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OCTOBER.
The long-mooted question as to what is so rare
as a day in June is easily answered. It is a day in
October, a Nebraska October.
Bright sun, crisp air, frost across tiic harvested
fields, sumac, oak, maple, birch, and all manner
of leaves, painted infinite colors, the thump of big,
golden ears against the husker board of the wagon,
< attle grazing the cured grass in the meadows and on
the hills, rosy apples on the orchard trees, yellow
pumpkins in the fields. E. C. Stedman’s picture
suits Nebraska:
"No clouds arc in the morning sky,
•' Tho vapors hug the stream,
Who says that life and love can die
In all this northern gleam?
At every turn the maples burn.
The quail is whistling free,
The partridge whirs, and tho frosted burs
Are dropping for you and me
In the clear October morning."
Even hardened Californians, entranced by Ne
braska s autumn, have broken down and admitted
that California has nothing to equal October in
Nebraska.
The best of it is that October ’ usually extends
through November and well up toward Christmas
in Nebraska.
“LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE.”
The 70th anniversary of the birth of James
Whitcomb Riley comes this month and with it the
news that “Little Orphant Annie” has been found.
The girl who inspired Riley’s famous poem of child
hood is living in Philadelphia, Ind., according to an
article in Farm and Fireside for October. She is
now Mrs. John W. Gray, 70 years old.
Riley said of her, “She was 10 or 12 years old
when she came to our house, gleeful and surprising,
a slender wisp of a girl. I was 12 or 14, and worth
less and freckled as a restaurant cracker. She was
our Lady qf the Broom—she liked to work.’
Mrs. Gray remembers the poet as a boy better
than as a mail. “He pretended to make fun of my ]
tales, but he hung around all the time while 1 told
them,” she says. “He W'as lazy. Him an’ work fell
- out when he was born. He was a harum-scarum lad.
H« had a darling mother, but he didn’t help her
much. He read story books and made pictures. He
was the biggest torment I ever knew, but I was a i
match for him.
“Sometimes he would draw ugly pictures of the i
children. ‘That’s you,’ he’d say to his baby brother,
handing him a picture; and‘that’s you,’ to his sister;
‘and that’s you,’ he’d say to me. And then we’d
look at our pictures and whip him out of the kitchen,
lie was a juggler. He would sniff gun caps up his
nose and take them out of his mouth. He fooled the
children but he didn't fool me.”
It is a pretty picture Mrs. Gray draws of the
great poet of childhood. It shows him a regular
boy. And it is, probably, from that “darling mother”
of his th»:t he drew the tender soul which enabled
him to write such touching verse as
An’ little Orphant Annie says when the blaze is blue.
An’ the lamp wick sputters, an’ the wind goes woo-oo!
An’ you hear the crickets quit, an' the moon is gray,
An' the llghtnin’-bugs in dew Is all squenched away.—
Vou better mind yer parents, an' yer teachers fond ;
an' dear.
An’ churish them 'at loves you, an dry the orphant'* '
tear.
An’ he’p the pore an\needy ones 'at clusters all about.
Kr the Gobbi' ur- '.! git you
Kf you
Don’t
Watch
Out!
BUSINESS IN CHARITY.
The Community Chest drive will take place next
month and Omaha will then havo its charity on a
business basis instead of hit-and-miss, duplicated and
hodge-podge.
The chest plan has many advantages over the
old one. It saves an immense amount of labor hy
combining all the drives into one a year, making the
campaign cost, as compiled from 130 American cities,
2.69 per cent, in place of 15 to 25 per cent as under
the old system.
It puts the stamp of worth upon the charities and
welfare activities to which the money goes. Tho
givers may give freely because they know they aro
not being “worked.” In the past there have been
some alleged charities which were organized prin
cipally for the aggrandizement of their promoters.
The chest plan makes social welfare giving more
democratic. It will increase the number of givers
and establish in many hearts anew the altruistic im
pulse of helping those less favored by fate. It will
give the active welfare workers more time to devote
to relief work hy relieving them of the necessity of
soliciting the necessary money.
