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J THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1917. The Omaha Bee DAILY QtOBmNQ-IVBNlNO-SUNDAT FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATER. VICTOR BOSEWATER, EDITOE THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered st Omaha poatofflci as iecond-clfl, matut. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Br CuiUc Br Mil Dill ud Brndu P mmtk. WW. BrnlM Baa Z Hi - !'S mam u4w I - 12 And, BM mtf .?' nl. and MU KM. Cm, rrt bl lin........ ....... .M.I Smd aotlo ekun of aSdltai It ImtuUlUI U OHMS I REMITTANCE, few It kr draft, tnm r poaul orte. Oalr I p7wxit of aaall aoooitnta. Panoaal asusa, cmat auuia arrhanaa. not accaptaft. OFFICES. Omika-Tha Baa BalMlat. Calaaau PawyiOaa BalMla g..utb Omaha Oil M at. Tora Plftli i Aa, Cooadl Bliifta-H . Mala BL lit. UMt-tltm BTl C"""" Unoola UUla Bnildtaa. WaaUaaua Tli Uta St W. w. CORRESPONDENCE. , AiMnal miaamrrlratkau nlalliif to aeaa aad aOtoHal waXUt I Omaha Baa. Kdltotlal Dapartmnt DECEMBER CIRCULATION 53,368 Daily Sunday 50,005 Smut dmilauna for ua nnalk nbaatthai aad nam 10 a, DwUM Willtama. CtravUttoa Manaaar. Subacrlban IsaTtaf tka ellj akanU ban Tha Bao aaW liBw Addraaa ekaaiad aa ottoa ao laauaatod. It's a cinch that if Mr. Bryan had not re signed from the cabinet before, he would now. The opportunity for jingoes to make good or shut up is some compensation for the worry. The league to enforce peace cannot com plain of having no work cut out for it. ' Before the next move is made, ought the presi dent not to find out first whether Henry Ford approves? Rest all fears of attack through Mexico! Carranza promises to proclaim his neutrality. Only "our good friend" Villa is yet to be heard from. Mexican exiles to the number of 1,200 have taken gasolene baths on the border. The opera tion scentses a forward leap into automobile society. Foreign-born citizens may sympathize with the country of their nativity, against other enemies, but it must be "America first" and America Ueber allesl" A roster of 1124 legislative bills insures a steady forty-day job for the lawmakers. Unless an average of twenty-eight bills are disposed of each day, waste basket facilities may suffer a blockade at the finish. A casual glimpse of the future lends a touch of wisdom to the zeal of lawmakers in speeding up irrigation projects. In the circumstance the conservation of our water resources deserves the support of every patriot The way to keep the schools out of politics . is to make it impossible to use membership in the school board as a stepping stone to party preferment. And the same is true of all other offices filled by way of the non-partisan ballot. Those indignant aenators who jumped on , Washington hotel men for boosting inauguration rates, evidently felt the touch at last summer's national conventions. Holding their wrath in check for eight months fairly measures the depth of the touch. Britain's latest suffrage proposal fixes thirty years as the age minimum for feminine citizen ship. This atandard doubtless fits things Eng lish. Over here a like proposition discriminating against bachelor maids would clutter the high ways with the debris of raised roofs. Unless events reshape themselves quickly, it will be necessary to convene the new congress in special session immediately after the expira tion of the. present congress despite the under standing that it was not to meet until next December. Again the best laid plana of men and mice "gang aft agley." . The chief factor behind the immigration re striction propaganda is to be found in the labor onions, whose leaders believe it to be to their interest to make tabor scarce although the vast -majority of immigrants do unskilled labor, which the American workmen will not do under any circumstances. It is to be hoped the senate will sustain the veto and it is difficult to understand how any Senator, representing the west with its vast resourcea undeveloped for lack of popula tion and workers, can favor such arbitrary exclusion, Shafts Aimed at Omaha Hay Springs News: The Commercial club of Omaha has passed resolutions to help saloon men and barkeepers to new jobs. This may or may not be the proper thing to do. We believe, however, that they are better able to take care of themselves than many others who are out of employment. York Republican: An Omaha lady painted a picture of the Niagara Falls several years ago, which The Bee at the time said "shows consider able dash and vigor." Of course, the question -of vigor is relative, but one who tried to paint the great falls without dash would not paint the falls at all. It's all dash, if you ever noticed it Nebraska City Press: A grand jury is at work in Omaha trying to locate some of the spots of evil we country folks like to talk about. One thing to get its attention is the rumor that cer tain portions of the city