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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1917.
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Willlama. Circulation MioE-
Subaeribera taavlag tha city ahould have The Baa mailed
ta tbem. Aadreaa chanted aa ahaa raquaatad.
Xow watch Fort Omaha once more come into
its own , ' ' ') '
Oli, you food speculator! Hoover will catch
you if you don't watch out.
The once celebrated Russian road roller ap
pears to have lost aim and direction.
The ruction in the British cabinet affirms the
proposition that no man can serve two masters.
Xew varieties of German gas 'on the west
front, strange to say, does not lessen the output
at Berlin.
Observe that our Sunday barber shop closing
law is being observed without any visible hard
ship on anybody. ,
Incompetent inspection is said to be the root
of paving evils. The remedy is simple where the
disposition exists.
The' fabled nursery "cow that jumped over
the moon" is clearly outclassed by the upward
flight of his majesty, the hog. (
If the. move to cut out the joyriding to save
gasoline Will also reduce the number of need
less accidents, it will be doubly useful.
Still,- if former President Taft wanted to take
a rest cure, it is doubtful whether he w.ould have
picked oyt Chiy Center, Kan., as the favored spot.
If its membership is not over-full our old
Ananias club can find several distinguished gen
tlemen "eligible for recruits in certain11 foreign
capitals. s
Just, the same a lot of parents who grieved
when their boys went to the officers' training
tamp would now be grieving more if they had
come home without commissions.
Still there may be a question of propriety, even
after a war-break, in making public the verbatim
text of a letter addressed "Private and confiden
tial. For the president personally."
The state tax levy totals 8.48 mills, to raise
$1,429,000 more .than any previous levy. The
figures acurately measure the farcical character
of democratic .profe ssions'of economy.
For Omaha property owners the new 1918 tax
levy means an increase of over 16 per cent over
last year in the amount of taxes they will have to
pay on the same valuation. How's that for high?
Omaha and Nebraska are contributing another
fine lot of young patriots to the second training
camp for the reserve officers' corps and we may
be sure they will wake good equally well with
the first bunch. . ' -
With the Ice man now credit to the 10th of the
'next month is worth 10 per cent and cash in
advance is worth TO per,, cent more. On that
basis the ice business ought soon to be a strictly
cash business. i '
Over 2,000,000 irott crosses have been distri
buted by the kaiser since the war began. Owing
to the uncertainties of the British blockade the
distribution in the United States is not feasible
during the war. '.( ......
Is, it possible to. make the job of food con
troller 'conduce Jo its "incumbent's 'popularity?
All depends on to what extent it controlsin
other words, to what extent it holds prices down
to people s expectations.
"Government agricultural experts have figured
out exactly how many acres they want planted to
nrhcafc for next1 year, Nebraska's quota being the
same as it, was this year. Better add a few more
acres for good measure and possible slips.
Union Pacific Dividends
Walt Street Journal-
Union Pacific Railroad company has declared
the regular quarterly dividend ot 2 per cent and an
extra dividend of one-half of 1 per cent on the
common and regular semi-annual dividend of 2
per cent on- tne pre terred. an payable October 1
to stock of record September 1.
Union Pacific's declaration of a one-half of 1
per cent extra dividend on the common, the same
as three months ago and six months ago, in addi
tion to, the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per
cent would seem to indicate that a 10 per cent
rate for the stock is established at least while
the present high rate of earnings holds. ' The
payment of 2 per cent extra in January, presum
ably based on the earnings of 1916 and bringing
the returns to stockholders up to 10 per cent for
mat period, aaas strengtn to this conclusion.