The plan also includes putting efficiency into
every social agency by establishing a budget system.
The Community Chest is better for the bene
ficiaries, the workers and the public.
At a Boone county (Neb.) sale of farm imple
ment*, livestock, etc., the farmer buyers paid every
item in cash to the amount of $r>,000. farmers
arc coming back.
Colleges announce new courses for the coming
year. The main interest, however, renters around
the new fobtball team.
Arthur Mullen, returning from three months in
Kurope, gives out the real inside information on the
situation over there.
Georges Carpentier and Joe Beckett arc to light
in London tonight. Where have we heard those
names before?
Bankers want to cancel war debts. A lot of
people would he happy to have private debts cat.
coled ulso. *
Philadelphia still has a few horses in its fire
department. Running true to its ancient reputa
tion. ,
UP TO COUNCIL BLUFFS. ^
The citizens of Council Bluffs need a spunking
and thu time is now.
For the last 25 years, public improvements with
a view to relieving the flood hazards in Council Bluffs,
have been hashed and rehashed by city council, com
mercial club, chamber of commerce, improvement
clubs and what not.
And for the last 25 years, the outcome of these
conferences has always been the same: the cost of
these improvements will go down soon ami the next
generation will bo in a better position to make them
than the present. Friday night’s tornado, thunder
shower, or whatever the Bluffs folk may wish to call
it, forcibly brought into the foreground again the
inadequate sewer system of Council Bluffs and the
vicious nature of Indian creek.
If proper action had been taken 25 years ago,
the damage from Friday night’s storm would not
have been so great, and the improvements would
all be paid for now.
The cost to the city, to private property owners,
to corporations—which in the long run means the
taxpayers—from the Friday night storm will total
nearly enough, before the repairs all are made, to
have paid for these improvements.
Forget petty squabbles over a new hotel; forget
costly pilgrimages to Chicago and other fun centers
in vain eft'orts to get a new union depot. Who wants
to build a new hotel in n city that can’t handle a
thunder storm? What railroad wants to spend money
building new trackage into a new union station only
to have them buried in mud like the tracks on west
Broadway now are?
If Council Bluffs wants other persons and cor
porations to spend money improving their city, why
shouldn’t the Bluffs citizens dig down a little in
their own jeans and make a few necessary improve
ments on their own account?
Now is the time for the city council to act; now
•yvhile fhe citizenry is aroused over the mud situa
tion.
And if the city council is not inclined to act, now
is the time for the progressive citizens of Council
Bluffs to rise up and demand action.
There is a city election coming soon in Council
Bluffs.
If there is a man considering throwing his hat
into the ring for the mayoralty, let him come out
on a platform for “necessary improvements” and
he should sweep the boards. >
But by all means let Council Bluffs rise to the
occasion as it did in the great war—100 per cent—
and do away with the “mud menace.”
AGAIN SCIENCE TRIUMPHS.
Two Lehigh university professors, after years of
study and research, announce the perfecting of a
nonbreakable cigar.
We have the nonrefillable bottle (comparatively
obsolete since Amendment 18); the nonopenable ear
window; the nonshuttable umbrella.
But what are these, compared with the contri
bution of the two professors to the comfort of the
world and the comity of nations! The nonbreakable
cigar! No longer will a pang of apprehension go
ihrough the lover as, at the thrilling moment of bid
ding her farewell on the front porch, he hears a
sharp, crackling sound in his left breast pocket, and
realizes that several frail cigars have perished.
No longer will those jovial souls, who emphasize
their speech with thumps on their friends’ bosoms,
be a menace to the peace of society.
Lovers may embrace with abandon and men may
face the most rabid chest-slapper with a calm smile,
knowing that the cigars in their pockets are non
breakable, thanks to the persistence of the two scien
tists.
Thomas Marshall, quondam vice president of the
United States, was acclaimed as a deep analyst of the
feelings of the people when he declared that the
greatest need of this country was a good 6-cent
cigar. Men now see that there was something which
the world needed even more, and, thanks again to
science, it has been provided.
