THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1916.
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: Paper values and peace persist in an attitude
Jet" deadly enmity.
So better time could be chosen to preach
peace, even for home consumption.
In the minds of statesmen truly great a mount
ing national deficit, decorated with a fat pork
bar'l, becomes work of art.
It may be gathered from Premier Briand's re
marks that France is somewhat suspicious of
Germania posing as a modern Santa Claus.
In view of what Ohio did for the administra
tion, it seems little short of raw ingratitude to
pick on Cleveland as the prize goat of price boosting.
It is understood, of course, that Art Mullen
is not looking for a job for himself. Merely
browsing around Washington to lend animation
to capital scenery.
With four of the five members of the new
British war council picked from the unionist
party, it does not appear that toryism got much
of a jolt in the shakeup.
Unless gratitude is dead and hearts unrespon
sive to the thrill of heroism, the valiant deeds
of Chairman Langhorst deserve the pick of the
cuts on the state house pie counter,
; A German naval critic senses the situation
correctly when he says there is no jingoism in
American preparations for defense. Jingoism
merely vocalizes the way and ducks the recruit
ing office.
The speed possibilities of congress may be
guaged by the fact that one bill was put through
the legislative mill in six working flays. In one
respect the achievement is notable. An average
quantity of gas burned up without affecting the
aupply.
, The holdup methods of New York apartment
i house butlers and janitors, as revealed by a re
cent investigation, serve to show by comparison
that the pirates of the Spanish ntain were mere
pikers. History unfairly maligned a respectable
, ancient occupation,
, Council Bluffs did not bother itself with ref-
t ertndum expenses before accepting a reduction
in electric light rates. The city spotted a good
thing on sight and hopped to it. In these times
' cf advancing prices in necessaries a reduction is
too great a rarety to pass up.
Despite his countless offenses against civili
zation and "watchful waiting," Pancho Villa must
be credited with skill as a humorist and imitator
His promises and professions carry a vein of sol.
emn humor rivaling the airy assurances of a con
gressmaa bent on "saving the country."
The Sheppard of the dry flocks of Texas will
not be happy until he makes the District of Co.
lumbia as dry as the staked plains. The expense
of installing individual lockers piled on high liv
ing cost mutely pleads for mercy. Ml in vain
The Texan hears nought but the requiem of
booze.
Chancellor Avery's summary of price boost
ijif operations puts at the foot of the list "the
psychology of situation." On the score of com
prehensive reach and sustained wind power "the
psychology of the situation" long ago won the
lead. But if is not known by the teamed desig
nation. In friendly circles is passes for "Boost
Everybody's doing it!"
Pensions and Pensioners
Hindsight Versus Foresight.
Omaha is again being taken to task because its
builders did not possess the gift of prophecy,
and therefore could not exactly foresee what has
actually happened. It may be urged in defense
of our pioneer citizens that, pluming their hope
on imagination's wing, they did picture for them
selves and their descendants a future as great
and glorious as could be conceived at their time,
but they were also in some degree limited by
material considerations. They could think in
terms of population, of area, and similar con
crete facts, but they could not plan for trolley
cars, for skyscrapers, nor for a number of other
incidentals of present day existence. Moreover,
they had to cut their garment according to their
cloth. Some problems necessarily were left to
future builders, and some that confront us now
will also be postponed.
Thus it happens that some sewers were put
down that are no longer adequate; if the present
day needs of the city had been taken into con
sideration twenty-five years ago, the public works
would not have advanced as they did, for the peo
ple then could not have contrived them. Nor can
the citizens be accused of want of foresight be
cause the school room situation has become acute
in some sense. This has been with us for a quar
ter of a century, and Omaha has not been negli
gent in the matter. The people are not to be
blamed for the dilatoriness of the school board in
carrying out its program. The funds voted were
ample at the time, and if the board has dallied and
allowed the money to lie idle in the banks while
the price of real estate, building material, labor
and everything else has gone up, the fault does
not lie with the public.
And, finally, The Bee again suggests that the
planning board give us a plan, rather than so
much advice that leads to nothing.
Russia's Part in the Peace.
