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6 THE BEE: OMAIIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916. THE OMAHA DAILY DEE FOUNDED BT EDWARD RQSKWATER. VICTOR ROSBWATER, EDITOR. Tha He Publishing Company, Proprietor. BtB KCILDINQ. TARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Kntered at Omaha port office aa e-eond-claae natter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mall par month. pr rur. Patty and Sunday aso.. $ Twilir without Sunday....' f 4.00 livening end Sunday e on Fvening without Sunday ........ ..Jto...... 4.00 Sunday Boa only - 1.0 u.iu wi dummy toee. three yeere In advance. . . .I10.0 er.i notice of change of ad dree or comr-lalnta irregularity n delivery to Umaiia Bee, Circulation lfrrlmtnt REMITTANCE. It mil by draft, express or postal order. Only two rent stamps received In payment tit small a" minta. Personal check, eirept on Omaha and eastern i ninie, not accepted. OFFICm Omaha Tha Be Building. Hmith Omaha OH N street. Council Hluffa It North Mala, street lncoln-?s Little Building. Chlcajro 01 Henrst Building. Saw Vara Room 110. 2i Fifth avanua. t. Lome W3 New Hank of Commtrra, Washington ? Fourteenth street, N. W. ' CORREJSrONDKNCB. Addresa communications relating to new and d. torlal mutter to Omaha Ilea, Editorial Department. JAXl'ARY CIRCCLATIOX. 53,102 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, aa: Dwlght William, circulation manar of Tha Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, aaya that tha average circulation for tba month of January. 111, waa M.lftl. lWKJHT WILLIAM", Clrenlatlnn Manager. Subscribed in my prnennce an-t (worn to bafora ma, tti la Id day of February, 1U. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public wnharril? leaving the city temporarily Uoutd hare The Bm mailed to them. Ad dreuui will be changed aa often aa reqooated. Cheer up! Tba worst li over! Woodrow Wilton consents to run. It la never out of season to build up home Industries by buying Omaha-made goods. Foxy Bob hasn't worked in tba court bouse for a feneration without knowing; who's who. "Met" seams to be afraid folks won't know ha Is off tba reservation unless he raises a war-whoop. For a man who has been killed off so many times. Villa, manage to keep the reporters tol erably busy. 81111, every patriot anxious to ventilate a wet or dry subject la at liberty to hire a ball and go to It Dyers and cleaners should not forget that oil companies need the money to pay 60 par cent dividends. If Omaha Is to get that long-delayed Dodge street viaduct. It will have to apeak, softly and carry a big stick, and very likely use tha stick. . Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first president of the C'bnese republlo, has married hi private sec retary. How fast the orient la being Ameri canized In thought and Itablts,, .v ' x " I -- Tha proposed electric contract might be worth while If It guarantees sufficient current tn Illuminate tbe darkness that surrounds pur chases of fire department supplies. Much aa Douglas county prides Itself on tha decorative art of the court house, tba real ar tistic touch Is rot on the walls or ceilings, but ia the doughbag of naturalization fees. Owing to circumstances beyond their con trol tha Buckeyes must defer an answer to Mr. Wilson's valentine until November 7. Tha delay (fives ample time for underscoring tha lines, Hurling challenges for Joint debates on labile questions hava not been productive of rcrults so far. A desire to shine by reflected light is heightened by the fifty-fifty spilt of expenses. ' A large portion of the residence section of Seattle Is reported sliding toward tha sea. Whether tha move is In tha Interest of urban sanitation or tha conservation of webfeet ia anybody"! guess. Tha city wilt readvertlse for bids for auto fire equipment, , with notice tn advance from certain commissioners that they will favor buying a particular make of machine, re gardless of price. Imagine a private business corporation making Us purchases on this plan. Abolition of personal taxation and tba sub stitution of a tax on Incomes over 1 1.500 is proposed In a tentative bill fathered by the re publican majority of the New York legislature. Personal taxation has become a burlesque In tbe tin pi re state, and the Income tax method Is considered the next available means of mak ing invisible wealth bear Us share of the cost of government. Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha Compiled freaa Baa file a. " The Gun club la making arrangement! for tha elite Fportmen'a association martin, which occur tn Omul. a in June, and haa appointed romnittteea to look afler tha detail aa follows: Tournament. Oeorga E, Kay. F. 8. Pannalee and C. B, Lane; banquet, Ueorge T. illll. W. II. 8. Hugh, George. 8. Smith, II. A. Worley. H. B. Kennedy, Ed I-eeder; rallroada anil hotels. Thomaa B. Cotter, Jeff W. Bedford. Henry Kaufman n the l-K) music raffled off at r-eil'a drug tore. John Paul Brea who has for some time bt-en a prominent lawyer la tvdar Rapid, baa located la Oiiiaha. Ralph Modleeka today received from friends la Philadelphia a . large and handaom bloodhound In a box and tt ia eavage enough to frifhtun off all tbe ttamt in tha atate. W. J. Fountain, who baa a grocery (tore on Hetmder atreet wish It distinctly understood that iiettiier he nor his wile la a relative of the noted J. i. fountain, who once had a store on Podge atrcet. The old fire bell which rang aa. many alarms In tha pest twenty year waa taken front tha towa hall at Fiftenth and r'arnam streets to be placed etbova It new quarter above No. S of Harney street. Slips Smith Through Small Hole. Judge Sears has decided thst tha clerk of the district court In Douglaa county may retain the fees he collects In naturalisation cases,1 be cause no Nebraska statute specifically directs that these particular feea be turned over to the county. This comas aa atrange doctrine from a Judge who a very few years ago pursued a slate treasurer of Nebraska with real to com pel him to turn Into tha treasury the proceeds of a bond deal he put over while acting as state treasurer, although tba transaction was outside his official .duties. Tbe law requlrea that all fees collected by tbe clerk of tbe courts in excess of $4,000 In Douglas county be turned over to the county tressurer. Judge Sears evades this provision by holding that tba naturalisation of foreign born citizens Is work done outside the regular duties of clerk of tha court, and does not, therefore, fall under the statute. The federal law governing tba naturalisation of foreigners requires that tha act be done in a court of record; it does not stipulate that the clerk of the court must keep tha records, but where else csn It be dona, and who else will do ltT Ac cording to the Judge's reasoning, this service Is optlonsl with tha clerk of the courts, and when done by him Is a favor conferred upon tha public. Aside from the legal aspect of the question, which has been so sorely twisted, what about tha moral obligation resting on the man who promised, if elected, he would take tha office and be content with the munificent salary at tached to it? How does his present fee-grab square with his record when he was auditor for tha county? It a easy to recall how Auditor Smith pursued other county officers, soma of whom had been out of office for many yeara, demanding that they turn over feea, even going to tha end, of compelling tha county Judge to cover marriage aervlca fees Into tha county treasury. No law of Nebraska requires the county Judge to perform the marriage cere mony, but ha la authorized ao to do If ha is called on and electa to. How does bis case differ from that of the clerk of the court In registering tha oath of a foreigner applying for citizenship? A mighty small hole will serve sometimes, when a culprit is caught in a tight place, but tha Seara decision is not final and tha case should be appealed without delay. Position Permanently Delicate. Washington correspondents Just now lay great emphaata on the fact that the United States la in a delicate position between tha belligerents, because of tbe memoranda sent to the warring powers by Secretary of Stat. Lansing, dealing with tha status of armed mer chantman. Aa a matter of fact, It is not mora delicata than tha entlra situation ' has tan since tha war commenced. Our government has been compelled to choose the right course on many cecaaious, soma of them decidedly criti cal, without regard to the position of tha bel ligerents, On almost every question that haa arisen ona or the other aide haa sought to gain advantage, and thla wa hava bad to ignore. Tha position of a neutral ia always delicate, for tha balance must be held even between tha contending powers, or neutrality falls. In tha present Instance, tha right ia against tha Al lies, but tha decision of the United States will ba upheld regardless of this fact. Great