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THE BEE; OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1914.
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should have Tho Bo mailed to them. Ad
dress will bo changed rh often as requested.
Rushing the season makes business for the
doctors.
Tho time Of year Is approaching when thn
pchool boy wishes bo was not.
Everybody Is for homo rule for Ireland, but
home rule for Omaha Is different.
Wizard Burbank Iiub worked plant-wonders,
but he has not Improved on tho shamrock.
If everybbdy connected with the State Rail
way commission Is vindicated, then they should
ell bo happy.
Torre Haute Is tho latest town to bo tho vic
tim of a street car Btrlke. Wo. In Omaha had
ours, and do not want a repetition.
The Mexican war is spreading. Peoria re
.ports a florco and fatal fight between two rail
road section gangs of that bellicose- blood.
A minimum wago of $2.50 is proposed in a
California initiative law, Why not oven money
to make the'arlthmetlc of counting It easier?
President Wilson's Intervention In tho fac
tional feud of Tennessee' democrats has already
VroTfrd a failure. Back to watchful waiting!
T get an Idea of what people think of them,
jhoa crooked lawyers ought to talk to others
Asides lawyerswho aro doing tho samo thing.
It Is still a toss-up as to who will win this
duel of silence, Personal Representative John
Lind or Confidential Agent William Bayard
Hale.
Tom Bharkoy, the has-been pugilist, now
serving a sentence In a New York City Jail,
thinks Gotham is going to tho dogs, 0-r-r-r-taught
Ambassador Pago's explanation -of his Lon
don epcech is Bald to satisfy tho president.. It's
dollars to doughnuts that It doesn't satisfy Mr.
Hearst.
Every time a now batch of bodies is taken
out of tho ruins of that' St. Louis fire, all our
Amqrican cltios get a fresh argument for "safety
first" In building 'laws and their enforcement
Remember tho harmonizing of tho . repub
lican factions In Nebraska must be brought
about in the face of tho most persistent efforts
ef tho democrats to cause friction that will ob
struct niergor.
It is certainly hard luck for that Missouri
youngster who has Just died at tho age of 116,
with records of service in both tho Mexican and
civil wars, to be cut off at tho very momont ho
Waa getting ready to enlist for another invasion
of Mexico,
Scope of tho City Plan,
A movement Is on foot to procure for
Omaha a city plan as a basis for future develop
ment of our system of parks, boulevards and
other public Improvements. So far discussion
has proceeded as If this work appertained solely
to Omaha proper, whereas we submit that It bo
longs to tho Greater Omaha, and that the ncopo
of the plan must embraco South Omaha, Dun
dee, Benson, Florence and nil the suburban ter
ritory that is sure In tho course of a compara
tively few years to bo brought under one gov
erning authority.
To draw a plan that stops with the present
city limits without connecting up with tho ad
jacent areas would fall short of the require
ments. At tho samo time so long as Omaha Is
separate and distinct from South Omaha and
theso outlying territories It is not to be expected
that Omaha will put up the money for a schemo
of Improvements whoso main benefits would go
to tho owners of property escaping city taxes
because lying outsldo of city boundaries.
To be more to tho point, a part of the pro
posed city plan must bo to devise a way by
which tho plan itself may be eventually taken
up by tho wholo Greater Omaha and put
through with a combined financial backing of
all tho beneficiaries.
I "A strong north wind last night did more to
solve tho problem presented by 'General' Kei
ley's army of unemployed than any human
agency has yet been able to accomplish," says a
Sacramento dispatch. It's an' ill wind that
blows nobody good.
"Decisive defeat of a column of constitu
tionalist troops," runs the bulletin from the
front. It does seem that Pancho Villa is taking
a decidedly long time to end the war, as ho
promised when we lifted the embargo on sup
plying him wltn arms and ammunition.
Afrult and nut stand has been established at the
corner of Fifteenth and Farnam.
Tho spring rains have set In and the mud Is
already se-yeral inches deep, and still going down.
A party of nineteen Indian boys and girls, rang
Ing In tg from C to I years, from the -Wlnnebagp
reservation, tame Jn and were placed' in charge of
Julius Meyer, who Is to put them In school at Mount
ricasant. la.
West Cumin li tha name of a new addition to the
lty Df Omaha, comprising two plots of twenty-two
lots each Just west of the Baored Heart academy.