From 1907 to 1913. inclusive. 10 nrr rnr
the regular rate of Union Pacific, the rate was
reduced to 8 per cent July-1, 1914, but on Julv 20
stockholders received as a special dividend "f $12
in Baltimore & Ohio preferred and $22.50 in Bal
timore & Ohio common as well as $3 in cash per
share out of surplus. Stockholders of Union Pa
cific who have. retained the shares of Baltimore &
Ohio distributed at that time have received -in
the dividends therefrom a continued equivalent of
1)4 per cent on their Union Pacific holdings,
bringing the retura to 9H pet cent Their present
-.wm.v mvui vmvu is vu m iv yzi vent vi
lli irrespective of any Baltimore & Oh in hnUinot
' Union Pacific's return to 10 per cent in Janu-
t i f . . -
i j vi wis car ionowca year or record operat
ing revenues. ; Earnings for the year ended De
cember 21, 1916, were $17.64 a share for the com.
mon stock, as com oared with 12.42 in 1911
For ?the' first six months of this year gross
a? wcr'rie!' a compared wita $50,
696,976 in the corresponding period in 1916, while
net after taxes was $18,849,448 against $18,674,866.
Th: Pope's Latest Peace Move.
It is a matter of common knowledge that from
the very beginning of the war it has been the one
wish nearest to the heart of Pope Benedict to be
instrumental in bringing about an early restora
tion of peace. From time to time, as conditions
seemed to warrant, the pope has offered his good
services or suggested possible bases of negotia
tion. So the new papal peace proposals may read
ily be taken as put forth in earnest even through
possibly inspired under cover by one or more
of the belligerents.
The most natural inference is that the tenta
tive terms outlined reflect what might be accept
able to the Austrian ruler who belongs to a Cath
olic royal house. If so it is significant that while
proceeding on the theory of restoring pre-war
conditions, exceptions are proposed for Poland,
for Alsace-Lorraine and for Austria's eastern
Adriatic possessions inhabited by Italians whose
problems are to be left for "peaceful solution."
Mere territorial readjustments, however, can
not fully answer the demand for safeguarding
democracy against autocratic aggression which
alone drew the United States into the conflict.
Our consideration of any peace proposals, as a
consequence, would be out of the question unless
coupled with guaranties against a renewed out
break of ruthless kaiseri&m in the future.
, When the real peace move comes to be made,
these safeguards must be had and to get them the
allies, including our own government, will have
to act in unison and the terms that finally prevail
will have' to be acceptable to all of them.
Japan and the United States.
The arrival in this country of the special Jap
anese miision to the United States cannot fail to
draw attention to the effect up6n the relations be
tween the two countries of the alliance which has
brought both into concerted action in the war.
When we speak of these relations as likely to
be changed we refer not so much to the surface as
to the depths, for, while we have presumably
maintained an amicable concord with our Japan
ese friends, that friendship has been periodically
strained almost to the breaking point and there
has been an illy-disguised spirit of mutual sus
picion. This distrust, we may be confident, will
be largely dispelled by the assurances which Vis
count Ishii as spokesman for the mission has now
given, and will repeat, of the unanimity of Japan
with the Unite States in the aims prompting
our entrance into the war.
Further than this, we are going to learn, if
we did not know before, of many things in which
Japan and the United States are equally inter
ested and realize more than ever that we have
much in common in what we are seeking to ac
complish for the firmer establishment of democ
racy and the advancement of world civilization.
We may hope, too, that the closer relations en
forced by the war will prove to both Japan and
the United States that we have no irreconcilable
differences and that our former occasions of fric
tion need not seriously trouble either of them
again. v
There is certainly something to touch our
self-esteem as well as our patriotism in the
kindly expression of Viscount Ishii, "In this cri
sis of the world's affairs we are proud to call
ourselves the allies of the great American re
public," and in his declaration that the presence
of the mission here is proof of "Japan's pledge
of .loyalty to the principles for which America
has thrown down the gauge of battle.'" For the
American people our government can very well
reciprocate this attitude toward Japan in our re
ception of the Japanese envoys.
Our Drafted Army and the Constitution.
Threats to start habeas corpus proceedings in
each exemption district in order to teat the con
stitutionality of the law under which men are
being drafted for service engross attention just
now. The action, if brought, will turn on the
definition of the word militia and the, right of
the government to conscript service. It thus in
volves the whole process of raising and using an
army and vitally touches national life.