Britain Yield t Point The British government has announced a modification In lta practice of dealing with car goes seised on neutral bottoms, that will ba of soma benefit to shippers. Hitherto It haa been tha practice to aell at once perishable goods when aeized, .and to establish tha Innocent character of tha shipment after. This course waa attended by such delay and accompanied by such charges that tha value of tha cargo waa generally consumed before the proceedings cam to an. end, and tha shipper was forced to pocket tha loss. Tha change made la to dis pense with tba exorbitant chargea heretofore made, and to provide for compensation to tha shipper, In event of the cargo being declared innocent. This removea ona of tha causes of aggravation, but ! does not entirely free neutral shipping from tbe embargo put upon It by tha "order tn council." It doea show, however, that tha British government is not entirely Im pervious to the protests of neutrals, and fur ther concessions may yet be forced. Churches Getting Down to Work. Omaha evangelical churches are preparing for an active campaign for membership along lines that ought to produce a substantial In crease In tha number of communicants. At any rate, the effort that la promised will hava the aupport of a considerable .number of tha present membership who were not directly con cerned in tbe recent big revival held her. It Is intended that responsibility shall ba placed oi the several pastors and their congregatlona, and that tha work ia to ba personal. Tha pastors admit that, ao far aa Increase in membership la concerned, the sensational Sunday campaign was productive of alight 'results. From this they will turn to the quieter method of per arnal effort. Thla seems Ilka a mora rational course, for the man-to-man appeal la much more apt to create effects of mora permanent value than a "wboop 'em up" revival. 'Church life In Omaha ia not at a low abb, nor has It been, all testimony to tha contrary lacking the aupport of fact. Tha earnest Christian men and women of the town are Us best asset, and their unity of purpose can not fall to accomplish good. It will be interesting to compare tha accomplishment of tha proposed campaign 'with what has passed. Advance calculations on the profits from business on hand puts the steel trust's earnlaga for tha first half of thla year at f 110.000,000. Other steel companies are reported equally prosperous. A postscript to the showing Inti mates that tha companies are "satisfied with present profits on commercial steel." which Im plies rare moderation of appetite. To the masterful geniuses who designed the Rock Island receivership, the schema cf boosting expenses to bolster a demand for higher rstes would bo a minor detail of man agerial strategy. The Winder of the Sponge a- Oerrett 1. 8ervtee. A CORRESPONDENT asks tt a sponge Is aaimil Ufa. Sponge era among tha moat wonderful and punllng of animal. Tha sponge of our bathrooms la tha soft skeleton of one of the apaclea of this remark able creature, which represent on of tha very oldet forma of life on our (lob, having laited through sue ceealva geologic periods for ten of millions of yeara, although It be I one to aa offshoot which "haa led to nothing else" that Is to say, which has produced by evolution no higher form than Itself. If you will visit tha American Museum of Natural History you will aee ppeclmena and models of sponge that will fill you with amassment and admiration by their Intricate and beautiful ahape and their delicate and varied color. A living kponga I a kind of cell city. If you can imagine thouaanda of fllameee twins all Joined Into ona composite body you will have an idea of the kind of multiplex animal that a aponge is. But, of course, you must not drive the comparison too far. , A cell ha Ufa and activity, but it ha no organ Ilka a high and more complex animal. "Sponge," say a soologlat (J. A. Thomson), "are living thickets in which many mall animal play hide and seek." Formerly many thought that sponge were a kind of seaweed. They grow attached to rock, ahelle and other objects in tha water, and nearly all live in tha ea, although there I a fresh-water tpecie called tpongllla. Tha skeleton or framework of a sponge 1 formed. In om specie, of carbonate of lima (which constitute the greater part of our own bones); In other species, of silica, a flinty substsnce, and in atlll others, of a horn-Ilk material. Sponges manage to draw their food