One of the questions that will come in for
much consideration in connection with any pre
liminary discussion of possible peace in Europe
will be Russia's attitude. What will be needed to
satisfy the Bear? If this were to he considered
wholly from the point of view of Russia before
the war, the answer would present much of real
difficulty. As constituted before hostilities drew
armies into the field, the ambition of Russia
would not have listened to the suggestion of a
revived Poland, nor an adjustment of the Balkans
that did not consider Slavic domination. Bu
reaucratic Russia had definite views on these
points and declined to discuss them.
However, it is a different Russia to which
proposals for peace will be made. Of all the
countries that have engaged in the war, Russia
has undergone the most profound political change.
It was freely prophesied at the beginning of the
great conflict that the end would see the rule of
the people established instead of the aristocracy.
Nowhere has this been more nearly realized than
in the most backward of all the belligerents.
While the general form of the Muscovite govern
ment has undergone no change, its quality has
been profoundly affected by the course of the war.
This is shown by the overthrow of Sturmer, re
actionary bureaucrat, and the calling of Trcpof,
not a democrat, but filled with progressive ideas
and an opponent of the system that all but ruined
the empire. This change was brought about
through a bold attack in the Duma against Stur
mer and his methods. It was the continuation of
the attack which had been evaded by Gorcmykin
a year ago through inducing the czar to prorogue
the Duma. Doremykin could not stem the rising
flood of the people's power, nor could Sturmer.
It is of curious interest to recall at this time
that the progressive program, which Gorcmykin
last year refused to allow to come before the
Duma, much less to be debated, has as one of
its chief planks the granting of autonomy to Po
land. From thla to independence is not such
a far step, and may easily be conceded in ex
change for some advantages as to the use of the
Bosphorus and Dardanelles. The neutralization
of these important straits wilt almost certainty be
an issue of the war.
Thus it seems that nowhere has the tide of
democracy risen so high under the impetus of the
war as in backward Russia. No other people as a
whole wilt benefit more directly or materially
than the Russians, and nowhere in Europe may
greater development be looked for when peace
comes again. Germany understands this, and may
be counted upon to look after the future of Cur
man relations with its neighbor, even if traffic
must be carried on across Poland.
Naw York TUaae
' A pension, like an annuity, is an encourage
ment io longevity. The report of Secretary of the
Interior Lane shows that, while no soldiers of the
war of 1812 are left, the names of 115 widows of
soldiers in that war are stilt on the pension rolls.
Presumably these were young women who mar
ried ancient men, but all must be stricken in years
by this, time. Of the Mexican war, over nearly
seventy years ago, there are 5U living soldier
pensioners, and 3,785 widows. On June ,W, 1916,
there were 362,277 pensioned soldiers of the civil
wac a decrease of 34,000 in a year. On the same
date the number of widows of civil war soldiers
was 287,753, a decrease of 3,354.' This is the sec
ond year of decrease. Till 1915 there had always
been an increase.
. The greatest number of civl war soldiers on
the pension list, 745,822, was in 1898. More than
half have gone since then. The greatest num
ber of widows, 304,373, was in 1912. There were
709.572 pensioners on June 30, 1916, 38,575 less
than on June 30. 1915. The amount paid for pen
sions was $159,155,090, some $6,000,000 less than
in the preceding year.
From July 1, 1790, to July 1, 1916, the govern
ment has paid for, pensions $5,054,630,727. The
share of pensions in war expense is indicated by
the fact that from 1789 up to and including 1915
the war bill of the government was $7,657,322,
205, the naval bill $3,233,862,654. '
Farmersand Good Roads.
1 he Nebraska farmers congress lias put it
self on record as being opposed to the federal
good roads plan. The farmer is the one who pays
the high cost of poor roads. It is a rather jnoira
lous situation that finds our agriculturists willing
to adopt improved machinery, new methods, and
all the advanced ideas for producing crops to
lessen the unit cost, and then declare in favor of
perpetuating the system of transportation that
eats into their profits. Last spring the state engi
neer gave out figures to show that millions of
dollars can be saved annually in Nebraska on trie
cost of moving crops to market through the sim
ple expedient of building better highways. These
millions come directly out of the pocket of the
farmer. He pays the freight both ways, on all he
sells and all he buys. Five hundred million dol
lars' worth of farm produce is annually hauled to
market in Nebraska, and the chief expense of this
attaches to that portion of the trip made by wagon
between the farm and tli shipping point. This
can be reduced only through better highways.
