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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
Progress in the churches.

The religious forward movement inaugur-
ated by various denominations few years ago
apparently has made its influence felt in the
growth of church membership In the United
States during the last year. Statistics compiled
by Rev DR.. H. X. Carroll. an expert in that
line, show an increase in church membership OF
7es.o7s for 1914. highly satisfactory growth
under abnormal conditions In the last rive
months OF the year. The increase averages =
per cent for all bodies. great and small
DR. CAROLS statistics we're issued by the
Federal Council OF the Churches OF Christ In
America. They place the total church member
ship al the close Of year at Ss.70s.f4s. The pro-
portion OF gains credited to the larger bodies
give the lead to the Churches OF Christ, fol-
lowed by the Methodists Roman Catholics and
Baptists. in the order named
The report gives supremacy in membership
TO the thirty churches constituting the Federal
Council OF the Churches OF Christ. with a total
OF i7,50o.o0o members, nearly one-half the to-
tai church membership In the United States
Roman Catholics rank second with a total OF
lS.794,6S7. number considerably less than the
latter body claims. Nine bodies have member.
ship over the million mark including the Pro
testant Episcopal church. which crossed the line
during the year
A notable feature Of the report is the gain
OF s.7I2 in number OF ministers. more than
double the gain Of 1913. while the increase IN
churches i,441 IL less than half that OF the
previous year This curious reversal OF former
reports indicates practical adjustment Of ths
number Of churches to the available supply Of
ministers
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
woMEN's ACTIVITIES.

Miss Elizabeth Moore Of ST. Louis. who
Is a member OF the Chldren's Bureau
department OF the government. has re-
turned TO Saginaw. Mich. to continue
her investigations I'm regard 20 the women
OF the lumber camps and health of the
children.
Mrs. Havelock Ellis was the first per
son to come out with the public state
ment that the happiness OF women de-
ponds upon their economic independence.
She is not so much In favor OF suffrage
az In work for all women.
Miss Clara Weller Of Des Moines. Ia.
was recently awarded the silver button
Of the National Rifle association for max
ing a score on the rifle range Of 81 out
OF a possible 100 She is a member OF
the first girls rifle team organized west
OF the MISSISSIPPI river.
To Mary Preble of wooiwich Me-. has
been accorded the distinction Of being the
champion amateur shot of the town. she
has been unusually successful in bringing
down small game, and at fifty or 100
PAGES she usually hits the bull's-eye four
out of five times, and frequently makes
a perfect score.
Training and efficiency. and not sex,
should be the qualifications OF those wish
ing to fill position in life, says Dean
Emile w. Mcvea Of Cincinnati univers-
ity. She says that girls should marry at
Is, and the only objection to a college
education is that 1t raises the marriage
age to % or 90
Varick House is a six-story building
in New York. which has been opened for
the benefit of the factory girls, where
they may obtain room and board for
prices ranging from "a TO A75 a week.
There is a sewing room with machines
with electrical connection, where the
girls may make their own dresses. The
rooms are all single, with the exception
of one on each floor. and each contains
an easy chair, chiffonier, bed, desk
table and side chair
Mrs w. X. Vanderbilt has given much
time and money to the question of the
selling OF drugs and the treatment OF
those who become victims. She has now
declared that the manner in which the
City of New York takes care OF the drug
"fiends" is a hideous farce. After ten days
the victims are sent out of the hospitals
cured" and she says they leave shat
tered in nerve and unable to fight
against the drug. Katherine Bement
Davis, commissioner Of charities in New
York, says that between IS and 80 per
cent of all the criminals are drug
Iends.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
Sara Bernhardt, "Mutilated. y


sense Of shock Will accompany the reading
OF the news that Sara Bernhard is to suffer
the amputation of leg This wonderful woman
belongs to the world, rather than to France
All through a long life she has been the expo
nent OF an art that is above art because of it's
imperishable ideals and its evanescent achieve
ments. She has reached in that art an emil
hence attained by no other in her time. other
actors have been eminent others have attained
to such height of fame as would make an ordi-
nary mortal dizzy, but none has reached to
where Sara Bernhard stands alone. Possessed
OF remarkable talent, she made the best use of
II. giving freely to all the world of her ability
While she held to the use OF the French tongue,
she was cosmopolitan in her views, catholic In
her tastes and universal in her expression. And
now that she must undergo, as she expresses it,
humiliation" II is characteristic OF her that the
catastrophe overtakes her near the firing line in
the great war, where she has been aiding in the
work OF caring for the wounded II sympathy
will help Sara Bernhard at this time. she will
get great assistance from America.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
MUFFLED KNOCKS.

