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Williams, circulate, llueief.
Sobwribart I a. rlnc . city atoli her. Th.Bo.mnlW
(.ton. Addraaa cba.,., aa pile, aa requested.
ThT Central Powers scan the world's hori
zon in vain for another helping hand.
The soldier is worthy of his hire, but no
worthy soldier enlists only for the money.
A county messenger at $125 a month tags an
other juicy job for some famished but deserving
democrat.
It is evident from available reports that alien
plotters experience great difficulty in delivering
the goods.
The 1st of May drouth is coming on apacel
Those "Only-'Steen-More-Shopping-Days" signs
will soon disappear.
Girls more patriotic than boys? Go to I Vol
unteering without a chance for service on the
firing line is not the test.
Price boosting in war times involves many
risks. What happened to food speculators abroad
may be repeated here. Better be 'safe than sorry.
"Small favors thankfully received!" Fortu
nately Nebraska's new Sunday barber shop clos
ing law does not prohibit the drug stores selling
safety razors on Sunday.
If German-owned ships Impressed into Ameri
can service ire torpedoed by German submarines,
who stands the loss? This is only one of many In
ternational puzzles that will hav to be solved.
The big four of the food world beef, pork,
wheat nd potatoes ire flying to dangerous alti
tudes these days. The specticle would be highly
impressive but for the certiinty of I return trip.
i
! One by one the South American republics
line up with the giant of the north in defense of
democracy. Unity of defensive Interests strength
ens the foundations of popular .rule in the west
ern world.
Mobilizing for Farm Work.
Many impractical suggestions are just now
being made by excited patriots as to the proper
way to meet the food emergency. Farm work
is of extraordinary importance at this time, but it
must be carried on systematically. Stress of cir
cumstances has aroused people to a better idea
of how much of our national life depends on ag
riculture. The almost automatic regularity of
crop production has produced a sense of security
as to food supply and diverted attention to other
and less absolutely necessary industries, but in
terest is now suddenly turned back to the farms
of the country. It should be understood right at
the beginning that the farmer needs assistance
more than he does advice.
Plenty of land is available if all can be put
under effective cultivation; it will hardly be nec
essary to plow up lawns or dedicate parks to corn
fields if the ground normally in use by the farmers
can be planted and cared for during the growing
season. Seed is needed and farm hands and also
money to finance the farm operators until an
other harvest time comes around. Supply these
and the farmer will attend to the rest.
The conference at St. Louis is working out
the details for practical co-ordination of the coun
try's farm resources. Plans there adopted will
be the result of consultation between experts who
are thoroughly acquainted with the agriculture of
the United States in all its phases and wlose
judgments are supported by long experience.
Their suggestions will be listened to by the farm
ers, who may be depended upon to do their full
share without undue urging.
' With seed to plant, men to do the work, up-to-date
machinery for them to use and ordinarily
favorable weather at the right time, the crop
problem will be solved.
Dtiniah women righters express indignation
because Congresswoman Rankin lined up with
the pacifists in congress. Women politicians,
no less than men, frequently discover they cannot
please everybody.
Douglas county will have a substantial sum
of money to spend this year on permanent road
improvement. It devolves on the county board
to see that the money is used to the best advan
tage and none of It wasted.
Opposition to Universal Service.
President Wilson is discovering that the wave
of patriotism stirred in congress by the declara
tion of war has not removed the opposition to
universal military training or service with the
colors. Speaker Clark has already notified the
president that the bill for the new army will not
meet the approval of all the democrats. This may
easily be understood, for many of the democrats
in congress are bourbons of the old school. Sen
timentally the volunteer system is appealing, but
experience proves it does not work out in prac
tice. Already from the cities of the country comes
news of many marriages hastily contracted in
anticipation of the passage of a conscription law
that exempts married men. On the other hand,
many men with dependent wives and families are
offering their services and many have been ac
cepted as volunteers. The universal service plan
will not affect the volunteer soldier; he will serve
whenever and wherever his country needs him.
It Is the slacker who will feel it, the fellow who
prefers to let another bear the burden while he
reaps the benefit. And universal service, is the
only known way by which the shirker of public
duty cm be brought to contribute hii ratable
share to the general duty. The obligation to serve
the republic is universal and the republic has the
full right to demand that that obligation be fairly
met by all its citizens. The president's plans will
meet Obstruction, but they will go through, or
the ringing resolution which authorized him to
employ all the resources of the United States in
defending our right! becomes hollow ind empty.
