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The Sunday Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY --—. THE BEE FIBIJSIIINO CO.. Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the DepartmeYit |anti« or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. IvrULf OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N.' New Y'ork—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Rldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syndi. Trust Bldg. ..os Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. IN THE LIVING PRESENT. "While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” "Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the Held shall yield their fruit.” Two promises of God Almighty, one made to Noah, and the other to the children of Israel. To these latter it was most significant, for they came from a land where rain was a thing unknown. Egypt simmers the year round under a sun whose fervor is rarely dimmed by a cloud, and where rain falls so seldom that it is always a marvel to those who note it. In the days of Noah harvest time denoted the end of one year and the beginning of another; after the second captivity, the new year came with the vernal equinox. Thus, seed time and harvest were the epochs for the Jews. It does not much matter how the year came to be divided into four seasons, instead of two. To be sure, the arrangement takes care of the four great astronomical phases exhibited in the equinoc tial and solstitial phenomena, on the regular oc currence of which depends the fulfilment of the promise of seed time and harvest, of day and night and summer and winter. Long before the day of Abraham the tribes of men watched for the rising of the star that denoted the return of spring, the beginning of a new year. This does not mean so much nowadays, even though the season of the win ter solstice does presage that event. Yet men do take note of time, if only by its flight. Each year is a milestone, a standard by which other years are measured. The end is a time for retrospect, the beginning a time for hopeful anticipa tion. Today most of us are taking a mental inven tory, setting down what was done, and what was un done in the days that have slipped so swiftly away since last we wished all around us a happy New Year. Pride in achievement, regret for failure, some thing to the credit side, something to the debit, these will make up the record for each man or woman. None has done all that might have been done; many plans have gone askew, many hopes have been un fruitful, and disappointment rides with any joy, because they go hand in hand almost, and alternate like day and night throughout all lives. The year has not been wafted, because something has been done, and out of the failure the staunch spirit that has animated those who have bravely struggled forward will inspire them to press on. What does the new year hold? No mortal can tell \vhat the next minute holds, let alone a year. Yet it is well to plan, fix high aims and set a bright mark for the days to come, a definite object to achieve, a pattern to work to. Maybe the erfd of the year will not let any cast up a reckoning and say at the total, “I have done all I had planned!” The real test is not so much in the achievement as in the effort. A stout heart will not despair, but gather from any passing check new courage to press on to ultimate conquest. A well balanced mind will not be turned aside because of a temporary check, rely ing on its innate power for certain triumph, and with Longfellow: "Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain. If. rising on Its wrecks, nt last To somethlni; nobler we attain " Seed time and harvest are the promise, and as the liight follows the day, so does victory come out of defeat, and the end of one year is the beginning of (the opportunities of the next. Press on! HALF A CENTURY OF FUN MAKING "The way was long, the night was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old " Thus Scott introduces a bard who became or.e I of the chief entertainers in his long list of notable gloom chasers. “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” still is read by lovers of the romantic as well as th< lyric. His minstrel, however, did not have back of him nearly the years of service of a pair who an about to dawn on Omaha for the umptieth time, and who are just now celebrating their jubilee. Fifty years ago Tom McIntyre and Jim Heath decided to give over for the time being other em ployment and go into the minstrel business. Mrs. Heath provided them with a sketch. “The Georgia Minstrels,” and they tried it out. Remember that tastes were much different in 1874 than now pre vail, and then understand if you can that