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Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
People and Events

One OF the Standard Oh subsidiaries
pays 20 per cent dividends. another pays
"a per cent. The kids Of the oil family
arc crowding dad into the short grass
section.
The pocket nerve of Great Britain. es-
teemed the most sensitive institution ex-
tant. is booked for painful disturbance.
War revenue measures double the in
come tax.
General Technically shows some rare
speed in Connecticut. where objection is
maze to certain indictments on the
ground that the foreman of the grand
jury parted his hair in the middle.
Talk about the corn belt, the orange
belt or the alfalfa belt-not one OF them
carries the serene comfort. the ineffable
happiness of the pumpkin pie belt with
wrinkles ironed out. Have another slab?
Now suppose that the patrisrchal
Richard Croker, Il, takes his fairy Indian
princess. %, to his Irish castle near
Dublin, will the banshee scream or
silently scoot for the rocky caverns of
Galway?
.Afteres week OF prayer and mortitica-
tion of the worldly spirit the students of
a school at Wooster, o., removed all
nude and gaudy decorations from their
rooms and made bonfire of the sinful
pictures.
Down in old Arkansaw card playing is
an art, not game. The fact that q
grand jury IL investigating an epidemic
OF playing for prizes In tho homes of one
city shows the difficulties Of preserving
art from the blight Of commercialism.
Connecticut. famed for its steady habits
and things, covers the alimony scoreboard
with the finest bunch of figures seen in
the Nutmeg state Elizabeth y. Foster
has been awarded divorce and 100000 ALI
mony, which Plerp Foster is required TO
fork over as a penalty for desertlon.
Now. brethren. chide not Kentucky be-
cause Breathit county feudists precipl-
tated three funerals last week. Consider
the provocation. Who among Americans
has the llngusl skill TO pronounoe place
names in the Russian war front, or the
fortitude to observe calmly a flock of
Mexican generals alternately stirring the
dope in the witches caldron? The wonder
is that the dove OF peace has a peg to
perch on.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Cincinnati Enquirer: Every church
should have a pastor who practices
better than he breaches.
Boston Transcript: 4 lot OF religious
bodies are meeting In Boston just now.
and we must say that their discussions
Of the war have been most Illuminating.
Buffalo Express: The Presbyterian off
cials admit that there were 25a,00o back
slders among them last year. The other
denominations are lying low and saying
nothing.
Detroit Free Press: A Kansas bishop
thinks the war will spread the gospel
throughout the world. Evidently he be-
lieves that God moves in a mysterious
way His wonders to perform
Houston Post: Rev. william Fulton
says 10000 Presbyterians have been
placed on the suspended roll for back
sliding during the last five years. In
dieating. of course, that while the doc
trine Of election holds as usual, there is
such thing as impeachment.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
WHAT CITIES ARE DOING.

A charity fund roundup of Salt Lake
City last Monday netted $2,S29.
Municipal ownership of the water works
system of San Francisco now represents
an outlay of $s4.5oO,00O.
Des Molnes issued .twenty-nine permits
for as many couples to commit matri-
mony on Thanksgiving day.
Sioux City commissioners are prepar-
ing to register united kick against an
increase in railroad freight rates.
Council Bluffs points with pride to a
laid this year.
Street paving will continue through the
winter in Baltimore. in order to provide
work for the unemployed.
Fracturing the speed regulations in Salt
Lake City costs $50 for first offense. Each
repetition calls for 500 and thirty days in
jail
Milwaukee's health commissioner plans
to establish free dispensaries and clinics
in public school buildings for the benefit
of school children and the general public.
Atlanta insists ON the street railway
company installing a system which will
prevent electricity wandering away from
the rails and destroying other under
ground property.
Des Moines' water system, which the
city is about TO take over, will require
an outlay of s., 2,4S2 ,OOO Owing to the un-
settled condition of the bond market the
city desires a few weeks delay before
putting up the cash.
During the last ten months New York
City officials copfiscated and destroyed
1900 false weights and measures. Run
ming down such tools of dishonesty is the
liveliest work put up to the authorities.
Chicago thieves have demonstrated that
stealing a red-hot stove is not a figure
of speech. Recently they maea away
with one from a switchman's shanty and
took along enough coal to keep the stove
hot for a few days.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
IF THIS BE ALL.
North American Reuieu

