a Din introduced in ihe senate in
dependent of these measures would
provide a saving clause. It authorizes
an appropriation of $40,000 for a col
lection In the state historical society
of samples of recently prevalent
spirituous liquors for exhibition to
coming generations. Twenty thou
aand dollars of the appropriation
would go to the collection of samples
which would be In transparent steel
Oases guarded by former service ma
chine gunners. Judges of the qual
ity of relics would be appointed and
pay $2S a day for that privilege. All
fees would go Into the school fsnd.
Postponement of final action on the
hydro-electric plant for another two
years Is proposed In a bill introduced
in both houses by Mobridge boosters.
81 would fix the site In Mobridge, but
continue the present hydro-electric
commission without further appro
prlation to continue its plans and re
port to the next session.
The testimony this week of the shade
of the late Woo Long Fing, who died
•,000 years ago In China, resulted In a
Chicago coroner’* fury ordering a war
rant Issued for the arrest of Arthur Wil
liams on the charge of murder. -Ching
Ding was beaten to death in his restau
rant recently. Toy Fong, Ding’s friend
•old the jury that Woo Long Fing,
through a medium, told film that Wll
flabs, a former porter in the restaurant,
had done the deed. The slain Chinaman
la a direct descendant of the late, verj
late. Woo I.ong Fing. „
Missouri's bill providing a penalty ot
death or imprisonment for life for first
degree robbery has been reported fa
vorably by the Jurisprudence committee
A cable to the Milwaukee Journal sayf
that the children of the German publls
cehools are being taught that the next
•seat -ear will be between Japan and
•he United States, with Germany allied
to Japan, "which would mean the over
throw of the United States.”
are discouraging love letters, and all
women visitors, exoept relative*. IMok
•ges will be received only on Thanks
giving, Easter, Christmas and theVourth
of July. The convicts will be divided in
to three grades, according to prison
■tending, their grade to be shown by In
signia on the arm. All begin with the
first, or highest grade, and receive demo
tions for Infractions of the rules. Stripes
Indicating their year* of service will also
be worn.
Optimism In business Is reported from
• the Eight Federal Reserve District,
which Is the 8t. Louis district. And a
statement from Edmund Platt, of the
Federal Reserve board In Washington,
declared that "The situation Is improv
ing. Many estimate* of the number of
enemployed are exaggerated. There has
been a movement of workers, but there
Is no such number of unemployed as
report Indicates. (The report of the de
partment of labor being nearly 1,500,000).
Workers who went to the city for high
tectory wages have returned to the
terms In thousands of cases."
Predictlonii that the Colombian berry
discovered In a hitherto unexplored for
est region of a South American repub
lic, will revolutionize the American berry
Industry In the same way that the naval
•range, also of South American origin,
marked an epoch In citrus growing, are
m«de by officials of the department of
agriculture. The berry Is a giant black
berry, described as four times the size
•f the American variety.
Overseer Vollva of Zion City addressed
the congregation of his tabernacle Sun
day bb follows: "Some of you young
folks still buy diamond rings in spite of
toy Instructions. You thimble headed
dunces! Put that money In the savings
bank; then If you should be out of work
for a time you will have something to
live on. You can’t eat a diamond ring
and the baby can’t cut his teeth on It,’
either.”
Summing up the work accomplished
by the soviet government, the bolshevlst
economic writer, Y. Larin, in an article
which appears In the ofllcla! “Red Qa
sette' 'of November 5, 1920, says, among
•ther things: "The average output of
a workingman does not exceed 46 per
••nL of the output before tho war."
The Chicago Athletle Association’s
president ur#s the club membership
committee to rx-cept no members who,
after they become prosperous wish to
discard tho wives who helped them start
for other women, or quack doctors, fake
stock promoters, or the fellow who
settles for 90 cents on the dollar.
Bernstein, the German socialist leader,
says the ex-kat»er and his advisers paid
*0,000,000 martts In gold, naming the
places and times and the Installments
In which It was paid, and shipped him
in a special sealed train, to carry the
bolshevlst contagion to Russia. Ho says
von Hoffman engineered the whole deal.
