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OFFICES Ornaria Tni Bra RulMlng. bicairo PeerWs Oaa Rallding. Snta OoMha-AU N HI. .Vw Yort liso Ptftb are. 'ouncll Bluffs 14 N Main I t Ht. Louis New tit of Comment, l.lnooln UUH Building. Waablntton 1311 O St. CORRESPONDENCE Address erauTmntoatlaai relating to news and adltorlal matter to Diuaba Baa. Editorial Department. JANUARY CIRCULATION 59,964 Daily Sunday. 52,534 tiaraia etrculstloo for th month, subsenttd and (nora to by Dwlfht muiaaa. circulation jianaaer. Snbaerlbera laavlnf tha city should" have Tha Baa nulled ta thorn. Addrua chanfad aa oftaa aa retro t tea. "No man's land" is no place to go for a stroll Chinese "wine" is taboo the same as ordinary boore in this dry land of ours. , Less rancor and more reason might help in settling the question of public dancing. This is a good day to remind ourselves th.t we can afford to follow Abraham Lincoln's advice every day in the year. Governor Neville's smile worries his demo cratic brethren. They know he has made up his mind to something, and wonder what ... Scandal' at the Geneva reformatory suggests that the State Board of Control might find closer scrutiny all around beneficial to everybody. Colonel. Nance will find, as have all his pred ecessors, that Fort Omaha is a mighty good place to have headquarters, in war or peace. Omaha will try to survive the blow of not hav ing the wrestlers with us soon. Any loose coin hereabouts may be devoted to better use than paying fancy prices to see exhibitions such as Des Moines was treated to. An unsinkable transport is one of the answers to the submarine problem, while a reliable de tector to indicate its presence is another. Jelli coe's prediction that the U-boat will be dead by August is based on solid ground. i Friendly aliens will suffer nothing by register ing, and those who are not friendly will gain lit tle by holding back. Better step up to the gov ernment's desk and give in your name if you are Mibject (to this regulation. j. The food administrator announces that the new regulations are aimed at the "greedy and luxurious," and not at the poor. Bless his heart, he has not had occasion to worry about the poor man violating any food regulations for lo' these three years. The price fixers long ago attended to that point. One of the ennervating influences of civiliza tion is, shown in the spectacle of Indians in court' seeking to determine possession of land. Not such a tgrcat while ago an Indian would not bother to dispute about all out pf doors, and any djuarrel he could not settle himself went unad justed. Time has wrought great changes, even in the red man. Central Control of the War. Signs perceptible now at Washington point to the early reorganization of all our war-activities. President Wilson is reported to have reached a determination tomakc changes that are needed to completely centralize his administration of the war. This has been the urgent demand from the beginning. None who has carefully considered . the problem involved fails to recognize the need of putting the power and authority into the hands of one mam The only question ever raised has been over methods. The American people know the president must handle the war; it is a task for the executive and not for the legislative. But congress is charged by the constitution with cer tain fupctions it cannot shift to the president, and some duties it must perform. These things also are apparent. Chief of differences between the measures offered by the senate military affairs committee and that presented by Senator Over man on part of the president is that the one makes the appointment of a war cabinet man datory, the other leaves it permissive. It will matter little as to the management of the war which of these is adopted, or if final action comes in shape of a compromise between the two, so long as order is brought out of the present chaos. Controversy between the executive and congress over how to proceed should be quickly adjusted, that no unnecessary delay interfere further with our tremendous task. Abraham Lincoln. Americans will pay today tribute to the mem ory of Abraham Lincoln with a devotion in creased by the stress of circumstances. The ex ample of that great man, looming ever bigger and grander as years go by, is an increasing in spiration to higher patriotism and an incentive to deeper love for democracy. Lincoln stands pre-eminently typical of America, of the institu tions which he himself summed up in undying phrase, "government of the people, for the peo ple, and by the people." His singleness of pur pose in this, his unswerving adherence to the cause of his country as shown in all his public or private acts, shine even more brightly now, when the whole people is laying down its separate tasks and giving up its divided interests to unite in a common effort for humanity. It is idle to say that Lincoln would now do this or