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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 5, 1914.
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ilt Is pretty hard to work up much Hvo pub
c Interest In a cofflnmakors' strike.
f
? With the jail-feeding graft restored, watch
tio competition for tbto sheriff's Job grow.
1 The south 'is in 'the saddle, and' tho 'old capital
Ik again on tho map. On to Richmond 1
i How Champ will mako tho welkin ring,
when ho hits tho chautauquas with that save-,,
tW republic speech.
'
Npw the Huertlstas and the Villas aro about
to havo anothor battle to settle the dlsputo as
ti who got tho best of It at Torreon.
StJH, notva word In tho editorial columns of
nur local democratic roform organ about that
'(pure electlbh" over In Council Bluffs,
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"Tjie middle class baby is not getting n
uare deal," shouts Bomo reformer. Is -that
that the llttlo follow is bawling about?
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I When, our democratic . "reform" content-.
lfbraVV shouts for "pure coctl6ns', it has rofer-
efhco Only to" Omaha, and not to Council Bluffs.
Despito tho fact that Chicago's famous Bath
house Is located in the First ward, that seems
to bo politically the dlrtiost soctlon of tho city.
1
Reading botween tho blllboardB, tho suffrage
sisters aro booked for a six months' engagement
in Nobraska, with prlrilego of additional time If
desired.
, '
The disappointed loVor-who shot a hole
through his sweetheart's photograph, and then
through hlmBolf, should havo takon the other
hot first.
The Natural Flow of Trade.
Were It not fraught with possibility of seri
ous consequences, the plight of the democrats
playing politics in tho location of tho regional
banks, nfter pretending there was to bo no pol
Itica In It, would be highly nmuslng.
When tho two august members of tho cab
Inet crisscrossed tho country and boxed tho
compass to inrestigato in person the clalnyj of
tho different financial centers, they insisted that
their purppse was solely to ascertain "the
natural flow of trade," and to make the new
banking system conform "with it. Aq they ex
prossed'it, thoy wore not to listen to arguments,'
jbut merely to gather facts which were to de-
teriBino tne dnclalnn' rntrnrrilnca nt narutii
-4 , . t "vn..u . .w ,. .
MavoTj(iBm or political biap. -
mo selection of the resarvo bank cities as
announced, however, proves conclusively that
if tho members ,of tho board were hunting for
the natural flow of trade they must haVe shut
their eyes to it. Only wien water rluns up-hill
will' "tho natural flow of trade" go 'from Now
Orleans to Atlanta.'. "The natural flow of
trade" will have to mako a grand detour to put
Omaha on tho same trunk' line with Kansas'
City, and It will have to bo" reversed altogether
to, fdrco.tho direction of tiuslness from Balti
more to Richmond, from. Pittsburgh to Clove-
land, from Jersey City to, Philadelphia,- or from,.
'MiiwauKco to-Minneapolis. "The natural flow
of trado" Is particularly (correlated to avenues
of transportation, and llneB of communication;
and Is as well defined and chartod as the vari
ous currents of the ocean.
It remains to bo seen whether any set of
democratic medlclno mlxera can arbitrarily re
draw the industrial and financial map of tho
country to suit their political convenience with
out Impairing, if not jeopardizing, the success
of the now banking plan.
Yes, as au exchange says, thoro aro moro
than three R's In education, but If three aro
thoroughly instilled It makes tho rest of tho
way easier.
The Mexican Insurgents- alono know how
uch they owe to tho lifting of the embargo on
s-hlpmont of arms and ammunition from tho
United States.
Mr, Llnd's mission must have been a rlp
roarlng important one, for the president said It
was not necessary for him to return by way of
Washington at all.
Douglas county is to bo' compelled to pay
$100 a day, or $36,000 a year, for feeding pris
oners that under the old contract would cost
only $34 a day. Seo that graft! '
Certain United States senators publicly an
nounce that they will no longer observe the rulo
for secrecy of executlvo sessions. Ha, hal
When was this secrocy rulo ever observodT' v
Why, of course, If only four regional bankB
had bqen created, the troublo of locating them
would havo been eliminated, and so alBo would
have been the opportunity to pay off political
debts.
