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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BV EDWARD KOSEWATM VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBI BKI PUBLISHING COMPANY, PBOPWETOttT" EnUrr at Omaha poatoffiee aa oond-lMi mattar. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier aer month B.llr end Suadar...' SSo..... tallr without Sunder 4 Evening and Sunday 40e..... Kvenina without Sunder 2Se..... Sunday Boo only ! By Man par year. 4.00 0.00 ..... 400 J.00 Dally and Sunday Boa, three yoara ia ateaaee, Send notice of change of addreta or Irreiularlty In if rivory to Omaha Bee, Cireulatloa Deportment. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, expreie or poetal order. Only l-eent ttampa taken In payment of email accounte. Pereonal ehoeke, except on Omaha and eaatern eachansa. not aeeopte. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bulldtnt. South Omaha 2118 N etreet. Council Bluff 14 North Main atreet. Lincoln 420 Little Buildint. Chlcaro tlS Paople'a Gaa Bnildln. New York Room MS. 880 Fifth avenue. St Louie 01 New Bank of Commerce. Weahineton 71S Fonrteenth etreet, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Addreee oommnnleatlona relattnf to newa and editorial realtor U Omaha Boa, Editorial Department. JULY CIRCULATION. 57,569 Daily Sunday 52,382 DwixM Wflllame, circulation manaaer of The Boa Pnhliihlnt company, hainr duly aworn, eara that the average circulation for the month of July, lllo, waa ?. daily and 52.JIJ Sunday. DWIOHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Snbeeribcd rn my preaenee and sworn to hefc me thla d day of Autuet, 1S1S. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary PuWU, Subecribart rearing tfce city temporarily should haw Tt Bat mailed to them. Ad it will be changed aa sftoa a requeated. Hughes has em on tbe run toward the rear. v Watch King Corn surprite his enemies on the home stretehl .r'v "Strict accountability" is also in for a real test : in the railroad wage dispute. Put the Nebraska state fair at Lincoln down on your calendar for the first week in September. Members of the land bank board are going to have a nice summer excursion, anyway, whatever cist may be coming to them later. i At the rate the democrats are speeding up with appropriations, the federal treasury Is bound to take on the aspect of a squeezed lemon. Our democratic friends do not .like the speeches which Mr. Hughes is making. He Is scoring altogether too many, center shots to suit them. ' ' Democrats in congress are scraping the bottom . of the revenue can without finding enough lucre ( to meet the padded bills. Appropriating the money before getting it steadily carves ' the : party's epitaph. 1 - . .That Illinois laborer who has just Inherited $200,000 slice of his uncle's fortune deserves more sympathy than congratulation. Any job of labor is an eight-hour stunt beside the continuous task of holding on to S roll of easy money. " In his political advertising, the democratic senstor. from Nebraska pretends that he has stead fastly upheld the hand of President Wilson and accorded sincere support to all the administration measures. Call Mr, Bryan back to the witness standi .!.w:V-v;:t?V .- " ; Senator Tom Tsggart again protests against . the extravagance, sod .vast waste of the democratic congress. ..The enormity of the party's incompe tence in public affairs may be inferred from the fact that Indiana's junior, .senator can't stand 'or it U: v , ... Holding Them to Strict Accountability. The party in power is always answerable for its record of performance or lack of performance and is properly called to account for its miscon duct of affairs or its failure to redeem pledges. It has been the invariable practice in all national campaigns to subject to the severest test a presi dent seeking re-election as a popular endorse ment of what he has done during his first term. It is not the novelty of Mr. Hughes' attack on the Wilson administration, therefore, that evokes the protests of the democrats, but the fact that the democratic record is so vulnerable and so wanting in material for defense that makes the democratic organs seek shelter by charging that the exposure violates propriety. The people mutt not be allowed to forget that President Wilson and the democratic party were invested with power four years ago on a platform arraigning the republicans for all sorts of ter rible things for profligate waste of public money, for bringing about the high cost of living, for the Payne-Atdrich tariff bill, for proposing a federal reserve bank system, for so-called militarism in the Philippines. President Wilson went into power also upon numerous distinct pledges. The democratic platform adopted at Baltimore, for example, promises a one-term presidency, future presidential nominations by direct primary, hon est enforcement of the civil service law, reduced cost of living, a strictly revenue tariff, a strength ened anti-trust law, exemption of American ships from Panama canal tolls, a return to simplicity and economy in government and a reduction of the number of useless offices every one of which promises haa