the same sketch is as popular today as it proved the night it was first presented. For half a century McIntyre and Heath have been making people laugh. Not always in that old sketch, for they have tried out many others in the GO years they have worked to gether, but every time they repeat the original it goes good. Fifty years of such life is something worth making note of. Partners on the stage, friends off. constant companions, they have gone through all events of life together, and now, each well passed the mark set as the limit for man's life, they still are spreading sunshine. Neither is infirm, nor is either of them an old man, judged by results, and they ought to go on for a long time to come. The man who built the Eiffel tower is just dead at 91. The queer thing about the case is that no body recalls that he helped dig the Suez canal, and did a lot of work for the French on the Panama ditch, not to speak of being the constructor of a great number of bridges. His plaything brought him famr. The Polk county grand jury has rebuked a Des Moines preacher for circulating scandalous charges involving the womanhood of Iowa, and very proper ly so. Such sensation mongers are not only a dis grace to the ministry, but a menace to the society they pretend to protect. It may comfort you slightly to know that in spite of the mild weather one hard coal mining company has just declared a dividend of 80 per cent on Its ■tock. ^ “AND HOW CAN MAN DIE BETTER?” It may be only a late fall here in Nebraska, but up above the Arctic circle it is winter. Blizzards roar and growl up there, and men freeze to death when caught unawares on the lonely trails. All the terror of a polar winter is present right now, and one man has testified to the danger by the loss of his life. Seventy-five miles from Nome is the orphanage at Hot Springs. The holiday season was at hand, and there was lack of supplies for the merry-making. Rev. S. J. Ruppert, priest of the Roman Catholic church at Nome knew of the plight at the mission. He also knew of the danger on the way. In his mind the comfort and happiness of the orphans out weighed any risk or hazard he might assume, so he started with a dog-sled load of oranges, apples, candies and Christmas cards, to make his way to Hot Springs. Eight days ago the body of the priest was found, on the bank of the river, four miles from the orphan age. Just another of the terrible tragedies of the frozen regions. Robert Falcon Scott and his com panions perished within 11 miles of safety. Others have given up their lives almost on the threshold of warmth and comfort. The “pestilence that walked in the darkness,” and the “destruction that wasteth at noonday” are not more deadly than the grim monster of the cold. ,, So this faithful priest has gone on ahead of the flock, because he tried to serve them here beyond the limit of his strength. Only one more of the un selfish heroes, a name not long to be recalled, but a^ deed that ought to shine forever. The world can not be wholly lost while such men are willing to die for the happiness of others. CLASSICS AND THE CASH DRAWER. Some not at all encouraging conclusions are being drawn from the experience of the Drama league of Omaha and the Stuart Walker players. It is regrettable that the engagement did not prove a success, but the promoters of the enterprise should not be unduly depressed by that fact. No week in the season is more dreaded by the man agers of theaters than that just before Christmas, and the Stuart Walker attraction was offered just at the height of Christmas buying. Long ago Chatterton, a noted English actor, de clared that "Shakespeare spells ruin,” and thereby set in motion a train that still runs contrary to ex perience and to the best interests of art at the theater. Chatterton had just closed a disastrous ef fort, and put the blame on Shakespeare rather than assume any part of it for himself. Minnie Maddern Fiske is authority for the state ment that she netted $47,000 in her tour in “Rosmers holme,” a drama of the studious type, whose appeal ! is solely to the intellect. Other instances might be cited, if these are not enough to prove the case for art. People do want and will pay to see what is good at the theater. Arthur Hopkins, one of the most successful of present day producing managers, talk ing in Chicago last week, deplored the commercialism of the stage today, but predicted the early coming of a time when the demand for art would outweigh the considerations that now prevail. Then the American theater will be restqred to its true place in American life. As a matter of fact, Shakespeare has spelled for tune to more players and producers than he has spelled ruin. As far back as 1824 Fanny Kemble