The Morning Bee
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SOCIALIST SPARKS THREATEN MACDONALD.
Ramsay Macdonald, having kissed the king’s
hand and exchanged seals with Baldwin, is fairly
launched on his job as prime minister of England.
For the next four or five weeks he will have com
paratively simple matters to deal with, assuming
that the labor ministers will as adroitly occupy the
front bench as their predecessors have done. This
may be expected. They are experienced parlia
mentarians, and should be able to fend off the at
tacks that surely will be made by the tories.
The ides of March, though, mean something to
Macdonald just as they did for Caesar. Then will
come the end of the fiscal year. The budget will
have to be brought forth. What that will disclose
must profoundly affect the future of the Macdonald
government. Another very significant portent is
noted in the list of cabinet officers named by the
premier.
Sidney Webb, one of England’s most ardent so
cialists, is giyen the place of secretary of the Board
of Trade, me importance of this can not be over
looked. As such Webb will have the oversight of all
the industry of the United Kingdom, domestic and
foreign alike. His personal attitude is exhibited in
a recently printed book, written by Webb and his
wife, Beatrice, "The Decay of Capitalist Civiliza
tion.” In this the theories of socialism are cham
pioned with much ardor. Thin may well cause trepi
dation among those who hold to the system that has
made Britain great.
It is possible, even probable, that Webb will fur
nish the explosive and light the fuse to blow the
Macdonald bark out of water. It is to be expected
that Macdonald, Clynes and Thomas, who are the big
men in the cabinet, will do their utmost to redeem
the pledges of moderation they have made. Here
is a fine chance for dissension inside the government
that faces enough trouble on the outside. Webb
has long argued with others of his class for the cap
ital levy. He demands the nationalization of trans
portation, and the means of production in general.
He is committed even more than his chief to the en
tire Marxian program.
How will he react to the opportunity to try the
experiments he has advocated with such fervent
zeal? Can he content himself with the restraint ad
vised by Macdonald and others? Can he be satisfied
with a piecemeal application of the doctrine he has
preached? When the socialist group of England
learns that the men in power are postponing the
promised millenium, what will follow? These are
some of the things behind the looking glass through
which Ramsay Macdonald has just stepped.
PANAMA CANAL PAYS lit WAY.
Five hundred and six commercial vessels passed
through the Panama canal during the month of De
cember, 1923. This gives an average of 16.32 per
lay, and marks the high record of use of the canal
i o far. Tolls for the month aggregate $2,335,791.31,
ind the tolls for the calendar year come to the
•espectable sum of $22,966,838.18, a monthly aver
age through the year of $1,913,903.18. More than
5,000 commercial ships used the canal during 1923.
It was this the president had in mind when he
said that money spent in providing waterways was
not an expesse but an investment. In 1914 the canal
tolls amounted to $1,508,737.36. At the end of 10
years the aggregate has mounted 14 times. Good
judges insist that the capacity of the canal will soon
be reached, and that it will produce surplus which
ii to be set aside to defray the cost of building the
second canal that will be needed to care for the
traffic. Commerce is going around the world faster
than ever because of this great facility afforded by
the American people.
What does this mean? It ought to stimulate the
effort to make the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Ohio,
and the other great rivers of the central empire of
the United States commerce carriers. Not a stream
in Europe of the size of the Missouri is idle, and
many much smaller work for the people. While the
war was in progress the French government carried
on and completed a huge tunnel northward from
Marseilles to connect the port with the inland water
system. In the United States, what happened? Work
of improving the rivers was suspended.
Now it is being urged again, not as a rival but to
supplement the railroads. Americans arc beginning
•to understand what they have so long neglected.
The revenue that is coming in from the canal will
tome day be matched by that derived from the great
rivers. It is truly an investment to improve the
waterways of the country.
WE JOIN IN PROTEST.
Once more are we impelled to line up alongside
the esteemed Milwaukee Journal to make a de
termined fight, yea, a last stand if necessary, in de
fense of what seems to us now to be the last stand
of masculinity. The business women of New Orleans
have made demand that they have free access to the
barber shops, there to take their turn with mere
men hi receiving the tonsorial attention of the skilled
attendants. The Journal voices its protest, and to
that protest we add our own, conscious of our own
rectitude and convinced of the purity of our own
purpose.