II you are going to tell fellow he IS a
bad egg. break 1t gently.
When a policeman uses his club he
generally raps for order.
Even the furrier is willing to admit
that beauty Is only skin deep.
A girl can't be blamed for forgetting
fellow when he forgets himself.
1t sometimes takes q certain amount OF
strength to admit our own weakness.
You never can tell. Many a man Is tall
physically, but mighty short financially.
II you have one foot in the grave.
don't worry. You'll get there with both
feet.
The average man feels that he Is a
match for the fellow who has money to
burn.
A bride will sometimes sweep up the
aisle, but that is generally the sections
work.
When a woman says she won't. she
won't; also very often when she says
she will.
Many a man who is most lavish with
his talk has to take It back, slightly
damaged.
The fellow who always wants to be
treated says It's an III wind that blows
nobody off.
There isn't much hope for the people
who would rather tell their troubles than
be popular.
Don't call names; but. on the other
hand. sou can fatter any woman by call
ing her a flirt
In spite OF the fact that money talks,
Il doesn't seem particularly garrulous
with some OF us
Many a fellow Is a good-hearted fool,
hut the trouble Is we don't do our think
ing with our hearts.
II doesn't pay to do things by halves,
such for instance. as saying the right
thing at the wrong time.
It's all right to carry other peoples
burdens. provided they don't put on more
airs than they can carry.
The man who leaves footprints I'm the
sands OF time isn't always the fellow who
carries the heaviest load.
Honesty is the best policy. but at the
same time the fellow who hesitates 10
steal kiss seldom gets one
The average man will not only lay
down his lie for the woman he loves.
but he also wants 20 lay down the law TO
her.-New York Times
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
AROUND TIVE CITIES.

The jltney bus fever now extends trom
Victoria, b. c., to Baltimore, Nd.
Housewives Of Chicago who talk for
publication threaten to quit bakers bread
and knead the dough themselves
A Brooklyn. N. Y, girl the other day
was awarded $4,000 damages for the loss
of three fingers in factory accident
South Bend, Ind. has so much war order
business on hand that the townspeople
have no time to waste in roofing for
peace.
In Salt Lake city the jitney business
has reached the point where the Jitney
owners are hiring lawyers TO protect
their interests.
Boston boasts that its schools give
more instruction in the "three RS" than
any other city in the United States.
More power to Boston.
In the Juvenile court at Columbus, o.,
a youth unresponslve TO gentle treatment
was roundly busted on the spot by order
of the court. Emphasis on the spot.
As measure OF home defense EInporia,
Kan, excludes all transient merchants,
bankrupt stock hawkers and foreign ped
dlers from doing business in the city.
Oakland, Cal, offers cash bonuses to
city employees who make acceptable sug-
gestions for the betterment OF services
in their department, Pure velvet Is a
good stimulus for thinking machines.
Sioux City's school budget for the year
foots up 100000 and an additional $4,000
in bonds for new buildings is to be sub
mitted to the voters. The election is to
be held March and a free textbook pro-
ject will be voted on at the same time.
A gentle reminder from the business in
terests OF Des Moines that a modern
union station would increase the Joy of
living at the capital brought from the
railroad managers the response that there
will be nothing doing in that line until
the revenues OF the Iowa lines are ma
terially increased.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
s1GEPOsTs OF PROGRESS.