And better highways will be built in Nebraska,
for it means added profit to the farmer. The sav
ing in cost of hauling by team all he sells and all
he buys will more than pay the interest on several
times the money needed to construct the roads.
The new Carranza commander at Chihua
hua, General Arnulfo Gonzalez, imitates Pancho.
Villa in thundering against General Pershing for
home consumption. The American commander
is not seeking trouble, nor dodging it, for that
matter, but there is no doubt of his willingness to
entertain one or both warriors in the highest
style of the art.
Legal contests with coal dealers over broken
Contracts lack the vigor and speed suited to the
times. A hot catch-as-catch-can "go" on the
Auditorium mat more closely meets the desires
of consumers, besides providing an expedient for
inserting the punch in the right spot.
Lloyd George
Now York World.
The presence of Colonel House at the White
House insures the customary volume of voice
less wisdom in forwarding peace negotiations. In
that line of action the Texas colonel lends a dis
tinctly human touch, to the nature of the clam.
Imagine William Jennings Bryan as the politi
cal idol of Wall street. Imagine all the financiers
and bank presidents and corporation managers
and captains of industry hailing him as the savior
of the republic. Imagine all the forces of organ
ized property and reactionary republicanism ral
lying to his support. Then we shonld have a sit
uation parallel to the situation in Great Britain,
where Lloyd George is engaged in organizing a
new war cabinet. '
Three years ago David K1oyd George was
easily Ihe best-hated man in the British empire.
He had been the best-hated man for half a de
cade. He was the ringleader of British radical
ism, and while excuses might be found for other
radicals, he was beyond the pale. Financial Eng
land detested him as enthusiastically as the dukes
detested him. There was hardly a day when the
British empire was not supposed to he rocking
upon its foundations because of something that
this "contemptible little Welsh attorney" was
doing or preventing.
I he worst that Wall street said about Bryan
in the campaign of 1896 was flattering in com
parison with the least that conservative England
said about Lloyd George for five years, and yet
he is the man to whom conservative England has
turned as the head of a new government.
It is beyond belief that the Tory intrigue
against the Asquith ministry ever had for its ob
ject the making of I.loyd George prime minister
of Great Britain. Yet that is its inevitable con
sequence, for there are only two men who can
meet the exigencies of that office. One of them
is the prime minister who has been forced to re
sign and the other is the "contemptible little
Welsh attorney" who has been the great driving
force of the government since the beginning of
the war. No member otVthe former opposition
measures up to the work, as Bonar Law practi
cally admitted when he refused to undertake the
formation of a ministry. What the unionist leader
ill Parliament could not do, no other Tory can do.
The qualities that make a great chancellor of
the Exchequer with revolutionary measures of
social justice, or a great minister of munitions or
a great secretary of state for war, are not neces
sarily the qualities that make a successful prime
minister. Lloyd George has proved that he could
use the Asqtiith government to mighty purposes.
He has yet to prove that he can create a govern
ment of his own and use it for still mightier pur
poses. But there can be no doubt that with the
Asquith ministry overthrown Lloyd George is the
one statesman to whom the average Englishman,
regardless of partisanship or caste, would imme
diately look for leadership. He has proved him
self the most vital individual force in the empire.
That this radical of radical democrats should
be called upon at this time to organize a govern
ment is one of the most significant political events
in British history. In a war that has been prolific
in paradoxes, there has been no other such para
dox as this.
Universal Military Training
New York World -
Before there can be intelligent discussion of
universal military training, there must be a defi
nite plan of military training before the country.
Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff
of the United States army, devotes his annual
report to an argument in favor of general com
pulsory military service, and then says: "I shall
not attempt in this report to evolve a system to
carry out so important a work."
It seems to the World that that is precisely
what General Scott ought to have done. The
first tiling the general staff should do is to evolve
a system and present it to the American people
for consideration. Otherwise argument is futile.