The primary definition of "militia" is a body
of citizens assembled for periodic military train
ing, to be called into service , in emergency. In
America it specifically applies to the National
Guard of the several states. This particular des
ignation comes from efforts, commenced as far
back as 1879, to give the organized militia of the
several states a distinctly national character, as
it might be needed for national service at any
time, and therefore should be detachable from
its state allegiance and control to that extent.
Under the Hay-Chamberlain law the president
of the United States is authorized to draft the en
tire National Guard or any unit thereof for fed
eral service. Such draft order abrogate! the
clause of the oath that binds the soldier directly
to his home state and is( supposed o change the
condition of service from National Guard to fed
eral and thus render the soldier liable for any
service the president may call for in his capacity
as commander-in-chief. ,This provision of the law,
which is now attacked, was designed to meet the
objections of the strict constructionists, who con
tend that the militia can be used outside its home
states only to repel invasion and cannot be sent
abroad. ' In the Spanish-American war Guard
regiments were sent "abroad, to Cuba and the
Philippines. In the latter service they were re
placed by federal volunteer regiments.
Supporters of the law set up the power of the
government to conscript the service of citizens
for the defense of the country. This does hot nec
essarily depend on invasion, for the imminent
danger may exist far from our shores; as jn the
present war. To take this power from. the fed
eral government is to seriously weaken, if not
to entirely destroy, capacity for defense. If the
question is to be raised at all, it is better to
have it brought up and settled as soon as pos
sible, that we may know just where we stand
under the constitution as to our powers for self
defense. ,
The report that automobiles are thicker than
mules in Nebraska comes from the assessor's
schedules. As these documents are kin to appli
cations for membership in the Ananias '". club,
their accuracy is open to suspicion. The mule is
not a tax dodger by inclination, but his master
acquires spells of forgetfulness in the merry
springtime. i I :
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A suffrage referendum promises to be. the
next progressive step in Hawaii. Congress is
disposed to grant permission, which shows that
while congress hesitates on the main' land it re
sponds to a nag on the fringes.
Three'banks to serve eighty-eight people in a
Nebraska town may appear, excessive to those
i-r.iw v.iiiwh me iiidiivci yncc 01 nogs. ine
inpouring of wealth requires abnormal vault space.
Next Winters Furs'
By Frederic J. Haskin .
A'ew York City, Aug. 12. Furs are to be very
fasnionable this fall and very expensive. The
dealers of New York, "which is now the 'great
est fur market in the world, are busily preparing
to meet this happy combination of circumstances;
they are drawing upon all the fur-producing
countries on earth for the race and beautiful
peltries that wealthy women demand.'".
A glimpse of the store rooms of one of the big
importers is truly impressive. You may, see, for
example, a rack perhaps forty feet long, loaded
with silver fox skins, arid representing an in
vestment of nearly a hundred thousand dollars,
for each raw skin is worth from $250 to $1,000
dollars. There are long tables piled high with
the fur of red fox windrows of soft fluffy reds
and browns. Mink and marten and sable hang
in rich glossy festoons from the roof, as. do
bunches of ermine, snow white save for the
faint golden tinge on the sides. There are great
stacks of Australian racoon, which is to be a pop
ular fur this fall, and South American guanacito.
which will be much worn by little girls.
Down in the cellar the raw furs are stored in
bales and stacks. There are great quantities ot
glossy beaver from Quebec, of lynx and coyote
and husky dog from Western Canada, of creatures
you never heard of from all the continents, on
earth. America and Russia lead, but there' is
hardly a country that does not contribute some
thing. Most of the imported furs are very ex
pensive because of high ocean freight rates and
heavy submarine insurance, but the well-dressed
woman must have all the varieties at whatever
cost. The manufacturers are pretty good at mak
ing substitutes. Skunk makes a fair grade of
Russian sable. But some furs cannot well be
imitated Persian, or unborn lamb, for exam
ple. Attempts to produce it in the United States
have always failed. There is a misconception
about this rare fur, by the way, which the deal
ers are very anxious to have corrected. Not so
very long ago a leading woman's journal pub
lished a tear-squeezing article about the horrid
way in which unborn lamb is produced. There
were two pictures, one which showed a young
lady wearing the fur, and the other a ferocious
man standing over a fallen ewe with a knife about
a yard long.
