THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1918.
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NOVEMBER CIRCULATION.
55,483 Daily Sunday 50,037.
rlht Wlllleme, elreulatlotl manager of The Bee
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C. W. CARLSON. JJOtary Public
Subscribers learinf lb city temporally .
should ban Th Bea mailed to them. Ad- ,
dra. will be changed often . required.
" Only fifteen more days for, early Christmas
shopping. ' (
By comparison with the presidential election,
it is a light vote on the light question, s
Oil kings,- with all their millions, have no
stronger grip on mortal existence than the rest
of us.
J Firing hot air at the hgih cost of living is
about as effective as Russia's deed to the Darda
nelles, i ''; ,:
?f Early shopping comnjends Itself as exercise,
! but early buying is what counts in price and
i' quality. , X
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I , All of us. are willing to be, surprised by an
. unlooked-for event bringing a. speedy eniof the
great European wirv-i - '.' '
Teutonic guns in Roumania blew up more
cabinet timber at Westminster than all the Zep
pelins sent across the channel. (
With five federal Judgeships on the pie coun
ter the potency of a pull depends on the smooth
ness of a geographical combine. .,v ' t
; Eight hundred millions for defense and the
usual percentage for pork. Uncle Sam easily
tops; the list of neutral spenders. ' v
' Cereal prices are slowly returning to the high.
scores of November. Looks as if the month-end
'shake-down" worked out as planned."
The loan sharks are entitled to no sympathy
and no more art the shyster lawyers that play
the. justice courts along the same line. ,
. Colonel Bryan's example in securing a lofty
perch from which to watch the bubbling of' polit
ical pots suggests a like observatory for' Governor
ilorehcad. '
The direct benefits of the Panama canal ac
le to ih coast cities. This simplifies the
process' of levying Panama taxes in proportion
to benefits.
Preparednpss bills re. mounting to heights of
dazzling immensityw.The splendors of the scen
ery diverts attention for a moment without mar
ring the efficiency of the touch. -
Ohcervc that the Conffressional . Record is
resuming business at the old stand and Js.the
onlv known Dublication not required -to econo
mize space to get away from the high cost of
print paper. .-. k. . ,
' The bridge joker slipped over ontSioux City's
economical tourists touches the funny-bone of
railroad efficiency. While the tourists had their
laughs first, the subsequent guffaws of the M. a
O. outshine the former by four-tenths or-one,
Assurance is given that the "emergency" for
which the -National Guardsmen were called to
1he Mexican border his not yet passed. But, just
exactly what that "emergency" is, remains to
be disclosed. Wonder if it ever existed except in
I, imagination? , " ' '-' .'.i : '" , ,.
People ahdEvents
A Purely Perfunctory Message,'
Only ah exceptional partisan enthusiast can
read the president's address to' congress at the
opening of its final session and reach any con
clusion other than that it is a purely perfunctory
message. It is a technical performance of the
constitutional duty "from time to time to give
to the congress information of the state of the
union and recommend to their consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary and expedi
ent," but the president lays before the law mak
ers this time no information that they do not
already possess and he confines. his recommenda
tions wholly to repetition of advice already urged
upon them. Perhaps in this the president is
wise, as being convinced that little beside budget
ary appropriations is to be expected from this
outgoing legislative body. He, therefore, recog
nizes the futility of endeavoring to start con
gress on new paths or to make headway on any
new subjects.
This inference is borne out by the. half-promise
made in Mr. Wilson's concluding paragraph, that
he will not have, or at least does not anticipate
having, any occasion to' address the Sixty-fourth
congress again. It goes without saying that
while he cannot hold himself to this determina
tion against possible emergencies, it plainly re
flects his state of mind 'and warns the people
not to look to congress to do any more work
than is thus laid out and not to be seriously
disappointed If it falls short of that program.
In other respects, the message will go into the'
archives asa very commonplace document
Public Market as Living Cost Reducer.