Montreal has the largest flour mill IN
the British empire; It turns out 5000 bar
rcls a day.
Selt-propelled steam machinery clear
Ing land OF stumps after NUMBERING opera
tons has been invented.
The days OF making brick by hand are
no more. Electricity Is now extensively
used In briek-mnking plants.
The worlds most northern railroad. In
Lapland. is TO be electrified. power being
obtained from nearby waterfalls
United States naval Officers have de-
veloped colored glass that renders Wis
iole the fumes from smokeless opwder.
The Introduction OF electricity for power
In the South African gold mines has re-
duced the amount OF tuberculosis among
the miners
device consisting OF iolnted sections
or veneered wood has been patented for
pressing trousers without the danger OF
using hot irons-
Despite an increase in the use OF cleo
tFicity. twenty-five factories in the United
States are kept busy making incandes-
cent gas msntless
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Detroit Free Press: western minister
declares that each individual makes his
own hell. And now and then you run
across man who's an expert at the
trade.
Pittsburg Dispatch. Philadelphia
women resents Billy Sundays remarks
about the idle rich, she insisting that
there are no such people. Come to think
OF It, the rich are kept pretty busy find
ing something TO do.
Philadelphia ledger: with a member
ship gain of $4,000 the churches of
America may look upon 1914 with en-
couragement and 1915 with hope. But in
this country of majoritles the majority is
stin outside the churches and the big
work Is still to be done
st. Louis Globe-Democrat There were,
when the period of latest census compila-
ton closed, 1856 ways of getting to heaven.
II is possible that some may get there
without travelling the main Travelled roads
at all; men and women who really be-
lieve that He is the way the truth and
the life" and who see in His sacrifice
not only a something to believe in but
something to emulate. Because ali Of the
orthodox churches preach Him crucified
their message cannot fail either 10 the
poor In understanding who are willing to
accept the sacrifice in faith of its own
sufficient efficacy, or to the stronger in
mind who realize the obligation which
their faith puts upon them. The work Is
good &c to church
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
BEAUTY SEEN IS NEVER LOST.

John Greenieaf Whittier.
Touched by light that hath no name.
glory never sung,
Are Gods great pictures hung.
How changed the submits vast and old!
No longer granite-browed,
They melt in rosy mist-the rock
The volley holds its breath; no leaf
OF all its eims is twirled;
The silence of eternity
Seems falling on the world
The pause before the breaking seals
OF mystery is this;
Yon miracle-play of night ana day
Makes dumb its witnesses.
What unseen altar crowns the hills
That reach up stair on stair!
What eyes look through, what white
wings fan
These purple wells of air
What presence from the heavenly heights
To those Of earth stoops DOWN.
Not vainly Hellas dreamed of gods
On Ida's snowy crowni
Slow fades the vision of the sky
The golden water pales,
And over ell the valley lands
A gray-winged vapor sails,
I go the common way of all;
The sunset fires will burn,
The flowers will blow, the river flow
When 1 no more return
No whisper from the mountain pine
Nor lasping stream shall tell
The stranger. treading where ! tread,
OF him who loved them well.
But beauty seen is never lost
Gods colors all are fast;
The glory OF this sunset heaven
Into my soul has passed
A sense of giadness unconfined
To mortal date or CLINE;
AS the soul liveth. II shall live
Beyond the years of time.
Besides the mystic asphodeig
Shall bloom the home-born fiowers,
And new horizons flush and glow
With sunset hues OF ours
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Willie-Paw, does a botauist know az
much about flowers as a florist7
Paw-Yes. my SON. But he doesn't
know as much about the prices people
VIII pay for them.-Cincinnati Enquirer
Nodd-The only criticism have 10 mass
on women is that they are never readv
to take the initiative
Todd-I wish you would accompany me
to my home some evening after I have
been out with the boys.-Life.
on earth"
II dunno" replied Uncle Bill Bottietop.
have taken Roman punch as serious
ticker must have been purity mild an
unsophisticated, seems to me."-Washing-
ton Star.
That man seems to be making a great
deal of money"
yet in the nature of his business, he Is
always up against IT,"
How is that7'
'He is wall decorator.
American.
This man Sundays certainly working
wonders" remarked Mr.. Peck
In what way in PARTICULAR" asked
his better half.
He's reformed the winbigs. Their
daughter got married last week and they
publicly announced that they would quit
bridge whist
"What?'
Sure. the wedding announcements said
no cards philadelphia Ledger.
"She hesitated n long while. wonder
how she finally came to decide to take
the matrimonial plunge"
off the dock, SO as to speak. '-Louisvills
Courier-Journal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
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The Swedish Lutheran conference for the Kansas
Nebraska district held It's final session. An effort
was made TO have NebraskS withdraw from the con-
ference and unite with that OF Iowa. but the other
districts refused 10 aceede.
The three nisht schools to be oosed with the
end Of the month being conducted. one on North
sixteenth by S. s. IAnyon Fifteenth and
Howard by II. +, Everett. ana the third on South
Thirteenth by George 1. Fisher
The Danish society held its annual mask bali at
Turner hall. Among the costumes were Mrs william
Nelson. mail carrier; Mas Anna Thrane firemAn's
daughter; Councilman Hascall German schoolboy;
John christopherson. old man Charles Rasmussen,
bootblack-
The Tarnverein also pulled off a mask ball al Ger
mania hall. the floor COMMITTEES making special hit
as gentlemen dressed Spaniards Of Granada
Ira p. Highly formerly OF the Paxton hotel force
is holding up the counter Al the Gor6am house.
LlncOln
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
People and Events