been flagrantly violated despite the additional solemn assurance that "our pledges are made to be kept when in office aa well as relied upon during the campaign." Another disregarded plank, most vital of all, reads: "We pledge our selves anew to preserve the sacred rights of American citizenship at home and abroad." In the face of the record, is it any wonder the democrats would like to claim immunity from humiliating exposure and destructive criticism? No wonder they would prefer campaign platitudes and generalities to the specific indictments that Mr. Hughes is piling up and on which the demo crats fear to go before the court of public opinion. The new dean of' our Creighton Medical uni versity declares the infantile paralysis scourge that is carrying off so many children in New York is nothing bat s newspaper epidemic; He knows how to get the free advertising by telling people what they like to hear. Congressman Hay sssumes responsibility for the "joker" in the army bill. As is usual with legislative "jokers," the Hay job was accomplished in the dark and slipped over without the knowl edge of the legislative body., The achievement furnishes s personal measurement , of the man . whom the president seeks to promote to the fed eral bench. . . ' ' When the great European war broke out every -report had the aged emperor, Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary, on the verge of death and car ried complete assurance that the old man could not possibly bear up lorg under the new burdens of grief and responsibility. But here he is, after two years of the fight, with no visible deterloraton - from the wear and tear. He is certainly s wonderl No, there is no question as to the Issue of railroad regulation between the republican and the democratic national platforms. The republic ans recognize the outstanding fact that the trans portation system of the whole country, as now de veloped, is s unit and must eventually be con trolled by one central authority, white the demo 'crats still cling to the obselete ideal of forty-eight independent and conflicting regulating bodies. Mr. McAdoo Stands Pat The democratic secretary of the treasury isn't going to be stampeded by any criticism that may be lodged against his management of affairs, so far as it has to do with the removal of employes, par ticularly republicans, to "reward deserving demo crats," He says the public ian't interested, which is the euphemism for "it's nobody's business." It was within his power to remove Mr. Clapp, who was an old and experienced officer, having risen through all grades of the service, and who had served under many administrations, and he did it. Battery Dan" Finn has long been a potent factor in creation' of democratic majorities on the lower end of Manhattan island, and where could a more deserving democrat be found than "Battery Dan's" own sonr So the younger Finn got the place Clapp vacated under pressure. Suppose John G. Carlisle, when he was secretary of the treasury. did take Clapp for his confidential clerk? What did Carlisle, or Grover Cleveland, or any of that lot know of democracy as exemplified by Wilson, MCAdoo, Bryan, Kedneld, Burleson and that ilk? Mr. Cleveland's greatest quarrel with his party came over s matter that will never be laid at the doors of Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Cleveland stood firmly for the enforcement of the civil service law, ana headed 08 s proposed raid by his Partisans. That law is now s dead letter and is treated as a good joke by the president, his son-in-law and other of the leaders, whose effrontery in removing capable officers to reward political workers is only equalled by their hypocrisy in pretending to improve tne service. A Speechless Congress , nttabarik Dlipatca. Senator William Joel Stone of Missouri, chair man of the committee on foreign relations, sur prised the senate the other day by saying that in view of the fact that the newspapers no longer printed speeches he had thrown into the waste basket speeches that he had labored, on and pre pared, speeches that he wanted to make and that he just hated to suppress. ' If I believed," said he, "that the speeches that I have incubated would be taken up by these men up there in the press gallery and exploited before the millions of men and women who read their papers, I doubt if there is any power in the senate or outside that could keep me from delivering them. I would sure make them. But, at it is, I know what would happen if I made them. If , these newsmen said anything about them at all, they would have the good judgment, the discrim inating taste, to confine their observations to a space about as long as my index finger. That is true of all of us, and we all know it. Then," he concluded with a burst of supreme common sense, "what are you making these speeches for?" , , . , What indeed? It is not necessary to deliver speeches to get them in the Congressional Record tinder leave to print but who reads the Congress ional Record? The senatorial orator might as well ' unbosom himself to the birds from the top of the Washington monument so far at result or satis faction goes. The press gallery in the senate and house merely reflects the attitude of the public it serves m censoring unnecessary speeches. Who rraus long-wiuaca speecnes nowadays f , One Doctor's Bequests to Humanity. 