OraaliaVhete the^fcst is at its Best
PRAY FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
Governor Bryan, evading direct contact with
the federal authorities on Defense day, authorizes
state heads of patriotic societies and such other or
ganizations as may care to co-operate, to arrange
and carry out local programs on September 12. He
also directs the adjutant general to assemble units
of the National Guard at tjieir armories, without
expense to the state, “and to have them participate
in such Defense day program as the president of the
United States may direct.” Along with this the
governor proposes:
"I suggest and recommend that patriotic pro
grams be arranged at such hour In the afternoon or
evening as is convenient In the respective communi
ties, and that appropriate ceremonies be held, with
special music and patriotic public addresses, to
bring to the attention of the people the duties of
citizenship in state and nation; to Impress upon
them the importance of patriotic devotion to the
flag, and that prayer? be said for the continued
peace and prosperity of the nation.”
* • •
Thus the governor falls in line with the spirit
and the purpose of Defense day. Any sort of an
assemblage where a patriotic address is made and
prayers are offered for the continued peace and
prosperity of the nation must help some. No truly
patriotic address can be made that does not give
some thought to the sacrifices by w'hich our liberties
were bought. This means that some attention must
be given to how those sacrifices were augmented by
the fact that every time the United States has been
ailed upon to defend itself, it has been found un
:ady.
* * *
From Boston to Valley Forge, the record of
, i.- hington’s army is the story of suffering because
,o colonies had made no preparation for the con
;ii.cb they entered. In 1812, this was repeated. In
1361 great hardship was endured because all had to
r-et ready after the war commenced. Again in 1898,
when “Cuba Libre!” and “Remember the Maine!”
rang loudly through the land, McKinley had to wait,
because we had no powder to fight with. At El
Caney and San Juan Hill, regiments had to be with
drawn because they were armed with obsolete
weapons and were burning black powder that simply
advertised their presence to the Spaniard. Even in
the Philippines, the insurrectos had better guns
than the boys of the First Nebraska, who fought so
valiantly under Stotsenburg. What it cost to pre
pare in 1917 need not be recounted.
■ • ■
Defense clay holds no threat against peare. A
triotic speech that day must be one that holds up
to the people the truth. No more bunk about mil
lions springing to arms over night. Just the exact
truth as near as it can be stated concerning where
we stand, and what we face. And a prayer to God,
as fervent as the heart can utter, “for the continued
peace and prosperity of the nation.”
HONEST DOCTOR TAKES THE STAND.
A very refreshing interlude marks the tense
I.rocecdings of the interesting murder trial at Chi
cago.. A doctor who can qualify as an expert on
the functions of the endocrinal glands frankly an
swered, “I do not know,” to question after question
put td him. He admitted that he had studied these
glands for longer than fifteen years, had made
thousands of experiments, had watched tests, and
read and written many words about them, and yet
he admitted that he could not say exactly what the
entire function of any one of the glands or Its rela
tion to another or the whole might be.
This doctor will be a marked man. Not that he
N is different from a majority of the doctors. Most
of them are quite as frank when they come right
down to brass tacks. A few things they know, but,
face to face with the fundamentals of life as they
are, they admit that all of nature's secrets have not
yet been unlocked. Particularly does this apply to
the ductless glands. The name, “endocrine,” is so
new that it is not found in dictionaries save of the
most recent date. For generations the doctors have
been trying to determine exactly what the liver does,
besides making its possessor mighty sick when it
gets out of order. Then the spleen and the pancrens
have not been fully examined and set down, while
the mystery of the thyroid is almost as dark as it
was in the beginning.
$omc facts have been discovered concerning
each of these. It is known that complete extirpa
tion of the thyroid is apt to be followed by much
of discomfort, and that derangement of the gland
also produces unpleasant effects. The larger glands,
liver, spleen, pancreas, all are assigned certain pro
cesses in connection with the blood and digestion,
when in health. Yet men have lived after the
spleen was removed, and some have done fairly well
without the pancreas. Stomachs have been re
moved, and now and then other seemingly indis
pensable parts of the body have been taken awny,
and life has gone along.
Empirical medicine is making progress. Doctors
are learning every day. We are inclined to give
praise to the doctor who, under oath, admits that
he does not know. Equally, some will be inclined
to question the authority of the other doctor, who
insists with emphasis that he does know, even when
he is dealing with the most secret depths of the
human mind and soul. Here, if ever, is a case where
one can afford to avoid being dogmatic.