A petition has- been presented to the' city council
by K. EsUbrook and others asking that Sixteenth
street U ppened up uth of Leavenworth to the city
limits.
Senator Fair was among the west bound pas
censers on the Overland
Mr It, C. Patterson went out to Wayne to serve
as best man for the marriage of his brother, D C
JVUUrson. and Mies Maude Gamble of that city. Rev
Thomas C. Hall pf Omaha perform vd the ceremony!
K new company known as the Nebraska Over
kind Telephone company haa been incorporated in
tfee aames of Herman Vedtr, 8. R, Johnson. I. s
HuKall. J Ji Kilty and John A. Horbach.
N 11 Falconer has returned roin the east
The Spirit of loyalty.
Commenting on the rapid progress and do
vdlopment In the young city nnd state of Okla
homa, a writer in a current periodical observes:
"Theso folks who braved pioneer conditions
have learned how to work together. Theirs Is
a spirit of town loyalty nnd state loyalty."
Thero Is a forcoful lesson in that for us of
Omaha and Nebraska. Wo havo a right to
bonnt of our superior natural resources, our
strategical location and our brilliant prospects
for yet groator growth and progress, but wo
havo no right to docolvo ourselves as to our
failure, for one reason and another, to rlso fully
to our opportunities.
On too many occasions this spirit of "town
loyalty" and "stato loyalty" is lacking. Domes
tic dissensions, for the most part based on trivi
alities, aro too froquont. Whllo porfectly aware
of tho fact that it is regarded as impolite to
speak of tho matter in public, we mako bold to
say that ono of tho most wltherlngly harmful
conditions In our stato is tho senseless anti
Omaha feoltng that prevails over tho state. Nor
aro' we disposed to lay nil the blame from this
projudlco on tho people out In tho state, but
frankly to charge Omaha with a sharo of re
sponsibility. This doos not alter the fact, however, that
tho antagonism is bad, Is destructive in itn
tendencies and must bo overcome if, not only
Omaha, but tho state, is to aelzo Its opportuni
ties and go forward as under all normal condi
tions It should and would. As a people with
cemmon interests wo must cultivate- unity of ac
tion and realize that thero can bo no dividing
lino between us with anything but mutual dls-atter.-
As to Child Labor Laws.
A epenkor at tho National Child Labor con
ference In Now Orleans asserted that tho
United States was behind even Russia in tho
enforcement of child labor laws, whllo another
orator declared compulsory education to be the
only solution of tho problem! Hb might havo
pointed to our experience in Nebraska for tho
proof.
Without respect to the extremo conditions
in tho south, or tho unsatisfactory conditions
over the country, Nebraska's experience with
child labor and compulsory educational laws is
a very wboloBomo and happy ono. Wo . havo
sane laws ou the subject and no difficulty in
enforcing thorn. Tho legislature of 1907 enacted
a law requiring all children, betweon cortaln
agesT not Iqbs than 7 'nor moro than 10 in clt
Ics of tho metropolitan class to attend school
for tho full period each year, either public, nrl
vato or parochial school, or instruction by r.
tutor. The only exceptions made to this rule
ore In cases of children betweon 14 and 16, who
aro compollod for economic reasons to remnln
out of day school, or may bo Incapacitated. All
such, excopt tho Infirm, aro .obliged to attend
night ccbool. Further, they and their parents
and employers mtiHt punctually and regularly
account for tholr compliance with this pro
vision. As Tho Bee showed In a recent series of
articles on the public schools of Omaha, only
thirty-five children, out of nn average enroll
ment of moro than 15,000, -voro under this pro
vision on tho night school list, and all of theso
were reporting properly.. According to Super
intendent Graft of tho city schools, "Those laws
have worked with remarkable success In
Omaha," and we have reason to believe so In
r the state at large. Indeed, Nebraska's laws on
tho subject afford safe models for other states.
We have no hesitancy In saying that It they
were operatlvo everywhere as they are here there
would bo no IiubIs for complaint as to condi
tions along theso lines in tho United States.
Our state's percentage of illiteracy, be it ro
roembered, is tho very minimum among all tho
states, and it has even gone down since this law
went Into effect.
