THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1917.
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With the drift over, now back to "business as
usual." s .
Too many police investigations in succession,
like too many cooks, spoil the broth!
Now that it is all over, a lot of fellows can
buckle down to work with easier minds.
Well, as usual, The Bee's rival did the boast
ing while this paper beat them out with the newt,
AH this news of the draft lottery will very
likely be interesting in Berlin, also, if it ever
reaches there. , t .
Exemption boards come next in order, and
after them it is a ticket to the cantonment for the
lads who get to go.
Potatoes have dropped from the sky and the
poultry corner has gone to pieces, bits of news'
that will interest the pocketbook. y
No, there is no money for newspapers in
issuing draft list extras. This is case solely of
service to the public without further reward.
It seemed somewhat ironical that two "slack
ers' should be picked up by the authorities on
draft day. They will be in line for the next call.
The soldier responding to the last number
drawn, however, will be on precisely the same
level as his comrade drawn on the first number.
War on the ragweeds is one conflict a lot of
people will give their hearty support After a man
has had hay fever a few days he is ready for al
most anything but peace.
,4 J all obstructionists to the president's war
program were to be put under the Ban, as sug
gested by the senator's newspaper, how would the
senator keep his name from occupying a place
near the top of the list?
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How to market their extra garden truck is
atmost ai much o fa problem for the amateur
gardeners as was the first question of how to get
it out of the ground. However, the housewives
ire helping some in this emergency.
Russian soldiers who stopped to argue among
themselves as to whether they would obey
their commands were overwhelmed by a German
attick. They may ultimately discover that a battle
is not carried on under "Roberts' Rules of Order."
A New Jersey man refused to give bond to pay
alimony and took himself to jail because no officer
was present Fine prospect his ex-wife hat of ex
tracting any comfort from her freedom, other
than what may flow from the thought the it thed
of him.
Three American transports, returning from
France, report they taw no U-boatt going or
coming. Their crews have something coming to
them in the way of entertainment, when they find
time to read the "elaborated" dispatch sent out as
a Fourth of July greeting.
The government crop report for the week
gives Nebraska another high rating, especially
as to prospects for com, which seems to be doing
well every place, even on the board of trade,
where its price outtops the tallest stalk that ever
grew from the ground.
Showers by night and sunshine by dsy are
making life merry for the farmers of Nebraska,
and the prospects for a crop are correspondingly
good. Some of the tales already coming in would
normally qualify the bearers as experts at fiction,
but the unanimity of the reports carries conviction.
The final official count of trail hitters gathered
in by Billy Sunday at New York shows a total
of , 155,942. All previous records are surpassed,
though not as impressively as the number and
need of the metropolis warranted. Sorted out by
church preferences the trail hitters revealed
strange partiality for denominations which stood
aloof from the revival. While the Presbyterians
outranked the Methodists in preference the Epis
copalians stand second in number and the Cath
olics fourth, both of which frowned on evangelical
fireworks. -
A Nebraska Idea
-Minnaapolla Tribuna-
I am still sorry congress was stampeded into
war." says Prof. Persinger of the history depart
ment of the University of Nebraska.
Congress stampeded into warl Is that the
kind of history they are teaching in Nebraska?
What is their authority? Hasn't there been dan
ger of war ever since the Lusitania went down?
Why did the president go, through the country
a year and a half ago warning the people against
the possibility of war and urging them to face
the possibility? And didn't the president do his
level best to keep us out of war for two years
and a half? Haven't the members of congress
had any knowledge of what was going on in the
world and of how the honor of our nation and
the rights of our people were being trampled
upon by an arrogant bully? Were they ignorant
of the threat and of the execution of the threat
of unrestricted tubmarine warfare? Did the dis
missal of Bernstorff give them no intimation that
there was trouble ahead? And, finally, two
months later, when the president asked congress
for action was it to declare war or to reeognire
formally what already everybody knew that a
tate of war already existed?
And yet the history department of the Uni
versity of Nebraska talks about stampeding con
Kress into war. That isn't history, that's non-
Greatest Lottery in All History.
