THE FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER.
W. C. TEMPLETON,
Editor and Business Manager._
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
Saloon and cabaret life In Juarez, just
across the Rio Grande, has been almost
Americanized. That is, it has taken on
customs of places of gayety in the Unit
ed States of pre-Volstead days, but the
inroads of American Jazz have not been
sufficient to drive from the Mexican
city the better kind of music that has
been there always. In a saloon on one
side an orchestra smashes out the Jazz,
while in another Ms played music by an
orchestra of the romantic Latin style,
piano, violin and vloliRcello, incapable
of producing jazz.
Joe, prize police dog of the Hoboken
steamship company, offended Mlque, a
Sinn Fein billy goat, waiting at the pier
at Hoboken to sail for Ireland with his
master. The goat was being placed irf
a crate when the dog came along- Mlque
broke away and butted Joe a 16-foot
jolt l*to the Hudson river. Joe was
picket up by a tug boat but it was
more vhan an hour before he w’ouid go
back to the pier, and Mlque had started
on the voyage to Ireland.
One of the Interesting applications of
the self-moving motor is to the lawn
mower. This ingenious machine rests
on three rollers, v*hich serve both for
carrying the engine, the cutter and the
driver, and for gmoothing and level
ing the surface v» the lawn. A four
horsepower gasoline engines is employed
and all the movements of the machine
are controlled by means of two hand
wheels placed in front of the driver’s
seat.
Chicago has a family law firm. It is
composed of Mrs. Joanna Downes, her
daughter, Marion, and son, Karle. Mrs.
Downes has been an attorney for six
year? while her daughter was admitted
to the bar a year ago. Her son was ad
mitted to the bar recently. Her children
followed m her • roots taps due 10 ineir
own inclinations, Mrs. Downes says.
Good looks will cut no figure In wom
en's votes, according to the Illinois
League of Women Voters. Instead of
women voting for the handsomest man,
the candidates, handsome or not, must
answer questions on their policies. One
question is, “what has been your ex
perience -and what is your present busi
ress connection?"
A bill seeking to compel all registered
voters to go to the polls on election day
has been Introduced In the house of
commons. If no reasonable excuse is
offered for not voting a fine not exceed
ing 10 shillings (about $2.BO) Is imposed
for the first offense, with £1 (normally
about SB) or seven days imprisonment
for the second effense.
Union labor has taken a stand on many
things, but the British Postal Workers’
union has come out with a unique mea
sure to which downtrodden proletariats
everywhere may rally. Wear and tear of
life awheel presents a problem, so the
union advocates, “a double seat In the
Irousert of those employed. on cycle
duty."
Blind slnco he was 3 years old and an
fnmate of a county Infirmary all his life,
Alex Carson, 61, of Logansport, Ind.,
»ia3 received $260 willed him by an uncle.
Thts Is the first money of any amount
the man has ever possessed, lie directed
Ms guardian to buy some “little things
and luxuries" he has never been able to
enjoy.
Making use of their spare time, 84
prisoners of the Wisconsin state prison
are taking up the University of Wiscon
sin extension work and, according to the
prison officials, have been doing excel
lent work. Their marks, according to
university authorities, are on an average
much higher than those of other stu
dents taking the work. This, they say,
is due to the t>nt that they are not sub
ject to temptations of attending dances,
movies, and other social events.
A star comedian' at a London west
end theater wont through his paces at
a matinee while two policemen waited
to take him to Jail for non-payment
of income tax. The policeman arrived
Just as the comedian was going on, and
were persuaded to wait.
The old Poodie Dog restaurant, a San
Francisco Institution since the gold days
©f 1849, has succumbed to prohibition and
will b* closed. Furniture and fittings of
upper rooms where banquets and other
celebrations took place, will be sold April
21. “We go to France," said Camille
Mailhabeau, one of the proprietors.
Palatial marble palaces, erected In the
t6th century by Dutch merchants on all
but forgotten Islands of the South seas,
are for rent at tw’o pounds 10 shillings
a month, approximately $10. according to
letters from mariners and Itinerant mer
chants.
