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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE : MARCH 18, 1917.
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mr sltvnltHM for tae months sabscrlM saa ewera to IV Dwlsat
'.Ui.m. Clreulatloa Msatfsr.
SuWcrieara leertai the city ahetila hay. The Ba. aaallea
te these. Mrm ckun' " as reaueetea.
The Ides of March was also the day of ill
omen for the great Caeiarl
Yes, and there ire other thrones whose occu
pant must feel decidedly uncomfortable.
It ia gathered, from remarkf of railroad man
ageri that the Big Four are eligible for the iron
cross.
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t ii announced that calf boots will be higher
next lummer. Holy smoke, and no charge for
the aceneryl ' .
A referendum is superfluous. March wins by
acclamation the top percentage in the mean tem
perature column.
Still, some oraclea of world politics would have
us believe that those Russians are slow and lack
ing in initiative.
It is easy to enter a vacant-lot gardening con
test, but not so easy to finish. Perseverance and
. persistence alone pluck the potatoes. i
- Another sign of the superiority of the United
States is that we allow our cabinet ministers to
resign instead of putting fhem in jail.
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If China can be transformed into a republic,
why not Hussia? The most backward nations
sometimes come forward the fastest.
Prayers for harmony at the state house, judg
ing by local experience, ought to be efficient in
persuading the harmonizera to "come across."
Think ( moment wiat a complete stoppage
of railroad traffic would mean. Then boost for
good roads as offering an alternative in such
an emergencyl , , ' -
The sudden adjournment of the special ses
sion of the senate leaves the Colombian pact up
n the air. A new alignment ,ii necessary to lift
:he lid off the pot of $25,000,000.
A few spectacular vetoes by Governor Neville
would let people know he is on the job. How
can he hope to sustain the 'claim of ."making
good" without breaking into print now and then?
If the men who made th first mores that
precipitated the great European war could have
foreseen, it would doubtless have been different.
Their purpose was to strengthen royalty not to
weaken it. ' ' '
Events have been moving so rapidly in Russia
that It is impossible to keep pace with them.
'That explains why the survey made for one edi
tion of a newspaper ia out of kilter almost before
'he paper is off the press. '. "
Confident predictions came out of Washington
ten days ago that Villa was down and out and no
longer a factor in Mexican affairs. The defeat
of the Carranza forces at Farral indicates that
the seondol is still in the fighting ring snd going
strong. v i .
At the outset of the revolutionary game at
Petrograd the Overseas, News agency played up
the news in the usual cheery fashion. The Central
Powers appeared to have made a hit good for
a home run. The sudden subsidence of the official
news vendor suggests that the runner has not
j et scored on the hit.
.'. The Golden Era OrKFarmers,'
The British government takes time by the
forelock in seeking control of the food crop sur
plus of the colonies. Xegotiationa are in an ad
vanced stage for the entire surplus 1917 wheat
:rop of middle Canada at prices ranging from
$1.25 to $1.75 a bushel, according to grade, deliv
ered at railroad elevators. " Fledges of like char
acter with fixed prices for three years have been
made to farmers and gardeners of the United
Kingdom and Ireland to stimulate agricultural
energies and promote intensive cultivation. More
over, energetic efforts are put forward to induce
cultivation of estates hitherto comparatively idle
and thus increase the produttive resources of the
country to meet the tremendous drain on food
reserves occasioned by the war.
To the farmers of the United States the action
of the foremost food importing nation of the
world eyries, a message, freighted with import
ance. It means an active world market for all
the food supplies that can be raised and prices
commensurate with the energy put forth. This
is as good as guaranteed by conditions in the
warring countries. (The cultivable area of France
is reduced one-fourth. Belgium. Poland, Galicia
and Roumania, extensive producers of food in
normal times, are ravaged by armies and not"
likely to do more than support their diminished
population. Equally potential in making for ahort
crops is the shortage of labor in all Europe. In
one way or another every male between the ages
of 18 and 55 is engaged in war activities, leaving
only the women, old men and children to sow,
cultivate and harvest crop. In these circum
stances, even with favorable weather conditions,
a normal crop is not humanly possible.