History r (fords ao adequate comparison for
the great leery just held, whereby choice was
made among ten million eligible young men to
select 687,000 for service in the great army of
the republic. That it was carried out with all due
fairness will not be seriously disputed, and that
the plan is just, is questioned by but few, and
some of these are willful rather than sincere in
their opposition. The orderly manner in which
registration went forward in the first place, and
the deep interest shown on all sides in the draw
ing is proof of the fine spirit of the people. It is
a nation responding to the call of duty, and as a
spectacle surpasses any military demonstration
ever made. To the young men on whom. the
choice to bear arms finally will rest, the nation
turns with deep regard, and with a pledge of en
swerving support America is in earnest, and is
moving irresistibly in a cause than which none
nobler ever inspired warrior, and the outcome
admits of no doubt. Friday, July 20, will be a day
forever remembered in American history, as that
on which a nation seriously set about to solemnly
redeem the pledge it gave the world.
Between Chancellor and Reichstag.
The majority bloc of the German Reichstag
has adopted by a vote that admits of no dispute
its resolution endorsing peace without conquest
On the other hand, the newly-made chancellor
outlines a policy for continuing the war with its
original objective unchanged.
The division between the two is more appar
ent than real and must be considered in light
of other facts. Chancellor Mkhaelis can be only
a stop-gap, placed in office to tide the emperor
and the military party over a crisis aroused by
failure of Von Bethmann-Hollweg, while the coali
tion of tump in the Reichstag is held together
solely by a desire to gather for the assembly a
little more power at the expense of the emperor.
The Reichstag resolution contains no hint of
anything the Allies deem essential to peace. "Rec
onciliation between the nations" mayvmean much
and may mean nothing at all Not even this is
conceded by the chancellor, while both aides an
nounce a determination to fight on if the proffer
is not accepted. The American declaration of pur
poses in the war contains a definite program a
program which hat been accepted by Great Brit
ain and France in principle and in most of its de
tails. The Russians likewise have endorsed its
principle and it may be taken generally at em
bodying what will be required when a settle
ment is made. Nothing of this program it con
ceded in the Reichstag resolution nor in the
speech of the chancellor, to far as our reports
go. Therefore nothing that promises an early
ending of hostilities can be discerned coming from
Berlin. Other things, however, are happening in
Germany and elsewhere in the war arena operat
ing to bring peace nearer, even though yet quite
a way off. Peace will come, therefore, only when
the German leaders are more willing to accept
the inevitable and less insistent on dictating terms.
No Sympathy for Food Speculators.
Little sympathy will be wasted on the specu
lators in dressed poultry who find themselves
confronted with serious losses because of falling
prices. These men are reputed to own fifty-one
million pounds of dressed poultry, most of the
stock held for many months and all of it put
into storage at top prices. It is admitted they
were disappointed In the demand from Europe for
food; they had confidently looked forward to
disposing of their holdings at famine prices. But
fate shaped matters differently and it is now a
case of the devil take the hindmost with them.
Poultry that has laid In the cold storage houses
for two years is now coming out to be told as
fresh-killed stock. How extensive the toss will
be cannot be stated, but heada of families who
went without turkey last Thanksgiving and Christ
mas will be justified in some degree if their faith
in retributive justice is now increased.
Shumway May Start Something.
Land Commissioner Shumway, who has al
ready made something of a record for himself by
tearing through red tape and precedent at the
ittte house, continues his activity by threatening
to start something if not admitted to a place in
the councils of the State Normal board. It Is
not exactly clear how he can obtain entrance to
the charmed circle, but his effort may be valuable
in another way. The law very specifically makes
provision for a normal board of seven members,
two of whom are the state treasurer and state
superintendent, the other five to be appointed by
the governor. Nothing is said of membership
for the land commissioner, who may approach
the board through another door, that of mem
bership on the State Board of School Lands and
Funds. The administrative duties of these boards
overlap at many points and this may give the
land commissioner at least color of support for
his request. At any rate it touches a weakness
of our board-ridden administration. Duplica
tion of function, overlapping of jurisdiction or di
vision of responsbility among these bodies and
"twilight xones in which none is wholly certain
of power have produced confusion, laxity of
service and extra expense for running the state.
