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March IB
Thought for the Day
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5fcff by Nancy J. Mamrt
If you havt favllt yritvt not. Let tMi ihovght
help you warm, who hath no faultihath no hope
to reform. What it a man pro.flled (f he thall
pain tht W wtrid and lout hit ten soul.
John G. Whilitr.
If the Board of Education must practice
greater economy. It might contract for the out
put of the political elate factories.
While a few choice slices of Omaha real es
tate are climbing to the top of the ladder, the
real bargains are on the lower rounds. Job lota
to fit all purses.
Terre Haute's revelations of democratic po
litical methods easily outranks the purchased
voters of Adams county, Ohio, and puts "Blocks-of-Five"
Dudley In the piker class.
Greater Omaha! .The hope of yesterday, the
stimulus of today, the realisation and steam
power of tomorrow. The task of the future la
to make good the promise of greatness.
Pictures of primary candidates beginning to
appear in windows should not be confused wlt'i
the Omaha style show. Candidates are not out
for etyle. If they were they; would have no
Show, ' : 'I
Unable to put over the 0-cent loaf of bread,
the bakers of New York contented themselves
with a weight reduction of two ounces., This is
exceedingly modest beside the four-ounce cut in
Omaha.
Should Greece, Bulgaria and Roumanla break
into the war with their batteries of Jaw-breaking
names, newspaper proofreaders will need all the
cheery encouragement of loved ones to escape a
padded roll.
That reminds us that limiting the Introduc
tion of bills to tlie first twenty days of the legis
lative 8rrlon, and reserving forty daya for their
consideration, was supposed to make sifting
committees unnecessary.
A lot of things useful and ornamental are
now made In Omaha, and a lot more things
ought to be made In Omaha. The way to do tt
la to give Omaha-made goods the preference,
other things being equal. '
The California Idea of buying the Western
Pacific railroad for f 50.000.000 will interest
multitude of people. Including the artist who
can depict on canvas the wistful longing of sec
ond mortgage bond Investors holding the sacr.
A city ordinance requires street cars to stop
at the near side of a boulevard croasing. No
other vehicle, no matter bow large, Is subject to
the regulation. The wisdom of the rule is self
evident, but the wisdom of the discrimination Is
not apparent.
Major General Scott has been commissioned
to smoke the pipe of peace with the Plutes. What
his plana are remain to be seen. The old re
liable treatment, successfully worked by General
rook, la the simple one the old woman gave
vrhea asked the best means for holding a huj
Ywnd: 'Teed th brute!"
w - v y a
w w S4( vta-t
Blalmp Ceorse Worthlnrton, the new bishop or
Nebraaka. made nil first appearance here at Trinity
cathedral this owrnlng, . the attendance taxing the
epactous seating" capacity of the church.
' The program (or the fit. Patrick's day celebraito.i
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Is given out, with
a variety of literary and musical numbers to be con
tributed by lOchard O'Keefe. John Kueh, E. A. O'Brien
and the Ulnae L Iriie Glbaon, Maggie BwlfV. Kate
caeey, Masgt Caaey, Masgte Kuan. CShaughneeey.
Planner?, bailie McUooken, Mamie Rush end Roaa
Ford.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carrier are making their
home for the present with Mrs. More. Ninth and
t M'Uul avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Smith, with their ale, Miss
K1. will rlait their former home La Kentucky.
Aa Inipreaaive military funeral waa held for the
late Colonel Joaeph It. Taylor. The honorary paiW
liearers ere: General Hawkins. Colonel Btanton.
CulviM I Frnltts, Major Toear, Major Itawles and Cap
tain M.rf'aulry. ,
The M'iial unlun's Sunday afternoon concert at
Hie mxre h.ue offered. Iei.l. the numbera by the
. '.). -i rm. two eciif numbrra by Mrs. Michaels
J. i a iKiiiHMve and if I, eve gone on a viait
' ' 'cults t
Lincoln and Ontha.