that; we do know what he did do, for we have the record of his life, tnld in detail and with nothing hid den, or covered up or explained away. In that record we find a man, strong and honest, strug gling with problems that beset a man in his daily walk, and meeting them like a man. His courag eous stand for the right, his failure to flinch when adversity seemed to overwhelm him, his unques tioning belief in the destiny of our country, are all before us, and in them we should find help to face the days of trial that arc before us. Let us recall his example of calm courage, and take his advice to press forward to the right as Gu gives us to see the right. . Wilton's Reply to Czernin. President Wilson finds in the address of Count Czernin to the Austrian parliament a friendliness and comprehension of conditions that may lead to further discussion and possibly open a way to peace. This quality of the Austrian minister's speech was generally commented upon at the time of its delivery. Since its corrected language has been made public, it is more evident that Austrian aspirations are not so entirely at vari ance with American aims. Mr. Wilson has removed from his own outline of essential peace points one element of uncer tainty, in disclaiming any desire on our own part to rearrange the boundaries in Europe. On this the president says the United States "would dis dain to take advantage of any internal weakness or disorders to impose its own will on other peoples." This assurance ought to encourage the Austrians, although it must be accompanied al ways by the proposition that the other peoples are to be protected in their own determination. Likewise, in the Von Hertling message the president finds only vagueness and uncertainty, forcing the conclusion that Germany has not abated its pretentions to territorial aggrandize ment and the subjugation of conquered peoples. Germany's treatment of Russia affords proof of what may be expected, and leaves no hope of any thing beyond a continuation of the war to a more decisive point. Whether further discussion with Austria will bring about a break in the Teutonic alliance -3 a moot point. The president suggests that Count Czernin might have gone farther in his approach to real peace terms, were it not for the restraint of the German connection. Thus the matter rests for the moment. American aims, approved and adopted by England, France and Italy, are clearly denned. Austria's are not wholly irrecon cilable, while Germany's are unacceptable. Ex change of views are to be continued, with most of the future depending on the outcome of battle. Russian Breakdown a German Victory. Significant above all other features of the Rus sian breakdown-is the advantage it gives to Ger many. Nothing in that part of Russia which has been under bolshevik control will be of any service to the kaiser or his allies in the further prosecution of the" war, but the Ukrainian treaty, completed last week, opens the way to a depend able source of supply of foods and other material the Central powers sorely need. The immediate effect of this will naturally be to relieve a great deal of the economic pressure now felt by the German people and permit a more energetic prosecution of the war on their side. One of the strangest twists of all the course of the conflict is that the overthrow of the Rus sian despotism and the liberation of the people there should so directly operate to the benefit of the power now looked on as the greatest oppon ent of liberty. Germany is not only thus pro vided with a source of supply, but is permitted to bring added strength to the western front of its battle line, where it now opposes with all its might the supporters of true liberty. With the more immediate problem of the de fense of democracy facing them in Flanders and France, the Entente Allies must postpone ques tions incidentally involved in the adjustment be tween Germany and the Russians, under what ever guise they may be presented. For months it has been known that the only help to be ex pected from Russia was that access to the food stored in the southwestern provinces would be denied the Germans. The way to this is now open and if it means anything, it is prolongation of the war. Americans must realize that the muddled af fairs of Russia increase the problem we have to face in the war. How order will eventually be re stored and liberty maintained there is not clear now, but the future will determine. President Lincoln at Close Range From Bicknell Carpenter's "Six Months in the White House." fr. Lincoln's laugh stood in a class by itself. The neigh of a wild horse on his na tive prairie is not more undisguised and hearty. A group of gentlemen, including a number of his friends, were one day con versing in the passage of his office, waiting for admission. A congressional delegation had just preceded them, and presently an un er-in-chief of those armies would be