1 Dr. John Murphy of Chicago left a million dollars, and no will. He did express a wish that hit body be devoted to the uses of science, but made no disposition of his property. This cir cumstance would be unique, and perhaps entitle Dr. 'Murphy to entry to the news columns for a moment. But he left something of far greater importance to humanity than money or his pale cadaver. His great bequest is the "Murphy but ton," a simple device that has made intestinal surgery safer than the most ambitious scientist before his time dreamed of. Dr. Murphy found scientista limited by conditioni that all but for bade laparotomy.- The body was opened only when certain death threatened the victim. His courage and skill, with hit splendid qualifications for imparting hit knowledge by example and pre cept, established a new era in curative surgery. Relief has been given millions who would have died before Dr. Murphy thowed how to tuccor them. Surgeont throughout the world bono hit name, and his memory will last while the science endures, No millions of money ever minted can match the monument made for this man by the Murphy button.. Products of the Playground. , Mahdan park it well named. The Mandans were blue-eyed Indians, who lived iri houses, and practiced the arts of an effeminate civilization. They withered and perished in the presence of t more vigorous race. Far be it from us to chide the dead and gone Mandan for living uo to his light. In Omaha we have the Mandan playground, where demonstration of results achieved during the summer was held on Sunday, taking on the form of an exhibition of patchwork quilts. The" prize was won by a sturdy lad, who thowed un. usual adaptability and excellent proficiency with a needle. Somersaults and flipflaps are given over at the Mandan playgrounda for the more in. vigorating pastime of piecing quilt blocks. Sew ing carpet rags will take the place of the turning pole, tnd the muscle grind will be supplanted by the crochet needle. 'If ever the youngsters must indulge in really violent exercise, they will be per mitted to participate in the active game of "but ton, button," an admirable substitute for base ball and similar sports. For this we raise them. " Secretary McAdoo waves aside the charge of packing me flew York custom house with Tarn many braves. (Attaching Battery Dan Finn's fam ily to the federal payroll is of little consequence in itself, but illustrates in a striking manner the party policy of placing incompetent political heel ers in one of the most important divisions of the public service. . . The right Of art employer to discharge an env pioye lor attending the state camp of military in ttruction ia before the courta of New York. It is the first time the issue haa been raised in the courts and its progress to a decision will be watched with more than local interest. 1 iohav Thought Nugget for the Day. Have lovel Not love tor one aione, But as man thy brother call; And scatter like the circling sun. Thy charities on all. Schiller. One Year Ago Today in the War. Russians claimed further progress in Caucasus campaign. Austrians bombarded Belgrade, dui cezgeu when Serbians began shelling Semlin and Pan- scova. Germans pushed Russians back from Kubisko and advanced from northwest and south toward Brest-Litovsk. This Day in Omaha Thirty Yeara Ago. T. K. Sturgeon of Lancaster. O.. has purchased the grocery store at 2716 Farnam street and will continue the business on an enlarged scale. At a picnic, held by the Burns club at fries lake, a game of quoits was played by the fol- lowing: W. R. Drummond, Will Nugent, J. W. Muir, A. Wey, Ueorge Anderson and i.naries Cheney. In the first game Drummond and Nu gent beat Muir and Grey, and in the second game Anderson and Cheney breat Drummond and Nu gent, the score being A) to a. h. Kosewater has left for Cleveland to attend the annual reunion of the old-time telegraphers. He was accompanied by his wife and his daughter, Nellie. Harry Woodward, bookkeeper for Barkalow Bros., has packed his grip for a three weeks' roughing it in Wyoming territory. Bailey & Ulesen have commenced suit in the district court against G. A. Linquist to recover $2,000 still unpaid on the three-story building of the latter on, Jones, west of Tenth. beneral U Brien has gone to Norfolk to be present at the soldiers' reunion; Mrs. General O'Brien and son, M. P., have gone to Chicago, where the latter will attend the national land convention, and Nick O'Brien, another son, has left for Seattle. Auditor Long has received for the city twenty- four new tin poll boxes. There is a large and small size, the former being used for general and the latter for special elections. They are painted black and lettered according to precinct. This Day in History. 1771 Sir Walter Scott, the famous novelist and poet, born in Edinburg. Died at Abbots- ford, September 21, 1832. 