Here, then, is the opportunity knocking it
the doors of the new world granaries. Not in a
quarter of a century has brighter prospect ap
pealed to the energy and enterprise of American
farmers and insured greater returns, 'not alone
this year, but in the coming years of peace, until
the slow processes of readjustment restore the
normal equilibrium of the world's food staples.
Make in End of the Strike Menace.
One almost inevitable outcome of the present
railroad crisis will be law that will forever do
away with the,, menace of a strike of all the rail
way brotherhoods at once. This legislation will
be forced because of the great third party to all
strikes. The public interest requires the continuous
operation of the transportation lines of the coun
try. Too much depends on uninterrupted service to
permit it to remain longer at the pleasure of or
ganized groups, eitherpf managers or men. If the
managers were to threaten a tieup of the railroads,
pending a concession from the men, they would
jeopardize the rights and privileges of their cor
porations. It is because the brotherhoods are
under no such restraint that only their moral
obligation can be appealed to to discharge the
duty they owe the public.
The people are interested in seeing that fair
wages and reasonable working conditions are
given to all wage earners. It is axiomatic almost
that strikes ire determined by public sympathy.
This explains the general amazement caused by
the attitude of the brotherhood leaders, when
they refuse to wait until the court can determine
the validity of the law on whose operation they
insist, and also decline to accept any form of pro
cedure that might establish what is just and
worthy in their demands. The cause of organ
ized labor cannot prosper when such high-handed
and arbitrary methods prevail in its Councils.
Congress had four months in which to enact
a law that would remove this threat, but failed to
act The Adamson law was passed in less than a
week. Organized .labor has strenuously opposed
compulsory arbitration, but the course of the
brotherhood 5n the present crisis has given the
advocates of compulsory arbitration the most
potent of all weapons in its behalf, the support of
public opinion. Whatever of undue advantage, if
any, the trainmen may gain will be but tempo
rary in the readjustment that must come for the
protection of the public.
"Intellectuals' and Military Service.
A favorite and oft-repeated charge of the radi
cal element of the socialist party has been that the
"intellectuals" ere parasites; that they consume
and do not produce. This line of argument, pro
jeeted to military requirements, holds that the
proletariat also does all the fighting. Some fig'
ures just now available may serVe-to answer this
charge. On the rolls of the British army at pre
ent are the names of 13,200 graduates of Cam
bridge1 university; of these, 3,600 figure in the
casualty list, while 2,100 have won notice for dis
tinguished service. It may be questioned if any
group of society can make a better showing. The
Rhodes scholars at Oxford university have orga
nized themselves in anticipation of possible serv
ice to the United States; they may not be called
upon, but they are getting ready. One-third of
the present Yale undergraduate body is reported
as ready for the call. ....... ,
Each belligerent country can duplicate the
list from Cambridge, for each of the great schools
of Europe has its own list of graduates and under
graduates serving with the colors, in all ranks
and grades. The reserve list of the United States
army shows thousands of young men, recently
from the universities, ready for the call of Uncle
Sam, many especially trained for the exacting re
quirements of modern warfare. L
The "intellectuals" have given the most em
phatic reply to the accusation of the irrespon
sible agitators.
",,',. Sentence That Seems Sensible.
Six Baltimore school boys, who refused to join
in salute to the flag when given at school, have
been sentenced to recite "The Star Scanned Ban.
ner" each day for aix dayk before the class, in
aaamon to giving the salute.. This sentence will
get approval, not for its novelty, but for being
sensible. The bovs uree as their excuse that tW
re "internationals," whatever that is, and there-
lore immune from allegiance to any one country.
One good way of impressing on them the value
of law and order is to acouaint them with the
means by which security is obtained. To do this
n isot necessary to upset their faith in "inter
nationalism," the most vague and inchoate of all
modern political fads. Thev mav be left free in
believe any form of nonsense they care to adopt,
so long is they keep within the law in so doing.