Orer-zealous newspsper spokenmen indulg
ing In mock heroics are again threatening th
entente cordlale between Omaha and Lincoln,
and so far as we ran see there Is no occasion for
it whatever. Omaha and Lincoln are competi
tors in very limited fields. Lincoln has little
that Omaha would want to take from It even if
It could, and Omaha bas nothing worth having
that Lincoln can take from ns. Occasionally the
competition makes us think that Lincoln Is nar
row in preferring to keep Omaha from securing
a prise just because it is out of Lincoln's reach,
as, for example, the reserve bank location, but,
on the whole, both Lincoln and Omaha have
everything to gain and nothing to lose by culti
vating friendly relations and working together
for their annual upbuilding. We are glad to say
that the disposition toward helpful co-operation
has been much more In evidence of late than it
used to be, and there is no good reason why it
should not be more and more so unless set at
cross purposes by petty bickerings.
United States Self-Sustaining.
If sn embargo on exports and imports from
Europe should result as an outcome of present
negotiations, what would be the effect on the
United States? Should all traffic with Europe
be entirely cut off, a readjustment of some of
the details of business would be necessitated,
but otherwise the United States would go on
about the same. 8om; domestic articles of
general use might cease to masquerade under
torelgn labels, but that Is about all that would
greatly change.
The United Stales produces everything that
is needed for the comfort and well being of
Its people, and Is capable of supplying their
every want. Life would go on without com
munication from Europe In much the same way,
with the creation and accumulation of wealth,
the production of all useful and necessary ar
ticles, and the luxuries of life aa well, and the
people would progress in aft the ways of civilisa
tion. The United 8tates is absolutely self-sustaining.
The strength of this position, can hardly be
understood, but is the more appreciated when
the position of some of our European competi
tors Is considered. In this strength Is found
the surest guaranty for the continuance of the
peace and prosperity of this nation.
By Way of Suggestion.
Some of the opponents of Greater Omaha
consolidation declare they1 "will fight to the
end," which means a last desperate effort to
prevent the bill from passing with the emer
gency clause that would, make It effective at
once. Those who talk this way are for the most
part payroll office-holders who want the opera
tion of the merger delayed In order that they
may remain connected up with the treasury for
three months longer. Our suggestion is that
these patriots are standing In their own light
that, If successful in their purpose, they will be
sacrificing the rights of the people who put them
in office to a voice In their local government
for a paltry few dollars. Our further sugges
tion Is that these self-seekers look ahead a little
farther than three months.
Crisis in Italian Neutrality.
Count von Buelow German ambassador to
Jtaly, Is reported to be pressing negotiations for
the continued neutrality of Italy. The chief ob
stacle Is Austria's reluctance to restore to Italy
a slice of territory north of Venice and-Milan
and populated almost wholly by Italians. Italy
wants more than Austria is disposed to grant.
Meanwhile Italy has ita army on a war footing
and has recalled to the colors the Garlbaldlan le
gion, now fighting with France. These move
ments indicate an approaching crisis in Italian
neutrality, or a determination to put on suffi
cient pressure to convince Austria of the peril's
of quibbling.
Lesson of Life.
The noisy world will pay a brief tribute to
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, now that death haj
balled attention to the simplicity of her life. H1
she been a woman of lea strength of character
ahe would have been more often in public print;
aa tt waa, ahe waa eeldom heard of. "To be a
good wife and mother la the highest and the
hardest privilege accorded to a woman," she
said, and on this creed her lite waa founded.
Wife of the richest man In the world, ahe Is
known to the public only aa hla helpmeet, start
ing with him In the humble beginning of his ca
reer, and never losing her perspective as wealth
brought Us continually widening opportunities.
Devotion to husband and children and the mak
ing of a home, characteristic traits of tb
good woman, marked her as a type of the Amer
ican woman on whom rents the enduring safety
of the American home, and all 'It means. The
life of Mrs. Rockefeller has in it a lesson for
both men and women.
When the Keokuk dam opened its gates and
began generating electricity, St. Louis rejoiced
over the prospect of cheap current. Hope still
lingers there, but realisation is up In the air.
By a clever arrangement with two subsidiary
companies the water power current yields toll
to each, and Ita cost to the consumer Is regulatod
by the price of coal, which provokes the Star's
remark that St. Loula Is a "dam fooled town."