This is the greatest year the American fur
business has ever known. Right after the war
broke out the industry was somewhat disorgan
ized. The, fur auctions had always been held in
London, and many of our native furs crossed the
water and came back. Then, too, there was a
large export trade, and a good part of the manu
facturing was done in Europe. When shipments
of all kinds ceased, the machinery of the fur
business was necessarily thrown out of gear.
But it soon became apparent that the disaster
was not as fereat as it had appeared. A fur auc
tion in New York was' organized and has been
held twice a year ever since with increasing suc
cess. New Y'ork is also, a great fur manufactur
ing center. Even before the war, more furs
were manufactured here than in London, Moscow
or Paris, and the industry has now been so ex
panded and improved that it can get along very
well without any assistance from Europe.
One has a tendency to think of tfte fur-bearing
animals as fast disappearing. As a matter of
fact, some species are decreasing, others increas
ing, but the annual crop of fur in the United
States is still enormous, and it comes from every
state in the union except the very far south.
Even Louisiana furnishes several million good
muskrat skins every year. Also there arc trap
pers making a, living a short distance from New
York City, for the Jersey marshes still furnish a
large supply of muskrat and some skunk, as does
also Long Island. A, few foxes arc still sent in
by Long Island trappers. Vr.
Fur styles do not change all rapidly as those
in other lines, but there is enough variation to
keep the designers busy, while different kinds of
fur go in and out of style. For example, many
years ago there was a great demand for Russian
squirrel, from which a wrap made like a Mexican
poncho, with a hole for the head, was made. This
passed out of fashion twenty years ago, and with
it Russian squirrel. This year squirrel is coming
back, and you can see great quantities of the lit
tle gray skins in the dealers' storehouses. The
Russian squirrel, unlike any of the American
species, has a very fine, thick fur.
The favorite fur coat this year will be a loose
fitting one falling to the hips. It is made in Hud
son seal, trimmed with marten, mole and kolin
sky. Coats falling below the knees are generally
made of seal skin also, and are belted at the waist.
Long coats are often made of caracul trimmmed
with Hudson seal.
The woman who can afford it may have a
great variety of furs. The shops this year are
showing an unusual variety of fur head gear.
Close-fitting toques in military shapes are pre
dominant, but there are also elaborate evening
hats. One of these has a crown of white ermine
with a brim of sliver brocade.
Red fox is a. favorite material for scarfs and
capes. These are being made up less artificially
than they used to be, and more of them are
being worn in natural colors. In fact, fashion
shows a tendency in this regard to revert to what
it probably was in cave dwelling days, for some
of the .neck pieces are little more than a dressed
skin thrown about the shoulders.
That furs will ever go out of fashion is not
to be feared. They have a fascination for the
feminine mind possessed by no other material.
Doubtless this is a taste rooted in the childhood
of the race when furs were the only material
available.
Ships and Seamen Rise ,
-Boalon Tranacrlpt-
Certainly the day of resurrection has come, for
ships. Hulks long since sunk, all but forgotten,
rise in their very bones, take on renewed bodies
and, with the rhythmic heart beat of new engines,
feel the blood coursing in their veins once more.
Abandoned coal barges, hulls of whale ships, of
little cargo carriers that have lain at dismantled
wharves for half a century struggle from their
graves in the ooze, feel again the rhythmic clink
of caulking iron, lift proud topmasts and shout
with joy from the very diaphragms of their swell
ing sails as the forefoot thrills to the blare of
blue water. Wrecks of the ancient side-wheelers
rise as well and with a vigor of engine life such
as did not exist in their day go down to the sea.
