O'NEILL FRONTIER
‘ p. H. CRONIN_
yNEILL. NEBRA8KA
Prophesying a war between this coun
try and Japan in ths no distant future,
the will of Charles O. Frltzsche, of Pat
erson, sets aside 6,000 mo'rks as a prize
|or the first American crew to capture a
Japanese ship. Mr. Frltzsche, who was
an engineer and Inventor of the loco
motive turntable, died in Germany a
year ago. The will is dated April 19,
1910. Frltzsche and his daughter went
to Dresden. Germany, In 1916, to visit
relatives. He found it impossible to
return to this country. With the defeat
of the kaiser’s armies and the end of the
war he is reported to have died from
excess Joy.
An assistant director of the United
States public health service complains
that, according to figures gathered over
a number of years, the progeny of 1,000
graduates from such institutions as Har
vard, Yale, Princeton, Vassar and
Smith will not exceed 60 in 100 years
from now.” A similar investigation
conducted among illiterate foreigners
showed that in a like period the original
thousand will be multiplied at least lot
times.
What Is described as one of the most
elaborate and complete consolidated
■chool plants In America has Just been
dedicated at Holcomb on the western
Kansas prairies. Tho plant cost 6225,OOOt
Seven schol districts Joined to con
struct the single plant where the pupils
may have the advantages of a city
■chool, including manual training, do
mestic science, and scientific training
of several varieties.
People wno rn.ro bum living in mo
manner of the stone age are found on
Rennell Island In the Solomon group.
Melanesia, according to a missionary,
who says there are only about 600 In
habitants, and because of their Isola
tion, through lack of ship's anchorage,
even their dialect has never been
studied.
Fifty architects and engineering stu
dents of American universities have of
fered their services to the French min
ister of the liberated regions expressing
their willingness to work from July to
October for the restoration of the de
vastated regions. M. Loucheur has
gratefully accepted the offer.
A new outbreak of pellagra, particu
larly In the south Is alarming the pub
llo health service. Officials say that the
depression In the cotton market Is one
of the leading causes as poorer classes
of planters have been forced back to
living principally on salt pork and corn
bread.
D’Annunzio’s private secretary gave
out an fliiervlew recently, In which he
said the post has now lost all Interest
In Flume. As a proof, he related that
d’Annunzfo has sent back the votive
dagger which ^as presented to him by
the citizens of the city last year.
American pajamas, from Red Cross
supplies, decorated with shoulder straps
and braid and worn with a belt, Is the
latest summer uniform for Russian of
ficers, says a correspondent writing
from Constantinople. Civilians also are
adopting them as fast as they are dis
tributed.
The ravages of war, revolution, star
vation and diseases have depleted the
population of Russia by 12,000,000, ac
cording to figures of thf central statis
tical office at Moscow. The number of
officials, that Is government employes,
In Moscow Is now 220,000 or one-fourth
of the population.
Since Mr. Townley has failed to ap
pear on three different consecutive oc
casions when he was scheduled to de
bate with William Langer, former at
torney general of North Dakota, Mr.
I-angrr calls the non-partisan league
a "Quitter," and has cancelled all fur
ther debate dates with him
Governor Neff, of Texas charges that
"graft and fraud exist In many depart
ments of the state government, In
which there are too many useless em
ployes, and entirely too much bad
management; and that the state lias
too much machinery and too many
boards, bureaus and departments.
The head of the Ohio Rotarlans wires
from Berlin that food 1s cheap and
plentiful In Germany; that the nation
appears normal and he believes the
country Is far better off from an In
dustrial point of view than Is generally
thought.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger hears
that George Creel, former chief of war
time publicity, 1b now serving In the
capacity of closest friend and advisor
to the president of Mexico. It Is said
that Mr. Creel wrote the recent elo
quent messages of President Obregen.
An expedition Is being organised In
Alberta to search for the lost gold mine
of Lost river, which has long been one
of the romantlo traditions of that
country. But two men have ever found
It; one a trapper, who la dead; and the
other an Indian who has disappeared.
A Pittsburgh teacher Is reported to
have lost his mind as a result of
nervous excitement over the Dempscy
Carpcntler fight. "I lent Dempsey »3.
and he never repaid It," he shouts ex
citedly.
During the nrst three months or last
year, influenza caused the deaths ot
6,297 persons. Only 476 died from It dur
ing the corresponding period of 1921. The
pneumonia death late declined 60 per
pent, during the same period.
