THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.
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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
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of Columbia after today without a liquor license.
jcracy wm touay put into enect a state-
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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.
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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
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