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    THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1917.
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June 5, 1917, ii mother epochal date In the
Calendar of Liberty.
Omaha has experienced the novelty of a naval
parade being atopped by water. - '
China will not be , happy unless the dragon
sports the feathers of A Prussian eagle. , ,
Not much sign of (lackers in any of the Omaha
precincts so far as the registration record shows.
Slogan of the '60s, revised upward: "We are
coming, Father Woodrow, ten thousand thousand
strong."
Liberty bonds are going like hot cakes on a
frostYj morning. Only nine more days to get in
en the ground floor.
The socialists may not intend it that way, but
their pullback activities give substantial "aid and
comfort to the enemy." '
Between swatting the fly and chasing the po
tato bug, Omaha folks will have plenty' to occupy
their otherwise idle moments this summer.
Omaha's subscriptions to the Liberty bonds
are well over the $7,000,000. Let us boost it
further. A good deed cannot be overdone.
' Brazil's method of answering the U-boat cam
paign is simplicity itself and will be effective so
long as the supply of interned ships holds out.
Opponents of the nation's waf plan have only
themselves to blame if they fail to heed , the offi
cial admonition: "Obey the law and keep your
mouth shut."
High" school cadets got a very realistic touch
of life in the trenches, and know now that school's
worst terrors cannot equal the inconvenience of a
drowned-out camp. '
Co-operation is the order of the day among the
lilies. Just as England plans to conserve food
by exterminating war dogs, Secretary Baker
itrengthens his staff with a Frankfurter.
When the railroada get through making the
readjustment in service ' they are now talking
ibout and hesitating over, maybe the agitated
raise in rates will not be so badly needed,
" '
It doesn't take much to start an "uprising" of
L'tes or Navajoes, but old-timers will remember
without straining their minds that it has been a
long time since either of these tribes hat given
trouble to anyone but the excitable correspond
ents. ., .:..",
The government, as a matter of courtesy, no
doubt will permit friends of the Kaiser to aend
over an accurate report of the registration and
the rush for Liberty bonds. A timely hunch will
help some in speeding up preparations for tiie
worst
Notice given that the list of applications for
training at the Dct Moines camp for negro offi
cers is not up to requirements comes as a surprise.
Our colored men have never been found lacking
in valor, and surely the country has enough edu
cated negroes of proper age. to fill the. roster pro
posed. They ought not to allow this chance to'
get by, unless they really want to serve under
white officers.
Following the example of the warring powers
in uniting all political divisions in the ministries,
Premier Borden has invited former Premier
Laurier into his cabinet. Unity of al! parties is
necessary to bring about conscription in Canada
and the liberal leaders' support insures success of
the pending measure. With Sir Wilfred in the
cabinet, considerable political and racial friction
would disappear in the eastern provinces, and the
ranka of the Canadian overseas army .vastly increase.,:-.
The Cause of Liberty
-Wuainitoa Poat
Meeting the U-Boat Problem.
Optimistic reports from British authorities
encourage the hope that in some way the menace
of the submarine may have been met. It i- ad
mitted that the presence of American warships
in the Channel Waters has stimulated activity in
the hunt for the undersea terror, a fact that will
be gratifying to our national pride. Methods of
operation and actual results achieved are not
stated for obvious reasons, but negative proof of
success is offered in the form of a lessening' list
of victims. One day is noted as having passed
without the loss of a single British boat, the first
since the unrestricted operation of submarines
began.
Out of all the niyttery that surrounds the sit
uation stands the fact that the German program
has failed, in that it did not isolate the British
Isles, did not force, neutral shipping to avoid pre
scribed sea area and that England's supplies have
not been cut off, nor are its people any nearer
'to being starved into submission than in Febru
ary, when all restraint was thrown off and the
campaign of ruthlessness .extended from land to
sea. What new phase of 'the war may follow is
the subject of many conjectures. The course to
be pursued by Russia will have an important bear
ing on the future of the conflict, as alto will that
of the United States. We may yet be given some
basia for the spreading belief that Germany is
much nearer to collapse than the leaders on either
side admit. '
On the other hand, the allies are laying plans
for another year of active fighting. Experts all
admit lack of definite information, but agree that
the "sharp weapon" of the submarine did not
bring the result hoped for by the kaiser and his
counsellors.