The esteemed Chicago Tribuno, In rebuking
those who .found fault with tho president's pol
icy of' "watchful waiting," some two weeks ago
concluded a laudatory editorial with tho asser
tion that the president's policy was "only wise."
Now, It observes: "President Wilson's policy
of 'watchful waiting' has been tried, and up to
this time it has been a 100 per cent failure. It
Is evldnt that It will contlnuo to fall." It only
goes to show, we suppose, that wise newspapers,
like wise men, change their minds, and es
pecially on a subject as difficult of proper Judg
ment as this.
e
ees,
One of tho reasons urged for repealing the
canal tolls exemption is because there is a
division of eentlment within the United States
as to whethor our treaty obligations would be
violated. On that score wo would never take
any step as d nation against which some other
country might set up treaty claims -and hud
even a slight measure of support among our
"people.
Much speculation Is aroused by the fact that
Governor Morehead is down on the program for
the Bryan birthday dinner, whllo the rules gov
ernlng that particular function havo heretofore
prohibited talk by any candidate for statu
office. Perhaps the program-makers WAnt tin
tho theory that, though tho povernor might j
speak, he would not say anythln
A .liiffRpatlon from Father Williams.
OMAHA, Mareh 17.-To the Kdltor of
'."ie B6e: I am in full sympathy with the
people who do not want any kind of
public celebration or commemoration or
monument of tho frightful disaster of
Easter night one year ago. Tho peoplo
who suffered tho terror and loss of that
night need no reminder of It. But there
Is something which they and wo alt might
do, on Sunday next. If not on the anni
versary Itself. We might all make It a
day of commemoration before Ood In
every church and synagogue In tho city,
as religion and faith prompt us, to pray
for those whom God took without a mo
ment of warning or preparation, that He
might make the sudden visitation the
eternal gain of those- whoso lives went
out of this world's light Surely we could
commemorate, our people's loss and Brief
In this way, religiously, without Jar to
the hearts or nerves which suffored the
terror of that awful night.
JOHN WILLIAMS.
(Set Ilnrk to Business. '
OMAHA, March 17.-To the Editor of
The Bee! Let me say a word to the
newspapers that ore denlarlne- rnmlltlnn
here, and saying that what is wanted is
new leadership. We are supposed to have
leadership now In theto very newspapers,
each proclaiming its devotion to the cause
of reform, and insisting on the superi
ority of its own brand of reform, which
in no two cases aro the same. How can
the ordinary person reach any conclusion
when the leaders of reform organs of
public opinion aw 0n opposite sides of
the question? For example, when ono
advocates tho gas franchise, and tho other
denounces lt when one boosts tho Audi
torium bonda and tho other knocks
them. Would it not be hotter for the
leaders of reform to get together and
stop abusing the different lines of bul.
ness Interests Into which our citizens have
put their money nnd depend on for their
livelihood?
This knocking has barred from Omaha
half the transient trade, and the tran
sient trado Is the business man's profit.
People don't come to Omaha to look at
buildings and sky. They want to eco
and do things here that they have no
opportunity for at homo, and no matter
how or where the visitors spend tholr
money It goes Into tho channels of all
lines of buslnoss. The best that strang
ers havo gotten of late for coming to
Omaha has been to be thrown Into Jail
for wandoting into the wrong restaurant.
To me It looks like the same old fight
between the liberal element and the so
called reform element, and between .the
two tho town Is the sufferer. So I Bay.
get back to business.
GEORGE H. TAGER.
Ignorance Dne to Heedlessness.
OMAHA, March lT.-To tho Editor of
The Bee: I am Interested by the com
ment of tho Lincoln papers on tho re
sult of the vote on Omaha's home rule
chartor. In effect, tho editors of the
Capital City agree that to draft a
charter that will be adopted 1b beyond
tho power of human convention, becouso
enough of people will object to one or
another of its provisions to detout the
whole.