Rear Admiral Thomas II. Howard, commander-in-chief
of the Pacific fleet, la one of
the' three officers promoted to admirals under
the recent act of, rpngress. Admiral Howard
will be remembered as the officer who won much
publicity and a sharp reprimand for ridiculing
Secretary Bryan's battleship "piffle" at the
Caraboa dinner. Time and alienee outweighs the
indiscretions of a water buffaloed dinner.
British talk of treating German submarine
captives as plratea la either bluff or the caloric
of agitated minds. Captives are not responsible
for the orders they strive to execute. "Theirs
Is not to reason why, theirs to do or die," aa
the British poet expressed It. Oermany'a oppor
tunities for reprisal are too numerous to carry
the piracy threat beyond the talking stage.
For the first time since the civil war eight
daya have passed without a paaoenger ateame
aaillng from New York to some port in the
United Kingdom. About the only feature of
the world's routine the ar has not upset is the
j revolution of the planet.
Four Presidents
'By XSTmr X. ESTABBOOK.
MrKlntey.
TTTAH McKlnley the lat of the Mohicans? Are we
VV never to s-e hie like again? We elected Mc
Klnley under circumstances of national die
tress In many respects Identical with the circum
stances of today bualnees paralysed mills cloeed
soup houaea open and In full blast, fh'n the com
plaint waa that the purchaelpg value of the standard
dollar waa too low the coat of living was too low-
plutocracy waa crucifying labor on a cross of gold
but that prices would boom and eveiyhody would
become prosperous and happy by the simple ex
pedient of giving to CO cents worth of sliver the niar.le
name of "dollar." It waa the wickedest flimflam, the
mint Impudent allurement ever held out to an honest
man. And yet so apecloue was the argument and so
desperate the conditions that McKlnley was elected
only by a an 'leak: 20.000 votee properly distributed
would have elected hla opponent. The ensuing four
years of McKlnley'a almlnietration totally discredited
every theory, prophecy and argument of that oppo
nent, proving him to be as shallow as a soup plrte.
A man of sensibility would have been crushed !y
the demonstration, or would at least have taken on
a becoming modeety. Not so Bryan. Jte bobbed tip
again aa the presidential candidate of his party with
a brand new theory, as Imperturbable aa a rhinoceros
that had been tickled with a feather, and again mil
lions voted for him. I
But Mr. Bryan himself Is hardly responsible for
our present predicament. He haa been pigeonholed
In a cabinet where It would take a card Index to
locate him, and he Is already rich enough to make
hla further assaults on property more droll than dan
gerous. Ha haa to be careful or some of his con
verts will ask for an accounting.
The condition of the country waa so gratifying
during McKlnley" s first administration that he was
re-elented with only the opposition of Mr. Bryan
aforesaid. He had scarcely entered upon hla seooni
term when he was stricken down by the treacherous
hand he waa about to clasp In kindness and goodwill.
The republican party haa acquired almost the tragi.'
consecration of the widow Btxby, for three of Its
noblest sons have been killed at the post of duty.
Ranaevelt.
The vice president, who was thus called upon to
fill out McKlnley'a second term, forthwith pledged
himself to carry out McKlnley s pnlldps for the re
mainder of that term. It was his first promise con
cerning the presidency, and he kept it like a man.
Bo much so, and the country was so altogether sat
isfied with the results, that Mr. Roosevelt was elected
to succeed himself without even, the opposition of
Mr. Bryan aforesaid at least I have heard Judge
Parker Intimate something to this effect.
There was little In Mr. Roosevelt's behavior during
the first four years In hla great office to Indicate
that he would run amuck during the next four years.
Even In retrospect I can truthfully aay that I think
him always to have been more radical fn speech than
In action. Hla bark was really worse then hla bite.
I said as much one day to a friend of mine, who
was railing at him In good aet terms. He replied that
my distinction reminded him of the man who went t
oall on his neighbor and was confronted In the path
way by hla neighbor's watch dog. "Don't be afraid
of the dog." shouted hla owner from trT verandah,
"he won't hurt you. Don't you see him wagging his
tall?" "Sure I do," yelled the visitor, "but I also
hear him growling, and hang me If I know which
end to believe!"