The first Napoleon, cynic that he was, be
lieved that God was on the tide of the heaviest
artillery. The smashing drive through the "in
vincible Hlndenburg line" ties I modern blue rib
bon oa Napoleon's foresight.
The government is considering throwing large
tracts of public land open to cultivation to In
crease the food supply. Our trouble is going to
be not to find the land to cultivate, but to find
the men to do the cultivating.
Owing to circumstances beyond control the
country must pert with Count Tarnowski before
a formal Introduction. The parting is saddened
somewhat by the prospect of the count being
'obliged to go to Halifax. Tough luck I
Roosevelt and the Foreign Service.
.Should American soldiers be sent to Europe
propriety si well as sentiment suggests acceptance
of Colonel Roosevelt's application to go with the
expedition. He is a representative American citi
zen, is well known on the other side of the water
and is thoroughly enthused and ideally fitted to
meet requirements. Moreover, he la a tested
soldier, one of our most consistent advocates of
preparedness! for he has steadfastly urged that
the United States make ready for the emergency
that finally brought us into the war, and has assid
uously practiced what he preached. An Ideal
leader of men, capable of Infusing hii own enthu
siasm Into others, he would well represent the
nation on the battle line in Europe. If the po
litical aspect of the matter ia to have considera
tion, ample precedent exists in the treatment ac
corded Colonel Bryan by President McKinley in
1898. Roosevelt and his division will be a popu
lar move and if we are to have men In the fighting
the "colonel" should have his chance.
Tax-free bonds of the Empire State amount
ing to $25,000,000, bearing 4 per cent interest,
sold for $1.05 In a lamp. The demand far e
ceeded the supply, foreshadowing a strong mar
ket for Uncle Sam's coming Interest-bearing war
paper.
What's the matter with making the county
poor farm produce the food supply for Its own
inmates, the occupants of the detention home and
other county charges? It would be worth while
trying If only for the good example and the
healthful exercise in the work.
"The civilization of Europe," we are now told by
our hyphenated contemporary, "and the liberties of
the world" are the Issues of the great war and
not merely, aa it solemnly assured us a little
while ago, the perfection of a gigantic British
land-grab. We accept the amendment
High Cost of Cats
CMcm HnM
The common cat accounts for an expenditure
of not less than $1,200,000,000 every year in this
country, according to no less a person than Frank
Chapman of the American Museum of Natural
History. It this figure is approximately correct
Dr. Chapman's calculation is convincing then
the distressing musician of the alley fence and
the apartment court is a luxury with which in
extravagance symphony orchestral and largi
limousines are not to be compared.
. There are approximately some 25,000,000 cats
in the United States, according to the most rea
sonable estimates available. These cati are the
incessant enemies of birds. The farm cats of
Illinois are thought to be responsible for the de
struction of some 2,500,000 birds annually. In
New York cats kill perhaps 1,000,000 more birds,
Massachusetts loses 2.000.000 birds in this wav.
The indirect consequence it the enormous loss
in foodstuffs. For, as the Audubon leaders point
out, birdi are best able to combat the insect pesti
of the crops. These pests, the potsto bug, gypsy
moths, chinch bugs and others of their ilk, cause
an agricultural loss annually, of $1,200,000,000. The
remedy is to reduce the number of cats and
thereby increase the number of birds. To achieve
this the American Game Protective association
advocates that cats be licensed by every state at
25 cents each. Unlicensed or perhaps unbelted
cats would then be exterminated.
The Creed'of Ethical Culture
By Frederic J. Ha$kin
Philadelphia, Pa., April 9. To console the
suffering, to bury the dead and to lead the living
to a higher way of acting and thinking that is
the whole story of ethical culture, a creed which
is growing and flourishing, a true child of the age.
You may belong to the ethical culture society
and be Jew or Gentile, Catholic or Protestant,
spiritualist or atheist the society does not trou
ble itself over what you do or do not believe, so
long as you are willing to act in accordance with
what it sees as the true morality. It upholds a
characteristic twentieth century creed, at once
broad and liberal, yet lacking in the fervid pas
sion of other religions, cooled with a dash of
skepticism. It is interesting both in itself and
because it is significant of the times.
