THE BEE, OMAHA, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1914.
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE
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drees will be changed as often m requested.
Oyster Bay comes bnck on the map alongside
pf that Brazilian river.
Those mediators keep sllont just as if they
'were all Imitating John Llnd.
Bald Head Bankers Klsoed at Cabaret.-Headllne,
It must have been a touching scene.
More rain for the wheat, more money for
he farmer, more trade for the merchants.,
These mado-to-order spontaneous uprisings
threaten to become regularly recurrent ovonts.
And then, besides, aomobody always has to
'pe the goat in all such situations as Mr. Mellon
describes.
Experience soems to prove that digging dan
delions only makes two grow whore but one
,prow before
"I'd rather be n base ball player than secre
tary of the navy," cxclaitha Socrotary Daniels.
Who wouldn't?
Mr. Mellen did not want to bo too Inquisi
tive for- fear he might learn something he did
hot want to know.
The Chinese' language is ; said to contain
0,000 word signs', and the Lord only knows
now many curly quoues.
Serious auto accidents are happening, all
wound us. Reckless speeders will do .well to
Mow up, and bo moro careful.
If that Kansas doctor is right in foreseeing
khe day when we shall all bo young at 100, then
ke can see the finish of his business.
Sixteen peoplo were killed by hailstones at
itoahulla, Mox., which makes sixteen, that Villa
knd Carraaua may not claim credit for.
The great Detectivo Burns was slapped in
he mouth In a Georgia town, but the wallon no
II . a . " .
nd nis gang got in Omaha was worso than th
For" the treaty that hands Colombia a nres-
fent of $25,000,000 the excuse is offered that it
sn t much of an apology. Yes. but why "nDoI-
PEixe?
Talking about ""sniping," recollect for a mo-
Went who was doing. the rear firing. at President
Wilson when the currency bill was In legislative
transit.
The census bureau reports that rooVins too
Km manes i many tenant farmers nnnr ur
About the- cliff dwellera of Chicago, who hit out
very way aayi
And now the Hessian fly la aald to h n-.in
$p to his old tricks. "When the wheat market
am again a little later, the little- green biigi
Iwill be brought out.
President Mellen said he, wouIdAdo business
-with the deTU f need be. So far as disclosed,
lowever, Jlo' never did business with . r.i
jjaraous aofective1 agency. '
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: Mavor Mitrhot nt
- . .-j'." iun hub rixnn i
u as the time fpr the curfew on Broadway.
WhT at it Why not et the curfew sleep.
v uuar oi in nigntr
"wm rOM ar.ct4t.cj
Our Purpose in Mexico.
Synopsizlng the expressed views of Presi
dent "Wilson In a conversation reported by its
special representative, tho Saturday Evening
Post lays down these propositions as the settled
policy in regard to Moxico:
Flrat The United States, so long aa Mr. Wilson
Is president, will not eeek to gain a foot of Mexican
territory In any way or under any pretext. When
we have finished with Mexico, Mexico will btt terri
torially Intact.
fecond No personal aggrandizement by Amer
ican Investors or adrcntuiera or capitalists, or ex
ploitation of that country, will 'be permitted. legit
imate business Interests that seek to develop rather
than exploit wilt be encouraged.
7hlrd-A settlement of the agrarian land question
by constltutlonsl. means awh as that followed In
New Zealand, for example will bo Insisted on.
All thrco of these propositions read well to
fit In with a profession of unselfish motive, but
In truth tho first is tho only ono of an Interna
tlbnal character tho oiher two bolng wholly of
domestic concern to Mexico.
We all take it that -tho United 8tates is not
seeking territorial expansion, but It should also
he remembered that tho suggestion that expan
sion means imperialism and subversion of our
own popular government no longer scares us.
When It comes to developing Mexican re
sources by offering encouragement to foreign
Investors that will devolve upon the Mexicans,
and not upon uh. Wo certainly will Insist upon
equal 'treatment for American Investors to that
accorded European Investors, or to Investors
from other countries.
The proper settlement of the agrarian land
problem In Mexico Is highly desirable, partic
ularly so long as tho unequal land distribution
in the fomenting cause of continuous revolution.