have harbored places where liquor has been sold illegally. The grand jury may have a very fine little piece of work cut out for it before it gets to the end of the rope. ' Fremont Tribune: There is no good reason why ilrere should not be a cutoff on the Lincoln high way to bring traffic by way of Blair instead of ietouring by way of Omaha. With the two routes mapped out it would give tourists an option. If they preferred to go by way of Omaha, well and good. , If they do not then let them have a marked road between Fremont and Missouri Val ley that will dispense with the fifty-mile kink taking in Omaha. This may mean a great deal to Fremont when it gets its palatial Pathfinder hotel going. Exeter News: The high cost of living has cer tainly produced a lot of stickup men and bur glars in Omaha this winter. These fellows who are after "easy" money get busy early in the eve ning and keep it up until late at night. The chief of police of that city has.at different times given out dope what to do in case of a holdup. Tbe best thing to do, we should judge, is turn over all the money you have and aoolonize to the fellow for not having more. There are peo ple fiffliting shy of Omaha this winter on account of the stickup men. The police seem to be doing all in their power to capture these parties. Re gardless of the tough class of citizens, Omaha is a migniy nnc cny. E PLURIBUS UNUM. The United States is the most cosmopolitan people on earth the one important nation of the world whose inhabitants are a flux of the people of all other lands. At the same time, the United States is the most notable example of the complete union of diverse population elements of old-world sons and daughters remade into true Americans and reincarnated with a single inspiration of devotion to liberty and to their common country. The most noteworthy, but in no way remark able, feature of the present crisis is the spontan eous and unanimous response from every state in the union and from every corner of the country, backing the president in the course of action he has taken to maintain the nation's honor and rights as a neutral. The pledge of loyalty to America first may be uttered in many tongues, but the words all have the same meaning. When it comes to a stand against foreign aggression, political differences are sunk and partisanship laid aside. There is no demarcation by nationality, or creed. There is no north, no south, jio east, no west of territorial division. The American motto is not a mere high sounding phrase, but a living fact "E Pluribus Unum." A Smokeless Pipe Dream. The first faint whiffs of reform foreshadowing a smokeless nation fleck the distant horizons of Nebraska and Kansas. King Nicotine is tagged for a fall. Tobacco must go. That much is a future probability. An impossible task, some will say. Millions said as much when this dry move ment started on its fateful spurt twenty years ago. With the experience gained in that sweep the smoketess reformers needs but rally like agencies and forces to smoke out the smokers and forcibly rescue them from the nicotine demon. Nebraska statesmanship approaches the bul warks of tobacco somewhat gingerly, being con tent as a starter, with a bill driving cigarets out of dining rooms. Kansas statesmanship strikes at the roots of the habit in a way admitting of no compromise short of herding smokers in public smoke houses. The Kansas measure prohibits smoking in all public places, from, highways to halls and vehicles, and forbids the indulgence in one's home. As a means of tapering off, com munities are authorized to establish smoke houses, where smokers may congregate and smoke up without limit. The fate of these measures is of little conse quence at this moment. They are interesting chiefly as forerunners of coming events calcu lated to sprout pin-feathers in the concealed wings of mankind. Progress in that direction may be slow. Still, it is possible even now to visualize a happy home minus the pipe, a stag banquet bereft of a smoke cloud, a smokeless lodge meeting enjoying fresh air, or a gathering of men serenely content with whiffs of their own breath. Is Money to Ba Cheaper? Unless changed by new war conditions, the most significant fact facing the coming building season in Omaha is the cheapness and abundance of money and the dearness of building material. It is a condition never before experienced. Usu ally the reverse has been the case. To a large extent one offsets the other and results in a con structive situation as near normal as the world upheaval permits. . This is due to the action of leading savings and loan associations, which have announced reductions in interest rates from 6.6 per cent to straight 6 per cent. In many ways this is the most important step mutual associa tions have taken since their birth in Omaha thirty three years ago. Reductions have been progres sive in that