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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 29, 1916.
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And now the political race horses are turning
into the home stretch.
In the race for the l goal, the humble spud
has wheat beaten a mile1. ' !
Viewed from any angle the Missouri river
tunnel project ia a bore.
Local weather forecast: Wet and dry winds
will prevail in this vicinity for the next ten days.
. ; y '
The real question is: Can . Woodrow Wilton
fool the people a second time and get cway with
it? . . . '
King Corn's aerial loops around the dollar
mark throw a joyful yellow streak about the rural
firmament ' ; ' . . '
The silent voter is not saying a word. Hit
talent at a noitemaker awaita hit specialty ten
dayt hence.
When It, comet to "lining 'em out," there are
mighty few po'litical batsmen to. be classed as
high at ex-Senator Beveridge. .
In self-defense, Secretary of War Baker might
persuade the administration to place an embargo
on the hatpins of the Daughters of the Revolu
tion. ' " . ' . .
Every teacher in Nebraska should plan to
come to the big Omaha meeting next month and
each and all are assured in advance of the same,
warm welcome only more so.
One of the .democratic "angels" hat already
put $79,000 of hit munitions profits into the cam
paign contribution, box and. it dropping in more
right along.' "Let the people rule." ,
Our democratic United Statet senator and all
his sateltitet wear I worried look. They are wait
ing to .tee what Brother Bryan will do to them
and hoping he will not hand them what they
know they deserve. : , . - '..-
My, what a fall in the War department at
Washington from Root and Taft and Garrison
down to Baker I It it almost aa big a drop aa in
the State department from Bayard and Blaine and
Sherman and Hay and Root and Knox down to
Lansing. ;
Charles Evaua uus.u i. a man of convic
tions, a man who doet hit own thinking, a man
of force, a man not to be twerved from the path
of duty either by intimidation or by prospect of
personal profit He it' the kind of man who, as
president, would command confidence at home
and respect abroad. """
The atandard 5 per cent takeoff of federal sal
aries which prevailed in Nebraska In the early
campaign teems to have been thaved materially
at the White House. ' Woodrow't contribution of
$2,500 cutt the current rate one-third, a bargain
privilege denied the minor pie-biters.
Sir Joieph Beecham, the prince of publicity,
rote from a farm boy to be a multi-millionaire
through the pull of intentive advertiting. Al
though a tradetman flouted by titled idlers, Brit
ain's aristocracy swallowed him at readily at his
pills. The guinea I stamp it the main thing.
One outstanding fact of the Nebratka cam.
paigit ia the uniformly clean and clean-cut eontett
waged by John L. Kennedy for United Statet
senator.. All reports agree that Mrv Kennedy hat
impretted people favorably wherever he hat gone
and that hit personality and campaign methods
have been steadily winning him friends and sup
porters. In the language- of the streets, "just
watch hit smoke. .
Revival of River Traffic. .
Revival of river traffic on the upper .Missis
sippi river wat debated with much' enthusiasm at
a convention, just over, at LaCroste. Many
phaset of the problem were considered, and tome
''worth while suggestions made, the general
. opinion being that the future of river-borne traf
fic rests with the dealera in commodities. that
may be transported on tteamboats. This devel
oped the connection between the river and the
Panama canal and it waa brought out clearly
that the great Mississippi valley will be at a dis
advantage in comparison with the coastal re
gions, unlet! the tteamboat it called into requi
tition. All of thit it admitted, and none of it it
new.- Thirty-five yeari ago, when the Hennepin
canal wat being ridiculed aa "Jerry Murphy's
Ditch," and the upper Mississippi's echoes were
startled by the whistles of many boats, the same
arguments we're presented to other conventions
met to devise ways and meant for' deepening the
channel and controlling the flood-waters. One
after another the boats were taken off, and the
business given over to the railroads. If the re
. vival of river traffic ft to become a reality, it will
be because the communities along the river have
realized their mistake and are willing to take ad
- vantage of the waterways. . i
Look out for Democratic Oat Bombt.