But the land question In Moxico Interests us
moro than the land question In lroland chlofiy
because it is closer to us It is a subject for
Mexico to logislnte upon.
Accepting, howover, thoso threo funda
mentals of our Mexican policy, we must still
nnk oursolves how thoy nro to bo brought Into
tho terms of tho mediation, and it so incorpor
ated, how long will It tako to work them out
satisfactorily. From nnothor sourco, tho presi
dent is quoted as saying that wo will hold Vora
Cruz, and stay In Mexico, until all the agree
ments exacted aro fully executed. If theso
agreements nro to includo a settlement of the
land question, our soldiers in tho army of occu
pation may countermand all orders for next
winter's clothed.
No Let-Up on Gun Toters,
The agitation against tho lndlscriminato saio
and possession vf flroarms goes on in several
cities; tho unfortunato thing is, though, that
some effective remedy for tho deadly menace
docs not follow. Both Pittsburgh and Chicago
arc crusading against tho crime, and yot the
gun-toters aro continuing to shoot down their
innocent victims.
World peace, with Its idealistic complement
of universal disarmament, is a boautlfic dream
of- many of our good people, -who, If they would
lend, their enthusiasm and Influence to the dis
armaments of thugs and murdorors in tho cities
of the land, might do a good deal moro tor the
safeiy of mankind and tho welfare of lawful so-
.clotyv At least, their co-operation, as well as"
that of all good citizens, Is moro than neoded
to make the domestic crusade successful.
Sontlment-at-Jarge, of course, Is against free
and careless gun-toting. This sontlmont must
bo crystallized Into such action as will tend to
prevent youths and men of hair-trigger tempers
and criminal instincts laying their hands frooly
upon flroarms and othor munitions of death
whenever thoy desire to. It Is all tho more
atrocious when respectable and law-abiding
communities sit by and pormlt artificial induce
ments to bo made for the Indiscriminate sale of
those dcaAly weapons. It Is potential crime,
for instance, for those things to be attractively
displayed. In 'show windows to the fascination of
Voting 6r irresponsible minds. Yet this is done
in every city where tho howl goes up against
gun-toting after the murder Is committed.
; Reports fiom Wal.oo. where rurin., u.i...
elng prosecuted for his part In the mll pulled off
Ust week, is to the effect that nobody who witnessed
pie fight could Identify Hanley definitely, and he
therefore expects to get off with a disagreement of
pie Jury, If not an acquittal.
County Clerk Leavitt has Just made book called
the "Original Plat Book." in which will U placed
ne original piais or an me additions dating back
far as 1857. . . . .
The republican state committee met at the Millard
noiei anq issueq a can ror the state convention,
pmsha won out over Lincoln for the pltco of meeting
' A street car horse met with an Ignominious death
tjy falling Into the aewer treneb at NJnlh and Kar-
pam.
Special Ascanslon day services for 4h Knights
Templar ware lield at Trinity cathedral. The sermon
Was by Rev. Dr. Clinton F. Cocke of Chicago, pan
krand prelate. A special train brought In the com.
jiandarlea from Beatrice and Lincoln.
A movement Is on foot to raise money to establish
'the Women's Christian' association In a home 'of' its
i The finder of an envelope containing discharge
ItapMs tt Bartel KlOti. who served 1n tb Mexican
war s asked to return them.
Increasing Safety Devices.
Interstate Commerce commission figures
show a steady Increase In the extent of the
block signal systoms for railroad protection.
Up to January 1, of the present year, 53 per
cent of all the railroad trackage of the country
was so protected, What Is still bettor, the uso
of the automatic block Bignal system is gaining
over the hand-control system. In 1913 there
was an Increase of 4,350 miles In the length of
road operated by the automatic blocks and a de
crease, of 1,563 miles operated by the hand
control.
Thus we havo a concrote Illustration of the
fact that the railroads are actually pushing for
ward in this general and very important cam
palgn of safety first in the operation of trains.
Some lines have practically all of their trackage
protected by the block signals. Some of the
leading lines of the west are making very rapid
progress with the automatic signals, discarding
the less useful and modern band-control block.