The Philadelphia society holds its services
every Sunday morning in the Broad Street theater
here, which may account for the fact that, while
maintaining such a broad-minded policy, the or
ganization has but few church members on its
list of patrons. There is usually excellent music
contributed by some of the members, who are
also members of the Philadelphia orchestra, but
it is not religious. The rest of the service con
sists of a lecture on any subject of ethical inter
est, given by a speaker chosen from any part of
the country for his special knowledge on that
particular subject.
For instance, in going over a list of lectures
given by the society one finds such diverse topics
as "Tolstoi and the Social Message of Christian
ity," "The Drama as an Influence on Society,"
"Ruskin and the Ethics of Wealth" and "Intel
lectual Honesty." The list of lecturers includes
such names as William James, Margaret Deland,
Josiah Royce. Jane Addams. John Jay Chapman,
Thomas Davidson, and many others.
The speakers are, of course, paid to speak,
and the expenses of the services are defrayed out
of the membership dues, which are not fixed, but
contributed according to the individual's ability.
Many persons who are not members come to
hear the lectures, however, and a silver offering
is collected, which adds a large sum to the re
sources of the organization. In the summer, when
the heat of the weather interferes with the popu
larity of the lectures, the Sunday morning services
are discontinued, and instead the members go for
long rambles in the country, under the guidance
of some local authority on interesting placea
about the city.
Like other religious organizations, however,
the activities of the society are not limited to its
morning lecture courses. It has its regular con
tingent of men's and women's clubs working in
co-operation with it; there is also the girls' fra
ternity, and a civic committee which meets in
conference with other religious societies to dis
cuss opportunities for bettering civic conditions.
Just at present there is a strong anti-vice crusade
going forward in Philadelphia, directed particu
larly against the saloon cabarets that have grown
up so extensively during the last two years
throughout the city. And in the foremost ranks,
leading the churches, is the Ethical Culture so
ciety, preaching no god and not at all sure of im
mortality, employing every effort to have the sa
loons closed for the benefit of the morals of the
a"y-
The society's belief in ethics, however, Is not
all theoretical. It has a great deal of practical
work, aixteeen years ago, when the FhiladelDhia
organization was yet in its infancy, it established
a settlement house. This place, known as South
ward. Mouse, was opened in the center ot the
city's slums, which were badly in need of some
system of organized charity. At that time social
service was in its experimental stages, and had
but few apostles. There were no mothers' clubs,
no boys' clubs, no free kindergartens and milk
stations. The bthical Culture society was largely
responsible for all of these.
In the dispensing of charity the organization
has a unique place. It is able to bring about an
amiable co-operation among the various religious
denominations something which is distinctly de
sirable, but rarely attainable. The churches
themselves have long recognized the stumbling
block. They did not trust each other, feared
each other's proselyting tendencies. Hence, for
yean Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, Roman
Latholici, Presbyterians and the rest maintained
their, charities aeparately, but they could never be
induced to co-operate on any one charity. Under
the auspices of the Ethical Culture society, how
ever, this remarkable feat has been achieved. The
society stands for absolute freedom in religious
crcedi and doei not permit any proselyting. So
in iti settlement work at Southwark House it has
the help and co-operation of both clergymen and
priests.
jne Philadelphia tithical umure society is
but a branch of the original society, which has its
headquarters in New York Utv. There are also
other branches in Chicago, Newark, Wilmington
and St, Louis, all ot which draw their lecturers
and written material from the New York office.
Thii ia in charge of Dr. Felix Adler, the founder
of the movement, who ii worthy of a separate
tory.
Slgni of Patriotism Plenty. 4
Let us turn from the spectacle of those who
are trying to evade a duty and for a moment look
at some who conscientiously ire striving to as
sist in every way they cm to lid the government
In its need. From Chicago comes word that the
butter and egg speculators have voluntarily agreed
that from now on till farther notice no specula
tive dealings in these article! of food will be
countenanced. Dealers may contract for deliv
cry in advance, but speculative prices will not be
quoted nor any "deals in futures" recognized.