All this campaigning is but the presentation
of the case in the great court of public opinion
on which the popular jury is to hand down the
judgment of the ballot box. What the candidates,
and t!icir champions with voice and pen, are tup
pos.d to do is to put the voter in possession of
the diets hearing upon the issues of the day and
to bring them to look at these, issues from all the
varying view points. If this worn it wen aone,
if the campaign of education it carried on effi
ciently and effectively, the judgment of the ballot
box will register a true verdict of the popular
will. Yet ballot box judgments are not always
infallible- nor final, for it occasionally happens
that the verdict is secured by misrepresentation,
by false issues, by imposition, by trickery. It is
only correct judgments founded on truth that
can be lasting.
In the present campaign, the republican can
didate, Charles Evans Hughes, and the advocatea
of republican policies, have been appealing to the
intelligence of the voters openly and above board.
It it inconceivable that Mr. Hughet could carry
on any other kind of a campaign, because the
whole makeup of his character ia frankness and
straightforwardness and square dealing. On the
other side, the democrats have been resorting to
all sorts of catch-phrases, distortion! and decep
tions with a plenitude of eleventh-hour roorbacks
yet to be sprung. Against this deception and trick
ery the voter who is intelligent enough to think
for himself should be warned. It is regrettable
that the democratic political managers teem- to
place so low an estimate upon the people whom
they make a specialty of coddling that they ex
pect them "to fall for" this stuff and thus to se
cure a ballot box judgment which these same
democrata despair of getting by submitting their
case on its merits for a fair decision.
So, look out for political gas bombs and tor
pedoes, exploded from masked democratic bat
teries, during the coming week.
A Common Grievance.
The message delivered to the bankers of Ne
braska by President Felton of the Chicago Great
Western railroad lifts above the tumult of poli
tics a tubject of direct interest to all taxpayeri.
He tpoke of the burdent and perplexitiet of rail
road management, the increasing competition of
automobiles,' and the growing use of trucks for
short haul freighting. These inroadt on railroad
preserves might be borne patiently, since progrett
and change are the order of things. The griev
out feature of the development, at Mr. Felton
shows, comet from the fact that the railroads of
the country contributed in 1916 $152,000,000 in
taxet toward the building of good roadt, of which
nearly $2,000,000 boosted good roadt In Ne
braska. It it not certain that all of this huge sum
went into road building. The exact proportion
it not material. The point it the manifest in
justice of taxing railroads to build good 'roadt,
timufating automobile traffic, which in turn tkimt
tome of the crtam of railroad business.
Mr. Felton'l menage, despite itt vein of lev
ity, touchet a deep teated grievance common to
most taxpayers. Preciout few individuals or cor
porations hand in their annual dole without feel
ing similar panga of injuttice, ' Multitudes help
pay for good roadt whole tote recompense it
glimpsing, limousinet tpeeding by. Regularly the
outt of party politic! chip in to support obnoxious
officeholders or fatten administrations which are
regarded as a daugeroui menace to the common
weal, i - 1 ' - f'V"
, The Boston tea party mapped a route for es
caping unjust taxttion. ' The spirit of that time
abides, though humbled by continuous knockt and
wanting in leadership. If Mr. Felton will buckle
on 'hit armor and start a crusade against the
enemy, a large and goodly company of enthus
iasts will follow whlthtr he leads.
Japanese and Christianity.
Missionary Bishop St. Cteorge Tucker told the
Episcopalian convention tt St. Louis that the
Japanese are not yet ready to give over other
forma of religion and embrace Chrittianity. Thit
limply ttatet a fact that it too often overlooked
by zcalout advocatei of universal expansion of
the gospel aa we know it. Shintoism, long es
tablished at the atate religion of Japan, still tol
erates other forms of worthip, and so the Chris
tian religion gets attention from the polite, but
indifferent follower of a faith that hat tefved
him and hit predecetsort since centuriet before
Christ wat born. Buddhists have labored there
for many generationt, without being able to make
much headway against beliefs that endow inani
mate things with souls, perhaps of departed an
cestors. The teachings of our missionariea are
listened to, but as a message whose import must
be .proven before it ia accepted.