A vigorous campaign In favor *->f birth
control is being carried on in Yucataa
Mrs. Margaret Sanger's pamphlets have
i.AAn Into Sivanish and wtdfdv
circulated. In New York the American
Birth Control League has been legally
approved.
•'She pawned my troupers to have her
hair bobbed. Judge." With this plaintive
lament a man In Detroit opposed paying
alimony, claiming he had suffered
enough. The Judge, despite the wife's
denial of the charge, refused the awurd.
Bullfrogs serve as watch dogs at a
Wlnsted, Conn., man's cottage on High
land lake. The cottage Is over (he water,
and beneath it the army of bullfrogs give
nightly concerts. When the frogH sud
denly stop, the man knows an intruder
lr near.
Carbonated milk Is a beverage soon to
be marketed like soda water. The patent
office at Washington has granted a
patent on a method of preserving sweet
milk by carbonization. Milk treated in
this way Is said to be palatable and nu
tritious.
That the middle west will soon be
come one of the largest consumers of
tedwod lumber, was the prediction mada
,1'y Harrison Hatton, of Minneapolis,
secretary of the Northwestern Lumber
men's Association.
Pythos or hotdogs. It's all the same
to the pretty, fair haired snake cur
ator of the London History museum.
"It's Just like handling uncooked sau
sages," she told admirers .she fondled
* great 10-foot python In her arms.
James Seton Gray, Milwaukee engin
eer, will leave Mondujl for Klo de Ja
neiro, where he will undertake the en
gineering feat of removing an Immense
hill from the center of the city. He esti
mates the project wll take two years.
Not a lawyer In Atlantic City wants
the Job of United States commissioner.
The Job pays little and requires much
detail work away from the boardwalk.
A xweater saved the life of a 2-year-old
boy who slipped Into a lake neur Su
perior, Wls. The sweater was of suffi
cient buoyancy to keep the lad afloat
until hts brother pulled him to safety.
Reno and all "divorce centers" in the
United 8tates have a dangerous rival.
The Yucatan legislature has Just
changed the country's divorce laws so
that foreigners can get a divorce after
one day’s re»',3»nc'
Duke Bro ' \ HUjelan wolf hound
such as mot J jJ>rs pose with. Is said
to be the me.! %. Yect of his kind In
Amer'-a. Tt:i JDufcJ is valued at $3,000
end W>ngs i . jSbe Harold Cluxton, of
Chicago
RATE fitlllCTIM
SEISE SEISM
Stock Shippers In Nebraska,
Ask Cut In Face oi' Hood's
Appeal Fo" a Big
Boosi,.
Omaha. Neb., May 22.—Reduction
of freight rates on livestock in Ne
braska would prove an incentive to
ranchers increase production. I). P.
Stough, of Grand Island, represent
ing shippers in 25 Nebraska towns,
told an interstate commerce commis
sion examiner and a representative of
the state railway commission who
are hearing a case by which Omaha
stock yards interests seek elimination
of alleged rate inequalities they claim
discriminate against them in favor of
St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. Stough said he knew of in
stances where Nebraska ranchers, be
cause of high rates on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad, had
driven cattle 100 miles in order to
ship them over another road whoso
rates were lower. He asked that Bur
lington rates be lowered. A previous
witness for the Burlington had re
quested an advance for his and other
roads so they wold be on a parity.
The hearing was expected to close
with testimony of J. H. Tedrow, traf
fic manager for the Kansas City, Mo.,
chamber of commerce.
NEW BANK CHARTERED
FOR PEOPLE OF HOMER
Lincoln, Neb., May 22.—The state
hanking bureau has issued a char
ter to the Homer State bank, at
Homer, capitalized at $25,000. The
bank will succeed the recently failed
Homer State bank, now in the hands
of a receiver, taking over its bank
equipment and real estate at $9,437
and all good notes up to 75 per cent,
of deposits.