saved Covent Garden financial disaster by her ap pearance as Juliet, achieving a run of 120 consecu tive performances. Shakespeare has been the back bone of the fame and fortune of such persons as Samuel Phelps, Henry Irving, Beerbohm Tree and Sothern and Marlowe, to mention but the high lights of the last fifty years. Fanny Kemble’s 120 nights of Juliet in 1824 cor respond to at least a year under modern conditions; Edwin Booth’s engagement of 100 nights as Hamlet in the ’OO'a would mean at least double that number of performances today. When records are being gushed over the country it would be fair to remem her that E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe have a few box office statements as yet untouched by any other players of Shakespeare. The largest paying audience at an indoor Shake spearean performance in the history of the theater Is that which turned in $5,266.50 to see Sothern and Marlowe in "The Merchant of Venice” at the Cen tury theater in New York City on November 26. 1921, while the nearest approach to this is found in the same stars’ production of "The Taming of the Shrew” at the same theater on November 19, 1921, when $5,089 was paid into the box office. For a week’s engagement, these players hold the record At Poli's theater in Washington, D. C., for seven, in stead of the usual eight performances, the receipt* were $27,297, and this during Holy week, the worst period in the theatrical year. An eighth perform ance would have brought this well over $81,000 Nor should it be overlooked that this occurred not when these stars were In the first flush of sensa tional novelty, but after they had been acting to gether for fifteen years and were familiar and well beloved personages in the American theater. The cimex lectularia may not be suddcr. and ur. expected, as the state labor commissioner says, but, the line from the old song still fits him accurately. •'He gets there, just the same." It the money is there and waiting, why are not the road vouchers paid? If Governor Rryan wants an extra session, why does he not cal! one? And, finally, who killed Cock Robin? The Illinois man who shot the horn off his radio, thinking it was a burglar, deserves recognition for his marksmanship at least. Presently the new Technical High school will have to be enlarged, if it is to hold all its alumni at reunion times. Woodrow Wilson passed his G7th hirthday quietly When a man gets to that point he knows tho value of not being noisy. Uncle Sam in the role of Santa Claus to several million American taxpayers will he a welcome sight Apropos of certain views now being expressed. It seems that “everybody’s out of step hut Jimmie." Santa Claus will survive the debate, and be back again next year. Wait till the weather man begins to say, “I told you sol” When Iowa legislators take a holiday, they mean it. Question in Washington: “Is your name written there?” Gas is going up again. O hum. * I Prairiegraphs NEW YEAR GREETINGS. I wish a happy, prosperous year To all my good friends Car and near; From California 'cross to Maine, From lakes to gulf and back again; From north to south, from east to West, I wish for each of you the best The New Year has within its store, All this X wish for you—and more. I wish a year of joy and peace; From sorrow and from pain release; For friends about on ev'ry side, And love's doors ever opened wide. Hope’s full fruition day by day. And sunshine all along the way. An harbor safe when tempests roar. All these I wish for you—and more. For you I wish instead of gold That you may gracefully grow old; That eacli day’s slowly setting sun Will see some duty nobly done. I wish that home ties stronger grow, That for you flowers bloom and blow, That God's rich blessings on you pour. All these I wish for you—and more. The best that's old; the best that's new— All, all of these I wish for you. After all, good friends, the New Y’ear is going to be for you very largely what you make it. It holds a rich store of good things for all of us, hut believe you me we'll have to dig to find them, and some of us may have to dig pretty deep. The thing to do is to keep on digging. Neither congress nor the legisla ture holds any magio wand to wave and bring prosperity. I,aw Is not a lamp of Aladdin to ruti and summon the genii of prosperity. Liame For tune Is a fickle jade who does not come awooing. She must be pursued and captured and subdued. She likes the cave man stuff the best. "Fortune and fame from no condi tion rise; Act well your part—there all the hon or lies." No, Rinaldo, that beaming gentle man who just shook you by the hand so warmly and asked after the fam ily, is not an old friend whom you have temporarily forgotten. Ho is a candidate for a