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THE O'NEILL FRONTIER 1 D. H. CRONIN. Publisher._ VNEILU NEBHABKA Hr —r. , . ,i - » End of Hunger Striking. From the New York Herald. Shortly after her recent arrest on a charge of attempting to provoke sedition la the British navy, Slyvla Pankhurst wrote as follows to Lenin: "X expect six months Imprisonment. 1 consider a hunger strike, but I am afraid the weapon is destroyed now since the government is letting the Irish hunger strikers die.” Probably Miss Pankhurst meant that things are not as they were In the per iod wtien a hunger striker was released after a few days and went out glorying In a victory over the government and listening to the cheers of admirers. 1 u hunger briefly end win wes one thing: to hunger for 10 weeks arid die is quite different Hunger striking la no longer a novelty. At last men have died of It. And in the case of MacSwtaey. the first hunger striker to attract the world’s serious a. tentlon, the novelty of the means was Anally overshadowed by the personal ity of the striker. If at first the maj or of Cork wraa regardei simply as a pris oner who was trying to force his jail ors to release him, at the last he was viewed as a man who, utterly beyond hope of a living victory, was striving for a triumph in death itself. As Sylvia Pankhurst says, hunger striking is no longer a weapon—unless the striker is prepared to go the whole fatal way; and even then there will never be a parallel, In public Interest, to the MacSwlney case. G. O. P. Campaign. From the Omaha World-Herald. Republican campaign was masterful after its kind. It achieved wonders. It confounded logic and reason, it allied hosts of diverse and antagonistic ele ments under a single banner and held them—till election day. It cemented to gether ‘‘Wall street" power and non partisan league votes. It wrapped rad icals and reactionaries In close embrace. It appealed aliko to anti-league republi cans, pro-league republicans and anti league democrats—even to some pro league democrats. Chamelon like, among a host of conflicting interests and classes and races and creeds and hates, It took on In each instance the color ot Its immediate environment. It agr-ed wlth everybody, disagreed with nobody. It put Bryan to bed with Penrose and cavalier with covenanter, bestowing Its benignant blessing on all alike. It prom ised all things to all men -and today awakens to Its morning of solemn res ponsibility. Its notes of hand, flung like leaves to the wind, tomorrow will be coming due. The Kansas supreme court, in a 1 decision handed down Saturday up- I held the contention of a life insurance company that it cannot be held liable for the full amount of a policy bear ing a military service waiver; fn case ; the Insured died while engaged in such service. The court ruled that . “military service” could not be re- | ■trlcted to actual lighting, but that such service begins with enlistment. | The names of live millionaires j are among the 100 names on the jury j panel of the New York city sheriff’s Jury for the coming year. They are: John D. Rockefeller, jr.. Chauncey M. Depew, Jr, Frederick W. Vanderbilt, Bernard M. Baruch and Howard El liot. Because Mrs: Louise Peete can not provide the funds necessary to defend herself against the charge of murder ing J. C. Denton, a wealthy California mining broker, the county of Los Angeles finds itself obliged to both prosecute her, and defend her in the same case. Because of the spectacular rush of hundreds of oil prospectors to the far north, the Ottawa government has found It necessary to revive the old grub stakes law of Yukon days, and require that only those In physical condition to stand an arctic winter or have enough "grub" to keep them, will be permuted to go. Miss Fannie Reid, of Hancock, N. Jf., left a self imposed seclusion of 59 years last week to attend her broth j er’s funeral. In 1861 her father Is said to have broken her engagement to a national guard officer, and she vowed never to leave her room again. Sinco then, not more than half a dozen per slns outside her family, have o her. She is still vigorous. Two army trucks surrounded by a large guard of troops recently passed through the streets of Portland, Ore., and the general belief was that gold was being shipped to Japan. It turned out that the trucks contained 2,000 quarts of whisky for military hospitals in California. The first news of the world for two sears will soon reach the island of Rapa with the arrival olf a Fr.n.h schooner now on Its way there. Tin island is populated by 150 l’c’j. nesians and one French official. . .. inhabitants have not yet heard of tir• close of the war. The Irish peace conference, which Is an association of