The Inner walls of Tarls, relics of the
city's defenses In Baronial days, are go
ing to make buildings In war devastated
areas of France. Twenty miles of good
building stone have, been obtained from
levelling the old 50-foot defenses border
ing the Paris moat.
The small word, "please", cost Amer
ica 13.000,000 last year. It is estimate,!
the telegraph company officials. The
word ie attached to all suits of mes
«•*«.» and'itoes speeding the length and
breadth of the land on an average of
once every 30 messages.
Those Filipinos who are urging inde
pendence "of any kind" are very indig
nant at the recent statement of E. Find
ley Johnson, associate justice of the su
preme court of tho Philippines, in which
he predicts trouble, "and plenty of it,"
between Christian and Mohamrpeuan
Filipinos.
What to do with unemployed actresses
Is one of the new problems troubling
New York. There are said to be about
*,000 of them stranded in the metropolis
without the prospect of lauding even a
chorus glri’e job.
Post office ofacials wonder why so
many people cash money orders for
strangers. They point out it is oftsy to
•teal blank money order pads, and it is
surprising how many thieves succeed
IB passing them.
France is tired of foreigners. Some ex
tremists hare even proposed the (Hosing
•f the ports for a period. But then, there
to tho money they bring! Many of the
visitors are Idlers, and most of them
come from countries where the rate of
•■change is better than the French rate.
In spite of *00 per cent, increase in
the cost of trans-Atlantic travel, every
ship leaving German ports for America
has every berth taken, and reservations
are booked months in advance.
Burial of an unknown American sol
dier, who died In action in France dur
ing the world war. in the rotunda of the
New York capltoi. Is asked in a - rosolu
tton Introduced In that state's leglala
a dangerous occupat ion
~ Caaten flue
■w^er bag ted
SPECIAL FUND IS
IIUSEjraUBlE
County Commissioners and
Treasurer of Cedar County,
Lock Horns Over Pro
posed Action.
Hartlngton, Neb., Feb. 22 (Special).
—The county commssioners and coun
ty treasurer are engaged In a contest
as to the disposal of $45,000. A few
years ago a special road fund levy
was made to create a fund to build
and repair bridges. During the ac
cumulating of the fund the commis
sioners paid tho bridgo'and road bills
from the general fund. The heavy
rains and storms had made it neces
sary to. use more funds than usually
raised for this work.
Now the general fund of the county
Is exhausted and warrants are being
Issued. The board of commissioners
Issued a warrant Instructing County
Treasurer F. O. Robinson to transfer
the $45,000 to the general fund In or
der that all outstanding bills might be
paid. The county ^treasurer had dis
covered that the commissioners had
exceeded the levy limit of 15 mills to
create this special fund and it was
therefore Illegally secured. He re
fused to honor the warrant and stated
that he ^guld not do so until legal
action c^opeUed him to make the
transfer. The commissioners then
adopted a resolution instructing
County Attorney Millard to bring an
action to mandamus Mr. Robinson
and compel him to honor the warrant.
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NORTH LOUP FARMER
HURT BY VICIOUS HOG
North Loup, Neb., Feb. 22 (Special).
'--A.ttacked by a savage COO-pound hog
When he tried to separate two large
and vicious porkers that were fight
ing, Martin Zoucha was almost klled.
One of the hogs turned on him and
when he fell over a rock In running
away the hog struck him with his
tusks, making a long gash in his thigh.
EX-CHAIRMAN OP
DEM COMMITTEE
IS CRITICALLY ILL
William McCombs.
*
William McCombs, former chair
man of the Democratic national
committee, is seriously ill at the
home of his sister on Long Island.
A cold contracted at the national
convention last July was a con
tributary cause of bis illness
FIVE GERMAN CHEMISTS,
COMINGJTO U. S., HELD
Cologne, Feb. 21.—Warrants have
been tissuod for the apprehension of
four chemical and dye experts for
merly employed by Frlcdetich Boyer
& Co., of J.everskursen, charging
breach of contract and betrayal of
commercial secrets. They are Ilrs.
Joseph Flachslander_ Heinrich Joid,
Otto Rungo und Max Englcmar.n.
