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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1917.
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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
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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.
Be swept away for better ones, though new;
Though some oppose, others the truth pro
claim The smoke goes up the chimney, just tbe
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Business is surely and steadily pushing west
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enterprise to this ever-popular thoroughfare.
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