But Just the same my differentiation holds good.
Some of the things done by Mr. Roosevelt needed to
be done, and In robust fashion. I for one tried hard
to forgive the violence of his words and manner for
the sake of the putative motive baok of them. 1
began by admiring him because, If you will pardon,
the paradox, he seemed so profanely in love with
righteousness; because he wanted peace and was just
aching to fight for It; because he waa such an un-
genllemanly gentleman and such a damned good
Christian! I believed him to be to politics Indeed
what Billy Sunday Is to religion: and we all know
that there Is about as much Sabbath In Sunday as
there la In. Roosevelt; yet religion seems te need
Billy at this time though not, I toepr. as a steady
diet. Rut aa Mark Twain aald of Napoleon. Mr.
Roosevelt attempted to do too much and did It!
Mr. Roosevelt mistook the genuine sooer conserva
tism of the American people. They will not consent
to live forever In a riot or in a frensy of gabble. They
want to do business, and sooner or later they are
going to do HI
Taft.
William Howard Taft, whom Mr. Roosevelt fondly
expected to be an ad Interim Incumbent of the presi
dency, is and always haa been bigger than his repu
tation, and I aay this notwithstanding a certain vacil
lation and want of tact In office might Indicate to
the contrary. But Mr. Taft'a position waa designedly
made difficult and equivocal from the very beginning,
and he wasn't o.ulte big enough to rise above t.
He was the victim of a huge cry for a reduction of
tariffs horlxontlcally perpendicularly arbitrarily
any old way. Hla appeals to the country to go slow
In a matter of such consequence to await the crea
tion of a tariff board when the whole subject could
be conaldered deliberately and scientifically, were
drowned In cat-calls. There la nothtng eo unreason
able aa a contagion. You might aa well argue with
the measles. Even hla unfailing good nature and
ambient amlle were handicaps, for the average voter
wants his statesman aa solemn aa cholera morbus.
The quaint humor of lAneoln and the slap-stick roya
terlng of Roosevelt were exceptions te the rule; but
it required their peculiar genius to carry It off. Mr.
Taft continued to wield the Sherman act like a battle
axe. Perhape be thought It waa hla duty. Perhaps
ha thought it waa popular. Perhaps he was egged
on by his legal advisers. And perhapa after all It
waa the best thing for the country that could have
happened, for the outcome demonstrated the illegiti
macy of all such lawa and the futility of their execu
tion. N
But In spite of soma -reasons for voting against
him, I voted for Mr. Taft for a second term; you
will recall that ha did get several votee one it
them waa mine.
WIISOB. f , -
As for Iresident Wilson, who stalked Into office
over1 a pons aslnorum built by hla opponents, t e
entered upon his duties with a popular feeling for him
made up of curiosity and respect. He eras the only
college professor who had ever stepped from a claaa
room over a state capital and Into the White House.
Curioaity waa Juetirled. 8u waa reapect, for his men
tal strength was conceded, and no one doubted his
loyalty of purpose. Thonsanda of republicans had
voted for him for one reason or another principally
one and wished him well. To be aura, no republican
reared la the school of Hamilton could retard hope
fully e program that challenged every article of his
faith. But he could at least ba tolerant and even ad
mit to himself that poaidbly Wilson knew more th-vi
Hamilton. He waa willing to be shown. He waa from
Mlaaodrl. Hla attitude waa one of watchful waiting;
It haa slm-e become a Madame Butterfly vigil. Tee
could say off hand that tt waa a moral duty and an
obvious necessity that a president of the t'nlted State
ahould call to hla aid maa wiser and better Informal
than himself on special subjects, and that he should
solicit their Instruction and weigh carefully their aug
geattona. I am credibly Informed that Mr. Wilson
haa virtually dispensed with cabinet meetings, though
really, when you coma te think of It, h may be justi
fied In so doing. Ordinarily one would suppose that
man. whatever but scholarship, ahould know the
ayntax of bualnees before he undertakes to parse It.