a very formal affair. The meeting was arranged for an afternoon, and young Zeppelin put on a full dress suit, according to the Euro pean custom. He was amazed, upon entering the White House, that so few people asked him his bus iness or interfered with him. A secretary mistakable voice was heard through the par-1 asked his name and admitted him at once tition, in a burst of mirth. One of his friends ; to the president s office as the sound aiea away: mat been the president's life pre-1 Lincoln was sitting on a desk when Zep pelin entered, and his long legs dangled al most to the floor. He was swinging them back and forward much as a school boy does when sitting upon a fence. While in this attitude, the head of the nation was talking with Mr. Seward, secretary of state. Count Zeppelin was amazed when the president leaned far forward, stretched out his hand One evening a party composed of two j to his visitor, and asked him all about Ger- remarked laugh has server. President Lincoln always kept a copy of the latest funny book in a corner of his desk drawer. When he was especially worried, or sad, or depressed, it was his habit to take out the book and enjoy a few laughs. ' senators, a representative, an ex-lieutenant governor, and several other important gen tlemen, called on the president to talk over some business of great importance. They were in a hurry, but Mr. Lincoln paid little attention to their impatience. Pushing every thing aside, he said to one of the members of the party: "Have you seen the Nasby papers?" "No, I have not," was the answer. "Who is Nasby?" The president explained that he was re ferring to Petroleum V. Nasby, the humorist, and added: "I am going to write to 'Petroleum' to come down here and I infnd to tell him if he will communicate his talent to me, I will swap places with him." Thereupon Mr. Lincoln arose, went to a drawer in his desk, and taking out Nasby's letters, read one of them to the company. He found in their enjoyment of it the excite ment and relief that another man would find in a glass of wine. The instant he ceased, the book was thrown aside, and he became once more the sad and serious man. He asked for the business which his visitors wished to present, and entered upon it with great earnestness. many and the Germans. Lincoln was the plainest of all men. As chief magistrate of the country, he made less fuss of himself than some men who were department heads in business firms. He used to roam about the White House without a collar, and he always tried to do away with every formality. A visitor once went to see him, and was permitted to walk up to the second floor of the executive mansion. Entering a hall, he met a tall,- lean man who was walking about unshaven, collarless, and in his stocking feet. "Excuse me," said the visitor. "But I would like to see the president." "Right here," returned the tall, untidy man, and he laughed heartily at the visitor's sur prised expression. When Count Zeppelin, now famous as the inventor of Germany's giant airships, vis ited Washington as a young man, he called upon Lincoln. Zeppelin was the Wuerttem burg military observer with the union armies, and he expected that a visit to the command- Judge Kellogg tried in vain to induce Sec retary of War Stanton to pardon a friend of his who had been sentenced to death for some misdemeanor. Thereupon he ex claimed: "Well. Mr. Secretary, the boy is not going to he shot of that I give you fair warning!" Immediately he rushed to the White House, and although it was night time, he rushed upstairs, woke up the president and put the matter up to him. "This man must not be shot, Mr. Presi dent," said he. "I can't help what he may have done. Why, he is an old neighbor of mine; I can't allow him to be shot!" Mr. Lincoln had remained in bed, quietly listening to Judge Kellogg's appeal. At length he said: "Well, I don't believe shooting him will do any good. Give me that pen." And so saying, he spared the poor fellow's life by adding that simple signature, "A. Lincoln,' to a slip of paper. A grateful mother was leaving the presi dent's office one day. after he had spared her son's life. For a while she was too overcome to say anything. Then she suddenly ex claimed: "I knew it was a copperhead lie!" "What?" asked Representative Thaddeus Stevens, who accompanied her. "Why, they told me the president was an ugly looking man," she replied very angrily. "He is the handsomest man I ever saw in my life." And for that mother, whose boy he had saved, Mr. Lincoln must indeed have seemed a fine looking man. News came one day over the wires that the confederates had captured a union briga dier general and 500 horses. "I feet very, very sorry about the loss of those horses," said Mr. Lincoln. "But how about the brigadier general?" asked one of the War department officials. "Oh," replied the president, "I don't mind that so much. Give me pen and paper, and I