Mr.' Shumway may not gain a place on the nor
mal board, but if he goes about it right he may
aid in bringing about a readjustment that will
increase the efficiency of the state government ,
Reducing Passenger Train Mileage.
When Mr. Fairfax Harrison tells of the re
duction of passenger train mileage about to be
accomplished through ' the co-operation of the
railroads of the United States his figures sound
quite impressive. Casual readers will look a sec
ond time at a statement that sixteen million
miles of train-haul are to be lopped from the total
now accomplished without serious disturbance of
the service, yet not realize what it means. A
little closer inspection will show just how impor
tant this really is. The mileage of the railroads
mobilized under the committee of which Mr.
Harrison is chairman totals a littU over 243,000,
so that the reduction in train movement he pro
poses to achieve will be equal to almost thirty
round trips over the entire system involved. The,
Union Pacific had the stiffest battle with the ele
ments it ever experienced last winter In Wyoming
and during that time the engines of the whole
system consumed but a little more coal than will
be saved by the railroads of the country when the
new passenger schedule is adopted. The saving
in man-power; which has already become impor
tant in the United States, is on a parity with the
other factors. Altogether the plan proposed by
the railroads may become both an example and
an inspiration for other great industries of the
country. ,
Ten million dollars added to the Douglas
county assessment roll will challenge attention
anywhere, and certainly will be noted when the
taxpayers visit the county treasurer's office a
little later in the season.
New Factory Dangers
By Frederic . HasJcin
Washington, July 18. In the past three years
hundreds of explosions have occurred in Ameri
can munition plants. Many men and women have
been killed. In many cases the cause of the ex
plosion was known, in others it was not, but in
every case an immediate investigation was made
by the plant owners and all possible precautions
were taken to prevent a recurrence of the catas
trophe. Now the plant owners are facing a new
and ugly problem much more difficult to solve
than that of occasional explosions.
It has recently been found that during this
same period of three years thousands of workmen
in munition factories have been poisoned. Some
have escaped with merely skin eruptions, lung and
bronchial afflictions and sore eyes; others have
died. There is the case of a young girl nineteen
years old who was employed by a factory to dip
explosive charges for shells . in liquid parafin.
After two weeks of this work she was transferred
to the office. A few days later her skin began to
turn yellow, she was constantly nauseated and
finally sank into a profound coma which ended in.
death.
At the beginning the cause of these myste
rious cases of poisoning was not recognized. They
were an entirely new development to the average
doctor, and apparently the plant owners under
stood them no better. Then the United States
Department of Labor put Dr. Alice Hamilton on
the case. Dr. Hamilton is a scientist of very high
standing, and almost as great a sleuth as she is a
scientist. Moreover, Dr. - Hamilton, . having
studied the munitions industries of other coun
tries, knew beforehand what she was likely to find.
She wasted no time trying to trace the fine
Italian hand of the Germans.
The mystery was not much of a mystery after
all. There was no plot or hidden clue. The work
men were victims of the various chemical fumes
that escape in the manufacture of high explo
sives. Nitric acid, benzol, phenol or carbolic acid
and fulminate of mercury, are all dangerous
poisons, having a disastrous effect, on the human
constitution, yet these very chemicals are abso
lutely necessary to the munitions industry.
Dr. Hamilton has just issued a report covering
the details of her investigation a report that is
exceedingly valuable from a scientific as well as
an industrial standpoint. She first points out that
the manufacture of high explosives in the United
States grew up practically over night, without
plan, without system and without adequate pro
visions. We had always made armament to a
limited extent, but we had oever before made ex
plosives wholesale. Before the war we imported
benzol, toluol, aniline and carbolic acid; now we
distill them ourselves. Trinitrotoluol, or TNT, one
of the deadliest poisons, was never made in this
country until we started putting it in shells to be
sent to Europe. Thus, in creating new industries
and undertaking new processes, there were many
things we did not know. Workmen were not the
only ones to suffer. Many chemists and engineers
also lost their lives.
When Dr. Hamilton started her investigation
in the spring of 1916 conditions were very bad.