Where the lean sea fighters shear the blue,
The sea hens scream and wheel; .
'They feel the chug of the churning screw, '
The life of the strairiing"keel.
They sniff the reek of the engine room,
, t .The, piston's pulse the know,
And shovels clink and slice bars chink
In the fireroom down below.
The seashore is probed for these and the very
lakes, send their quota, Away, outsat Ashjand? Wis.,
for instance, on Lake Superior; the side-wheeler
Emerald, sunk at the slip twenty-four' years ago,
is on its way up. The ore carrier SevonaCwhich
broke in two on a shoal six years since, ia.to "be
raised and put together again. And so the re
ports come from slip and shoal the world over, i
l'i With the resurrected ships cannot come the
old-time sailors in the very-: -flesh A tnaii ithein.
Even the might of war. weed cannot.do. that; But
sona'auJ grandsons o their:'blo6d,' perhaps, cer
tainly "of their spirit,-. are "risiug ;.fc5 take their
places.!. Schools of seaman ship ; are filled with
eager students and sailors a' plenty are ready to
go down to the seal in ships and to do business
in great waters in defiance of the menace of the
submarine. If the war.-with-all its menace and
its heartache, can give.us-once more a mighty
merchant marine and revive the proud traditions
of American seamanship, as it bids fair tv-, it
will have doie one .great thing for the country.
- V I V J I Jraaa If
Proverb for the Day. ,
', It Is a long lane that has no turning.
One Year Ago Toilay In the War.
Entente allies attached Bulgars on
100-mile front.
Russians captured Jablonitza Pass,
leading into Hungary.
"Rome reported the capture of sev
eral sections of Austrian trencheq and
a further advance In the Gorizia re
gion. , : '-;. '
In OniaJia Thirty Year' Ago..
"Emmett .Patrick,' formerly con
nected with tlur Pullman Car company
of this city,. has.returned after an ab
sence of some time to take a position
with the. Pacific Hotel company.
' Mrs. J. E. Davis and her sister. Miss
Maggie T. Hroanau. have left on a
pleasure' trip to Denver, Manitou
Springs and other point in Colorado.
J. H. Harvey left at The Bt&offlce
a sample of cotton grown by hlm at
his home, fe"e -Soutfe 'Twelfth.'. The
stem has three Well-matured balls arid
gives ample evidence that the climate
of Nebraska may yet b found avalK
able to the production of the plant.
Mrs. Euler, the woman who was
badly injured In the street car run
away on St. Mary's avenue, is under
the care of Drs. Hanchett and Barns
dall and is doing well.
Miss Minnie Erikson gave a juvenile
party to about fifteen of her young
friends at her home, 1523 Douglas
street.
Count Charles Bozenta. Modjeska's
husband, has left for Xew York and
on his return he will be accompanied
by a party of ten belonging to the
Modjcska theatrical troupe.
Perkins & Gateh of Des Moines
have opened up a wholesale and re
tall crockery and glassware house in
the new Paxton block on Farnam and
Sixteenth.
This1 Day In History.
1 754 Benjamin Hawkins, revolu
tionary soldier and United States sen
ator from North Carolina, born in
Bute county, North Carolina. Died at
Fort Hawkins, Ga June 6, 1816.
1790 John Carroll, first Roman
Catholic bishop in the United States,
consecrated.
1799 U. S. frigate Congress launch
ed at Portsmouth, N. H.
1814 British lost nearly 1,000 men
in an unsuccessful assault on Fort
Erie.
1817 Peter Early, governor of
Georgia in the war of 1812, died in
Greene county, Georgia. Born in Vir
ginia June 20, 1773.
1842 Officers and eoldfers- who
died In the Seminole war burled at
St. Augustine with military honors.
1892 Two regiments of the New
York National Guard called out to
suppress the railroad strike riots at
Buffalo.