They are described as old and trust
ed employes. Tliyy arc charged with
signing contracts with • the Dupont
De Nomcurs Company, of Wilming
ton, Del., which not only bind them
to enter the company’s employ, but
also place at Its disposal other val
uable considerations. They are also
.charged with "illegally appropriating
valuable receipts, formulas, etc., to
n-kink tkA„ koJ nsw.Acn "
FLOOD IN MONTREAL.
Montreal, Feb. 21.—Two boys were
drowned and "28 persons were Injured
yesterday In a flood resulting from a
broken water inain,_ The rush of wa
ter filled the cellar of a tenement
house occupied by 13 families, and
the pressure became so great as it
reached the floor above that the
building collapsed.
In the last decade the center of pop
ulation moved Just 8.3 miles westward
from Bloomington. Ind. The westward
movement Is said to be caused by the
great increase In population In Califor
nia.
Germany has begun to flood neutral
countries with very expensive propa
ganda, both In book and pamphlet form,
such as the memoirs of Budcndorff, Von
Hindenberg, Von Spree, etc., and the
experiences of William llohenzollern and
his son. These are sent free of cost to
all classes of people, with no indication
of whence they came. One Swiss news
imper comments on the fact that while
Germany Is pleading poverty to escape
the provisions of the Treaty of Ver
sailles. and Is sending children to Swit
zerland for charitable care , she Is spend
ing huge sums on propaganda In an at
tempt to Induce neutral nations to ex
ert pressure on the allied premiers.
Will Boycott Those Charging
More Than 10 Cents a
Quart—Prices Are Down
At Eastings,
Omaha, Neb., Fob. 19. The woman's
nonpartisan club of Omaha has de
clared a boycott on dairies that charge
a retail price of more than 10 cents
a quart for milk. The present price
is from 14 to 15 cents. Members of
the club said they would request other
organizations to take similar action
until mlllr. prices come down.
DOWN AT*HASTING8.
Hastings, Neb., Feb. 19.—The re
tail price of milk has dropped 2 cents
a quart in Hastings the last few days,
and is selling now at 10 cents.
Dealers say that if the quantity
continues *o increase a price under
10 cents may be reached.
Butter retailing at 30 cents is half
the price it was a year ago.
—*~
IS GIVEN HIS WISH OF
ANOTHER PR'SON TERM
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 19.—"Old Man”
Brown realized his fondest wish when
District Judge Clements sentenced
the former convict to the state peni
tentiary for one to 20 years on a
charge of forgery. W. C. Brown is
his real name.
Brown expressed hopes of breaking
into the penitentiary several weeks
ago and ho set out to accomplish his
purpose by absconding with checks
belonging to his employer and spend
ing a week in Omaha living like a
i UJ III nuib »» nil 1111/ utu V/* A A fj VM
checks.
"Tell the Judge to grease the wheels
for I want to get to prison as quick
ns I can," Brown told Sheriff Ira Mil
ler a few days ago, after he bad been
arrested on a forgery charge. He is
63 years old. "Just turn mo over to
Fenton and I'll shovel coal or do
anything they tell me,” he declared.
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OMAHA—Eva Carson alleges in a dis
trict court petition that while she was a
guest at the Loyal hotel and was walk
ing on a long hall rug. a bellboy stum
bled on the rug, thereby pulling It from
beneath her and causing her to fall. She
says she Is now In a hospital awaiting
an operation, ns a result of injuries, and
asks for $10,000 damages.
OMAHA-W. P. St. Helen, 67 years old,
ranch owner of Loup county, expects to
witness the inauguration of President
elect Harding in Washington March 4.
He left Omaha headed east, to make the
journey afoot and with such lifts as
kind motorists will give him on the road.
WAYNE—An interstate spelling con
test will be held at Wayne, Neb., April
29. The county contest for Thayer coun
ty will take place at Hebron, Thursday,
April 7. A bigger represen.atlon Is ex
pected from the different schools this
year than last.
Withdrawal From Reparations
Commission Severs the Last
Connection—Troops Out
Of Germany Soon.
Paris, Feb. 19.—Withdrawal of
American representation on the re
parations commission, formally an
nounced today by Roland W. Boyden,
has severed the last official connec
tion of the United States with en
forcement of the treaty of Versailles.