The war of democracy against autocracy has
brought about the formation of a common broth
erhood that knows neither race, religion nor peo
ples. It is the fight of right against might It is
a conical in wnicn cacn inaivinuai can inmK tor
himself and choose the side that is right.
In resigning as first secretary of the Greek
legation, S. X. Constantinidi strikingly epitomized
the situation when he said that it is the. duty of
every humane and honest man to align himself on
the side of America and the entente allies. It is,
at he well says, "a simple question of humanity
and civilization against German barbarity and
bestiality of a tVDe almost beyond belief."
The war against the- German government is
not a king's war. It is not the war of statesmen.
It ia not the war of the oresident of the United
States. It ii the war of civilization against or
ganized and ruthless barbarism.
There has been nothing to conceal, so far as
the cause of the United States and the allies ia
concerned. Before the war tome of the most
frievous aggresiont of Germany against the
In iter! States, some of its createst atrocities, were
concealed lest the anger of the nation might burst
all bonds. v , . ' .
t Whether in Greece or Spain, South America
or the Oriet, all lovers of-fair play, all lovera of
decency, as well as democracy and liberty, must
find their sympathies on the side of America and
tha allies. Since the United States entered the
war, other neutral nations have been preparing to
follow. Enlightened thinkers everywhere, regard
less of nationality, are enlisting- in the cause of
humanity. The German people themselves, wnen
the truth finally reaches them, will atrike for lib
erty, and then will come the dawn of an enduring
world ece .,
Heavy Rainfall Not a Calamity.
June always has been a month of heavy rain
fall in this region, and very likely will be. Physi
cal reasons are responsible for this, and out of
the combination springs the wonderful fecundity
of the zone in which Nebraska is a shining sec
tion. Lightning and thunder and the beat of
the rain and the roar of the wind are awe-inspiring
in their unrestrained manifestation of nature's
power and majesty, but back of the storm cloud
is the certainty.of peace and plenty. Few per
sons realize in any degree what is involved in our
rain storms or what is required for the making
of a crop. Enormous quantities of water must
be provided the soil if we are to reap the harvest
hoped for. For example, oats require almost 500
tons of water to the acre, corn demands nearly
300 tons, wheat almost 400 and clover does better
with over 500 tons of water to the acre, and most
of this is supplied by the-heavy downpours in
June. The torrents that fall on these early sum
mer nights are beneficial in spite of 'the local
damage they do.
Food Control and Foreign Buyers.
Another detail of the complicated arrange
ment of the food control bill pending in congress
has been worked out almost to definite adoption.
It is intended to regulate the sale of foodstuffs
to foreigners who come here for their supply..
Under the original draft of the bill for the licens
ing of grain exchanges or simitar markets, only
domestic traffic was controlled. This left foreign
buyers free to operate at will and brought with
it danger of considerable proportion. Buyera
from abroad could come here, borrow our money
and buy, our grain without limit in a market re
stricted to home buyers to the disadvantage of
domestic consumers. The unfairness of this plan
attracted attention in the senate, where the bill
has been amended to place alt buyers under the
same rule. The whole question of food control
is yet under consideration and final action is not
likely for some time. No public problem recently
presented is more complex in its nature, nor did
any call for more delicate handling that justice
might be done to all and undue hardship for any
be avoided. The popular talk of a food dictator
may not be fully realized, but people do look to'
congress for some relief from the extortion prac
ticed by food gamblers.
Outside Work for Convicts.
Nebraska is cautiously entering on the spread
ing plan of employing convicts on work outside
the prison walls. A few of our state prisoners
were used in road building work last summer, and
a few more have been put on farms this year,
while many applications for these men are made
to the authorities by other farmers in search of
help. Under proper supervision 'the system is
good, but it must not be adopted merely as a
meana through which the prisoner can escape the
punitive element of hit sentence. Reformation is
sought in all cases, but is not always accom
plished; this being condition not measurable in
exact terms. Society ttill ia entitled to protection
from hardened and habitual offenders, and youth
ful transgressors must be made to realize the
serious aspect of their situation. Leniency must
be exercised with the greatest care to the end
that it does not defeat itself, for justice must yet
season mercy, even in Nebraska.
Brazil's Answer to Germany.