COX4MLEO MOM BEX rtKJ
The second contest for the gold .watch offered by
J- O. Elliott to the most graceful lady skater in tlid
city waa pulled off at the rink. Messrs. nubldoux.
Daniels and Stephens were appointed Judges, and the
contestants took the floor keeping timo to a brilliant
march by the Union Pacific band. Miss Shlpman ac
companled by Mr. Van Cott. Miss Brown by Mrs.
McKloon and Miss Canfleld by Mr. Illtohcoolc The
award was made to Miss Canfleld.
O. If. Smith and James Donnelly, whose right name
1 James FW1. put up a boxing match at the Academy
of Music, with a few side features to the entertain
ment It took only three rounds to put Smith off
watch.
Prof. Cromwell doted his lecture engagement at
Boyd's with Ids talk on unny Italy." He promises
to come again despite the allm audiences he haa had.
The b miners at the Board of Public Works meet
ing consisted of granting permission to the atrcet
railway company to use Sioux Falls granlto to pave
between lta raila, Irrespective of the materials used
outside the rails.
Honker P. Lewis, principal of the hgh school
and Assistant Principal Alonco N. Henshaw returned
from Grand Island, where they spent their spring
vacation.
B. If, II, Clark, general manager of the Union Pa
cific, and his family left on business for New York.
P C Hlmebaugh and wife returned from a tt.
erat months' visit to California, whioh has greatly
benefited Mr. illmebaugh's health
The OWice of the Teacher.
Tho -offipe' of the teacher Is the first in the world,
focvlho teacher haa the opportunity to mould the
eternal mind arid soul of tho child. Teaching is com
paratively "simple In Its requirements; the only two
essentials of a teacher .being preparation and con-
,aporatlop.r N,ocalIlpg Js more sacred, .or more holy.
xiiero must be In the successful teacher lovo and
sympathy 'and understanding. The teacher must
revere her children.
i4 Considering all jhat tho. schpol jneans to tho
destiny of childhood', few will say-that In giving
this advice Rabbi Stephen WIso has pitched his
Ideal tpo high. "
i ; Too much stress cannot bo laid on those
Tjrlme requisites, "preparation" and "consecra
tion." But anothor suggests itself Just hero as
indispensablo to tho success of the' teacher and
tho school. That Is, thorough appreciation of
this Ideal and thorofore complete cb-operatlon on
tho part of those with managerial oversight of
tho schools, to whom tho teachers, principals
and superintendents are officially responsible.
Let petty selfishness of any Bort, personal,
political or otherwise, croep Into the councils of
?thoso , directing, tho policies of the Bchpols and
woo Deuue tne rest, xneoroucauy, most cities
Urbiulto alert to' all' this; 4fie difficulty combs
In -practical 'operation. -. While crying our-shlb-bolcth
oriottlng tho people rule, wo should lay
the omphaBts on ruling the public schools. Lot
tho pooplo poo to It that this sordid, withering
blight of potty factionalism has no part in It.
Church Publicity.
Churches have bean advertising ever slnco
Martin Luther nallod his theses to tho door of
tho Wittenberg chapol. .The question, ' "Shall
,churchoB advertlso?" is hot now nor difficult of
answer. The Oho whom millions claim as the
Founder of tho church gave full wijrrant for ad
vertising ad a moans of porsuadln ; men to at
tend to tho preaching of the word v hen He bade
Ills early disciples at the feast tJ go oiit and
compel men to como In. Churches have alwoyB
had modest llttlo signs tacked up beside their
entrances giving thonamo of the church, the
pastor, his place of residence and the hours of
"service. The only now feature in the present
propaganda of oxtenslvo and Intensive publicity
of churchly affairs la its efficiency,
So far along with tho general, scheme of ad
vertising havo the churches gotten that already
we have, experts In this field and a good deal of
literature on the subject. The Methodist Book
Concern has put out a largo volume, well-writ-ton,
prlntod and bound,, on the science aud ex
periments of "Church Publicity," It Is interest
ing to n,oto from this book that Dr. J, Whltcomb
Broughor, "the pastor who preaches to more
people every Sunday than possibly any other
man In America as the pastor of the Templo
Baptist Auditorium in Los Angelos and speak
ing to 3,000 people twice a day, does not ceaso
tremendous and effective publicity." And what
kind of advertising does Dr. Broughor mako uso
of? Ho himself answers, "Newspaper advertis
ing for mo is better and cheaper than any
other."