1914 Japanese Ultimatum to Ger
many. 1915 Austrians bombarded Bel
grade, but ceased when Serbs began
shelling Semlin.
The Day We CclcbTato.
i, Harry C. Bostwick, president of the
Stock Yards National bank, was born
August 15, 1844, at Trenton, X.
J. He has been in his present
'position since the bank started in 1886.
Moshier G. Colpetzer, who runs the
Chicago Lumber company, is just 40
years old today. He is an Omaha born
boy, a graduate of the Omaha high
school and Philips Andover academy.
Dr. Louis Swoboda, physician and
surgeon, was born August 15. 1869, in
Moravia and came to this country in
1880.
Walter .nines Page, ambassador
from the United States to Great Brit
ain, born at Cary, X. C, sixty-two
years ago today.
Captain Robert A. Bartlett, leader of
the third relief expedition sent to find
the members of the Crocker Land Ex
pedition, born in Newfoundland, forty
two years ago today.
Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, Episcopal
bishop of the District of Columbia,
born in Ireland, sixty-five years ago
today. )
Edna Ferber. author of "Our Mrs.
McChesney" and other popular stories
and plays, born at Kalamazoo, Mich.,
thirty years ago today.
John K. Shields, United States sen
ator from Tennessee, born at Clinch
dale, Tenn., fifty-nine years ago today.
Charles A. Comlskey, owner and
president of the Chicago American
league baseball club, born in Chicago,
fifty-nine years ago today. ,
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The fourth payment on the Liberty
Bonds bought on the installment plan
(amounting to 30 per cent) falls due
today. v
The annual convention of the Retail
Millinery association of America opens
in New York City today anal will con
tinue until Saturday.
The silver jubilee of the. Union
Printers' Home will he celebrated at
Colorado Springs today In connection
with the International Typographical
Union convention.
The war and its effect on the apple
trade will be discussed by the Inter
national Apple Shippers' association,
meeting in annual session today in
Xew York City.
More than 1,700 linemen employed
by the New England Telephone com
pany will go to work today under a
new schedule which provides for a
wage rate of $4 a day.
Racial relations, law enforcement,
and the negro migration to the north
are among the leading topics to be
discussed at the eighteenth annual
convention of the National Negro
Business League, meeting today at
Chattanooga.
Storyett)f the Day; .
An old. colored man charged with
stealing chickens was arraigned in
court and. was incriminating himself,
when the'judge said:
"You sought to have a lawyer.
Where's 'your lawyer?" ' t
"Ah ain't got no lawyer, jedge,"
said the -old man. t .
"Very well, then," said his honor.
"I'll assign a lawyej, to defend you."
'.'Ob, nJ. suh-, no, suh! Please don't
do -dat:''. 'the -darky begged. -
"Wllyirot?, asked the judge. "It
won't; cost you anything. Why don't
you want a. lawyer?.' m
"WelUjedge, AVll "ten' you suh."
said the ld man, waving hjs tattered
old hat confidentially. "Hit's dis way.
Ah wari, tah enjoy dem chickens
mah8'f.'gj--Ohlcago,New.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
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Paper chiba that art practically indestruc
tible have been invented for the uae of po
licemen in Entland.
A New Hampahlre girl haa become a
blacksmith. Her only previous experience
had been in ahooire hena. ;
While drilling- for oil neat Lafayette. La...
prospector! 'struck salt depoaita from a few
feet under the surface to a depth) of l.ftOO
feet. They then abandoned their oil enter
prise and formed a corporation to mine tlie
aalt.
Takes Issue with Mr, Herring.
Bartlett. Ia.. Aug. 14. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: In a recent issue of
The Bee, Carl E. Herring advances the
idea that "Science and Health" is
needed to lead a world beclouded by
commentaries and apologetics back to
the spiritual meaning of the Bible. In
reply I would say that if the Bible it
self is not sufficient for the salvation
of mankind and is not plain enough to
be understood without additional reve
lation it is imperfect But in James
1:25 wc learn that the word of God
is a "perfect law of liberty." Cer
tainly if it is a perfeot law it needs
no addition to it. In Isaiah 35:8 we
learn that "the way of holiness" is
so plain that "the wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein."