, Right here' comet the rub. Experience in
other wayt have shown the Jap ia still a Jap de
spite the veneer of western manners he has put
on. A high hat and frock coat doetn't greatly
alter hit patriotic view of life. The definite aim
of the Christian missionary is that the Japanese
shall accept not only the material and intellect
ual standards of the west, but its idealistic at
well. Thut the message from the west finds
itself beating against a philosophy at well at a
faith founded while the great Christian nationt of
today were yet barbariant. The Japanete tcheme
of life taket Mttlc or no account of tome dogmat
we hold ttcred, while the idealt we present have
no attraction for them at all. Thit makes the
work of proselyting difficult and results Uncer
tain. Until we reach s point where we can welcome
the brown man at brother in politics and busi
ness, and admit him to an equality with ut in alt
other thingt in life, he is going to remain icentiral
f as to the bond of the brotherhood in Christ.
Our Cramped Condition.
That the commerce of the United States is
restricted by t condition it can not control has
been made plain several times since the British,
by "Orders in Council," set up a world-wide con-,
strur.tive blockade. This is more than ever em
phasised by the note, just received at Washing
ton, in reply to the protest against the blacklist
ing of American firms, which it not only a boy
cott, but partakes cf tome elements of a second
ary boycott. If the British contention is held,
and It probably will be. since our diplomacy lacks
potency to secure either recession or concession,
Americans will not only be rettrictcd as to the
countries with whom they deal, but also to such
of the citizens, ot those countries as may meet
the approval ei' the British minister of foreign
trade. Add to this the Wi.'sonlan doctrine that
protection " A .v.'ricir.s !o;J not extend beyond
the borders of our country, and you have a very
fair picture of the present cramped condition of
American commerce-
By Virtue RoeewaSar ,
WHILE in Chicago this 'last week I was
strangely reminded of our Nebraaka semi
centennisl of statehood by a window dis
play put up by one of the Michigan avenue thopt.
A coat of a military uniform Handing out againtt
lettingi of red, white tnd blue attracted my at
tention and on an explanatory card was the in
formation that this coat had been made ninety
four years ago for a Tennettee army officer (the
name was given) by Andrew Johnson, who later
became president of the United Ststes. The coat
had been preserved by its wearer's daughter to
whom acknowledgments were made for the loan
of it. What struck me particularly, as I looked
at this display of tailor's art, was the thought
that the same fingers that plied the needle
wielded the pen that formally made Nebraska a
ttate in the union, that the tame hand that thaped
thit garment attached the tignature to the pro
clamation that gave Nebraska admitlion to the
sisterhood of states. We have been celebrating
the semi-centennial of the initial stages of the
process by which the transformation of the terri
tory wat brought about, but we have not yet had
our attention fixed upon this essential figure in
the drama, the president upon whom the duty
devolved to issue the commission of authority
under which for the last fifty yeara Nebraska has
been able to enjoy equality with the other
commonwealths. The story of Andrew Johnson,
the illiterate tailor, who made the coat of the
military uniform loaned, for a window exhibit,
full of the accidents of fortune and misfortune,
is one of the wonder storiet interwoven with the
history of the republic, especially of this state.
Though he never did anything else but make
thit coat and tign Nebraska's statehood procla
mation, Andrew Johnson would be entitled to at
least one big credit mark.
During his speech-making stop over in Omaha
ex-Senator Beveridge appeared in the pink of
condition and his address at the Auditorium was
one of. the best I ever heard him make, and I
have heard him a number of times.