All the money Invested In such devices Is
sure to reproduoe itself handsomely in the rev
enues of the railroads. No road can afford to
lag behind In this great Improvement today any
more tnan it can afford not to advertise. And
what better advertising could a road have than
Just this, to be able to show that It gave first
consideration to the safe hauling of Its traffic,
numun una oinerwisoT JTom even a purely
sordid standpoint the roads aro finding that
prevention is better than cure In the sense that
protecting life and property is more profitable
tnan maintaining damage suits.
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Too ;n1 to Vnun.
nrtADSHAW, Neb.. May Jl.-To the
Editor of The Bee In your Issue of tho
30th you say: 'Trohlbltlonlsts always
Insist on quoting a lot of dry sta
tistics." This writer Is something of a
prohibitionist himself and he haa on hand
a fine assortment of "wef statistics
that are of more value In an argument
than are the "dry." that' he will willingly
quote to any nntl-prohlbltlonlsts who
may Insist on having the "wet" rather
than the "dry" all gratis, no charges.
JOHN B. DEV.
Letters from n Political llenthen
Mexico.
SOMEWHERE, May IO.-To the Editor
of Tho Bee: drnlus Is not hereditary. Of
all tho Bonapartes that have lived, none
save the great Napoleon was above
mediocrity. Louis Bonaparte Is the most
detestable character of all. Victor Hugo
rightly named him Petit Napoleon. For
the first forty years of hla life, he wafc
a wandering vagabond. He was Impris
oned for some time at Ham; visited th
Vnlted States, where ho beat an honest
Dutchman at Hoboken out of a board
bill; was a special policeman In England
at tho time of tho Chartlat riots. "While In
England he was an Invited gucat at Lady
Bleeslngton's. Here he met the younger
Dlarapll, who conceived an emphatic dis
like for him. When Disraeli became a
statesman, hla dislike was embarrassing
to Louis Bonaparte.
1 do not purpose to be Bonaparte's
biographer, I shall assume that the reader
Is familiar with tho main facts of hU
life The political and economical unrest
which visited Europe In 1S48 evolved
some strange and diversified characters,
among them: Uiuls Kossuth, Padre
Oavazzl and Louts Bonaparte, The story
of how he became emperor of the French
empire does not belong to tho history
of Mexico. From tho battle of Solferino
on June 24, ISM, to the Tiattlo of Hadowa
July 3, JS66; Louis Bonaparte was the
arbiter of Europe. After he hecamo em
peror he essayed to be an author and
wrote, Inter alia volumna, a life of
Clnlus Julius Caesar, a dull work, In
which ho compared tho lloman to his
Corslcan uncle, 1 who died nt Longwood,
picturing them both aa disinterested al
truist, He waa neither a soldier nor a
statesman. But we have nothing to do
with the fellow, except hla escapade In
Mexico.
What was back of this French invasion
of Mexico? Two women. Ono of them was
Eugenie, Louis Bonaparte's wife, now
living In England at the ago of &S; the
other, the Princess Charlotte Amelia,
wife of tha Austrian Arcnduke Maxi
milian of Hapsburg, now, at the age of
74, confined In a private Insane asylum
near Brussels. The French emperor and
the Austrian archduke were the most
uxorious men In Europo (Louis Bonaparte
was said to have abandoned a. former
-wife and five children; for tho truth of
this I do not vouch.) But he was very
much ruled, or at least Influenced, by
thn empresa. The other woman, known
as Corlotta she spelled her own name
with one T was ambitious to be an em
press. Back of. Eugcnlo who. waa a de
vout Catholic was the reigning ppntlff,
Plux IX, who received with alarm the
triumph of the liberal pdrty In. Mexico,
and would be .pleased to see a pious
prince, Jlke Maximilian of Hapsburg, On
the throne of Mexico who would check
the heretical encroachments on the papal
preserve. Pius did not regard the. separa
tion f church and state as the Ideal
condition.' As for Louis Bonaparte there
Is llttlo doubt that Qoldwln fmlth waa
right; Louis had In contemplation the re
cover)' of the Louisiana purchase. Na
poleon had remarked to Talleyrand, at the
time of the sale to the United Htates.
that a confederacy never held together.