The price ot marriage licenses has
Jumped from 51-00 to 61.60 In Philadelphia.
One hundred descendants of "John
and Prteo!”a," members of the Midwest
chapter* of the Alden Kindred of Amer
ica spent the Fourth of July together
In Evanston, 111.
Wage reductions effective August 1 or
Belleau. the little French village on
the edge of the foothills of Belleau
Wood, Is to be rebuilt by Americans as
a memorial to the American dead In that
historic battle.
A Melbourne dispatch to the London
Times reports a growing sentiment of
friendliness in Australia toward tha
United States, "owing to our common
Interests In the Pacific."
The New York Times hears that
Hugo Stlnness, who possesses a for
tune of eight billion marks, Is exciting
the Ire of socialists, who accuse him
of systematic tax evasions.
An airplane capable of landing without
the need of a large aviation field, able
to rise without a long run beforehand,
able to travel more than 300 miles an
hour and. If necessary, to meander along
at but a few miles an hour. Is announced
as the Invention ot an Italian engineer.
A slump In the membership In In
diana miners organizations Is shown In
the report of ona district which now has
but 17,732 members. In contrast to 29,763
a year ago.
Washington la said to be putzllng over
the delicate little question of who should
l»ay the expenses of the 'lilting delega
tions Invited to this couxtry by us to
eonfer on the disarmament question.
According to statistics gathered bff
tha Institute of PubUo Service, one W.
•very 16 students In 13 American col
leges Is studying with a view to (bter*
IV* '-aching profession.
CRUSHED TO DEATH
UNDER COAL SLIDE
Foreman of Power Company
At Omaha Is Almost In
stantly Killed.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 8.—Roy Hewitt,
Omaha, foreman of coal heavers at
the Nebraska Power Company’s plant
was killed by an avalanche of coal
under which he was burled at the
plant late Saturday.
WAR RISK INSURANCE
CLEANUP BEING MADE
Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 8.—Grand
Island will be a headquarters for the
war risk Insurance bureau, begin
ning August 15.
A “clean up” squad will consist of
an examining physician of the bur
eau of the United States public health
service and representatives from the
federal board of vocational education,
the American Legion and Red Cross.
It will be headquarters for Thomas,
Blaine, Custer, Loup, Garfield, Val
ley, Greeley, Merrick, Sherman, Hall,
Buffalo, Dawson and Wheeler coun
ties.
SOUTH DAKOTA CONCERN
DON’T WANT RECEIVER
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 8.—Attorneys
representing the Brlcston Manufact
uring Company, a South Dakota cor
poratlon with headquarters here,
have filed a motion In federal court
asking that a petition by stockhold
ers requesting a receiver and injunc
tion against the concern, be set aside
oharglng there Is no Jurisdiction
here on the ground that the company
was Incorporated In another state.
Hearing on the motion was set for
next Friday.
In the 10 Years Law Has Op.
erated Depositors Have
Been Paid $2,
306,175.
Lincoln, Neb., A9ug 8 (Special).—
There Is now $2,299,650 In the depo
sitors’ guarantee fund contributed by
more than 1,000 banks. During the
10 years In which It has been In
force $2,306,175 has been paid out of
the funds for the payment of deposits
In banks closed by the state banking
board. For some years there were
no bank failures.
BIO GRAIN CONCERN
IS TO BE REORGANIZED
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 7.—The Nye
Schneldcr-Fowler Company, grain
dealers, with branch elevators and
office* In more than 100 American
cities »ttd towns, which has been In
financial difficulties, will be reorgan
ized at the annual meeting of stock
holders being held today in Fremont,
the company’s headquarters.
Eastern as well as Omaha bankers
are there for the meeting. Final ar
rangements for reorganization were
reached at a* meeting held in Fremont
Saturday. E. N. Mitchell, a grain
dealer, of Lincoln, will become presi
dent, succeeding Frank Fowler, ad
vices stated.
Creditors of the company, it is re
ported, refused the company furthet
credit unless Fowler should retire aj
directing head of the corporation.
Paul Colson, Fremont, Is slated for
vice president; Emil M. Hahn, sec
retary, and D. B. Davies, treasurer!
Harry S. Byrne, Omaha, and J. E
PITelin and L. N. Perrin, will be elect
ed additional directors. Agreement to
this effect was signed by Ralph Van
Vechten, vice president of the Con
tinental and Commercial National
Bank, of Chicago, heading the com
pany’s directors' committee and Frank
Fowler, retiring president of the com
pany, Fremont advices asserted.
