THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JUKE 22, 1917. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORMINO-EVENINO SUNDAY FOUNDfcD BY COWARD HOSE WATER VICTOR KOSEWATEK, KDITOR TUS 0EB PUBLISHING COMPANY. fEOPHIETOH. EUrd tt Omab pcwtotTie m Mon4-IaM nalUf. rtRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Bf Urrttf. tfy MiL iHtll ik) Mu4 ...4 WW.IM, -St DM Fu. V' W (Hi it mMtum MwHUr Mt I 00 Coini sod Muatu- "100 C'wina rtuwil HianU.. .......... -"- " lund.t Hm onlf " lot Uni iMm T ebifit nf tddrM w irrteultntr tm iWifT It Ombi U. 0"-ttlatkA UtpattawiiL REMITTANCE MBit H Van. . r tutta) order On.) l eant auaina UM parmt ami II anounli. f'rataJ aftavk. aseaot e Qaulv. antf aatum -ritfuna. an( arwtad OFFICES. Unata-riw m Hiilldl'ift. t:bicar-i'.,Ci Um muWna, fcuU. (hnaba-ail N St. Tuf-I Fiflb . Omnrtl Hloffa-ll Mtn aX it lmia-Hw B'k. of Ooaint-tiaanla-U(il nultrtlna- Wuhtnttno-IU li(b W. H CORRESPONDENCE AiAnm anMiufiwli'aa rvdlini la anil adltotlat . U Omaha ttta. Mtlnrlal IWirtisT,t MACJRaJLATION 56,469 Daily Sunday, 5f,308 .mm ahuietii tot u iimniIM MHfftM w. iwi I. M IMIsfct ttilllai. nrculetio. yimeer. SubecrlBOT. leaving Ik. city tb.uU ev. rh. Bm mIM I. them. Ad4riM caongeo) m llln riquntiA Chadron it welcome to Ihe show until the home (oiks get their breath again. Poor old Ananias! How hi. laurel, shrivel up in the heat of modern competition. Attorney General Reed ii iome fixer. It re main, only to tec how hi. plan work. out. Newport', opinion of the .ecretary of the navy cannot be printed owing to the limited 'stock of asbestos paper. Old Sol ii doing hi. duty these days, too. and above all the other lounds you can hear the corn grow in Nebraska. Assessor Fitzgerald had a great time putting tax valuations up, but keeping th'eiv there is quite another thing. Under the proposed suffrage plan of Great Britain women mutt be 30 years of age or over to swing the ballot. Do you get that, girls? Boston's honor and loyalty is again vindicated. Bunker Hill day passed by without unduly em phasizing the provocation for the celebration. i1 Haiti has broken with Germany and Mexico leans that way. Another mission to Washington, seems assured and prospects brighten for more. J s Various reasons are given for the huge uplift In federal revenue from tobacco. The chief cause may be traced to the activity of the campaign cigar. As a change from more profitable tasks the butter and egg boards of Chicago are putting up informing. quotations for the benefit of the federal grand jury; Omaha in first place in the recruiting recqrds looks might good. But we have been in the spot-1 light so long our modesty is proof against even this flattery. . The White house pickets presume too much on public patience and native deference to the sex. The banner incident mildly suggests that the police disband the pickets and end the ailly season. Submarines piled an extra score on the bot tom of the sea last week. The chase is hot above and below the surface, and the victor in that part of the, war game is beyond the guess of the prophets. ' .Affair in Spain are calm and lovely. Alphonso is on the job and not a worry loafs around the throne. Perfectly delightful, the diplomats say. Still, 'the national censor sits on the news, lid with tireless teal, Official opinion privately expressed suggests the widening view among the jurymen that a change in the police department would conserve public interests mightily. The public arrived at that destination some time ago. , Pen pictures of shell holes on the western batllrfront clearly explain why the cavalry arm of the service remains hobbled far in the hack ground. It resemble, the vision of , "Miittel liuropa" in having no show t all. ' It is worth while noting as the war drags along that the cowboy mayor of Chicago .hows speed as a practical patriot. His new drive for the flfshpots added the first liue trenches of the school board to his political defenses. I A San Francisco school teacher, to whom the Has means nothing, has jicen permitted to resign. She should also be permitted to hunt tip a land where her "international mind" will have plenty of lime to work in its own peculiar way. The unreasoning "sulTs" who put the'r cam I paign above the aafcty of the nation ought to look up the example Of Mrs. I'ankhurst, who is about as militant as any could well wish, but who agreed to "be good" while the liberties of the whole people weve in danger. "Good for Nebraska" BaJtlmers Am.rlc.a- As .