
Is better than ours. His training is better than
ours His imagination is livelier. His mind is
more active. His schools are places for vigor-
GUS education instead OF genteel athleucism, and
his home has books in IT, and thought and
uon our homes aud schools relatively dun and
unnspirng; there is no intellectual guide stir IN
themi ana to that We owe this generation Of
nicely behaved unenterprising sons who play golf
and dominate the tailoring OF the world while Brazil
isns Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly
The arrival OF NJ. Bleriot suggests most horribly TO
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
NOTES OF PROGRESS.

In 3OS labor camps in California 1881
persons are housed.
Bones of the albatross are being used
to a very great extent OF late as mouth
pieces for pipes instead Of amber.
As a recognition OF good service, the
Erie railroad paints the name of a
meritorious engineer on the locomotive
Farmers in one region of Queensland
feed their horses on chopped banana
stalks taken just after the fruit has been
harvested
1t is claimed that 100000 tons of car
bon, most of 1t in the form of coal, is
the average yearly amount burned in
large cities,
workmen engaged on the bridge of the
Oregon Trunk line over the Crooked river
climb 30O-foot rope ladder every day in
reaching their work.
Among the new features in the division
of mineral technology of, the United
States National museum Is an industrial
series in glass manufacture.
The newest idea In the theater con-
struction Is the hidden orchestra, which
is located under the floor of the house.
between the stage and the auditorium.
A new English direction and rotation
Indicator for steam vessels enables a cap
tain to watch the direction OF his ship
and speed OF his engines from his cabin
or bridge.
Patents have been issued on a number
OF cooking utensils In which a downward
draft carries all odors away by diverting
them into the stove on which the utensils
are used.
An island in the Pacific OF which
French company has obtained control is
believed to contain 100000 tons of high
grade phosphates and many more million
tons of inferior quality.
A three-year movement TO obtain the
free use of public school buildings out
side of school hours in st Louis has
lately achieved its purpose and the social
center will soon be a reality.
One of the most dramatic developments
of a material kind in the last twenty-five
or thirty years has been the rise of the
cotton seed industry. the value of its
crude products increasing since 1880 from
something more than 100000 TO
Sl5O.OOO 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
People and Events

". II. Thomas OF Los Angeles claims
he has invented lock which cannot be
picked
William Thomas Lewis, first Baron
Morthyr. died last week in London. He
was q years old.
Brigadier General Philip II. Briggs. civn
war veteran, died at the Brooklyn Home
for Aged Men. lie was - years old.
W. II. Koehler. arrested in ST. Louis fo-
smoking on q street car. has sued the COM
pany for $1,000 damages to his feelings.
James Moran Of Bloomington, Ill, has
celebrated his one hundredth and
eleventh birthday. He was born in Ire
land
DR. A. l.. skoog, professor OF neurology
in the University OF Kansas, has been
made head Of the La Petre hospital
Paris.
Samuel NJ. Foster. a banker of Fort
Wayne. Ind, is mentioned as the first
American ambassador to the Argentine
republic.
They've got the fever in London. Two
babies was christened Albert Leman
Liege Hopkins and Marie Alsace-Lorraine
Bccombe
The Society of American Playwrlghts
will receive 10000 from the estate OF
Bronson Howard after the expiration Of
two trust funds.
A. Buss Parsons, who received a medal
from congress for bravery in the battle
OF Antietam, died last week at Mlneola,
l. l. He was 70 years old
Dr. Alexis Carrel Of the Rockefeller in
stitute in New York cancelled his de
parture from France and at present is in
charge OF a big war hospital.
Secretary OF Agriculture Houston or
dered a. quarantine. effective October 1,
against cattle in several Illinois counties
TO prevent the spread of tuberculosis.
Captain Edgar King Of the United
States army medical corps reports that
ohe-fifth Of all regular soldiers discharged
for disability are afflicted with mental
disease.
Alva Branford of Binghamton N. Y,
six years ago found a roll of S3l in bills
in the street e. p Wiks claimed it,
Branford refused to give it up. Result.
a lawsuit which has cost Branford $500
and defeat.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
DOCTORS DoINGS.