We Insist, with what feeble might is left us, that
this one refuge, this one sanctuary, of mere men bo
left to us; that there shall he forever maintained for
us one spot where we may foregather at least once
a week, there to submit to hirsute abbreviation and
feel free to talk of the good old times before eman
cipation for one portion of society merely meant ad
ditional shackles upon the other portion.
May we mere men not have left to us even this
little bit of privacy? Is there no place to be left
to ua where we can submit to facial massage, to
unguents, to the application of healing facial lo
tions, without prying feminine eyes to see and carp
ing feminine criticism to sizzle and sear? Shall
there not be retained for us one place where we may
doff our coats, divest ourselves of collars, and loll
about in luxurious ease while awaiting the ministra
tions of the craft so long devoted to our pulchritudin
ous uplift?
Though meek and long suffering under the
tremendous revolution that so quickly deprived, us
of long cherished prerogatives, we raise our voice
in protest, and rallying to the standard uplifted by
the esteemed Milwaukee Journal, we declare our in
tention to fight till the last chair, if necessary, in
defense of our barber shops, our sartorial ease and
our sacred facial caressment.
We have been pushed too far. Our back is
against the wall. • Our long suffering resentment is
aroused at last. We have buckled on our sword and
encased ourselves in armor, and neither shall be laid
aside until victory shall have been won, until it shall
have been decreed that amidst all this crash of mat
ter and wreck of worlds there is to be left to us, once
lords of creation, one sacred spot where we may
mingle with our kind and secure from interference.
We call others threatened with oppression to fol
low the guidon, to keep their eyes riveted upon the
oriflamme so proudly raised by the Milwaukee
Journal, and to which to have pledged our life, our
fortune and our masculine honor.
BOK BAITERS CATCH A TARTAR.
Edward Bok, Hollander by bi^th, American by
adoption, and advocate of peace because he believes
in it, showed the senatorial inquisitors that he knows
a church when he see it. Messrs. Moses and Reed
discovered that Mr. Bok’s long residence among the
Quakers has not dulled his wit, nor entirely obliter
ated his joy in a nice bit of a dispute. In fact, the
senators who have for years made a Roman holiday
of all proposals for general peace, no matter by
whom brought forward, discovered in Mr. Bok a
foeman worthy of their very best steel, and, resting
on points scored, the credit for the first round must
go to the former editor.
Deferentially replying to one of Senator Moses’
carefully framed inquiries, Mr. Bok advised him of
something that is apparent to all, and should have
been known to the senator. That is, that the money
so far expended in pushing the Bok peace prize un
dertaking is or was Mr. Bok’s own money, and it is
no business of the senator from New Hampshire how
or in what manner a private citizen of the United
States spends his own money, so long as no law is
broken nor the public peace put in danger.
This ought to get home to everyone. Whether
Mr. Bok is right or wrong, it gets us nowhere to
ridicule him for his endeavor to get the public to
support a vision he thinks means good for the world.
Differ with him, meet his arguments with arguments
as sound, but do not try to discredit him because he
is footing the bills for what he frankly admits is
propaganda. Nor should his efforts be condemned
because they include propaganda. The opposition
uses it, not so adroitly, maybe, but as persistently.
What is of real interest here, is that Bok’s
propaganda appears to be getting over, and Moses,
Reed, and others are having a hard time to stem the
tide. That is the milk in the cocoanut.
DESTROYED IN A BREATH.
‘•Behold how great a matter a little fire kind
leth,” said the great proverbialist many thousands
of years ago. And it is as true today as when ut
tered.
A Grand Island school teacher inadvertantly made
a remark that her pupils construed as a warning
that a local bank was in financial straits, and within
36 hours the rumor had grown and spread until a
run was started and the bank, oldest in the city, was
forced to close its doors. It was the old story of
the three black crows told over again, with one of
its many variations.