The high cost of living is universal and
Omaha cannot hope to escape its burdens. But
it is well within belief that if we enjoyed the
benefits of a system of public markets, as do
many cities, we .would have at least some meas
ure of relief. ,
The Bee has preached the gospel of public
markets for many years. We have 'several times
roused the people of Omaha to a pitch of ef
fective demand, .only to be frustrated or mis
guided by the clever and persistent opposition of
the combined grocers and commission men. -
Omaha at one time invested some $50,000 in
a market house on lower Capitol avenue, where
its ill-advised location made success impossible,
and .the money outlay was eventually a dead
loss. The so-called market we now have is not
a public market for householders buying at re
tail, but simply a commission men's trading place,
and, even if it were to be thrown wide open, its
location is specially picked to keep retail cus
tomers away. , . ' ,
If the high cost of living necessities is to con
tinue for any length of time, it will behoove
Omaha again to grapple seriously with the prob
lem of a public market or a fhain of public mar
kets. ,
British Cabintt Crisis.
The resignation of David Lloyd-George as-
war minister will .bring to a definite focus the
crisis impending for weeks in the British imperial
cabinet. , Issues arising from the . course of the
war have precipitated what now seems to be .the
probable downfall of the coalition government
The immediate cause is the persistence of Pre
mier Asquith in holding to his seat at the head
of the- war council, but tlje trouble lies deeper.
When the present government was formed it was
looked upon as a patchwork affair, in which some
concessions were made in pretense of harmonizing
hopelessly discordant elements. The presence of
Sir Edward . Carson, for example, a man who at
the beginning of the present war was heading
an armed rebellion against the government, could
hardly have a reassuring effect, on the liberals,
much less on the Irish. Then Viscount Grey, has
been retained in his place as foreign minister, and
has been elevated td the peerage within the year)
as a reminder of the prestige of the tory party in
the. government. These constant elements ' of
discord have pot promised much for the perma
nence of the cabinet, particularly as the inclina
tion to let party prestige outweight patriotic pur
pose has been noticeable all the time. -
Moreover! much criticism has been heard of
the conduct of the war, and it has been openly
,!,. Vfe Aefiuitri (a entirety . t.n .might.
.'.for a place at the head of the war council. That
Lloyd-George, next to- Kitchener, the greatest
figure England has shown jit the present combat,
should resign to emphasize his disapproval of
the premier's course must give outsiders some
notion of how deep the sentiment against Asquith
has become. The utterance of the Manchester
Guardian, thai England, ;s not winning, will find
many echoes among this people, and must tell
against the prime minister.
The Boys on the Border
Captain Rupert Hufhea ia Collier'.
Our country is playing the old "hold the baby"
trick on the National Guard. That trick, as many
people know, is usually worked by a woman who
has a baby to get rid of, and is too tender or
too timid to leave it on a doorstep. So she rushes
up to a man waiting for a train and says: "Oh,
sir, please hold my baby for a few minutes while
I run . and find my other missing children. I'll
be right back." She never comes back.
The National Guard had already spent a busy
winter recruiting its members, making extra drills
and urging legislation to increase the country's
military resources. It was looking forward to a
summer of rest except for a brief camp experi
ence. On the 19th of June Columbia, the well
known Gem of the Ocean, rushed up to the Guard
and said with great excitement: "Oh, sir, please
hold my border for a few minutes while I run and
get my regular army recruited up."
- The Guard took the border and is still holding
it. . Columbia has never come back; the army is
not recruited up; the recruiting boom has col
lapsed; Uncle Sam has been out campaigning at
night and selling firecrackers' to foreigners in
the daytime. The Guard: waits in Texas and
sweats and shivers and hikes up and down look
ing for -Columbia instead .of Villa. The Guard
misses train after train, loses job after job, de
faults on mortgages, forfeits opportunities for
making money, relinquishes .the market to rivals
and substitutes and wonders whether his wife or
sweetheart has starved to death or run off with
another fellow.
The border is behaving beautifully. It sleeps
all the time, except for a warning yawp when the
Guard is tempted to leave it alone and go home.
A great many people are saying that the Guard
will never hold another border; that the Guard
will go but of business once it gets home, if ever
it does.. Uncle Sain chuckles back: "The Guard
is my sworn slave, an oath is an oath. In spite
of camping all summer and all autumn, it will
drill all winter or go to jail." t. .
Meanwhile the regular army is being neglected
even more completely. ' It has not been recruited
to the strength, commanded by congress. Such
effortSas were made were a pitiful fiasco and are
largely abandoned. On October 30 the regular
army was 14,307 below the peace strength under
the old law and 34,307 below the peace strength
under the new law I Aad it was ruled that we
were technically at war with Mexico! The navy
is in no better plight Great appropriations have
been voted, but when- the Arizona went into com
mission the other, day it put out of commission
three battleships and took their crews and was
short 164 officers and men in spite of that The
nation said "Let there be might I" but there is no
might. The marine corps alone has its authorized
quota, thanks either to some unusual attractive
ness of its life as a passenger or to its very active
press bureau. It is advertised by its loving friends
and get recruits.