Mr. Wilson dlsclauna any practical knowledge what
ever of business but deeraa himself, for thte very rea-son.-all
the better qualified to deal with It Impartial'
and aloft. It leaves him at liberty to try out certain
theories untrammeled by prejudlota begotten of ex
perience. It Is a theory of Mr. Wilson, and of bla
party, I might add.-that tariffs should be reduced
substantially to a free trade baala; and under hi
manipulation this haa been dona. W still have intact
the costly machinery for the collection of Imposts, but
these no longer amount to much.
From a ld reus before the Commercial club of itil
mu. Saturday. March 13, IMi.
Brief eeatxibntteae en etxeelg
topi oa taTlaed, Tbe Bee aawwise
ae reapcaalsUrty fat eplaioae mt
eorresyoadeata. AH tettexe eas
iest to oadeasattom by o41taa
The Boost Maslral.
OMAHA, Msrch ll.-To the Kdltor of
The Bee: In a recent Insue of your news
paper I noticed a letter written by a Bos
ton gentleman eulogizing the Mendelssohn
Chclr of Omaha.
Now 1 would not like thit subject to be
relegated to tee limbo of forgotti n thlnnr,
as such matters so frequently are.
People habitually dismiss them from
their minds with a sort of mental resolve
to "buy a ticket when the concert dnt
arrives. If convenient." and there th'ir
personally felt responsibility ceases.
Now this seems to me to be all wrong.
It lead. one to ask. Does --lty nn! Its
cltlsena exist merely to earn the daily
bread "eat, work and sleep," aa the old
woman said? Isn't the American I'lca
different from this?
Anyone who haa lived or traveled In the
old countries and heard the wonderful
vocal and Instrumental societies there, or
perhapa been so fortunate aa to attend
one of the great musical festivals, at
which all the leading amateurs in the
country compete for the places of honor,
must have, been Impressed with the splen
did support given to such undertakings.
The festivals and concerta bring visitors
from far and near, and the advertising
value of them Is always fully appreciated
by the local Chambers of Commerce, who
usually form the strongest supporters of
the work.
Let us all then boost for Omoha in a
practical way by help'ng to make the
Mendelssohn choir not only "of Omaha"
in name, but In actual fact.
It may be well to say. In i-oncluMon. that
the writer Is a humble member of the
choir, but has the real Interests of the
city at heart and Is not writing from any
selfish motives. The choir Is entirely an
"unprofessional" t-ne, the members pay an
annual subscription, the conductor and
accompanist and officials are honorary
we will take the Boston gentleman's Judg
ment of Its singing-end there' you have
the requisites for a real city organlxatlon,
which only needs the endorsement of the
city to become "un- fait accompli."
"FIRST BASS."
Waata Walker Ran.
OMAHA, March lX-To the Editor of
The Bee: In looking for candidates lor
! iwunmlaalnner the residents of the
Twelfth ward would like to have a repre
sentative on the council of commissioners
to be elected this spring. At the same
time we would want a man that would be
rale representative of the entire city,
one who could be trusted to administer
falrlv and Impartially to the whole city.
A great many of us think we have such
a man in C. T. Walker, who has recently
llsnoacd of his business Interests, leav
ing him free to make the race If he will
do so. He Is not a politician nor a ward
hnaa hut has the confidence of thousands
of that class of cltlxens who desire that
city business be conducted on a business
basis Instead of aa a political machine.
M. I ENDREB.
The ae of Silver Creek.
SILVER CREEK. Neb.. March 12-To
the EOltor of The Bee: In The Bee ol
March 19 under the heading of "Our Task
in Mexico" you aay:
'Intervention would have been Justified
a long time ago by the manifest Inability
of the opposing factions there to end the
anarchy that still exists In Mexico."
Intervention would have ended the an
archy without a doubts but It would have
been at the expense of uniting all the
factions In a bitter war against us a wat
that would have lasted Indefinitely,
guerrilla, perhaps, but neverthe less war
at a cost of hundreds of millions of dol
lars and tens of thousand of lives. In
terventlon now would result no differ
ently. On what ground, then, could In
tervention be Justified?