"I thought I had gotten out of politics al
together and had finished with this sort of cam
paigning," he said to me, "but I am so intense in
my personal admiration for Mr. Hughet that I
could not withstand the urgent requesti for
speeches, and when I agreed to deliver a few
campaign speeches, the demands multiplied so
that I found myself booked for a tour clear to
the Pacific coast and all through the middle
states.
"I with everyone knew Mr. Hughet at I do.
I can conceive of him listening to something I
have to tay or tuggest and replying 'I, agree with
you thoroughly'; or perhaps, 'I disagree with you
wholly'; or maybe, 'What you tay interests me
and I will think it over.' But I cannot conceive
of him telling me one thing and doing another.
After my experience in politics that is the kind
of a man I want to tie to and alto the kind of a
man the people ought to tie to."
Since hit return from the war arena in Europe
Mr. Beveridge has been devoting hit time ex
clusively to. completing a life of Chief Justice
John Marshall, which is now on the press and
which he feels will be hit literary matterpiece.
Speaking of his Auditorium speech some one re
marked upon its keen logic and I have no doubt
that this cogency of argument, with which I too
was impressed, it to be atcribed, in part at least,
to hit intimate familiarity with John Marshall
acquired in the preparation of these biographical
volumet.
There mutt be a talisman in the number
"twenty-three," inttead of the proverbial ill-luck
tuppoted to attach to it, at witness the follow
ing letter received from John H. Clapham, an
old Bee man, writing from Sao Paulo, Brazil,
which I am sure will be of interest to other be
sides myself: - -
"I read in a recent issue of the Linotype
Bulletin that the office under your control
will install- a number of multiple-magazine
linotypet, replacing an equal number of ma
chines of one magazine only. .The part of the
notice that claimed my attention wat the atate
ment that the first machines were installed
twenty-three yean ago. Having had the honor
of making my beginning at a linotyper in the
office then presided over by your honored
father, I felt that the old dayt had a, claim to
remembrance. I was 23 years of age at the,,
time the machines were installed, and that is
twenty-three years ago. As I was the last'
regular typesetter on the night tide, I did not '
expect nor did I receive at the moment, an
opportunity to try the machine out, or rather
to try myself out on the machine. I was the
first of the tecond lot of apprentices, after the
weeding out procett wat atarted to eliminate
thote who made no headway. With the train
ing I received then I made my way to New
York and wat able to obtain employment in
a short time. Since then I have, been em
ployed on linotypes continuously, and now
have the honor to represent the Mergenthaler
Linotype company as inspector and machinist
in Central and South America.
"You will understand that I am grateful
for the early opportunity I had to learn some
thing useful. I cannot forget the old friends I
made in Omaha Mr. McCullough, who was a
veteran in my days in that city, and who must
be more of a veteran now, but still more use
ful. I have followed the course of The Bee
all the time. I remember Mr. Haynes, who
was accused by Al Fairbrother of wasting the
life of lead pencils because he had dreamed of
"boiling down the rot and wretchedness Of
his correspondents," adding that when Colonel
Shakespeare's Polonius insisted that brevity
was the soul of wit well, it amounted to the
. same thing.
' "If the number 23 haa been as good to The
Bee as it has been to me, we both have reason
to be grateful."
People and Events
Black cats and bad luck pussy-foot together.
Two society girls of Chicago, unaware of the
attachment, sought t collection of dark felines
for a social frolic, encountered a park police
man in the chase, and landed in jail for an hour,
which was a-plenty.
A live lobster, a dog and a curious cat started
a riot in a Philadelphia restaurant. When the
screams subsided, two women diners were found
in a faint, four tables upset, considerable smashed
crockery and a section of the cat s tail in the lob
ster's clawt. Imagination can picture the rest
of the thrillt and scenery.
The old story of the moth and the flame came
periliously close to reality in the life of a high
school girl in Chicago. The lure of the bright
lights, the cabarat dance and gay clothes drew
her from home long enough to singe the pin
feathers, A courageous and persistent foster
father and liberal use of money traced the giddy
youngster and brought her home, tearful and re
pentant to mother.