This Is certainly a eorlous IndUtment.
for If it IS Well fOtitlrtAfl If mi.. .1.-.
popular government is 'a failure. I do'
nov ime 10 xninK so. We remember that
tho constitution of the state of Nebraska
law was adopted by the vote of the peo
ple! so also has been the organic law of
each of the states, and of the union It
self, The trouble with the charter lies fn a
different direction. It was defeated be
causo a large majority of the voters did
not know what It contained, and, and be
cause the majority of the voters who dis
cussed it did so either In Ignorance or
prejudices. On the night of eleotlon I
met two well known Omaha business
men, each of whom admitted he had
voted against tho charter, aleo that lie
had not read the document, and further
that he did not know It had ever been
published. Bach of these men reads at
least one of the Omaha dally papers, nnd
the charter was published In full In all
three of the Omaha dally papers.
Here lies the trouble, if either of those
two business men were as negligent in his
private affairs as he Is in his public duties
his business would, be In the hands of th'e
sheriff very shortly. If citizen were to
give a little more heed to the official
notices, they might soon become bettor
qualified to oxerclso tho rights of cltlsen-'
ship. OLD FOOV.
Letters from a Political Heathen X
80MEWHEBB. Neb., March li-To the
Editor of The Bee: Alas! how often
does what n man counteth as his strength
prove his weakness. We all admire, or
should admire, tho present president of
the United States. We nil wt.iM
should rejolc. In any success ho may at
tain, w ail weep, or should reep, In
any possible failure of his administration.
Wo all forget, or should forget, that we
are partisans. We all remember, or
should remember, that first of alt we
are citizens. His appointment of the
present secretary of state seemed, at tho
outset, to bo a tower of strength. Wo
have all read In childhood's aweet daya
of Slnbad the sailor bearing the old man
of tho seas upon his shoulders. "We all
remember the words of tho apostle as
he oriBd out "O, wretqhed man that I am.
who shall deliver me from this body of
death?" Wo have all read the fablo of
Aesop's Jackass with tho lion skin.
How futile Is the attempt of tho
man. who thinks he con be belter than
the world! We have heard tho howl go
up against usury and oppression of tho
poor. Just imagine some millionaire phil
anthropist moving Into some country and
loaning out money at 2 per cent for twenty
years, how soon would some sharper be
putting up the Job, as tho phrase goes,
to have people of poverty making loans
at 1 per cent, and paying tho money over
to him at 8 or 10 per cent? You might
as well try to set up a pulpit In hell, as
attempt to establlih, a constitutional gov
ernment In Mexico. Henry Lone Wllaon
and Andrew D. White were right In their
analysis of the situation. When the blind
lead the blind shall they not both fall
Into the ditch? DEB HEIDE,
Fate, of ttte Middleman,
Philadelphia Ledger.
Government experta are engaged In for
mvUtlng a pan to moke the parcel post
reduce the high cost of living. It in
volves, of course, tho abolition of tho
middleman. There are hundreds of thou
sands of middlemen in the country, all
of thm citizens. It must be rather start
ling to thorn to find their representatives,
paid by their taxes, engaged fn a delib
erate and overt attempt to deprive thero
of a livelihood
Why Go to Ctiurch?
Signed Editorial by E. F. Denison,
Secretary of the Young Men'
Christian Association.
Sunday, March Si is go-to-ehurch day. In which a.
j special effort Is being made by all the cRurehes of
the city to induce those who aro not tegular church
attendants to go to tho church of their choice at
least for thnt day.
A special advertising campaign Is being carried
on, the newspapers ore giving it large publicity, and
Judging from the results In other cities, the church
buildings should be crowded on that day.
it la worth while to consider why all this effdrt
Is being made. Why should men go to church? It is
estimated that there ore 8,000,000 mire women and
girls In the churches of North America than men and
boy, but this Is not an evidence that the need Is
not as great for the masculine side of the race.
Men need to go to church liecause they aro by
nature religious and the church, with all its short
comings, has no real competitor In helping to supply
this need. Men do not go to church continuously to
be entertained or because they like the preacher, but
they go regularly only when they are helped In their
religious life, and the wise- pastor will see that this
is the underlying motive of his work.
No one who wants a well developed, well rounded
llfo can afford not to go to church, because without
it ho must be unsymmetrlcal.
Then a man owes It to the community In which he
lives to Identify htrrlself with that agency which,
moro than any other, stands for the uplift of the
community.
No public spirited Individual would want to see a
churchkss city, because he knows that universally
the communities without churches are Immoral and
unprogrcsslvc. He should add his moral support by
participating with others In this way.