1780 first symptoms of Shays rebellion developed at a convention in Worcester, Mass. 1814 Oarnson at fort Dearborn, by order of General Hull, evacuated the fort: attacked and massacred by Indians the next day. lot Oeneral Lafayette landed in Mew York City to begin a tour of the United States as the guest of the nation. 184Z Officers and soldiers who died m the Seminole war buried at St. Augustine with mili tary honors: and a monument erected by their comrades. 1 1845 Founding of the Swiss colonv at New Glarus, Wis. 1869 Rejoicing at Suez to celebrate meetine- of waters of the Red sea and the Mediterranean. 1891 City of Berne. Switzerland, celebrated the 700th anniversary of its foundation. 1WJ Bulgaria sent a memorandum to the Powers, detailing outrages committed by Turkey in Macedonia. 1906 King Edward VII visited the German amperor at Friedrichshof. lm A wind storm at Charleston. S. C. de stroyed a million dollars in property. The Day We Celebrate. H. C Bostwick. president of the South Omaha National bank was born August IS, 1844, at Tren ton, in. j. tit nas been in his present position since the bank started in 1886 and it interested also in a number of other banks. Moshier G. Colpetzer, treasurer of the Chicago Lumber company, is just 39 years old today. He is an 'Omaha born boy and is a graduate of the Omaha high school 'and of Phillips Andover academy. He was manager of the Chicago Lum ber company at Grand Island for seven years, taking the management in Omaha in 1906. Dr. Lewis Swoboda, physician and surgeon, was born August 15, 1869, in Moravia and came to this country in 1880. He graduated in medi cine from the Omaha Medical college and is now countv ohvsician. John B. Sheldon, of the Union Pacific tele- grapn department, is just 56. He was born in Ottawa, Canada, and started in at telegraph mes senger for the Montreal Telegraph company in 1873. He was promoted to his present position in 1907. . 1 Mme. Emma Calve, famous operatic singer, born in south of France, 50 years ago today. Ethel Barrymore, one of the noted actresses of the American stage, born in Philadelphia, 37 years ago today. Mrs. John A. Losran. widow nf h l,mn. civil war commander, born in Boone county, Mo., re ycara ago today. i Heir Albert Ballin. director-o-onorot nf ti,- Hamburg-American line and chief director of railways ana supplies tor the Uerman army, born fifty-nine years years ago today. Albert J. Hopkins, former United States sena tor from Illinois, born in De Kalb county, 111 seventy years ago today. , . . Charles A, Comiskev, owner and president of fh Chicago American league base ball club, born iu ,iim.hu uuy-ciKnt years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Today is the 500th anniversary of the great naval victory of the British over the French off Harfleur "Nfii K--M -.MnA. k 1. .u. ts . . .- -v. .n.,v. us IU1U 111 me LlglllCl of Columbia after today without a liquor license. jcracy wm touay put into enect a state- ... ; .1 . . : u . 1 . ... . wmc 4uiaiiiuic uctauan 01 tne iniantue paraly enidemic Thousands of delegates are expected at Toledo tuuajr ior me opening or tne oienmal national convention of the Luther league of America. Turn thntiaanH nr mn ...J i; : 1 v. Titian sauurs, re cruited from all sections of the country, are to " oiiuua pons tooay on tne Atlantic, guf and Pacific coasts to begin the practice cruises arranged by the Navy department. Photographers from half a dozen states will assemble today at Des Moines for the opening of the annual convention of the North Central Photographers' association; Stamp dealers and collectors of note from all lections of the country will gather in Wash ington todav for the -annual convention of the Southern Philatelic association. - Charles E. Hughes, republican nominee for president is scheduled to speak this afternoon at Seattle and tonight at Tacoma. . Three thousand six hundred prayer meetings are to be held in Detroit tonight to mark the inauguration of the prayer campaign which will precede the "Billy" Sunday revival. Story-ette of the Day. The dean of a western university was told by the students that the cook at the dining hall was turning out food "not fit to eat." The dean summoned the delinquent, lectured him on his shortcomings and threatened him with dismissal unless conditions were bettered. - "Sir," said the cook, "you oughtn't to place so much importance on what the young men tell you about my meals. They come to me in just the same Way about your lectures." Harper's Magazine, C Thla B EtUlghUrvtH. Omaha? Omaha, Aug. IS. To the Editor of Tha Bee: Recently I had occasion to wait an hour for friendi in our beautiful Hanicom park. I sat on one of the seeti near the bandstand. jukt a few yards from the well, or pump, from which rarely eold, clear spring water. such as is to be found in several of our parks, could be obtained. The day was in tensely hot, and weary picnickers, casual pasters by, romping children and hurrying men of affairs, one and all hied themselves to the spot of refreshment mentioned above. To our surprise and disgust we observed that, with very few exceptions, the same cap, generous in site, and bitched to a chain, did impartial duty for all. A ragged tramp, with a month's atubbte