At the French Invasion of Mexico, Na
poleon's prophesy seemed In the process
of fullfllment; we were the midst of
a civil war. DBR HEIDE.
Cause of Adam's Fall
Revered First Parent a
Victim of Grape Juice. .
Nebraska Editors
Editorial Snapshots
Knock for nlble Stories.
Modern explanations of remarkable cvejits of
biblical times, beginning with the departure from
the Garden of Eden of Adam and Eve, and covering
the period up to the passage of the River Jordan, were
given before Bible students of the Young Women's
Christian association In New York recently, by Sir
William Willcocks, JC C. M, O., the noted English
engineer. Mr. Willcocks designed and built the
Assuan dam on the Nile and has about' completed
an Irrigation system In Mesopotamia. The greater
part of his active life has been spent In the Holy
Land and Egypt, and has an Intimate acquaintance
with all the places made famous In biblical history.
Sir William told his hearers, according to the
New York Sun's report, that in planning the Irri
gation system of Mesopotamia Sir William discove
red the exact location of the Garden of Eden at
the Junction of tho Tigris and Euphrates, and he
Illustrated his lectur.e With many pictures from the
supposed site. At the time the two original settlers
went there, Sir William said, nothing grew In the
Garden except date palms, vines and alfalfa.
They subsisted on dates and everything went
long happily until Eve found how to make wine
out of the grape, and then she wasn't satisfied
ntll she had Adam drinking It. He grew dissatis
fied with datea as soon a he became addicted to
drink, and It Is Sir William's Idea that Adam and
Eve left the Garden to try to find something to cat
besides dates.
JVnnh nnd Ilia Flood.
Taking up the flood episode. Sir AVIltlani said
that If the Inundation had been so extensive as to
leave the ark stranded on top of Mount Ararat the
forty days rain would havo had to yield a proclplta
tlon of 5,0n0 Inches a day, which Is quite a shower.
Aa a matter of fact tho ancient word Ararat rcatt
meant "desert" in the language of the flood times,
and what happened was that, tho rivers overflowed
and Inundated the valley In which Adam lived, ah
the settlers, for many miles around hurried over to
Noah's to take refugo In his nrk and when thg
floods receded the ark remained In the valley.
sir William said that tho ancient flood sufferers
really thought the Inundation had covered the entire
world, and they commenced 'building high towers to
escape from Inundations. The .Tower or Banei was
one of the. first of these, and while It was under
way the people from the surrounding countries all
rushed there for safety In case of another flood.
Naturally thero were many languages spoken and a
confusion of tongues" was the result. This led
the tower builders to believe that God had sept a
confusion of tongues because He was angry over the
penetration of the towers Into heaven.
"This Is one of tho childish stories that nave
pome down to us, because It has pleased God In His
wisdom to preserve It for us," said Sir William.
Joseph Exposed ns n Proohrt.
One of the Inundations of the Nile, Bir wtuiam
said, turned a great depression in tho desert into a
lako. The ancient Egyptians built an enormous dike
from, tho lake to the Nile, which made the entire
country fertile, but the dike became the cause of
constant strife between tho kings of upper and lower
Egypt. , ....
Joseph, who had been Imprisoned Dy one or ine
Pharaohs of lower Egypt, was more Intelligent than
his captors and reallred that eventually a fleet from
h imn.i- Vil. TvmilA rnmn down and cut the dike.
The water would all flow Into the great depression
. - .... T ..t-
and a lonr famine woniu reaiw. jpnepn
ika tlnnAt IritifS ntllHn't tT(t their flPCtS ICady
itiaii alio i'v' .
for the successful attack for seven years, and upon
his urgent advice his captors began storing up Kram
against the evil day when the famine would come.
in. n . nmntintln nnrl when ine QIKO wan
captured and cut and the famine cjrae the 'people ;
. . . . A ...1 : .i . . i, tAU,nh van then
OI lower JB)jn. ",v
raised to an exalted position, ana ne jaixr revuun.
the dike and held .it for .forty yearsv
Sir William said that one ot me greai hiibmct
of the ancient historians waa to have Moses leading
t.f. .1 tli Ttnl Sea.. If' MOSCS
had gone to the Red- Sea Jn tho time he Is credited
with taking he would have nau to ieau m ..,
which were many children, across forty-four miles
of desert In twenty-four hdurs.