It is very vital to them, however, that they be
made td understand the necessity of regarding
the rights of others,-which includes respect for
the government under which they live. When
they have imbibed this lesson and thnrnuuhlv
assimilated its meaning they wilt be all the bet
ter quaunea to determine as to "internationalism."
Possible Humor of tht War.
If the world war mav he ul tn tut. ,..
thing of humor connected with it t1. .!,.,;
of a German conanl. vnr!lfd frnm f.n,l. aft.
relations between the United States and Germany
were broken, may be said to afford the joke.
Refused safe conduct by Japan, he was sent on
to Honolulu, where he could not be received be
cause it is i United States port. He was trans
ferred to a vessel hnnnrl far Hnno k'nn h..t ...ill
arrive there to find that China, too, has broken
with Germany.. He will thm hi it,. nr,Vil.n.
of jumping overboard, unless some kindly nation
uicca compassion on nun and otters him a refuge.
The incident is not emeriallv an
peace on earth, but it aptly illustrates how com
pletely isolated ine .teutonic powers of Europe
have become In their rflatinn u)ith .,.....)
world. Perhaps never before in "history has war
had the effect of an ntirtv rt.in tin.nitaKU
doors to the rerf :sentatives of a belligerent
country.
New s"ou2o of State Revenue.
An Iowa senator haa mH a antrr.t,7,n !.
grows in attractiveness as it is studied. He pro
poses that a filing fee of $1 be collected with each
bill introduced by member of the legislature.
This is not. in his mind at leait. tnti-nriVrl a a,,n.
plementary revenue measure, but to curb in some
A .1 . t . . . .
utisivB me unpuise io present ireaic or unneces
sary bills for nronoied lawa. Th amAnnt nt tfc f
is plainly too low. If i nominal fee, say of $5, were
ieu in MDrasita it might have brought con
siderable cash tn the trt,...r 11,1. . .1..
have saved the state just as much money expended
in recording and printing measures that will never
come out of the committee rnnma Tn .IfV...
way it would have worked good for the people.
ncorasica is not alone in this respect, but little
COmfort is to be extrartrrl trnm tho H,.,rrl,t that
ill over the land lawmakers are wasting time and
uuucj m loousn proceedings. ' '
Pledges of big reforms to be redeemed "after
the war" serve to chloroform the crowd for the
moment. Usually they come out of it too late.' i
Br Victor Raaaimtar
ALTHOUGH the cables have been overladen
for the past few days with reports of the
Russian revolution, no one at this distance and
probably few right at the seat of the trouble-
can nave any aacquaic conception 01 just wnat nas
happened and what the establishment of a new
government in Russia carries with it. One thing,
jiowever, which seems to be fairly clear, is that
the systematic persecution and flagrant denial of
civil rights on account of religious profession, is
to be abated it not entirely abolished.
I have been serving for ten years as a member
of what is known as the American Jewish com'
mittee, whose chief activity has been directed to
ward lilting the ban ot racial and religious preju
dice from Jews wherever they may be. It goes
without saying that the most acute situation to
dc acaii wun naa occn inai amiciing inc jews in
Russia, compelled to live there under most bur
densome and ignominious restrictions and 'period
ically made the victims of murderous mob out
breaks, or "pogroms," too often instigated and
abetted by the very officials charged with afford
ing them orotection.
To justify its mistreatment of its own Jewish
subjects, Russia went so far as to apply the same
restrictions of travel and business and social inter
course to American citizens with Jewish affilia
tions in direct violation of their treaty obliga
tions with the United States. Pressure brought
by the American Jewish committee, it will be
remembered, finally induced congress to ask the
president to abrogate the treaty, since which time
our trade and other relations with Russia have
been without treaty protection or regulation and
the negotiation ot a new treaty which would rem
edy the evil complained of has been awaiting the
termination ot the war.
In the interval, however, the program has been
widened to include the amelioration ot the condi
tion of the Jews resident in Europe, and especially
in Russia, as well as of Jews who have become
American citizens and who may want to revisit
abroad or engage there in lawful pursuits. When
the party contentions were held last June I was
deputed, along with others, to work for a platform
commitment to this proposition which a refer
ence to the documents will show was incorpor
ated into both of the big. party pronouncements.