That does not sound as though the
Lord ever Intended to let "the way of
salvation" (Acts 16:17) ' become so
clouded as to require a special revela
tion from Mrs. Eddy to make it clear
again.
In reply to my statement that no
one was ever converted to Christian
Science by Reading the, Bible alone,
Mr. Herring says. "Surely he must
have overlooked the fact that Mrs.
Eddy was converted to Christian Sci
ence through reading the Bible." But
I will not admit for a moment that
such is a fact. There 18 good evidence
that Mrs. Eddy acquired many of her
ideas from Dr. P. P. Quimby, who
taught and practiced mental healing
in Maine for a number of years be
fore Christian Science was born. In
the Christian Science Journal for June,
1887, Mrs. Eddy stated over her own
signature that she was under Dr.
Quimby's treatment from 1862 until
his death in 1865.
In the Bangor (Me.) News Decem
ber 6, 1898, there appeared an arti
cle from the pen of Mrs. Josephine
Woodbury, formerly a disciple of Mrs.
Eddy and later an independent prac
titioner of mental healing, on this sub
ject. Mrs. Woodbury says: "In" writ
ings only recently examined I find
a series of articles written ill some in
stances by Dr. Quimby himself and in
others by his patients and pupils,
some of them being printed in the
newspapers in various towns and cit
ies of Maine. The ideas thus promul
gated were then credited to Dr.
Quimby, even by Mrs. Eddy herself,
but in 1875 we find them incorpo
rated into 'Science and Health' as part
of a special revelation to its author."
That certainly can be understood with
out the help of a commontary.
Mr. Herring declares that Christian
Scientists stick to the Bible through
out their entire religious service. I
will ask those of my readers who
have a vivid imagination to picture a
Scientist opening his service With the
following from Matthew 9:12: "They
that be whole need not a physician,
but they that are sick." And then
suppose he should stumble upon the
following from 1 John 1:8: "If we
say that we have no sin we deceive
ourselves and the truth is not in us."
Don't you think he would consider it
prudent to introduce a few interpreta
tions from "Science and Health?"
Now, Mr. Herring, this Is offered in
the best of spirit I cheerfully con
cede to you the right of freedom of
belief as I claim it for myself. But
as you have been propounding the
doctriaes of Christian Science In the
columns of The Bee from time to time
you should be willing to submit those
doctrines to the crucible of investiga
tion. In the forum of public discus
sion we may at least achieve a clearer
understanding.
GEORGE W. MOORE,
Resents Food Kx-onoiny Instruction.
Boone, Neb., Aug. 13. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: " I was reading Friend
Harry Bernard's piece in your paper
on "National Bread Economy." I
will make a few remarks in regard to
our friend's diagnosis of food and as
to what it probably would do for the
system, providing they could get the
bread to digest. Further I would like
to ask if ourv government is paying
him for explaining to the American
people how to use the same food we
have been using for the last sixty-five
or seventy years. I think we all can
understand fully the situation with
out employing anyone to get down to
science and close figuring. We all un
derstand close economy from natural
causes and the present prices.
When I read a piece like that I could
not refrain from giving my opinion.
The fault lies with a few that are han
dling foodstuffs for the exorbitant
prices we poor fools pay. I know it
is not the fault of production. My
friend, when you are stopping off in
some large city go among the laboring
class of people and buy them some
bread. Don't stop to analyze the
value of what, good it will do them
poor little hungry children crying for
bread. As to the 10 cents, they prob
ably haven't 5 cents for protein fat
you speak of.
When you left Indiana to teach the
western people the use of food, you
missed your calling. We have a smart,
well read and up-to-date people who
have settled here in the western states,
built up the country, and all know
how to raise the foodstuff and how to
use it as the present prices show. Also
have built ail kinds of progressive in
stitutions that will compare with any
state in the union, even places for
those not capable of caring for, them
selves. MRS. L. GAGE STUART.