"Those people who still insist tnat xne isramues
crossed the Red Sea admit that If thoy did so the
Red Sea must have come tip about thirty-one miles
further than It does today, said the speaker. "Why
should It be made to come up tniriy-one mnes jusi
to please these people who havo made a mistake in
translation?"
Moses actually crossed tho River Nile. Hir wiiuam
said, and the way he led his followers, across on
w. in htiltri n. rilke. When the Israelites
had crossed Moses cut the dike and tho Egyptian
army following them was urownea.
"Whllo rKtnrins an old branch of the Nile I did
very much what Moses did In the matter of con
structing a dIKe." said Blr William.
Chicago patriots have raised a ''war cheat"
of 11,260 for the Ulsterites, which win not
more than buy two or three good sized
cartridges.' If Chicago really cared to help -but
Ulster,, it might, disarm its gunmen and ship
over' their munitions and ammunition.
Railroad chorus: "Oh, please, Mr. Inter
state -Comnferce Commission, let us raise our
rates so we can buy more trolley and steamboat'
lines and make the promoters and intermedin
aries rjch. Please do so for the widows and
orphans who are our stockholders."
Seven prominent lawyers of northern Mex
ico have been incarcerated by constitutionalists
charged with pernicious political activity. Now
we. protest! A lawyer never does anything
wrong at least nothing unprofessional.
Brooklyn Eagle; Vera Crux has been
rechrlstencd "Funston " The name may
not stick, but that Is on the knees of the
gods. Mere humanity can only guess
about the future. ,
St. Louis Globe Democrat: The fact
that the British House of Lords voted
down ft woman suffrage proposal Is not
aa surprising as the act that sixty out of
1C4 members voted or It ,
Philadelphia Ledger: Iowa now paya
Its arm help $35 a month and Is calling
for more men. If agriculture keeps ,up
Its Winnings in that part of the country
the hired man may yet get nn clghthgur
day and have moving pictures with hla
course dinner.
New York World; According to all ac
counts, tho man In Mexico who' Is .most
In need of mediation Is one Zapata. He
has 3,000 men; he is within forty miles of
the capital, and the first plank In his
political platfoim contemplates t. J execu
tion of General Huerta.
Pittsburgh DIspMch: Haltlens now real
lie that there are ultimatums and ulti
matums, If they had any Idea the British
were going to sit down to watchfully
wait for that IOJ.O0O they hava learned
their mistake. John Bull la too old a hand
at debt-colleotlng to waste any unneces.
sary words or time.
Baltimore American. 'Judging from the
Ingenuity of the faka reports sent out by
tho Mexican authorities about United
States forces killed by Mexican women
and entanglements of Washington with
European powers, those authorities, When
the inevitable end of their power comes,
ought to make a good living by turning
their attention to writing current fiction.
New York World; Wo may get a cor
rect Idea of tho kind of yqung American
who now serve In the navy and marine
corps from the fact that the bodies of all
who were killed in acUon at Vera Cru
have been claimed by relatives and not
' one Is to be buried In Arlington. A volun
teer .force could hardly have a closer
touch with the homes and hearts ot tha
people.
Philadelphia Record: Dummy treas.
u'ercrs "f subsidiary corporations are
under suspicion. Men who write checks
for a million and a half, without having
any money In their custody, or knowing
what the checks are for. or whe,re they
go. look too much like parts of a scheme
to Jmposo on the public or circumvent
the Jaw. In the New Haven railroad In
vestigation la waa disclosed that a man
who had no Knowledge of the business of
the company served as Its treasurer for
a couple of weeks, during which he drew
two Checks for an aggregate of M.000,000
without knowing why- He got 14 or ti a
day for tha time he served as treasurer
The Republican Valley Editorial asso
ciation will have a meeting at Tranklln
June 12.