X_
BRINGING PEACE NEARER.
Germany accepts the Theunis-Harriot terms for
the evacuation of the Ruhr. These give Belgium
and France a year to get out, provided Germany
fulfills her obligations under the Dawes plan. On
this basis a deadlock that threatened to overthrow
the London conference is terminated. The next
thing is to get the approval of the home folks. This
will not be so easy. A reviewer cabled to America
at the beginning, of the week that neither Marx nor
Herriot dared go home and face opposition, bearing
in his hands not the fruits of victory but peace.
It was apparent that neither could win. One
inevitably must be the loser in the battle of wits.
Over them both hung the fact that Europe can not
go on much longer under existing conditions. Un
less the Dawes plan is put into operation, and a
loan provided for Germany, chaos will engulf that
portion of the land which has so far escaped. It was
the imperative need of the loan, without doubt, that
enabled Marx and his associates to agree to the
terms of the French and Belgian premiers. Ger
many needs the money more than she does the im
mediate evacuation of the Ruhr. With $200,000,
000 in gold for a nucleus, it will be possible to re
store the currency, rebuild industry and give com
merce the start that will bring prosperity to the
Reich. Foreign control of the Ruhr mines and mills
will be removed as fast as the Germans can put them
in operation, and the troops will remain only until
good faith is established.
The outcome Is all that could have been ex
pected. A little more, for it carries an official
American representative on the reparations com
mission. This fact in itself gives support to the
sincerity of all that has been said by the president
and the secretary of state as to the desire to help
out in Europe. It also denies the sneers of the ad
vocates of the League of Nations, who still try to
•comfort themselves by insisting that the administra
tion has abandoned Eur°Pe- In truth, the work of
the administration Is bringing peace nearer.
FATHER JOHN WILLIAMS.
In very truth a prince in Israel has fallen. John
Williams, priest of the Ever-Living God, and father
in the church to communicants faithful and affec
tionate, has gone on to receive his reward. None
who ever knew this truly great man but will feel a
sincere loss in his going, and rejoice because he went
to that certain advancement he so devoutly believed
and so earnestly taught.
Father John Williams was a strong man in every
essential regard. His life was not bound up in the
work *of his parish, or in the priestly duties he as
sumed. A broader, deeper, stronger bond held him
to humanity. Among his fellows he walked, a man
interested in all that went on around him. He had
been a mechanic, a machinist by trade, and he car
ried to the pulpit his sympathy for those who toiled.
Many stories might be told of his contact with the
workingmen of Omaha, how he counselled them in
their troubles, aided them in securing their rights,
and rejoiced with them in their victories, and as
unhesitatingly and severely condemned them when
he felt they were doing wrong. Along with these
stories may be recounted unnumbered instances
wherein he showed how warm a heart beat under his
austere garb.
John Williams was austere in appearance, but no ]
one could be with him long and not feel the glow
that radiated from his Irish heart, that burned so
eagerly with love of God and his fellow man. No
compromise with wrong or evil entered his mind,
but he understood the frailties and weaknesses of
mortals, and his sympathy was ever reaching out
for the sinner. Such a man could not live so many
years in a community and not profoundly affect Its
destiny. John Williams left his mark on Omaha’s
life, deep and enduring, because it was made by a
modest man whose strength lay more in his moral
courage and swift sympathy than in his great, gaunt
frame where once resided a giant’s power.
When, "by reason of strength,’’ his years came
to number four score, be was moved to turn the
burden of the care of an ever-growing parish over
to a younger man. Yet for another decade was he
spared tft those who will now fondly mourn because
Father Williams will no more greet them. Yet they
know that the inspiration of his love and courage
will not be lost in a world he did so much to make
a better place for all.
PASTOR OR PULPITEER?
Rev. Robert V. Meigs is pastor of a church at
Danville, 111. Or such is his designation, although
there may be some doubts about his being a pastor.
He will appear to many as merely a pulpiteer. He
recently denied Roscoe Arbuckle an opportunity to
speak from his pulpit and tell of his own conversion.
The clerical gentleman voiced a doubt about the
obese comedian’s sincerity, remarking that Ar
buckle's reform had "come too late to smack of
sincerity.’’
This newspaper holds no brief for Arbuckle.
Rut when Rev. Robert V. Meigs demands of the
former screen star "written evidence of Christian
life and fruitage,’’ he is going just a bit further
than the Master whom he pretends to serve and
whose teachings he pretends to broadcast. Is Rev.