Thus does the race advance, gropingly some
times, but always forward.
We trust that patents on the nonbreakable cigar
will be taken out without delay in all countries (in
cluding Scandinavia), in order that the inventors
may have a just reward for their great gift to hu
manity.
It costs $1.20 to $2.80 to produce a ton of
bituminous coal, and $1.23 to produce a bushel of
wheat. The coal sells at the mines for about $5.60
a ton. The wheat sells at the farms for about 85
cents a bushel.
'“‘Dirt Farmer’ President of Bankers,’’ says a
caption in The Christian Science Monitor over a
picture of Walter Head. His fellow-citizens wonder
when he gets time to do his plowing and hay making.
*
The city tank wagons were squirting water on
the downtown streets yesterday as usual in spite of
downpours that had scoured them clean. Habit is
Btrong. *
It is estimated that each player in the world
series baseball games will receive about $8,000. But
what of it? That’s barely three years’ salary for a
college professor.
Edgar Selwyn rays American men don't know
how to talk to women. There’s no argument about
American women knowing how to talk to men.
Rather dull in England, we fancy, with both the
prince and Lloyd away.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omalia'rt Own Tool—
ltnl>rrt Worthington Davie
INVESTMENT.
A I thought, "i'lii uelllod..
I've bought a cur on time,
I'll roam the regions far and whir.
I'll breathe the country uir,
HI hunt the hills and valley* through
And find a master rhyme,
\nd live as I have tried nnd tried
Without tho slightest care.
J II he an up and coming guy,
And travel with the rest.
Th drudging days .ip gone f>>r a\r
And grateful 1 ran b»
'I iif ear iny pleuetirn will supply,
AVItIt freedom I’ll he blessed.
And live i «mt«ut from day to day
To the d* light of me.
Hut. oh! But, no! I failed 1< pn>
The money when ‘twa* due.
> i’lnyv wouldn't take my flivver hark
They took my eor.y horne;
And to >e thinkers I cun say:
lie careful lest ye run
Mistake.-, and tiud yourselves (AliwhJ
NMlli naut:ht-*tu do hut tumu.
I
“From State and
-Nation”
Editorials from other
newspapers.
Tlie Two Bryan*—\ Contrast.
From I ho Portland Oregonian.
Some light is thrown on the career
of TV. J. Bryan by liie contrast which
it presents to that of his brother
Charles. One would suppose from
the distinction won by TV. J. that he
would he instrumental in advancing
I lie fortunes of Charles TV., but not
so; Charles W. was the steady old
workhorse with whose aid W. J.
realized on his facility with tongue and
pen. In doing so, "Brother Charlie"
acquired such knowledge of the po
litical game and such standing among
politicians that he has been elected to
two offices while TV. J. has been
elected to none since he was sent to
congress away back before his fre>
silver campaign. William vainly
reached after the presidency, but
Charles used his 20 years of practical
experience to get elected mayor of
Lincoln and then to win the gov
ernorship of Nebraska, lie did not
aim so high as Wlllhrtn, but he got
there.
When William was nominated for
president in 1896, Charles was run
ning a cigar store in Omaha, After
tiie campaign William found a pile
of 186,000 unanswered telegrams and
letters. He determined to answer
all of them and sent for "Charlie" to
do the job with the aid of many
stenographers. It took a year and a
half, and ho answered all of them.
Then William started Hie Commoner,
hut Charlie managed it. the peerless
leader's part being to write signed edi
lorials. That is where Charlie learned
tlie political game so well that *he be
came ills famous brothers adviser
and won office for himself.
How much of the fame won by
William was the result of the steady,
unheralded work of Charles? But for
that work in keeping him to the front
might not William, after his sudden,
meteoric rise to fame, have sunk into
Hie comparative obscurity that usual
ly envelops defeated candidates? Con
ceding that William's political distinc
tion made opportunity for Charles to
shine with less luminosity, did not
Charles in the main do more to make
William than William did to make
Charles, in view of what Charles tin
doubtedly did to make himself?