In the republican platform, for example, a treaty
with Russia is demanded as with other countries
"that will recognize the absolute right of expatria
tion and prevent discrimination of whatever kind
between American citizens, whether native born
or alien and recardlesa of race, religion or ore.
vious political allegiance." And there is added
this significant expression: we unite in the
cherished hope that war which is now desolating
the world may speedily end, with a complete and
everlasting restoration of brotherhood among the
nationa of the earth and the assurance of full
equal rights, civil and religious, to all men in
every land.
All this but preludes the observation that the
revolution in Russia is apparently accomplishing,
in part at least, what it was hoped and expected
would remain for America to insist on as one of
the conditions in the after-the-war readjustments
a wining out of the pales and a complete break
ing of the chains still punishing people because of
their religious beliefs as a remnant of the darkest
days of the Middle ages when fanaticism and su
perstition and witchcraft were the forces that
moved tne woria.
I had a notion that the rancor engendered by
the war among our citizens of foreign ancestry
was dving out and that the call for a united
America was wiping out bitterness. This I be
lieve is true but every rule has its exceptions, as
witness the following which came to me not long
ago inrougn ine mans:
"Permit me to express my sincere pity for
your poor soul since you find it necessary still
to help spread all kinds of British lies, no mat
ter how foolish, malicious and devilish; you may
deceive yourselves, but not decent, sensible
people by pretending it is for the good of hu
manity, for the enlightening of the people,
for the progress of the world, for the salvation
of this nation, etc. God will punish a nation
that loves lies and practices lying, slandering
of frienda and the like, just as He is punishing
Europe for its sins."
Need I add that this reversion to the once
common idea that war is "a scourge of God"
comes from a minister of the gospel?
; People and Events
The late Congressman Sulloway of New Hamp
shire was known at home a "The tall pine of the
Merrimack." He stood seven feet on shoe leather
and easily looked down on every other member
of the house. -"
After much enlightening experience in speed
mania a Gotham magistrate announces that here
after, in cases of speed law violations, he will
hold the employer who order the speed as well
as the chauffeur. That smacks of justice with the
bark on. ,
"Hope God may strike me dead if I took It!"
exclaimed Lee Million, in a store at Wade's Mill,
Ky., protesting his innocence of the charge of
taking a ring from i mislaid purse. The sheriff
drew the ring from Million's pocket and Million
dropped dead.
Indianapolis authorities have put their collec
tive foot down on the shameless industry of
marrying squires. The latter employ runners who
haunt the county buildings and use foot ball tac
tics to secure customers for their bosses. Here
after all applicants for marriages will not be
molested by solicitors,
; Job holders in the state of Utah are shedding
tears as briny as the neighboring pond. Joyrid
ing on railroads is banished by law. Where offi
cers travel on public business the state foots the
bill. Otherwise, the official outs ud hard cash
and gets no drawback. Truly the pinching ten
dencies ot modern reform make tor tears,
screams and sore spots.
Automobile owners in Illinois, through repre
sentatives at the state capital, have agreed to pay
the interest and principal of a $6,000,000 bond is
sue for good roads by increased license fees. The
plan outlined increases license fees 50 per cent
when embodied in law, and another 50 per cent
increase on January 1, 1920. Auto men came
across when they found that Governor Lowden
would not support bill placing the bond burden
on the state at large.
Patsy Cahill of Wheeling. W. Va.. has a great
hobby. Retiring from active life some twenty
five years ago he devoted himself to the cheery
task of attending funerals, averaging at least one
a day and running up a score of 7,000 funerals.
Patsy has sufficient funds to enjoy himself in his
own way, and his' melancholy good will does
impose the obligation of neighborly reciprocity.
However, the Wheeling funeral fan anticipates a
bunch of glad hands on the other shore.
That seetion of New York City locally known
as Greenwich village, whither drift the devotees
of "Bohemia," received i shock which imperils
its simple lite, ihe city tenement commission
plans to clean up and renovate the rookeries of
the village and banish gas jet cooking from
tinderboxes and tumbledowns. The locality is
not visible on tourist maps, but explorers have
been able to spot it by the pungent odors of
onions and garlic. , -
A few years ago collegians gave vent to con
siderable wrath because' it was alleged the board
of trustees muzzled Prof. Scott Nearing and
"strangled liberty of Speech in its sanctuary."