Mr. Meigs commissioned to ask more of penitent
sinners than the Master asked of the thief on the
cross? Peter preached his first sermon at Jerusalem,
and there was no Rev. Mr. Meigs on hand to Insist
that Peter go back to the place where Christ found
him, and he found Christ, to begin his ministerial
career. But there was a Rev. Mr. Meigs on hand to
sneoringly advise Roscoe Arbuckle to begin his pul
pit career in I.os Angeles, "where the experiences
that brought him to God occurred.’’
The reverend gentleman of Danville may have
been within his rights when he denied the use of
his pulpit to Arbuckle. Hut. when he casts doubts
upon the sincerity of Arbuckle’s penitence and ac
ceptance of the teachings of the Master, he missed
by a long way measuring up to' the proper minis
terial standard. "Relievest thou Me?’’ asked the
Master. An affirmative answer brought no cross
examination, no expression of doubt about sincerity,
no demand for written evidence. Rut Rev. Mr.
Meigs of Danville Is not that "eney.” He demands
to he shown.
As before stated, we hold no hrief for Arbuckle,
but in the epistolary exchange between the comedian
and the pulpiteer it will strike the average man that
it wns the self-righteous pulpiteer who got the worst
of It.
But It Isn’t ths cap that covers the skull; It Is
what the skull covers that counts.
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| sunny side up I
^ake Comfort, nor forqet
9hat sunrise nei/er failed us yet
J_Ceha, 'JKa.tler
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Dearly beloved, let us turn this morning to the Book of
Books, finding our text in Numbers 14:8-9, reading as follows:
"If the Lord delight In us, then He will bring us Into
this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk
and honey.
“Only rebel ye not against the Lord, neither fear ye
the people of the land; for they are bread for us; their de
fence is departed from them and the Lord is with us:
fear them not."
The story of the tvyelve spies sent across Jordan to spy out
the land is the story of humanity everywhere. Of the twelve
sent forth, ten came back in fear and trembling, lily-livered and
spineless, to say that the giants could not be overcome. But
two, Caleb and Joshua, men of indomitable soul and sublime
faith in the Lord, insisted that it could be done—and it was.
It is this lesson of courage and faith that we would im
press upon your minds this morning. We have but to look
about us today and witness the triumph of that courage and
faith. It is to be seen on millions of acres of this great com
monwealth; to be seen in hundreds of thriving cities and towns;
to be seen in churches and schools; to be seen in the comforts
that come as the rewards of courage and faith and toll.
What this country needs, dearly beloved; what the church
of the living God needs, is more of the courage and faith that
Inspired Caleb and Joshua. Country and church need to turn
a deaf ear to the puling plaints of pessimistic souls like unto
the ten cowardly spifes who returned with lamentations and
despairing wails.
Caleb and Joshua had heard the promise of God that they
were to inhabit the land, and stories of giants and walled cities
did not shake their faith In that promise. Why, then, should
we of this day despair? What is needed is more reliance on
the everlasting promises, more faith, more courage; and with
these in sufficient quantity there shall come to us in these
latter days even greater victories.
It was when Israel turned away from God that Israel’s
troubles began, and the farther the turning the greater the
troubles. If trouble has come upon us in these latter days is
it not because we have turned away from God? Dearly be
loved, no nation can Jazz and drink its way to temporal pros
perity and everlasting life. God is not to be mpcked by lip
service on the Lord's Day and forgetfulness on the secular
days of the week.
Neither is God to be pleased by cowardly souls that give
up in despair because He does not do it all. He demands cour
age combined with unfaltering faith. His promises today, as
in the days of Caleb and Joshua, are to those who overcome,
to those who come up through great tribulation. When the
church of the Living God Is recruited from men and women
who are doers, not mere sayers, then will it march forth to
glorious victory. ___ .
Our own Nebraska, land flowing with milk and honey, was
not brought to its present high estate by descendants of the
cowardly ten. It was subdued by men and women inspired by
the courage and faith that inspired courageous Cal-'i and
Joshua. They listened not to old wives’ tales of sons c. Anak
lurking to subdue. They relied on the promises and want fortfi.
armed and equipped with courage and faith, and giants dis
appeared. —
What we who profess to love God and desire to serve Him
need most today is a renewal of courage and faith. Without
them the work will languish; with them the church of the Liv
ing God will go forth to victories greater than any that have
yet come to pass. -
The Church Militant—that is the world's need today. That
our souls may be fired with a new zeal and our hearts Inspired
by a new courage, let us sing:
"Onward, Christian soldier, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ our royal master leads against the foe:
Forward into battle see His armies go."