He says he has one of the best advertising
cipefls 1n Los Angeles to prepare h)a "copy."
Inasmuch as he gets the best results his Judg
ment is worth while, . .
To make good on the promises of Its pub
licity ngent, tho church must, of course, furnish
the right sort of preaching and practice, bo
itrong, dynamic and consistent as to compol the
world to hearken to Its message. For, after all,
"Sy their fruits yo shall know them."
Hon'an province, whero tho bandits of tho White
Wolf continue their depredations.
Perhaps tho proper estimate has not yet
been placed upon Sun Yat Son. Ono thing
seems certain, he was far too advanced in most
of his ideas for China in this day, and yet but
for his daring leadership tho overturn in the
government probably would not havo como for
many years. Put him down hb a eolf-seeklng
impostor or the most unselfish of patriots, ho
opened a door to a new and better day for
China.
The Roller Towel.
The Illinois appellate court has , upheld tho
vaUdity of a Chicago city ordinance prohibiting
the roller towel In public places, which, follow
ing a ban by tho federal government In its own
establishments, a genoral precedent may bo
hopod for.
The roller towel as a possible purveyor of.
disease germs muBt be put out of business In
tho Interest of sanitation and health. It should
be 'permitted in no public or semi-publlo place..
No argument Is requlrod to provo Its perilous
possibilities. The wonder is that It has es
caped tho ban of prohibition this long. It
should havo been discarded along with its twin
scavenger of germs, tho public drinking cup.
Yuan Shi Kai's Constitution.
' Sixty men, Including four members of Pres
ident Yuan Shi Hal's cabinet, aro now engaged
at Peking in drafting. a new .constitution for
China, superseding the ono under which tho
"father of the new republic," 4r, Sun "Yat Sen,
rode Into power and out again bo speedily.
Sun's Instrument- provod unworkable. It may
havo been too modorn or too radical, or simply
impracticable; at any rate, it and Sun both
failed; and Yuan, as a scion of the old house,
succeeded to the dictatorship, which goes by tha
name of president. Backed as ho Is by the con
servative elementr Yuan may be able to give
China exactly tho kind pt a constitution U
needs. Perhaps a nation that has Just emerged
from centuries of Pagan dominion does not need
a very modern form of representative govern
ment for the present.
Yunn's tact and diplomacy are not entirely
wanting in proof. He showed that by tho
adroitness with which he recognized Confucian
km, whllo at the same time promising religious
liberty to the people. More than being merely
a strategic move, U has brought peace, ap
parently, to tho country oxcopt In part of tho
(
, The Race for Race Suicide.
Can1 tho race for raco suicide bo stonned bv
preaching against it? Can people bo porsuaded
to raise larger families by appealing to senti
ment and patriotic prido?
A pointed negative is ontared by a contribu
tor to tho current Outlook, who takes vlcorous
exception to tho position of tho contributing
editor on this subject and insists that there 1b
little use in wasting ink and energy over the
decrease In the birth rate. "Don't blame tho
mercury when it goes down: brine th thor-
moraeter inside or change the woathor," wo aro
admonished "Thero are circumstancoa and
conditions that mako 'raco suicide' in reaiitv.
and in tho highest sense raco preservation, if
Quality and not quantity bo that which counts."
Why this is-bo, in tho writer's colnion. Is still
further explained:
You CAn't rn r nn whrt a l.n t.l i
uhiviji ttuiq iu vula
properly for two children . Into having a family' as
big na Solomon' by any auch dim and distant catas
trophe as having no great-great-great-great grand-
cnuuren to see that their graves are kept green, any
more than one would be frlc-htnnpd intn l.ninn ,i
furnace go out lh midwinter becausn Mr. Pinhrtt
telle us that In about a thousand years or so there
wm do no coaL I believe that what Is termed "race
suicide Is In large measure an Illustration of tho
Indubitable proof that the "law of compensation al
ways obtains." It 1b a symptom, not a cause; a
symptom of the increasing difficulty nt mnvini. h
average Income meet tho "outgo"; a 8ymptom of an
cconomlo condition that is making people use their
good common sense and. decency and Judgment that
lr, Indeed, often causing them' to uso great self-denial
and solf-restralnt In declining to "fulfill" what
.Colonel Itoosevelt terms'" the '"primary law of thMr
being."