One little breath of scandal has withered and de
stroyed many a well built reputation. One deroga
tory remark has ruined many a character. A btg
financial institution that has served its community
for almost a half-century, that had survived drouth
and panic, that had safely handled millions entrusted
to its care, that has seen two generations of business
men come and go as it dealt with them—all made as
naught in a single day by the unguarded utterance
of a school teacher.
An unruly tongue can scatter more destruction
and woe than an army with banners.
Austria went to work after the war, earned and
secured the confidence of capital, and is now getting
along in good shape. Austria’s example is good
enough for a few other European nations to emulate.
It is darned decent in Ol’ Bill McAdoo not to
come and take Governor Bryan's state away from
him, but at that politics out here is mighty uncertain
at times.
Frank P. Corrick has signed up to manage the
Coolidge campaign in Nebraska, but the battle will
not be on until Frank Harrison sounds the tocsin.
Taxes in the United States last year amounted
to 568.37 per capita, and don’t fool yourself with
the thought that you did not pay your share.
Another amalgamation of oil concerns has been
effected, but the Standard goes right along without
a wabble.
I _
Now that the wets know where the president
stands, it continues to be their move.
An Old Subscriber wants to know when the Janu
ary thaw is coming. So do we.
V
It appears that Mr. Bryan's ‘‘man of the hour”
is not even a good split second.
What this country needs most of all is sn old
fashioned chinook wind.
There seems to be good grounds for investigat
ing that Teapot affair.
Evidently the Roosevelt tribe has not gone to
seed.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’s Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
HOME.
Home In ths place to which we go to flee the welt of cate.
And oft we do not get the most of blessed virtues there.
Nor see reflection's precious gems of Joy which bear
not cost.
Nor love the saintly quietude until (lie home is Inst.
Too often Is the home n place to fling our coals and
stay.
While thoughts are wholly centered on the deeila of
dawning day,
Ami home's diviner attnoaphsre is breathed uncon
sciously.
: While eyes that should view beauty there soma far
Illusion sec.
Home la the sunny vale of life, tin measured as to worth;
Home In the shrine of love and truth—the I’madiss of
earth!
Home In ths hearth of cosmic things the llfewstm
heart of good;
Home In the guiding band of (tod to Heath from Babv
| hood.
! “ The People’s
Voice”
Editorials from readers of The Morning
Bee. Readers of The Morning Bee are
.'nviteo to use this column freely for
expression on matters of public
interest.
An Oinahan's Estimate.
Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma
ha Bee: Progressive-minded people
the world over today mourn the pass
ing of the greatest statesman and
leader of men in ail history—Nikolai
Lenin.
Never has an outstanding figure
been so denounced and villifed, yet
never hus a man been so loved and
cherished by the common people as
Lenin.
Placed as though by destiny at the
head of a war-torn nationa where
over 150,000.000 of people were the
prey of starvation, anarchy, and
death, Lenin has left behind him a
nation restored to order—a nation
where the people see their conditions
of life growing* better with every
passing day.
Far more responsible for Lenin's
death than the assassin's bullets
(Dora Kaplan’s and other attempts)
were the grave burdens of the posi
tion Into which he was thrust—the
burden of war on 17 battle fronts, the
burden of ruined railways, the bur
den of ruined factories, the burden of
a tired army, the burden of 12,000,000
casualties, the burden of the war
widows and orphans, the burden of
famine—burdens such as czars and
kaisers exact of ruined nations.
Lenin. stood out as the one sane
men in a war-crazed world and de
manded pence. He brought peace to
Russia. He drove out misery and
strife. He gathered together the
twisted rails and built railroads.
Where famine laid waste the land he
planted wheat. Idle smokestacks
were returned to their task. A great
nation was restored to unity.
But he paid the price.
Omaha Branch, Workers Party.
TOM MATTHEWS.
Secretary.
Peril of Revising the Bible.
Omaha.—To the Bdltor of The
Omaha Bee: In connection with the
modernist - fundamentalist discussion
permit me to point out that the origi
nal text of the Bible was written cen
turies ago and some of the words
very likely had a much different mean
ing then than some of our modern
interpreters are trying to fasten upon
them.