period, but never before have they reached the standard of money cost prevailing among eastern associations. It means a substan tial saving for borrowers of $25,000,000 of home money employed in home getting and the general upbuilding of Omaha. Moreover the interest rate is down to stay. Other loaning agencies may advance terms as conditions justify. When asso ciations reduce rates there is no return route, no possible "come back." Consequently the reduced rate fixes the maximum cost of money for first class loans in Omaha for all future years. When "Daylight Saving" Makes a Hit One place has been found where the "daylight saving" plan makes s real hit almost a home run. President Tener of the National league pauses for a moment m tbe business of arranging schedules, adjusting players' salaries and antici pating the threatened strike and points out that daylight saving will be s boon to the game. It will blow the work whistle an hour earlier and naturally the quitting whistle also an hour earlier. This will liberate it lot of potential patrons in time to see the game start and President Tener conjures up visions of bleachers packed to over flowing with horny-handed sons of toil now kept away from the ball parks by reason of a working schedule that does not let them off in season. Here is real boon and the move, thus promoted, will surely receive the enthusiastic support of all fans. And base ball needs all the help it can get from any source at this particular time. Senator William Alden Smith contributes a, postscript to Manila bay history. He says Ad miral Dewey told him two weeks before he died that the German admiral, Von Diedericha, "came to Manila for the purpose of talcing possession of the Philippine islands in the name of Ger many, which had agreed to buy them from Spain." The statement materially enlarges the scope of the famous "Von Diederichs incident" and appears to be an afterthought if not an after-development How the admiral omitted from his ac count this phase of the incident is open to wonderment. , Merger of Benson and Florence with Omaha is proposed without asking the aid or consent of the annexed. The very hint of such proced ure with reference to South Omaha, two years ago, started a small insurrection, as if it meant the perpetration of an unheard-of outrage, and we went to the needless expense of holding an election just to pretend that it was not "forcible annexation. Anyone in South Omaha now who would prefer to be unmerged? A semi-official tip from Washington announces that the Department of Labor is about to tackle the job of raising the dignity of housework. Plans and specificataion are lackin?, but it is a safe guess that the scheme will also raise s few roofs. Birth-Control and Race-Suicide -Utorair DifOit Do we need birth-control, or are our births "controlled" to much already? That would appear to depend on what class of the population we are considering. Prof. Robert J. Sprague, who holds the chair of economics and sociology in Massa chusetts Agricultural college, tells us, in an ar ticle contributed to The Journal of Heredity, that our wealthy classes need more births and our poorer fewer "birth-release" in the former case and control in the latter. Control he thus con siders as simply a phase of the general problem of population, and he urges the adoption of a "program for eugenics" that shall include this and many other things. The survival of the mere'y strong, Prof. Sprague says, may result in the survival of "the strong hog." Pressure of population develops brutality, selfishness, and dis regard for human life; it crushes leisure, gener osity, and art and makes impossible some of the finer virtues of a race. On the other hand, race suicide is destroying the social balance and is be coming a real menace where this pressure is not felt. He goes on: "For one great section of the population we need birth-control and for the other birth-release. Massachusetts is the only state that has for many decades taken birth statistics on a basis of na tivity, and these show that the birth-rate of her foreign-born population is about three times the birth-rate of her native, mostly Anglo-Saxon, people, the birth-rate being 14 per 1,000 and the death-rate 18 per 1,000 in the same native group. There are many reasons to believe that practically the same situation holds in other states among thei people of the same class. Merely to sustain the population and not to increase it, every mar ried woman capable of bearing children must, as an average, bring to maturity at least three chil dren. Of the graduates of our women's colleges only one-half lever marry and the average num ber of children per graduate is less than one. "Birth-control among the poor is needed for themselves, but birth-release among the upper classes is a great necessity, both for their own welfare and the salvation of the nation. Ex