Tho only answer advanced bv the Outlook is
to assort that "It is not the poor, but tho rich
ahd 4w6li-tomoi who aro commlttlnc race sui
cide," but'( of cjburse, as evoryono knows, wealth
is meroiy comparative, out or nearly 100,000,
000 pooplo In the "United States tho estimate is
that less than 400.000 will"be subject to th now
income tax, so that the small percentage of
well-to-do and rloh could hardly havo any'
noticeable effoct on the prevailing birth rate
for the whole population. Another nntnt Tint
to bo overlooked Is that tho woll-to-do and rich
of today" wero the poor, if not the poverty
stricken, of yesterday, there being no fixed bar
rier of wealth corresponding to tho division
based on size of tho families. In a nutshell, it
1b an economic condition, and not a moral
theory, that confronts us.
The Next Chief of Staff.
Tho tense condition of tho nation's military
affairs, in addition to our special Interest in tho
head of tho army,' invites attention to the nnr-
BOnality of tho next chiof of staff, General Will
iam waliaoe wothorapoon. who. according to
official announcement, will soon succeed General
Leonard Wood in that assignment. General
Wothorapoon brings to this position not only a
lino military record, but tho particular kind of
exporienco of valuo there. He began aa an in
fantry line orflcer forty years ago, and has had
the most varied army life. Ho was. himself at.
tached to tho genoral staff for two different
periods, and has also been head of the army war
college. It la to be taken for granted, therefore,
that he is in thorough accord with the general
scheme of army organization for which Genoral
Wood has boon working, inasmuch as these plana
aro known to have been devoloped and perfoctod
in tho war college. Tho only unfortunate fea
ture of the appointment comes from the fnnt
that General Wotherspoon himself reaches tho
age of compulsory retirement in November next,
which means that his tenure as the chief of staff
will be too .brief to permit him to inaugurate, any
important now aeparture.
It Is a peculiar historic coincidence thnt
within tho same week announcdment is made
of the death of the state treasurer who wn in
office at tho time Nebraska lost so much money
by tho collapse of the Capitol National bank,
and .also of the final ruling of tho supremo
court In tho last lingering-litigation growing out
of that famous bank collapse. It may be as
sumed now that the Incident Is clospd.
As the really great seer of th,ese piping times
of democratic prosperity commend 'us to' the
Hon'. Jlmhatulewis, who In ono of the particu
larly brilliant bursts of his aurora borealla
oratory puts us hep to this, that Russia Is go
ing to retake Alaska And Japan capture tho
Philippines. It is a shame for the Rev. Irl R.
Hicks to monopolize all the bouquets showered
on great prophets.
And now it is proposed that money for Ne
braska's participation in the exposition at San
Francisco be raised through the school children.
We decidedly dissent. If the needed money
cannot bo raised without making the school chil
dren beg for it, it will be better not to participate.
Tho dual republican state organizations
know they cannot make a catch in Nebraska next
November with the fishing tackle divided be
tween them. But ttie party can do a business
Which will disappoint tho democratic enemy by
getting together and Joining forces
People and Events
Cheer up! The Joyful volco of the lawn
mower will soon be heard in the land.
Tho official report that one-half the
diagnoses at Bfllevue hospital. New York
have not been nnnfirmiwl tiu tlm .in.n.l..
raises the question whether a doctor is
entitled to more than ono guess.
Too often Is inventive genius cruelly
mocked by a paternal government A
devise for increasing people's height bv
relieving them of the weight of $10 has
Just been suppressed by the Postofflce
department.
Insurance statisticians are content to
put out without trimming the plain state
ment 'that spinsters outlive wiven. There's
a reason several of them. One Is that, a
spinster can drop off into a sound sleep
without worrying about tho time lodges
adjourn.
University of Chicago professors, after
care f experiments In and about the fa
mous Midway, reached the conclusion that
land Is subject to tides as well as water.
People who carried a thirst o the World's
fair noted that peculiarity twenty-one
years Hgo.