Universal military service seems to mean a
different thing to each of its advocates, but it
must mean a particular and definite thing before
it can be enacted into law or seriously debated.
What kind of universal military service does
General Scott think the country requires as a
measure of national defense? In his report he
takes it for granted that "the average parent
would gladly welcome the opportunity for mili
tary training for their boys between the ages of
18 and 21." Perhaps he would and perhaps he
would nol. It Is hazardous to guess at the atti
tude of the average parent toward a military
measure that has never been presented to him
and about which he has only the vaguest notions.
Much will depend upon the scope, the length
and the character of the training that is proposed.
"The average parent" in the United States is
neither a militarist nor a pacifist. He did not
raise his boy to he a soldier. Neither did he
raise him to be a shirker in time of national need.
He has no inherent objection to military training
in itself, within reasonable limitations, although
the theory of compulsory service of any kind is
inherently objectionable to him.
General Scott could get a far clearer notion
of the opinion of the average parent toward
universal military service if he would present a
plan of universal service and give the average
parent a chance to discuss it. Universal service
based upon German military theories would be
overwhelmingly rejected. Universal service
adapted to American theories of government and
American habit of life might meet with general
approbation. Everything depends upon the na
ture of the plan, and when General Scott declines
to evolve a plan he leaves the question where it
was before.
Unless the general staff has something definite
to offer in the way of solving the problem, its ar
guments are of no more practical value than are
those of the National Security league.
People and Events
Cardinal Gibbons, now in his eighty-third year,
has just completed a six-volume series of his
reminiscences.
Governor Capper of Kansas donated the first
$100 toward the fund for the Carrie Nation me
morial to be erected in Topeka.
Playing billiards is one of William J. Bryan's
favorite recreations and his friends declare that
he is something of an expert at the game.
Sir Ian Hamilton, the celebrated British mili
tary commander, is the author of numerous poems
that have been published' under various pen
names.
Peter Cioelet Gerry, the young democrat who
is to succeed Henry l.ippit as United States sena
tor from Rhode Island, is a great-grandson of
KlbridKO Cierrv, who was elected vice, president
with Madison in 1812.
Pennsylvania pays a .bounty of $6 for wildcat
skins and is doing considerable business in that
line. Besides the state is getting a free sideline
of plain catskins. which sports attempt to push
over for $0 each. Nothing doing.
Special importance was attached to the duty
of counting and declaring the soldier vote mailed
from Mexico to Westchester county, New York,
and the expense run up to $22.75 per ballot. Ar
tistic service comes high in heeling times.
Age does not. contract nor long usage weary
the vocal sweetness of Chauncey M. J)epew.
"When is a girl pretty?" The question was fired
at the sunshine patriarch at a New York bazar.
"Always." he replied. Safety first. Half a thou
sand girls surrounded him.
There is nothing slow about Mary Warren
of Salt Lake City. Pretty and dark-eyed, demure,
experienced and 26, she had shaken off three hus
bands and was about to annex the fourth when
the law stepped in. Reversing the ancient matri
monial methods of Salt Lake shocks modern
law and social custom.
The fortune of the Standard Oil magnate,
Charles W. Harkncss, appraised for tax purposes
in New York, amounts to $00,000,000, the sixth
largest fortune in the Empire State record. The
recent death of Mr. Archhold brings Standard
Oil fortitue into court and the Ux gatherers wear
I a holiday smile of large dimensions.
I enaj a M 1. J
Thought Nugget for the Day.
Love, hope, far, faith these make
humanity;
Theae are the sign and note and char
acter. Browning.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Greek troops evacuated district be
tween allied linen and Salonlca.
Berlin reported four aeroplanes nf
the allies shot down on western front.
General Sir Douglas flaig succeeded
Field Marshal Sir John French in
command of the British forces In
France and Flanders.
In Onuklia Thirty Years Ago.
Harry Lawrie, late of Chicago, who
has done some excellent arehitectuntl
work In thlfl city since his arrival, will
become associated with .Mr. Mendels
sohn, the architect. Mr. Lawrie will
succeed Mr. Flnher. who retire.