moderate Irish men of all parties seeking to solve the homo rule problem, has written to Premier Lloyd George, expressing the view that parliament should os tablish a constituent assembly elected on the parliamentary basis of proportional representation and that Ireland be given complete linaneial independence. The town of Tralee, Ireland, is fast approaching starvation in conse quence of tlie recent polled order for bidding carrying on of business un til two missing policemen are re turned by the townspeople. • Although her name was not on the ballot, Mrs. Grace B. L&mphirc was elected mayor of Burns, Ore., last Tuesday, her name being written in. Her first knowledge that she was be ing considered for the offlce came ' when she was notified of her elec tion. New York City egg eaters so much prefer white eggs that the price of 1 them is considerably higher than that ■ of the brown egg. while In Boston, the white are considered inferior to the - brown, and are therefore considerably cheaper in price. After a careful investigation the ■ government has decided that 6,000 f lobsters which were transplanted . from the Atlantic coast to Pacific * waters were evicted ty pSetous crabs, ! and arc no'/ conducting the world's ' laas-Mit retreat yto.the Puijgpia canal, j Minneapolis Man Finds Wife and Daughter in Omaha Held With Alleged Bank Robbers. Omaha, Neb./ Nov. 29.—His little family decamped with suspected bank bandits, was the sight that greeted H. J. Ryan, railroad man, of Fort Worth, Tex., when he returned to his home in St. Paul, Minn., to spend the Thanksgiving holidays. Ryan was taken into custody by po lice when he arrived in Omaha to search for his wife and daughter, who had been arrested with five alleged safeblowers Monday evening by police detectives. Mrs. Dessie Ryan and her 16-year old daughter, Lucille, wife and daughter of H, J. Ryan, were regis tered at the Flatiron hotel Monday with a man giving his name as H. Ryan, but whose true name is said to be Frank Daly. Daly and his four companions are said to have been I identified as the men that robbed a hank in Superior, Wis., November 16, of $7,000 in currency. "For six months I have been down south trying to make a living," said H. J. Ryan. “I had saved enough money to take my family with me to Texas in the meantime. They seemed to suffer with the cold so much in St. Paul. “For weeks I had prepared for Thanksgiving and after the holidays I was going to take them to Fort Worth where we were to make our future home.” When asked if he would take his wife and daughter hack to St. Paul, Ryan said, “I don’t know. This af fair upsets me so I seem to have lost what little reason I had. Perhaps they are not guilty. I should not have left them so long.” A. STUDENTS EXCAVATE FOR NEW COLLEGE BUILDING Hastings, Neb., Nov. 29.—As a sub stitute for the Thanksgiving day football game, called off by an elev enth hour cancellation, students of Hastings college commandeered the equipment of a construction com pany and celebrated the day by dig ging the excavation for a new quar ter million dollar college building. The construction company head do nated- his service as boss and the co eds took charge of the kitchen, serv ing meals to the boys. President French was called home from Chi cago and was here to witness the completion of the work. BANKERS PLAN PROBE OF RYAN'S AFFAIRS Deflation of Market Said to Have Caused Big Reduction in Values of Securities. New York, Nov. 27.—Plans for the formation of a committee of bankers to inquire into the affairs of Allan A. Hyan, capitalist, whose corner in Stutx .Motor stock startled Wall street I last April and resulted eventually in his expulsion from the stock ex change, after he had himself an nounced ills resignation, were consid ered today at a conference of bankers and attorneys at the offices of the Guaranty Trust Company. Tlie recent depression of the stock market is reported to have eon trail ed the values of securities on which i Mr. Ryan’s extensive loans were I based. Liabilities involved are reported to approximate $19,000,000, wild- .Mr. I Ryan's assets are given as Pen . \ I $20,000,000 and $25,000,000. He contlned to his home by nine s. The banking interests Inc’ude the ! Guaranty Trust Company and >ther large banks. The Ryan Interns:a in clude, in addition to the Stui- Motor Car Company of America, the S:rm berg Carburetor Company, Continen tal Candy Company. Chicago Pneu matic Tool Company and Hayden Chemical Company. GIRL HELD FOR JEWEL THEFT Omaha. Neb.. Nov. 27 (H;:tcinl> Miss Elise Bowman, 18-yoar old u mestlo arrested for stealing $1,500 in jewelry and clothing, told police- she was to be married Christmas and wanted the stolen things for 1- : trousseau. Miss Bowman said