Thero Is a special reason for a man with a family
of children Identifying himself actively with the
church' because in It he finds his greatest ally in
properly rearing his children. Religion Is the most
Important factor In steadying the life of a growing
boy or girl and the wlso father will want his children
In the church. The surest way to keep boys and, girls
In the church and Sunday school Is for the father
to attend regularly himself.
Twice Told Tales
No II ml IJxmnple for Hlci.
Thero I a certain middle-aged bachelor In this
town who makes it a practice never to give a tip at
a restaurant or cafe. And ho boasts that the waiters
think as welt of htm and that ho never leaves a table
without receiving every attention, obseqillous bows
and a "Thank you, sir," from tho waiter who baa
served him. '
Ono who doubted this recently did a little gum.
shoe act after this tlpless customer last week, to see
if he was telling the truth. And, sure enough, when
tho luncheon was finished and tho exact amount of
the check paid, all the polite things happened.
Then the amateur detective approached the waiter.
"That man gave you no tip?" ho said.
"No, sir," said the waiter. '
"And yet you said 'Thank you, sir,' In a loud
tone."
"Yes, sir, Bo you think I want other customers
to know that some people don't tip?" Pittsburgh
Chronicle Telegraph.
Poirer of Habit.
Mrs. Tucker gave some food to a tramp one morn
ing and as he was eating It, she noticed a peculiarity,
"Why," she asked, "do you stick out the middle
finger of your left hand so straight while you aro
eating? Was It over broken?"
"No, ma'am," replied tho tramp, "but durlhg-my
halycon days 1 wore a diamond ring on that finger,
and old habits are hard to break." National Monthly.
Ho Was Prepared.
Governor Tcner of Pennsylvania, the new president
of tha National league, said at a base ball banquet
In Now York:
"Success In base boll depends on preparation, on
training. Those who fall In base ball have either been
slack In their, preparation or else thoy have prepared,
like Jethro Hlgglns of Conshohookan, in the wrong
Way.
"The minister, you know, camo to Jethro'a house
one afternoon to a christening party ho was to
christen Jethro'a little son,. Jethro, Jr.
" 'Jethro,' sold the minister solemnly, taking his
host nsldo before the coremony, 'Jethro, aro you
prepared for tho solemn event?'
" 'Oh, yos, indeed, doctor,' Jethro beamed, 'I've got
two hams, three gallons Of ice cream, pickles, cake'
" 'No, no. Jethro,' said the minister, with' a smile.
'No, no, my friend. I mean, spiritually prepared.'
" 'Well, I guess yes! Two demijohns of whisky
and three cases of beer!' Jethro cried Jn triumph."
Other Grand TUIn.
Angus McTavi.ih was a Jowlander, rioh and thor
oughly Pcotch. He had never seen tho highlands or
tho beautiful lakes of Scotland except from a long
distance.
He paid' a visit to America and In New York was
shown all the sights. However, he was not Impressed,
and still thought the lowlands of Scotland far su
perior. As a final attempt to show Angus something
that would Impress him, his friends took him to
Niagara Falls. Angus looked at them critically, and
when asked It ho did not think them tho most mar
velous thing he had over eocn he remarked:
"Aye, moil, they are grand. But do yo ken the auld
peacock In Dumfries that had the wooden leg?"
Buffalo Express.
People and Events
A marked Increaso In the number of suicides among
real cstato dealers Is noted In New YorkClty. .Th
only explanation given Is a desire to Improve the
last lot In life's addition.
A Pennsylvania woman who underwent ten surgi
cal operations In twenty-Tour hours has been awarded
first prize as a soetty climber In the smart set of,
her neighborhood. Can you beat It?
An Oregon millionaire who got a sentence of "five
days on the atooo pllo" for driving his auto at titty
miles per hour can comfort himself with the reflection
that every blow he hits the stones will be a blow for
road Improvement.
Edward Morris, vice president of Morris & Co.,
packers, has just Inherited 3,000,CO0. But It has not
ohanged his routine of work. He la at his desk every
morning at S o'clock. Only a halt dozen intimates
knew that he had reached his majority.
The esteemed Edwin Hlnes, the Illinois booster
credited with the achievement of "putting Lorimer
over," will pay only $19.65 In persona taxes this year.
It Isn't Ed's fault, however. A mlxup in the assess
ment roll worked In hi? favor and he is willing to let
It go at that.