Amefrican troops still remain in
the Coblenz area, but their position is
regarded as diplomatically untenable
and they are expected to be ordered
home at once. Their abandonment of
that section of the Rhine territory,
it is believed, will mean that their
place will be taken by French forces.
Occupation of the Coblenil area by
French troops will permit France to
make another military demonstration
against Germany, in keeping with the
warning sounded yesterday by Prem
ier Briand. Ho declared that while
"France does not wish to act inde
pendently of her alii a, she is in a
position to carry out on her own re
sponsibility these provisions of the
peace treaty which provide for mill
tnrv not Inn "
EXECUTiON IN IRELAND.
Cork, Feb. 19.—Seven armed men
forced an entrance to the hospital at
tached to the workhouse here last
night apd, taking an inmate, Michael
Walsh from his bed to the yard of
the building, shot him. His body was
found with a card reading: "Caught
at last. Informers beware.”
ENGLISH PRINCE HURT.
London, Feb. 19.—While hunting
yesterday at Aldershot, Prince Henry,
third son of King George, was thrown
from his horse. He was taken to the
military hospital there, but has since
been removed. His head was cut
slightly but the injuries are reported
as being not serious.
KILLS SELF OVe’p BUSINESS.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 19.—Shot
through the heart, Charles Deveneau,
president of the Cinti Appraisal Com
pany, was found in his room at a
hotel here last night. A note he left
to the manager said he was taking
hla life because of a decline In his
business.
CARDINAL GIBBONS RECOVERS.
Baltimore, Md.. Feb. 19.—For the
first time since Cardinal Gibbons was
stricken, he donned his casque last
n!gh£ and attended an entire service
at the cathedral. His household was
delighted at the way he stood the
service, with hardly any sign of un
due fatigue. The cardinal was tak
en in hts wheel chair, from his resi
dence to the cathedral.
It is hoped that a trI-weekly air mail
service from Shanghai to Peking wtU
be started on May L
FEDERAL PRISONER
ON HUNGER STRIKE
Man Held in Jail at Grand Isl
and for Stealing Auto Tries
McSwiney’s Plan.
Omaha, Neb. Feb. 19.—Frank
Dynes, who escaped from jail at
Grand Island recently with two com
panions and later gave himself up,
has gone on a hunger strike. United
States Marshall Dalman was informed
in a telegram from the sheriff of
Hall county. Dynes nd his com
panions, both of whom were rCap
tured, are accused of stealing an au
tomobile in interstate traffic. The
telegram said the prisoner was on the
third day of his strike.
JUDGE LANDIS PLANS
HIGH BALLOON FLIGHT
Omaha, Neb. Feb. 19.—Fedeial
Judge K. M. Landis will accompany
A. Leo Stevens, chief civilian instruc
tor at the army balloon school here,
on a balloon flight on which an at
tempt will be made to break the
world's altitude record, Mr. Stevens
said today. No definite date for the
flight has been set, but it probably
will be made some time next Jun«v
Mr. Stevens said.
VOLSTEAD LAW DOES NOT
REPEAL OTHER STATUTES
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. ID.—The Vol
stead lifluor law does not repeal other
prohibition statutes Federal Judge J.
T. Munger ruled here today when he
denied application of Julius De Large
of Omaha for a revision of his sen
tence on a charge of setting up a
still.
SADIE WHITE'S BODY
DISCOVERED IN BARN
Widower Is Arrested and Tak
en to Another Jail as
Lynching Is Feared.
New Castle, Pa., Feb. 18.—The body
of Mrs. Sadie A. White, missing since
December 23, was discovered Thurs
day night in a bam here where White
kept his horses. White was arrested
and spirited away to a Jail in Alle
ghany county because of public feel
ing, which has been running high
here since the woman’s disappear
ance.
In January, White told the police
that he had given his wife 31,000 and
told her to go to Chicago, to disap
pear for a year, and to permit him to
get a divorce. Meantime, he married
Mrs. Mamie A. Longstreet in Pitts
burgh, posing as a widower and say
ing his wife had died of influenza in
1919.