Miss Minnie Wood, principal of the
Leavenworth Street school, has Just
WCU.WHAT DO
YOV TMm Of IT?
had published a companion First
Header to be used as a review book
for primary students.
The mail matter intended for Wal
nut Hill people was sent to the branch
post office at that place, but had to be
returned because the postmaster ap
pointed had not yet opened shop.
George W. Crosby of the Keach &
Bowers Minstrel company spent the
day with "Stub" Dandle renewing an
acquaintance formed in the halcyon
days when Handle was wearing out his
young life behind the bat for the
l;nion Pacifies and Crosby was in the
pitcher's box for the Chicago He
serves. Mr. Crosby has cast his for
tunes with the best little minstrel
show that has visited Omaha since
Murray's block was commenced.
At the forty-third musicale of the
Ladies' Musical society of Omaha and
Council Uluffs the following were on
the program: Mrs. Cotton, Miss
Kustin and Mr. Wilklns.
Articles of incorporation were filed
of the Gramercy Park LHnd and in
vestment association. The incor
porators are Joseph L. Langevin, C. V.
Betndorff, J. H. Weist, Himon Ober
felder, F. E. Hhepard. 8. H. Baer, T.
H. Taylor, Martin Calm and A. H.
Wooley.
Charles M. Lynch and Mrs. Carrie
Davis were united in marriage by Jus
tice Herka,
This Pay In History.
1814 Delegates assembled from the
New Kngland states and organized the
Hartford convention as an anti-war
movement, and also to oppose the ad
ministration of President Madison.
1831 Hannah Adams, who is said
to have been the first woman in
America to have made literature a
profession, died at Hrookline, Mass.
Horn at Medneldi Mass., in 1755.
1840 Remains of Napoleon I laid
with great pompon tomb at lnvalldes,
Paris.
1847 General Scott announced his
pu rpose to occ u py the re p u b 1 ic of
Mexico until it sued for peace.
s 1864 General Thomas attacked the
confederate army under General
Hood before Nashville.
1891 A convention for organizing
the state of Oklahoma met at Okla
homa City.
1 899 The British under General
Ruller were severely defeated by the
Boers while attempting to force the
Tugeia river, near Colenso.
1903 The German emperor was
pronounced recovered from his severe
illness.
The Day Wc Celebrate.
John Douglas, president of the
Douglas Printing company, was born
December 15, 1863, in Lnrton, Kng
land. He is a printer by trade, learn
ing the business in England and com
ing to this country at the age of 21.
His first work here was as compositor
on The Bee in 1884. He established
the Douglas Printing company in
1890.
August V. Wagner, the North Six
teenth street feed man, is celebrating
his fifty-third birthday. He was born
in Erie, Pa.
Alfred P. Thorn, who, as counsel for
the Southern railway, has been testi
fying in the congressional investiga
tion of railways now under way in
Washington, born in Northampton
county, Virginia, sixty-two years ago
today.
.sir Richard MeBride, former prem
ier of British Columbia and later the
agent general for that province in
London, born at New Westminster, B.
C, forty-six years ago today.
Frank B. Sanborn, one of the last
survivors of the "Concord Group" of
philosophers, scholars and patriots,
born at Hampton Falls, N. H., eighty
live years ago today.
Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury,
V. S. N., retired, born at Lowell, Mass.,
seventy-one years ago today.
Bishop William F. Oldham of the
Methodist Episcopal church, born at
Bungalore, India., sixty-two years ago
today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
President Wilson is to be the guest
of honor tonight at a dinner to be
given by the Vice President and Mrs.
Marshall. ,
The lumber reclassification case is
to come up for oral argument today
before the Interstate Commerce com
mission in Washington.
Business and civic organizations of
Cleveland are to meet today to launrh
a campaign for the adoption of the
managerial form of city government.
KUhu Hoot, Alton B. Parker, James
M. Beck, and other persons-of promi
nence are to speak tonight in Carnegie
hall, New York City, at a mass meet
ing to protest against the deportation
of Belgians to Germany.