nomination. I reckon I'll have to run for gov ernor or something, on a platform that I claim is most comprehensive; "If it's hunk you want I’ll give it to you in copious doses." That's what many another candidate will offer. I.tit they will disguise It in high flown languuge. / NEBRASKA LIMERICK. There was a young man In St. Paul Who was known for his colossal gaul; On the street night and day lie jabbered away, 'Till the people said, "Hire a haul." What this country needs is a hard working society for the suppression of the gimme’s, working in hearty co-operation with the society for the encouragement of gogetters. There is a man In Chicago whose name i have forgotten, but I'm for film for president. He Is a landlord who will not rent to a family without children, and he gives a month rent free for each child born in his flats Giving a cute little panty sweater to a dog while so many little children are cold and hungry is the height of something or other, but I know that a moral newspaper like The Bee wouldn't let me tell It. Among other New V> ar's resolu tlons 1 will make is this. T Will Not Start a Diary," As usual. 1 expect to do in 1924 a great many things that are better if soon forgotten. An esteemed contemporary be moans the fact that the good old cus tom of making rail# on New Year's day has fallen into disuse. But the next day calls will be numerous enough, goodness knows. An eastern judge has decided that elder is not a soft drink. Hut it didn’t require a Daniel to arrive at that decision. When I was a boy, and that Was several years ago. llv ing In old Mizzoo. two thirds of the men over 50 years of age were minus their front teeth Every fall those men would make a few barrel* of cider. The barrels were tall, nar row and straight. These were filled with cider and set away In a cool place until freezing weather arrive*! Then the barrels were taken Into the open anil allowed to freeze solid. Af ter this was done the barrel was un hooped and the staves removed, leav ing a solid cylinder of cider. All the real content of the cider was driven to the center, leaving an outer shell of almost white ice. This white ice was chipped off. leaving the core In tact. The men wore off their teeth of biting chunks out of that core. There was a headache in each cubic Inch, and three days in bed in every cubic foot. lie swore off smoking rlgnrefs, lie swore off drinking home. Ili swore that ping and flnerut he Would not in future use. 'Twu New Year’s day he made the** vows. Yuri swore he'd keep ’em true. Then busted every one of them On January 2. Despite the fnrt thnt H>!4 Is cam puign year there will be eorno corn pensntlons. Th» Nebraska legislature will not be In session. As n general proposition I sm not much In favor of New Y'ear resolu tlons but here are a few I have al read taken and wjtfcli trill become doubly effective .tnnuhry 1, 1!>24. Never again to render my nether garment* endeavoring to boost sorns fellow Into fat office Hereafter to worry a Itttls lees about the future of nil the people and tnnre about the futura of a very few people To get a laugh out nf an offlee seeker's protestations that he really doesn't want the nffh e and that t accept will entail considerable ■aeri fies Heretofore I have had to keep a straight fare because I hr -I to pre tend te believe It In older to make the other fellows believe It. Really believe my Ilf* hn* been shortened IS rear# because of failure to enjoy iaugbs when possible. Whenever I think over my past foolishness In the mailer of u he pil e It up for politicians, 1'rn glad nohmlv bin compiled all American trim* of political suckers I d be unanimous • hole* for renter on every blooming obs of them A n.an never fully rentier* n I it big stMe Nebraska Is until the tales compel him to remain In the ixtrenw east end for s month nr n lane wi - the missus nbd the kiddles must H main In the extreme western end EPIT YPIIIC.M.f Y M'l- XKIN'O. Trend light, stranger, for here we Idd All thnt remains nf John <J lla w e*. lie luid the nrrye to tell s kid There wasn't any bants t hins He rani lit the gout, the grippe, f b , The llu, and also lit* of sneer big. You n«h us where Dawes' soul may be— Our guess I* where it Isn't freezing. Here’s hoping that your ship u rives safely In port during 1024 | WJLL M M vi PIN ,| Out of Today's Sermons ‘‘Ijooklng Forward,” is the theme nf till) New Year's sermon to lie delivered by Itev. ('. N. Dawson at Walnut llill Methodist church to day. I sing tlie two texts, II Kings l?:l7• ‘‘laird, I pray thee, open his eyes lliat lie may see,” and I’liil ippiuns 3:13; ‘‘Forgetting these | things which are before, I press to ! ward tlie mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,” lie will say: There