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GRADUATION PRE8ENT
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Glltner, Neb., May 22 (Special).—
Probably the only liign school grad
uate In Nebraska to receive a gift
from President Harding is Miss Opal
Harris, a senior in the Giltner high
school.
Miss Harris, a cousin of President
Harding, has Just received $10 from
the White House.
Patient In Hospital Believed to
Have Forgotten Identity
Following Blow on
the Head.
Aberdeen, S. D., May 19 (Special).—
John Smith, loss of memory patient
at St. Luke's hospital in Aberdeen
woke up to a new Identity Thursday
and announced himself as James
Omellan, of Portland, Ore. It is now
believed that Smith who had lived in
Aberdeen for several months os John
Smith and had formed many friends
ns well as displayed a remarkable tal
ent at sketching, suffered from a loss
of memory two years ago. it was due
to a blow on the head doctors now
declare and with treatment the man
will be entirely cured.
Tho man says he is of Polish de
scent and that he was reared in Port
land, Ore. In the last two years hj
has traveled from New York city to
San Francisco, according to letters
found in his personal belongings, but
when asked concerning these places
he merely shook his head and did not
remember. Plans are being made to
send him to his home in Portland as
fcnon Ail he 1h well.
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CHARGE WHOLE FAMILY
WITH BEING INSANE
Aberdeen, S. D., May 19.—Police
disclosed a strange condition when
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Colon and their
18-year-old son were taken Into cus
I today, each charged with Insanity.
The family has made Its home hero
for several years and up to about fout
months ago was neighborly and
friendly to visitors and to the resi
dents In the Immediate vicinity.
Ab'out four months ngo the window
shades of the home were drawn and
no one was admitted with the excep
tion of the male members of the
household who went to and fro tc
work on the park crew. All member)
of the family became morose, the
house was kept looked and they were
unfriendly to everyone.
The matter was brought to the at
tention of the police who forced ar
entrance. They found Mrs. Colon pre
paring a scanty meal In a closet of «
second floor bedroom. Instead of us
ing the big kitchen range Idle In th<
kitchen. -
The big 10-room house had formerl)
been well furnished and well kept, bu'
It was found uncleaned. #
The three will be examined by thi
lnsanltyboard to learn of their condi
tion ulthough friends believe the)
have become afflicted because o
brooding over the fate of their motbei
country, Poland.
FAIRBURY—Manager Segrtst. of th
State league team, has five "Coyotes'
on his hospital list. "Coty" Dolan
captain, broke his leg last week In <
practice game; Watcher O. Conner auf
fers from a spilt hand received by i
foul tip.
BEATRICE.—The Beatrice I-ndustrla
school, promoted by the Rev. Oacai
Autrltt and constructed through th
contribution! of Beatrice cltiaens, wil
be opened with ceremonies on the eve
nlng of May 29.
NEBRASKA CITY.—1Tuchman Bros
of Omaha, purchased at a referee eal
the bankrupt stock of the Poling gro
eery. They have leased the, buiidln,
occupied by the store and will contlnu
to operate it.
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! NEW ATTACK ON
CITY COAL YARD
Dealers at Lincoln, Neb., Ask
Supreme Court to Close
the Business—Defense
Says "Home Rule.”
Lincoln, Neb., May 20 (Special) - -
The municipal coal yard of Lincoln
was under attack in supreme court
Wednesday a^fernoon. Coal dealers to
the number of 15 had combined to ask
tljo court to order it closed perma
nently. Their attorneys claimed that
the city had no pow-er without direct
authority from the legislature to en
gage in any merchandising enterprise,
and that In fact it was created merely
to serve the political and selfish pur
poses of Commissioner Bryan. They
sald that the time had come to put
a stop to this socialization of business,
and that they could not be taxed to
support an enterprise ruinous to their
own investments.
City Attorney Peterson took the
ground that by adopting the home
rule charter Lincoln had cut away
from all state direction as to what she
could do, and that the federal supreme
court had held that this was a proper
use of public money, and that the
only question in the case is whether
It required a vote of the people or
whether the council could do it with
out such a vote.