The fight is on. dearly beloved. Our Great Captain calls I
for men and women of dauntless courage and undying faith to
carry His work triumphant across a sin-cursed world
I, l’.. I
When McLaren’s
Flight Ended
V-J
Fearing that the plane might dash
against the cliff* of Bering Island, a
forced landing was mad*. Both wing
lips were shattered and wrenched off
and the fahrlo torn off the lower port
wing. Major MacLaren said. He con
tinued:
"My first order was for life belts,
which were packed In Lieutenant
Broome's Beat In the forward cock-1
pit. I then examined th* hull, but]
there was no sign of Its taking water.
The fog was so dense that we couldn't
see land My watch stopped at 10:65
i m , the time we hit the water on
Saturday.
"W* saw hundreds of birds flying
In two steady streams. We thought
they were leaving their nests for the
open sea Ashing and would return
to feed their young. This tallied with
my calculation that land should bn
“ast-southeast and fairly close.
"The engln# was then started, and
we attempted to taxi, but It was a!
most Impossible to steer the plane, as
the wing tips burled themselves In
the water, alternately swerving the
plane around. Lieutenant Brooke
and I spent two hours running back
and forth on the lower wings as the
plan seesawed and the weight of the
engine threatened to capslse th* ehlp.
"We had to stop the engine repeat
edly ss the water boiled and sprayed
aver th* plane. Th* machine threat
ened to dive under fha waves when
the tall plunged. The wings then
started to break. During our last
desperate minute aboard the plane
Lieutenant Brooke pointed to the
east, where a patch of fog lifted. We
could dimly see land. We started
the engine with difficulty, as every
one was getting exhausted. W* were
all cold and wet. I’lenderlelth left
the pilot’* seat to help start th* mo
tor. We then saw a sandy beach
ahead, about two miles off.
"Tha engine waa started and we
ran close to the breaker*. The *n
gin* then failed us snd was useless
A sprocket In th* starting magneto
was broken. We then dropped anchor,
hut a high wind Mowing straight on
dragged the plane northwestward.
"Kvery one Jumped Into tho rold
waters and held th* plan* heading
toward th* sea Th* wind and the
heavy sea Anally slackened and we
beached th* plan* Plenderlelth and
myself unloaded the equipment. The
fog began to lift and w* rested In
the afternoon. It was bright, warm
snd dear.
"The Island w* saw for a few min
nt*a In the fng and which we narrow
[y escaped proved to he ‘Beeline
Rock.’ 160 feet high and 77 miles
northwest of Nikolski. Onr course
from West Kamchatka to Bering Is
land Intercepted It. I had allowed
three degrees to Av* for drift along
the route which shows that both navi
gallon and steering wet* faultlees
Lieutenant Broome then recognized
attr position as Buckeye Rock. lie
ledared that he remembered the 1o
atlon during his trip her* last April,
when lie was laving supplv liases for
us between Vancouver. B. C , and the
Kuril# Islands, Japan.
"At length Rungatl Miles a man
who lived on th# leland, ran error*
its. Ha obtained aid and two boats
were manned Th# boats reached the
lilatie. which was pulled on to the
ihore, out of the water.
"The Ruae'un wireless operator on
rtehlng island then got In touch with
the Canadian trawler Thlepval at
F’etropavlovsk The Thlepval anllc.l
mmedlately under forced steam and
irrlvcd SiaMiday morning They took
is aboard, and we sntled for Dutch
Harbor.
"Major Tannga TJa and Lieutenant
"otnmander Tokunngo, .tapaneee of
leer*, and Russian officer* of th*
Thlepval did commendable work In
,
salvaging th* plan*. It was Impossi
ble to arrange through the Japanese
government for passage through
Japan, ao w* decided to go on the
Thlepval to Dutch Harbor and Van
couver, B. C.
"The round the world flight, owing
to th* conditions, must be abandoned
We are sorry, hut It can't be helped
under the circumstances."
Il
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When the House Elects the President
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From the New York Sun.
If no candidate for president re
ceives a majority of the electoral vote
on November 4 next the election will
then be thrown Into congress end an
unfamiliar portion of the constitution
resorted to In an efTort to select a
chief magistrate.