The cstate'of the late Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, as ''Valued by a Now Hampshire
court, foots up $2,5l,632. On tho heels of
the announcement comes the passage of
a bill by the New York legislature grant
Ing Christian Scientists tho right to treat
the sick in that state.
Two professors of Harvard announce
as the 'result of an electro-Boston-dip
clinic, that telephone girls carry moro
electricity In the springtime than at' any
other season of the year. Which explain!)
their unequalled facilities for beating a
shocking tattoo on Impatient turn,
It Is worth while noting aa timo Bcoots
along that a bald head, usually esteemed
a sign of continuous piety, has other good
uses. A Denver man, rendered uncon
sclous by a fall, was saved from being
crushed by an automobile by his shining
dome reflecting the light of the approach
ing machine. Let the hairy host mock tf
they will, the September morn crown
sheet Is a live wire In the "safety first'
movement.
In oratorical ..breadth and power tho
championship in congress Ilea between
Representative WlUla of Ohio. Itepre
scntatlve Decker of Missouri and Senator
Sherman of Illinois. No mechanism yot
devtped has been able to. measure the
reach of their voices or reproduce In cold
print the rainbow hues of their agitated
songs. Beside the clarion notes of these
rival champions the deep-throated har
monies of PosUnaster Wharton sink to
sutxiuea wnispers.
Pcsplto the absorbing pull of politics In
Kansas, William Allen White or Walt
Mason occasionally switch from local
scenery to International events. Wherefore
this bit of cheer out of the British army
muss: "The fact that tho men who dis
agreed with the policy of the Engllsh in
Ulster have quit the army is a good sign,
whnthnr fine kctmi with the men who
quit or not. Wars for principle should bo
fought by men who stand for principle.
If that line Is followed out .war will cease
to be tho greatest outdoor .sport of kings."
QUAINT' BITS OF LIFE.
Missouri girls are said to have formed
a Dlck.and-ihovel brlcadn unil ant ivnav
solving the good roads problem. The' more
one nears aoput .Missouri girls the less
one thinks of Missouri; men. -
The fourth set or twins In four years
arrived at the home of Louis Qulnlo, a
barber of Tarentum, Pa, Louis, accus
tomed to events of this kind, was rifllther
peeved nor perturbed when he' heard the
news.
Very simple was the solution of the
"servant problem" offered at a 'meeting
of troubled housewives in New York the
Other day Do awav with unnrnnl, rn
speaker suggested and call them "domes
tic engineers."
L. O. LudwllT Of HoUltnn. M . nwna a
curious pistol -which waa taken from tho
tamoua pirate, Toussant Mon Hassan by
an officer of the United Statea frigate
Which caotured th nlrntn In Mnlni-oa
Straits a"bout 1820. In the same collection
Is a blunderbuss believed to be m&ro than
200 years old.
A case of wine waa thn wrMlnir r
offered to Magistrate Pennook nf Phil.
adelphla when he married John Canado
to Mlsa Sarah Armstrong. The magis
trate did not care to accept the wine and
It was given to Constable Jof s.
and Edward 8, Carver, who witnessed the
marriage.
The Ossetes. one of the
caalan tribes who inhabit th TVri- t..
rltory in South Russia, are noted for
meir longevity. The other day there died
In tho village of Aul Mlsur
years of age. Her name was Nalkuta
Kargmova and ehe was famous for her
keen eyesight, her Jet black hair ,nH h-
flno set of teeth, which she preserved to
me enu. &ne died at her spinning wheel.
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN.
"it Is a mOSt UnjnealtAhl nri nt(l..
useless crirao," Dr. Anna Shaw M th.
other-day when Informed of the hacking
or the beautiful Rokeby "Venus" by an
lungusn suffragette. She was sentenced
to six months for the crime.
The Civic club of Philadelo'hU h
started a campaign to have the bread
wraDDed. as it is rnnlntnlnoH that hnanri
U often left very caiclessly by the dis
tributers In the mornings and Is handled
by very dirty persons. They wish the
bread delivered In the sealed sanitary
packages'. "
Mrs. Lucy B. Johnson, president of the
Kansas Good Government leamie. savs
that a requoat for an expression of opin
ion as to whether thero should be a wo
man's party In Kansas shows that pop
ular reeling Is against It. -There win be
no woman's party and no woman's can
didate, she says.