cn chin and lip, wiped the perspiration from his brow, rinsed the cup carefully, drew deep quaffs of joy and wandered on. A gay young couple followed. The cavalier with devoted chivalry, rinsed the eup as the clear stream gushed forth and presented it with graceful gesture to the dainty miss at his side. Next came a couple of boy on wheels none too clean in appearance. Then followed another pair weary comrades of the road who had evidently been looking too long upon "the cup that cheers." An old maid trotted prim ly up to the pump, and laying down her book and package reveled in the ministry of the sparkling water. Then the children from the slides, and a man, so lame ind shaky in his halting walk, that I wondered if he would ever reach his destination without a fall, his lean, diseased face arousing as much repul sion as pity. A dapper young man. hurriedly snatched a drink from the same death-dealing ujtensil horrors! Can this be Omaha, and this an enlightened day) Where are the guardians of our public health T Surely not in Hanacom park that hot summer afternoon I MERELY ONLOOKER. At to tha Stay-at-Home Vote. St Mary. Neb., Aug. 18. To the Editor of The Bee: In reviewing the presidential votes of 1908 and 1912, X find appalling figures, namely the negligence of the Ameri can voter to exercise his rights of franchise. 1 shall only use even thousands as fractions art Immaterial. Wilson was elected by an overwhelming electoral vote, but his popular vote was 117,000 less than Bryan received In 1908. He received his electoral majority because the republican party was split. But the fact remains that the combined vote for Taft and Roosevelt was 69,000 lesa than Taft received in 1908. Chaffin, prohibition, received 46,000 Jess in 1912 than in 1908. A total loss of 229,000 votes. Basing on the increase of population there should be an increase of approximately 600,000 votes for the four years, and this would Indicate a missing vote of 729,000. The socialist gain from 1908 to 1912 was 470,000, deduct this and wa have a net loss of 268,000 stay-at-home vote over that of 1908. Why this apathy f Why do tha American eitisens not more readily exercise their righta of franchise? Not only exercise their privilege, but their duty? In conversation not long since with a well read and posted man of more than three score years, he said ho east his first vote for Samuel J, Tilden, 1870, and although during every campaign batter conditions had been promised the laboring and producing classes, none of the promises had been fulfilled, and added, "It makes no difference who is elected they do just as they please anyhow." This man evi dently had lost faith in American institu tions. Is it not possible the same Is true of a majority of the stay-at-home vote! If so, ia ijt not time we wen staking ourselves, What can be done to restore confidence? H. 3HUMANN. Heat of tha Sua. Gibbon, Neb., Aug. 14. To the Editor of The Bee: In reply to William Smith's ans wer to my article, I would say that his first contention Is quite superfluous wherein he reiterates what every 10-year-old school child should know that the direct rays of the aun give more beat in a given locality than do shooting rays. Ha ignored the fact that I said "the world over," which means the whole earth. Now, if ha can show that the whole earth, irrespective of localities, is only warmer when we are at perihelion in January than when we are at Aphelion in July, we will concede the point; otherwise the objection ia overruled. He says the two inner planets are too hot to be Inhabited hot as boiling water and the four outside ones are too cold, 278 de grees below. Isn't It strange that in a family of eight major planets four of them from 100 to 1,200 times larger than our own ours should be the only one suitable for habitation, present or. perspective T Why such a stupendous waste of material and energy f He says the reason that Are, lamp or gas light will not throw a hot focus through a lens, like aun or electric are light, ia because the aun or are light is so much stronger than lire, oil or gaa heat. I beg leave to differ with him. The sun's heat may not be more than 70 degrees where it strikes the Jens and down to 278 degrees below few miles up and yet throw a focus that will ignite paper, while the lens may be held where the Are heat runs "to 278 degrees above or more and atlll throw a cold focus, the acetylene light may approach near enough to the electric to give a tract of heat at the focus. Physicists and scientists a few centuries ago believed tha world was flat and the heavenly bodies revolved around it tvtry twenty-four hours, which was about as sen sible as the grinding process in the sun producing such intense heat. Particles of matter hot enough to be in a state of fusion or liquefaction can produce no friction by rubbing together to produce more heat any more than eould melted lead or hot water. In regard to relative strength of electric energy In far out or nearby planets, I used the word "approximately," which Mr. Smith seemed to have overlooked, Of coarse there Is some elimination in energy by resistance on long lines, whether