can make a brigadier general in two min utes; but it would take me pretty long to make 500 horses." What is Buried in Jerusalem Jerusalem is a holy city of the Moslems as well as the Holy City of the Christians. Having been in Islam's possession, except for brief intervals, since the sixth century, it has been closed to Christian pilgrims ex cept under restrictions and has been virtually denied to modern research. Now that it has passed, definitely apparently, into Christian hands, or under Christian protection, re search will be allowed and much knowledge of the early years of Christianity and, per haps, even of the life and character of its founder may be won. Jerusalem, moreover, is a very ancient city, older than Rome or Athens, and if younger than Egyptian Memphis and Thebes, still contemporary with them and with Babylon and Nineveh. So that from it much may be learned of the civilization pre ceding the Roman and Greek conquests of what we now call Palestine. Excavation at Mycenae in the Pelopon nesus, in Crete, in Egypt, and in Mesopota mia, has revealed a new ancient history. The story of civilized mankind has been carried back perhaps to 6,000 B. C. A vast prehis toric age has been reconstructed out of pot teries, inscriptions, utensils, foundations and the like. What Babylon, Nineveh, and cities before them, were, we have now some in telligent notion. Soon after peace is declared the exca vators will be at work in Jerusalem and the region roundabout. They will pierce below the modern city, below the Sacracenic and later Roman cities, through the city of Herod of New Testament times, through the city that Assyria sacked to the city that Solomon rebuilt, and beneath even the city of Solomon to the city of David, of the judges of Israel, and, perhaps, finally to the Canaanite stronghold which the invaders un der Joshua overthrew. City lies below city on that site, as is the case with every very ancient municipality. Did not Schliemann find 17 or more Troys buried one under the other on the plain where Homer's heroes fought? Are there not a papal Rome, a medieval Rome, a Rome that Alaric and Genseric sacked, an early Christian Rome, a Ceasarean Rome, a later and earlier republican Rome, and a Rome of Numa Pompilus and the' first kings? Yet beside Jerusalem even Rome is young, while Paris and London are more upstartish than is Seattle to ihem. The blight of Islam which has sealed Jerusalem for centuries, which has reduced Mesopotamia to a desert, Syria to desolation, promises to be lifted at last over all that region that was the cradle of civilization and the first garden of the world. "The crescent of fertility" stretches from old Judea and Philistine along the Mediterranean littoral curving eastward to the upper Euphrates and Tigris and then continuing southward to the Persian gulf. That zone between the sea and the desert, and again between the mountain and the desert, will be redeemed as Egypt has in our own day been redeemed, provided the Turk be forced back northward and westward behind the Taurus and the Anti-Taurus barrier. For the future, for the race, for the sake of all that can be discovered by modern re search, it is to be hoped that this war will not be ended until the British armies of Jeru salem and of Bagdad join at Aleppo and se cure beyond the Cilician gates. Western Christianity in that event will have rescued the region of the early church and will have promise of new knowledge concerning their faith. Minneapolis Journal. People and Events Statistics of 37 cities in the Empire state show that legal election expenses last No vember cost the taxpayers an average of $1.56 for each vote polled. Every improve ment, so-called, in election machinery carries increased pressure on the pocket nerve. Back in Newark's railroad yards a loco motive was bumped off its elevated station, fell 40 feet to the street, crushed an' inof fensive flivver, ran into a store. across the street and pulled down the ceiling. Nobody hurt. Isn't that a peach of a freak? Kentucky's legislature takes its prohibi tion with a chaser. After adopting the fed eral amendment with a whoop the solons turned round and decided to submit a state prohibition amendment at the November election. The idea is to make blue grass hospitality souze tight by plugging the bar rel at both ends. Boston Transcript: Possibly Senator Stone's charge that Mr. Roosevelt is in league with the kaiser is founded on the story too well known . to be repeated here, which concludes: "Teddy slapped me on the back and said, 'Bill, with such an army you could lick the world.' And," added the kaiser dolefully, "like a fool I believed him." The chief factory inspector of Illinois ridi cules fears expressed in some quarters that women are pushing the men out of all the good jobs. Nothing to it. A census of 100 typical industries in and outside Chicago shows a loss of only eleven men in a year and a