White was arrested on a charge of
bigamy, and for several days refused
to give any information regarding his
wife. Finally he ventured the story
of sending her away to Chicago,
which the police refused to believe,
although a search was made in that
city.
Will Uphold Wilson Adminis
tration’s Views Regarding
Mesopotamian and Mex
ican Disputes.
United News.
Washington, Feb. 17.—The Harding
administration will continue the pres
ent policy of the American govern
ment in the Mesopotamian oil dispute
with Great Britain, it is learned au
thoritatively.
Also, it will reflect toward Mexico
substantially the same attitude that
the present administration has as
sumed. Difficulties with Mexico cen
ter chiefly about oil.
Leading republican senators, It was
learned, have indorsed the attitude of
the state department in both situa
tions, and have little desire for any
change.
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4 IMAGINATION. 4
4 4
4 Charles F. Haanel. 4
4 The captain of industry can 4
4 not build a giant corporation 4
4 which may co-ordinate hun- 4
4 drcds of smaller corporations. 4
4 thousands of employes, millions 4
4 of capital, until he has first ere- 4
4 ated the entire work in his im- 4
4 agination. 4
4 In order to cultivate the tm- 4
4 agination, it must be exercised. 4
4 Exercise is necessary to cuiti- 4
4 vate mental muscle as well as 4
4 physical muscle. It must be 4
4 supplied with nourishment or it 4
4 cannot grow. Do not confuse 4
4 imagination with fancy, or that 4
4 form of day dreaming in which 4
4 some like to indulge. Day 4
4 dreaming is a form of mental 4
4 dissipation which may lead to 4
4 mental disaster. Constructive 4
4 imagination means mental labor 4
4 but. even so, it yields the great- 4
4 cst returns, for all the great 4
4 things of lifo come from men 4
4 and women who have the capac- 4
•4 ity to think, to imagine, and, 4
tthcu make their dreams come 4
true. 4
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PLAN TYPHUS FIGHT.
Boston, Feb. 18.—A proposal that
state and municipal health authorities
of the North Atlantic seaboard con
fer with federal health officials to
setle on a uniform policy for dealing
With immigrants with special refer
ence to the typhus situation was
wired to Surgeon General Cummins
at Washington today by State Health
Commissioner Eugene R. Kelly and
Wm. C Woodward, head of the mu
nicipal health department.
j Who Will Stand With Lincoln?
From Collier's Weekly. •
Just 60 years ago this week, a tall, gaunt, kindly faced man stood on thn
station platform of a little city in central Illinois and said good-by to big
neighbors:
My friends, no one, not in my posistion, can appreciate my feeling of
sadness at this parting,1 he began. "To this place, and the kindness of these
people, I owe everything. Here I have lived for a quarter of a century and
have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been bom.
and one Is buried, I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may re
turn, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
He did not exaggerate; it would have been almost Impossible to exag
gerate the difficulties of his task. The nation was weighed down with anx
ieties! there were those, even among his own neighbors, who doubted
whether the United States was destined to survive. Certainly many of the
best and most patriotic Americans felt that the reins of power ought to hav*
passed to other hands than his.
The war came, and the nation did survive. For 60 years it has survived
both panic and wars at home and abroad. And again, in time of trial, a new
man Is coming to the White House. It is easy %o thing about him, to expect
much from him or little. It Is both easy and unprofitable; for what we need,
to thing about is ourselves. We ought to ask: “What has a president the
right to expect from us? What would Lincoln ask is he were assuming again
today the burdens of the greatest office in the world?"
Would he not adjure us first of all to the practice of solid common
sense?
We have the word of his associates for it that he never thought of him
self as a great man. Great men did not awe him; he had scant reverence
for those who thought themselves great. "I have talked with great men,” h*
once remarked, "and I cannot see wherein they differ from others.” His trust,
was not in the super-qualities of the few, but in the common sense of the
average man.
To the problems of the nation he applied the simple straightforwardness
of the ordinary walks of life. Men were men, and nations merely collections
of men, with the same amhitlonB, weaknesses, strength, passions, hopes, and
fears. He had studied men in Springfield; he did not find them different in.