cessive birth-control by those well able to havo families sufficient for the nation's growth weakens the nation at ever point, necessitates the im portation of indigestible foreign elements, good people in themselves but poorly adapted to American life, weakens patriotism, and brings about a mixture of races which makes confusion of morals, dearth of art and literature, and con flicts between classes. Birth-control among the poor is a problem, but race-suicide among the mid dle classes is a racial menace which threatens by its influence to defeat the highest ideals of the nation. "There ought to be reasonable birth-control by all classes based upon high ideals for the nation and family, responsibility for offspring, and re finement of soul and character of the parents. Gradually man has been reducing his life from a world of chance to one of human control and order. Finally, his children will be the result of foresight, plans, ideals, and self-control. Birth control does not necessarily mean smaller fami lies, but it does mean better families, brought forth and developed according to the right ming ling of reason and love. America needs at pres ent a higher quality of population more than she needs a greater quantity; she needs more normal families of the successful classes, not larger fami lies of the unsuccessful. The number of children reared into decent citizenship, not the number born in poverty, is what makes the American fam ily happy and the nation strong." Birth-control, however, must not stand by it self, for it is only one important factor in the problem of population and vitality. How is our population to increase in the future? Race-suicide is decimating the middle classes of the in dustrial regions. If the radical birth-control ad vocates are to prevail, there will be no pressure of population upward among the poor. The men that we shall surely need must therefore come from the poverty-stricken classes of the Russians, Italians, Syrians, Portuguese, Mexicans, and negroes."- The writer oes on: "If the insufficient birth rate of the upper classes were to continue and we were obliged to get our increase in numbers either from the overflowing poverty-stricken families of foreign countries or from the poor classes of our own population, I should say, from the point of view of national welfare, let the increase come from our own people, reared under our own flag, language, and customs, even though in poverty. The adoption of birth-control by poor families to the extent that it is practised by the economically higher classes will condemn this continent forever to be not only the mixing bowl of the world, but the scrap-heap of the races. These people may be themselves as good as any of us, but forever mixed together from the ends of the world, they cannot make a nation. Nations composed of mixed races are weak in most of the things that make for national strength and progress. Lacking the unity of traditions, idealism, and national spirit, they are liable to have excessive individualism and turn to ma terialistic goals. "If in America we are to develop a national unity, a great American art and literature, a full realization of American genius for all classes and races already with us, and a respectable posi tion of influence in the world's progress and af fairs, we must have a brith-rate among all classes sufficient to maintain, increase, and unify the people of the United States into one great social and national body. "This nation must set up a goal of the normal American family and racial independence. It must idealize the family instead of the individual and work for its success by all forms of legal, social, and economic readjustments that are necessary for the accomplishment of these ends. "If we are ever to rioen and perfect our civili zation we must not depend upon the pauperized villages of Europe, the deserts of Asia, and the jungles of Africa for our population. We must determine to rear our own population from our own best stock, and so organize and utilize the resources of the country that all classes may bring their families up to the high standards that are possible to us. "America was founded on great prinicples which the world needs to have preserved, but without a sufficient birth-rate the old population will pass away and her mission to the world will not be fulfilled." People and Events A New Jersey matron who penetrated the dis guise of s married man paying court to her daughter declares the task is easy for the experi enced. Married men, she says, can always be distinguished by certain marks and tendencies. "Yon can see it in their faces," she asserts. Every time Oslerism shows its head the hammer gets into action. Isaac Iseman, 92, of Spark Hill, N. Y., excels in hammer wielding and his aim is good. Just to show 'em, the other day Iseman chopped a cord of wood and then went fishing through