One great railroad system stands pledged to help
in any way and especially promises to assist in
mobilizing the farms, Great Industrial concerns,
commercial houses and financial Institutions are
placing til their facilities at the disposal of the
government. Thii carries expert knowledge of
the varying phases of preparation and will give
the government the benefit of knowledge gained
by experiment. Selfishness does not entirely rule
in this, either, for while the men who manage
these great establishments realise that the fU'
ture depends on present action they also have
a sense of obligation that is stronger than pri
vate profit. The individual well may feel in
spired by the examples daily afforded and in the
great movement to real preparation the adverse
influence of the wholly selfish "slackers" In any
walk ot life will soon be entirely lost,
Our Fighting Men
Behind the Lines In War Time.
Not all can go to the front, no matter how
trongly the impulse to share in the work of the
warrior Impels the Individual. But plenty of op
portunity to serve will be found back of the fir-
ing line. Modern warfare more than ever calls
for the young and vigorous and these will be
chosen for the places for which they are better fit
ted. Men and women who are not qualified for the
active duty in the field will find ample waya to serve
ind by doing so with cheerful zeal will contribute
greatly to the success of those who have gone to
the front. Industrial and domestic occupations
must move with proper speed and precision and
on some of them unusual demands will be made,
in order that the military operations can be suc
cessfully carried on, and this will provide ample
employment for everybody. "They also serve
who only stand and wait" is still true, but a nation
properly organized for participation in war has
no place for idlers.
I TODAY
Pioverb for the Day.
A miss is aa Bood as a mile.
One Tear Ago Today In the War.
French repelled assault on Cau
rettes wood.
Germans penetrated British lines on
road between Ypres and Pilkelm.
Petrograd reported that the Rus
sians had advanced below Erzerum
and repulsed Turkish attacks in Bitlis
region.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
At the first annual meeting- ot the
Cricket club the following officers were
elected for the year: President, P. 8.
Eustis; vice president, John Francis;
flecretary and treasurer, Richard
Shakeshaft; executive committee,
Messrs. Smith, Taylor, Vaughn, Llg
ett and Doyle.
F. L. Reed was elected president of
the Deaf Mutes' society at their last
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meeting, while C. A. Covey was chosen
for vice president, S. F. Buckley treas
urer and Miss L. Butrlck secretary.
At the residence of Mrs. Phoebe
Sherwood on Twenty-eighth and
Miami her daughter, Mary, was united
in marriage to Henry Letlssler. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. H.
C. Crane of the Hillside Congrega
tional church.
The street car company has just
completed a big barn for its horses
and cars at Twenty-sixth and Lake,
which will accommodate 235 horses.
The Old Bachelors' club, which was
disbanded a few months ago on ac
count of the serious inroads made
upon its membership by the forma
tion of marriage ties, has been reor
ganised with the following officers: A.
H. Gladstone, president; S, J. Fischer,
secretary; Julius Meyer, treasurer, and
R. Silbersteln, 8. Oberfelder and I,
Schiff, executive committee.
Oscar Keeiine started out hunting
and spent half a day reaching a cov
eted spot, where he saw lots of game,
but imagine his surprise when he dis
covered he had left his gun at home.
He now claims he only went out for
a drive and put his hunting costume
on so his other clothes would not be
come soiled by the mud thrown on
them.
Nearly 100 members of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians and their, lady
friends departed for South Omaha to
attend a ball and reception given by
division No. 3 of that place.
Charles F. Pond.
Rear Admiral Charles Fremont Pond, com
manding the cruiser squadron of the Atlantic
neet, entered the Naval academy from Connecticut
in 1872 ind rose through the grades of the serv
ice until he attained the Tank of rear admiral in
March, 1914. Admiral Pond has had a total sea
service of nearly a quarter of a century and an
additional eighteen yean of shore duty. Much of
his service at sea has shown him in charge of
surveyi of Pacific waters, conducted by the navy
and the coast survey. In 1903 he superintended
the laying of the trans-Pacific cable. His share
in the war with Snain was on board the Panther.
Later he served as commandant at different navy
yardi and more recently he came into the oublic
eye as commander of the naval forces operating
in Haiti and Santo Uomingo.
George Barnett.