The electors are Instructed by law
to meet In their respective states on
the first Wednesday In December to
cast their votes for president and
vice president. They must, after vot
ing. draw up three distinct certifi
cates showing their votes for presi
dent and vice president. Two of
these certificates must be forwarded
to the president of the United States
senate on or before the second Mon
day In January. If the electoral re
turns have not reached the president
of the senate by the fourth Monday
In January, he Is empowered by law
to send for them.
On February 11 of next year, three
months after the election, the senate
and house of representatives of the
68th (or present) congress will meet
In the hall of the house to take a
count of the electoral vote. The pres
ident of the renate will preside over
the Joint session and will provide four
tellers to open and read the certifi
cates submitted by the electors of the
various states. He will then announce
the total. If no Candidate has re
ceived a majority of all the electoral
votes the joint session will Immedi
ately stand adjourned and the house
will go Into separate session for the
purpose of electing a president.
President Coolidge, John W. Davis
and Senator Da Follette all may be
considered by the house In its ballot
ing. The constitution provides, in
cage no candidate receives a major
ity of the electoral votes, that the
house shall proceed to elect a presi
dent from among the persons having
the highest number of votes, hut lim
its the number to be balloted on by
the house to three.
Balloting for president proceeds Im
mediately. The members of the
house are seated by state delegations,
as the vote Is by states. Each state,
whether It Is New Tork, with 43 rep
resentatives, or Nevada, with one,
casts one vote. How that one vote
shall be cast Is determined by a ma
jority vote of the delegation. If the
delegation Is evenly divided between
two candidates then the vote of the
state Is lost and the vote is recorded
as “divided.” A number of members
from two-thirds of the states must be
present to make a quorum, and a
majority of all the states In the union
Is necessary to a choice. Coolidge or
Davis, to win, would require the votes
of 25 state delegations.
The balloting In the house must
continue, once It Is begun, without
interruption by other business, from
February 11 until March 4. In the
meantime the senate will be selecting
a vice president. Here the procedure
is slightly different. The senate Is
allowed by the constitution to vote
for the two highest candidates for
vice president only. Two-thirds of
the whole numer of senators consti
tute a quorum for this purpose, and a
majority of the whole numer of sen
ators, or 43, Is necessary to a choice.
If by March 4 the house has failed
to elect a president and the senate
has succeeded In electing a vice pres
tdent, then the vice president Is em
powered to act as president. If, how
ever, both the house and senate have
deadlocked and failed to make a
choice, as many political prophets
predict would be the case If the next
election were thrown Into the house,
the “If' machinery of the constitu
tion has been exhausted. There Is no
next step, constitutionally, and the
only precedent for action Is the elec
tlon of 1S76, when congress, finding
no rellet In the constitution for an
unprecedented situation, created an
electoral commission. In the event
of failure by both house and senate
to make a choice It Is more likely,
however, that the election would be
thrown into the court*.
Alexander Hamilton, who was no
particular advocate or defender of
the constitution, said of the articles
dealing with the election of a presi
dent: "The mode of the appointment
of the chief magistrate of the United
States is almost the only part of the
system of any consequence which has
escaped without some censure or
which has received the slightest mark
of approbation from its opponents."
Since that remark was made two
presidents have been chosen by the
house of representatives, one vice
president has been chosen by the sen
ate, the machinery of election Itself
has been changed, and the outcome
of one election has been determined
by an extra-constitutional body.
There was little support in the con
stitutional convention of 1787 for the
popular election of presidents. Dis
cussion of the executive branch of
the government d'ent on Intermittent
ly from May to September, 1787, with
the final result of the incorporation
of article II, section 1, dealing with
the executive. It declared that the
executive power should be vested in
a president of the United States, to
serve for four years. It provided that
each state should appoint "in such
mfenner as the legislature thereof may
direct” a number of elector* equal to
the whole numer of senators and rep
resentatives to which the state was
entitled in congress. These electors
were authorized to meet In their re
spective states and vote for two per
sons and to return a list of their
votes to the president of the senate.
This official was to open and report
the vote. The person having the
greatest number of votes should be
president, provided he had a major
ity of the electoral votes, and the
person having the next highest num
ber should be vice president. If no
person had a majority of the electoral
votes the house elected a president
from the five highest on the list, and
the person standing second on the
balloting was elected vice president.