within their reach by setting up currenta in the water. If you and your family were micro aco pic organisms, dwelling In tlia neighborhood of a aponge, you might aome morn ing find that you war being awept along by a gentle eurrent, aa soothingly unsuggestlve of Its real import a tha little shore addles a mile above Niagara; and when, too lata, you awoke to tha situation, you would ba rushing through a crooked tuba, with hundreds of eilla (living hair) reaching for you from every aide, and 'you and yours would quickly become tha sub jects of "Intra-eellular digestion." Prof. Thomson, whom I hava already quoted, gives thta very graphic description of tha way in which a cup-ehaped aponga Uvea: "Tha particle are drawn la through minute pores alt over the aurface of tha aponge; they paaa Into tha oavlty of tha cup, and they are driven out again In a stream from the large upper aperture. To what , are the currenta due? Obviously to tha lashing activity of the ciliated cells. "The community Is Venice-like, penetrated by canaJa. By these, food and other necessaries are con tinually supptiad to the houses, or cells, on the bank, and a constant eurrent Is sustained by tha Ufa of tha city. But many spongaa are wary much mora complicated than tha simple cup-ahaped variety described by Prof. Thomson. Their general schema of living, however, is about the same. Bpongea spread Uke plants by building. They also have sasee. In tha calcareous sponges the ovum Is fertilised by t&e germ-coll born to It by water. From the ovum emery a hollow sphere constating of cells, and this ephetw Is for a time a free-swimming or ganism whloft finally fixes Itself for life to a rock. Then tba true sponge, In tha forma which w know, begins to grow. Tha fresh-water sponges dia in tha autumn, except that certain groups of call, forming "gemmulea," sur vive during the winter, and In tha spring float away to form new sponge. These consist of males, which are short-lived, and females, which llv longer. From tha latter is born another generation, which dies tn the autumn like the first. . . '-r .. " ' i , 8 pongee have anemlea, such aa but owing worm a, and It has been thought that tha sharp plculaa,'er flint knives, which many of them contain, and which cut like little rasor-bladea, form a part of their de fensive armament v ' Some of them, tower er, are themselves aggressive. There ia a minute specie which bore hole t oyster shells, and others fasten themselves to crabs and thus get carried about, The most remarkable of these little traveling apongea la a small, oran re -colored species which aelects for Its domicile a buokia ahell that Is inhabited by a hermit crab, aa if It knew that in this way It would get a free ride for Ufa, Sometime. It to aald, tha sponge boree clear through the ahell and thus spoils its auto, for than the crab gate out Twice Told Tales Te glsAilau-Hy. The new coBgressma happened into a barber shop and sat down In the chair of a venerable negro barber. "Uncle," said tha St. Loulsan. "I guess you've tiaved a good many prominent men In your time, haven't you?" "Tea sun, X has, sun," came the reply. "I haa shaved eenatuha and cabinet merabaha and congress men who. have made history, auh. Why, auh, I has used this very raauh on President Orant, auh." " "I suppose you got to known om of them pretty welir asked the congressman, much Impressed. "Tea. suit. Yes, sub. I did, uh. I was jea notic ing something about yon that's Jes Ilka President Grant, snh." "What Is it. uncle? Tbe shape of my head. I sup pose," asked tha flattered St. Leulsan. "No. auh. It am your breff." t Louis Globe Democrat Met TUa a HImi. He was a very shy young man. far two long year he had been paying her attention and had not yat oven aqoaeaed her hand. Ona evening, as they lingered tn tha shadow of the trees by her gate, ha asked timidly: "Florence, would you might I. er would you mind if I placed, one reverent klaa on your fair hand tonlglit whan I leave you? Florence thought be wanted apeedlag up. So the dropped her head ooyly on his ahoulders, lifted her face temptingly to his and replied: "Well, Oeorga, I should think It decidedly out ft place." Philadelphia Ledger. People and Events The "gentleman'a eoreet" recommended by tha tailors association and endorsed by fashionable docior strictly speaking la cot a eoraet. but a "basque" and la esteemed aa aid to health and manly beauty. A fat man properly baaqued Improvee bis front 100 per cent. Pic