gain of 323 women workers in the same time. Employment of children has not mate rially increased. The spring seed catalogue maintains its standing as a vehicle of pictorial art and colorful thrills. Now as in former planting seasons, nature must hump itself to come within hailing distance of the product pic tured. But the chief charm of this year's catalogue is in the figures of cost. These show an elevation ranging from 25 to 300 per cent. Oh, sure, the war did it. One Year Ago Today In the War. China advised the German govern ment it would break off diplomatic relations it the new submarine policy were pursued. Reported in Washington that Presi dent Wilson would ask congress for giuthortty to arm American merchant hlps. ; ! The Day We jCelcbratf. '; William Curtis Lambert, corpora tion counsel of Omaha, born 1865. i A. Piatt Andrew, who received the decoration of the Legion of Honor for his services as head of the American "Ambulance corps, born at La Porte, jnd., 4i years ago today. ! Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daugh ter of former President Theodore Jloosevelt, bom 34 years ago today. - William Faversham, one of the most popular actors of the American stage, born In London SO years ago today. Tbig Day In History' 1(63 Rev. Cotton Mather, a famous divine and educator of the early co lonial days, born In Boston. Died there February 13. 173. ': 1776 Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of tha sixth president of the United Kt&tea, born In London. Died at Quincy, Mass., May 14. 1852. I 1879 New state capitol at Albany, K. Y-, formally opened. 180 Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, born near Hodgensvllle, Ky. Died in Wash JUurtna. f, fi, AjrU la. 1885, Just 30 Years Ago Today Arthur Rothery has opened a box ing academy at hla residence in the northwestern part of the city. The chess tourney, held under the auspices of the Omaha Chess club In its rooms In the Ramge block, came to a close, Mr. O. E. Barker winning first honors by a score of $0 victories to five defeats, defeating Mr. M. XL Parmer and Mr. O. P. Seward by the small margin of a half game. The Knights of Labor Social club Trill celebrate St. Valentine's evening with a masquerade ball. The toboggan enterprise In this city does not prove a glittering success. People did not enthuse over it as they do in some of the north and north western cities. Confidence With a String. "You have great confidence in Bingham?" ' "1 certainly have. Do you know, old man, I find myself at times al most willing, approximately, to lend him some hypotheUcfl money." St Loul Republic -v Nebraska Comment Kenesaw Sunbeam: With plenty of good yellow cornmeal from which to make corn pone and fried mush why should we worry about whether there Is any other substitute for wheat flour? Norfolk Press: The old man has heard of a wealthy farmer living netr Hosktns who hauled a lot of potatoes back home and allowed them to freeze In the shed because he could get only $1.25 per bushel for them. There's a friend of the kaiser who should bo given a dose of the real thing. York Democrat: Speaking about heroes there's Detective Frank Rooney of Omaha who sacrificed his life in the line of duty. Not all of the world's heroes die In military service. Frank Rooney's monument should be as tall and as enduring as any erected to martial valor. Wymore Wymorean: A girl who will marry a man to keep him out of the draft is both a coward and a trai tor and should be punished. A man who will marry at this time to escape military service is yellow from core to rind, and no girl who has any re spect for herself will be seen In com pany with such a fellow. Ord Quia: Senator Beal of this dis trict seems to think that most of the inequities could be quickly adjusted If he could get to congress In place of Judge Klnkaid. We believe the peo ple of the big Sixth know which side their bread is buttered on, however, and if he wants to go back for another term the story next fall will be the same as ever. "Uncla Mo ejected by a larger majc " " Peppery Points Minneapolis Journal: La Follette seems to have made a separate peace with that senate Investigating com mittee. Washington Post: By the process of elimination, the taxation extensions of the Hon. Claude Kltchln may yet show what important industries are not carried on at Scotland Neck. Washington Post: Profanity has been interdicted by a military order, but the man on whose foot the mule steps may find some half-way house of talk that the government will over look. Baltimore American: The blame for the terrible Halifax disaster is nnn fiiri nn home carelessness ana not enemy Intrigue, few disasters really among "accidents." r.arman sorvW. Spnor Villa is out of place. The dynamiting of a passenger train, near Santa Rosalia, killing 110 persons, is the sort of thing that would get an iron cross from the kalsr, and perhaps a quick promotion. New York