Malaria causes moro sickness and
deaths than any other single disease in
India.
That he has delivered an antitoxin that
gives immunity to the disease caused by
mosquito bites is the claim OF a Chicago
doctor
According TO a German scientist NO.
men can talk more than men with less
fatigue because their threats are smaller
and they tax their lungs and vocal organs
less.
a machine which he claims shows the
existence OF psychic emanations from
the human body and measures them has
been invented by Kansas City physi-
clan
According to German scientist limo
leum on floor quickly kills bacteria
which may be brought into house on
shoes because Of the lnseed oil It con-
tains.
a new medicine glass cover Is saucer
with fluted rim marked with the hours
and quarters. to hold a spoon in such a
position as to Indicate the time for the
next dose.
According to an Italian scientist the
signals which nerves carry from the sur
face of the body to the brain and from
the brain to the muscles are chemical
In their nature.
According to an Italian physician the
channel from the mouth to the stomach
is the seat Of the senses Of hunger and
thirst, which he claims to have suppressed
by cocaine injections.
For measuring sea depths Massachu-
sctts doctor has nvented a dynamite
bomb which explodes on striking the bot
tom, the distance being estimated by
measuring the time it takes tho sound
TO reach the surface of the water.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
Ornamental Telephone Next.

why should we not have telephones in dec
orative forms as we'll as electric lights?" asks
the Literary Digest, advertising to a suggestion
In a technical trade journal, which is wondering
how the telephone has so far managed to escape
the mania for combining the useful with the
artistic. Contrasting the beautiful designs and
striking effects which we have in our electric
lamps with the plainness, almost hideousness
of them as originally introduced the possibili-
ties of the ornamental telephone look equally
limitless. The Transmitter, the trade paper
quoted draws this imaginative picture:
Why not, indeed, make the telephone like a roseP
The base could be disguised as a flower pot the
transmter lost in brilliant array Towering petals
the receiver a cluster OF opening buds and the re-
cever cord trailing tondr From flowers it is but a
short jump to other things to appeal artistic
taste. lover Of statuary could have the telephone
for his library table fixed up as a famous general
horseback. The transmitter could be concealed
in the horses head! and the whispered in his
most appropriate place. The receiver of
course would be the rider and the person talking
could easily imagine himself receiving message from
a courier OF old The receiver cord would serve adj
mirsbly for rens No need stop here with the idea
booklover could have his transmitter and receiver
bound up in couple OF books When he wanted to
hold telephone conversation he would simply pick
up his cherished volumes from his desk and proceed
But the inclination TO joke about it will be
quickly suppressed If we give little serious
thought to the proposal. for hundred different
ways will be opened by which the telephone
could be made thing of beauty, or part and
parcel OF the decorative scheme, without the
slightest impairment or interference with its
serviceahility II the idea is not applied prac-
ticaly within very short time our expecta-
tions. based on the progressiveness OF the tele-
phone people, will be greatly disappointed.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
A Good Sign.

In discussing the opportunity which the war
will afford American playwrights the New York
Commercial remarks that perhaps the 'tardy"
but great" American play will be forth coming
within the next year or so. Whether it is or
not, it is gratifying to observe the constant
tendency away from the sex" play, which held
too much OF the boards the last few seasons.
The theater-going public has been surfeted by
this type Of stage drivel, which never appealed
to anything higher than the mere prurient in
those who patronized it. 1t left no compen-
sating moral lesson or effect and will pass off
the stage, when 1t goes, as simply good rid
dance OF bad rubbish" The obvious fact is
that the producers and exploters of this char
acter OF stuff aimed only at money-making
without either the desire capacity for evoking
any substantial or helpful response. The whole
scheme OF such plays, if so they may be called,
rested upon a distorted philosophy Of life False
hood permeated both conception and denoue-
ment, drawing lurid sensualism wherever il
would help to whet the appetite and inflame the
passion. OF course, such sex" plays could not
last and that they doomed so speedily is a
mighty sign of the times
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