Prof. Nearing shifted his educational activities
to the University of Toledo and ia in trouble
once more for talking too much. A mass meeting
of citizens recently denounced him for a pro-
Ucrman attack on fresidenr Wilson and pro
voked Ins resignation from the university. ,
Health Hint lor the DayT ... . .
For clubbed nails and Angers a doc
tor should be consulted because these
are almost Invariably due to chronic
disease of. the heart and lungs.
One Tear Ago Today In the War.
Dutch liner Palembang torpedoed
In North Bf.a.
French destroyer Renaudln sunk by
submarine In Adriatic.
Russians stopped German assaults
in lake region near Dvinsk.
Germans attacked west ot Vaux, but
tailed to reach French trenches.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The architect of the New York Life
building Is In the city with plans for
the erection of a ten-story brick and
stone building building on the corner
or seventeenth and Farnam, to be
used for the local offices of the New
York Life Insurance company as well
as general office purposes.
H. A. Penrose and George Hoag
land have returned from a short hunt
ing trip with sixty ducks, forty of
which were canvasbacks. It was a
rare catch and the successful sports
men of course refused to tell where
the birds were found. 1
The remains of Mrs. Ann H. Bar
rows, mother of Mrs. J. H. Millard and
Hon. B. H. Barrows, were sent to Dav
enport for burial.
Dave Mueller of Farnam street and
Fred Wlrth of the City hotel have col
lected $3,200 for the reunion of the
Grand Army of the Republic, to be
held In this city.
Two hundred members of the An
cient Order Hibernians attended mass
at the cathedral. Father McCarthy
celebrated mass, Father Boyle was
deacon and Father Carroll subdeacon.
After mass, the order marched
through the streets under the, leader
ship of Commissioner O'Keefe.
A new organization named "The
Orpheus Glee club" consists of the
following members: Messrs. Peacock
and Brewster, altos; Cramer, Bur
leigh and Burness, tenors; Roberts
and McEwing, bassos.
H. O. Jones, the veteran real estate
man of this city, died at the residence
of C. B. Moors on Eighteenth and
Dodge streets. .
This Day In History.
1766 Stamp act repealed by the
British parliament.
1817 An earthquake In Spain. Por
tugal and Sicily destroyed whole vil
lages. 1837 Act ofthe Michigan legisla
ture establishing the state university
at Ann Arbor. .
1830 Chinese Imperial Commis
sioner Lin prohibited the Importation
or opium.
1846 Mexican general Mc.lla, in
Matamoras, issued a proclamation of
hostility to the United States, and
called the people to arms.
1860 William H. Blssell, governor
of Illinois, died at Springfield, III. Born
in Otsego county, N. Y April 25, 1811.
1865 The confederate states con
gress adjourned sine die, after listen
ing to a last address from President
Jefferson Davis.
. 1885 Susan Warner, author ox
"Wide, Wide World," and other -popular
novels, died tn New York City.
Born- there In Ml 8.
1891 David Hartley Armstrong, In
structor of the first public school in
Missouri and later a United States
senator, died at St. Louis. Born in
Nova Scotia in 1812.
1904 Daniel J. Sully, the New
York cotton operator, failed.
1909 Russia and China reached a
modus Vivendi in the Harbin dispute.
The Day We Celebrate.
H. F. Curtis Is IS today. He came
here from Pennsylvania and dispenses
sand for a living, being president and
general manager oi tne L,ymau Hand
oompany.
John Lee Webster, lawyer and ora
tor, was born March 18, 1847. He is
a native of Ohio but has been prac
ticing law In Omaha for many years.
He has achieved the reputation of be
ing the best dressed man In Omaha.
Bishop John W. Hamilton, chancel
lor of the American university at
Washington, born at Weston, Va., seventy-two
years ago today.