Washington nor In the chancelleries of Europe. His simplicity was disarm
ing; even the clever Disraeli bore witness to the strength which franknes*
gave him. There was in his character, Disraeli said, “something so homely
and Innocent that It takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of his
tory and the ceremonial of diplomacy.”
He himself would have called it merely common sense; and from us, as
citizens today, he would ask that first of alL
He would ask us, too, for a new spirit of tolerance and for a patience that
can wait for the solutions which cannot be hurried. How amazingly he could
forbear! He formed a cabinet of menjarho despised his capacities, each on*
regarding himself as the Instrument by which God would save America.
”1 know that I can save the country, and I know that no other man can,"
wrote Seward.
"I will make Abe Lincoln president of the United States," Stanton con
fided to a friend who asked him what he expected to do as e member of th*
cabinet
In the cabinet were others who were contemptuous of him, making no
secret of their conviction that they were far abler than he. Tet Lincoln kept
them all, using each man to the limit of that man’s capacity, refusing to be
hurried into decisions, declining to allow personal affronts to influence hi*
public course. —
We are at a period when much prejudice must be yielded, when many
allowances must be made for the other man’s point of view. There were
those who thought he yielded too much, that he hesitated too long. But even
Stanton, his bitterest critic, ended In eulogy. “There lies,” he said, “the most
perfect ruler of men that the world has ever seen.”
Crtainly, too. he would pray that, whatever happens, our sense of humor
should not desert us. Who can forget that momentous cabinet meeting called
In the darkest days of the war? Around the table sat the various secretaries,
solemn faced and silent To their amazement Lincoln, instead of addressing:
himself to the business In hand, picked up a little volume and, with frequent
chuckles, read to them a chapter from Artemus Ward. The cabinet member*
were too astonished for speech. One man, glowering his protest, was tempt
ed to leave the room. Lincoln, unheeding, read the chapter through and.
laying down the book, looked at their tired faces with a sigh.
‘‘Gentlemen, why don’t you laugh?" he exclaimed. “With the fearful
strain that is upon me night and day, If I did not laugh I should die; and
you need this medicine as much as I.”
So saying, he turned to his tall hat, which was on the table, and drew
out of it what Stanton described as a “little white paper.” That little whit*
naDer was the Emancipation proclamation.
SAYS WE AVOID SUNLIGHT.
Sir Arthur E. Shipley, in the Outlook.
One feature struck me in the
schools, and it also struck me in the
hotels and In private houses, and that
is the avoidance of sunlight. A well
conducted window in America must
have lace curtainis drawn across it,
and two blinds, one brown and one
green, pulled accurately half way
down. Even in the great country
houses, where no one could look in,
and no one look out without seeing
spacious lawns and flower beds, the
curtains are closed and the blinds
are drawn half way down. Living in
them is like living in the house of an
owner who is half dead.
The electric light is all the time
turned on full. Even in the hotels if ,
you leave your room for half an hour, !
having raised your blinds* you will j
find them carefully drawn down again I
on returning. The large number of i
folks, clerks in offices, workers in '
factories, attendants on elevators, bell ‘
boys and hotel clerks—who live their
life In artificial light forms a large
percentage of the population, and
this absence of outdoor life may ac
count to some extent for the pallid
and sallow complexion of those who
have to endure it. It certainly can
not be healthy.
Lowell on Lincoln,
Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward
still,
Ere any names of Serf and Peer
Could nature’s equal scheme deface; !
Here was a type of the true elder race, t
And one of Plutarch’s men talked with ,
us face to face.
I praise him not; it were too late;
And some innativo weakness there must
be
In him who condescends to victory
Buch as the Present gives anti cannot !
wait.
Safe in himself as in a fate.
Bo always firmly he.
He knew to bide his time.
Ami can his fame abide,
Still patient in his simple faith sublime, 1
Till the wise years decide.
Great captains, with their guns and
drums, *
Disturb our Judgment for the hour.
But at last silence comes;
These all are gone, and standing like a J.
tower, , i
Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly-earnest, brave, fore-seeing
man,
Sagacious, patient dreading praise, not
blame.
New birth of our new sail, the first
American.
Why Greeks Love Constantine,
From the New Tork Post.