World: In charging the meat packers with hoarding hides in order to exact excessive profits, the Federal Trade commission gives testi mony as a "character witness" that will cause no surprise among the American people. Minneapolis Tribune: War has spoiled the old adage about the dollar being a coward. The dollar la right out on the firing line, bearing the burdens of war. Red Cross, Young Men's Christian association and Knights of Columbus activities and conies up smiling after every round. -This shows how deservo ranking Outside of the Out of the Ordinary Rudyard Kipling is probably the best paid of all short story writers. His price is 500 per 1,000 words. Two hundred thousand dollars Is the estimated worth of the gold placed in the teeth of Londoners every year. One of the best examples of natural camouflage is furnished by the zebra, which, owing to its stripes, fades into the tall grass where it retreats from the hunter. France curbs the desire of parents to christen their children with extra ordinary names by liming their choice of names to the 13,000 saints In the calendar. In certain of the rural districts of England the people have a curious belief with regards to whooping cough. A lock of hair is cut from the sufferer's head, and put into a hole bored In the bark of a mounta'.n ash, after which the hole is closed. The whoop, according to their belief, will vanish in three days under this treat ment t, . , Paris possesses a clock which not only tells the time so well that it does not vary more than a hundredth part of a second a year, but also marks the year, month and day of the week. Its "pendulum forms a barometer of singular accuracy, and It Indicates the time in 13 of the chief cities of the world, each city having its own dial From the dumping of potato peel ings last spring on a pile of coal ashes a housekeeper of Cedarvllle, N. J., gathered a half basket of good potatoes. This fact has gone out to farmers, and the New Jersey Experi ment station is inquiring into the value of coal ashes now. . Where to Take Complaints. Omaha, Feb. 9 To the Edi tor of The Bee: Having received a complaint from a friend in a training camp, I referred it directly to Secre tary Baker, for obvious reasons not disclosing the name of the complain ant. In reply, I received the follow ing letter: "War department, February 4, 1918. Dear Mr. McGrew: The secretary of war asks me to acknowledge the re ceipt of your letter of January 29, and to say that he is bringing it to the attention of his military associates. Very truly yours, "F. C. LEPPEL, "Confidential Clerk." From the dates given it appears that my communication received prompt attention and immediate action. It appeals to me that it Is a much better plan to call the attention of the proper officers to any defect in our military organization, rather than engage in public criticism, thereby furnishing "aid and comfort to the enemy." "No question has ever been raised regarding the loyalty of our com manders and the only possible fault to be found is their occasional inabil ity to meet the great emergencies which have so suddenly arisen, the magnitude of which can not be real ized by a civilian, and it certain would be better to offer advice and assistance rather then fault finding and arousing of political prejudice. C. F. M'GREW. Wool in First Hands. Omaha, Feb. 11. To the Editor of The Bee: It has been pretty well established by governmental investi gation why leather is so high and hides so cheap, showing that enor mous quantities are being held in the hide cellars of the big packers and only enough being marketed by said packers to make room for fresh re ceipts. No doubt an Investigation into the wool situation will uncover a similar condition. A sheep feeder residing near Omaha informs me that his company has at this time 35,000 pounds of wool for which it is unable to prt-t a price offer from the wool bu;n;. He says this is a common etato of affairs, large quantities of wool being in first hands because the holders are unable to find a market for It. I. J. C. Ireland's Advantages. Omaha, Feb. 9. To the Editor of The Bee: Why does Great Britain wish to retain its hold on Ireland? Ireland has been an unwilling part ner always. The question lies in Ire land's geographical and martime ad vantages over England. By legisla tion England can keep Ireland in agricultural stagnation; by competi tion she could not. Ireland has the best harbors in the world and has more of them than any other country. Ireland is in the center of the trade routes, is closer to Australia, America, Canada, the West Indies and the orient than is England. Could not Ireland easily then become a maritime em pire as an Irish republic? Under home rule she will still be a dependency of England and hence the Sinn Fein attitude. ERIN. Price of Gas. Omaha,' Feb. 8.To the Editor of The Bee: The Omaha Gas company has very quietly added 15 cents