The army and navy evidently have no loving
friends. The National Guard, it is feared, will be
advertised the wrong way by its loving enemies.
The Guard used to have its detractors outside.
Now it is so full of discontent that its greatest
danger is from within. In spite of all the enthu
siasm in the world, the Guard has not been re
cruited up to its proper strength and now those
within very largely feel that they have been duped
and imprisoned or exiled as a reward for their
devotion. In a recent letter to the press a guards
qjan called the experience "a nightmare" and "an
outrage." Such men will be the worst possible
press agents when they return home. They ought
to be brought home at once. The expense of
keeping' them there is unjustly distributed. They
are subjected to cruel and unusual discrimination.
I shouldn't be surprised if their detention were
unconstitutional. Almost everything is. They
stitl expect to return home. Hope springs eternal
in thCjguardsman's breast. But when they will
return ay,-there's the rub I Governor Whitman
of New York, growing anxious about the fu
ture existence of the fine division he gave to
Wncle Sara;, wrote the president and said in eft
tect:
"Sorry to trouble you, 'Prexy,' at a time when
we are both looking to our fences, but could you
give me a hint as to when we can slay the fatted
calf for the lean boys in olive drab? Their mother
is anxious and their wife has just .applied for a
reservation at the poorhouse."
And the president answered, in effect: "The
Lord onty knows, Gov. Ask Mr. Carranza when
Mr. Villa is coming home and his answer will be
mine. Your Guard is a fine lot of lads and I'm
ever so much obliged to them and so is the
country." I . '- ,, ,
i -The current story that all Missouri yoted dry
except St. Louis 4s smothered tit its own uust
1 wenty-nine large ano populous counties, says
i ths Globe-Democrat, "voted with St. Louis.
i The high cost of living fails to check the
' sped of' joy hunters in Missouri, -In St. Louis
alone ninetv-two couples coupled up on Thanks
giving day, boldly ignoring tne wocry signals
of sedate elders. .
5 Missouri politicians legislated state prison
" workshops out of business and abolished the con
tract system. Now the authorities are wonder
j m if what to do wjth J.000 idle men, who are
--a'er at work than loafing,
I After-deliberating tor a week on the high cost
of Thanksgiving, the head of a Chicago nouse
t hold, rather than forego the annual centerpiece,
i plunged for a sixteen-pounder at 35. cents per.
1 His courage was rewarded by finding a $150 dia
i mond in the gobbler's crop.
Harry Lauder is said to be listed for a title
X-w Year's in recognition of his generosity in
(.Biting up $100,000 in real money to finance bands
of ScotdL-pipers for the army recruiting service.
As the king's jester Sir Harry is boun j to shine.
The court needs a gloom banisher.
Is a wooden leg equal to a live leg in kicking
a hole in the treasury of a liability law? It is
for the courts of Illinois to say.' Dan McReyn
olds of Danville, owner of the smashed limb,
wants $110 for a new, up-to-date member, be
side full time for three weeks and hospital bills.
Dan got in the way of an automobile while doing
a bit of rOad work and lost his peg.
For the third time in three years Dewey
Haines of Drake County, Ohio, lad of J9, wins
the state championship as a corn raiser and gets
a free, personally conducted excursion to Wash
ington and New York as a special reward for
industry, and skill Young Haines raised 137.5
bushels of corn on a single acre, a remarkable
example of intensive cultivation. He typifies the
new' generation of agriculturists who, as Vsnce
Mcformick puts it, "are fifty bushels better than
thtir dads." ; ' v . - ., '
Credit and Collections.