how far behind we must be In al matters Of in
gonultv. device and mechanical eontrivancc.
The British navy. Mr.. Wells admits, may be
an exception to this system OF sleepiness ram
pant in the life OF his country, yet with grudg-
ing sarcasm he says, Its officers are rescued
from the dull homes and dull schools Of their
class while still of tender years. The implica-
ton must be that the navy is superior. not be-
cause Of but despite the system OF British
training and living.
Americans would not be so severe in their
estimate OF England; they leave all such rigid
structures to the noted Bnglishman, who is
none too sparing, either, of his criticism Of us.
Yet we recall statement by another English
man in the last few years to the effect that
nations greatness is measured by its share OF
woodworking inventions, and that England had
not in twenty years contributed one such de-
vice
Israel of old had it's prophets who we're
courageous enough with it to stand on the
watch tower" and cry out the pitfalls. One OF
them saw decay for any nation whose young
men had no visions and whose old men dreamed
no dreams. We may become impatient with
our didactic and dogmatic Wellses, but they
are spur to any halting nation. This cur
tain lecture is particularly timely now in view
OF the opportunity England has of testing it's
national fiber from new angle.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
HAMMER TAPS

There never was man who had toe
many shirts or socks.
This would be much nicer world q
we had more songs without words.
We all have a lot Of theories we would
like 70 have the other fellow practice
Calling it lsht Housekeeping doesn't
keep friend husband from getting dys-
pepsia.
a windy day can always supply more
attractive hosiery display than a dry
goods store
II you could reduce your weight by
drinking beer there wouldn't be any fat
people in the world.
The fellow who carries a mascot can't
sec why people can be so superstitious as
to believe in hoodoos
The difference between affinity and in
finity is that one lasts three months and
the other lasts forever
The man who spends his change buying
a rosy nose has no business knocking the
girl who spends her coin buying rosy
cheeks.
1t doesn't do a married woman any
good to announce that marriage is a
failure The single girls are all from
Missouri.
a man may regret the s. he handed the
preacher for marrying him But he al
ways insists that his dog is worth the
tax he pays on IT,
When they arc first married the bride
is afraid to ask him for any money. But
year later he is AFRAID to come home
With dime missing from his pay en-
velope.
OF course the second baby has as much
claim on a man as the first one. But you
may have noticed that he never wheels
the second baby around the block as often
al he did the first one.
Mother gets highly indignant because
eggs jump from Is cents to p cents a
dozen But as long as beer and Onion
Pcrfectos are only cents per copy, father
can't see anything to worry about.
When the doctor writes a prescription
and tells father to be sure and get il
filled at a certain drug store that handles
fresh drugs. father knows that one drug
store is as good as another. But you
couldn't get him to admit that the horned
toad tamarack or the moccasin milk he
gets in his pet cafe can be duplicated in
any other snake emporium.-Cincinnati
Enquirer
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
NEW WRINKLES.

Easily moved wind shields have been
invented for rear seats Of automobiles.
Mucilage can be made by pressing the
Juice from a freshly boiled Spanish onion
A lamp in which a candle furnishes the
light and which can be strapped to it's
users arm to leave his hands free has
been invented.
To save room an Ohio inventor has
combined kitchen sink and bath tub
the former being over the latter and help
ing to hide it when not in use.
Vessels lined with metal that will con-
duct electric currents have been patented
by Pennsylvania to heat liquids as
they are being poured from one to an
other.
To prevent hen setting a Californian
has invented breast plate, with two legs
in front, to be strapped to a fowl in such
a position that she Is obliged to remain
standing.
Electrical apparatus has been invented
for sterilizing water FOR large consumers
such as hotels and factories, which uses
only the ordinary lighting current for It's
purposes.
Economy of production and strength
of product are claimed for a Detroit
inventors machine which forms steel
tubing from ribbons Of the metal and
Yields the seams.
German photographers have found they
can electroplate paper for use in their
work without danger of it absorbing the
plating bath liquid by first coating the
paper with varnish
To drill the stumps for dynamite quickly
an Idaho man has patented multiple
gear tool which may be held against
stump by a chain while both hands are
left free to operate It by cranks.
A tunneling machine that chips out
hard rock with hammer drills and auto
matically changes into a COUGHING machine
when it strikes softer rock or soil has
been invented by New York man.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
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e517S7IF 40 Tao4T an T1LE