her fiance is a wealthy St. Paul, .Minn., mart, but refused to give his name. The girl recently came here from Norfolk, Neb. Since the start of the "dry” era it has become exceedingly difficult t i persuade men not under the influence of ulcohol to go into the silence of the forests for a winter's stay. In the "good old days," the lumbermen say, the loggers would work all winter for enough money to buy booze all summer. The Austrian government admits an estimated deficit this year of about 1J,000,000,000 crowns hut allied inves tigators and some of the newspapers place it nearer 20,000,000,000 Turkish tax collectors spare noth ing from levies except schoolbooks and the assessments run so high that 10 cents a pound is exacted on ail sugar while a tax of $229 recently was demanded on an automiblo that sells for $595 in the United States. Thirty-two persons in the army were sentenced to death by courts martial duriag the last fiscal year, but in no case was the sentence car ried into effect, says MaJ. Gen. E. H. Crowder. Twelve of the death sen tences were disapproved. 19 reduced to imprisonment ranging from life terms to five years and one case was pending on review wnen the report was compiled. Only nine of the cases were for military offenses. Eight were found guilty of misbehavior in the face of the enemy and one was sen tenced a spy. O'Neill, Nebraska, Merchant Asserts Goods Sold Him Contrary to Lasw of Country. O'Neil, Neb., Nov. 26—Special: The John Brennan store has been closed by Deputy U. S. Marshal W. A. Mor gan who served a warrant of seizure which was Issued by the federal court after Brennan’s creditors had filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy. The petitioners are O. Sommers & Company, a wholesale house of St. Paul, Minn.; Hicks, Fuller, Pierson Company, of Sioux City, la.; Foote Schulze Company, St. Paul, Minn., and Warfield, Pratt Company’ of Sioux City, la. In his answer, Brennan declares that he is not indebted to the petition ers in any sum, that they sold him goods of all kinds in violation of the laws of the United. States and all transactions between him and the pe titioners were in violation of the laws of the United States and “which vio lation was committed by the petition ers and not by the defendant, that they are guilty of profiteering under the laws of the United States in the sale of each and all of the articles and goods for which claim is made.’’ _A_ PORTABLE STILL USED BY NEBRASKA MOONSHINERS Pierce, Neb., Nov. 26.—Special: Ir vin Yates, of Norfolk was arrested in connection with the operation of an illicit booze still on the Peter Pellet farm three miles west of Pierce. He was brought to Pierce and later pa rolled. Pellett is out on bonds, so is W. E. Cochrane who was artosted in connection with the case. G. W. and N. Emery, of Norfolk, are being held in the Pierce county jail pending trial. The-police say that they have infor mation which will show that the 150 gallons of mash which they found on the Pellett farm is the second batch of moonshine material which was manufactured there during the past few weeks. These details develop the fact that a portuble still is being used in the manufacture of liquor and that it is being transported about the country in automobiles. When the mash is ready the still is loaded into an auto mobile,- transported to the farm, the mush turned into whisky and the still removed to some other place of operation. ENRAGED MOTHER SOUGHT TO GET VENGEANCE < ivauhu. Neb., Nov. 26.—Armed with a long butcher knife, Mrs. Alice Ross threatened to kill W. E. Cage, coal salesman, in the Monarch garden, for the alleged seduction of her daughter Holiie, IS, who is said to have .been missing from her home for several days, -according to police reports. Following a continuous search for her daughter, Mrs. Ross, after fre quenting a number of questionable resorts, entered the Monarch garden. "They whirled past me locked in a close embrace,” Mrs. Ross reported to the police. “When 1 saw my girl there 1 became almost insane. I don't know what I said or tried to do.” The frantic efforts of Mrs. Ross to secure possession of her daughter and wreak vengeance on Cage were stopped by Police Patrolman Joe Zicli, who disarmed the mother, and sent the daughter and Cage to jail. -4 — ANOTHER APPEAL MADE TO RESERVE BOARD Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 20.—Declaring that fanners hi Madison county, Ne braska, are facing bankruptcy if they are forced to sell their products at present prices, the Norfolk chamber of commerce after consultation with leading bankers and farmers have j sent a telegram to the governor of the federal reserve hoard at Wash ington asking that an emergency be declared and that credit extensions be furnished farmers of Nebraska. ‘ The county is full of corn, oats, im mature pigs, young cattle and feeder stock Is only partially fattened, the telegram states. , —♦— CONVICTED BANKER IN PTHETIC APPEAL — I Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 26. — (By the ' l'nltcd Press.)