Major General George Barnett, commandant
of the United States Marine corps, is a graduate
of the Naval academy, to which institution he was
appointed from Wisconsin in 1877. He has had
service in Cuba. Panama, the Philionines. with
the legation guard at Peking, China, and on nu
merous cruises with the Atlantic fleet. He com
manded an expeditionary force of marines in
Cuba in 1906. and. in fact, was the first officer in
command of troops that landed on the island to
form the army of Cuban pacification. In the
early part of 19r4 he was detached from com
mand of the marine barracks at the Philadelphia
navy yard and named by Secretary Daniels to
become head of the marine corps. The record
of General Barnett has been uniformly excellent
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an inruugn nis military career.
De Witt Coffman.
Rear Admiral De Witt Coffman, commanding
the battleshio force of the Atlantic fleet, is a n.
tive of Virginia and was appointed to the Naval
academy from that state it the age of 18. His
first sea duty after leaving the academv was on
board the flagship Pcnsacola of the Pacific sta
tion. During the ensuing ten years he was al
most constantly engaged in duty afloat. During
thia period he visited nearly all parts of the world,
at one time being engaged in watching operations
in the far aouth during the Chilean war and from
there being transferred to patrol duty in Bering
sea. When the provisional government took
charge of the Hawaiian islands he commanded a
company of the landing oartv of sailors from the
Boston. During. the war with Spain he was st
udied to the monitor furitan. In later vears.
previous to his assignment as one of the divi
sional commanders of the Atlantic fleet, Admiral
Coffman commanded the battleship New Jersey
ana served as commandant ot the Boston navy
jatiu.
This Day In History.
1782 Naval battle between the
fleets of Lord Rodney and Count de
Grasse.
1788 The first power loom was set
up in Philadelphia,
1 son united states army raised to
five regiments of infantry, on. of ri
flemen, one of light artillery and one
of light dragoons.
1817 A duel between Thomas H.
Benton and Charles Lucas of St. Louis
resulted in the wounding of Lucas.
1842 general Morazan Invaded
Costa Rica to re-establish the federa
tion of Central America by force.
1854 A British neet under Sir
Charles Napier blockaded the Gulf of
Finland.
1881 The confederates fired on Fort
Sumter.
1865 Surrender of Mobile to the
union naval and land forces.
1877 Transvaal republic annexed
by proclamation to the British empire.
1908 Fire wloea out a large portion
of the city of Chelsea, Mass.
ISIS Thft United State. rnnnn inpt
with armed resistance on entering Par-
rai, Mexico.
The Day We Celebrate.
William H. Indoe. general agent of
the State Mutual Life Assurance com
pany, is 43 years old today. He was
born in Granger, O., and has been
with his present company since 1889
and in his present position since 1895.
Charles E. Wager, assistant general
freight agent of the Missouri Pacific,
was born April 12, 1865, at Spring
field, III. He is an old-time railroad
man, having been in the business thirty-two
years.
Rt. Rev. Arthur c. A. Hall, Episco
pal bishop of Vermont, born in Berk
shire, England, seventy years ago today.
uarrett Droppers, united states
minister to Greece, born In Milwau
kee, fifty-seven years ago today.
Robert Harron, celebrated as a lead
ing actor In motion pictures, born In
New York City twenty-three years ago
today.
Luke Lea, late United States senator
from Tennessee, born at Nashville,
thirty-eight years a'go today.
John Hicks, Oshkosh newspaper
publisher and former United States
minister to Peru and Chill, born at
Auburn, N. Y., seventy years ago to
day.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Fifty-six years ago today the war
between the states began with the
firing on Fort Sumter.
The session of the Canadian Parlia
ment, Interrupted by the visit of Pre
mier Borden to England, will be re
sumed today.
Ohio democrats favoring prohibition
are to hold a state convention at Co
lumbus today, with William J. Bryan
scheduled as the enter speaker.
The national conference of progres
sives, to which the "liberals" of other
parties have been invited, 1b to meet
today at the Planters no.tel In St.
Louis.
Delegates from the higher institu
tions of learning and the women's
clubs of Montana are to gather today
at the University of Montana to at
tend a vocational congress tor college
women.
A special election Is to be held to
day in the Fifteenth New York con
gressional district to All the vacancy
caused by death of Representative Mi
chael F. Conry. The candidates are
Thomas F. Smith, democrat; John N,
Boyle, republican; Joseph D. Cannon,
socialist, and George H. Mann, inde
pendent.
Storyette of tho Day.