North American Review.
II this be all, and when we die, We die,
Then life is but a wanton, rnontrous lie:
And of the hapless creatures that draw
breath,
We. who seem flower and crown. rank
far below
The least OF living things that does not
know
The. dread OF loss. the certainty OF
death.
If pain and sorrow are without a scheme.
Dealt out by chance, then like an evil
dream
or some dark fiend, this smiling, gra-
cious earth:
IL we that hunger, never shall be filled,
The sooner that our empty hearts are
stiiled.
The. better for them and their aching
dearth.
Yet close. feel. there wraps us all
Some mighty force, some mystery pro
And, through my doubts and Ignorance,
/ trust
The power that bound with laws the
moon and tide,
And hung the stars in heavenly spaces
wide, -
Must, by their witness. be both wise
and just.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
War Intoxioation.

British subaltern, writing home let's loose
the fiery yehemence Of youth" in this wise:
adore war It Is like a big picnic without the
objectlessness OF picnic I've never been so well
happy
Which makes 1t easier to believe that, as a
great French author said, youth is a continual
intoxication; IL is the fever of reason" ..,
But the war lords capitalize it at the highest
mark. What great thing for state to have
such an asset, II only IL we're put to it's proper
use, Converted into power to drive the engines
OF peaceful industry and science instead Of war
this "delusion of youth" that adores war be-
comes. indeed. nations highest asset. What,
then, Of the economy and efficiency Of govern
ments that feed such material to cannon?
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
QUAINT BITS OF LIFE.

At a Halloween mask party In TYorain,
o.. the principals of mock wedding,
Miss Harriet Reynolds and A. c. Swartz,
surprised their friends by announcing
hat the marriage was real.
Sixty farmers of Columbia, Mo-, re-
ceived by telephone a thirty-five-minute
sermon. delivered by the Rev. Nelson
Trimble. The roads were in such bad
condition that the farmers could not get
TO church.
At every. cigar factory in Havana a
reader engaged and paid by the hands
themselves, occupies a pulpit in the ceh-
ter of the room for some hours every
day. regaling his audience with news
papers and novels.
John Murphy of Baltinglass, ireland.
has been married five times and has
torty-one children. Murphy proudly as
and the youngest q baby. and all the
family were fed on rabbits.
A rabbits foot was placed in the cor
nerstone OF the new Willow Avenue Pres
byterian church in Joliet, III. Two fires
in two years totally destroyed the old
edlfice. The pastor. the Rev C. NJ.
Bruhn, however, positively denies that he
= superstitious.
James Hayes of New London, n. H..
sold his apples at 10 cents a barrel te
all who would pick them because of the
big crop he has. and another dealer, who
shipped No. Baldwins out of town, re-
oeived 12 cents a barrel.
A Philadelphia produce merchant has
taught his parrot to greet German Gus
toners with 'Ioch der Kaiser" and
English and French customers with
"Vive Joffre.." according to certain sig
nails. The parrot, however, after giving
the correct greetings for some time, now
regularly gets the signals mixed.
Four young men in Mason, Ga, have
taken out licenses to marry the Aans
girl. Please don't let the newspapers
set hold OF this" was the request each
made when applying for the license,
Then each one took the license clerk into
hts confidence and told him the whole
story. Each declared that he was in
love with the girl. and that they are all
pressing their suits to the utmost.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
TABLOIDs OF SCIENCE.

Bones OF the albatros are being used
TO a very great extent of late as mouth
pieces of pipes instead OF amber.
The average pay OF every man. woman
and child in the United States who works
for wages or salary, was $50 last year
The average death rate throughout the
world Is sixty-seven minute, and the
average number OF births in the same
period Is seventy.
German scientists have made q fuel
with two-thirds the heating value of coal
from sudd, the refuse vegetable matter
Of the River Nile.
a freakish bolt Of lightning completely
vaporized more than 200 feet of the an
tennae OF a French wireless telegraph
station. then formed q ball which made
a clean hole in a window pane.
A new fireproof window shutter is made
of 2 series of metal tubes, rolled together
like the top of roll-top desk, and which
can be dropped over a window by its own
weight.
With an instrument of his invention, a
Chicago man can measure one fivc-mil-
lionth of an inch one-fiftieth of the
distance revealed by theoretically per-
feet microscope.
Following exploration by American geo.
loglsts experts from the United States
are investigating the petroleum deposits
of northern China, which may become
one Of the worlds great oil fields.
SO valuable is good date garden soil
that The Arab will refuse $500 an acre
for it. Through ages Of cultivation it
gives no indication of wearing out, hence
the exceptional value placed upon il.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
The Movies ssrious Mi..ion