are many who are walking in the blindness of sin. Their eyes are closed to the light. They prefer darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. They have maintained this condition so long that the light Is painful to their eyes. Others like the blind man whose eyes Jesus touched. When asked if he saw aught, answered, I see men as trees walking. He needed an other touch. Having been touched again, ho saw clearly. Others are unable to see anything that needs to be done. To them, duty seems to he in the distant fu ture. "Say ye not, there are yet four months, and then cometh the har vest? I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields: for they are white already to harvest.” There are men living In almost every block in this city, who are waiting for some one to lead them to the Christ. Many of them must be brought to Him this year or never. Others, looking about them see only discouraging conditions. World con ditions that seem insurmountable. Labor troubles. Sabbath desecration, divorce courts, fast living, the public dance, bootlegging, extreme lack of •law enforcement, the young people going to the dogs. Modern sins of every sort. They see only the forces of evil. So it was with the young man of the text for whom the prophet prayed. When his eyes had been opened, he said, “They that are j for us are more than they that are against us.” He saw help divine on every side. Everywhere. My hrother. look up. for help, and look about you for opportunity—for worlj. The mountain top for out look—the valley for work. The prophets were ‘'seers.” Men of forward look. Too many men at the age of lit) or a little beyond, be gin living in the tjgst. The past Is dead. The future is aglow with life and promise. "The good old days" are now. and just l>efore us. The coming year will be the grandest and best slm-e the world began. Having put your hands to the plow, look not backward. Lot's wife looked back ward. Shun her fate. "Let the dead bury their dead,” said Jesus, “and come follow- me,” He ever moved forward. His command Is ‘ Forward Christian Soldier.” We arc facing the sunrise. Great days are before us. I am in love with the man who Kays. "Good morning” until the middle of the afternoon. So busy with the great things of life that he is not aware of the lateness of the hour. My good friend who left the land nf his birth to become an American said: “After we were out of sight of land. 1 looked forward every evening, trying to sight the land to which 1 was sailing—every morning at break of dav. I looked forward hoping that land would be In sight. T shall never forget the thrill of that moment when I saw land ahead “ Forgetting the things that lire be hind, let us look forward, to the land Chat is to he the Christians horue etexpal. "I« < hri*t the Klern.il God?" 1* (he title of (his morning’s sermon by Key .1 K. Iteehe. pn-tnr Grace Kvancs*Ileal rliureh. Mr. Its-ebe says that the debate btweon the modernists am! the fundamental ists over the Deity of ( htist originates from a misunderstand ing of the serintnre. The funda mentalist confuses Christ with tlie eternal God, while the mod ernist tries to make it appear that Christ is a mere man. Both are mistaken, tie claim*. An ex rerpt follows: There are several reasons for re garding Christ aa separate and dis tinct from God the Father. Christ said that ".ill thine* are delivered unto Me," showing that Christ s power and authority I* derived from the Father. The Hlble state* that no man has seen God at any time but je-ople have seen Christ. If Christ is the eternal God would He have given the Holy .Spirit to Himself? Christ declared He could do noth In:; rf Himself, which indicates that I'hrist Is a distinct person from God Moses said. "That God I* not man nor tns son of man.” Christ was both nun and the son of man! Thla shows that God and Christ are distinct per sons. Christ was sent Into the world. Docs anyone lrr.etg.ne that God would have sent Himself into the world? If Christ is the eternal Ood then v.r are without a mediator and Paul v.r.3 mistaken. Paul said. "There Is one tod and one mediator between (icj and man, the man, Christ Jesus." To make Christ God destroys the whole mediatorial work of Chi 1st To make Christ a mere man, however, destroys the atonement Christ is a unlc.ue person lie is the only be got;on eon of Ood and traces His orb -n directly to God the Father It has been argued that Christ being tt,e Word Is God The Greek Indicates that lie was divine, or rather possessed of the nature of Deity and not the Identical, eternal fiod Tl « - neness of the Father and Hon is a or.