"This arrangement contemplates
active efforts on the part of the bank
creditors for the early refinancing of
the business,” said Van Vechten, ac
cording to a Fremont dispatch.
Stockholders stated that Mr. Fowl
I er was offered enough proxies to In
Isure his re-election, but stepped aside
In order to meet the wishes of the
I creditors.
GOVERNOR AND REGENTS
CLASH OVER EXPENSES
Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 8 (Special).—
The regents of the state university
and Governor McKelvie are dead
locked over the inslstance of the gov
ernor that there shall be a reserve
surplus of 10 per cent. The board
and the heud of the state govern
ment has so far failed to reach an
agreement. The governor wants the
10 per cent reserve to guard against
possible deficiencies. The regents
insist that the state constitution does
not authoriie the chief executive to
dictate.
The regents have informed the
governor that they are eager to co
operate ih saving the taxpayers as
much as possible out of all of the
appropriations, but they do not see
how they can pay salaries promised
instructors if the 10 per cent. Is de
ducted.
Governor McKelvie has declined
to Approve of the quarterly estimate
filed by the regents and he has no
tified the state auditor of his posi
tion. A further conference between
the governor and the regents has
been arranged for August 15.
BLOOMFIELD HER IS
GIVEN FINAL HONORS
Bloomfield, Neb., Aug. 8 (Special).
—The body of William Crost ar
rived here Friaday night from over
seas and Ray Lamb post of the
American Legion conducted a full
military funeral Sunday forenoon.
He was killed October 12. 1918, in the
Argonne offensive. He was a son of
William P. Groat, now living near
Verdel.
COUNTY ASSESSOR
TAKES OWN LIFE
Horatio Pope, Hangs Self to
Bed After Trying Gun First
Body Is Found In Home
Two Days Later.
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 8 (Special.
—The body of Horatio G. Pope, as
sessor of Johnson county, was found
hanging by a small rope to the bed
In his room yesterday.
A revolver on a nearby table had
been snapped, but failed to explode.
The man had been dead about 48
hours, according to surgeons who
examined him.
No cause for the suicide is known.
His health was good and he was not
known to be despondent er have any
troubles.
His body was hanging from the
bed in such a position that he could
have taken his weight off his neck
by the uso of his hands at any time.
Pope was 65 years old and a bach
elor. His only relative here is a half
brother, B. F. Pope.
He had lived in Johnson county for
60 years and was elected county as
sessor by the republicans at the last
election.
Brief funeral services were held at
the grave in the Tecumseh cemetery.
BELIEVE IOWAN~MET
FOUL PLAY IN IDAHO
Ogden, Utah, Aug. 8.—George A.
Blstorlous, president of the Idaho
Falls Kiwanis club, and Dr. H, D.
Judkin, also of Idaho Falls, who ar
rived here yesterday in connection
with the disappearance of Roland R.
Mason, secretary of the Idaho Falls
Kiwanis club, expressed the belief
that Mason had met with foul play
and his automobile was pushed over
the embankment Into the Weber riv
er to hide the crime. Mason's par
ents are hsre from Council Bluffs,
la., to follow a search for their son.
The father announced he would
pay a reward of $500 for the recov.
•ry of his son’s body.
BODY OF WAKEFIELD
HERO ON WAY HOME
Wakefield. Neb., Aug. 8.—The body
of Anton Bokemper, the only soldier
from Wakefield who lost his life in
France In the world war, is being sent
home to relatives for burial. The
body, according to a telegram re
ceived by relatives from the govern
ment, will reach New York today and
Wakefield In about a week. Funeral
services will bo held in Wakefield,
and will be In charge of the local
American Legion post, which Is named
after him. He was killed in action
October 16, 1918, 26 days before the
armistice.
THREE INJURED WHEN
OMAHA PLANE CRASHES
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 8.—Mr. and Mrs.
F. L. Bushman and Clarence Kast
man, a mechanic, all of Omaha, were
Injured yesterday when the motor
of an airplane stopped and the ma
chine crashed on a landing field. Mrs.
Bushman, the most seriously Injured
of the three, suffered a fractured
skull and other injuries. Mr. Bush,
man was piloting the plane.