The Bee has frequency condemned some of
the practices of the loan sharks and collection
agencies and will continue to do so as long as
persons engaged in the business transcend right
and law. But there is something' to be said on
the' other side. The dealer who sells on future
payment installments is entitled to some consid
eration. To be sure, he realizes the chances he
is taking and has made calculations close enough
to protect him against ordinary risks, yet he 'is
giving a service that can" Scarcely be dispensed
with, His -customers are mostly among those
who have no established credit at other stores,
for they cannot meet requirements. Giving1 these
elements of the. problem full wVght, the reason
able thing to do is to educate the people who
are situated so that they find the installment
house a convenience to the full sense of their
responsibility in the transaction. If they can be
induced to avoid extravagance t and to appreci
ate the necessity of promptly meeting their obli
gations, much of the difficulty will be done away
with. Considering the immense volume of busi
ness done on credit in Omaha,' the amount of
complaint seems infinitesmal, for generally the
people pay their bills. Honest debtors need pro
tection at times and can always get it; those who
are in genuine misfortune will be helped, but
their predicament should not be made. anJexcuse
to cover the shiftless or the unreliable in their
trickery. . .. ' - J !H
Another side to the problem of bringing to
gether the bachelors and maids of Lincoln and
Omaha deserves consideration'. As love Hs' blind
and matrimony largely an insightless venture,' an
exchange of elrgibles of. the two. cities accords
with the fundamentals of sentiment. Besides a
"sight-unseen" trade provides the zest of romance
and thrills of anticipation. '.-"' ' :
-When I was down there and it was hinted that
election day might find us still on the border, we
ridiculed the idea as a preposterous one, an in
conceivable hardship. Yet there theGuard still
is without even a rumor to, gnaw on. The Army
and Navy Journal in its issue of October 28,
1916, says "the general 'impression about the
War department is that neither the army nor the
National Guard will be relieved from Mexican
service within a year." ' '
The Guard is kept there )y the ingenious and
perhaps necessary device of refusing to accept
resignations or grant -discharges except on the
most exceptional terms. The popularity of the
service is indicated by the fact that if resigna
tions and appeals for discharge should be favor
ably received the Guard would all be home and
there would be no Guard, s
The Army and Navy Journal of October 7
contains the names ot eighty-hve Guard officers
whose resignations were accepted between August
30 and October 2. I was unfortunate enough to
be comoel ed to be one or-these, though fortunate
enough to be released. Between July 20 and Octo
ber 25 nearly 500 resigoa.ijbns of officers were ac
cepted. It is safe, tDySay itjat, 2,500 resignations
were submitted and Jicld up. Of the men who
want discharges the number would, run to many
thousands. In consequence -the. enemies of the
Guard are saying that it has not made good, that
it will not stay good and that it is no good. Some
editors praise the self-sacrifice of the Guard and
some ridicule it tor cry-babyism.
The administration feel it necessary to patrol
the border at all costs. S'-igre with that opinion
after meeting the pe;dplelcg'e bor4r.y They
are convinced. tnat'Jhe , preseac -of the Guard
alone protects them front' bandit atrocities and
that these would begin .again at once if the pa
trol were removed. There are not enough men
in tht regular army to do the work and so the
Guard stays. . This is not the fault of any individ
ual or any party, but it is a fault and it ought to
be remedied in common decency and humanity.
The Guard volunteered at the president's call and
took a stringent new oaUl of obedience to his
least behest. It is obeying that oath, but it feels
cheated because it did not volunteer to act as po
liceman and night watchman. It would not feel
cheated if it were at war and being shot to pieces.
- The high cost of money produces more dis
tress in Wall street than the high cost of living.
Sweating the coin of speculation throws the pov
erty clutch on the lamb-shearirlg industf" .
Call a countrydoctor out at midnight to ride
several miles through a storm and treat a sick
baby he will not complain, provided the baby is
Sick. He will fight hard for its life and reproach
no one for the summons. But let him find that
the baby is welt when he gets there and ask him
to walk the floor with it at regular rates for
time and see what the doctor says. He ought to
be glad that he was not really needed, but he
will be hopping mad for! the fool's errand. So
the Guard would have made no, protest if It had
found a hostile army at the border knd tiad lost
a high percentage by death, wounds and disease.
Finding the border sound asleep, the Guard is
only human in rssenting tne call and the com
pulsion to stay. Its health has been excellent and
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it . iibb. icarncu euiiiciuiuK, uu, n is umci ly un
happy 'and almost completely cured of all de
sire to belong any longer.
i Of course, if actual war broke out, patriotism
would kindle the old fervor anew, but nothing
short of actual war will restore that interest. And
what wt want now is an immense and well-or
ganized peace reserve which. can bj called on in
an emergency -
i aaaaaae) paaM aiaaa J
Thought Nuggpt'for Hie Day.