The st. Joseph's hospital fair wound up. a pro
nounced success. netting $4,000 In the voting con
tests Conductor Winkeman Of the Union Pacific
was voted the lantern; Fireman Swift OF the r. & NJ
the clock; Father Gallagher. an easy chair: Mrs
Ford. silver tea set, and Warren switzler another
easy chair
w. +. Mumaugh, superintendent Of the farm ma
ehlnery class at the state fair was presented with
a silver set by the agricultural implement men
Mary Savage, wife Of John II. Savage. died at her
late residence Si2 South sixteenth street
The notorious DOG" Middleton is. ia Omaha on
visit He is now running an agricultural ware
OF Mr.. johnson.
Incorporation articles for the Omaha Elevator
and Grain company were filed by Henry W. Rogers
10. s. Barriger and r. II. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brown left for Superior Ia
visit friends and relatives.
General Manager Galloway in an interview denies
the rumors OF extensive removals Of Union Pacific
departments heads
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
JUST ABOUT WOMEN.

Geraldine Farrar the operate singer,
who has been very ill in Italy is recov-
ering.
Mrs. Harriet Harper. aged lOe years.
registered as voter in the primary cleo
tions at Atchison. Kan.
We predict success for the French
arms IL Nine. Cavalier only succeeds in
modifying her admirers.
Henrietta Crosman is considering going
into vaudeville with a one-word-one-act
playlet by Frank c. Egan of Los An
geles.
Mrs Elizabeth Robinson of Sharon, Pa
believing the world will end in October
has given away her property. valued at
5000
Mrs. Rosemary S. woolston, grand
daughter Of President Grant, died on
September at Hampstead, L, l., aged "a
years.
They say the hens have stopped laying
and the cows refuse TO give milk, so We
think 1t best to move on" said Mrs
Georgia c. Chester OF ColdweU. N j. in a
message from Neuhsusen. Switzerland.
describing the conditions that exist In
that country in war times.
Railroad employees throughout the coun-
try who have known Miss Jennie Smith.
the national railroad evangelist during
her many years Of work in their interest.
are subscribing TO voluntary fund
which will he used to purchase her
home in her declining years in Washing
ton
Miss .Lynnette Powell, daughter OF
British Consul General Wlfred Powell.
has enlisted as a Red Cross nurse with
the British army In Belgium. She was
graduated from the nurses training
school at the University OF Pennsylvania
hospital in June, and has been in Eu-
rope since then.
Mrs. Maggie Newton Van Colt. widely
known as a Methodist evangelist. died at
her home in CatskilL n. Y, recently.
Mrs. Van Cott who was 81 years old, be-
gan her evangelical work about half a
century ago. On her fiftieth birthday in
1850. II was said that she had Travelled
i45,4l7 miles and that she had held 1888
revival meetings. During this time she
preached 4e94 sermons
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES.

Germany's first daily newspaper was
printed $50 years ago.
Hungarian state railways are spending
s., 10000 for new rolling stock
Germany I'm 1918 had HISS automobile
accidents in which 6.31S persons were
hurt.
The average depth OF the sands OF the
African deserts are from thirty TO forty
feet
Sheep used as beasts OF borden in
northern India carry loads Of twenty
pounds.
About fifty workmen are permanently
employed in keeping st. Paurs cathedral
in repair.
Olives are the longest lived fruit trees,
some in Syria having borne abundant
crops for more than 40 years
Paper was made from rags in Arabia
more than ten centuries ago. the art be-
ing brought to Europe in the thirteenth
century.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
Our Rightful Distinction.