FACTS ABOUT CROPS.
Argentina yields a normal wheat crop of
192,000,000 bushels.
Canada's 1916 wheat crop thrashed out
220.367,000 bushels. Canada's 1915 wheat
crop yielded 884,000,000 bushels.
Those who have carefully investigated the
quantity of atraw wasted by the farmers of
the United States claim that S65.000.000
worth of it Is burned each year.
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LAUGHING GAS.
"Flubdub's utter lack of extravagance In
other directions mnkes me wonder why he
gives suth exceedingly laree tips to waiters."
"Simple enough. Flubdub started In life as
a waiter himself." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Did your daughter Inherit hea talent for
lrawing?"
"I never thought of It before, but now
that you apesik of It, 1 shouldn't ha surprised
if she did. My father was a dentist." Day
ton News;
She (belligerently) Why weren't you at
the station with the car to meet me as
usual?
He (meekly) My dear, you ought to
get into this habit of some meetlcss day.
Baltimore American.
"Are you not ashamed to use poisoned
arrows?" .
"I'm doing the beat in my limited way."
whimpered the savage. "Of course poisoned
arrows only get 'em one at a time. But w
lack the mechanical facilities for wholesale
operatlona with t'-boats." Washington
Star.
A fellow crazy with the heat propound
this: "Two Americans fell out of an air
ship; what nationality were thy when they
came down?" We let the poor nut rave, and
presently he gave the answer. "One came
down a Russian,' he said; "the other land
ed on the telegraph wires and came down a
Pole." Boston Transcript.
She My husband is dreadfully opposed In
dollar diplomacy. What do you think
about it?
Her I think they might make it 9S cents.
Judge.
"Why did you go Into high finaii'-e?"
"Driven to it," said the grocer. "People
sometimes call me a robber now, but that's
better than being, called a awlndler every
day oveV some transaction in becta or tur
nips." Louisville-Courier-Journal.
Friend What kind of car did you buy ?
Retired Sea Captain Well, she draws
about fifty feet of dust and displaces half
my bank account. Life.
"If you go first, dear, you'll wait for
me on the other shore, won't you?" ques
tioned tha fond wife.
"t suppose so," returned her husband,
with a sigh. "I never went anywhere yet
without having to wait for you." Puck.
LANDING OF THE "SAMMIES."
June 28, 1917.)
Somewhere in France, there is landing today..'
Somewhere In France, from the great
V. 3. A.
America's men who have answered the
call,
To help the oppressed
And ones who're aggressed.
And from a ruler inhuman
Cause his kingdom to fall.
Somewhere In France, where our brave sol
dlcrs go.
Somewhere In France, other lands they will
show i
M'hat can be done by a nation so great,
'' To monarchs who reign
And look with dlertain,
On atrocities known
Which have roused the world's
hate.
Somewhere In France, the Red, White and
Blue,
Somewhere in France, their trust will re.
new
There'll "be courage and hope, when our
banner they see
For a cause that is right
All united will fight,
Under the tricolors.
For a democracy.
Somewhere In FrancaT, may this carnage
soon cease,
Somewhere in France, and to all, tome
peace
And no more will they ever see, or 'he near.
The shot and the ehell
Which have made war a hell,
And caused home and country
To be desolate and drear.
BELL VIEW.
Don't Leave
the Receiver
Off the Hook
Every day we hnve tele
phone lines "out of order"
because the receiver has been
left off the hook. m
This often happens when
the receiver is taken off the
main telephone and someone
talks from an extension Hp
stairs or In another room.
When the receiver Is off
the hook the line will test
"busy" and be so reported to
. the person calling.
If the telephone Is left off
the hook for a consklernble
time it will be reported "out
of order" by the operator.
Always hang up the re
ceiver on the hook before
leaving the telephone.
TODAY
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health; Keep yourself well by
the timely use and help of
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