(irit Is what Is left in a man after
everything has happened to him that
can happen to a human being and
still leave him alive. Marden.
One Year Ago Toilay In the War.
Bulgarians made violent assault on
allies in Serbia.
French kept up intense artillery Are
from Loos to the Argonne.
Klnr Constantlne declared Oreere
would remain neutral to avoid the fate
of Poland.
President Wilson sent note, to Aus
tria demanding disavowal of the An
cona sinking. r
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Mrs. Stewart entertained the Wal
nut Hill club at a card party. The fol.
lowing guests were present: Messrs,
and Mesdames Needham, Montgom
ery, Felton, Taylor, Hunt, Van Horn,
Cooper, Scott and Hutchinson. The
next meeting will be held at Mrs.
Needham's.
Contractor Ed Brennan has erected
winter stone-cutting shoo imme
diately east of the county jail in
which he Is placing stone and a stock
of coal with the intent of continuing
the cutitng, during the winter, of
stone required in both the retaining
Am.nl.l
building.
Dr. and Mrs. Dlnsmore gave a small
dinner party, entertaining the Hon.
H. 11. Ullea or Madison, wis. Tnone
present were Rev. and Mrs. W. K.
Copeland, Prof, and Mrs. Gillespie,
Mr. and Mrs. Ij. A. Oroff, Mr. and
Mrs. Uninger and Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Wooiworth. '
A meeting Is called at the opera
house to revive a society for the pre
vention of cruelty to animals. Among
those who have consented to speak
at tha meeting are Dr. George L. Mil
ler, Hop. A. J. Popplt ton, Hon. J. W.
Savage, Hon. J. C. Cowin and Hon.
J. M. Thurston.
Frank Kast. who unti recently Was
hotel runner, has beeh appointed
agent for a large soap concern. His
numerous friends are -delighted to
hear of his success - '
Manager B. B. Smith of the tele
phone company says that in addition
to the public telephone system already
established at the stock yards, another
is soon to be established near the ex
change building.,.
This Day In History.
1788 First court held In Illinois
opened at Fort Chartres.
1814 Don Juan Prim, famous
Spanish soldier and virtual dictator
of Spain after the overthrow Of Queen
Isabel, born In Catatonia. Assassin
ated December 30, 1870. ..
1834 James Buchanan was elected
United States senator frpm Pennsyl-vanlaj
1841 Lieutenant Jacob Elliott, one
of the last surviving veterans of the
battle of Lexington, died at Chester,
N. H.
1846 Indecisive battle at San Paa-
cual between the Mexicans and the
Americans under General Kearney,
who was twice wounded.
-1859 Charles Robinson, republi
can, was ' chosen governor of Kansas
at an election held under the Wyan
dotte constitution.
1866 William Edmond Armitage
was consecrated Protestant Episcopal
bishop or Wisconsin.
1882 Anthony Trollope, celebrated
English novelist, died. Born April 24,
1815.
1884 Capstone of the Washington
monument placed.
1888 Jefferson Davis, ex-president
of the confederate states of America,
died - in New Orleans. Born in Chris
tian county, Kentucky, June 3, 1808.
1906 French senate passed a bill
for the separation ot church and state.
The Day We Celebrate.
Francis A. Brogan Is Just 56 years
old. He was born at De Witt la.,
and studied law at Harvard university
law school. He practiced for a while
In Emporia, coming to Omaha in 1888.
He has recently been elected to the
school board.
Frank J. Carey, president of the
Carey Cleaning company, is today 34
years old. "Born, raised; educated
and going to die (dye) in Omaha," he
says, adding, "My hobby is real es
tate and I like dirt even If I am In
the cleaning business especially if it
is corner lots."
Police Judge Charles E. Foster Is
celebrating his forieth birthday. He
was born in Lafayette, I1L, and grad
uated in law from the University of
Nebraska. - He was for five years
with Baldrige & Debord and .for two
years deputy county attorney.
James Drummond, jr., . teacher in
the High School of Commerce, is 29
years old today. He Is a native of
Massachusetts.
General ',-August von Mackensen,
who is directing the Teutonic drive
In Roumania, born in Saxony sixty
seven years .ago today.
Charles 8. ,T3homas,(irnited States
senator from Colorado, born at Darien,
Ga., sixty-seven years ago today.