Commissioner Bryan sold $H8,000
worth of coal during the last six
months at a profit of $4,0C0, and says
that the reduced price at which he
sold It and the reduced prices he
forced the private dealers to make In
competition saved the city $160,000 on
Its coal bill for domestic purposes for
tba wlntor
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SHOOTS HAND OFF WHILE
OUT HUNTING COYOTES
Coleridge, Neb., May 20 (Special).—
Clyde Williams, while going out to
get a shot at some coyotes, acci
dentally discharged his gun, the
charge taking effect in his left fore
arm. Amputation was found neces
sary after he had been taken to a
hospital at Norfolk.
COMTFILED
Specific Names and Dates
Given By Attorney General
In Charge Against Thurs
ton County Official.
Lincoln, Neb., May 18 (Special).—
Attorney General Davis has sent to
County Attorney Smith, of Thurston .
county for immediate filing, in the
histrict court there,, a complaint
against Sheriff Rutledge, recently sus
pended by the governor. It charges
him with failing to enforce the pro
hibitory law and with personal drunk
enness. A complaint against County
Judge Flynn will be filed a little later.
The complaint recites that William
Lewis was arrested at Fender for
drunkenness, and sent to jail by a
Justice of the peace, Lewis, who was
really a state agent. after evidence,
told the sheriff, it is alleged, that he
had a load of booze at Freipont he
was anxious to get, and that Rutledge
and Flynn tried to get the justice to
release him. It is charged that later
Rutledge allowed Lewis to escape
from Jail.
Another charge is that Rutledge
connived with Lewis and Eugene Bat
ten to sell a barn to be used for stor
ing liquor and autos used in trans
porting it. A number of dates are
given when it Is charged that Flynn
and Rutledge were Intoxicated, and
the charge made that Rutledge failed
to enforco prohibition when he nea- I
lected to arrest himself.
Other charges nre that he allowed
Winfred Beekln to dispense liquor in
the Walthill Citizen office and drank
some of it himself; that on different
occasions he and Judge Flynn drank
intoxicants at the farms of P. J.
Duchser and H. P. Swanson; that he
drank with others in a Juryroom dur
ing a trial; that he drank at a dance
at the home of W. W. Crom. four miles
from Walthill; that he failed to keep
in jail four different men named in
the complaint after they had been sent
up for violating the liquor law, and
that he was found Intoxicated in a
Walthill hotel before the door of a
woman and her husband.
GIRLS REFUSE TO SAY
THEY WERE GIVEN LIQUOR
Mitchell, S. D.. May 18 (Special).—
Because the girls to whom Rollle
Tormey and Milton Jones are allege^
to have given intoxicating liquor re
cently refused to testify In police
court, the two defendants were dis
missed. The girls would not swear
that the beverage they had was in
toxicating. At the same session of
court Dick Emerson and V. C. Neale,
proprietors of a lunch room, were
tried for selling liquor. Neals plead
ed guilty, but Emerson insisted that
he knew nothing of the liquor, five
gallons of which was found in the
place.
THURSTON COUNTY SLAYER
APPEALS TO HIGH COURT
Lincoln, Neb., May 18 (Special).—
The appeal of WTUlam Maddox, sen
tenced to life for thf killing of his
employer. John Q. Schuler, a Thurs
ton county farmer, was argued in
supreme court Wednesday afternoon.
Maddox claims th'e^ trial judge was
not Impartial and that he gave him
the limit after the jury recommended
him for clemency. He claims that
Schnier's refusal to pay him wages I
due as a farm hand so excited him that [
he lost his mind tor the time being.
BANK LOSES IIS
Creighton, Neb., Financial In
stitution May Not Deduct
Mortgages Held From
Value of Shares. —
Lincoln, Neb., May 19 (Special).—
The Creighton National bank, of Knox
county, lost out on its appeal to the
supreme court with respect to amount
of its taxes. The court says mortgages
held by the bank are not to be de
ducted from the total value of bank
shares where mortgager has agreed
to pay tdxes on mortgage, and that
the levying of the tax does not impair
the obligation of contract.