-. preliminary to co-operating- with the ni tional government in preparing for Ihe war emerg ency all the slates ot the union have made stir veys of resource's. In some instances these siir vey reports convey enlightening information about what is being done in an unusual way to the purpose of increasing: the food vield. As a farm products state Nebraska ranks second only to Kansas and the survey report of Nebraska, which hat been published, doubtless suggests accurately the trend of stimulated farm effort in the central west. While the wheat yield of Nebraska will be far below the 1916 yield, there is in prospect an enormous increa.e in com, beans and potatoes. The reoort a.v. that the nntatn arrtiffs hi been increased l(X) per cent in the eastern part of the atate and 50 per cent in Ihe western part. There will be i,000,000- acres increase in corn planting this year as compared with last year. There n a 2,500 per cent increase in the acreage , of beans and it is in expectation that the poultry yield will be lOMOO.OOO pounda larger this vear than last vear. There will be a record-breaking crop of alfalfa. If Kansas, Iowa, Illinois. Indiana ind Missouri hit the agricultural pace aa Nebraska seems to be hitting it the high cost of food, is due to take a long drop. Last year Nebraska planted 7,000,000 acres tp corn and produced 2f,000,000 bushels. This year there will be 9.000.000 Nebraska .ere. tn ton and the yield should be around 270,000,000 bushels. Corn means pork and poultry eggs and butter. The aurvey newt from Nebraska it cheering, ; I - So Everyone May Know, The Bee is from day to day receiving letters for publication whose writers do not seem to grasp, or do not want to grasp, Ihe position which every patriotic newspaper must take in this war. Some of the letters we are asked to print are in the nature of defenses of Germany's ruthlessness, or assualls upon Great Britain, or arguments in palliation of the destruction of Belgium, or jus tification of the killing of the innocent, on the Lusitania, So all may know just where The Bee stands, we reproduce here this letter returning one of these rejected contributions: I am reluming your enclosure, which 1 take it you wish back, inasmuch as I cannot see my way clear to giving it space in The Bee under existing conditions. In your present, as well as your previous let ters, you fail to distinguish between helpful criticism of the government and placing palpa ble obstructions in the way of marshalling the forces of this country for the successful prose cution of the war. The Bee does not propose knowingly to permit its columns to be used to discourage enlistments or response to other war demands or to engender friction with nations fighting this battle with us or to promote prop aganda against the American cause. Since you refer to Benjamin Franklin, let me refer .'or justification to Franklin also where in hit autobiography he explains his refusal to print abusive letters, as follows: "W! enever I was solicited to insert anything of that kind and the writers pleaded as they ginerally did, the liberty of the press my an swer was that I wou'd print the piece sepa rately, if desired, and the author might have as many copies as he pleased to distribute him self, but that I would not take upon me If spread his detraction." I.et us repeat that regardless of opinion pre vious to the war declaration there cannot be two sidet for loyal American citizen! when the United Slaves it actually engaged in war with a foreign enemy. It must be "America first" and no back firing. Russia and the United States. The exchange of pourparlers between the Root commission and the provisional govtrnment at Petrograd is fraught with the greatest of signifi cance for the future of democracy. It involves notialone the relations between the Russian and American people, but jn a greater measure than appears on the surface of the course of free gov ernment. The strongest and most influential of democracies it giving advice and counsel to the newest and pointing out the way to tuccest in the great undertaking of popular government. One question raised by Minister Tereschentko as to the terms on which America participates in the war ought to be frankly anawered. Some of our own people have difficulty in exactly under- tanding why we have entered the conflict. The Jnited States it not a party by treaty to the terms of the alliance that binds England, France, Russia and Italy in the quadruple entente. We have become a volunteer aHy, animated by the loftiest of motives, indispentibl't to the cause for which our allies contend, and must be left free to aid at best we may. The faith of our people is solemnly pledged to thit great cause and the world knowt this faith wilt be kept, Russian leaders rely on It, but their task at present it )o get the facta before their own people. To con vince the mujik of the ditinterettednett of the United States, when he hat tuch good reason to distrust all governments, it not an altogether easy undertaking. Men at the head of the Rus sian provisional government know it it to the United Statet and not to Germany they must look for the assistance needed to establish freedom for themselves and their posterity. They proved this when they