- ness of spirit, i f pur pose, of hv rat nature ait I not a one ness of person Many of the cretrt* of the world New Year Greetings It is our hope that Pro: polity and Happines may attend you in 1021 and that your reserve account in the bank ol good fortune may ever h< larger. To this good advice let us add oui thanks for your past fa vors and friendly regard with a true resolve that our institution shall al ways continue to merit your confidence and valued patronage. Attrl* Over $ 1 2.000,OlKi Knrrve I'und 4*10,000 Qcc^(’ l\/ /^BUIIDING *””lOAN ~ CJ ASSOCIATION Pays 6rr Quarterly 18th and llurnry Streets 35 Ymn in Onmlia need revision. No man is required to abandon reason to be a Christian. I Creed makers have made about as i many Infidels as believers. The Bible , does not require a man to believe1 either the nbsurd or the lncomprehen slble. If Christ was God, the eternal self-existent being, then God must have been born of woman and also put to death. The Bible does not teach that God, the eternal being, was put to death, but Christ, the God man, the mediator between God and man, suffered death. Let fundamental ists and modernists understand the word of God. Interpreted correctly, the occasion for their contention will cease. “Religion Is eternal, creeds are temporal,’’ said Rev. Albert Kuhn, pastor of Bethany Presbyterian church, In his sermon on "Things Temporal and Things Eternal,” .Sunday morning. “The attacks that are Increasingly made upon time-honored dogma of the Christian church Involving the divinity of .Jesus and His work of re deeming mankind and the vigorous counter attack by the so-called fund* mentallsts gives to thousands the im pression that the very foundations of religion are tottering. This is not so. As long as the heart of the Universe is a divine Intelligence and as long as the soul of man lives by the energy that Hows from that heart, this soul of man will have a shrine at which God is worshiped. There is abso lutely no sign that the Christian world has changed its conception of God in Its essentials. it still finds the an swer to the question: 'What is God?' In Jesus. And If I am not mistaken, the moral and religious conceptions of non-Christian peoples like the Hin dus, the Chinese, the Japanese, are approaching more and more the con victions of Jesus. “Creeds are the indispensible but ever changing symbols of religion. We can no more do without creeds than we can do without words to ex press our thoughts But just ns thought does not die with the gradual disappearance of tins or that Ian guage, be It the Assyrian or the San skrit, or the Greek or the English, religion will not disappear or even change its essential nature with the change of the symbols of faith. "I anticipate an increase in the vigor of the contest of creeds in the coming year, but I do not fear f r one moment that the Christian relig ion in itself stands in any danger of losing its grip on humanity because of this agitation. I prefer a vigorous intellectual duel any time to mental submission and slavery.” ___ Daily Prayer h»ve rp*r** with Gr.d through our Lord Jcitu* Christ.—Ruin. 6.1. Our Father, Thou Who sittest upon a throne high and lifted up. Whose glory fills the heaven*, make us con scious this morning that Thou art, not far from any one of us. Thy chi! dren. Thou hast revealed Thy near ness to us in .Testis Christ our Lord. Help u» to see that our selfishness is the only thing that can separate us from Thee. Take out of our hearts every f-ellish impulse, and fill them with a holy love for Thee Then we know that there shall be fulfilled for us the promise of Jesus, that Thou, our Father, and He. our Brother shall come in and dwell with us this day. Speak to us by Thy still, small voice. Christmas day has come and pone We have given and we have received the tokens of friendship and love. We cannot repeat these gifts every day. hut we earnestly beseech Thee that the Christmas spirit may abide In our hearts and in the hearts of n.unkind everywhere. Take out of our heart*! every trace or jealousy and hatred, toward any of Thy children, and give us the attitude toward ail mankind which was in Jesus Christ our Lord. Hasten the day when our ears shall hear the morning stars singing to gether and all th»* sons of men join ing with the igelic choir In the anthem of the first Christmas morn ing. ‘ Peace on earth among men of good will.” Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. REV. FRANK W TADKLFORP. Boston. Mass Heartless \Y retell. Younghusband — Dearest, I—or — I've been trying to tell you some thing for a long time, but until now I've lacked the courage The Mis.