She visited forty-one factories, employing alto
gether a total of 30,000 persons, whose work was
directly connected with the poisonous processes
used in making the explosives. "It is impossible
to give accurate figures as to the amount of sick
ness and death caused by work in this industry
since the war broke out, . she says, "for the in
formation cannot be secured. Many cases were
never recognized; many others were seen by com
pany physicians or insurance physicians, who are
unwilling to give any information or tell anything
about them, and in still other factories, come of
them employing hundreds of men, there is either
no medicat care or it is so inadequate as to be of
little use." , ,
The first poisoning cases treated in her re
port are those from nitrogen oxide known as
cases of "fume sickness." "In the making of ex
plosives," Dr. Hamilton explains, "a mixed acid
is used for nitration, one ingredient of which is
sulphuric acid (relatively harmless) and the other
nitric acid 100 per cent strong (extremely dan
gerous)." At least, this is the method used in the
majority of factories, so that nitric acid is the
most common form of poisoning. Nearly fifteen
hundred cases of this poisoning alone were un
covered by the investigation.
Mild eases of "fume sickness" greatly resem
ble asthma, and they are numerous, especially in
hot weather. In the summer of 1916, one gun
cotton plant employing 300 men in nitrating used
to have an average of twenty men every twenty
four hours, who had to go to the doctor, with
fume sickness. Often, though, they would be
cured by a little fresh air and medical treatment
and could return to work the same night.
A serious case of fume sickness is not so
easily cured. Either bronchitis, pneumonia or
tuberculosis usually result. Cases of pneumonia
have been known to develop from twenty-two to
thirty days afterward, and tuberculosis even after
a longer period. -
Another poison used in the manufacture of ex
plosives is benzol, or tolnol, from which phenol or
carbolic acid is made. Mild cases of benzol pois
oning react upon the central nervous system and
produce somewhat the same symptoms of intoxi
cation produced by alcohol. Autopsies showed
that this poison affects other organs, such as the
heart brain, liver and kidneys, besides the throat
and lungs. :
Next to nitric acid, trinitrotoluol, or TNT, is
responsible for more cases of poisoning than any
other substance in the munitions industry. It was
very little known before the war, and the United
States took up its manufacture in relative igno
rance of its effects. Trinitrotoluol poisoning starts
in somewhat the same way as a cold in the head,
but soon settles in the gastro-intestinal tract.
There is usually constant nausea, the skin turns
yellow and the joints become swollen. Fatalities
from this poison are numerous.
Thus Dr. Hamilton's investigation uncovered
numerous new occupational diseases that have
appeared as the result of a new industry in which
our manufacturers had little experience. In the
meantime, much has been learned concerning
them and many precautions have been taken to
prevent poisoning. States have passed laws con
cerning their use. Certain ventilating systems
must be provided by the factories: warnings must
be issued concerning the result ot inhaling dense
fumes of acid; people must be kept constantly on
hand to resuscitate workmen accidentally over
come by fumes; factories must provide helmets
for the workmen, and the workmen are compelled
to take certain precautions regarding their cloth
ing. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, especially,
have set admirable examples in "safety-first" laws,
and the United States Department of Labor thinks
that it will be but a short time until other muni
tions states follow them.
People and Events
The tobacco crop will run 64,000,000 more
pounds this year than last Smoke up I
Food speculators in New York, unable to un
load their old potato stocks, allowed several thou
sands of pounds to spoil on their hands rather
than let go at low "prices. Mr. Hoovet should
nail a few of his thunders against food waste in
that Reighborhood.
Mistaken for a blackhander and badly beaten
up, two years ago, William Anker of South Hol
land, 111., has recovered sufficiently to sue all
seven waiters for $25,000 damages each. Besides
the defendants are undergoing criminal prose
cution for false arrest
Field Marshal von Hindenburg might as well
admit the finish Is in sight. Four members of
President Wilson's cabinet several assistant sec
retaries and other administration highups, twenty
in all, take morning horseback rides four days a
week, at a preparation for the coming American
drive. A fat man has no show against that
bunch. ' S . ,
Proverb for the Day.
Good goods come in email packages.
One Year Ago in the War.
Russian cavalry entered Hungary.
Russians gained near Carpathian
passes, but met strong resistance.