Though there may be more satisfac
tion in having run for president and
failed than in never having run at
all, is there not more real satisfaction
in having run for governor and won?
No Crowds in the Big Stores.
From the Wyoming State Tribune.
During tho pressmen's strike in
New York City, when none of the big
dailies issued a regular edition, but
all, combined, published a small paper,
to all practical purposes a bulletin,
the large retail stores have been
empty. They looked more like wart
houses or Jobbers' display headquar
ters than mammoth merchandising
establishments.
Executive s of tho largo department
stores attributed the appalling lull In
trade to inability to advertise. They
could do no more than distribute
placards, like the Impressive adver
tisements in the daily press, hut these
notices to tho public did not seem,
somehow, to reach the public. Cus
tomers stay at home, waiting for the
newspapers with the usual sales an
nouncements.
Whatever the people read in the
advertising coin mu of the dally nt vvs
papers is backed tip by that news
paper's own ethical standards. The
advertisement is as effective as the
popularity and influence of the press.
Though the advertisement published
by a merchant may bo exceptionally
attractive and offer special bargains
it does not appeal to the public with
tho same force as the same adver
tisement In the newspaper.
It is often said that the progres
sive stores believe in advertising, and
they thrive because they are liberal
and trustworthy advertisers. Another
fact is generally overlooked. It is
that the public believe# In advertis
ing, as the public has learned that
it cm depend on display announce
ments in the daily' press. *
Would it be po.“sib!e>to obtain a
more emphatic demonstration of the
value of advertising, both to tiler
chants and the public, than the dc
sorted stores in New York City? Ad
vertising means volume trade, nnd
volume trade means low prices, with
immense profits derived from mul
tiplication of small profits on Indi
vidual transactions.
Tlic Great l<red* Fortune.
From the Shu Francisco Chronicle.
The Princes* Anastasia, late wife
of Prince Christopher, youngrr broth
er of the king of Greece, who has Just
died In London, was celebrated as the
one American woman who succeeded
In breaking Into the sacred circle of
Mumpean royalty. It was no great I
shakes of it royal house, but It was
royal. She was a combination of
great beauty and 40,000.000 real dol
lars.
From the various hiournphlral
sketches of the late princess, wo gath
er that she began life as the dough
ter of a hanker in an Ohio town, mar
ried a Cleveland gentleman, whom
she divorced, and three days later
married William B. Leads, who hnd
also divorced Ills wife In order to
make the wedding legal. At the same
lime the late princess Is said to have
been an unusually beautiful and com
petent stenographer. When Mr. Leeds
■ lied, It Is stated that she Inherited In
trust his entire $40,000,000, of which
she marie excellent use. a provision
of tho trust being that in event of
her dentil, three fourths of the estate
should pass to the son.
Having broken Into royalty, (t Is not
surprising that her son followed suit
by rnarrvlng a Russian princess, nleoo
of tho king of Greece, in which coun
try she was happily residing out of
the renrli of tho soviet authorities.
It Is staled—whether correctly we
Daily Prayer
Unto Th*e lift I up mins a>«**. O Thou
iti;it riwfllrst In th" p’-hnld. m<»
iti” of •'•rvnnfn i»nk unto »»•.. huil
'■f tlu lr mHMlMru, and .t« th-» « of .*
nmht»*n unto t hn hand of l»,*r mint r*an.
• r. ..ur avru waif upon fh»» Lord our On<l,
until fh »t 11m ha\o tnerey upon u- - P».
121 I 2
Our Heavenly rather. in the light
nf another day wo rise to do Thy
will. We hlcM.s Tine for the cunfort
nnd rest of the night, and for the
promise of at length for the new dev.
May ee find Joy in our toll, nnd
much quiet In the rlnmor and strife
nf the street. May the still, small
Voice guide us In the way nf all good,
nnd may Thine own spirit throughout
this rlnv keep our eyes from tears,
our feet from falling and our soul*
from death.