Approximately 200.000 workers em
ployed in the offices, mills and mines
of the United States Steel corporation
today begin work under a new scale,
which provides for an increase of 10
per cent in their wages. The advan.Jf
will add about 130,000,000 to the an
nual payrolls of the corporation.
Storyette of the Day.
Three commercial travelers meet
ing at a hotel one winter evening had
a hearty supper together. Supper over
the three found some difficulty in al
lotting their respective shares in the
bill, but one of them at length cut
short the dispute by proposing that
whoever had the "oldest name" among
them should go free, the expense be
ing halved by the other two.
This amendment being promptly ac
cepted. No. 1 produced a card in
scribed "Richard Eve," which No, 2
trumped with "Adam Brown." Then
No. 3, a portly veteran with humor
ous gray eyes, laid down his card
with the quiet confidence of a great
general making a decisive movement
und remarked, with a chuckle:
"1 don't much think you'll beat this
'un. gents."
And he was right, for the name was
"Mr. B. Ginning." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
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About Liquor Bond.
Omaha, Dec. 12. To the Editor of
The Bee: Within a few days the
authorities of the eity of Omaha will
insue liquor licenses to applicants who
dHire to engage in the salnon busi
ness. I'nder the Sloeum law the ap
plicant is required to give a bond in
the sum of $5,000, conditioned that
the applicant will pay all damages
that result from the traffic in which
he proposes to engage. The law con
templates the giving of a good bond,
and now, more than ever, ought this
ph;ine of the law be enforced.
There will be a tendency, during the
remaining months in which the traffic
may be carried on in Nebraska, for
some saloon keepers to conduct their
places of business with only one ob
ject in view, and that will be to get
every dollar out of the business pos
sible, without regard to the manner or
means by which this end may be ac
complished. The duty of demanding
a proper bond from every applicant
devolves upon the city commissioners
of Omaha, and they will be held re
sponsible this year, more than ever,
for a proper performance of their duty
in this respect.
The question now is will they per
mit a repetition of the "personal bond"
farce which was acquiesced in a year
ago or will they demand that the ap
plicant give a proper surety bond in
some company of recognized respon
sibility? There are numerous instances at the
present time in this city of saloon
keepers who have virtually no bond
at all, having been able last year to
put over a "personal bond" upon the
commission.
In many Instances the proposed per
sonal sureties possess no real estate
outside of a homestead, or other prop
erty heavily incumbered, which would
be of no avail to the widow or orphan
whose husband or father may have
been killed or debauched by the traf
fic. In some instances some sureties
who signed liquor bonds a year ago,
alienated their property immediately
after the granting of the license, and
in such a case the saloon keeper has
no bond at alt.
Nothing in the law requires the
surety who signs a liquor bond to re
tain ownership of his properly which
he scheduled in order to justify up?m
the bond, and he is at liberty to sell
and dispose of the same at any time
thereafter and in such an event the
object and purpose of the bond is de
feated. Within the last sixty days two in
stances of such an abuse have come
to my notice as an attorney. In either
of the cases a suit to recover the dam
ages wrought in the home of the de
pendents of a debauched husband
would be useless for the reason that
the "personal bonds" given are worth
loss, the sureties have left the city and
disposed of the property which was
scheduled by them at the time the
bond was approved by the commis
sioners. The commissioners have the power,
and it is up to them to demand a
proper bond, and every one knows
that the only safe bond is that given
by a surety company.
1 invite public attention to this, to
the end that the commissioners may
know that the people are looking to
them for justice and for a square deal.
They owe It to the wives and children
of the prospective victims of booze to
arrange the liquor bond matter so
that the dependents may have re
course against a saloon keeper who is
responsible for their misfortune.
Let us hope that the commissioners
will cut out the "straw bond" or "per
sonal bond" farce and demand a sure
ty bond. HENRY C. MURPHY.
union iu Hie azure ..1 our (big wilt.
Iiuvon- r. and made aioneni. nt lor
nation's n in blood, and made Hi-nam-
America first in all the earth
To us their nu-mory if an invplratnui.
We all have an Influence, howev ( i
humble and small it may he. our
brave boys are growing fewer in num
ber each day, and soon we must add
to our work the quota of labor which
they have performed. They were the
heroes who under God's guidance
brought our armies through the
shadows of that dark and dreadful
struggle into the light or victory.