French captured entire German first
postion on line of three miles, taking
2,800 prisoners.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
Chief Galllgan has received a let
ter from E. B. Preston & Co., Chi
cago, stating that the new chemical
engine ordered by this city was ready
for shipment It is to cost $1,800 and
to be located in No. 3'a house on Har
ney street The old how cart will be
removed to No. 6's house, corner Six
teenth and Izard.
Mrs. Atkinson, mother of Alexander
Atkinson of this city, died at Haigler,
Neb. The body was brought to Omaha
and interred in Prospect Hill ceme
tery, the funeral taking place from the
depot
Penrose & Hardin have stretched a
banner from their concern across the
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street to tha new Hellman building,
which will be used hereafter for an
nouncing base ball games.
The new badge to be shot tor every
week by the Gate City Gun club is
the handsomest affair of the kind of
fered by any of the clubs in tha city.
John McDonald is now a full-fledged
assistant oil inspector and during tha
last two weeks inspected over 2,000
barrels of illuminating fluid. He is
soon to have an assistant name'. Coon,
because the work has been found to
be more than McDonald can stand.
Charles Kaufmann has returned
from his trip to Europe and will now
give his personal attention to his fire
insurance and real estate business at
1302 Douglas.
Mrs. George C. Hobble and daugh
ter, Lou, and Mrs. George W. Cook and
daughter, Helen, have left for Colfax
Springs, la,, for a week's recreation.
This Day in History.
1690 Rhode Islanders defeated a
fleet of five French privateers off Block
Island.
1775 Benjamin Franklin brought
forward in congress a plan of union.
1798 Battle of the Pyramids, in
which Bonaparte defeated the Mame
lukes and thus subdued lower Egypt
1813 Fort Meigs, at the foot of the
Maumee rapids, Ohio, again besieged
by a force of British and Indians.
1817 Joseph K. Barnes, surgeon
general of the United States army dur
ing the civil war, born in Philadelphia.
Died in Washington, D. C, April 5,
1883.
1842 Rhode Island observed a day
of thanksgiving for the suppression of
Dorr's rebellion without bloodshed.
1861 Federals defeated at battle of
Bull Run, the first Important battle of
the civil war.
1889 Nelson Dewey, first state gov
ernor of Wisconsin, died at Cassville,
Wis. Born at Lebanon, Conn., De
cember 19, 1813.
1915 Third note sent to. Germany
by the United States concerning the
rights of neutral ships.
The Day We Celebrate.
Paul Wallace Horbach was born
July 21, 1863. He is a capitalist and
a lifelong resident of Omaha.
. C. F. Brlnkman. assistant manager
of the credit department of the United
States National bank, la 53 today. He
was born In Baltimore and was with
Dun's for eighteen years before going
into the bank. t
W, N. Chambers was born July 81,
1879. He la a native son of Omaha,
graduating In law from the University
of Michigan and has been practicing
here for fifteen years.
Joseph A. A. Burnqulst, the pres
ent governor of Minnesota, born at
Dayton, la., thirty-eight years ago to
day. Cheesman A. Herrick, president of
Glrard college and head of the Na
tional Society for , the Promotion of
Industrial Education, born at Red
wood, N. y., fifty-one years ago today.
Dowager Queen Maria Christina,
mother ot the king of Spain, born fifty
nine years ago today.)
Chauneey Olcott, celebrated as an
actor in Irish musical dramas, born
in Buffalo fifty-seven years ago today.
Robert D. Heaton, representative in
congress of the Twelfth Pennsylvania
district, born in Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania, forty-four yeara ago to
day. John J. Evers, reported sold by the
Boston National league base ball club
to the Philadelphia club, born at Troy,
N. Y., thirty-four years ago today.
Aska Cheer for Cass, Too.
Plattsmouth, Neb., July 19. To the
Editor ot The Bee: Referring to your
editorial of this date, in which you
speak of being "Proud of one county."
With alt honor to Hamilton county.
In Cass county we have enlisted
many more than our quota of ninety
two men. We have had more than
eighty men enlist jtrora Plattsmouth
alone.
In Avoca precinct there was not a
young man left to register on June
5. They had all volunteered and beat
the registration.
Hats off to Cass county, please.
D. C. MORGAN.
Christians and the War.