The homely little phrase Seeing is beliey-
ins' comes to mind in contemplating the possi-
oilities OF the moving picture as an instrument
OF popular education. both sacred and secular
Its future as means OF entertainment ana
amusement is assured, yet hardly more so, we
think' than its other more serious and service
able mission. Ours is an age of illustration as
every succeeding age is likely to be. Truth
Visnaiized before the physical eye makes a more
impressive and lasting picture, especially ON the
plastic mind OF youth. than when presented
merely In the abstract 10 the mental vision.
So the church and school are coming 70
recognize this new agency Of instruction. The
church and Social Service bureau OF New York
is taking the lead in rather pretentious cam
paign OF moving picture education. having al
reaay arranged, censored aud presented for use
over the country by churches desiring them.
moving pictures OF biblical and sacred history
scenes and stories. Many churches have incor-
porated this agency into their regular schemes
Of service with excellent results.
But the Church and Social Service bureau.
"hieh expects to broaden the scope of its work
as time permits. is now preparing TO send a
company OF professional actors 10 Palestine 20
pose In different places hallowed in sacred his
tory In order to bring down TO this modern age
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
EDITORIAL sHRAPNEL.

Boston Transcript II Uncle Sam does
his whole duty 20 stricken Europe he will
lock the door at Ellis island and make
the people who are fighting this war stay
at home when II is over and help pay
for II.
Philadelphia Bulletin; With submarines
attacking beneath. and dirigibles over
head. the newest dreadnoughts viii have
10 be armored after the plan OF a turtle,
top and bottom as well as sides. The
steel mills at least win rejoice.
indianapolis News; Inasmuch as 1t
seems that We have Invented a consider
abel proportion OF the weapons and other
things now being used in the European
war. perhaps there Is some Justice. after
ALL in our paying part OF the bill.
New York World; The capital Of the
Krupp company is TO be increased from
7OooO.OOo marks to 25oOOo,OOO. This com
pany has the distinction OF prOspering In
proportion 10 the amount OF damage It's
output does TO other Industries
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
s1GNposTs OF PROGRESS.

An electric machine that works au-
tomatlcally has been invented for stuff
ing sausages.
The Italian government uses American
machinery to manufacture shoes for its
soldiers.
vein of anthracite within a foot OF
the surface has been struck in PottsViho'
Pa. II is more than ten feet thick and
is located only a stones throw from the
court house.
The development Of water power for
furnishing electric light and power Tor
Manila and its suburbs is planned by
street railway company now using Jap
anese coal TO generate current.
Ten girls have been graduated from a
seven years housekeeping course in ST
Louis and have received diplomas certi-
flying that they arc perfectly fitted for
domestic science applied.
At the National Negro Business league
convention at Muskogec, Okl. 1t was
stated that 2,OOO000 negroes living In OK
lahoma, Kansas Missouri Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas now have under
their control. as owners and renters,
about $3Oo. 900, 900 worth of farm propert'
and own 60OOO farms. containing 6oeO.WO
acres OF land. with farm property, land.
live stock and farming implements worth
500, coo
The greatest marble-producing Indus
~ In the world is no longer TO be founa
in the famous Carrara district OF Italy
but In Vermont, where one Of the richest
veins in the world stretches in an ir-
regular line across the state. So great
is the production OF marble I'm this sec
ton that the inhabitants have lost much
OF their appreciation of its value and
use It for such humble and utflitarian
purposes as paving underpinniug for
barns. hitching posts. stepping stones and
drinking troughs for horses. This vein
s about fifty-seven miles long, from
1,65O to 1900 feet in width, and from 1t Is
being taken in enormous quantities
white marble that Is equal to the finest
Italian marble. as well as an endless
variety OF blue, yellow, green and jet
black marbles.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
Beautifying The Billboard.