The Brazilian note in reply to the German
protest against taking over by the South Amer
ican government of interaed German thipt, must
have provoked t tmile even in Berlin. It is to
simple and to thoroughly in keeping with Ger
man practice that it deserves more attention than
it is likely to get at present One of the kaiser's
U-boats sinkt a Brazilian merchantman, and
straightway Brazil aeizes a German vessel to re'
place the loss. No process could be more direct,
and Brazil recommends that other nations follow
its example, which provides immediate reparation
for losses sustained as a result of the illegal
campaign against commerce. Interned German
Vessels may not belong to the government, but
that is a detail to be considered after the fact,
Germany has so far shown scant consideration
for private property rights and is not in good
position to make any claims for immunity for itt
own citizens other than what hat been granted
neutrals. German merchantmen have been tied
up safe and idle in harbora, while neutral com'
merce hat been devastated by the submarine, but
now the indignation aroused by this is being
translated into termt of positive action. Im
pressing unused Germans vessels, even if pri
vately owned, to repair losses may not please
the kaiser, but it will help maintain commerce
and may facilitate adjustment that is to come
after the fighting has ceased.
The smooth, chubby fist of King Ferdinand of
Bulgaria is visible behind the peace movea re
ported abroad. Ferd is especially eager for peace,
ince nia trooper noia enough conquered terri
tory to satisfy immediate desires. What happens
to the other fellow is no concern of hit. Be
sides, his paymaster cruelly cuts into expense
bills, and unlest peace comet quickly Ferd is in
danger of goinaj broke. . , .
Sleep
By Frederic J. Haskii.
Washington, June 4. How long do you sleep?
This is almost the first question the up-to-date
physician asks when you go to him with anything
from a swollen tonsil to a nervous breakdown.
If you sleep too much, you are likely to be
anaemic, phlegmatic, lethargic, with more fat
than muscle. Your organs, including your brains,
are apt to be a trifle inactive from lack of the
proper amount of use. On the other hand, if you
sleep too little, you are certain to be nervous,
hysteria!, restless, lean rather than muscular, and
your organs, including your brains, will be in
constant state of fatigue, and your power of
resistance to disease it below par,
i The average person should sleep at least eight
hours out of the twenty-four. He may get along
with less than that for a short stretch, and with
more than that for a longer stretch, but the aver
age to he maintained is eight. In the case of men
of creative ability, nine hours of sleep is not too
much.
Whenever anything is said about the amount
of sleep required by the human animal, someone
immediately comes forward with the case of the
sleepless Bonaparte, and Mr. Edison to prove
that eight hours of sleep is really quite too much.
But it is well to remember that Napoleon died
a comparatively young man and that Mr. Edison
has reached the age where five or six hours of
sleep is all that is necessary.
President Wilson sleeps from nine to nine
and a half hours out of the twenty-four, and ex
President Roosevelt regularly sleeps eight hours,
while William Jennings Bryan sleeps from nine
to ten hours.
Sleep occupies a third of our existence and
should therefore be entitled to some attention; it
has a large influence on our physical welfare, and,
there ia ttill a great deal to be discovered con
cerning its various phenomena. From the days
of Aristotle, the subject of steep has had a fas
cination for poets, philosphers, physiologists and
hygienists, but it is only within recent years that
the psychologist has entered the field and joined
forces with the physiologist to solve the mystery
of sleep.
What causes sleep? was the first ouestion to
be taken up by the scientists.
To this question, there were numerous answers
all correct so far as they went, but wholly in
adequate. Physiological theories have appeared
tnicK and tast. Une ot tnese was that sleep was
caused by the thyroid gtand in the neck. The
blood from the brain was supposed to accumulate
in this gland and cause people to go to sleep, but
this theory was soon shattered by the fact that
persons who had had this gland removed slept
as toundly as before. Inasmuch as the brain
seemed to undergo the greatest change of all the
organs during sleep, this has been the center of
most investigation. Steep was said to be caused
by a flow of blood to the brain; a flow of blood
out of the brain; by the enlargment of the brain,
and the diminishing of the brain all of which
theories turned out to be fallacies. After that, the
nerve cells began to attract attention, then the
eyes and the digestive organs and the blood
vessels.
Now the cause of sleep is as mysterious as
ever, but a great deal of data has been ac
cumulated on the changes! that take place in the
body during sleep. It is well established, for in
stance, that the brain does diminish in size and
become pale when a person is asleep. The
respiration it changed the inspirations are longer
and the expirations shorter. The temperature of
the body decerases during sleep, in winter falling
to a lower degree than in summer. 1 he amount
of carbon dioxide eliminated is less during sleep.