Rear Admiral Victor Blue, com
mander of the battleship Texas, born
In Richmond county. North Carolina,
fifty years ago today.'
William 8. Hart, celebrated photo
play actor and director, born at New
burgt N. Y;i forty years ago today.
Captain W. H. G. Bullard. com
mander of the battleship Arkansas,
born in Pennsylvania fifty years ago
Edward H. Sothern, one of the fore
most actors ot the American stage,
born in New Orleans, fifty-seven years
ago today.
Howard Elliott, president of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, born In New York City fifty
six years ago today. N
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
President Wilson is to receive the
Ohio Corn club boys and girls at the
White House today.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the Ben
gall poet and Nobel prize winner, is
to lecture at xaie university tomgnt.
The new quarter-million-dollar cer
amic engineering building of the Uni
versity of Illinois Is to be dedicated
with a two-day program of exercises
beginning today.
Cabinet officers and ether prominent
speakers are to address the thirteenth
annual convention of the iiational
rivers and harbors congress, which is
to begin a three-day session today In
Washington.
Storyctte of the Day.
In an Irish court house an old man
was called into the witness box, and,
beine Infirm and Just a little near-
siKhted. he went too far in more than
one sense. Instead of going up the
stairs that led to the box he mounted
those that led to the bench. The
ludee Kood-humoredly said:
18 it a JUC-ge you want to oe, my
good man?" .
"Ah, sure, Yer Honor," was the
reply. "I'm an old man now, an'1
mebbe it's all I'm.' fit for." London
Globe.
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Samuel GomperH Salary.
Broken Bow, Neb., Dec 6. To the
Editor of The Bee: Pleaae state what
Mr. Samuel Gomuers draws as salary
as head of the American Federation
of Labor.. A. J. ELLIOTT.
Note: Mr. Gompers' pay 9 head of
the federation was fixed by the Phila
delphia convention in 1914 at $7,500
per year. The same convention fixed
the salary of Frank Morrison as sec
retary at $5,000 per year. Prior to
that for five years the pay had been
$5,000 and $3,500 respectively.
More About Logan Fon ten rile.
' ' Newberg, Ore., Nov. 25. To the
Editor of The Bee: In last week's
issue of that excellent paper, the Blair
Enterurise. was printed an article
relative to Logan Fonten-elle of a be
littling character and purporting to
be baaed upon the "records" of the
Nebraska Historical society. It says
he was the son of a French trader and
an Omaha woman; that he never was
a chief; that he signed his name with
mark: that he was killed while
picking blackberries, and that he never
was a "nero.
My father. James A. Bell, was one
of a committee of about a half dozen
members of a company organized in
Qutncy, 111., in 1854. for the purpose
of locating a colony in the then Terri
tory of Nebraska. They crossed the
sparsely settled state of Iowa in a
wagon and went to Bellevue, where
tie Omahas were then located, and
had a conference with Logan Konte
nelle, thn chief of the Omahas. He
went wjth the party on their trip out
into the country, which resulted in
their locating -the town on the Elk
horn river which they named- In his
honor and named a stream which ran
into the Elkhorn above the site of the
new town Logan also In honor of
the head of the Omaha Indians.
The exploring party returned to
Quincy full of praise of the character
of Logan Fontenelle as they had
learned it during a week or ten days
in his company. One incident of this
experience was a feast which he gave
the party at Bellevue. The following
summer the Omahas sent a hunting
party out west and signs of the pres
ence of Sioux were discovered on
Beaver creek (if I am not mistaken
as to the name), a stream which runs
into the Loup fork of the Platte about
where 'the town of Genoa is now lo
cated. Fontenelle told his companions
to make their escape while he would
mislead the party of Sioux and delay
them somewhat, confident that with
his swift horse he also could escape
after allowing the other Indians time
to get away. Fontenelle's plan suc
ceeded in respect to the escape of the
others of his party, but he was killed
after he had killed several Sioux.
The story drifted back to Quincy
and one of the members of the party
that had made the trip to Nebraska
the year previous wrote a poem, set-,
ting out the facts in the case, which
was printed in the Quincy Whig. I
was a little fellow them, but I remem
ber distinctly the printing of this story
of the death of Logan Fontenelle and
of the high praise my father gave
Fontenelle. I do hot know just what
would, in the mind of the person who
furnished the "records" referred to in
the Historical society archives, consti
tute an act of heroism if this deed of
Logan Fontenelle does not till the bill
completely and overflowing.