In the Metzger case from Madison
county the court said that alien
enemiers' heirs are barred from shar
ing in estate, and that George Herring
gets the $70,000 the lower court
awarded alien enemy heirs.
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CONFESSES ATTEMPT TO
ROB AN IOWA BANK
Lincoln, Neb.-, May 19.—Ray Scott
nnd R. J. Collins, two youths ar
>ested here yesterday in possession oi
an automobile that was said by the
have been stolen there in April, also
confessed to an attempted robbery
of the bank of Arlon, la., last Sun
day, according to Gus Hyers, state
iherlff, who announced that the two
men were being taken to Iowa in cus
tody of State Agent H. V. Yackey,
of Iowa.
Confession was made after E. J.
Flahiv, night watchman at Denison,
la., brought here with Mr. Yackey,
l ad Identified the two youths as oc
cupants of the car which aroused his
i 'ispicion at Dbnison last Sunday,
I heriff Hyers stated. Arion is about
eight miles south of Denison. The al
leged bandits Jimmied the door of the
bank and knocked off the combina
tion lock of the safe, but were un
successful in reaching the contents.
Congressman Evans States,
However, That Representa
tives From Agricultural
Districts Get Together.
Lincoln, Neb., May 17 (Special).—
Congressman Evans, of Dakota coun
ty, in the city for a brief visit to his
son, says that there is no agricul
tural bloc in the House, as the term
is generally advertised, merely an
organization of representatives frotn
agricultural states. He belongs, and
meetings are held eveYy now and then
at which the'members reach an agree
ment on what legislation they will
support.
"We don't consider that our organ
ization Is a bloc at all in the sense
that the term means a close organiza
tion,” said Mr. Evans. "If you want
tu see blocs, however, there are plenty
of them. There are the sugar and
transportation and shoe blocs, but
tile., never meet. They do not have
to. They know what to do.”
Mr. Evans expects to spend a month
telling Third district voters some
tilings about his work, and will go
back to Washington when the Senate
gets ready to send the tariff bill back
to the House.
SEARCH AND SEIZURE
LAW IS AT STAKE
Lincoln. Neb., May 17 (Special).—
The constitutionality of the search
and seizure clause of the state pro
hibitory law was argued to the full
bench of the supreme court Tuesday
afternoon. Williana Watson, of Sar
py county, was the man In the case.
The raiding officers foun'd 94 bottles
of gin in a hole over which an icebox
had been placed. His attorneys de
clared that the search warrant was
defective, and that he should be re
leased and his liquor returned. They
said that both the state and federal
constitutions provided that no search
warrant may be Issued except upon
oath ajid affirmation, whereas the
state prohibitory law permits them
to be sworn out upon information and
belief.
The attorney general defended on
the ground that the state, in the exer
clvo of police power, may do that
which is necessary to enforce its laws,
and that as no law abiding citizen is
ever humiliated or wronged the
courts need not give protection to
lawbreakers. The ancient right of
sanctity in a man's castle does not
apply, he said, when a man is using
his home for criminal practices.
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EIGHT CANDIDATES
FOR JOB OF SHERIFF
Bloomfield, Neb.. May 17 (Special)
—Just why the Job of county sherifl
should be so populRr In northwest
Nebraska Is not readily apparent, but
the fact remains that there are eight
announced candidates out for the Job
here w'ith a number of others trim
ming their sails In preparation to
enter the race.
ABANDON CELEBRATION TO
REBUILD FAIR BUILDINGS
Bloomfield, Neb., May 17 (Special).
—-The Ray Lamb post of the Ameri
can Legion at a recent meeting de
cided to abandon the July 4th celebra
tion. for which big plans rtad been
made, and to use the funds which
would be ratsad for that purpose in
nsslr-lng the Knox County Fair asso
ciation to rebuild the grandstand and
other buildings wrecked by the re
cent tornado. The work of rebuilding
will start immediately.
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Memorial Day.