Consider, for example, our modern
word ‘'villain.'' Originally this word
meant an Inhabitant of a “villa" or
small town. Imagine someone today
trying to interpret early Homan his
tory and telling us thst the early
Homans when using this word did not
know what they were talking about—
that the word meant a thug In those
days the same as It does not. This will
Indicate how ridiculous Is the attempt
of Professor Goodspeed or any other
latter day evangelist to define scrip
tural language and draw a different
meaning from It than was arrived at
centuries ago by the early Christian
tear hers who were practically con
temporaries of Christ and His apostles,
and who certainly knew better what
the original Hebrew, Chaldalc or
Greek words really meant than does
some fellow trying to tell us about it
1.900 years later.
Just about the time the scientists
get all cock sure on some pet theor
ies. some Kinstein comes along to up
set the apple cart for them. I recall
In my school days that the physical
geographies cited the "nebular hypoth
esis" to account for the creation of
the earth, and In looking over my
boy's school hook* I find a new
theory. Science can safely he de
fined as "today's guess," ss It may
change tomorrow. Heal scientists, like
Pasteur, have often l>een fundamental
ists. Do you think a man Is super
stitious because he Is humble enough
to acknowledge the power of God and
refuses to encompass It with restric
tions, because the human mind Is fee
ble and doesn't know all of God's
secrets? F. C. DARROW.
Cheer* Drive for Peace.
Wausa. Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: I am sending herewith
my I (allot on the Bok peace plan. It
Is Indeed amusing to watch the fierce
attacks made by the 'irreconcilables.''
both within and outside of congress,
upon this peace plan. Homebody
must be hurt, or at least badly scared.
"Propaganda to get us Into the
league of Nations," they cry. Why,
the United Htates senate Itself approv
ed of our Joining the league with
reservations exempting us from the
provision of article X. but President
Wilson disapproved it. lie Insisted
we should go Into the league armed
with real guns. Later President Hard
ing called a conference of the nations
to meet in Washington for peaceful
discussions. Much was accomplished
at that conference and It showed what
could be done If nations got together
In peaceful conference. The Bok peace
plan does not provide for the United
States joining the League of Nations
at all, but that they co-operate and
participate In the work of the league
a* a body of mutual counsel under
condition* which subatltute moral
force and public opinion for the mili
tary and economic force originally Im
plied in Article* X and XVI
Again they point out that the
"league was submitted to the Amerl
can people In a referendum vote at
the election of 1920 and was over
whelmingly repudiated." Yes. that
was the league with Articles X and
XVI Included Intact, aa President WII
son Insisted they should be. H id it
lieen submitted In a form that did not
hind the United Htates to participate
with armed force to help settle other
countries’ disputes, but to co operate
with peaceful persuasion and moral
force (aa the peace plan contemplates,
though without us joining the leagued
the result of the vote would, without
question, have been quite different.
And especially would It have been so
If the league question, modified as
proposed by the senate, bad been sub
mitted separately.
The trouble Is that there are too
many who are opposed to any and
every plan that might ho proposed for
promoting world peace, because they
fear It will hurt their pocketbook.
Htrange, though, thnt those who con
demn the plan agreed to he the best
one among more than 22.000, decline
to suggest a better one themselves.
OLD-TIMER.
An Iowan on Rail problems.
Manilla. In.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee Freight rales and traits
portal Ion facilities are the basis of
our commercial life.
Without adequate transportation,
the farmer, merchant, manufacturer
and laborer are unqhle to function.
Freight ratea are next in Ini
I portance. Bates that are too low re
dure lrans|M>rtallon facilities.
Freight rate* thnt arc (no high
sllfla cotnineriial activities and nullify
adequate service.
I lielleve In slate supervision of
Intrastate traffic.
I do not believe the fanner, niei
chant, manufacturer or laboring man
of Iowa should pay Interest on l|n> III
1 veal men t of the stiperrxprnalve
| terminals of (he larger cities- New
York, Chicago, HI Louie, Kenans
< ity.