Hies* all our kind, and those every
where that hold <l« u and do for
them, we heseerh Thee, beyond whit
we know how to nak Forgive every
wrong thing in our lfv«* for which
W« repent Keep us this day near to
The* in nil our thoughts and words
and decdn. f>et Thy J«•> live In our
hearts, and Thy peaep uhitle in our
homes, and all these tilings we a*»k In
lesus* name. Amen
WILLIAM tfl MM run KIMSIIT, u t'
LUicfigu. 114
The Omaha Hee welcomes let
ters from readers recording In
timate observations of animals or
plants. \ bird perhaps ont has
seen while waiting for a Street
ear. or a voluntary flower or some
creature one has come upon In
the woods away from the noise of
the rity—these are—and always
have been—of interest to ethers.
QUESTIONS FOR NATURE
LOVERS.
Other readers scattered widely
through Nebraska and Iowa have
been contributing liberally to this col
umn, but in their stories of nature
they seem to leave much untold. I
have read’these all with interest, but
realize that much lias not yet been
told.
When does a goldlish sleep?
Is there really such a reptile as a
hoopsnake? >
Old any one ever have a parrot that
was so intelligent that it really knew
what it wts saying?
Is it cruel to use worms for llshing?
Has any one ever really idenlilied a
bird that returned the following
spring?
Are animals used on the stage
trained by cruelty or by humane
methods?
is it impossible to teach cats tricks
like Is done with horses and dogs, be
cause they ar<- smarter or because
they are less intelligent?
How many worms can be made of
one l,y cutting the original into sec
tions? Which is the front end of a
worm? RALPH A. KAllN. Omaha.
(lo not know—that of the $40,000,000
her late husband. Prince t hristopher,
will get $10,000,000, which will be
quito a comedown, to he sure, but
upon which he should be able to live
in fair comfort. The remaining $30,
"00,000 is to go to the son whose wife
is the Russo-Greek princess, so that
the Greek royal family is in a way to
be supported.
The young Mr. Leeds, however, is
said to have stated that, as for him,
he is an American and proposes to
move Iks family over here and live.
Postal Savings Banks,
l-’rum he Minneapolis Tribune.
Postal savings banks have now
lie. n conducted by the American Pcst
oflire department for 13 years. The
high water mark of deposits was
reached In January, 1921, with $163,
656,350. The total at the lieginning
of August this year was $131,659,300.
It will thus be seen that these gov
eminent institutions are not formid
able competitors of private banks as
custodians of the peoples savings.
More than one single bank In the
country has greater deposits than all
the. postal banks put together.
There is no clamor for abolishment
of the government system. It Is gen
erally accepted as a fixture that has a
proper place in the financial scheme
of the land. There are about a half
million depositors, ranging in age
from 10 years up. The law provides
that individual deposits may run as
I high as $2,500. the limit having been
raised from $1,000. As a matter of
fact the law limits deposits to those
of the Individual type, firms and cor
porations not being welcomed as
patrons.
tine iif ttie very' good reasons for
establishing postal savings banks was
to encourage liabits of thrift. An
other reason was to humor the timid
ity of persons, mostly men and wo
men of foreign birth, who kept their
savings in hiding places rather than
entrust them to banks under private
control. Still another reason, corollary
to this, was to bring accumulations
of money from hiding places and
make It an active part of the circulat
ing medium.
Corn Find* Home in North Dakota.
From the Fargo tN. 1>.) Pally Tribune. J
t.'orn is not king in North Dakota,
but the strides that the crop Is mak
ing in the state is an indication of the
advance of mixed farming. As more
productive and hardier varieties are
lieing developed which arc better
adapted to the state than the corn
bill varieties, skeptics are being won
over to the side of the American
corn.