expelled Grimm, the German social ist, who came with the kaiser's proffer. The Root commission it charged with a tre mendous responsibility, but itt tuccess is as sured because of its sincerity and the pledge of the American nation back bf it. Rallr'oadt Moving to Real Economies. While expert accountants and attorneyi are presenting figures and arguments on behalf of the railroads petitioning' for permission to in crease their rates, the'Vactical operating forces of the several systems are busy contriving work able plana to get greater service out of exitting equipment at lest expense. One way, already discussed by The Bee, it to load freight cart to nearer their maximum capacity and by to do ing to increase their utility. Another it to induce patrons to load and unload with greater tpeed, thus returning cars to service sooner, and through the combination to add fully half the number to the freight cars in existence simply through bet ter use. One of the most important of recent devel opment! in railroad practice hai to do with the use of fuel. Thit problem hat forced itself to the front and good management hat compelled attention it now it receiving. How to burn coal to as to secure the maximum of its latent energy and to transmit that liberated power into tractive effort lias long been the study of the engineer. The greatest advance in thit science it now ex emplified in the use of pulverized coal. Fuel Crushed to impalpable dust is fed into the fur nace and there consumed. The result does away with ashes, cinders, sparks and other objection able products of ordinary combustion, achieves a high percentage of the theoretical energy of the' fuel and in actual service has evaporated 50 per cent more water per pound of fuel than comes from coal burned under ordinary service condi tions. Advantages flowing from this new use of fuel are too many to be here catalogued, but are tinderajond by practical railroad men. Electrification of railroads is inevitable, but pending that time the adoption of the pulver ized coal for steam-making purposes on locomo tives will effect such economies as will awell net earnings materially. " Practical men are busy look ing for the ways to meet the transportation prob lems of America and operation from Wall street may yet give way to the management of men who know what they are doing. The alarming hurry call for more cars put out by Ohio coal operator! brings a aharp reply from the general manager of the Louisville & Nashville railroad. The "short and ugly word" is omitted, but the spirit is there. What little basis existt for cir shortage alarm! ia due to the opera tor! who fail to expedite cart offered and manipu late shipments for extra profits. In. spite of the juggling practiced, the railroad company moved 1,100,472 more tont of coal this year than in the same time last year. Apparently the "holler" of coal miners is a means of diverting attention from the "main chance." The American Red Crott organization tcored a notable businest victory when it conscripted the tervicet of H. P. Davidson of the. house of Morgan. Financier and organizer of proved abil ity, Mr. Davidson bring! to the Red Cross the power and prestige of financial America. The campaign to raise $100,000,000 in eight day! exem plifiet characteriitie breadth of viiion and graip of big-thinga, ' ; The Albanian Tangle By Frederic J. Haskin Washington, D. C, June 19. Recent dis patches from Rome state that Italy has declared its intention of supporting the independence of Albania. As an independent nation, Albania has had a short life and a hard one. Established in February, 1914, the coming of war in August threw the country again into the midst of a seeth ing kettle of military activity. The interval from February to August was enlivened by rebellions that amounted to civil war. The situation in Albania, it is safe to say, has been among the problems that did not greatly worry the average American. Albania is an out-of-the-way and little-known principality, even to the people of western Europe, and as for Amer ica, even six months ago few people could point to it on the map without making a search. There is the incident of an American who wrote to a friend in Albania, and the letter went to Albany, N. Y. There a well-informed postal clerk marked it, "Not Albany. Try Asia." Vet it is not more than a conservative state ment of fact today to say that the satisfactory set lement of the Albanian situation it of vital im portance to Americans. We have definitely cast off our traditional policy of political isolation, not irom choice, but from necessity. To insure peace in America there must be peace in Europe. The vexing Balkan question, which has kept Euro pean statesmen awake o' nights for the last two decades, has become an American question, too. As President Wilson so clearly pointed out on Flag day, the real ambitions