I cannot conceive n sil mil Ion w here
the purely Intrnatalc Inmtness of
I Iowa should h* taxed for th* pay
l
li here the Tall Corn
- Grows
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil mourn
fully admits that the prospect for one
prominent republican in the state con
testing with Brookhart for the repub
lican nomination for senator is not
improving.
* * •
The Coon Rapids Enterprise says
Governor Rinchot stands no show for
the republican nomination because his
barrel is too big and he is too much
disposed to use it in campaigns in
which he is interested. The Enter
prise seems to entertain some pecu
liar views about political procedure.
• • •
The Cedar Kails Review admits
that the Bok peace plan may be worth
the money, but fails to see where it
will contribute substantially to the
settlement of the problem.
• • •
The Anderson Herald, after a care
ful survey of the local situation, an
nounces that one-half the people are
trying to live up to their future, and
the other half trying to live down
their past.
• • •
The Davenport Tlnr.es, noting that
the administration has furnished Obre
gon with guns, suggests that Senator
Brookhart be loaned to the Mexican
government to teach the Mexicans
how to use the guns.
• • •
The Coon Rapids Enterprise is
afraid that if the antl-Brookhart
aspirants do decide upon one man to
make the race, some other anti-Brook
hart man will Jump in and mess
things ail up.
• • •
The Clinton Herald complains that
a fellow can't commit suicide by
Jumping from a tall building these
days without alighting on an auto top.
• • •
"What a joyful day It will be," ex
claim* the Keokuk Gate City, "when
the American billboard ceases to mar
the scenery and insult the American
sense of beauty!"
. • • •
California's annual shipment of $115,
000,000 worth of prunes isn't a marker
to the millions iowans annually take
to California, is the mournful plaint
of the Ottumwa Courier.
• • •
The Waterloo Tribune insists that
the insurgents in congress ought to In
troduce a resolution of sympathy with
modernists who are trying to wreck
the churches.
• • •
The Davenport Times remarks that
sensible dfys believe that the ISth
tmendinent will succeed only as it
presses home its lesson through the
yea rs.
• • •
After mature deliberation the Eagle
Grove Eagle announces that "the rnan
who drinks bootleg booxe in this
country thinks little of his morals and
less of his stomach."
• • •
"If there is one thing this country
needs," sagely observes the Glidrien
Graphic, "it is stability; ‘rocking the
boat' will get ns nowhere, and is Just
as dangerous now as it was in war
times."
• ■ •
"What's the us* of pretending that
we are a good neighbor of Mexico if
we won’t lend her a gun when shs
needs one?" queries the Davenport
Democrat.
• • •
The Hampton Chronicle arises to
announce that Burton E. Sweet is the
lone man who can defeat Brookhart at
this time.
ment of profit on exorbitant terminal
investments In the large centers of
population.
The farm communities produce—the
metropolis reaps under the present
freight rate structure.
Freight rates should be based on
the service rendered and cost of such
service.
If the large cities must have ex
pensive terminals, let them pay the
freight.
I am seeking the nomination for
state railroad commissioner on the
republican ticket In the primary elec
tion.
I am manager of the Manning traf
fic bureau and Manilla traffic bureau
and thoroughly conversant with the
railroad situation, based on 17 years'
experience.
1 am setting forth my views for the
information of the press, to whom all
seekers of public offices must look to
for support or condemnation.
What Is the minimum charge on
freight shlpmenta between Iowa sta
tions?
The railroads charge 50 cents. The
Iowa classification says 25 cents.
The board of railroad commission
ers have taken no action to compel
the railroads to observe the 25-cpnt
minimum carried In the Iowa class
ification.
The discrepancy has been called to
the attention of the board.
This la one Instance ehowing the
necessity of having a competent traf
fic expert a member of the board of
railroad commissioners.
If the 25-cent minimum were en
forced it would mean a saving of
many thousands of dollars to Iowa
shippers annually.
Put a shipper a man on the board.
W*. L. CARNEY.
Another Against the Bonus.
Phillips. Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha ltee: Questions and Issues
arising every day are being con
sidered doubtfully by those who I*
Neve the same patriotic aplrlt of the
early days still exists.