Tolland. Colo., July 17. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: The article in The
Bee headed "No Politics in Lutheran
Pulpits" attracted my attention par
ticularly. It seems to me that the
Christian church and every branch of
It should find it most fitting to denounce
from their pulpits the un-Christian op
pression and outrageous conduct ot
the German empire, and to urge it aa
a Christian duty ot all its members to
back this government in its efforts to
put down the oppressors.
I do not see how any class of peo
ple who call themselves Christians can
refuse to uphold the right and de
nounce the wrong. They say that it
is "the practice of the Lutheran
churches" to use their pulpits "for
the preaching of the gospel and for
nothing else."
What is the gospel but the teach
ings ot Christ applied to secular
things to make them holier and bet
ter? This secular and political world is
man's responsibility; is the Christian's
responsibility. If our churches are to
wash their hands of such subjects,
then, indeed, must the world go to ruin.
How is the secular world to be im
proved except through the light of di
vine teaching?
If our Savior came from the very
throne ot God and mingled among
men so that He might make the world
better, so that we, His people, might
grow into the likeness of God: why
should the Lutherans or -any branch
of the Christian church think their
pulpits too sacred a place to uphold
this nation in its stand for Justice and
right, and In its denouncement of
wrong and oppression?
To those who wish to see, it is a
plain indisputable fact that this is a
war for right against wrong; for free
dom and against oppression; for Jus
tice and against injustice: and I should
think any minister of the gospel
would be afraid not to speak out from
God's pulpit in the cause of right and
Justice for humanity. B. N. T.
Centralized Government.
- Omaha, July 19. To the Editor ot
The Bee: Is this, nation headed to
wards a centralized government a
thing we have always so despised and
which we have fought against since
the founding of the republic? Is the
press of the nation being muzzled so
that it cannot fight the battle of the
people in this regard as formerly?
The writer, whose father knew and
greatly admired the late Edward
Rosewater, nearly forty years ago,
would like to know what that great
though often Justly blunt writer would
have to say along this line were ha
alive today. It is true that should all
the congressional districts of the land
elect to our national congress the ap
palling accidents as have we during
the last few terms, then any presi
dent possessing Intellect a fraction
above the mediocie might assume a
pedagogical dictatorship over his
helpless pupils. But Mark Sullivan,
Collier's hyper-Crltlc, eays there are
three brainy men in the lower branch
of congress. Roosevelt, our American
Louis Philllppe, whom most of u
love and desire to kick alternately,
started the fashion ot undue presi
dential familiarity with congress, and
many more or less statesmen carried
heads made sore by the Colonel's
"Big Stick." Taft, the passive, con
tented himself with conforming to the
old practice of sending from a safe
distance his desires to coneress in the
form of messages. But Wilson, even
years before we entered" the war, eo
far outdid Roosevelt in smothering
congress with his personal attacks
that Roosevelt must now mourn that
he was so Impotent In his chastening
that body. , .
So here we are, with the press of
the country having its stuff all set up
waiting with bated, or almost abated
breath, for the headlines from Wash
ington, to hang It to; while we poor
folk pray that our respiratory organ
may permit us to breath deeply once
more, since we cannot eat deeply.
When will our national congress again
incubate and hatch its own legisla
tion? When will our president again
assume the dignified position of per
mitting congress to unhindered per
form its functions?
GEO. B. CHILD.
North Forty-third street
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the Belgian national inde
pendence day.
The Belgian wir mission to the
United States is scheduled to visit
Tulsa today. ,
The United States senate has fixed
today as the date tor concluding de
bate and taking a vote on President
Wilson's food control bill.
Cheyenne Is to entertain the annual
convention of the Wyoming Press as
sociation during the three days be
ginning today.
' Minnesota socialists plan to stage a
state-wide demonstration in St Paul
tonight in protest against the draft
law and the continuance of the war.
A memorial hospital erected at Ips
wich, Mass., by Mr. and Mrs. Richard
T. Crane, Jr., of Chicago and Ipswich,
in memory ot their friend, Benjamin
Cablet who met death in an automo
bile accident a year ago, is to be
opened and dedicated today.