Owing to the dearth Of lenses made in
Germany" the cost of eyeglasses Is on
the rise why not7 High glasses are
peculiarly suited 60 the times.
Two women and a score OF men have
been arrested in Chicago charged with
padding the registration lists. The girls
are not slow in catching on 10 the shady
points in the game.
Mrs Edna Van winbie managed the
senatorial campaign Of Francis ]. Heney
in California last fall. She lost and won
at the same time, and changed her name
TO Mrs. Francis J. Heney.
A 81. Paul man IS years OF age danced
blindfolded among eighteen eggs laid on
the floor a foot apart and didn't break
one. II is said he acquired his agility
in the Minnesota legislature.
The last Of the dozen or more teacher
mothers Of New York City. whose dis
missal provoked a storm. has been re-
stored to her place in the schools. The
surrender OF the Board Of Education was
more discreet than graceful.
A New York lace importer went into
court In Cleveland TO collect from Cleve-
land purchasers a bill for lace doilies
With angel figures minus wings VINO
ever heard Of angels without wings7"
aueried the jury as It sauelched the bill.
George w. Perkins OF New York is
taking an active part in the movement
TO break up speculation in food products
and bring prices down to live-and-let-
live basis. This is in keeping with his
expressed desire to make this country a
good place for children to grow up in.
David e. shanahan Of Chicago is the
champion deadlock picker in Illinois. A
combination of republicans and demo-
Gratis made him speaker Of the assembly
after q contest of six weeks duration.
Shananhan Is just over 50. He started
In life as an iceman. switched to repub-
lican politics and has been in the business
ever since. In addition to these qualifi-
cations, the speaker wears a head as
smooth as Judge Bakers
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
TABLo1Ds OF SCIENCE.

The smallest apartment houses are
those occupied by bees. In a cubic foot
Of honeycomb there are about 1900 cells.
dent nurses to handle so that they will
know how to manipulate patients when
they are called upon to do so.
After extensive experiments two Eng
lish chemists have perfected sulphur
dyes with which II is possible to color
wool. silk. hemp and other fibers salts
factorily and economically.
An ant can carry q grain Of corn ten
times the weight OF its own body, while
horse and a man can carry a burden
only about equal to their own weight.
Crushed brick from old walls with bits
of mortar adhering has been found salts
factorily to replace crushed stone and
gravel in the manufacture of concrete.
An argument in favor Of the generous
feeding of cattle is the fact that a COW
which gets good ration gives about
three times more milk than her hungry
sister
II is believed that an excellent substi-
tute for silk has been produced In
Panama by crossing the blooms OF certain
wild fiber plants with a species of cos
sipium. The result Is staple of texture
finer than cocoon silk, but with a tensile
strength about five times greater.
The following Is a simple but effective
method for removing the Crime which
plaster statues. etc, gather in the at
mosphere OF cities: thick solution of
starch, such as iaundresses use. is made
and the object is covered with It. care
being taken to have IT penetrate every
crevioe. The starch paste is then allowed
to dry. whereupon It crumbles away. car
rying with 1t the dirt on the surface of
the plaster.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
Success Of the Automobile Show