per 1,000 cubic feet to their January bills, making the net price 31.15. The pub lic were given to understand that the long-standing litigation with the city was settled by a voluntary reduction to $1 per 1,000 cubic feet. Has the city lost its rate-making powers "because of the war?" By what authority is this extra 15 cents per 1,000 cubic feet put across. The citizens of Omaha rejected a renewal of the franchise of this corporation several years ago. When does the present franchise expire? It is barely possible that the new rate is just, but why must we pay first and investigate afterwards? W. B. S. Solves the Car Question. . Omaha, Feb. 8. To the Editor of The Bee: For the past few months there has been a constant wall among the farmers that has set the railroad management agog. Not car could be got under any consideration and com modities of different nature were left to perish on the ground. The farmer had to do something. It was no un common sight to see from 40 to 80 stock cars standing on side tracks, empty, requests being turned down every day for cars. But today Mr. Editor, I simply wish to acquaint you with the fact that I think that the Iowa boys have solved the proposi tion good and plenty. I wish It was possible that the many readers of your journal could visit South Omaha, conditions being as they were yester day. The writer happened to be an early arrival and large automobile trucks were lined up nearly half a block waiting to be unloaded in their turn, laden with hogs. I went away and came back at 11:30 and 22 or 23 trucks were lined up awaiting to be unload ed; when you take into consideration that a truck can be unloaded in about three minutes you can readily grasp the situation and reason yourself the inroads that are being made on the shipping business that has heretofore been monopolized by railroads. Now we see trucks coming from a distance of 40 miles. Honey Creek, McClelland, Shelby, some of the most handsome trucks one ever saw, and "Mr. Hog" rides in grandeur, and not only this, Mr. Editor, the shrinkage is down to a minimum, and these trucks have come to stay, and to my simple way of rea soning I believe it a just rebuke to arbitrary management of railroads in past few months. While in this article we treat only stock shipments, this is not confined to this class of business alone. JAMES HALE. AT LINCOLN'S GRAVE. Maurice Thompson. May one wbo foment in honor for the soutli Uncovered stand and sing by Lincoln a grave ? Why, if 1 shrank not at tha cannon's moutU Js'or swerved one inch for any battle wave. Should 1 now tremble in this quiet cloae, Hi-arlng the prairie wind go lightly by From bihowy plains of grass and milts ot corn. While out ot deep repose The great sweet spirit lltta Itself on high And broods above our land this summer jnoru '.' I, mindful of a dark and bitter past. And of its clashing hopes and raging hates. Still, standing here. Invoke a love so vast It cancels all and all obliterates, Sav love itself, which cannot harbor wrong; Oh, for a voice of boundless melody, A voice to fill heaven a hollow to the brim With one brave burnt of song, Stronger than tempest, nohler that the aeu. That I might lend It to a song of him! Meseems I feel his presence. Is he dead? Death is a word, lie lives and grander At Gettysburg he bows his bleeding head; He spreads his arms where cnicnamauga flows, As if to clasp old soldiers to his breast, Of south or north, no matter which lh. ho Not thinking of what uniform they wore His heart the palimpsest Record on record of humanity, Where love la first and last forevermore. His humor, born of virile opulence. Stung like a pungent sap or wild-fruit zest And satisfied a universal sense Of manliness, the strongest and the best; A soft Kentucky strain was in his voice. And the Ohio's deeper boom was there. With some wild accents of old Wabash days. And winds of Illinois, And when he spoke he took us unaware. With bis high courage and unselfish waya. Ha was the north, the south, the east, thu west; The thrall, the master, all of us In one; There was 1.0 section that he held the best; His love shone as Impartial as tbe sun; And so revenge appealed to him in vain, He smiled at it as at a thing forlorn, And gently put It from him, rose and stood A moment's space in pain, Remembering the prairies and the corn And the glad voices of the field and wood. Annealed in white-hot fire, he bore the test Of every strain temptation could Invent Hard points of slander, shivered on his breast. Fell at his feet, and envy's blades were bent In his bare hands and lightly cast aside; He would not wear a shield; no selfish aim Guided on thought of all those trying hours; No breath of pride. No pompous Btrlvlng for the pose of fame Weakened one stroke of all his noble powers. ,1 ' ,!.. ... fnn.nl ..rvld, vIlflM courtesy makes every consideration to rief. 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