The destiny of America leads out into the
broad, rich fields of human liberty and makes
this nation the chief exponent of world peace
and orderly government It is especially graft
fying' therefore, that with the grim god of war
devastating older nations, our proper distinction
should merit the tribute, which the emperor of
Germany has just paid 1t in addressing our chief
magistrate as "the most notable representative
OF the principle of humanity"
The cause of humanity is all we have to serve
That we are serving 1t conspicuousIy as thus
to attract the great war lords of the world u.s. or
should be, a matter of deepest pride to every
true American, for our country is just what the
sum-total OF Its individual citizens make IL
Ihere Is no eXultation over military prowess In
EUROPE To-Day comparable with the worlds ad-
miration of Americas power to keep the peace
and settle Its international disputes at the court
OF reason instead OF by the abitrament Of the
sword.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
COMPARATIVE THERAPEUTICS.

When we feel alone and friendless,
When our solitude seems endless.
And the shadows weird suggestions leer
lis nearly to despair,
Then we think upon the ranger
In the desert, always stranger,
And a throb and thrill of social cheer
Is answer to our prayer.
When the wheels of trade are quiet,
When the unemployed riot
And the burdens OF expense appear
Too great for us TO bear,
Then we seek to help our neighbor,
Sick and needing of our labor,
And the work enough that battles fear
Makes light our load of care.
When the weather's damp and dreary,
When our baby's sick and weary,
And the undertaker's stocks are dear
And soaring in the air,
Then we have a convalescing
In our bones, that is a blessing,
To observe a paralyttc's tear
Drop on his rolling chair.
WILLIS HUDSPETH.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13
FAMILY AFFAIRS.

Percival-Young Benedick and his new
wife are inseparable, aren't they?
Sylvester-Yes; he calls her his altar
ego.--Judge.
Fat girls are said to be good
natured."
Take my advice, old man, and marry
thin one. They can fasten their own
waists up the Dack.'-Pittsburgh Post.
Mother-And so my little man didn't
cry when he fell down. That was brave.
Little Man-There wasn't anyone to
Jones wanted to spend his vacation
in the country and Mrs. Jones wanted
to go to the seashore."
How did they settle it,"
1T is evident that you are not mar.
ried. Boston Transcript
And what do you think Ia look best
in, George?" inquired the chattering wife
at the recess of three-hour talk on
clothes
he having secured his Mathew York
Press.
Nodd-Heres list of European war
debts Don't they stagger you?
TOdd-Wel, they might, old man, but
I've just been looking over my monthly
accounts.-Life
Teacher Ito new scholar)-Now. Mary,
I'll give you sum. Surprising that your
father owed the butcher $l317 $11.13 to
the baker, $270S to the coal merchant,
SIS 10 to the landlord
Mary (decidedly)-We should move.
80 your husband kept house and
cooked his own meals while you were
away. Did he enjoy it?'
He says he did; but notice that the
parrot has learned to swear during my
absence. Boston Transcript
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

When the United States was in the throes Of
civil war a fine conspiracy was Matched among
European monarchs TO set Macmillan up in the
emperor business in Mexico in disregard OF the
Monroe doctrine. Being busy for the moment,
Uncle Sam said he would attend TO that little
matter later, which he subsequently did. where
upon Maximilans Mexican empire went into
liquidation. The Turk may have found the
European powers otherwise engaged Just now.
but they likewise will attend to his little game
later.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

The official initiative and referendum
pamphlet is now going out to the Nebraska vot-
ers explaining the pros and cons of the PROPOSE
tions submitted at the coming election. II II
only contained offers of few mail order bar
gains or cut-price specials We believe it would
command more attention
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

The colonel will after all not speak in
Omaha, but will make his only Nebraska appear
ance in Lincoln. That's a downright shame.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

In discussing long and short ballot, the ex-
pansive possibilities OF the initiative and refer
endum must not be overlooked.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

Illustrating the effects of this war on some
minds. an exchange is moved to dig up and re-
print sBDb Thgnrsoll's article written after his
visit TO the tomb OF Napoleon
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

This unprecedented wave of prosperity that
is heralded as soon to inupdate us will find a
lot of us eaeet&for dackfng. I - ~ {,
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

Our Nebraska State fair Just closed did
little better than last year. but, unfortunately
last year found the gate receipts way behind
Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-13

Perhaps those five American newspaper corr
respondents who managed to be arrested we're
merely trying to divert the lmelisht, from
Richard Harding Davis. ...