The Woman's Relief corps has been
organized to as.sift them in their ma
terial wants as they are traveling on
the downward hill of life. Truly
grateful to those who purchased our
liberties at such priceless cost, we turn
our thoughts and attention with
patriotic devotion to their undivided
country which claims our allegiance
and our love.
NELLIE TONEY,
Department of Nebraska Press Cor
respondent, Woman's Hcliof Corps.
Use of the Wild Horse.
Silver Creek, Neb., Dec. 14. To the
Editor of The Bee: 1, like your read
ers generally, as 1 suppose, have been
much interested in reading your re
ports of the proceedings of the federal
court in that wild horse case wherein
certain parties are charged with viola
tions of the postal laws.
Whether found guilty or not, the
defendants have certainly rendered a
great service in the way of educating
the public as to the gullibility of hu
man nature, and warning them in gen
eral against those designing persons
who make a business of preying upon
innocence and virtue.
For those bankers, barbers, real
estate men and preachers whose greed
of gain seems to have quite over
powered the better instincts of their
natures, if they had any such Instincts,
and who really ought to have guard
ians appointed over them, I have no
sympathy whatever. If I had been
such an easy mark as they seem to
have been, I would have taken my
medicine without a wry face or a
squeal.
In case the defendants should be
found guilty, I think the court should
look upon this service of theirs to the
public as strongly in mitigation of
their offenses; make their sentences as
light as possible, and, if that were
permissible, recommend to the presi
dent that he give them an uncondi
tional pardon.
CHARLES WOOSTER.
BREEZY TRIFLES.
Alipf Why are you taking tip botany?
"HecaiiKe my fiance 1b Interested In a
plant ot unme hind, and I want to b able
to rnnvr.jA InllliKcntly with him about; h!
business." Brooklyn Citizen.
"Mrs. Comeup, your daughter', asvoir Iff
unfailing."
"Well, when we do get any of them im
ported tirtlrlti we always do it In big quan
tltlt." Baltimore American.
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MOT NOUR HANca -fr WAS
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VISITING HER HOUSE ,HtfrS AU.1.
"Substrr 1 a pnrfert hunbamL
"I never heard he was no wonderful. "
"Welt, every time h seen a mailbox he
feels In his pockets." Buffalo Express.
Wife That Mr Tucker next door must
be an awful go8FipN.
Hub What'tt the trouble now?
Wife Oh. nothing In particular; but T
never can tell her anything but what she's
heard It before. Baltimore American.
In the W. R. C.
Omaha, Dec. 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: How often do we hear it
said, "I cannot belong to the Woman's
Relief corps, having no blood relations
who were soldiers? To these I wish!
to say the membership of the Woman's
Relief corps is not made up of rela
tives of the Grand Army of the He
public. And upon our broad founda
tion stands the eligibility of member
ship. The loyal women who all these
years have banded together to assist
the Grand Army of the. Republic; the
loyal woman who stood loyal to her
country, charged father, brother und
lover to remember her prayer, follow
ing them amid 'shot and shell.' " the
bravest soldiers of our land. Remem
ber, women are loyal by birth, not by
marrlage so we as Woman Relief
corps women do welcome all loyal
women to unite with us in honoring
the grand men who wear the bronze
button. They planted the stars of our
"I'M SORRY; I WAS WRONG."
Chicago Pout.
There may be virtue In the man
Who's always sure heo right,
Who'll never hear another's plan
And seek no further light:
But I like more the chap who slogs'
A somewhat different aong:
Who nays, when he has messed up things,
"I'm sorry; I was wrong."
It's hard for any one to say
That failure's due to him
That he has lost the fight or way
Herause his lights burned dim.
II lakes a man aside to throw
The vanity that's strong.
Confessing, " 'Twas my fault, I know,"
"I'm sorry; I was wrong."
And so, I figure, those who use
This honest, manly phrase.
Hate It too mur.h their way to lose
On many future days.
They'll keep the path and make the fight.
Because they do not long
To have to say when they're not right
"t'm sorry; 1 was wrong."
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