of Germany lie to the eastward and not to the west. "Berlin to Bagdad," is the empire that the Prussian war lords have chosen for the foundation of an auto cratic power to overshadow the world. Albania is in many ways the key to the Balkan situation. It dominates the road from the Ad riatic to Constantinople. A proper settlement of the Albanian question is vital to the safety of Italy. Racially, the Albaniant with the Greeks are the only counterpoise to complete Slavonic domination in the Balkan peninsula. Here again tne Albanian situation touchet very closely one of the great American princi ples which we are upholding in thit war the right of nations and peoples to be divided along racial rather than political lines. The Prussians are. attempting to build up an empire designed solely on principles of military and economic strategy. All sorts of peoples are to be held to gether or arbitrarily cut apart, irrespective of race or nationality Serbs, Croats, Magyars, Czechs, Teutons, Turks whatever lands happen to fit into the Prussian scheme. On the other hand, the allied democracies have declared that the rights of a people to remain united by ties of blood and' by their own free choice are paramount. The Albaniant are as dis tinct a nationality as the Irish or the Danes. They are one of the oldest races in the world and they have maintained themselves as a distinct race in a way that is a remarkable instance of race persistence. A thousand years before Christ their great city of Scutari was" the capital of a nation. Since then they have been conquered by one na tion after another. For3,000 years they have been subject to different peoples and yet the blond Albanian mountaineer is as distinct a type today as the Swede or the Russian. Five hundred years ago a body of Albanians moved across the Straits of Otranto into Italy. Today their de scendants are still readily recognizable among their Italian neighbors. Sd long as Turkey held Albania the situation was not acute for Italy and Austria. The Turk was too weak to make use of the advantage that the possession of Albania implied. But after the Balkan war Albania was one of the principal spoils of the Balkan allies. These latter pro posed to partition it among themselves. Serbia, Montenegro and Greece, all members of the alli ance, are all neighbor! of Albania. Serbia in particular wanted a large share. But from Albania to Italy, across the Straits of Otranto, is a bare fifty miles. Whoever holds the Bay of Avlona is in a position to threaten supremacy in the Ardiatic, which all Italian ttatesmen recognize at vital to Italian aafety. Austria, on the other hand, was watching anxiously the rise of the Slavic nations in the Bal kans. The Teutonic 'element dominates Austria, but it has about all the Slavs that it can control, and it ia to its interest to keep the Slavs of the Balkans weak. The final disposition of Albania Is one of the fjreat problems of the war, like the Polish prob em and the problem of Alsace-Lorraine. The Albanians are a distinct race. With the Greeks they form the only body of non-Slavic Europeans in the Balkans. If they are to be established as a single state theirl boundaries will have to be wider than the six powers drew them. The por tion assigned to Montenegro, for example, was the result of Austrian domination to the north ward. The natural growth of Montenegro would be to the northwest. The Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina are allied to Monte negro by blood and sympathy. But the military power of the Teutons forbade any expansion in this direction. It is safe to say that Italy desires an inde pendent Albania and thit it probably the desire of the allies, even of Serbia. What the pan-Ger-inans plan to do with this bit of territory is known only to Berlin, but it is hardly probable that the desires or the national rights (of the Al banians have been considered. people and Events "I would rather have my husband a crippled hero than a 100 per cent slacker," said Mrs. Cecil V. E. Hall of Dallas, Tex., whau informed her husband had enlisted In the engineering corps. That's the spirit which gives patriotism the glow of purity. Henry Miller, former president of the Wabash railroad, now a member of the special commis sion named by President Wilson to help recon struct the transportation systems in France and Russia, began his railroad career as an apprentice in the Burlington shops at Hannibal, Mo. A strictly high class bunch of stock boosters operating as the Emerson Motort company are up against trouble in New York. A receiver is gathering up the remaint of the company while the federal grand jury linet up the members on charget of using the mails to defraud in stock jobbing operations. Opponents of food regulation at Washington decline to tackle the puzzle why bread loaves which sell for 13 cents in Detroit sell