When the mind Is clouded with these
uncertainties, a genuine reaasurance
can l>e found In an expresalon such ns
that which came from the ex service
man at Nebraska City, through the
“People's Voice" section of The Oma
ha Bee.
It Is very plain that h* la not wmr
rylng al>oiit any future reward follow
ing an excellent service rendered for
the relief of humanity. His unselfish
regard for the ones left tiehlnd while
oil the greatest adventure of Ills life
and the willingness to "do It all over
again." as the song goes, la a wonder
fill relterntlon of true Atnerloanlsu*
Many men of similar experience
would express themselves In this way
were It not for their timidity or mod
esty. Congratulations are due Mr.
Edwards for his outspoken manner.
MEAREE peard.
A Philosopher.
"You don't se.-iri to bother much
about the future, Jones."
".No: that ne\er bothers me until It
Incomes the present."—Boston Tran
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“From State and
Nation”
—Editorials from Other
Newspaper*— v
Kad Koads.
From the Green Castle, Mo.. Journal.
Home people will spend $2 worth of
gasoline on bad roads just to avoid a
dollar's worth of road taxes, says the
Uristow (Okl.) Record.
That paper sure tells the truth and
any person who drives a car over the
kind of roads we now have here In
Missouri will soy it is correct. A
hard-surfaced road would not only
save half the gas, but the saving on
tires also pays nwre than half the
tax, let alone the heavy wear and tear
on the car on the bumpy road. Not
saying a thing either about the pleas
ure of riding on a nice smooth surface
and saving half the time.
Now you say, "I'll come, or have
my sale If it don't rain.'' What would
It be worth to you to be able to go
to town any day or night, regardless
of the weather?
One more Item on autos that have
electric storage batteries—would pay
most of your road tax right now that
the cars can't be run to keep the
battery charged; as a neglected bat
tery net kept up don’t last any time
and a new one In the spring will cost
the car owner from $15 to $20, which
he might not have had to buy If he
could have driven his car more.
There is no arguing any way you
put it, against the hard surface road
not paying Its way many times what
It cost you.
That's 8 to 10 cents an acre when
you can go some place and bring you
closer to town and Increase the value
of your farm. Farms in California
on paved highways sell as high as
$1,200 an acre and none less than $500
an acre.
What's your Missouri farm worth
with no road to market?
A I .sat l/iaf.
From The Salt Lake Tribune.
A dispatch from Cripple Creek the
other morning told of the passing of
Cafe Fyffe, one of the few remaining
sourdoughs. Fyffe as a personality
was not known to us, but to have
known other prospectors who have
tramped from the Klondike to the
Comstock Is sufficient to have a feel
ing of friendship toward the Cripple
Creek veteran. There are not many
of life's kind remaining that the
world knows about, but if one could
poke around tbe thinly populated
mountainous regions bordering the
favorite haunts of the early days there
might still be found a scattered few
human relics of those stirring days.
I,afe spent much of his money to
bring enjoyment to his friends, but
they overstepped his hospitality,
bringing disrepute. How like old-time
sourdough was that act. it was a
willingness to take his own shirt off
and give It to a friend. To have had
a sourdough for a friend was some
thing to be cherished, and violation
of that friendship through unscru
pulous actions generally meant a dead
ly enemy.
In the prospector's life it wasn't so
much getting the geld as In the enjoy
ment he found in finding it. A rich
And generally meant misfortune and
disaster, and history Is full of tales
of discoverers of famous mines who
met tragic deaths. Fyffe is perhaps
one of the few whose sudden riches
did not lead Co premature end. Rut
even he always felt best when he was
out In the hills with Ills gold pan and
burro, doing the work that nature In
tended for him. His comrades before
him likewise squandered their money
in order to be unburdened when spring
melted the snows and opened the
streams for prospecting.
It has been nearly 30 years since
the last epochal discovery was rmde
by the sourdough. When the last was
completed, the prospector and hta
burro disappeared through the veil of
My Sweeta Venice
I'ma come far away from my eweeta
Venice—
Here'sa too mucha noise, too mucha
mob.