YORK HOTEL COOK
HELD FOR FORGERY
York, Neb., Aug. 8.—A. F. Willis,
cook in a local hotel, is held by au
thorities here at the request of the
police of Scottsbluff. Authorities at
the latter place hold a warrant for
his arrest on a forgery charge.
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SENATOR HITCHCOCK ASKED
FOR MATTERS PAPERS
Omaha, Neb., Aug, 8.—Senator G.
M. Hitchcock, of Neoraska, intro
duced a resolution asking the attor
ney general to turn over to the Sen
ate all petitions, papers, etc., on file
In the department of Justice in con
nection with the recent pardon of T.
H. Matters, Omaha attorney, who
was sentenced for violation of the
national bank law.
BODIES OF 71 WAR
HEROES ARRIVE HOME
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 8.—Bodies of 71
American soldiers who died over
seas,' arrived here yesterday. Bodies
9f Nebraskans included William
Steven, of York, and Fred Fruse, of
Grand Island.
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WEST POINT—Arrangements have
been .made for the funeral services of
Arthur Mack, the first West Point man
to bo killed in action in France cm
Sunday, August 14. on the courthouse
lawn, under the auspices of the Amer
ican Legion.
WEST POINT—News has reached the
city of the death of Mrs. Mary Jerman
of Spencer, and mother of Jos Jerman’
merchant of this city. Sl.e was over
82 years of age. Burial was here.
DR. CHENEY IS HEAD
OF S. D. OSTEOPATHS
Sioux Falls, R. D„ Aug. 4._The
South Dakota State Osteopath asso
ciation has closed its 1921 conven
tion. Sioux Falls was selected for the
next annual convention. Ofilcers
elected are: President, Dr. J. H. Che
ney. Sioux Falls; vice president, Dr.
H. W. Allen, Dell llaplds; secretary
treasurer. Dr. Edith Shank, Mitchell;
trustee for three year term Dr. Fol
lette, Watertown. There were a large
number of visitors from Iowa and
Minnesota.
SPECIAL ELECTION CARRIES
IN SCHOOL DISTRICT CASE
Alton, la., Aug. 5.—At a special
•lection It was voted that the inde
•endent school district of Boyden be
inlarged to eight sections, adding four
lections to the present territory. The
lections to be added at Nos. 22, 23, 24
ind 27. In the incorporated town of
Boyden there were 77 for and 19
igalnst; in the rural district there
• ere 44 for and 31 against
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BIND WEALTHY
M1TBHI5 BED
Nebraska Bandits Then Rob
Railway Employe of Jew
elry and $800—Victim
Frees Himself.
Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 6.—Two
robbers entered the room of Frank
Sanehasl, wealthy Japanese railroad
employe at Chapman, Neb., near here
shortly after midnight, end after
binding him to his bed, robbed him
of Jewelry and money amounting to
$300, according to warnings sent out
by the authorities of that city after
Sanehasl had freed himself andi noti
fied police.
MOTHER AND GRANDSON
DROWNED IN CLOUDBURST
Chadron, Neb., Aug. 6.—The bodies
of Mrs. William Bowers of Missouri
Valley, Ia„ and Jack Bowers, 9, of
Chadron, her grandson, are lying in
one coffin in the undertaking parlor
of W. S, Gillam. They were drowned
in the cloudburst 20 miles west of
Spearfish on the camping ground,
while en route to visit Yellowstone
park.
TRAVELING MAN DROPS
DEAD IN CRETE HOTEL
Crete, Neb., Aug. 6.—John R. Mad
dox, traveling salesman rjr the Car
penter Paper Company of Omaha,
dropped dead In his chair at the Cos
mopolitan hotel. A sudden pain
seemed to strike him and he threw
up his hands and made a faint noise,
but never regained consciousness.
The remains were taken to Omaha.
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WANTS GRAND JURY
TO PROBE FAILURES
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 6.—Attorney
General Clarence A. Davis has re
quested A. O. Troup, presiding judge
of the Douglas county district court,
to call a meeting of the district
judges to take up the calling of a
special grand jury to investigate
failure of business firms.
In a letter to Judge Troup, the at
torney general said that "the frauds
that have been perpetrated in Ne
braska are not primarily frauds in
the sale of stocks to the public; they
are frauds in the use of corporate
money. They have been committed
•from the inside.’ ”
RECORD RAINFALL AT
BEATRICE FOR A JULY
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 6.—Nearly an
inch of rain fell in this vicinity this
week. The record, according to the
government weather observer, is .83
of an inch. During the month of July
the total rainfall for the Beatrice vi
cinity was 7.40 inches, the record for
this month for many years.