for only 9 cents across the river in Windsor. Weight and quality are the same and wheat prices vary little on either side of the boundary. The contrast is more marked abroad. Bread made from Ameri can flour sells for less money in London than in New York, although wheat in going across ab sorbs a stiff ocean freight rate. A burglar convicted in Chicagfe assumed an alias, refused to give his real name and thus spared his family the public ignomy of a con vict son. A high school graduate and a college man, he drifted into bad company, became en tangled in the meshes of cabaret women and robbed to get the wherewith. Belated respect for his family came toe) late. They know his downfall, and, though spared the barb of public knowledge, the secret sorrow remains to burrow and deaden hearts of innocent kindred. The new police judge of Dallaa, Tex., wasn't on the bench long enough to grasp the workings of the game of periodic raida on denizens of the underworld for the customary percentage in the shape of fines. Naturally he blundered at the start. A flock of pink women, pulled the night be fore, lined up in front of the bench. Sizing up the crowd, he turned to the officers and innocently asked: "Where are the men?" The query re mained unanswered and it passed up to those who ruminate on the inequalities of law enforce ment. - ' ' " ' pvjHasvasac-pavr-jt M Proverb for the Day Distance lends enchantment to the view. One Year Ago Today In the War. Greek government acceded to de mands of Entente powers. Ruwlana won control of the entire erownland of Bukowlna. London received report! of serious uprlalng against the TUrki In Arabia. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The beautiful head, "The Spirit of Unrent," by Mlaa Carol M. Albright la on exhibition at the Excelslorl office. The annual department rifle com petition between selected marksmen of thla department commenced on the Bellevue rifle range, under the di rection of Colonel Henry with Cap tain Cyrun A. Earnest, Eighth in fantry, in command. A fine profrram waa presented at Trinity cathedral by the following: Prof. J. B. Butler, Mabel Fonda, John P. William, Mra. Ida Mae Baldrlge, Mr. Young, Mra. Cotton, Mrs. Merkel, Mr. Wilklna and Mr. France. Little Eva Sooy had a birthday party at the residence of her father, E. L. Sooy, at which the following little guests were present: Flossie Pratt, Eva Bell, Mabel Spalding, Mer rlam and Grace Hancock, Mary Flan nlgan, Fannie and Sldonle King, Mabel Adams, Norma May Brown. Nettle Blake, Callle Oroshel, Autumn O'Neil and May Caldwell. Mlaa Mary Alleaon and Jamea R. Young were quietly married at 1140 North Seventeenth atreet by Judge Berka. The sisters of Et. Mary's convent have moved to the Cosmopolitan building, on Thirteenth atreet. J. C. Nattlnger and Miss Elmlra Nattinger of Ottawa, 111., father and alter of Secretary Nattlnger of the Board of Trade, are visiting the sec retary. Mr. and Mra. Marcus Parrotte are occupying the residence of C. S. Par rotte, 2025 St. Mary'" avenue, during the summer. Thla Day In History. 1863 Confederate advance column entered Pennsylvania. 1894 Emperor William caused the arrest of Imperial Chamberlain von Kotze for sending scandalous anony mous letters through the malls. 1896 Benjamin H. Briatow, secre tary of the treasury in Grant's cabinet, died In New York City. Born at Elk ton, Ky June 20, 1832. 1897 Queen Victoria's diamond Jubilee celebrated throughout the Brit ish empire. 1906,Klng Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud were crowned at Trondjem; 1916 British House of Commona voted 15,000,000,000 loan for war fund. 1916 Fortification appropriation bill passed by United States house of representatives. The Day We Celebrate. J. Clark Colt waa born June 82, 1872, In Missouri Valley, Ia. He has been in the hardware business in Omaha since 1890, and la a booster all the time. He also deals In auto mobiles. Millard Mahlon Robertson Is a MIs aourlan by birth and Is 60 years old today. He Is president of "the Evans Model laundry In this city. Captain Tenney Ross, member of the general staff corps of the United States army, born in New Hampshire, forty-alx years ago today. Robert S. Lovett, executive head of the Union Pacific railway system, who la devoting practically all his time to service in the Red Cross, born at San Jacinto, Tex,, fifty-seven years ago to day. Porter Emerson Browne, novelist and playwright, creator of the now famous vampire type of photoplay, born at Beverly, Mas., thirty-eight years ago today. Isaac T. Pryor, Texas cattle raiser, president of the American National Live Stock association, born at Tampa, Fla., sixty-live years ago today. Princess Beatrice, eldest daughter of the king and queen of Spain, born In Madrid, eight years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Directors of the Jefferson Highway association meet at