In a letter to the Boaton Transcript Mrs.
George A. Loveland of Lincoln, Neb., makes
grateful acknowledgement ' for courtesies ' ex
tended to her and her children in Boston. "Hav
ing been born and brought up on the Nebraska
prairie," she writes, "I had always heard of the
coldness and conservatism and exclusiveness of
New England people. When my children and I
had an opportunity to spend a month in Boston
1 wondered if we would ever speak to a soul
without an introduction, except policemen and
conductors, but I found people in dear old Bos
ton quite as friendly and hospitable and human
i anywhere in the west" -Other westerners
have had like experiences at the Hub, Boston's
alleged coldness is a witless fiction. In truth the
city is "a warm member."
r-aaaaaaryass--aaaama. aa
Thought Numret for the Day.
Man la not the creature of circum
stance Circumstances are the crer
turen of men. Disraeli.
One Vcar Ago Today In the War.
Btrumltxa. station occupied by
French.
Bulgarians reached a point twenty
five miles from Nish.
Total British casualties to October
reported aa 493,295.
Italians reported capture of B,t4
Austrlans within a week. '
Germans continued a heavy bom
bardment on the Belgian front
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Lifeboat Lodge I. O. O. T. gave a
concert at the Saunders Street Presby
terian church and among the numbers
on the program .specially worthy of
mention wss a duet by Misses Allle
and Oracle Pratt, solos by Mrs. Chase
and John MoEwInt-, and a flute duet
by Messrs. Hancock and Eldridge.
The money raised will be devoted to
the purchase of a piano for the club.
A club that absorbs a good deal of
solid enjoyment is an equestrian party
of eighteen ladles and gentlemen who
take In the beauties of the autumn
evenings on horseback once a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barton" of
Burlington, Vt, are here for a two
month's visit with their son, Jo Bar
ton. "
Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, from Min
neapolis, have recently moved to Oma
ha and will live in one of Mr. Bar
low's house on Twenty-second. Mr.
Hodgson Is an architect of note.
Invitations are out for the marriage
of Mies Agnes O'Bhaughnessy to Pat
rick Duffy, to be solemnized Novem
ber i at fit. Phllomena's cathedral.
Mr. Franko gave a supper to the
Brambllla Concert company In his
rooms at the exposition building.
Mrs. Dixon gave a luncheon at
which she was assisted In receiving by
the Misses Dixon. Among the gueBts
were Mesdames Oray, Little, Diets,
Colpetzer, Dubois, McKensle, Yost,
Coutant Jones, Barton, 'Wakefield and
Case.
This Day In History.
1740 James Boswell, the celebrated
biographer ot Dr. Samuel Johnson,
born in Bdlnburg. Died In London,
June 19, 1796.
1790 Governor St. Clair directed
an election of delegates for the first
territorial assembly of Ohio.
1811 Colonel Lewis Cass was ap
pointed governor of the territory ot
Michigan.
1814 The Robert Fulton, the
first steam vessel, launched at New
York. i
1818 Thomas F. Bayard, secretary
of state under Cleveland and afterward
ambassador to Oreat Britain, born at
Wilmington, Del. Died at Dedham,
Mass., September 38, 1898.
1862 Funeral of Daniel Webster,
held at Marshfield, Mass.
1869 Marriage of Cheater A.
Arthur, afterward president of the
United States, and Ellen Lewis, daugh
ter of Commodore Herndon, United
States navy.
1 8 8 4 The confederate General
Hood crossed the Tennessee river at
Florence with about 85,000 Infantry
and 10,000 cavalry.
1877 General Nathan B. Forrest,
famous confederate cavalry - leader,
died at Memphis, Tenn. Born In Bed
ford county, Tenn., July 18, 1921.
1890 William III. of Holland was
declared incapable of ruling, and
Queen Emma made regent during
the minority of Queen Wllhelmlna.