—District Attorney T. S. Alien is in receipt of a pathetic letter from M. L. Luebben, former president of the Sutton, Neb., First i National hank, now serving a term in Leavenworth prison for violation of the federal banking laws. Luebben asks a pardon declaring it to be a matter of life and death that he be with his wife. He says she is suffer ing intensely because of the tragic death of their daughter in an auto , accident at Long Beach, Calif. —♦— FIRE MARSHAL SAYS INCENDIARY RESPONSIBLE Columbus, Nob., Nov. 26.—Special: j State Fire Marshal Charles Id. Hart ford has completed an investigation into the mysterious destruction by tire of the Kozlowski general mer chandise store at Duncan, Neb., Oc tober 11. The fire marshal in a state ni"nt following examination of wit ness's says that he Is satislied that the store was purposely destroyed. MOB SEEKS MEXICAN’S LIFE. • Eagle Pass. Tex., Nov. 24.—An at t- mpt was made by n mob in Piedras Negros, Mel., opposite Eagle Pass, <;srly today to storm the Jail and lynch Idl Pldio Ategraza, held on a inunler charge. The military com mandant, after promising that the law would quickly take its course, ilnall prevailed upon the mob to dis rs Aiigraza was arrested ' ' . death of dose Maria De I. who was stabbed l>■ '. in MMtii Federal Court in Nebraska Sends Confessed Culprit to the Leavenworth Prison. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 23.—The federal courts continue to “soak” automobile thieves found guilty of having trans ported cars from one state to an other In violation of interstate com merce. United States Judge Munger has sentenced Jess Young and James Black to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, the former to three years and the latter to one year and a day. At least a dozen auto thieves have been sent to the federal peni tenitary in the past six months by federal courts in Nebraska. Young admitted that he had “bor rowed” a car from a neighbor when he lived in Santa Rosa, Cal. He told Judge Munger that he had no notion of stealing, but he kept it going until he reached Salt Lake City, when he sold it. But this was not the car for which Young was sent to Leaven worth. He pleaded guilty to stealing a Hudson car from in front of a moving picture show, in Cheyenne, and he drove it to Kearney, Neb. Jatnai Black said that Young told him that he was the owner of the automobile, but he had learned dif ferently after the two young men left Cheyenne headed for Nebraska. Young took the blame for stealing the machine. A letter from Sheriff James A. Pe tray, of Sonoma, county, Cal., to United States Attorney T. S. Allen, stated that Jess Young was wanted at Santa Rosa for stealing an auto mobile, for embezzlii g funds from an employer and for wife desertion. Armed with the letter of the sheriff Judge Munger quizzed Young about his former record. It was then that he stated that he h^d borrowed a car when he left Santa Rosa and had gone away without bidding his wifo farewell. He was asked if he had ever written to his wife. He had not, because he felt ashamed to do so. —A— ALLEGED MURDERER FINALLY RETURNED TO KANSAS CITY Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 23.—Den nle Chester, charged with the murder of Miss Florence Barton, a society girl here and who was re-captured near Oconto, Neb., Friday, after a sensational escape from a train near Broken Bow, Neb., was returned to Kansas City Sunday. Chester at first refused to eat food given him at police headquarters. However, while no one was present in the cell with him, the food left with him disappeared. —f~ NEBRASKA FARMER IN BATTLE WITH COYOTE Burwell, Neb., Nov. 23.—A few days ago Fred Meyer had an exciting ex perience with a coyote. The first shot from Meyer’s gun wounded th<j brute only sufficiently to make it ferocious and it attacked him. He struck at It with the butt of his gun, but hit the ground and the gun stock was broken. It was then a hand-to-hand affair and the animal was finally strangled, but not before Meyer was badly scatched. ALLEGED ROBBER IS KILLED IN PISTOL DUEL Fremont, Neb., Nov. 23 (By the As sociated Press).—Edward Gust, 23, alleged deserter from Fort Russell, Wyo., was shot and killed in a pistol fight between Gust and a companion and three policemen who were at tempting to capture the men after they are alleged to have held up the College bookstore and escaped with about $50 takn from the cash drawer. The shooting took place near the Northwestern round house where the police cornered the men. NEBRASKA STUDENT DIES SUDDENLY IN CHICAGO Chicago, Nov. 23.