the Hudson ice for pickerel. The silent sentinels of the White House stilt wave their banners and plod their weary rounds, and the suffrage cause remains where it was. Things will take on a more aggressive hue on Inauguration day, when a cordon of charmingly fierce suffs will surround the White House and scowl becomingly. The movies are also on guard and reeling off hot suffs. Juvenile Judge Arnold of Chicago the other day told s batch of policemen to pick out the worst boy in each neighborhood and hold him responsible for the conduct of the rest of the "kids." Explaining why, the judge said: "The worst boy is usually the leader. The other boys admire his courage and will follow him, so we must get him to turn his energies to upholding the law." I TODAY Health Hint (or the Day. If the baby or young child appears to be troubled with pain in the ear or nose it will be well to Investigate and see whether the youngster has not been placing small objects, like beads or peas or biU of wood, therein when time hung heavy on his hands. One Year Ago Today In the War. Germans closed frontier between Belgium and Holland because of movement of troops to western front. Germany in memorandum to United States on Lusitania sinking refused to admit illegality of action, though con ceding all other American demands. Berlin officials announced through press that Germany had reached limit of concessions. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today. C. B. Horton, Inspector of the West ern Union, has returned from a visit to Deadwood, S. D. He had both his hands badly frozen in an intensely cold stage ride through Rapid City to Deadwood. He reports that the .ice on the telegraph wires in the vicin ity of Valentine was as thick as his arm. President Max Meyer of the Expo sition association received a telegram from Mr. Abbey, manager of the Ade Una Patti Concert company, stating that Patti would arrive in Omaha on the 24th. Miss Maggie Mitchell played "Little Barefoot" at the Boyd to a house which was packed from the carpet to the plaster. Fred Cunningham, the well-known foot-runner of Kansas City, Is in Omaha looking for a race. One of the latest real estate Arms In the Held is that of Smith & Welch, who have opened an office on Four teenth street in the rear ot the Bur lington ticket office. The firm of Ross Kunath, 21 North Sixteenth street has dissolved partnership, C. J. Ross going out and R. Kunath continuing to conduct the business. The Board of Public Works opened the one and only bid for the grading of Douglas street between Twentieth and Twenty-fourth. The bidder was G. W. McKinney, who will be required to do about 6,000 yards of Ailing. This Day In History. 1631 Roger Williams arrived In America. 1676 Indians attacked Lancaster, Mass., and after killing all the men carried the women and children Into captivity. 1725 James Otis, orator and states man, born at West Barnstable, Mass. Died at Andover, Mass., May 23, 17S3. 18i0 oie Bull, world-famous vio linist born at Bergen, Norway. Died there August 17, 1880. 1840 Cunard line's first steamer, Britannic launched. 1862 Jesse D. Bright of Indiana was expelled from the United States senate. 1865 The federals made a second unsuccessful attempt to turn the con federate right at Hatcher's Run, Va. 1880 Adolph E. Borie, secretary of the navy in Grant's cabinet died in Philadelphia. Born there November 25, 1809. 1900 The Hay-Pauncefote treaty, amending the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, was signed at Washington. 1901 Henry E. Youtsey was sen tenced to life imprisonment in Ken tucky as the assassin of William Goebel. 1904 The last American soldiers left Cuba, , 1911 The Missouri state capitol at Jefferson City burned. 1916 The Arkansas senate passed a state-wide prohibition measure. The Day We Celebrate. Dr. Frank W. Slabaugh, the dentist was born in Randolph, O., February 6, 1873. He was a professor of the Crelghton Dental college for four years. Marshal Count Selkl Terauchl, the new premier of Japan, born In Sa murai, sixty-five years ago today. Mahlon Pitney, associate Justice of the supreme court of the United States, born at Morristown, N. J., fifty-nine years ago today. Maxlne Elliott celebrated actress, now engaged In motion pictures, born at Rockland, Me., forty-four years ago today. Glullo Gattl-Casaxza, director of the Metropolitan Opera company of New York, born at Ferrara, Italy, forty eight years ago today. Simeon E. Baldwin, former governor of Connecticut born in New Haven, seventy-seven years ago today. John Walter Smith, United States senator from Maryland, born at Snow Hill, Md., seventy-two years ago today. Rear Admiral Charles T. Hutchins, U. S. N., retired, born at Kingston, Pa., seventy-three years ago today. Roger T. Pecklnpaugh, captain and shortstop of the New York American league base ball team, born . at Wooster, O., twenty-six