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I.lfo is short and ere the babe has left the cradle it has reached old age *
and death gathers it unto his own fold. Yes, life when viewed through the
hour glass of all time is but the flash of a pistol, a daring scene in the cine
mateograph of ages, a spark, a flame, an ember. But there are those, who
as they pass through the world's swiftly moving kaleidoscope, leave their
mark behind on history's pages, those truly great whose earthly life ends at
the grave but whose sacrifice and acccomplishments stand as monuments*
that even time cannot efface.
And those truly great people are you veterans of the Civil, Spanish
American and world wars, you and your fallen comrades and today the na
tion bows down in tribute before those who carried its flag through flying
bullets, shrieking shells and death dealing devices ever forward, ever onward
until victory crowned their valiant efforts and heroic sacrifices.
Tomorrow is your day civil war heroes of Dubuque. The day in whiclv
you'll live over again the stirring scenes, the perilous situations the danger?
you passed through while the blue and gray were deadlocked in the contest,
for a United States or a divided house. And as you ride down the streets to- *■
morrow at the head of the big parade you'll find hats doffed and tear
dimmed eyes paying dignified tribute to you dauntless courage.
And you, veterans of the Spanish-American war, roused to fighting heat
by the cry "Remember the Maine" tomorrow is your day. And though your
step is more lithe than that of your older companions, your sigh^ more clear,
still you toyed \«jth death and played with fate to spread the doctrine of free
dom for all. Yes it is your day and your privilege to accept the homage
which the nation extends.
And you doughboys who rushed into battle with true Yankee daring and
grim determination to give not an Inch but take all, though you are thou
sands strong and time has not yet depleted your ranks, you must not forget
that memorial day is also your day, a day in which your smashing rush
through the foe s lines on the bloody battlefields of France is recalled by
every true blue American who tomorrow will worship at the shrine of the
great army of mothers who brushed away the parting tear to hide their
sorrow^and send you forth to battle to the strains of martial music.
And to those who have crossed the great divide, those who made th?
supreme sacrifice and those whom Time has cut down with his greedy scythe,
there are voices heard from the stilled lips of this army of sleepers. And
whether they sleep the deep, peaceful slumber under the sod of foreign soil or
whether they rest in their native land, they are the heroes whose deeds are
everlasting, whose sermon of right comes welling up from their throats in
such a volume of sound that it strikes all with its ardent fervor, its vivid
message.
And as the breeze sighs through foliage tipped trees,.as it gently ruffles*
the green mantle over our s'eeping boys as the sun shines down in splendid
glory on their graves or as the moon sheds a radiant light and gently bathes
their last resting place in its pale, calm, peaceful rays, a grateful nation on
Its knees gives thanks that its boys were crusaders of the right, fearless and
courageous and that they laid down their lives on the altar of freedom and
equality and peace for their fellow men.
And may the fragrance of the flowers and wreaths placed on their graves
today whisper to them the message of "Greater love hath no man tha? he
lay down his life for his fellow man,” as you living heroes receive the heart
felt homage of our own United States.
MEXICAN RECOGNITION.
THE more "dope” one reads from
Washington concerning our re
lations with Mexico the more
one wonders what influences are
dictating the state department's pol
icy toward that country. Despite
the fact that President Obregon is
quite obviously succeeding in re
storing law and order, the United
States steadily refuses to recognize
his government. The American war
department has added to the murk
by sponsoring scare stones of
trouble brewing across the border.
Investigation proved the stories to
have been flagrant exaggerations.
What was their purpose, anyway?
At the beginning of Obregon’s
tenure recognition was withheld on
the ground that the new Mexican
constitution by providing for the na
tionalization of the country's mineral
wealth threatened the property
rights of foreigners, including Amer
icans. It was feared that the gov
ernment might proceed to take over
mines and oil wells, thus expropriat
ing lands in which millions of foreign
capital had been sunk. Secretary
Hughes rightly hesitated to accord
recognition until this matter h^d
been cleared up. A Mexican court
decision has now done this by de
claring that the nationalizing clause
in the constitution could not be in
terpreted retroactively. Yet we do
not recognize Mexico.