St. Paul today te discuss work to be done on the high way thia summer. The reorganisation plan of the Chi cago, Rock Island & Pacific railway is to be ratified by the stockholders at a meeting to be held today at Davenport, Ia. The .Missionary Educational Move ment congress, one ot the Important religious assemblies of the year In the south, opens today at Blue Ridge, N. C. Ohio women have been summoned to meet tn state conference at Colum bus today to organize preparatory to entermg upon the expected wider field to be created by the war. Today has been designated as "Can Conservation day" in Missouri, when housewives are to mobilise every glass Jar, tin can and earthenware vessel fit to contain fruits and vecetables. The Italian war commission now visiting in New York City has ar ranged to hold ceremonies today at the Garibaldian memorial on Staten Island. Representatives of all the Italian societies in the the metropolis will attend. Storyette of the Day. The enterprising company In the Soudan has decided to lay a railway Into the wilds, and, of course, many blacks were employed in Its con struction. One day the telegraph clerk at the nearest civilized spot received a tele gram from the negro foreman of ths railway construction. . , "White boss dead. Shall I bury him?" "Yes." wired back the clerk. "But first make sure that he la quite dead. Will send another white bosa tomor row." A few hours later another telegram came from foreman: "Buried boss. Made sure he was quite dead. Hit him on the head with a large shovel." Irish World. WHERE SAMSON REIGNS. Out upon th. ferttl. prmlrl., tn th. .itr.ordtn.ry Wuurn country of Qqlvsra, hsKKi rolcn.. Thar. Mrh man Som tat. own thlnklnr. Th.r. 'mons trl.nd. tk.r. I. no winklns And th.lr common wealth 1. Unking Into chain. Th.ro, wharf nolshbor. do not battle, Bat whin cowboy, hard th. c.ttl. And th. iow,n' rMpora rattle In th. train. Ko en. want, to b. a kala.r Nor an uw1at.d mlaar; Ev'ryon. I frowlnt wl.r On th plain.. There th. kins I. but another Nam. for servant, b.lper. brother. For th. sopl want no othor ' With the rein. In a den they meet to crown him; Then each year they vote to down him. But he, knowing they renowa him. Entertain. ' UBMla. WILLI! HUDSPETH. . Take Mosukc to Fufwla. Essex, Ia., June 19 To th Editor of The Bee: We have Just read the article In this issue by Carl Breutman of Walthlll, Neb. Mr. Rreatman lit undoubtedly right; his plan is fhe most simple, and at same time would be sure to be most effective. This article should be printed in all papers, and copies should be circulated every where and a big push put behind the movement to put into effect at once exactly what he proposes. In my opinion Mr. Breatman is one who would be willing to go and tell his people exactly what K is that America wishes to do for the real Russia, the common people. W. D. GAY. Ad Oath of Allegiance. Omaha, June 21. To the Editor of The Bee: Here is "my oath of allegiance:" This day I shall transfer my power, be it large or small, to the side of the Just. I shall henceforth be a h u man with a human thought, forgetting the wrongs and failures of the past. I shall thia day become a soldier, ma terially or physically, for the better ment of the peoples of the world. Trivial things shall I forget. Noth ing shall blind me towards my duty to all mankind. I shall this day do aa the government of my kind deems best. I Bhall answer the call of the chosen. I shall conserve my food supplies that the hungry may break bread at my table that their body shall exist to see the light of equality. I shall add my mite to the development of the Red Cross that my kind upon the field of battle shall not bleed white from need of care. From my purse shall I buy the bonds of my govern ment to aid in centralizing a great relief to the world and spread democ racy. All this I shall do in order that the west shall bring to the blood-bespattered old world" a new and per manent relief. From this day I shall look with pleasure and honor upon my brother who wears the uniform of the right. To him who wears the stripe of golden cord denoting his wounds I shall lend a helping hand upon his return. To his loved ones who must Buffer men tal agony I shall give sympathy and material help. His duty this day be comes my duty, for he is my chosen brother la this fight for the spread of liberty. His God, his flag, his suf fering shall be shared by me that our freedom shall become a part of all peoples. In adding to his success I shall add to mine. This oath shall I take unto me each day as a man. I shall see that I ful fill It rach day. No failings of the flesh shall creep into my makeup to harm Ihe duty I take in this oath. This day and each succeeding day I Khali take this oath in order that our freedom shall not perish. C. D. STONE. IJL. HOTEL PURITAN . 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