t urea of Dr. James B. Angel, president em eritus at the University of Michigan, are on the news paper circuit la honor of his eighty-seventh birthday anniversary. These show the doctor wearing tl most imposing bunch of galway whlakers seen la print since Horace Greeley's day. The tateet trail broken through the wtlda of bache tordom la Oklahoma lead right up to the door of the bachelor governor, Richard Leptouer WUllama. Aa la customary with high loneeoinea, tha governor talnka h knows the deflaienciee of the opposite sex, and re mark ad en state eooasloaa how Uttle old stuUda know about domes tlo duties and tha Joys of wadded living. Tbe "Old Maids' union" ot Muakogee accepted tha challenge and delicately roasted the governor in thla ladyalilp faahloa: 'By reason of your exerted position, you should se. an example that all aaeii of the as of II would immediately emulate, and at aa encouragement, we respectfully submit ourselves M willing to assist you ia gaining tha knowledge and experlt-nce ou deplore iu othera" Appreciation at Hassle w letters. OMAHA, Feb. U.-To tha Editor of Tha Pee: For a forelfrner, and especially aa Englishman, Mr. Powys displayed deep knowledge end remarkable penetration Into the very depth of RusMan literature, Russian character, Russian soul. For a Russian, who I somewhat familiar with hla native literature and who on several occasions lectured and wrote on Russian lltreature, Mr. Powys' presentation of the Dostoievsky and other Russian intellec tual giant waa very pleasing. Espe cially wa his definition of the pecullari clally was I delighted with his definition of the peculiarities and idioms of the Rus sian language, which Mr. Powys. while not familiar with the Russian tongue, not being a Russian, haa sensed it by soma son or intuition. He uttered exactly my views, which I have expressed In my lec ture on Pushkin before the graduating claa of the students of the University of Nebraska, where I stated aa follows: "It will probably sound exagfferated to say that of all tha languages, even of the different Slavonian tongues, the Russian Is the most superb. There Is not another language in tha world In which one can so well axpresa tha finest tha most deli cate and the deepest emotion of tha soul as In Russian. No language haa the ma terial, the resources, the riohnesa, the softness, the variety of words that the Russian ha. The manifold expressions for tha many variations of the human feelings and soul are so easily and beau tifully rendered In that language. The Russian language ia adapted for poetry, as the Italian la for music, and the work of the great poets of Germany, France and England are far euperlor in their Russian translation than In tha original. Shakespeare genius la shown up to far better advantage In Russian than in hie native tongue, and tha lyrics of Schiller, Heine, Shelly, etc., are more musical and enchanting in Russian than In tha orig inal. It la tha construction of the lan-guaa-e and the character of tha nation that makes the Russian tongua ao superb, so heavenly beautiful. The Russian folk aongs, folk lores, are ao rich In expres sion and emotions that one oan hardly read them without bringing; tears to tha eyes. The Russian nation la a nation full of sorrow, grief and hardships. Tha serf dom, the absolutism of tha autocrats, haa crushed tha spirit of tha naturally gifted nation, and no wonder that In tha poetry and muaio of Ruaala tha minor tone is always prevailing and the poems are sobs and heart-breaking cries for delivery from oppression and longing for freedom. Hf, and civilisation." To understand tha Russian aoul. tha depth of it or iu pecullarlUee, whioh are so different and ao divergent from any other nation, ona need not read tha Ut ereture which is acoeaslbto to only a very few non-Rusalana: ona needa only to atudy other branches of Russian art such as Russian painting. Russian music or Russian dancing. What a world of passion, what a depth of amotion, wild and stormy outburst of fantasy, thought philosophy, plaintiveneas and Joy, all in tha same aoul and body. Tha "Message of the Xosak." by Ms wofky, tha famous painting which took the world by storm when exhibited at the World 'a fair In Chicago, or "The Re turn of the Kxlle." by Rapln, ambodtee exactly tha qualltlea expressed above. Tha wild, stormy, bravado spirit of the Koaak Is in such a contrast to tha paint ing of tha return of the Russian ex ile, who meets his family after