Miss Davis, Brooklyn's commissioner of correction,
wants women doctors for women prisoners. "A woman
Prlaonur." she says, "may select her own spiritual
advisor and might, without damage to public policy,
say whether sho prefers a woman or a man when In
need of a physician.'
With a S1.C0Q bill In his pocKet which he had been
unable to get changed, after trying more than 100
times In at least twenty different towns, John C.
Johnson, son of a 'Philadelphia merchant, arrived In
Sunbury, Pa., where he met friends and had some
thing to eat for the first time in nearly twelve hours.
William F. Wallls. member of the faculty of the
Carnegie Institute of Washington, who has been tak
ing measurements of terrestrial magnetism near
Bomo, Is about to undertake a scientific mission of
unusual interest In rorthern Africa. Ho intends to
measure tho terrestrial , magnetism along tho coast
from Tunis to Alexandria as well as in the Interior
as far as possible. '
SMILING LINES.
James (Who Is Broke) I have one
faithful friend left.
Hulks (Also Broke) Who Is It?
Jones My pipe. I can still draw on
that. Boston Transcript.
"Of course you admire Marc Antony's
oration."
"Yes." replied Senator Sorghum. "I ad
mire his originality. He managed to ring
In a touch of novelty by starting 'Friends,
Romans, Countrymen.' Instead of 'Friends
and Fellow-Citizens." ' Washington Star.
"That saloonkeeper has some good busi
ness Ideas about whetting his customers'
appetite: for a drink."
"Such as what?"
"He keeps a man hawing around who
has a run (I of stories with lots of dry
humor." Baltimore American.
"Well." sold the "dentist, "I have looked
your teeth over carefully. I don't find
that there Is a thing to be done to them."
"That's what I thought. I wanted the
satisfaction of sitting In your chair for
ten or fifteen minutes without feeling in
tho least bit frightened." Washington
Star.
rrofessor X one of tho old school, al
ways objected to the pronunciation of
"wound" ns though it were spelled
woond." One day he stopped a student
In the middle of a-reading with! "How
do you pronounce that word, sir?"
"Woond," replied the student.
The profrnsor gave him a sharp look and
said! "I have never foond any groond for
giving It that soon, sir." Boston Tran-sc.-ipu
Mrs. Ellsworth had a new colored maid.
One morning, as tho maid came down
stairs, the mistress sold: "Emma, did you
knock at Miss Flora's door when I sent
you up with her breakfast?'
"No, ma'am," replied the maid, with pre
ternatural gravity, "What was de use of
nknockln' at her do' w'en t knowed fo'
sure she was dar? " St. Louis Mirror.
THE WOMAN.
Who darns the holes In ev'ry sock,
ivceps iracK oi Key ror ev ry iock,
And regulates tho kitchen clock?
Who winds the thread from off the spool,
Looks out for ev'ry household tool.
And gets the children oft to school?
Who cuts Out dresses by the yard.
Counts all the buttons on the card.
And knits a mitt while boiling lard?
Who washes clean the dirty duds,
Mops floor and stairway with the suds,
And then proceeds to peel the spuds?
Who from the stove removes the soot.
Takes out the nshes, puts up the fruit.
Hoes cabbage plants and makes the kraUt?
Who works the hose and mows the lawn,
Bets out the flowers at night and morn.
And' finds the wood when daddy's gone?
Who gets up early, builds the fires.
Beats dirty rugs upon the wfres,
And oftentimes the wholo day tires?
Who other tasks, without selection.
Pursues, and feels long hours' dejection
Without a union for protection?
Who suffers pain, life to promote.
And for man's sins is made the goat,
While he denlea her right to vote?
Who's governed without her consent.
Contrary to both kind Intent
And equal freedom's testament?
Omaha. WILLIS HUDSPETH.
III
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Alabama, Florida, Georgia, TenBestee and Mississippi
25 Days Return Limit. Liberal Sto.Ovr Pririlwaa
K. U WALUS, Datrict Passes Afwt
312 N. th Street ST. LOUIS, MO.
THE advertiser who fails, al
ways blames the advertis
ing. It couldn't be the way
he advertised or the goods he
advertised oh! , no. As well
blame the train you didn't
catch, because you were late.