Storyette of the Day. '
The wife of General Sir Horace
Smith-Dorrien, who la engaged in add
ing to the comforts of wounded Brit
ish soldiers In English hospitals, tells
an amusing and affecting story of
a soldier who had Just recovered from
a severe wound.
Feeling ill and very homesick, he
went to headquarters to obtain leave
of absence. "I haven't Been my wife
for more than a year," he said, la a
most dejected manner.
"Why," said the eolonel to whom
he had applied, "I haven't seen my
wife for nearly two years!"
"Well." said the soldier, earnestly
and respectfully, "that may be, sir,
but me and my wife aren't that kind!"
The furlough was .Immediately
granted.
YOUR FRIEND.
Tour frlnd la not th one who trln jrou out
With bolt and tra to If you art true.
Tour frond glva you tho bontflt of rr'ry
doubt;
Tho ttavli'a temptation' work to do.
Tour frltnd no'or auks you to aceommodat
Hlmatlf at oomo ona'a oIm sacrifice;
Ho. who In thla way would discriminate.
Would toll your tnt'rcala tor htsher
prlco.
If he to fair, ho doe not hive to take
A vow to aland by you unto tho end;
If falao. hta obiifation he would break
For eotne more ueetul, favor-clvlng friend.
Tour (reateet benefactor la a man
Of principle Juat American.
Lincoln. WILLIS HUDSPETH.
True Christian Science.
Normal, 111., July 13.--To the Editor
of The Bee: Being a reader of your
paper, like your many subscribers, I am
interested in what appears in Its col
umns. Lately my attention haa been
drawn to two different articles on what
is called "Christian Science." My ob
ject in these words is not an attack
on the writers, but rather an inquiry
Into what they mean In the use of
that phrase. If they mean the exact
rendering of what Christ taught dur
ing His ministry in the world tht-n we
are ready to admit that their position
Is tenable: but It It Is Intended to bol
ster up the interpretations of some nov
ice we naturally recoil and are com
pelled to think of Paul's reference
to science "falsely, so-called."
It is well known that there Is much
swelled egotism on scientific claims,
both in natural science and tho sci
ence of theology, and it is quite certain
that Paul had reference to Just such
pretention when he wrote the words
quoted. It would seem from all the
circumstances of his life as related
by himself in his letters that he did
certainly believe in the existence of
evil, of which he makes frequent men-
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tion, whether in the literal word or in
terms expressing the same thought.
The term evil abstractly considered
and its final outcome would present
two distinct subjects. The final con
quest of evil could never prove its
nonexistence; neither would its exis
tence prove the nonexistence of a good
God. All claims on these linrs are
mere assumptions and are in no sense
scientific.
That there is a true Christian Sci
ence taught in the New Testament we
are willing to admit, but it is in no
sense a conglomeration of ideas self
originated or subtracted from pagan
systems of religion. 'The way is so
plain that a wayfaring man, though a
fool, need not err therein."
S. GOLDSMITH.
LINES TO A SMILE.
"Our bora In the army are chlvalroua,
aren't they?"
"Chlvalroua? Who can doubt it? Aren't
they going- to wear all the aweatera and
aocka our rlrls are knitting- for 'em this
winter?' Baltimore American.
"It won't be long before everybody in this
country will be working."
' "I believe you. Even our office boy Is
beginning to warm up a little." Life.
Hub I'm going to join another club this
evening.
Wife I don't suppose I shall see you at
all after this.
Hub Ob, yet; It bas a ladles' night.
Boston Transcript.
Innocent Sohoolglrl Do you think a. girl
ought to learn to love before twenty?
Tale "Necker" No. Too largo an audi
ence. Record.
"Hubby, the maid has gone and she took
my diamond tiara."
"Well, I don't like notoriety. Let it
go."
"She also took a peck of potatoes.
"Send for the police!1' Louisville Courier
Journal. "Did you hear what happened when the
young electrician who had been calling on
her asked Katherine to marry him?"
"What happened?"
"She shocked him with' a posltivs nega
tive." Baltimore American.
"So you got mad at him for kissing
you." ,
"No; I got angry at him for aaying he was
sorry he did It when I pretended I was
angry." Houston Post.
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