Digestion is not retarded. It is well not to go to
bed until the digestive process is going forward,
however, which is usually trom an hour to an
hour and a half after dinner. The fact that
digestion goes on effectively during sleep is so
well established that in cases where people have
died in the night, the time of death is calculated
In an autopsy by the extent to which the person's
food it digested. ,
The principal fact brought out by scientific in
vestigations, however, is that while sleep is the
great remedy for fatigue, it is not wholly caused
by it, In experiments made upon animals, separate
tests were made to distinguish between sleep from
fatigue and sleep without fatigue. Experiments
were recently made by a noted physiologist, R.
Legendre, connected with the Smithsonian insti
tute. He proved, that lack of sleep develops a
toxic fluid in the brain, which would produce
sleepiness when injected in a fresh and vigorous
animal.
From this it became apparent that the human
animal, as well as the dog, has something within
his body, quite separate and disinct from fatigue,
that induces sleep. Just what it is science has yet
to discover. What science does know, however,
is the harmful effects of too much sleep, and the
still more harmful effects of insomnia.
People and Events
Music by the band, and some music, at that,
is assured the Great Lakes training station since
John Philip Sousa enlisted in the marines. Lieu
tenant Sousa plans to train a band of 300 pieces,
which isjikely to be the greatest ever.
A divorce action running through the mill at
Chicago reveals social doings as breezy as treat
ment in bath institutes. The Chicago stuuts range
from social high balls, cocktails and squabs
tmothered in champagne. "Intoxicated? Oh, dear,
no," explained one fair witness.
There isn't a trace of the white feather in
the make-up of F. J. Wah, American-born China
man of Salt Lake City. Hit fighting blood pulled
him to" recruiting office, but regulations denied
him. Being two inches short in height, his turn
down was mollified by an official pink tag read
ing: "I tried to enlist in the United States
army."
' Powerful influences In Illinois are handing
first-hand tips to coal mine owners to come down
on price and ayoid trouble. Soft coal screenings
at the mines are three times higher than a year
ago and big users insist on moderation. If a vol
untary reduction is npt made a federal grand jury,
which meets in Chicago this week, will be asked
to search the coal combine and hand a bouquet
of worry to the gougers.
' Blind and deaf through,life proved no handi
cap to the prosperity of James J. Butler, former
Missouri congressman, who died the other day
at St. Louis, He succeeded his father as a dem
ocratic boss of Missouri Tammanyites and suc
ceeded with the assistance of Mrs. Butler in rul
ing the gang and piling up a million or so. That
he rose superior to physical defects appears as
tonishing, but the probabilities are that Mrs. But
ler proved the managing genius of the partner
ship. Patriotism and landlordism rarely pull to
gether in New York. Teamwork is impossibly.
One works both sides of the road, leaving pa
triotism room for flag waving in the center. Just
now some of the landlords are doing their bit to
the bitter end by striving to pinch the pay of en
listed men for the balance on ternt contracts for
rented property. The soldiers' example of sacri
fice does not appeal to the landlord. He isn't
built that way. He wants his "pound of flesh"
regardless of service or sentiment.
Down around Philadelphia sleuths of the Fed
eral Trade commission are quizzing coal dealers
for an explanation of a price boost of 75 cents a
ton pulled off in April. The reason given by the
dealers it that they received no coal at the re
duced April price and had to pay premiuma for
immediate supplies. Similar deals were worked
by coal brokers in the west laat fall while car
shortage was staged as the cause of price boost
ing, no trouble about cart wat experienced when
retailers bid premiums for prompt tervice.
Uncle Sam worked up a fine automobile trade
In India since the war began. Exportt have in
creased 400 per cent in less than three years, and
equals two-thirds of the auto sales in that coun
try. Great Britain and Japan still control the tire
market . f
I TODAY I
Proverb for tbe Day.
Creaking ships run a long while.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Germans forced the British back
east of Ypres. '
Petrograd reported Russians had
captured 40,000 Austrian! in three
dayH1 fighting.