George T. Kdson Is the new editor of
the Burchard Times.
Editor Mark W. Murray of the Ponder
Times has purchased an automobile. Ho
has notified his delinquent subscribers
that he needs the money to buy gasoline.
Editor W. H. Smith of the Seward In
dependent Democrat Is r candidate for
the democratic nomination for state audi
tor. A number of editors arc candidates
for county offices. Charles Graves ot
the Union Ledger wants to be county
Judge In Cass county; Fred C. Ayres of
the Holbrook Observer and former oil
Inspector. Is a candidate for the demu.
cratlc nomination for clerk In Furnas
county, and R. B. Enslow of the Hteln
auer Star wants the democratic nomina
tion for clerk In Pawnee county.
SUNNY OEMS.
"How does your boy feel about stay
ing on the farm?"
"Better than he used to," replied Mr.
Cdrntossel. "He has looked It over and
ho says the place has the makln'n ot some
fine golf links." Washington Star.
She Why do they allow policemen to
act so brutally .as actually to torture
pebple?
He They don't. Why do you ask that?
She Well, here's the paper saya a po.
Itceman pinched a gangster and made
him squeal. Chicago Post.
"I don't want to brng about myself. I've
dftne many foolish things In my life, but
I've been wise In one way."
"What's that?"
"1 never had the Idea that I could paper
a bedroom myself." Detroit Frco Press.
"Son, you mustn't carve your name on
.Twice Told Tales
A ViBilant Servant.
a t i-.A nf lilunrtAi (n iinnnsiAil to bft dharac
4 WVIVCWlt , -
. II.. lllKanlan vt thin tnrV 1b told Of &
ID( IBLIWClliy ivvwnM V - -
Frenchman: Prince Talleyrand waa suddenly wakened
.... .. .. . d C -I Utm
one night ny tne aiscnargo ot a. inoim. cmnn mo
valet In the apartment, he' asked, what the trouble Vas.
"Your highness." replied the man, "there was a
mouse In the. room, and fearing It might disturb your
slumber, 1 shot it."
The- Tomam'a Tall.
r.nt.in RHninn it. Davis haa returned from his
annual outing with tho Juniper Hunting club on
Lake George Fla., with a batch pf anecdotes. Sev
.r.i e th.m relate to Jim Rogers, an ancient negro
survival of "de days befoh the wah,' who still- holds
forth on the Juniper hunting preserve and pilots the
Louisville Indians, who otherwise might end up
heaven knows where.
Jim was out with Hugh Kevin one aay. ine
two found a peculiar track. Following, the line ot
what were plainly footprints was a smau- connnuou
furrow. .' " . .
'What kind of a track s that, Jimi" asuea me
puxzled Mr. Kevin.
"Dat's a possum tracK, san, expiwoeu wo u(u
nro. .
"But how does ha make thai rurrowi
"He makes dat furrer wld his tall."
"With hla talir
"Yes. uh. He lets his tall, drag.."
"Why do you auppose helets It drag?"'
"Ah doan know, boss, I Jest reckln' he doan'
.ninn to dat tall. S'pose ho thinks It'll
coma along, anyhow.'-Loulsvllla Times.
People and Events
.- f Mntmwrtv th Massachusetts cen
tra assembly has authorixed a 15.000 statue of Major
General Benjamin F. Butler.- to.be placed Jn the state
house grounds.
History Is repeated In the discovery of the crew
of the wrecked French bark, I.'Tour de Vergune.
safe on a desert Island and unwilling to leave their
duaky wives. For a lasy man there are worse things
than being shipwrecked on a tropical island where
the banana and tha cocoanut flourish- .
Tax; assessors are very disagreeable people. A
bunch of them In Chicago Insist' on knowing what
became of all the money Charles W. Murphy got for
the Chicago National league base ball club. Mr Mur
phy's shoestring led to! a million, but he only re
turned a shoe string for taxation, and didn't swear
to that.