Corn exhibits will he n feature of
the displays at the Red River Valley
show at Casselton Saturday. Shows
at Mandan, Rnderlln and other com
munities in the state have empha
sized the progress which the crop
Is making In the state. Twenty
years ago corn was just being Intro
duced Into North Dakota. By 192(1
the acreage has Increased to 569.0O0.
A veer 1 it* r 6^000 acres more ware
added. In 1922 the acreage was 6SA.
coo, and this year estimates place the
ilgure at 761,000, The million-acre
mark will bo reached within a few
yea rs.
Fur years thi question of whether
corn could be grown was the extent
of discussions on the crop, but now
that North Dakota farmers are grow
ing corn, emphasis is laid on select
ing ind saving seed from the varie
ties host adapted to the state. Trials
at the slato experiment station show
that varieties grown in the state
d fter widely In productiveness and
in onrlini SB of maturity. That care
ful selections and experiments are
Improving North Dakota varieties
each year is evident from tho result
of tlie records of the trials.
(irowers who- are using good seed
from liarriv varieties are no longer
skeptics about corn rulture In this
state. The crop is finding a per
manent plnco on more farms every
year. Then, too, corn growing calls
for live stork, live stock means diver
-ifli-l farming, and diversified farm
in ; will i ■ suit In more prosperity for
North Dakota.
Corn Isn’t king over North Dakota
farming, hut the crop lM running a
good race for i premiership.
V1409
Harney St.
“A Good Place to Buy
Lighting Fixture*”
“THE PEOPLE’S VOICE”
tOlterlal Horn rtlOlri ol tho Mamin* Boo. fleodlrt ol tho M*c*U« Boo
ire Invited to on thli column Iced* for tiorooiloo
on mature ot Mbllc inureit.
1. P. Pensioner's Appreciation.
Mount Kisco, N. Y.—To the Editor
of The Omaha Bee: Eatt Saturday I
was very much pleased at receiving
copies of your Issue of September 16.
In your editorial you say: "Breathes
there a man with soul so dead that
takes no notice of the life around
him.’,'
These words meant much to me,
ns I aril some 1.000 miles away from
Omaha, having left, there last August.
I am staying here In a village about
10 miles north of New York City, get
ting ready to sail to Scotland next
month. So It Is not to be wondered
at that when your papers came I
read them with much pleasure. In
your column, ‘‘People You Know,
Their Comings and Goings," you
made mention of Mr. and Mrs. I.eish
man, who were visiting John E. Ken
nedy, she being his sister. When I
left Omaha last August ! called at
the bank to bid Mr. Kennedy goodby.
He then said that hi? si?ter was in
this country and she came from Pais
ley, and that she was expected to be
in Omaha in a few days.
Many of the older people had shawls
which came from Paisley. Many of
my old friends used to tease me at>out
my coming from that place. I often
told them to keep their eyes on Pais
ley, but some one has said that when
he was asked that if he come from
Paisley he said: "Yes. but as sure as
death I could not help it."
Having been born in Paisley in the
year 1845. I came from there to Oma
ha in 1881 and started as a machinist
with the Union Pacific railroad May
16. the same year; the older people
well know what gresit changes have
taken place since then. I was re
tired at the age of 70 In 1015. I was
then pensioned off. Since then I have
been w^ll treated by the, company,
giving me an annual pass over the
system and other roads as well.
So the account you gave of the
"mammoth chow line" they gave at
Elmwood park was just in keeping
with their many acts of kindness
which they have shown towards their
employes, and they did not forget
their retired employes but gave them
a ride in automobiles. How I should
have liked to have been there, as I
fancy how the old-timers looked so
happy, as there are many of us get
ting very frail.
On my leaving Omaha I could not
‘help paying a visit to the shops and
meeting some of my old shop mates.
The superintendent. J. G. Hats,
caught sight of me and waved me to
his private office and we had a very
pleasant talk. I was saying that some
of us old timers were thinking that
we had been born 10 years too early,
as it is within the last 10 years that
such changes have taken place for
the benefit of those employes, but the
old people have to meet the same
high cost of living. The Union Pa
cific has always been in the lead for
the workingman's good.