NEBRASKA GOVERNOR
ANSWERS FEDERATION
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 4.—Gov. Sam
uel R. McKelvie this morning stated,
in response to criticism by the state
federation of labor of his employing
a New Yorw architect at $25,000 a
year to build the new Capitol building,
"that it would appear some one in
the state federation of labor sensed
an opportunity to play politics which
was undoubtedly the influence that
stimulated the action.”
The governor further pointed out
in his statement that the usual fee
for an architect's services on such a
building is 6 per cent., whereas the
New York firm agreed to do the work
for $25,000 a year. Allowing six years
as the maximum time necessary to
complete the building, the governor
said the architect’s services would be
$160,000 instead of $300,000 under the
6 per cent. plan.
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PARENTS LEAVE TO
HUNT FOR THEIR SON
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 4.—Mr. and Mrs.
Allen O. Mason, of Missouri Valley,
la., parents of Roland R. Mason, state
agent for tha Guarantee Fund Life
association In Idaho, whose aban
doned car with lights burning and the
emergency brake set was found near
Ogden yesterday, left Omaha today
for Ogden to assist in the search for
their son. Mason said his son had
gone from his homo in Idaho Falls to
Ogden to get his car which he had
left there after It had broken down
on his trip from Missouri Valley
where he had been to visit his par
ents.
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MEXICAN IS KILLED
AT SCOTTS BLUFF
Scotts Bluff, Neb.. Aug. 4.—Yguacia
Mean, a Mexican laborer died at the
Bayard hospital after being shot by
unknown persons who fired shots
from an automobile to both sides of
the road. Mean was working on a
farm near Melbeta, southeast of here,
and was mortally wounded while ly
ing under a hedge.
NORTH PLATTE.—Dr. O. R. Platt,
who recently came to this city from
Piattsmouth. has taken over the gen
eral hospital which for a number of
years lias been under the management
ot several physicians. Miss Susan Mur
ehle. a graduate nurse, will be super
intendent.
CHADRON. — County Agricultural
Agent Fred Tayior reports that har
vest is half finished and a number of
farmers have already threshed. Most
of the grain will be marketed within
tli» next 30 days. Wheat will average
£0 bushels, some fields 40 bushels.
OMAHA OFFER WILL
BE TURNED DOWN
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 4.—The offer of
the Omaha Trust Company to trade
the state school fund $500,000 worth
of Nebraska municipal bonds for a
like amount of Massachusetts state
bonds will not be accepted if the board
of educational lands and funds ac
cepts the report of the committee. The
municipal bonds bear 6 per cent, and
the state bonds only 3 per cent, in
terest. Walter W. Head, of the state
capitol commission, is head of the
trust company.
Give Conscience a Chance. j
A sermon by the Rev. Karl Reiland, rector of St. George’s church, New
Yo*-k city. Reprinted from Commerce and Finance: *•
‘‘And they oea>d the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the
• cool of the day.”—"Genesis 3:8.
There is an attractive poetic suggestion here of meditative moments iiv
the evening quiet, after the heedless temper of the day's misadventure; after
the heated excitation of perversity the voice of conscience gets a hearing a*
the fiery spirit cools, and with the stirring of the twilight breeze there ha»
come the inevitable reaction to reflective thought.
We have just emerged from the terrific experience of a catastrophic fall -
of man. The heat of human warfare is practically ended, and no decent marv
wishes to live through another such time. Fortunate will that dawn of ►
tomorrow be for the races of mankind, if the nations in these calmer hour*
are both wisely reflective and purposefully resolved to heed the dictates of
a rational conscience, “ in the cool of the day.”
If is pitiful to observe how quickly an all powerful effort for associated
abolition of war has weakened, and how naturally governing bodies are dis
cussing not the abandonment but the extent of military organization. There
to of course some necessity for this at present, but not to the exclusion of
those lately discussed ideals of world peace and international disarmament.
‘ These ought ye to have done and not left the other undone.” In spite of
all exigencies, there is no excuse for honoring a statesmanship that doe*
not place supreme emphasis upon keeping the peace and preparing as dili
gently for international concord as we have been accustomed to prepare for
international combat.