Again you say:
'Watchful waiting has been given a
two years' trial, only to see bad become
worse."
Verv true. But did we have any watch
ful waiting? Not a bit of It; but rather
a constant watching for opportunities
always at hand, to poke our proboscis
Into what waa none of our business, and
that we have been always quick to do.
and without any waiting at all.' If Wil
son had had the practical sense of an
ordinary farm hand, or hired girl, he
would have recognised Huerta aa the
governments of Europe had already dona
when he became the combined Protestant
pope and csar of the United Stater Ry
what train of reasoning could any' man
of sense arrive at the conclusion that he
was either their Intellectual or moral su
perior? Had he done that, it is probable
that anarchy would have soon ceased;
for the Indian Huerta was really th
strongest and most level-headed man
that had appeared, or has since appeared,
on either aide. of th Rio Grande In this
whole shameful, wretched bustnesa.
And atlll again you say In the' same
editorial:
"President Wilson must formulate a
more emphatic policy and avoid repeti
tion of last summer's booties occupation
of Vera Crua."
But what sort of policy can he form
Kav that of armed intervention, alnce the
grape-juice policy of peaceful Interven
tion by maJdllng bragadoclo haa been a
dismal, sickening failure? How, without
armed Intervention, could Wilson protect
our own rltlsens and those of other for
eign countries? And what right would he
have to W some other country do It as
you sugKext he might do? What ether
country is there to now undertake th
task? Two ytar ago he might, and
ahould, have asked the nations of Kurope
to join with us, and each protect Its own,
even to th extent of each sending a con
tingent of troops to Mexico City, after the
manner of the Boxer rebellion. There
waa nothing '.n the Monroe doctrne to
prevent it; it ould have been effectual,
aod we should have eevaped making th
Mexicans our mortal enemies aa well aa
to have saved son, hundred of millions
of dollars wa shall have to pay before w
get out of this thing.
8lu" th great powers of Europe are
now at war with each other, neither all
nor any of then could undertake th task
of pact tying Maxlco. What better thing,
then, could Wilson de than te ask th
"A-B-fV governments of South America
1 1 undertake the job. with the assurance
that we would keep away from there and
hec-after mind our own bualneaa? He
mtgtot. however, to facilitate their work,
turn over to those, government the three
or four million dollars of Mexican money
we took by force at Vera Crux and up to
this time have never accounted for.
What w have now to fear and th
danger is Imminent saJ very grave 1
that Wilson will send ojr fleets and ar
mlea to Mexico, The war would then
be on and a situation precipitated from
which we could not retreat. The fact
that he would have no constitutional right
to do such a thing would have no weight
with him, for he considers himself greater
than the constitution, greatr than con
gress and greater than the "cltlxenry" of
the whole rntted Ptates
To avoid trouble, eith r in Mexico or In
Europe. t had only to mind our own
buelnesu; but that, evidently, was a thing
beyond either the wish or th ability of
the Wllnon rriminlstrntion. God save th
republic. CHARLES WOOPTER.
Oppression or Krleadshlpt
CU8H1KO. Neb.. Msrch 12.-To the
Editor of The Bee: Permit me to com
ment In brief upon th question: Who
Is going to dictate the terms of peace at
the end of the present war?
The nations vihose politics spells "ex
pansion" nsturally have to Inaugurate a
"system" by which they try to subdue
the lands conquered and cement them to
the nation proper. The manner of pro
ceeding to this end varies as well as the
results obtained. It depends on the
menns used: Friendship or oppression.
Germany has one system and England
another.
I read In The Bee a declaration In the
Prussian Diet by Herr Hirsch, socialist
leader. In which the socialist party as
sails the German government for Its op
pressive politics against the Danes and
Poles. The mighty socialist party In
Gern.any admits that up to the present
day their government has been practic
ing political oppression against Schlea-wig-Holatein
and Poland, their spoils of
war. Peoples and provinces have shud
dered when they saw that "Iron hand"
reaching for thorn. What has Germany
gained by her system?
First-Militarism, as that Is the key.
atone to Its empire arch.