Marcus M. Marks, president of the
borough of Manhattan of New York
City, born at Schenectady, N. Y., fifty
nine years ago today.
William Sulzer, one-time democratic
governor of New York, and later af
filiated with the progressive and pro
hibition parties, horn at Elisabeth. N.
J., fifty-four years ago today.
victor Muruock, rormer Kansas
congressman and later a leader in
the progressive party, born at Bur
llngame, Kan., forty-six years ago to
day. Anna Held, a celebrated star In the
so-called musical shows, born In Paris,
forty years ago today.
Edith Storey, widely known as an
actress in motion pictures, born in
New York City, twenty-five years ago
today.
James J. Callahan, manager of the
Pittsburgh National league base ball
team, born at Fltchburg, Mass., forty
three years ago today.
Frank Moran, whose aspirations for
the heavyweight DUglllstic chamnion-
ship were given a quietus by Jess Wil
lard, born In Cleveland, thirty years
ago today.
Storiette of the Day.
A veunff woman of nink cnmnleTinn
but of herolo build a kind way of
denoting obesity applied to E. H.
Calvert the moving picture director,
for a position as an extra girl. She
presented him a personal letter of
u uuu, ilium. uMiin years ngv, 11 nemii
Mr. Calvert knew her father and
mother. As he gazed at this nlumn
Juno the light of memory came into
nis eyes, out still ne was not quite cer
tain about something.
"Let me see," he mused, "which
side of the house do you resemble
the most?" I
"Sir!" she cried In accent far from
mild. - "I don't resemble any side of
any old house!" Topeka State Journal.
HERE AND THERE.
Of all tha ears from ovaneas JaDan'a la
th bast packed.
Sixteen paretnt of South Africa's reauire-
saents cam. from America jut year.
Thert U sale to bo mora unexplored eoun
T la Biaill than la all tha rat ot tha
world put toiathcr.
Th Indication! are that tha 1917 vleld of
susar from Cuba will ba about 1.100,901)
ton.
For soma reacoa or other It may ba oe-
eauie of tha war many Chineao have left
tha Dominion and set up In tha laundry buii
oaa In Minnoaota.
Chile hat enough nitrate to aupply tha
world with thia commodity for 200 years.
Lait year it chipped tha United Stataa U,
967,178 worth ot thia one product. -
A radio station has been Installed by the
United States lishthouce cervlce and fa in
Donation at the Cap St. Eliaa light i to Hon,
Alacka, now under construction. Tha call
letwn an NLCj.
AROUND THE CITIES.
Wichita. Kan., haa adopted tha city man
ager plan by a declaiva vote.
8t Joa's aehool expense for tha calendar
year are eitimated at 8412,150, an increace
of 915,000 over lait year.
Philadelphia plana to spend 96,000,000 in
afreet paving this year. Soma permanent,
country roads are included In tha huga im
provement plan.
Official reporta show that Greater New
York has 102.520 registered auto owners.
Their contributions to the state treasury in
1916 amounted to $957,000.
Chicago figures that the. boost In eteam
coal prices for 1917 will cost tha city treas
ury an extra 825,000. Bids for this year's
supply averasv 9S.72 a ton, or 91 a ton
higher than last year.
St Joe decrees that auto owners must
dim their headlight slims. Four candle
power Is tha limit of light for auto night
lamps under a new ordinanea. FaUura to
heed tha law oosts from 10 to 850.
Kansaa City, Mo., opens with a big noise
s campaign for tha adoption of tha newly-
drafted city charter, which embodies the
manager system of municipal government.
Nightly meetinga are planned by supporters
for educational purposes.- Opponents hare
not yet shown their hands.
With an expenditure of only 876 for tele
grams to outside sources of supply the food
commissioner claims to have busted the
food comer In New York City. OtScial
S. O. 8. ealls opened up new sources of sup
ply and such a rush of spuds, onions and
eggs came to market that the combine was
swsmped and consumers relieved from the
holdup. (
St Louts wallows in sloom once more.