A little reflection should convince us that we cannot improve thl®
world by paying ignominious tribute to Mars, whose altau have been wan- *.
tonly drenched in human blood, and we might try, even with hesitancy, pay
ing tribute to the Prince of Peace and the brotherhood of man. Whoever .
talks Mars instead of Messiah is speaking not for the brotherhood of mam
and the nation’s destiny, but for the.blood of man and the nation's death.
He is advocating for our youth not an indeal of national character, but the
idea of a national cemetery. He is not a patriot but a parasite. Christian
ity cannot be reconciled to war any more than a gentleman can be to *■ *”
philosophy of brute force.
i aurnu mai we nave naa to rignt, ana may nave yet to iigni, a war.
But the point I make la that war should be an accident, pardonable if nec
essary; but peace, and a scientific, educational, cultural preparation for
peace, should be the supreme purpose. It is only common sense to say that
what you train for, you are likely to triumph in, and where the preparation 1*
there will the practice be.
During the war a prominent man made a speech in which he argued that
Christianity sanctioned and sanctified war because Jesus drove the money
changers out of the temple and healed the servant of a Roman soldier. This- <
is a flagrant abuse of the rational faculties. It would be as reasonable to af
firm that Jesus sanctioned prostitution because he saved the woman taken ■
in adultery from death by stoning.
First of all the nations must do the most difficult thing in the world.
They must think. Our leaders must think honestly, fairly and generously. ,
There must be no more Belgium in the Congo; England in South Africa;
France in Morocco; Italy in Tripoli; Japan in Shantung, nor mugt Christian. .
nation of the west force opium upon a peaceful nation of the east. A sense
of hrumor alone should have prevented a civilized people from sending mis
sionaries both for opium commerce and orthodox Christianity through th*
same open door to the clever celestials of China.
We should thing these things over carefully. Character, not commerce,
1s the fundamental principal involved. England and America have a great
chance to heal world wounds, and the policy of nations depends upon the in
dividual character of the citizens, in the business and brotherhood of every
day. You and the man you deal with; the spirit that moves him and you, now,
today, constitute a mlcrocosmic instance of International relations. You two
are a miniature of the larger picture of the people of the world. Think it
over some evening. Give your better conscience a chance to intrude upon
-''your meditative leisure. It will come like the voice of the Lord God walking
in the garden of your life, in the quiet of the evening breeze, in the cool,
the calm, the common sense reaction, of the day.
I do not know what the forbidden fruit Tzas, nor why it was forbidden.
I do not undestand the nature of the tree "in the midst of the garden” upon,
which that famous fruit grew. It is all a great story, full of teaching es
sentially human. Adam and his wife broke the rules, and they knew they
broke them. Because they knew it they hid under the trees of the garden,
and it was then that the reaction set in, and the conscience, in God-like re
proach, set out on a walk through the garden of experience, with a step like
a heart beat, at the time of relaxation.
Most of our trouble comes from our selfish long reach. We do not
keep the rules, nor respect them as we should. The fruit thus gathered
quickly spoils. No ill-gotten thing ever tastes well. Whoever said “Stolen
fruit is sweet” confused crookedness and character and was more hungry
than truthful. He may have believed It about 11; 30 a. m., but not "in the
cool of the day."
Wo all hide, behind, under and in the trees, on every limb of an ex
cuse, in every shadow of pretext, behind all kinds of justification, but- we
know very well why we are not out in the open. Adam blamed the woman,
but we blame women, parents, children, our neighbor and the "stranger with
in our gates,” those within the gate and those outside. Then if we can’t
blame a real person we invent an imaginary one—the devil—and blame him.
We are the best white-wash mixers on earth when it comes to self-right- ___
eousness, but whitewash will not dense us nor does it deceive others “
There is something else, something deeper. It is that little sure-footed con
science, that spirit of honest-to-Godness in life we cannot escape. It cornea
calmly after "the burden and heat of the day’s doings” and we are face to
face with facts.
What is the conclusion? Whatever we do affects by ever so little the
whole world. A good citizen of the world Is an honor to the citizenship of
any country or the companionship of any company. True patriotism in any
nation makes a man the true mstrlot of all people. “As a man thinketh in
his heart, so is he” and he must quiet down and relax to know himself. He
must train up a good conscience and welcome its intruding, its instructive
voice. It will seek out his liiding place like a god; it will walk with au
thority in the grounds of his Dieart. He will hear it best and it will help him
most in the rational relief and relaxation, of "the cool of the day.”