Second A federation of states, prov
inces, etc., in which very few would re
spond to the utterance of a Daniel Web
ster: "Liberty and union, now and for
ever, one and lnseparable!,'M
If the Germans were psychologists,
they would know that the trend of hu
man nature 1 to be more easily con
quered by love than by force.
The English system has for a long time
been frelndshlp. When she undertook to
conquer, she did It In such a way that
the conquered hardly felt the restraint
upon them. England did not endeavor
to erase the national marks, traits and
customs from any of her colonics. I re
fer to Canada, India. Australia. Egypt,
the Boers and others. How could it be
possible for the British empire, with Its
vast dimensions, to be such a world power
and stand united against a common foe?
Her system docs It.
In our own dear United States the
English system la operative. Uncle Kam
haa no stereotype form in wjitch he molds
all foreigners Into the mother tongue,
nor from taking their native costoms and
Ideas into this country. Oh, no! Uncle
Sam welcomes them, gives them liberty
and opportunity with the rest of his
household; and they are on friendly
terms ith each other immediately.
Friendship did It.
We are n.any who are watching with
Intense interest the ultimate result of this
war which shall prevail: Oppression or
friendship? N. P. SORENSEN.
BREEZY TRIFLES.
"You d better hMe somewhere." said the
rooster to the hen: 'the boss has an axs
In his hand and he s Isylng for you.-
"Well." said Biddy, resignedly. "I pre
sume I hme no riant to complain: I ve
been laying for him for a good many
years." Bouton Tranwrlpt.
Hardtippe Whv so dcsponcVnt?
Klubdub Oh, I can't seem to get out or
debt.
Ilardupne Gee! That s nothing, t can t
even set In. Life.
He Tou can t truthfully aav 1 havn t
supported you In tlie style to which you
were acrustoined.
She Yes, I can. Tou never hold me on
your lap any more Judge.
"I think Prof. Illhrowe Is 'a wonderful
lecturer," aald the Olit Fogy. "He brings
thinga home to you that you never saw
before." . ,
"That's nothing." rerlled Grouch. I
have a laundry wagon driver who can do
that. Cincinnati Lnquirer.
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YOU prMD Wtm C4JjrrtfTJ
l&X HAP KAf$U THE VOTT
Small boy Are you th boneless
"Why, no. What
The
man?
The Caller Boneless?
gave vou that idea?
The Boy Pa said you was a contortion
ist. "A contortionist?"
"Yea. He said you was always patting
jourself on the back." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Lawyer You really want a divorce?
The Wife Yes.
The Lawyer-nil right. What about th
alimony?
The Wife He can't pay and alimony.
The Lawyer Eh! What is this a prac
tical Joke? Take mv advice, madam, ana
go back home and wait until he get
something. Fifty dollars, please. Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"John, ypu owe me 17 cent."
"Yes, but I paid the gas bill and you
owe me 11.23."
"But I paid the groceries and that made
you awe me Bl cents."
"True, but I pal: 45 cents for tele
phones." "I know, but you borrowed M cents "
"Caesar! Here's $-; lei's begin all over
again "
TELL IT TIL HER.
spatch.
Gnf Alexander, In Pittsburgh
I ses to Hogan t'other day,
"Huh! When it com-s to tastv j cooking
My wife's right to the front. Ann, say,
Fhe makes the grub attractive 'looking.
You want to taste juat when you see!
For instance, pie suggests the filler."
And Hogan ses, he ea, aes he,
"Well. diUJa ever tell It til her?"
Ses I to Hogan, "No.. Why should
I thus make foolish conversation?
I Vnow she knows I know 'tis good
More would be supererogation.
Though she Is all the world to m
I'm neither coo'er nor a blll'er."
And Hogan ses, he ses, ses he,
"Well, Uidja ever tell It til her?"
"Ye did!" ses Hogan. "Sure ye did!
When you was sparkin' sure you'd let ut
Run off your tongue I'kc dewn a skid:
But now you've got her you forget ut!
My, my! But you're the careful lad!
Ye fear that flattery would kill her.
An' yet ye think sho'a fine, bedad!
Well, run right home an' tell It til her!"
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