The Athens correspondent of the Vos
slsche Zeitiung has propounded and an
swered to his own satisfaction an In
teresting question; "How can you make
a king popular? By denying him nil
his rights. And if you do this in a
tyrannical spirit, as it has been done in
Greece, the king becomes an actual
Idol.” The writer, Karl Lahrn*contends
that It will be exceedingly difficult for
Constantine to live up to his present rep
utation. for after three years of exile
'the mere mention of his name starts
a Jubilee in his honor." For three years
it has been an offense punishable with
four years 'imprisonment to display a
picture of Constantine. Today the shop
windows are full of Constantine paint
ings. photographs, etchings, busts, and
lithographs. Men wear Constantine
buttons. He is portrayed as an admiral,
as a general, as a civilian, as a king, as
anything but an exile. His picture Is
placarded above the entrance to public
buildings, and on the side of delivery
*t|ona. All Greece rejoiced over the re
turn of her king. "To make this idoll
xatlon seem Justified,” says Lahm. "Con
stantine wfil have to be touch more dem
ocratic than Tentoeloe, that neaivrepub- <
Bean who allowed Mum If the luxury of J
an also-klng.”
Live 8toek Inspection.
From the New York Herald.
Gome Idee, of the extent of the live
stock industry of the United States may
be gleaned from a recent bulletin of the
department of agriculture announcing
that in the course of its supervision of
Interstate transportation 22,063,290 cattle
were inspected at market centers during
the fiscal year. Of this number 24,62* 4
were dipped under governmental super- "
vision before being allowed to proceed
on Journeys Involving interstate trans
portation.
A total of 23,472,628 sheep also wvrs
examined for communicable diseases,
and of this total 2,744,481 were dipped as
a matter of compliance with the laws
of the country. Hogs to the number
of 39,754,970 were supervised by federal
experts and 671,588 were vaccinated
against hog cholera.
Of horses and mules 36,393 were In
spected by department veterinarians,
who reported that out of 23,742 subjected
to the malleln test only five reacted.
The facts thus summarized Indicate a
remarkably healthy condition In our live
stock supply.
Bees Have Language.
From the Rural Weekly.
Bees have a language and a system
of telepathy, according to Prof. Francis
Jager. chief of the division of bee cul
ture at the University of Minnesota
farm. Wonderful progress has been
made in bee culture, but their means
of communication still remains a mys
tery, according to Professor Jager.
Professor Jager has conducted many
experiments in an effort to learn some
thing of the bees' mysterious form of
communication. In onp of them he took
the queen bee out of a Hive,, which was
four or five feet high. As soon as the
working bees discovered their leader
was mlssirg they began crying.
The crying was audible four or five
feet from the hive. Within 36 seconds
after the queen bee had been replaced
at the bottom of the hive the crying sub
showed their joy by standing on their
heads, according to Professor Jager*
No Class Bar.
W. L#. George.
Every boy knows that nothing need
stop him, that no class bar will cut him
off from any position oj* any office.
knows that in the west ol his country
lies land which ha3 never been trodden
by a white foot. Therefore, there are
resources which he can take, and, be
ing a normal human being, he tries to
secure his sjj^tre. in-other words, he is
born a pioneer. I do not want to ex
aggregate; many millions of American*
are perfectly content to go indefinitely
in the occupation they have drifted into,
and seek only more wages, or more sal
ary, but the thing that matters is the
consciousness in the American mind
that everything is open and everything
is possible.
Radium and Painting.
From Christian Science Monitor.'
There is, perhaps, no use to wrhich
radium has a more interesting applica
tion than to add luster to the colors of
an oil painting. Brilliance in sky tint*
has ever been an aim of artists, and
now, it seems, with a touch of radium
the “glowing canvas” will glow in more
than a metaphorical sense; it will ex
hibit the sun in all its radiance, the
moon in its pale, soft light, and the
mountain stream in its sparkling
beauty. It seems, at this stage, quit*
impossible to estimate the relative valu*
of radium under the deft wielding
the artist's brush.
The National Board of Fire Under
writers furnishes figures tu show that
16,000 people in this country were burned
to death last year, and that -2 per cant,
of the dead and injured were mother*.
Of the fires In which they lost their
live*, K per cent, were the result ol
carelessness.