1898 The French Court of Cas
sation decided to grant a new trial In
the Dreyfus case.
1900 Enthusiastic welcome In Lon
don to the city volunteers returned
from the war in South Africa.
1901 Czolgoss, the assassin of
President McKinley, executed at Au
burn state prison, New York.
The Day We . Celebrate.
Queen Maria Alexander Victoria,
consort of King Ferdinand of Rou
mania, born forty-one years ago to
day. Jonathan L. Snyder, president
emeritus of Michigan Agricultural
college, born In Butler county Pa.,
fifty-seven years ago today.
Arthur Yager, the present governor
of Porto Rloo, born in Henry county,
Ky , fifty-six years ago today.
Dr. Clark W. Chamberlain, president
of Denlson university, born at Litch
field, O., forty-six years ago today.
Will M. Cressy, well known actor
and author of rural plays, born at
Bradford, N. H fifty-three years to
day. Charles H. Ebbets, president of the
Brooklyn National league base ball
club, born In New York City, fifty
seven years ago today.
Arthur F. Hofman, well known ma
jor league outfielder, born In St
Louis, thirty-four years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
A week's celebration In honor of the
180th anniversary of the Scotch Pres
byterian church will be opened in
New York City this morning with a
sermon by Dr. John A. Marquis, presi
dent of Coe college and moderator of
the general assembly.
Old John Street Methodist church
said to be the only congregation IA
New York City which has maintained
services without interruption since
its organization, prior te the revolu
tionary war, is to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of that event with a week
of special services to begin today.
AROUND THE CITIES.
Btoryette of the Day.
An official In one of the largest man
ufacturing concerns in Philadelphia
recently showed me tne huge plant.
I marveled at the labor-saving machinery.
"One of our workmen," he said,
"haa made a great many of the im
provements you see in this room. He
likes to go duck shooting, and while
off on a trip for a week or more he
thinks out some new way to save la
bor." After a moment's pause he added:
"Why he turned up one day with a
plan whereby we save KO.OOO a
year." -
"And what" I inquired, "does that
workman get. out of It?"
"Oh," the happy official replied, "he
gets the ducks." Philadelphia Ledger.
N EDITORIAL SIFTINGS.
Waehlnatoa Post: After easting- up his
eeaalde expenees. the average eit under
etando why the sharks didn't stay longer.
Houeton Poet: One of the meet beautiful
traits of womankind ia that sweet, unfail
ing Innocence that enables them to think that
when they are a thouoand miles away from
home today their husbende are at ehurch
Instead of in the poker game.
Baltimore American: A ragpicker of the
Salvation army in New Jersey, who had been
a veteran of the eivll war, declined a peneion
on the ground that he loved hie eauntry too
aauch to take Its money. To other patriots
anxious to serve their country thia leoka not
as much Uk patrietlem aa inanity.
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Niagara Falls has increased its store of
thrills by putting a wire rope tramway over
the whirlpool rapids. Spanish engineers beat
American and Canadian engineers to it.
Shawnee county, Kansas, which embraces
the city of "Topeka, requlroe a Ul levy of
27 8-10 mills on each 1100 to keep the
tounty machine properly oiled during the
ensuing year.
The process of purifying the Mississippi
river waters served up at St. Louis yields
up 2,760 losds of sediment s day. -The cost
of water works operation and maintenance
last year amounted ts 11,011,181.07.
Cleveland Plain Dealer t One honorable
eenatoc told another honorable senator that
he had aweetbreade for brains. A little later
the lie was passed, It began to look ae U
senatorial courtesy might be reverting to
ante-bellum days.
New York City Is fairly ever the Infantile
paralysis epidemie. Cases are few and far
between. The fear of revival on the open
ing of the schools, October 1, proved
groundless. Lose than one-haif of 1 per cent
of the children were excluded at the start
because of exposare to the eostagion.