For long time cities waged war on the un-
slightly billboards but the billboards. like the
poor, We still have with us. The war ON ugIi-
ness however, was not entirely In vain, for the
tillboards are not the unsightly things they used
to be. In the majority of cases they are being
made more artistic, both in point OF construction
and design and decoration. They are being IL
lumined after dark, so that by night they present
a less offensive appearance. And even though
numerous In most growing cities. which have in
their haste to expand, left too many vacant lots
within their interiors, these. billboards serve to
hide an otherwise hideous vacant lot from pub
lilo view The billboard people, then, we say,
are entitled to a measure OF credit for making
the best OF what is popularity regarded as a bad
thing to begin with. Give the billboard people
credit. too, for exhibiting a very keen sense Of
the popular trend when they give space TO moral
and religious sentiments and precepts. which.
though inspired by selfish motives, cannot fail
to arouse more kindly feeling for them.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
The Good FellOws-push EN- Along.

The exceptional response to The Bees ap-
peals for donations to the Christmas ship cargo
carrying Yuletide happiness to the new-made
orphans OF the war-stricken countries of Europe
proves that there is no delight more satisfying
tnan that OF furnishing pleasure to children
calling attention to the fact that there are
homes here In Omaha where little ones will 9TH
erwise have no Christmas joys, our contempor-
ary' the World-Heraid, has again started its
GOOD Fellow movement" to play Santa Claus
for them.
NO one newspaper. no one church, no one
olarity, can DO all the good work for the com
munity, uf, out each must do its share. and all to-
gether VIII accomplish results. So to the good
fellows" We say. Hail and godspeed. They can
find plenty that is prasworthy to do. Push 'em
alongi
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
Lesson TO Land Seekers

The wholesale conviction in the Kansas City
federal court of Everglade land fraud perpetra-
tors should be another warning to the unwary
with money to invest in land. Some OF the vic
tins caught by these takers were Nebraska peo-
pie. While they have our sympathy, yet they
should let this be lesson to them not to try to
find better land investments than are to be had
right here In their own state where they are as
sured OF the advantages In soil, climate, trans
portation and all other facilities that go to make
up profitable and desirable community in
which to live'and build homes. The conviction
OF these crooks does not signify, OF course, that
there Is no good land In Florida, but merely that
there is no profit in get-rich-quick enterprise
except for the fellow who is promoting It. The
multiplicity OF boom land schemes calls for the
sevenest discrimination on the part of the pur-
chaser And bona flde land-selling enterprises,
as well as communities needing denser settle
ment, are among the heaviest sufferers from the
shady schemes
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs,

Newwedd-Did you spend as much
money as this before married you7
Mrs. Newedd-Why. yes. -.
Newedd-Then bless me II l can under
stand why your father went on so when
took you away from him.-Boston Tran
script.
81 was simply in such agony I couldn't
stand it with that attack of plumbago.'
What did you do?"
81 got the doctor to give me a morphine
interjection. Baltimore American.
suitor waiting for the lady)--Is your
daughter coming out next winter1
Father-Shell come out when she's
good and ready and IL you git fresh III
knock yer block off.-Cornell Widow.
"I don't know of but one woman who
has perfect confidence I'm her husband"
Are YOU sure there is one?''
Yes; she poses for him in vaudeville
in knife-throwing act"-Louisville
MY wife made me a success" re-
marked the man.
'I'm glad to hear you say that" de-
"Yes: she has always wanted so many
THONGS that I've had to hustle, Kan
sas City Journal.
Hubby, some ladies have asked me to
join the movement for beautifying our
town" .-a
''Weu?"
And I'd like to join"
And what's your idea of beautifyinE
our town? Getting a new feather for
your hat?'-Pittsburgh Post.
The Mistress-I shall take one Of the
children to church with me this morning,
Mary.
The General-Yesm; which?
The Mistress-Oh, whichever viii 90
best with my new mauve dress,--London
Sketch
II hear ii said that your speech has set
people thinking" remarked the friend
of the statesman.
I'm sorry" replied the statesman, at
wasn't intended for that. t."--Philadelphia
Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
Fish.