The Honor Of The Senatn.
The Washington press correspondents
have “tipped” Senator Lodge as a mem
ber of the home delegation In the com
ing International conference. Tills Is
taken by many as only a due recognition
of the dignity and constitutional prerog
atives dr the Senate, as a part of the
treaty-making power. A quite different
view of the matter, however, has had
eminent republican support in the past.
Before the administration ot Presi
dent McKinley, the appointment of
senators on such commissions was un
known; with President McKinley it be
came a practice, but the practice was
soon resented by some of the most
prominent senators of his own party.
This opposition was expressed with es
pecial force by Senator Hoar, who was
at that time chairman of the Senate
committee on Judiciary. There was a
question whether such appointments
were not essentially In violation of the
constitutional prohibition against hold
ing any federal office simultaneously
with membership In either house of
congress.
The Senate referred the matter to the
Judiciary committee for an opinion, and
that committee found itself Immediately
embarrassed by the fact that three of
its own members were at the time
holding such positions by appointment
>f President McKinley. Disliking to
render a report that would seem to con
temn their own fellow members for ac
reptlng these appointments, the com
mittee asked Senator Hoar to go to the
president privately and request that
the practice be not continued. He did
so. and tells us In his autobiography
that President McKinley admitted that
he had come to feel very strongly the
force Of the objections, and gave him
to understand, though indirectly, that
no further appointments of the kind
would be made.
The strongeest objection of Senator
Hoar and those who agreed with him,
however, was not the point of techni
cal unconstitutionality, but that at
which he believed the constitutional
prohibition to be aimed—the tendency
of such appointments to break down
the real dignity and independence of
the Senate and make it subservent to
the president's will.
Didn’t Talk Natural,
They were watching a procession of
the unemployed.
Said the American: “You don’t see
these things where I come from.”
Scot Interposed: “And whur may
that be?”
“In God's own country," returned the
American.
“Mon!" cried the Scot, "whur's ye
Scotch accent? Ha' ye lost it?"
There is at lea3l one advantage in
not being an industrial king. You
don't have to go to court after the
divorce to see who gets the Pekin
gese PUP
orooKea turner.
When 1 pass Crooked Corner,
I hardly make a sound.
Because I know the fairies
Have there a dancing ground;
And I've been shown the pixy throne
On which their queen Is crowned.
And once by Crooked Corner
I saw' a russet cloak
J'jet slipping through the hedgerow
Beside the haunted oak;
Nursu told me then it was a wren-*
I’m sure it was ‘the folk.’
Someday by Crooked Corner,
If 1 am very good,
Maybe I’ll see the gobbling
Come trooping from the wood;
I may myself become an elf—
I wonder if I could?
—London Punch.
His Lucky Year. ***”
From Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Myron T. Herrick, the new ambassa
dor to France, knows his Paris better
than the average Frenchman.
“The Seine’s most picturesque fea
ture.” Mr. Herrick said at a dinner in
Toledo, “is the multitude of fishermen
who sit day after day, year after year,
fishing on its banks. During all the
revolutions, during the dally bombard
ments of ‘Big Bertha,,’ the^e fishermen
continued to fish away.
“Of course you know, there are no
fish in the Seine.
~I paused and talked with an aged
fisherman near Notre Dame one day.
“ ‘Have you fished here long?’ I asked
him.
“ ‘Well, sir,’ he answered, ‘I have been
fishing here for 37 years.”
“ ‘Any luck?’ I asked.
“The old fellow brightened up won
derfully.
“ ‘Back in 1892,’ he chuckled, ‘I had
a magnificent bite!’ ”
Getting On.
From the Washington Star.
“How are you getting on with your
new production?”
“We’re all through with the most Im
portant part,” replied the musical man
ager, “we have found a title that sug
gests all sorts of shocking possibilities.*'
TIT FOR’ TAT.
We’re getting real proud of Char
lie Chaplin. For he repulsed—in a
gentlemanly way—a remark that was
just a trifle impertinent. Anyway, w*e
have it that Charlie and Elinor Glyn
met at a recent motion picture ball
on the coast.
“Deah, Mr. Chaplin,” the woman ^
writer is reported to have said, “I’m
deliciously delighted to meet you.
Why, you’re just like other people
and not at all the sort of freak I’d
have Imagined you.”
“I can say the same of you, Madame
Glyn,” responded Chaplin. Attg
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