.Jfamiqulpe, la the state of Chihuahua,
Mexico, near where American troops are 4iow
stationed, haa tire dletinction of being the
largest city in the world. Its site covers an
area of 444 square miles, Its exact boundar
ies having been fixed some 800 years ago
by a charter from the then king of Spain,
who gave the land to some colonists from
Castile. The greater part of the city site,
however, Is unbuilt upon, and as regards
the built-over portion, many of the houses,
originally constructed of sun-dried brick, are
in ruins.
Printers who attend the January confer
ence of the Missouri Typographical union
ists at St. Joseph will be decorated with a
aouvenir badge by the local printers' union.
The badge under consideration consists of
a bronze medallion, embossed in white
enamel with black lettering, and a picture
worked in ' aepla tones of the first house
erected on the present site of St. Jo
eph by Joseph Robidoux. Underneath the
house are the words : "The Town That Joe
Built." The oonferenee will be composed of
three representatives from every typograph
ical union in the states of Missouri, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
HERE AND THERE.
- In Iceland horses are shod with horn.
Arkansas has a state aesoeiatlon of garlic
growers. (
For many years the people of 8paln have
made bread from peanut meal.
Four women passenger agents are em
ployed by the railroads of the United States.
Approximately one-tenth of all the manu
factured products of the country are made in
New York City.
Within the city limits of Los Angeles
there are twenty-live parks, aggregating
more than 4,000 acres In extent.
Flourishing woman's clubs now exist in
Manila, Cavite and other principal cities ol
the Philippines.
Statistics show that November is the
month of eteadlest employment for wage
earners in the United States.
Nancy Johnson, the wife of an American
naval officer, is generally ercdlted with hav
ing been the inventor of the lee cream
freezer.
The highest-salaried man in the United
States is the manager of one of the large
meat packing concerns, who receives 1125,
000 a year for his services.
Brigadier General Henry O. Sharpe, the
new quartermaster general of the army, is
noted as an author of textbooks and other
works on military matters.
At the Patrograd Art academy this year,
the first woman architect has graduated, thus
marking an epoch in the establishment of
woman's position in Russia.
From time immemorial the quaint little
English town of Whitby the scene of one
of the earliest German air raids in the pres
ent war has been associated with the jet
industry. Whitby jet Is said to have been
worn in Britain in pre-Roman days.
A Dutchman, Wilhelm Benkelssen, dis
covered the secret of preserving herrings In
the fourteenth century, and the salted herring
made Its appearance on the roarket in pre
cisely the same manner as it now does, for
the preserving process baa undergone no
marked change.
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"Did Harry know what Mauds meant -when
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give him a tiny Utile one if he turned
down the light?""
' Of course, ne knew, tnougn ai ine wn"
time he was completely in the dark."
Uulsviile Courier-Journal. ---.
"Even in business, Jones always does the
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What particularly appropriate ining nss
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Taken a flyer in aviation stock." Bam
mora American.
Have you been studying the science of
efficiency ?"
res; had to quit reading about It. Got
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Nothing to it, nle! He'll never love you
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Puck. .
A Chicago woman who had received a
legal summons to appear In a certain court
a certain period was much put out
thereby. In explaining the matter to a
frlenl ahe ssld:
I have certainly received the citation
but I shall not appear could not, In fact.
Not only am I not socially acquainted with
Judge J on en, but the whole tone of his'
communication Is so Impossible that I ab
solutely reruae to know him." New York
Times,
Then you like my eyes?'-'
'If I had those lamps on a car,"
answered the automobile agent, "I'd hava
une powerful dimmers. 'Kaneas city
Journal.
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Vet, If we wilt our Guide obey,
The dreariest path, the darkest way.
Shall Issue out In heavenly day.
And we, on divers shores now cast,
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And ere thou leave him, say thou. this,
Yet one word more they only miss
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Who will not count it true that love.
Blessing not cursing, rules above
And that in It we live and move.
And one thing further mske him know,
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