The joy occasioned by the completion of the
municipal bridge vanished with the refusal
of Billy Sunday to coma aerosa and nave
'em. Bill had booked the city for February
24, 1918, hut tha date Is cancelled. The
worst of tha throwdown is that Chicago is
assured an early crop of celestial wings.
Topeka, Kan., has s warm municipal cam
paign on tap, with four aspirants for mayor
in tha race, which doses April f. Mayor
House is out for re-election solely on his
record aa an official. With terseness of a
promoted newspaper man, Mr. House points
to his success in making a cleaner city,
morally, materially and physically, and freer
of crime than any city of its size in the
country.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Lawyer A f always said that Bowers was
the meanest man alive, and now he's gone
and proved t. .
. Lawyer H How Is that?
Lawyer A He's given away all hie prop
erty so there won't be a thing left to fight
over. Boston - Transorlpt.
Putting 6n one's overcoat Is sometimes so
much of an effort that one la disposed to
agree with the old negro who said:
. "Fust yo' puts In one ahm, den you puts
In de uddah ahm. an' don yo' gibs a fcn-ral
conwulsion." New Tork Tlmea.
Pa At last I've found a way to make
that young scamp ot ours stop winking; hla
eyes,
51a Really T
Pa Yes: I'll show him tha artiola tn this
science magazine where H says that every
time we wink wa give the eyes a bath.
Buffalo Express. ,
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.
.Women letter carrier! will loon b deliv
ering mad in Paris.
Amelia E. Barr, America's oldest woman
novelist, haa just published her sixtr-eig-hth
novel.
The University of Wisconsin claims tha
larffest number of women athlete of any
college in the country.
England has sent a number of young
women carpenters to Franca to build hats
for the British soldiers. ,
The "farthest north" member of the
National Federation of Women'a Clubs is
the woman s club at Nome, Alaska.
Mrs. George Rife is taking a course at
Ohio state university to keep up with the
interests of her son, who is a freshman at
the same college.
Probably the only woman coroner and
public administrator in the country ia Mrs.
X). A. Potter of Plymouth, Cal. She is also
an undertaker and expert embalmer.
Dr. A. W. Merchant, a prominent woman
physician of Baltimore, has organised and
is president and producing manager of her
own motion-plctursi producing corporation.
When the board of stflmatea of the city
of Baltimore learned that Mrs. Mary
Schoal's hat had been ruined by falling plas
ter in one of the city markets it promptly
voted $4.98 to buy her a new one.
Many women of Washington, D. C, have
formed units, which together will comprise
great comforts committee of the Navy
league. They will furnish knitted wristlets,
sleeveless jackets, etc., for the sailors and
marines of tha navy.
Miss Beulah Armstrong, a member of the
senior class at Baker university, haa the
distinction of holding the highest average
in scholarship for her four yean' work that
has ever been made by a student at the uni
versity since its founding In 18S8.
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"My doctor scared me the other day,
SaW I was threatened with brain fever,"
"Oh, don't let anyone frighten you with
flattery, that way." Browning's Magaslne,
"This prohibition wave seems to be sweep
ing everything before it."
"That's so; even the British tanks on tha
front seem to be falling by the wayside.'
Baltimore American. x
"Young man, you don't appTntr to know
on which side your broad Is buttered.!' -
"I can't see that I'm to blajne for that.
Any butter on my bread haa been spread
out mighty thin." Louisville Courier-Journal.
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MOTHER.
The things I understand in you
Seem more than human love;
'TIs more like sacred music sent,
' On wings from heav'n above.
In memory's gallery today
No likeness holds a place
That's half so sweet or half so fair
As the Image of thy face.
A pair of laughing eyes meet mint
Whenever you do speak;
And roses seem to bloom thert, too.
Upon thy blessed cheek.
Tour disposition to mine eye
Shows beauty all un guessed,
Like sunshine in a cloudless sky.
Which by our God la blest.
You've ever seemed to mother ail
with a heart- so fond and true;
Your arms just seem to reach light out
To draw me close to you.
Long years may pass and time may leave
Its impress on thy face;
Still In my heart, dear mother mine.
There's none to take thy place.
Omaha. LEONARD L. KELLT.
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