The men of the fire department of
a western town decided on the oc
casion of his birthday to present to
their chief a fine axe. Elaborate
preparations were made for the pre
sentation In a ceremonial manner,
and there was to be a presentation
speech. The eloquent address framed
cost the speaker many hours of mental
toil.
The hall was flag-draped when the
big day came. On the platform eat a
lot oi nremen in run regalia. In the
seats sat the prominent citizens of the
town with their families. After
prayer by a minister, a piano selection,
etc.. came the presentation address.
The snokeaman opened his mouth
but words came not. He looked at
the chief, at the floor, at the celling,
then made a wide gesture, gave
gulp, and said: - -
"Here's your axe."
The chief, who had arisen, gave him
one look of dumb consternation, and
rejoined:
"Gosh I Is that the axe?" New
York Times.
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Picture Buying In War Time.
Omaha, April 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: It is plain that western peo
ple have not yet be nun to realize the
seriousness of what lies before them
and what it means to enter a dark
war cloud too thick to let them see on
its farther side. But little by little
they will come to understand It and
begin to shape their lives accordingly.
They will learn to suppress the un
necessary things and to substitute the
practical for the aesthetic when possi
ble, as befits a nation at war.
No doubt there are eotner to be
hard days for them whose bread is
earned In the pursuit of the arts. Peo
ple who would be their eager patrons in
the careless days of peace will be feel
in? that there are too many stern
necessities ahead, too many ways in
which their money must and should
be spent to allow of parting with It
for mere pleasure or the pride of possession.
And they will be quite right and
most sensible. All the money they can
raise, however much, is likely to be
wanted for Just plain, everyday pur
poses, as the days go on. Our presi
dent is desirous of making a 1 ,000,-
000,000 loan to France, which seems
frightful amount. Probably it is
well, but not apt to make money con
ditions any easier for us.
This is no time for the exploitation
of private hobbles or the Indulgence
of aesthetic tastes; It is rather a time
for the elimination of luxuries and
for the conservation of resources. And
this applies to societies no less than to
individuals, it is hard to comprehend
the mental attitude of a society which
under present conditions will go on
its placid way, Importing and purchas
ing pictures quite as though the coun
try's problems offered nothing more
momentous than pictures for consid
eration. To propose spending $10,000
on a painting, however beautiful, as
one society does, Is in this present cri
sis rather ridiculous; a little farther
along we ay reach a point where it
would be almost criminal.
To some serious minds it would seem
a suitably patriotic step to call a halt
on society meetings of the kind until
the final settlement of our interna
tional questions, which we hope may
not be very far off. There will be
plenty of time after that for dinner
giving and picture-buying and oratory
relating to the same, and it Is likely
that the donors of funds for these In
teresting purposes might then be bet
ter disposed toward them than In these
absorbing days of war perils as well
they may be. L. M., TAXPAYER.
Life Is a Patchwork Quilt.
Omaha. April 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: Something I just read In
"The Middle Pasture" is so good I be
lieve your readers would appreciate it,
too:
"To the small boy, life Is Just one
Jolly game after another. To the
debutante, it is a rose-colored dream.
To the cynic, life is a huge joke. To
the parents of ten It Is a serious and
always unsolved problem. Some say
It Is a bubble; some say It is a snare
and a delusion. The learned say that
life is a great book, written upon no
paper, and its meaning not always
clear; but there are no pages missing,
and to the end we go on trying to
read. Isn't It taking a more cheerful
view, however, to look on life as a
patchwork quilt?
"we start rrom ennonood sewing in
our little pieces. We very much pre
fer the bright-colored pieces, and with
lavish hand we sew in our pretty
plaids and reds and blues the gay
patches of youthful Joys of picnics
and dances and larks of all kinds.
Here and there we sew In a red, red
piece a first ball, a wonderful trip or
a graduation day.
"Here and there lie sullen brown
patches of 111 temper and misdemean
or. Too bad that they must be sewn
In, but all the patches in the basket
must be used. It Is the quilt of life.
and day by day, bit by bit, we sew in
tne little pieces.
"Even black patches show here and
there black patches of grief and sor
row. We do not want them in our
quilt, those black patches, but there
tney are scattered about in the rag
basket and the scheme of the patch
work quilt embraces even the black
bits. And so, with tears and reluctance
and oft-pricked fingers, we sew them
in because we must.