Austrian offensive reached its great
est development with the capture of
300 square miles of Italian territory.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
A special meeting of the Board of
Trade was called for the purpose of
securing expression as to the projected
bridge across the Missouri river. A
resolution was adopted requesting
Mayor Broatch, Senator Manderson
and John A. McShane to visit Wash
ington In the interest of the Nebraska
Central bridge project.
Deputy Marshal Ed Allen has re
turned from the clambake of the Ne-
1
brauka Clambake association, which
held its meeting at Karten's grove,
Crete.
James H. Standard Died a bid with
the county commissioners to grade
and sod the lot ot the county court
house.
County Clerk Needham as received
a commission from Governor Hill ot
New York authorizing him to act as
commissioner.
Mrs. H. I,. Beaver has gone to Nor
folk, Neb., to visit her sister, Mrs.
Q. M. Walker.
Articles of incorporation of the Ne
braska Investment and Trust company
wore filed, the company having a capi
tal stock of (12,000 and .the incor
porators being H, B. St. John, J. A.
Brown, Henry Creighton, E. E. Fin
ney, G. 8. Goodman and G. W.
Dorsey.
The funeral of the late O. F. Davis
occurred from the farpily residence,
the sermon being delivered by Rev.
W. J. Harsha.
This Day In History.
1741 Captain John Derby, who
took the news of the fight at Concord
to London and also brought the Urst
news of the peace from Paris eight
years later, born at Salem, Mass. Died
there December 5, 1812.
1781 Lafayette and Wayne united
their forces in Virginia.
1809 Field Marshal Francois C.
Canrobert, commander-in-chief of the
French forces in the Crimean war,
born. Died in Paris January 28, 1895.
1892 Republican national conven
tion met at Minneapolis with William
McKinley of Ohio presiding.
1895 Richard Olney of Massachu
setts was appointed secretary of state
and Judson. Harmon of Ohio attorney
general in the cabinet of President
Cleveland.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. John W. KOutsky Is a native
Nebraskan, vborn June 7, 1873, In
Saunders co'unty. His professional
training was received In Creighton
Medical, from which he graduated in
1904.
William J. Pulte, engineer in charge
of the water works at Florence, is
Just 66 today. He was born In West
phalia, Germany,
Edward A. Smith is Just 46. He
was born In Omaha, graduated In law
from the University of Iowa and has
been practicing here for ten years. He
served In the legislature for one term.
Rt. Rev. Joseph H. Johnson, Epis
copal bishop of Los Angeles, born at
Schenectady, N. T., seventy years ago
today.
Albert S. Burleson, postmaster gen
eral of the United States, born at San
Marcos, Tex., fifty-four years ago to
day. Sir Harry Verney. M. P., chairman
of the British departmental commu
te on the settlement and employment
ot sailors and soldiers on the land,
born thirty-six years ago today.
George Chalmers, former major
league pitcher, now with the Kansas
City American association base ball
team, born in Aberdeen, Scotland,
twenty-eight years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders. -
Catholics throughout the world to
day observe the feast of Corpus
Chrlstl, commemorating the institution
of the holy Eucharist.
The property of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railway company
Is to be offered at public sale at Cin
cinnati today by order of the federal
court.
Dr. William T. Ellis and Charles E.
Beury of Philadelphia are to sail from
Vancouver today enroute to -Armenia
and Persia, where they will make a
study of conditions among the Arme
nian refugees and of the relief work
that Is being done by American money
and American men in that part ot the
world.
This will be the spectacular day of
the national reunion of confederate
veterans In Washington, when the
white-haired survivors of the armies
of Lee and Jackson and Johnston
and other great leaders of the south
ern cause will march in review before
President Wilson, following the same
route as that of the "grand review"
of union soldiers at the close of the
civil war.
Storyettc of the Day.
Donald McAllister, a Scottish
farmer, was going to town for a day
or two, and his daughter Maggie had
a weary time listening to the hundred-and-one
instructions he gave her as
to care and economy.
"Mind the coal," "Don't waste any
food," "Don't sit up burning light,"
etc.
Finally, he set offbut In a moment
he was back with & parting admoni
tion: "An", Maggie, there's young Angus.
See that he doesna wear his spec
tacles.when he'd no read In' or writ
ing Irs needless wear- an' tear!"
London Tit-Bits. ..-.' ;
PREPAREDNESS STUFF.