by wire or through space. But let Mr. Smith try to send his heat by radiation over the same line and he would need a relay Are or "booster" about every four rods to keep up any appreciable degree of heat. His theory of sun spots looks very un reasonable and, without an intensely hot aun, impossible, in regard to tbe inhabitability of other planets, he refers me to Simon Neweomb's woifk, published some fifty years ago, Mr. Newcomb also taught tha now obselete theory, promulgated by Laplace, about a century ago, that the planets were formerly a part of the sun and were thrown off from that body by centrifugal force. The un rotates on iti axis in twenty-five and one-fifth of our days too alow to throw off anything, certainly not a lump aa big as Jupiter, 1,200 times the site of our planet. i wouia refer him to a vary comprehensive work, by Thomas J. J. See, "Researches on the Evolution of the 8teMar Systems," pub lished in 1910. He makes it very plain that other planets are inhabited and shows how worlds are built up by capture of matter from surrounding space. ELLIOTT LOOM IS. EDITORIAL SIFTINGS.' Bostan Transcript: In the political creed of Charles fi. Hughes then "ain't no etch .animal" as a deserving democrat. Detroit Frees Press i A congressman, statistically inclined, says President WUeon haa changed his mind fifty-two times. That one-track mind waa well equipped with switches, evidently, also turntables. Pittsburgh Dispatch: The president gets up early during the hot spell and there are some who think he may have to continue the practice until November & that man Hughes continues to be so undignified, . Cleveland Pain Dealer: Pretty soon a good many pairs of ears will be turned toward Maine. But Maine isn't tha political indi cator that the old crossroads store proverb said It waa. The union goes right ahead without much regard t tha way Maine MIRTHFUL REMARKS. 'Do you expect to make your constituents realize the value of your services?" That won't exactly be my obect in talk ing to them." aald Senator Sorghum. "I want to get 'em Into a genial "Ira me at mind that will make 'em friendly an' not so particular aa to whether they aru get ting their money's worth. Washington Star. DEAR. MR.kA6lB8l, I HM TMNNEft T A fCUN$ lAWS HOME ANl SHE IS A ,Rltr COOK - SHOWD I MAtW HQ-? RC rtRBUL - rAANV K MtfTHER COOK HER BEST' AND THEN THE DfKtCREPfT! 40. have tarnished your name and dlthon ored your family, all for the sake of three miserable dollars." "Please be fair." said the prisoner. "Wai it my fault there ware so few?" New Tori Times. Philadelphia Ledger: "Go over all' the woodwork daily with a damp cloth" is one of the obligation laid upon Mew York poHeemen by the Instructions of the Board of Health. This ( another Illustration of the meticulous care with wh Lea every detail of liTing la supervised by impeccable author ity to these days.. Hick How Is your garden getting along? Tick Great! When my wife wants to find me I shake a weed. Judge. Lawyer You say you want this damage suit pushed through with the utmost speed? Client Exactly. I have a child 6 weekn old and I want the money to pay his college expense. Philadelphia Ledger. The judge was passing sentence op a very defiant looking culprit. 'This Is a sad case," his honor said. "You, who remained honest until you were THE HOUSE OF "THEY. Youths Companion. Have you heard of the terrible family "They T" And the dreadful, venomous things they say ? Why, half the gossip under the aun. If you trare it buck, you will And begun In that wretched House of "They." A numerous family, so I am toM, And Its genealogical tree Is old; For ever since Adam and Eve began To build up the curious rare of man Has existed the House of "They Gossip monpers and spreaders of lies. Horrid people, whom all despise; And yet the best of us, now and then. Repeat queer tales about women and men And quote the House of ".They." They live like lords and never labor. A "They's" one task Is to watch his neigh bor And tell his business and private affairs. To the world at large they are towers of tares These folks in the House of "They." It Is wholly useless to follow a "They" With a whip or a gun, for he slips away And Into his hous where you cannot go. It Is locked and bolted and guarded so , Thla horrible House of "They." Though you cannot get In, they get out. And spread their villainous tales about. Of all the rascals under the sun Who havf-como to punishment, never one Belonged to the House of "They." See the Wonderful East This Year For variety of attractions, the great cities, historic 'places, and mountains, rivers, lakes and ocean resorts of the East afford an un rivaled vacation. Low fares to a few Eastern points follow: New York and return . , $ 55.8t Boston and return 54.60 Buffalo tnd return 42.45 Niagara Falls and return 42.45 Atlantic City and return 57.30 Portland, Me., and return 52.90 Montreal and return 45.20 Toronto and return 40.10 Tickets on sale June 1st to September 30th. CHICAGO Milwaukee & St. Paul RAILWAY Three trains daily to Chicago, including the famous steel equipped "Pacific Limited." 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