'Sometimes we make a whole
square of bright flowered pieces gay
little patches of irresponsible joyous-
ness, of neglected duties, of undue
play, and forgotten work; and then
all of a sudden the gay, flowered pieces
run out and we find that we must
finish with pieces of sober gray the
gray or serious renection tne next day
brings, just as 'next days' have a habit
of dorttM.
"Antu onmes me moon wnen we
feel like the very small boy on a flying
Jenny, who said he went 'round and
'round and never got anywhere. And
we do not even have the consolation
of the small boy's exhileration. Then
it is that we sew in a very dark blue
patch. '
"There are crasy quilts where the
patches are sewn in harum-scarum,
where the motto is 'Every patch for
itself and the waste basket take the
hindmost' We make our crazy quilts
when, we live for the minute, caring
nothing for yesterday, thinking noth
ing of tomorrow. Our crazy quilt
lives flash out in kaleidoscope color;
they attract a moment's attention and
are forgotten.
"But the world progresses and many
of us are now unwilling to think out
for ourselves and sew in with our own
hands all the little patches that go to
make our life quilt. It is too much
trouble nowadays to have original
ideas or to fashion our own lives. So
we allow them to be machine made for
us. We let our lives be modeled and
turned out from the great factory
called convention. Here our life ac
tions are not sewed in at all. We artt
merely stamped in various conven
tional designs, and we come out, not
hand wrought individual quilts, but
factory-made "comforts," and we go
forth through the land with our life
designs fashioned for us in the exact
image and color of ten thousand other
'comforts.'
"However, plain quilts or fancy
quilts, crazy quilts or factory comforts,
there comes inevitably a time of
frayed edges and threadbare spots and
finally the rag bag. Then that last
bourne where old rags are ground
into pulp. And then what?"
L. M. BURROUGHS.
NEBRASKA EDITORS.
The Dlller Record, Frank T. Psrc editor,
was 30 yean old lait week.
The Big Four Editorial ttiociatlon will
hold iti quarterly meeting: April 16.
B. S. Leedom ft Son have iotd the Gordon
Journal to A. E. Clark, proprietor of the
Democrat.
D. G. Brewer, editor of the Spaldiaff Demo
crat, haa moved his plant into a new build
ing and imtalled an Intertype.
The Cuater County Chief celebrated ita
illvee anntveraary laat week. Its editor and
publisher, E. R. Purcell, haa been at the
helm since Ita flrat appearance in April 1892.
Anna J. McCormlck has aold a half inter
est in the Ralston Industrial to . N. Strahl
of Lincoln. The new partner has taken over
the active management of the paper for the
present'
J. R. Cooper, for many years editor of
the Holdreee Progress, died at his home at
Holdrege Wednesday. He was appointed
postmaster of Holdrege several months ago
by President Wilson.
Tekamah Herald : The newly elected
police judge, J. W. Tamplin, of the Journal,
can now print a regular police gazette, as
he will have ill the Inside information neces
sary, since all city cases must appear before
his honor.
The Dawson County Pioneer was 44 years
old laat week. It was founded by B. F.
Kreler, Ita present editor and publisher. U
li believed that Mr. Kreier is the oldest
newspaper man in the state in point of con
tinuous service on the -same paper.
h. B. and R. E. Cunningham, editors ot
the Nemaha County Republican at Auburn,
issued a spring time edition that is one of
the best papers of its class ever issued by a
county seat weekly. It consisted of twenty
eight pages filled with good features and
announcements of wide-awake business men.
Five full page advertisements, several half
pages and numerous smaller displays indi
cate that a live paper always makes a live
town and vice versa.
LINES TO A LAUGH.
Newly wed If I should be killed by thia
automobile. Uary, I want no weeping at
my funeral. I want everybody to be cheer
ful. Mrs. Newlywed Nonsense, John. I should
have to weep a little, just for the looks of
the thing. Boston Transcript,
, "Mrs. Bmarty used to boast that she never
let her mind run upon little things."
"Well, does ehe?"
"I should say no! She can't talk of any
thing but her baby. "Baltimore Amerlfan.
"Where'd you get the black eye?M aik4
Jones. "What was the argument about?"
"There was no argument," replied Smith.
"Brown walked up to me and told me ha
would punch me In the eye. And he did.''
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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fit her. and .av. on.third. one-fourth and
ofc.-half off on aom. garment, for
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