In order to vtslt her husband, who was ninety
miles away, Mrs. Albert Baker, of Eugane. Or., re
cently rode on horseback' IS) miles in four days, part
of tha time riding through a drenching rain. On the
way she had to cross tha Coast Range mountain, over
heavy, muddy roads, and rarely found houses cloeer
than five miles .apart. .
the piano Another such episode and 1 11
punish ou severely."
"Dad, how can you expect me to -arn
my name In the temple of fame when vu
won t let tne get any practice? -Lo'in-villc
Courier-Journal.
THE LILACS,
Houston Toet.
I shsll always sort of hanker when th?
lilac arc In bloom
For their sweetness, born In purple, and
their gladness of perfume. ,
As they looked to ine of morning, an
rain washed or dewy wet;
I can shut my eyes and sec thorn, and be
llevo I smell them yet; -Making
brighter all the dooryard of tho
home I used to know,
Making sweeter all tho borders of the
paths I used to go.
Making eplcndld all the dawnlngs when
nil Ul 11 & c o minima
As they now mako sweet the drcamlngs
or tne llcins oi ycsterunj.
There was one big clump of lilacs, purple
lilacs, and they grew
Close bpsldo the cottage doorway., and we
used to brush the dew
From the sweetness of thotr blossoms
every morning stepping o'er
The old sill, and they grew upward till
their higher branches, bore
Up against my bedroom window; hnd, tap
tapping at tho pane
They would wake me In the morning, to
go whistling down the lane
To the bars to bring the cows up for th(f
morning milking time;
Then all of tho day to play In, run, and
Jump and swim ond climb. , .
But no dreaming will bring lilacs from tho
wayB of long ago. . .
Moro than it brings apple blossoms from'
the trees I uted to know;
Dreaming brings no dewy lanes back,
brings no cows beside the bars
Brings no May born swectneps breathing
through the night beneath the .tars'.
If I haven't got the lilacs I have got tho
roses red,
And wistaria all dew wet on the trellis
overhead;
And tho Jasmine will be blooming, and
the world Is sweet to me.
Till I'm not so very homesick lor the
days that used to bo.
; ;im wr -w
ji'l'lnir"' "-'Iii'
Don't let the dish, washing spoil
the memory of a good meal. Use
GOLD DUST
It quickly makes dishes, pots, pans and
all cooking utensils clean and sweet.
Use it for cleaning everything.
5c and larger packages.
CHICAOO
thm 0BLB BUST TWttt aa jrewr ere"
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The Baek Yard Merchant
Boys, vbii can start a busi-.
ness right in your own backyard,
Arid it -will be a real business, too
one that will allow you to lay
a snug little sum in the bank
every month.
People are anxious to buy good, fresh
eggs every day. Some folks would simply
give anything to know where they could
buy a well bred dog. Other boys in the
city want to buy some pigeons and' rab
bits. Live stock of many kinds is in real
active demand right now.
Your customers will come to you if you
just put a little want ad in the "Poultry"
or the "Live Stock" columns of The Bee
so they will know where to find you.
Some boys have already started doing
this why not try it yourself. It will only
cost a few cents.
Telephone Tyler 1000 '
THE OMAHA BEE
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88 A
400 New Passengers a Day
and 13,000 carloads of now freight were the increases
shown by tho Chicago Great Western last year over
any former year, and this year we are gaining on last
year's record. The figures emphasise the fact that
public favor Is merited only by the road that keeps
abreast of the times, that has sufficient confidence
in the communities it serves to make adequate Im
provements. As we have recently invested sixteen millions of
dollars for improvements and are still Investing largo
sums In betterments, we urge you to Use tho Great
Western for your own interests as well as ours.
TO ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS.
Leave Omaha .
Leave Council Bluffs
Arrive St. Paul . . .
Arrive Minneapolis
....8:30 p.m. 9:30 a. it).
. . . .8:50 ptm. 9; 60 a. m.
....7:30 a.m. 9:55 p.m.
. .8:05 a. m. 10; 2 a p. m.
Ask P. F. BONORDEN, C. P, & T. A.
1822 Farnom Street, Omaha
Phone Douglas 200