8. W. Callen in Kanaaa Induatrlatlat.
Little blla ot flour,
Llttta irralna of what
Maka tha twelve-ounca bread loaf
Which tha world inuat aat,
Little flakea of eornmeat.
Little sralna of matte
Wilt keep an army solar
Qn nothing elee for days
Every flake of oatmeal,
Every Utile oat
Will help an allied aoldler
To set m Oerman'a Boat.
Every atrip of bacon,
Every little aqueal
Heartens up tha fighters,
Ureaeee every wheel.
Beana and pees and peanuts
All help to turn the trick.
Tou wouldn't think It, but they
Make those who lack them alck.
Every little chicken.
Each aedate old ben
(The kind that make ess marketa.
Not the kind that charm the men) '
slake Hlndenburg look aober
And trouble in Berlin. '
Every little Umbktn
Sporting on the hill ' :
Makee "Irh und Oott' coma doubtful
From pious Kmlaer BUI.
.
. Effect of Iowa Blue Laws.
Council Bluffs. June 4. To the
Editor of The Bee: I would like to
see a statement by both of the repre
sentatives of this county as to why
they voted against the repeat of the
blue laws. They were elected as "lib
eral republicans." Of course, the state
ment may have been published and It
escaped my notice.
There is a very serious side to the
present enforcement of laws which
have a tendency to harass and annoy
people who are absolutely good cit
izens, and by way of illustration will
say that I was visiting recently a
farmer who is living thirty miles from
this town who has in his employ a
hired man (a young man about 22
years of age from Pennsylvania). This
party has been given the loan of the
auto on all nice Sundays, so he could
come to the nearest town and take in
a picture show or roll a game of ball.
Now, Mr. Farmer being fearful of a
fine would not loan his auto (like
many others) two weeks ago, and
Mr. Hired Man had to stay at home.
I learned that this party was In the
employ of this farmer for nearly four
years and is a No. 1 man, and only
recently has had his monthly wages
raised to $40 per month. This party
now notifies his employer that he
would rather go back to his home
state and work for less than stay here
and have no amusements; that he
would stay for the present, but would
not stay permanently. This may be
an Isolated case, and again It may be
the cause of more unrest than is sus
pected. JAMES WALK EH.
Martin Luther's Work.
Somewhere in Nebraska, June 4. ,
To the Editor of The Bee: The Pro-
testant revolution in Germany strip-1
ped of its mask, was a contest between I
church and state, in which contest the !
state triumphed. My own opinion is
that no man was ever actuated by
more altruistic motives than was Mar
tin Luther of the so-called reforma
tion. But had he not had the pro
tection of the secular, arm he would
have lasted no longer than Savonarola,
Hus or Bruno. The pope at that time
was a secular prince and the other
princes of Europe, when they wished
to stop the pope's Interference with
International complications were wont
to encourage any kind of an agitation
inside the church to distract the at
tention of the bishop of Rome. Ranke
in his "History of the Popes" has pre
served a passage from a letter written
be Maximlllian I to Frederick the
Wise of Saxony. It was exhorting him
to protect Luther. "He may be use
ful to us yet," wrote the emperor to
the elector. Luther needed a protector
and he got what he needed. Charles
V, grandson of Maxlmillian, would not
break faith with Luther and allowed
him to depart from Worms. Where
upon he was kidnaped by his friends
and taken to a place of safety. A man
is seldom competent to judge of his
own mental processes. Luther was
no exception to the rule. A kind of
latent gratitude, of which he himself
was not aware, made him a champion
of the secular ruler. As the Nazarene
had counseled the payment of tribute
to Tiberius and Paul had enjoined
obedience to Nero, so Luther tried to
interpret the Canticles "Song of
Solomon" as an allegory teaching a
self-denying obedience to a secular
prince quite as sensible as the in
terpretation generally placed upon it.
Few men perhaps no single man
have or has exercised as much in
fluence for good or for evil on hu
man history as this monk of Eislebem.
To him and to him alone may be
traced the kaiser worship whlchis to
be invoiced in the mental equipment
of the individual German.