Mr. Von Baudltz Is the nimi nf n
woman of Denmark who command, with
the rank of captain, a vessel running be
tween Russia and England. She took
up the trade of the sea In the beelnnlnr
simply as sport, but succeeded so well
that she decided to .make a business of
It. She Is expecting to. be .nromoted la
an American line. She says she is the
only woman master mariner of the world.
Miss Blanche Ingalls has been nut In
charge of the police department of Che-
ming, Mich. She hardly had been In.
office a week before she had made many
reforms, among them prohibiting card
games, barring playing dominoes for
money, forbidding dice throwing, requir
ing saloons to close at 10 o'clock and
making It necessary to blanket horses
standing on the street, he la the editor
of one of tho papers, and before her
election bad made a lively campaign
against tho inefficient police department.
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
Washington Tost: Clergymen In high
aoclcty .are now wrestling with the
knotty ecclesiastical problem of whether
It is right to continue divorce plans dur
ing the Lenten season.
St. Louis Republic: Syracus objects
because a new religious sect there has
taken to baptizing converts In the water
works reservoir. Syracuse is the place
where Chancellor Day washes the sins
of Standard Oil away and Syracuse has
all of that sort of thing It wanta.
New. York Post; Sunday haa simply
de eloped sensationalism to the nth
power, and applied It to the work of
saving souls. He Is adrlp with the
slang of the slums. He claps Jehovah
familiarly on the - back. He puts a
smear as of the barroom over the holy
things. But the countless thousands
fight .to hear him; He gets the crowd
And that is enough, even In religion!
A he himself says, he "hands out tho
goods," he "dODea It abt for tho Ird.
ho pitches' "hot ones" to that "smooth
guy," tho devil. At last, religion has got
lta "punch!"
riiliaaelphla Record: Tho ingenious
Rev; Mr. Wlckman of Sweden Is recruit
ing the "white army" to put an end to
war. His method is simplicity itself.
When one nation undertakes to fight "an
other the "white army" will place ItaelT
betwten the armies of the two nations
and ao prevent their getting at each
othfcr. In the event of threatened hos
tilities between England and Germany
wo presume the "white army" will be
come tho "white navy" and stretch It
self across the North Sea. Wo suggest
that Mr. Wlckman take his pacific force
to Mexico and lino up between Villa
and Huerta.
MUFFLED KNOCKS.
It takes a mighty strong man to keep
his face closed.
Two can live as cheaply aa one it thoy
are twins and have an old-fashioned
mother.
Thero never waa a delegate to a con
vention who looked halt as Important aa
his badge.
You think a wagon makes a lot of noise
when It Is empty. But you ought to hear
a man when he Is full.
Bo kind to your enemies. One enemy In
good working order will give you more
free advertising than a thousand friends.
A good dancer Is supposed to be light
oil his feet. And a lot of them look as
though they were pretty light at both
ends.
You can't blame an undertaker for
looking solemn When you stop to figure
how many dead ones there aro drilling
around town holding out on him.
When a married couple separate be
cause of misunderstanding you can bet
that they are separating because they
understand one another too well.
A smart Aleck tried to get funny in a
restaurant and said: "Bring me a Sep
tember Morn." And the waitress brought
him a plate of cold chicken.
A corn-fed girl doesn't lose a wink of
sleep over the fact that she has to take
an out size In stockings. But a double
chin 'will keep her awake all night.
There Is always something to be thank
ful for. You can't run an automobile and
watch tho girls getting on the street cars
at the" same tlnie. It -ain't so tough to be
a lowly pedestrian, after all. Cincinnati
Enquirer:
HERE AND THERE.
Nearly a million women In the United
States are either farmers or farm U
borers. The famous Death valley In California
la tho lowest point on the continent .of
North America, being 2T6 feet below tho
level of tho sea.
The latest fashion In Vienna is 'to' .wear
flowers tinged on the edges with blue or
green. When flowers are presented a
poem or letter Is written on the petals
With a fine pen.