JOHN FRENCH.
John Obscure.
To the Editor of The Omaha lire:
Old John Obscure, who has existed
out on our street somehow for 40-odd
years with scarcely anyone knowing
it, proves, on accidentally being found
out, to be a prodigy in egotism and
self abasement. Quoth he, in sub
stance:
"Yes, I seem to be possessed with
a dual mental and physical personal
ity. I got my education in the bound
less fields of experience. I do not
think 1 have any antecedent*, nor
that I was born. Just happened. I
acquired the Itabit of voting the
democratic ticket, voting fur Itrvan.
Yes, one day I am on the mountain
top of mental and spiritual rxhuber
ante and of superphysical power. The
next, I am in the depths—among the
creatures which have their beings
on their stomachs. Yesterday should
I have died there would have been
great hallelujahs In heaven and Incense
would have been burned for me. The
world would have been bereft of
great leadership. Today, should 1
die, my neighbors would find It out
i week later when they would break
d< wn my door, and I have lived such
negative spiritual and moral life.
I could probably pass into either
heaven or hades w ithout Iving noticed.
"Yesterday upon hearing of some
great singer drawing applause, l>ou
qin ts and foriun< . I could have made
hint appear lik* a street singer with
a I old. with my matchleaa voice. To
day should I attempt to sing my
neighbors would tiombard my hut with
tin cans and real estate values would
dump In my vicinity. Yesterday, on
remembering how once I saw Gotoh
wrestle. I could have thrown him
over my head and sat on him. Today
I can remember how In the pigs feet
pickling factory where I work I have
fallen down and rolled over more than
any other two lubbers In the works.
"Yesterday, through my command
ing personality, I could have lured the
most beautiful woman in the land Into
wedlock with me. Today I cannot
remember (he time when the plainest
of women would not have turned her
bark on me with a weary sigh. Yes
terday on reading how Babe Ruth
could make a home run only about
one time in 10 at bat, had driven the
people wild, as though he had done
great constructive work for the na
(fun as Napoleon did for the French
people when he performed some great
destructive work against other na
tions, I knew I could have koncked
out a home run every other time at
bat anyhow.
"Today I remember always out in
the Franklin street grounds the fel
lows made me a regular substitute on
the team and the only game I was
even chosen first hand to play I broke
my pants trying to make a hit and
had to hurry from the game before
it was half played. On reading of
some great orator swaying the hun
dreds with si speaking, I knew
yesterday, that I could make the
millions frantic with my eloquence,
and yet the only time I ever at
tempted to speak In public was to
fitter a prayer, and to save my life
I could say nothing but ‘Amen, amen.'
followed by the snickers of a lot of
unregenerated youngsters.
"But in one thing T have never
reached quite to the top nor to the
bottom, namely: In my firm belief,
faith and hope in an all-wise, faith
ful. omnipotent God. and In the ef
ficacy of the blood of his son to
redeem men. And I have had more
happiness down through life near the
depths than near the top, for near
the bottom I have found at least
the virtue of humility while at the top
T found intoxication engendered by
high altitudes, followed by disillusion
ment.’' GEORGE B. CHILD.
New Sign Suggested.
We ran remember when there were
signs in street cars which read "Don’t
talk to the motorman." Now there
Abe Martin
Some folks nay that hard luck
jest pursues when it really stum
bles over ’em. We reckon th’ post
card w-riters that have been sleepin’
under blankets all summer are pack
in’ ther suit cases and fillin’ ther
fountain pens fcr th’ Florida straw
berry season.
(Copyright. 1 f 23 >
should be signs in automobiles to
read. “Don't hug the chauffeur.''—
Gothenburg Independent.
j NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for Augutt, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .72,114
Sunday .75,138
Doea not Include returns, left
overs, samples or paper* spoiled it
printing and includes nr specia
sales.
B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr.
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr.
Subscribed and ■ worn to before me
tbia 4th day el September, 1923.
W. H. QUIVEY,
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