Under this system the first four
elections were held. It met its first
real test in the election of 1800. The
fathers had not anticipated that any
two candidates would ever receive an
equal number of votes, but in the
election of 1S00 Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral
votes, and the election was thrown
into the house Balloting began on
February 11, 1801. On 35 ballots
taken between then and February 17
Jefferson received the votes of fight
atates, Burr those of six states, and
two states were recorded as divided.
There was accordingly no choice. On
the 3Sth ballot Jefferson received the
votes of 10 states and was declared
elected president. Burr was declared
elected vice president.
The result of the 1*00 election led
to the adoption of the 12th amend
ment in 18"4. This provided that the
electors should vote separately for
president and vice president. And it
further provided that if candidates!
for the two offices failed to receive a
majority of the electoral votes the
house should elect a president and
the senate a vice president.
In 1S24 the election was again
thrown Into the house. The federal
ist party had disappeared, and there
was no rival to the democratic party
Four candidate* for president, all
professing the same political views,
were placed in nomination, on# of
them by congressional caucus, and
three by state legislatures. They
were Andrew Jackson. John Quincy
Adams, William H. Crawford and
Henry Clay. Jackson received the
largest popular and electoral vote,
mt failed by a wide margin of a ma
“God of Hope”
y
(Roman* 16:13.)
Sweet message, Hope—I send yoi$
Upon His mission forth
As He sent lowly fishermen
East, West and South and North!
"God of Hope.” O govern
My wee word's faring forth!
"Hope!" Blessed name, dear Fathe^
Hope! Min# of gold for me!
Hope beckons on to future joy,
Hope brightens hours that be,
“God of Hope" sent Jesus
To die on Calvary.
Hope, soul in satan’s bondage,
Hope, slnfullest of men!
Hope to receive Eternal Life,
Hope liberty to ken;
“God of Hope" has stated;
"Ye must be born again!"
Hope, worldly minded Christian,
Hope, soul ne’er met by care!
Hope not that life Is ever bright,
Hope not 'tls ever fair;
"God of Hope" has told us
Each must his burden bear!
Hope' O despondent Christian,
Hope’s heart is ne'er downcast;
Hope op and overcome the world—
Hope wears a crown, at last!
"God of Hope" would caution;
"Hold fast that which thou hast!”
Hope, heavy laden toller!
Hope, weary one depressed!
Hope till your burdens roll away,
Hope through this lifetime's test;
"God of Hope" Is calling:
"Come! I will give you rest!"
Hope, broken h<>arted mourner.
Hope God’s lambs safe are kept;
Hope that your lost ones sleep hj
Him—
Hope! Jesus, too, has slept.
"God of Hope” stnj.»#^ yt-u—
Remember “Jesuywept!"
—Alta WrenWlrk Brown.
Jorlty of the electoral college. Th!
election was thrown Into the house,
and John Quincy Adams was elected
president on the first ballot.
In 1876 an entirely different situa
tion arose On the day after election
the democrats claimed that Samuel
I. Tilden. their candidate for presi*
dent, had received 2^3 of the 389
electoral votes. The republican*
claimed that Rutherford B Hayef
had been elected by a majority of on*
electoral vote. There were two set!
of returns from Louisiana. Florida*
South Carolina and Oregon. Congres!
was divided Its senate was repub*
Hear, its house democratic. In orde#
to end the uncertainty which wni
rapidly leading to chaos, congres*
passed the electoral commission
of 1877. This electoral commission
was composed of five senators, fiv*
representatives and five members ot
the supreme • court. It was given
power to make the count of the elec
toral vote. It was made up of three
republican and two democratic senar
tors, three democratic and two reput>
lean representatives, two republican
and two democratic supreme court
Justices, and a fifth member chosen
hy the other four justices This 15th
member of the commission was Jo
seph P. Bradley, a republican, and It
was by a strictly partisan 8 to 7 vote
that all controverted matters war*
settled In favor of the republicans.
Bright Idea.
My mother took my little brothel
iver to see our neighbor's new bafc^
He looked at the baby for a few mlh|
utee. but had nothing to say. Ratura
Ing home a little later. Freddy ask*4|
"Doea the doctor bring ail the b**
hies, mamma?"
"Why, of course," she told him.
"Well, I'm going to be a doctJ
when I grow big," he earnestly saifl
"And why do you want to be ■
loctor, eon’" the mother asked h!nj
"Because when I get married I c*a
sick out the prettiest babies and keen
them for ourselves."—Everybody’4
dagarine.
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