circular Issued by the food supply commit
tee OF New York City, OF which George w. Per-
kins happens to be chairman, dwells upon the
food value Of fish, and pertinently suggests that
we lose lot through the popular habit of eat
ing fish only on Friday. The result is that
there is but once-a-week demand for fish
which enables dealers to ask, and get, more than
they would have to II they had a reasonably
steady sale day in and day out. The advice of
the committee is for those whoslike to eat fish
to vary their custom so as to spread out the
load on the fish market TO the advantage of all
concerned. We have heard that the finny tribe
are no respecters Of the different days Of the
week. and have been known to bite on Sundays
despite the adaee about virtue being it's own re-
ward. The difficulty therefore. cannot be, on
the supply side but only In the uneven demand
for fish. which would surely be remedied- by fol-
lowing the advice that is offered.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

the visualzed truths OF the religion Of that land
Thus again we find the church applying APP
proved business methods to the things of God.
And why not7 In what better way can the NOV
ing picture be exalted to the higher spheres of
popular service? For some time the question
has been dinned into peoples ears, why do not
more men go TO church," Possibly this very in
vention Of science may help remove the occasion
for that question soon. by increasing the attrac-
tion OF the preached word, who knows?
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29
A Permanent omaha.Linooln Roadway.

In popping into the hopper a proposal for
permanent roadway to Omaha in order to attract
tourists to the capital city. Mayor Zehrung Of
Lincoln Is said 10 be arousing no little enthusi-
asm In the project From the Lincoln point of
view. the undisgused purpose of such a highway
would be to take traffic in that direction that
would not otherwise go there, but there is no
reason why It should not also have the favor of
Omaha, because the natural expectation must be
that as many tourists will be returning as going.
and as many be drawn TO Omaha by an attrac-
tive stretch of road as to Lincoln
A paved boulevard between Omaha and Lin
coin, however. becomes very practical question
when we remember that the cost of construction.
whether convict labor be used or not. must de-
Volye upon the counties which it traverses un-
less the state as whole should help out. We
have feeling that It would be harder to get ac-
tion at the Lincoln end of the line than at the
Omaha end. but unless the whole road in all it's
sectional parts can be put through together.
piecemeal construction will hardly serve the
purpose Our good roads champions surely
have something tangible here to work on.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

The clearing house record today was ,sssgi.

The clearing house record today was s4o6272
Young's art emporium has been opened at l5is
Dousles street and iH NOW showing assortment
Of artistic holiday goods rs
Sandy Knisht is the toniest policeman on the
forcf. lie has band 20. escort him on his beat
ON sixteenth street at night made up OF two col
oreq boys who march along behind him playing
David kaufman the popular ciaar dealer "a
having quite a run on his clear Havana. II is IN
honor of son and heir.
1iyrtle lodge Knights OF Pytfaas celebrated its
Hl@teeneh anniversary with supper and bah last
evening s. "a WIicox Chancellor commander a.
ficinted. andA. D Jones delivered the Anniversary
address. The music was furnished BY quartet.
MS Hayward and Mrs TeeL Other responses were
made ~ Or Carter. w. r. coupland and DIR. Lessen
finR for The coming year the following officers
We're elected p. A. cFQwei. q G; J. Dohnelly. V
81 ", a. Wells, preiate; J. r. Knapp. A. OF f /:
Wa p Manning. a. OF ~ w f. Baker, az OF A. /;
<-eorge Sabine. X. Of r.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

Notwithstanding Golfers animadversion
that pun on q name is the lowest form of wit
that cartoon from the Columbus Dispatch OF the
Warsaw Campaign" with Germany and Russia
at opposite ends OF big cross-eut. evidently has
struck a good many folks as a mighty rich bit
OF humor.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

The quarantine account OF the foot-and-
mouth disease Is being lifted. The animal
doctors will soon be telling us just how much
in dollars and cents they have saved the coun-
try, but the ultimate consumer viii need a mi
croscope to see his saving.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

= progressive party leader. who issues a
manifesto calling on all the brethren to rally
round the flag at the Chicago meeting, has Just
been ordered south by hts physician. That
seems to be the trouble with the whole partS
.-goine SOUTH ist- t+
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

carranza. failing TO find any real ground for
complaint in our evacuation OF Vera Cruz,
growls at its lack OF formal ceremony. Like the
man who kicked even though about to be hanged
with two ropes
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

Subscribers leaving the city temporarily
should have The Bee mailed 90 them. Ad-
dress will be changed as often requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

Something very terrible. indeed. but no lesa
grand. is happening as write--war correspondent
How grand 1t Is TO have thousands of men
fathers. sons, brothers-slaughxer one another
TO make jubilee.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

It's mighty duh child who can't keep track
of the number of school days to elapse up to the
holiday vacation.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-29

WIN it come to Hhis, that England, which
dictated oiir Panama toll system, must look over
each American merchantmen before II sails into
the canalf ~f.Es