Tell him that he left Germany to
avoid military service; that the United
States has given him a farm; that he
has sworn allegiance to our govern
ment; that he owes it undivided al
legiance; and he will answer: "Oh! I
am an American. I think that we
ought to stay at home and fight on
our own soil. Wait until the Germans
come over here. We ought not to
fight the battles 6f England and
France." The kaiser could have no
more faithful ally than the man who
utters such language. Wait, yes, 'wait
till Germany has conquered England,
France and Italy; captured the fleets
of all these nations; then-then, where
would we be? Germany would only
have to seize the northeast corner of
the United States,, which contains
within a radius of 160 miles our com
mercial metropolis, our coal beds, our
military schools, our powder mills and
our munition factories. With the aid
of her then fleet she could do all this
with 100,000 men. With her great fleet
she could wipe us off the sea; capture
the Panama canal and blockade our
eastern and western coasts. A man
who would put up any such twaddle
as I have quoted, is either a traitor
or a damphool.
Some times we hear a man in a
generic sense say that we could have
kept out of this war. A short time
ago, not 1,000 miles from where I am
writing this letter, an English-speaking
man entered a store where a lot of
Teutons were engaged In conversation.
Upon the entry the conversation
shifted from English to German. One
old matron in her Innocence re
marked: "Warum stein sis nlcht
aweg vien dem kaiser's mee?" "Why
do they not keep off tne kaiser's
ocean?". .a - DER HEIDB.
HERE AND THERE,
The spirit ration wu abollihtd in tht
United Ststei navy during tha second year
of the civil war. ,
Tht adjutant-general's departmant is the
department of records, orders and corre
spondence of the army.
' Akron, 0., claims to have the largest
Red Cross membership of any city of tbe
country in proportion to size.
It is just a Quarter of a century sine the
United States navy began to consider ser
iously the idea of a submarine boat.
The armory now being built at Yale uni
versity at a cost of $110,000, will contain
a drill hall, 180 feet by 220 feet In site.
The first screw-propeller of the United
States navy was the Princeton, launched at
Philadelphia seventy-five years ago this year.
The Order of the Black Eagle Is the high
est decoration conferred in the German em
pire, and carries with It a patent of
nobility.
Jefferson barracks, the military post at
St. Louis, was founded by the government
July 4, 1S26, tha day of Thomas Jefferson's
death.
SUNNY GEMS.
"I think I'll Join a Sliut-ln' oclt?.
whined the woman who imagines she ts
hopeless Invalid.
"I wish you'd Join a shu-up society,"
was her impatUnt husband's sharp re
spone. Boston Transcript.
Gipsy Fortune Teller (seriously) Let me
warn you. Somebody's going to cross your
path.
Motorist Don't you think you'd better
warn the other chap? Everybody's Ms ga
ll ne. (
"G'wan, nigger, you-all ain't go not sense,
nohow."
"Ain't got no senss? Whut's dls vers
hald for?"
"Dat thing? Dat ain't no hiitd, nigger:
dat's jes er button on top er you body ter
keep ysr backbone from unrsvelln'." The
Lamb.
BUI This paper says thst many of the
(Uh In the ocean are blind.
GUI Oh. well, you're not goinr to dls.
courage me. Maybe they can smell the
bait. Tonkers statesman.
"Jubbs tells me they are raising their
own potatoes now. 1 didn't know he knew
anything about gardening."
"Neither does he. -If he raised potstoes,
he did it by pawning bis wife's diamonds."
Baltimore American.
Druggist's Friend I hear your cash
register ringing a lot. Tou must be do
ing a fine bualnese?
Druggist I'm doing splendidly. I don't
know how many nickels' worth of pennies
I've sold this morning. Buffalo Express.
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$METf RAZOR
"They say that house over yonder ts
haunted."
"Well, there's been something uncannr
about It from tha beginning. Even when
It was built It didn't exceed the contrac
tor's estimate." Boston Transcript,
"Even the dear little children are hit by'
the sacrifices and privations of this terrible
war."
"Tea; the way tin cans have gone up boys
can't get 'em any longer to tie on dogs'
tails.''? Baltimore American.
Bess Then his career ts quite ended?
Belle Quite! He went up like an ammu
nition factory and came down like a cxarl
Life.
Mrs. Miller Mrs. Ds Smiths entertained
informally this morning.
Mrs. Elmore I was not invited.
Mrs. Miller None of us were. She quar
reled with her cook on the front porcb.-
Puck.
Cub Why did thoy discharge the tele
graph editor, I wonder?
Star He wrote a head about firing being
heard off the coast and forgot to say that
it was "heavy." Judge.
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