—The police to day began an investigation into the mouth, Neb., who dropped dead early Sunday after a fraternity initiation, death of Morris Cook, of Platts Ofiieials of the coroner’s office said death probably was due to heart disease superinduced by alcoholism. Cook was being initiated into a se cret inter-fraternity organization. The students denied he had been treated roughly in the initiation. They said quantities of liquor were served. IS WELL KNOWN. Plattsmouth, Neb., Nov. 23.— Morris Cook, of this place, who died at Chicago following an initiation, recently graduated in the law course of Northwestern university. He Is well iMiown in Plattsmouth, where he was reared. He was prominent in the Masonic and Elks lodges here. His father, one of the head physi cians of the Modern Woodmen of America, died recently. . 9 . POST OFFICE IS LOCATED IN GOVERNMENT BUILDING Belle Fourche, S. D., Nov. 20 (Spe cial).—The post office was opened for business Monday morning in the new building, Postmaster Rush Fel lows having taken the quiet of Sun day for moving. This is a new budding 60x40 feet, and at present a one-story brick structure, with plans for a second story in which the government land ' office ia to be housed when completed. BIG REWARD TO CLEAR " NEW YORK BOMB CASE New York, Nov. 22.—A reward of $60,000 was offered here Monday by a private detective agency for exclusive information leading to the identity of persona responsible for the Wall street bomb explosion, September 16. More than $20,000 previously had been ottered by the board of estimates and an insurance company for evi dence against the perpretatora 11 ■ an - u - — ~ ""*"TT A merica’s Role in Peace y Drama. ' ... In the following article, which appeared in La Revue de Tenere, reprint ed in the Living Age, and which is continued on this page from Saturday,. Guglielmo Ferrero, one of the most distinguished historians and political thinkers of Europe, presents a very significant interpretation of America s part in the peace conference. In Saturday’s article Ferrero stated that Amer ica went to war to establish freedom of the seas in war time, but that after the war it found England, as represented by Lloyd George, unwilling to go to the heart of this question. Therefore, says Ferrero, “America’s interven tion only added to the perils which threatened it on the ocean, by helping tm alter to England’s advantage the naval equilibrium of the world. That is so true, that America is now forced to restore that equilibrium by building a powerful navy of its own to replace the Germany counterpoise. All It gained, by helping crush Germany was the obligation to fill that country’s place upon the ocean.” He continues: In a word, when the peace conference opened at Paris, the tie binding the United States to England, France and Italy was in reality already sev ered, in spite of the wishes, and what is much stranger, without the knowl edge, of the governments and the common people of those countries. He* could such a great alliance be terminated without the fact being per ceived? This paradoxical outcome, which has transformed Europe into an enigma defying solution, was the result of numerous and complex causes, of which the most curious is the position to which Mr. Wilson at tained during the course of the war. As soon as England refused to dis cuss the freedom of the seas, Mr. Wilson might have returned to America; or at least have simply made peace with Germany, to the exclusion of all purely European problems. The real question would then have been a very simple one fo the United States. It would have remained difficult for the other belligerents, but easier than under the conditions which subsequently arose. However, an extraordinary complication intervened. Since the armistice was signed with the explicit promise that the peace terms would agree with the 14 points, Mr. Wilson became the natural guarantor for the honest fulfilment of this promise. So he stayed. He was even regarded and respected throughout the conference as its supreme arbiter and judge. That deluded the whole world into the idea that America continued to be the main prop and moving force of the victorious alliance. In reality America was no longer one of the allies. It had no vital interest in any question that subsequently came before it. The president remained at Paris to insure the honest application of a doctrine which could not be seriously applied unless America was, as the world still thought, the main prop and most powerful moving force in the alliance. • • • Everyone knows that the. Versailles