The body of Fontenelle was recov
ered and taken back to Bellevue,
where the ceremony of burial was of
the most Impressive character as de
scribed in -a history of Sarpy county
published, many years ago by Stephen
D. Bangs. It is a long time since 1
read it, but I remember one incident
was of a white woman turning upon
Stephen Decatur in great wrath be
cause he, who lacked a whole lot of
being a churchman, read over the
grave the burial service of the Epis
copal church) She considered it a
desecration lor mm to read it.
The "records" referred to, it ap
pears, say that Fontenelle was not a
scion of a noble family of France.
The Fontenelle family has been dis
tinguished In France for many, many
years, and the father of Logan and
Henry Fontenelle belonged to that
family. -
The selection of the iname Fonte
nelle in christening what is said to bo
one of the finest hotels in the middle
west was a credit to those responsible
therefor, and in view of the exact facts
relative to the life and death of Logan
Fontenelle, regardless of what the
"records" of the Historical society of
Nebraaka have to say on the subject,
they can always look upon the name
and the portrait, which I understands
ornaments the hotel, with satisfaction
and pleasure. To me It is a matter of
gratification that the name Is properly
spelled "Fontenelle" and not "Fonta
nelle." Some of the most vivid recol
lections of my boyhood-are associated
with the name and with the personal
acquaintance I then had with many ot
the Omaha Indians.
- JOHN T. BELL.
Jews and Christian Science.
Omaha, Dec. B.: To the Editor of
The Bee: The Jewish religion and
the Jewish conception of God is tha
primal' source from which the reli
gions of all the world gain their in
spiration. In majesty and grandeur. Jehovah,
the Lord God of Israel, fulfills the
ideals demanded by the first com
mandment, "Thou shalt have no other
gods before me."
The Old Testament, the Bible of
the Jews, contains the form of all
that is known about God and man.
It proclaims the omnipotent God as
Spirit and man created in his Image
and likeness. Its seers and prophets
understood and practiced God's law
for the healing of the nations from
their sins, their sickness, their poverty
and their woe.
Small wonder that the God of Is
rael, who created man in his image
and gave him dominion; the Psalms
of David, which teach the spiritual
life of man and the protecting power
of God, and "Thou wilt keep him in
perfect peace whose mind is stayed
on Thee" of Isaiah should find their
way into' the Christian Science serv
ice. The question is asked, "Why is it
that these verses when read in their
service mean so much more to Chris
tian Scientists?" The question is not
answered by saying that Christian Sri
ence has incorporated Judaism and in
the same moment that Christian Sci
ence is not a religion.
If this is a sufficient answer, the
collateral conclusion as to Judaism
being a religion becomes more embar
rassing than Christian Science.
There seems a flaw in the argument
to say that Christian Science is not a
religion, but that a Jew ceases to he
a Jew the moment he accepts Chris
tian Science.
If Christian Science is to be de
nounced as only a system of healing,
why adjure the sick among the Jews
not to seek Christian Science because
their own religion offers the same rem
edy by prayer to God? The same thing
cannot be a system in one place and
a religion in another.
Rabbi Cohn says: "In Judaism we
find they same help, only infinitely
finer, infinitely more beautifully ex
pressed. I often think the concepts
of Christian Science merely words."
They are merely words, but to the
sick and despondent, who have found
some measure of health and hope,
they are Life.
In this is found the answer to the
question. It involves no attack upon
Judaism or the slightest detraction
from its Wonderful place in history,
for spiritually we are all children of
Israel.
We. do regret threadbare attacks
upon Mrs. Eddy. They are not true
and that kind of thing does not help
to establish good feeling among neigh
bora One might as reasonably con
jure up something about Moses or
his mother and expect to get any
where with It in an attack on the
Jewish religion.' .
We must win on the strength of
our'own title and not on the weak
ness of our adversary. Misrepresen
tations and misconceptions of other
religions - will not Inure - to the
strength of our own. It is what you
have to offer, not your pulling down
ability, that will build for righteous
ness. . -
The Jews are a proud people and.
the source of their pride rests on no
mean foundation. They have a right
to and should be proud of the fact
that they have given to Christian Sci
ence the cornerstone of its whole
structure, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord
our God is one Lord."
I ' CARL B. HERRING.
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