years of separation, when he left hie wife young and beautiful, his children small, only to return home to find his wife old and care-worn, hla children grown to manhood and womanhood, and then tha exlla stands at tha threshold of hla home un recognised by his wife and children, be cause tha hardship of tha fct-erlan exile has transformed him to an old broken down man. What a world of emotion, pity and heartrending- Is laid down in that famous canvas. Such a genius aa Rapln is possible only on Russian soil, where conditions can create such a subject for an artist and only a Russian artist oan reproduce it in olL Now-, where will yon find a second Pavlowa or a Mordkln? where will you find auch a tempest of emotion, ava lanche of passion, auch a flame and fire emlnattng from every quivering fiber of their muscles aa expressed by these two famous Russian dancers? There Is such a superabundance of soul even in their solos, er look at tha Russian folk dances, or listen to tha Russian folk songs.. What a mixture of careless, reckless bravado and heart-rending cries and pitiful moan ing for liberty and plaintiveneas against tyranny and oppression. Yes. Mr. Powys grasped the soul of tha Russian, aa a Russian himself eould do no better. While he spoke of tha Russian literature only, he undoubtedly would have paid the same tribute to the other branches of the Rusalan art in tha aame masterly, passionate fashion. It waa a grand and delightful treat to hear Mr. Powya and to tha ladles of the Art society in charge of the art exhibit who brought Mr. Powya to Omaha to lecture, the people of Omaha owe a deep gratitude. I am sure I do. DR. E. HOIvOVTCniNHR. Aftexasath af "Billy" Saaday Casa tsatarau OMAHA. Feb. 15. To tbe Editor of Tha Ree: Recent public utterance by two -of Omaha's most prominent minister calls for a public protest let by our silence w be thought to conaent I refer to th statement quoted in the papers from re cent sermons by Dr. Rous of the First Congregational church, who haa resigned and left tha city, and of Dr. Lowe of tha First Methodist church, the former tear ing down the doctrines cf the Christian faith, the latter the ideals of Christian conduct by hla remarks at a meeting of a Drama club of thla city before which ha lectured. Neither of these men haa pub licly denied the tatemenU attributed to them, ao that I take it for granted that they were correctly quoted. Dr. Rous la quoted aa denying the Bible story of creation and the person ality of the devil. With amaalng lncon slstency he save ha would rather truat the spiritual vision of Jeeus than any other, ye. he deniea that which Jesus be lieved in, the personality of 8atan. Open the Goapela almost at random and there will be found clear atatementa by the Lord showing His belief in the exlstenoe of a personal devil. Why not believe Hla word here ss well as His teachings on immortality? It to not of any particular credit to Dr. Rouse that be, a Christian, believes In the immortality of the soul, when even heathens without the light of the Gospel have conaclousneaa ot their immortality. What the dootor aaya oon eemlng Jeaus rising higher than any other lead one to bellov that he doe not believe in the Deity, mark th word, tha Deity of the Lord Jeaus Christ. By auch teachlnga from tbe pulpit ia tha cause of Jesus Christ hindered mora than word eaa tell. Tba devil will eaaUy forgive thee men the fling they had at haw in the Billy Sunday campaign, la tha satisfaction be must feel In having than further his causa in thla way. Why a church at all? If there to no devil and no sin, why need of a Savior and a Gos pel? Th Congregational ehurch makea much of "Founders' Day." If these had been the conviction of th founders; there would have bean no Pilgrim Fathers, na Plymouth Rock, no Congregationalism. It Is aald to think that tha work of th fathera is to be torn to shreds by the sons. Tha fact that such views can be preached In churches for years without a protest show to what tha church has com. A man with views like that ought to atep out not alone from tha pulpit of ona church to accept th pulpit of "an other, but he has "no place In th Chris tian ministry at all. If there Is to ba no formal statement of Christian doctrine there la absolutely nothing to preach. And then, why ahould unbelief be allowed to state Its disbelief and faith not be allowed to state it belief. It would b almost laughable If It were not o trajrlo, to aee churches and