I work for the mun—yes, work If
you pleece—
Alla time hoory up, hoory up, or
losea my job.
I go home from worka so tired I
can't see.
My poor heada ache, my feeta get
All night I dream of my dear Italy.
And my sweeta Venice I can'ta for
get.
I row my gondola and slnga my song,
And my Mary she smile prettily;
I geta excit, something goes wrong—
I fall In the wat, but the floor
catcha me.
I jump up vera quick and scratcha
my head.
I think maby somebody they hear.
And think I'n.a rob them and soon 1
be dead.
But I grabs my gun—then I gotta
no fear.
One day I get sick and I feel like I
freece—
I’ma 'fraid that maby I gotta die.
And I talk alia time 'bout my sweeta
Venice
And. like a bambina. I cry and I
cry.
I wanta my moosic. my gondola,
too—
I fanta go back—oh, taka me,
pleece,
To my dear Italy, where skies are so
blue.
For my poor hearta cry for my
sweeta Venice.
—Carolyn Belle Adair*.
excitement they caused. But their
work was Important In building the
nation. Once the rich mineral regions
were located there was little left fug
the prospector. There are still many
unprospected regions, but the pros
pector of yesterday has no parallel
today, and those areas will be ex
plored by science—a thing of which
the veteran knew little and cared less.
Some day the last prospector will
be gone, perhaps Fyffe was the last.
The world will not even pause when
it learns of the passing of that Indi
vidual. It has continued its pace fol
lowing the announcement of the death
of far more ifnportant personages.
But what does the sourdough care for
praise? His lot was the loneliness of
the hills and he felt best there. A
vista of unconquered mountains ahead,
with the prospect of finding the yel
low metal somewhere within was wine
to his being. Those mountains called
for men, and the prospector answed
the call.
May the hills that Eafe and the
thousands of his comrades of the pick
and gold pan loved so well treat them
kindly.
No Cook.
Two inhabitants of a sagebrush
town were seated on a cracker box
exchanging desultory conversation.
"You know them hot cakes what
the feller flips in the window of the
Forlorn Hope restaurant?”
“Yes. I know 'em." **
"Ever try 'em?"
"Yes, I've tried 'em."
"What do you think of 'em?"
The citizen thus appealed to gazed
reflectively toward the foothills for
some minutes Hnd then rendered Judg
ment.
"That feller's not a cook, he's a
juggler.”—Exchange.
Described to • T.
"Can you give me a good descrip
tion of your absconding cashier?”
suavely asked the detective.
"We-ell," answered the hotel pro- j
prietor. "I believe he's about five feet
five Inches tall and about (7.000 !
short.”— Exclta nge.
Abe Martin
Elections circulate -4
demoralize business, but they never
result in lov.-erin’ taxes or settlin’
anything. Th’ jury acquitted Mrs.
Ike Lark t'day, but it wuz too late
as ever'buddy had formed an’ opin
ion.
Copyright, 1124.
The Spice oj Life
Visitor—Can you tell me if B.li
Jones is up in his room?
Freeh—Sorry, there's nobody home
in the top story.
Visitor—Oh, excuse jr)-”. I'll ask
some one else.—Purple parrot.
Hobbs (seeking divorce)—She says
she married me to reform tne
Dobbs—Refoipn you of what?
Hobbs—Don't know exactly; but if
it's the idea that I couldn't live with
out her she's succeeded admirably.—
Boston Transcript.
“Well. Mr. Sockery, how- are things
out your way?” saluted the able edi
tor of the TunrJinville Torch of Lib
erty.
“Tollable ijuiet. yur of late," replied
old man Sockery of Clapboard
Springs. “For some reason or nuther
the fellers are just about out of corn
licker."—Kansas City Star.
“Why is everybody in Crimson
Gulch carrying a gun””
“This here," answered Cactus Joe.
“is Safety First week and the bo>*
had their ow n ideas about the way not
to take unnecessary chances.'—Wash
ington Star.
“Seems to me the turtle is unduly
slow .”
“What kind of speed would you
make in your car If you had to carry
along your garage?"—Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
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