meeting was a continual struggle between Mr. Wilson on the one side, and Mr. Clemenceau and Lloyd George on the other. But the fact is less appreciated that this strange struggle was the more bitter and unsparing because each party was in a degree disarmed in face of the other. Mr. Wilson had no effective way of forcing his opponents to respect his principles, while they were constantly con strained by the march of events to violate those principles. If England had consented to give America freedom of the seas, America could have been asked to shoulder part of the burden of restoring Europe. That would have given America the right to moderate the peace terms, and authority to impose its will in that matter. The share it took in helping Europe ’ would have been the measure of its right to interfere in the affairs of Europe. But since America had no direct interest in reconstructing Eu rope, Mr. Wilson had but two ways to defend his principles: the juristic fiction of unanimity, which made the consent of the president necessary to all the decisions of the supreme council; and the financial subsidies and other material assistance which America still continued to give Us allies after the armistice. But of these two measures, the first had the defect of being purely personal; of depending solely upon Mr. Wilson’s obstinacy or tenacity of purpose. It iXmld not fail to result in distressing situations. The second was in itself odious and transitory. In brief, Amesica’s ejection from the alliance before the conference began made it impossible to enforce the 14 points. But Mr. Wilson’s presence at Paris made it impossible for Mr. Clemenceau or Mr. Lloyd George entirely to discard them. The situation was at heart beyond remedy. It^was smoothed over on the surface by constant compromises of very trifling value, in which firmness and weak ness capriciously alternated with each other. Grounds for Confidence. Bulletin National City Bank (New York). There are good reasons for confidently btlieving that this country is not going into a long period of depression. Such experiences in the past always have fol lowed long periods of internal develop ment, including extensive construction work, such as railroad building, town building, etc. Qur periods of prosperity and credit expansion have been of this character, and it has usually happened that the movement has over run the needs of the country at the time.'and a period of growth was required afterward to bring the country up to its new fa cilities. This was the case in 1873 and 1S93, the two most important crises of our recent history. In the period fol lowing 1893 recovery was delayed by the controversy over the money question. The boom period which has been re sponsible for the existing expansion of credit and high prices was not due to internal development or construction work; on the contrary it interfered with normal development and Improvements, and the facilities of the country are be hind its needs. Never before was there so much work In sight needing to be done, or so many opportunities in the world outside. The immediate problem is that of price readjustment. It is not a case of exhaustion or . of waiting to grow up to investments that haye been made. The new work would not go for ward upon the level of costs created by the war, and regarded as abnormal and temporary. In this connection, however, we would sound a note of warning which wo'have often sounded before. The foreign ex changes have been working lower, and if they should break seriously enough to compel a still greater curtailment of ex ports the effect will be to pile up com modities in the 'home market and de press prices. Who can doubt that the markets would be in better condition to day if Great and France had mot been obliged to pay the $500.0000,000 joint loan in New York on October 15. They paid with a renewal on the part,of France of $100,000,000, but if they had not paid $400,000,0000 they would have had that much more with which to buy our products. People cannot always pay their debts and buy more goods at the same time. Use Your Head. Cabinet Ladles. From the Los Angeles Times. Most of the talk about having a woman in the president's cabinet cen ters around the thought of creating a new department In which the charac teristics of the sex could find proper expression. Senator Medill McCormick is pressing his bill creating a department of public welfare and Mrs. McCormick Is already highly recommended for the secretaryship. It will be fine when our senators can create cabinet positions for their ambitious wives. Departments of health and education are proposed. However, we do not believe that the women themselves demand political re cognition to the extent