min isters confessing their failure to win men to the Christian I If and faith, calling in a man Ilka Billy Sunday, who stands firmly on th okl Bible ground, the old time religion, to procure reaulta for them. And he achieved results. These men and churches, who it seems with mental reservatlona joined in th campaign in order to get results, make tha prodigoua mistake of aacriblng tha auccea to th method rather than the doctrine. So they adopt the method and caat away the doctrine by which th soul were saved. What, must one think of their sincerity when tha evangelist haa hardly had time to leave town before thy are engaged In tearing at th foundation uron which he achieved rulta. In the real work of aavlng aoula after the cam paign tha lay member of the church hav been mora active than tha ministers, many of them, seem to ba. While th min isters are blasting at the Rock of Ages the men of the churches aretrylng to get other to truat th Rock. Dr. I -owe haa not attacked the doctrines of the Bible, but he has made utterances that have hurt the cause of th Christian church In lta fight for separation from the evil of th world. He speaks on th drama befor a drama club. Imagine John Wesley doing tha same. Imagine the founder of Methodism In this country doing the same. He sarcastically talk of th view old-fashioned. Again w say, that if the founders of Methodism had had hla convlctlona there would have been no Methodist church. Methodism arose aa a protest against the worldllness of th ministry and the church. The old Methodist went out from the world and It pleasures, dancing, card playing and theater going and the rest. Their devoted Christian life bore fruit In a revival that aaved England from ruin and that haa blessed the wholde world. And now the descendants of these mighty men of God are tearing down the walls which they reared between them and the world. The views of the Christian' conduct which Dr. Lowe holds will never produc the result that the convlctldn of those who founded the church In which ha oc cupies a pulpit produced. And. again, the Inconsistency of these views with the acta and words at the Billy Sunday tabernacle. There Dr. Lowe, together with a crowd of mlnlstera, after Billy Sunday' terrlflo arraignment of the card-playing, dancing and theater-going church member, took his stand on the platform with Mr. Sunday aa a sign that ba heartily accorded with the truths pre sented and called upon hi people to for sake these thing and to live a life separ ate from the world. And then auch utter ance as thesel Th Billy Sunday cam paign was a demonstration of what th ehurch, cleansed from these things, stand ing on the ground of tha old faith oan accomplish, and here that stand la so soon abandoned. I firmly believe that the reaulta ot the campaign had been in finitely greater if the mlnlaters with fifll heart had believed as Mr. Sunday doe. And th reaulta achieved will soon dis appear if this work of tearing at the old faith continues. I writ all of this with sorrow In my heart, that these thing should be. God help His church. FREDERIC E, PA MP. Pastor Swedish Evangelical Mission Church. ia Unsanitary Railway Station. WATERLOO. Neb.. Feb. . To the Editor of The Bee: While in the town of Decatur, in the northeastern part of Burt county, Nebraska. I recently had occa sion to wait in the railroad station at that point about three-quarters of an hour for my train. I found th station in so unusually un sanitary a condition that I feel con strained to write your paper In regard to it in tha hope that someone In authority, who ia Interested in tha public health, will take step immediately to hava the Decatur railway station made fit tor pub lic use. I believe that persons whose duty it 1 to safeguard publlo health hava been derelict In their duty. Such place as tha Decatur station are tha breeding places of millions of germ, from whence come much disease, and thoaa In author ity should order the station agent or whoever Is responsible, to clean up at ear. I hav done much traveling In th mid dle west and have never been In a publla building which was In greater need of a thorough cleansing. GEORGE SEYMOUR. LAUGHING GAS. "Everybody Is progressiva these day." "How now?" "I se the Inhabitants of the South seas are equipping their idol with electric light for eye." Louisville Courier Journal. Crawford If you go to war you're likely to be killed. 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