—Heavens' What is It? Don't keep me In suspense! Younghu«hand—I don't like potato salad—American Legion Weekly. The Deceiver. Fthel—Tsn t It strange that Flossie iracts such Intellectual tnen" Maud—Oh. no: she told me she al rays plans her gowns when they talk r> her, and that gives her face that nterested eipresslon—Harper's Ha •ar. A Small Town on Saturday Night I --By MRS. E. K. BETZKR, Seward, Neb. On any Saturday night In Seward Neb., every parking space in the city and at the amusement park is occu pied by the 57 varieties of autoino Idles used to bring the Seward county folk to town. As one approaches this beautiful town, which is situated on a high wooded hill, the tall church spires and the three story buildings of the Lu theran college form a charming sky line. If you come up the Blue river In a boat you can easily dream that Sew ard. embowered In heavy forest trees, is some castle on th‘* Rhine, because of its high location and splendid ap penrance. On a moonlit night Seward is like fairyland. The people of the county do not come to town very early on Saturday night, as you know the butter that brings 45 cents a pound must be packed in cool Jars, the eggs safely crated In container^, and those who oring "springs" for regular customers must wrap them In snowy clothes. This chicken revenue Is something that helps buy silk .hose for the pret ty girl of the farmstead. Soon every road leading into S>w trd is crowded with machines filled with people who deposit their produce and then park their cars around the courthouse to listen to the we«R*j concert given by the Seward Munici pal hand. After the concert the older folk, and some of the younger, go to the rtlvoll theater to see Mary Pick- , ford in 'Kosita.'’ or Douglas Fair- V banks In ' Kobin Hood,’’ and others go to the dance at the amusement park, where an orchestra Jazzes •'blues.'* The swimming pool at the park is the mecca for many a heated farm lad. who delights in the pellucid water (hat laps itself around his weary form. I.ittle children wander around the flower-bordered walks or sit on bench es around the swimming pool and watch the auticS of the swimmers until.it Is timt to load up and start for home. Sometimes Company N*. National guard, drills on the paved streets be fore an appreciative audience, who calls each man by his first name. The band boys are Seward business men, who practice twice a week in the heated council chambers such popular selections as “The Bohemian Girl.'* Sometimes the Lutheran College band or the Jligh School band plays, but, at any rate, whatever band plays, the people of the county for 20 miles around are here to enjoy the music. A Modern Man Dreams He saw in his doorway a vision of light Silver tipped wings outspread for swift flight. Pen poised to write. "I am an angel." he heard a voice say: • 'Come to take one troublesome bur den away, What shall it be?" t He gathered his sense* and sighed in relief, "Oh, take Christmas, such a bore, ouch a grief." The pen touched the paper, a gold thread afloat Across its white surface, she read as she wrote: "To take away Christmas I must hark me away To the lowly monger where the Christ Child lay I must blot to oblivion His wondrous birth And tear from life a pages His teachings on earth. I must take from earth's music, cul ture and art All that was moldnl - r touched by the Christly heart. I must take from child eye* that wondrous light That comes when candles burn clear and bright. I must take from rnedhers that inward plow As they tel] the story of lonp ago. I must take from you each memory you hold Of the Christmas joys that were yours of old." "Enough,” he cried in a voice of pain, "Take what you will from earth's do main. Tut let that priceless gift remain." He stirred, he woke, like heralds of light. Joyous young voices sang "Silent Night." —Anne Pedersen. < rnwding the Cities. "Any bootleggers in this neighbor hood?" asked the stranger "No answered Farmer Comtossrl. "They've all pot rich and opened of fices in town."—Washington Star. \bouf This Time. Our idea of a perfectly delightful i Job is that of demostratinc mechanl- | ial toys—Spokane Spokesman He view i The Sunflower I!> CAROLYN RENFREW. I love it* shining, smiling face. Along the calling prairie roads. Tie like some swelling organ note A rhythm from Valhalla s odes; A diapason of the past From one of nature* changing moods. With bold assertiveness, alas. On daintier verdue it intrudes. Vet in it* place it hath a cheer And golden beauty undenied. "Strive on, "It rays, "and face the sun. Fear not the day or task untried" Wouldn't Ride Free. i President James Ruehanan ln*.--ed% on paying his fare at all times when he traveled, never receiving a pass, even when he was out of office. He would have been horrified at the idea of traveling free when he was presi dent. Friends often heard him say: "I will pay my way while I can afford It. 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