No evidence OF depression or hard times In
the great Automobile show that closed at the
Omaha Auditorium last night. Dealers report
more than million dollars worth of cars sold
during the week which makes a record that any
enterprise might be proud OF. The purchasers
of these cars will use them in all the various
ways TO which the machine is suited. and will
doubtless get back many times over IN service
the cost. But the main point is that the people
OF Omaha and its immediate neighborhood are
In such financial fix that they can indulge In
these wholesale expenditures. This is a most
significant and satisfactory sign OF the times.
Il not only evidences. but IL proves. prosperity.
and In this. II in no other. way the tenth annual
Omaha Automobile show was a success.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
The Sleepers

Bishop Sanford olmsted. apropos OF a prosy clergy
man, said at tea In Denver;
They tell story of a witty lady who was asked.
" Did you so to DR. Drey's church last sundayr
Yes
We'll what the textT
." "He giVeth His beloved sleep."'
" And how many were present.
The witty lady laughed.
" AN the beloved should say sne replied -
washington star
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21
The former british ambassador

The former British ambassador TO the United
States. viscount Bryce. expresses the hope that
the present strife will rid the world OF the
worst evil OF the human race war. II this does
not cure us, nothing will" Among the forces
TO be employed TO that desirable end is less
sterilization Of war in history and fewer public
monuments glorfylng warriors
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

Publicity scores again. The Belgian ac-
tress' who worked both sides Of war sympathiE-
ers In Omaha. was unable to extract the coin in
Kansas City. A diagram OF her game got there
first. eta tt
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

Hats off to Hon. Norma A. Wood Of Crook
county. Wyoming Although the sole represen-
tatfye of womankind in the legislature she eff
fectively squeIched the quick and easy divorce
scheme and yindicated the supremacy OF morals
over dollars
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

The zeal Of the Water boarders for permits
sion TO enter side lines Of business is prompted
no doubt. by desire for repetition OF the per-
Torrance whereby Omaha was soaked for few
millions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

The mistake of dividing tho activities Of the
agricultural college is Just now very apparent
to number OF people who we're Grdenty in
favor OF aiding a democratic statesman on his
way TO washington few years ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

Camera men are reported to be taking pic
lures OF European battlefields in the interest OF
the Carnegie peace movement. ANY person who
springs war picture when peace comes stands
first class chance OF being run in for disturbing
the peace
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

All nations of the first class now pitch their
financial voices in the billion key. Even the
American congress Joins in the billion chorus
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

II the record OF first battles Is not TO be
broken, it's about all over with the senator's
resolution.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

The most cheering news of the waning win
ter is condensed into three words-''no extra
session." The country needs a rest and will well
come the relief.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

suspicion is growing in omaha that the
weather man has sold the sun.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

With the price Of raw material shrinking, 1t
is up to the bakers TO pull the shrinkage out Of
the loaf.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

Subscribers leaving the city temporarily
should have The bee mailed TO them. Ad.
dress will be changed as often - requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-21

United Omaha means a more progressive
Omaha.
The Ketchikan miner., 1915-04-08
CRUISER
 |NTERNS

Newport News, April S-Notice was served on the commander of the German auxiliary cruiser Eitel Freid
 rich at midnight last night that he must either take his ship out of the harbor or intern same before four O.
 clock this morning. When this was told him he mournfully announced that the help he had expected had not arrived off the coast, so lie would be compelled to intern and remain until the end of the war His officers and crew with him were regretful that such a course was inevitable, but ali of them realized that no other thing vas possible, since going to sea meant certain destruction at the guns of the Allied battleships in the offing, and the attempt to escape would be fool
 hardy.