The growing of white nine, says tho
Department of Agriculture in a bulletin
recently Issued on the subject, Is a profit
able undertaking at 6 per cent compound
Interest. To bring in these returns, the
trees may be cut when not more than
from 33 to 70 years old.
A proposition has been made by an at
tache of the Canadian agricultural de
partment to require the sterilization of
all threahlhg machines which are moved
from farm to farm, a custom generally
followed in that and other countries. This
recommendation Is made as a means of
preventing the spread of "smut"
PASSING PLEASANTRIES.
WHITTLED TO A POINT.
Wit is the cream o Intellect that 111
nature sours.
Misery, hardly cares for company on the
cook's day off.
Which la the greater nuisance tho
neighbors' piano or our dog?
Usually the possession of money rep
resents frugality and old age.
Having to buy anything Interferes with
the spiritual pleasure of shopping.
Ono kind of a hustler is a man who
never haa occasion to buy an umbrella.
Wo can't all bo happy or even allowed
to choose our own way of being un
happy.
It Is entirely easy for a fortune teller
to read a woman's mind after a little
diplomatic questioning.
Amo..g other rights some men give up
when they get married is the right to
think for themselves.
But no matter what the new spring
millinery may look like, It's a safe pre
diction It will not look like anything else.
An Ohio minister advises girls to marry
plain, ordinary men Just aa If most of
em ever had an opportunity to do other
wise.
When a girl's vocal efforts sound like
second-hand buzz saw working over
time she calls It technic, but what the
neighbors call It wouldn't look well In
print. Chicago News.
,u"Pa; ,he aoqtor at the hospital said
that hA WfMlM tiMV. in tia..A . In, ..!.
clo to cure Mamie's burns."
w en, ten mm to telephone to the near
est drusrelut fnr nil h. i
It in the bill." Baltimore American.
Man-Is this a good seat?
Ticket Seller Well. lr if. k.ki
post.
Jlan-What's the matter? Ian't the show
worth oeelng? Boston Transcript.
i. "jlk8ua,.P,t .nlBh aB poetical as they
u.i.bc' 8all Mr. Olboy.
What makes you think so?"
"Wa 11flr1 , .lH. I , ...
sentimental way, 'Shoo, fly! Don't bother
mpl Ivnnr all lh.w A 4. . I 1 1 . r- .
tho fly!' "Washington Star.
!!Xhat.Planlst has remarkable hllr."
"h Jif' J'SJ'S. 'heatr)cal .Manager,
I'm"" J, know of- ?ot on,y oes e pro
vide his own music, but he carries his
own scencry."-Indlanapolla News.
h I . f.Mn, . j .""lu "ior anoiner in
to be " " "uieoo seems
;;What kind of a business la it?" "' '
4iV "ii.uu.auiuicj uarra ciacjcs." Bal
timore American.
'linn. JIJ -. . .. ... ..-
i,V I"B et ina right to stick
uuii. in iront or jus name? H
never was In .congress, was ho?"
,, "ri "PniunaT.ea a mem-
falo ExpVeii. " r lno WIP"one-"-Buf-
next flat are having an awful row. "
Aro tneyj
th'ens JMLI ?" ??o the way
Chlca?o Post" " ' l" 0"cn otnen -
"GREEN THINGS GROWING."
Author Unknown.
The faint sweet smells of tho green
things growing! Breen
Jli.Ji1'0 to Uve- whether I smile or
JUSt &ZCJl?y or green
.--a- o VI iQ,
h' thtrljEtoring of
How they talk each to each, when none
Of ua am lrnAtvlno-
In tho wonderful white of the weird
rnonnlltrht "
Or the dim. dreamy dawn, when the cock
1 l0Vf rowing? ihtm-friy sreen Jthjn,
And I tlrink that thoy love- roe, without
For by many a tender touch they comfort .
me ao much . T
wh the eoft. muto comfort of tho green
things growing.
And In the rich store of their blossoms '
glowing.
Ten for one I take they're on me be-
Oh, I should Uko to see, if God's
mav ho
Many, many a summer of my green
things growing!
But if I must bo gathered tor tho an
gels' sowing.
Sleep out of sight awhile. Ilk tho green
things growing;
Though dust to dust return, I think I'll
If I may change into rreen things- grow-
wjii it
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