years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Founder's day will be celebrated to day at the Northfleld seminary. East Northfleld, Mass., In honor of the birthday anniversary of the late Dwlght L. Moody. Two hundred and seventeen claims filed against the estate ot the late James J. Hill, the railroad magnate, are to come up for hearing today In the probate court at St Paul. :The fourteenth annual convention of the American Road Builders' asso ciation and the Seventh American Oood Roads congress, which assemble In Boston today, promise to be the largest gathering In the interest of good roads in the history of the world. Brilliant cheviots, jersey cloths and rajah silks In plaids and stripes will blossom forth in the new cuts of suits and gowns at the 1917 spring style show which Is to be opened in Chi cago tonight under the auspices of the Chicago Garment Manufacturers' association. Honey producers from all over the country will assemble today at Madi son, Wla, to take part In the annual meeting ot the National Beekeepers' association, an organization having branches in twenty-five states and In Porto Klco. Storyette of the Day. An English clergyman' touring In Belgium before the war arrived at Bruges. Being unfamiliar with the language he could not make the porter understand that he wanted to check his portmanteau. Finally the idea struck him to try a Latin phrase likely to be understood in a Catholic coun try. "Requiescat In pace," he said, pointing to his baggage. The porter smiled, nodded his head to show that he caught the traveler's meaning, picked up the portmanteau and led the way to the check room. -Boston Transcript dm The Federal Land Bank. Omaha, Feb. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: Will Omaha live up to its reputation as a financial center? If so, it should get busy at once in sub scribing for stock in the land bank. Subscriptions will be received at the internal revenue office, postoffice building until the close of business Friday, February 9, At that time tne books will close and no more subscrip tions will be received. Omaha business men should show their appreciation of the location of the bank in tnis city by liberal subscriptions to the stock while there is yet time. BOOSTER. Another Street Car Pest Omaha, Feb. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: Much has been written ana said concerning the "end seat hog" and also the passenger who blocks the way ' near the entrance of the car, thus leaving the front empty and the rear very much crowded, but what about the "mother" hog, who boards a car with a couple of children about 6 o'clock p. m., when all householders ought to be at home? An Instance came to my notice re cently, where a mother and a small child were occupying a seat made to hold two adults. Time, 6 p. m. Car very much crowded. A slight young woman whom I assume was employed downtown, asked the lady if there was not room for her in the same seat The reply was that she thought not, but an effort was made to vacate about a couple of inches of space, which the young woman then occupied. But when the mother was told that unless she had paid a fare for her child, that he was not entitled to a seat while adults were standing, meaning, of course, that the natural and proper place for the child under those condi tions was on its mother's lap, she re plied, "Where would you put him; hang him on a nail?" And with that, gave a shove which led the young woman to resume her position stand ing in the car. While scoring one for the above ac tions, we might give credit where it is due also. Occasionally you see an in stance on a street car where a mother and child will board the car and no seats vacant and a young woman (childless, in all probability) will take the little one on her lap. In fact I have seen a comely young white wom an take a little colored girl on her lap under those circumstances. P. H. AN OBSERVER. Scope of Federal Road Aid. Omaha, Feb. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: The opposition to legislation accepting federal aid for highway con struction is due to misunderstanding as to the federal law one big point of opposition is that to secure this aid requires hard surfaced paved roads. The following exchange of telegrams was to settle this point and to establish that federal aid Is available for any character of construction down to dirt roads, if grading and construction is substantial in character. Note these telegrams which are self-explanatory: Wire sent to L. W. Page, director of roads, Washington, January 31: "Will your department rule that earth road, well graded to line section and surface with good drainage and per manent substructures is substantial J construction entitled to receive meas-1 ure of federal aid ?" I Answer received February 1: "Type ! of road determined in each case by conditions. Graded earth road accept able If ' conditions warrant and im provement is substantial as required by law." i JOHN W. STEINHART. of their force required to transport supplies ana guara me iruui mu uwti n uA w.,Unul (InarA nt the country encamped down there with hard and fast orders to get Vina, aeaa or auvo. Now Villa walks along behind our boys as they retreat, and with one eye shut he says "they never touched me." FRANKLIN PO PE. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "Popt" I "Ym, my ton." , , 'My school teacher isn't murod, la sher" "No, I believe not, ray boy." "What makes her w crow than pop? Ton ken Statesman. While In town the countryman thought be might aa well call at the ft re insurance of fice and see about Insuring hia shop and household furniture. "What facilities for extinguishing a fire have you in your village T" the official In quired. The man pondered fur a minute or two. There' the rain," he said. New York Times. "Say, there ought to be some way tt make the game lawa apply to women's shopping." "How do yon mean?" "There ought to be some closed season for this bargain hunting." LouisvlUa Courier-Journal. "A fine rush for the first day," said tb wife of the tailor who had Just opened In Plunkvtlle. "That must mean that the old tailor Isn't giving general satisfaction. "i dunno," responded her husband. "It may mean that he Isn't giving general credit." Louisville Courier-Journal. PEAR Mtt. WABIBWJE VIHEM X TOW AWW MAM THAT W MCTTHtR BEATS Wc, HE PfcOFOSEb MAMMQE -VlrvVT to "tolTHIKKOFtr? WWW lMEt HE FIGURED F m HE WAWB- AntR MARRIAGE, YOU WOMfRUN HOME It) KWmW "What Is this?" "A letter press. What did you think It was?" "I was in hopes you had decided to run those Btook certificates yoa are trying to peddle through a wringer." 'Louisville Courier-Journal. Mrs. Exe John, we'll have to get lid of that parrot. His language Is getting to be simply awfuL Eifi Well, my dear, you should have known better than to have him where he could hear the remarks the neighbors make about him Boston Transcript. "Don't call my baby a squalling brat. That child Is going to be an artist" "I'd like to know how you can tell that?" "Because he takes to yelling whenever you begin to sing." -Baltimore American. She A man and his wife are never on equal terms, I don't care what you say. He Of course they're not, for while a woman will contest a man's will a man never opposes a woman's won't Baltimore American. Bunker Did you read about the golfer who dropped dead after making a 3 10-yard drive? Hunker No, hut Tve heard of several golfers who have talked countless friends to death after holing ten-foot putts. Puck. THE SMOKE GOES UP THE CHIMNEY, JUST THE SAME. Looking Backward. York, Neb., Feb. 1. To the Editor of The Bee: I wish to leak a little about this very lamentable adminis tration, which came in with bo much ado over the H. C. L. and gave sol emn promise of relief from G. O. P. conditions. But everything of which they complained then is worse now. And every change they now are offer ing to make is a fatal confession that they were then wrong.. We were to have economy in gov ernment expenses and we have hun dreds of millions in debts on top of all these extra and special taxes instead. Then a tariff commission was wrong, but now it is right. The war did not increase the need of preparedness, but lessened It. The trouble in Mexico did not call for the bluff we tried to run on them, for the army units stationed along the border could have done far better there than 240 miles inland, with three-fourths Thomas F. Porter, In Boston Globe. The sun may rise In splendor or in gloom. The flowers droop, or In their beauty bloom, The great trees Bpread their green boughs all around. Or their dried leaves fall crumpled to the ground ; The stars shine forth with all their wondrous light. Or darkness cloud the fair face of tbe night; All things may change that human Hps can name, The smoke goes up the chimney, just the same. Great wars may rage on land, 'Math (he seas, in air, Filling the hearts of Nations with despair; Rivers their streams run thick with human blood, And devastation cities sweep, and flood: Kingdoms be overthrown, and mighty Kings Be quite forgotten, like all earthy things That only have a little fleeting fame; The smoke goes up the chimney, just the same. Customs may change; e'en women gain the right By votes with men as equals to unite. Her views on laws and measures to express, And time may come when Man sees, with content, A woman In the Chair as President. But whate'er comes. If famine, flood r flame, The smoke goes up the chimney, Just the same. Chanres may come to cities and to Rtatea; Men live and die, young people love ami mate ; Old parties pasa, and new ones take their stead ; And, In an hour, a brighter radiance shed; Creeds, that for long have satisfied the few. 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