of insisting on the creation of expensive departments for the mere purpose of givir* them of fice. They would prefer to come on terms of equality. If there is a womat in the country who would conspicuously excel as secretary of state by all means let her have the post, but there is no call to create a department of parlor diplomacy simply because some queen U ambitious for recognition. Why Shoe*? From the London Chronicle. Eve was reputedly barefoot and Nau slca played ball all the better because ahe went unshod. Helen of Troy at the most wore sandals, and the sandal is the compromise between che shoeless and the shod. It is easier to make sandals than to make boots. In Ireland and Scotland the children have run barefoot fo^ many a day. and the wit of one and the enterprise of the other show that there is nothing readily demoralising in going without shoes and stockings. I The Little Geishas. Arthur Mills, In London Mail. I cannot Imagine any foreigner who. has traveled in Japan anporting the x movement for the suppression of i geishas. They are the most harmless and delightful of little creatures that | eveT flitted their way Joyously through life. Some people suppose that a geisha Is a young lady who is not over partle I ular what she does. They confuse her 1 In their minds with a quite different type I of Japanese girl (a type which, be It. said, Is not peculiar to Japan alone or desirable In any country). This Is a complete error. A geisha Is a class apart; she belongs to, a calling, a or profession, Just as the stage Is a pro- " fession In Great Britain. She loses no more caste by becoming a geisha thaa A young English girl would lose by Join ing a musical comedy company. On the contrary, lllte her European sisters, the Japanese geisha very often makes a brilliant marriage. Her role Is that of official entertainer In Japanesce Ufa Before she can become a gilsha a Japanese girl receives long and careful training In the art of making herself agreeable and amusing. She h^s the op portunity of rising to great distinction In her profession. I remember the first time I landed In Japan, going to a famous art shop In Yokohama Among the painted screens | and prints, and porcelatni, I noticed a , statuet In bronze of a very beautiful girl. I inquired about it, and was told that It was a statuet of O-San. "What was O-San?” I asked. The proprietor shrugged hie shoulders. It was as i though I had asked a Frenchman, “Who j Is Sarah Bernhardt?" Miss O-San, ha ! told me, was one ef the most famous geishas In Tokyo. Perhaps If I went to the capital I should see her. Chance took me to the capital and chance fur ther provided that I should see Miss O-San. It was at a dinner parly given by a Japanese gentleman. I was not too over comfortable, as I spoke no Japanesce and the other guests I spoke little English. But life became very pleasant when the geisha Joined us. I can still remember the delightful little i creature who sat by me and the white I chrysanthemum she wore In *her hair. I She showed me the best way to shell I peanuts, and she taught me the game of , "chinque” (properly a Chinese Same of counting fingers, but sometimes played by the Japanese). Altogether ,she made the evening pass most pleasantly. She spoke a little English. I asked her how she came to have learned our language. "I went down to the college at Hong Kong,” she answered, “especially to. learn.” Cause of Gray Hair. From the Milwaukee Journal. “Gray hair is not due to worry hut to accumulation of water in the hair' fibers forming bubbles which reflect white light," Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft said in speaking of Bubbles, DrSps and Grains, before the Milwaukee chapter of the American Chemical society. "White flowers are white for similar reasons; they c»ntaln a large amount of water which reflects white light. Somc flowera turn brown or blue when thry die. They lose the water. Blue bi.Ja are blue because the pores at thetr j wings contain drops of water rathe* j than bttbblcs, which reflect blue light, frbm which the bird derives its l ama "All babies born In the northern hem isphere at the time of birth heve btaa eyes due to a peculiar formation of pig ment in the eye which reflects bine light. The varied lights cause the pigment to change color, however." 8omottling Worth White. From Judge. "Tes, I have studied architecture amid the palaces of Venice and the minarets of Spain." “Good enough. Bon. Now let's see what you can do In the way of design ing a tin garage" Italian residents of Memphis, Tenn., have been acquiring large realty holdings In that city. The local Italian population amounts to from 6,000 to 7,000, and 780 of them owik real estate to the value of $10,945, 610.00,