Now comes the Information from
Washington that we have not recog
nized Mexico, because the Harding
administration is seeking to estab
lish the closest kind of relations be
tween the two countries, much
closer than those afforded by mere
recognition, in fact bonds almost
equivalent to an alliance. Thus,
then, are our intentions represented
to be the friendliest of the friendly.
Unfortunately, however, the claim
tinkles tinnily. It is just as if a man
suffering, from thirst should ask an
other for a drink of water and the
other should reply that he would not
give a drink of water but he would
give a whole banquet at some indef
inite time in the future. Could one
blame the sufferer for putting little
faith in the good will of the other?
Now, why under the sun, if we are
seeking to cement Mexico's friend
ship to us, do we withhold recogni
tion? Mexicans have always suspect
ed that Yankee imperialists are cast
ing covetous eyes upon their terri
tory, and consequently our southern
Beware of* eggs and mayonnaise
dressing mixed. A Paris magistrate
died afte_- eating the mixture which
had been allowed to stand for some
time. Cream eggs and mayonnaise
dressing mixed up must be eaten at
once or—look out. French doctors
warn you that this mixture develops
microbes unlimited if allowed to
stand, and may cause death.
Moses would not allow milk, but
ter or any product to be eaten with
meat. He j£new nothing about mi
crobes, never heard of them. But he
knew a good deal about health, irepe
cially
t
W
neighbors have distrusted most oC
our advances. It is no way to dis
arm that distrust to refuse recogni
tion while protesting eternal friend
ship. On the contrary our course !» -
designed to Increase distrust
What adds to the apparent foot
lessness of the American policy is
that it is at variance with diplomatic
practice. Hitherto the rule has been
to recognize first and then negotiate;
not to negotiate and then recognize.
Hitherto it has beeu considered' that
a government stable enough to carry
on worth while negotiations was sta
ble enough to be recognized, which,
sounds like good common sense. But
then maybe Mr. Hughes is seeking;
a reputation for originality.
Don’t* For Girl*.
Don't say "say,"
And don’t say "see?”
Don’t say ‘ listen," I
And don't Bay “see."
Don't powder your nose
111 the public gaze;
Don’t polish your nails
In the public ways.
And don't display
Such a length of limb;
Don't dress on the street
As If going to swim.
Don’t talk so much about “him" or
"his,”
Don't say so often, "I’ll »ay It Is,”
And don’t say “dearie,’’
And don't chew gum—
And then I’ll say
The millenium's come!
—Dennis A. McCarthy, In Fellow
Worker.
Red Candle*.
A cloudy curtain dark with rain
Across th© sun was drawn
When spring in smock of filmy green
Came tripping o’er the lawn,
She bore a basket full of plants
And blossoms sweet and gay,
rink, purple, crimson, gold and bluer
A glorious display.
"It’s almost twmgnt here,” she cried...
"I cannot see to set
These beds with my geraniums
And fragrant mlgonette."
So all along the winding walks
Where she desired to go
The gardner placed his tulips, tall
Red candles In a row.
—Minna Irving, In Slew York Herald.
Senator Borah is trying to find out
why a "Russian ambarsador,” having
no connection with ihe present gov
ernment of Russia, Is recognized at
Washington and allowed to spend Ire
his own way tens of millions* of
American money lent to Russia. The
government would not recognize, or
allow its money to bo spent by are
ambassador appointed in this country
by the former kaiser of Germany.
Why recognize as Russian ambas
sador, a man, however estimable, ap
pointed by Kerensky five years agoT
They are still arguing at jGenoa,
but lust what the argument is about
has not yet been made clear.
The national conference of Mutual
Savings banks In Atlantic City dis
covers that the average wife of »
man earning 31,000 to 13,000 a year
spends less for clothes than the hus
band, and is a better saver.
It didn't take a national conferenc*
or ghost from the grave to tell us that.
The average 33,000 a year man, and
many other average men, spend a*
much without necessity on the mid
day funclieon for instance, as it cost*
to feed the children. Then they groan
about the “heavy load.”
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