THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, JULY 18,-1918.
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Watch old King Corn go over the top now.
The wir tax on shoei is said to be intended
I to help foot the bills.
Baron Burian is entitled to a place among the
humorists of his time.
Still neither of the kaiser's six sons has been
mentioned in the casualty list.
Probably the Hun has even greater rejpect
for the Yankee now than ever.
Still, it ii far better to postpone the golf tour
.uament than to postpone the rain.
The cow that jumped over the moon must feel
like an amateur when she looks at the present
'price of beef ateers.
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I "For rent" signs in ticket office windows serve
o emphasize the fact that Uncle Sam is running
th railroad! now. Travelers get other reminders
fof the lime truth.
Wonder how the German war lords are now
plaining their assurances that the Americans
voald never get into this war and would cut no
figure even if they did.
j Experts vary widely in their opinions as to the
'purpose of the big battle of Rheims, but they all
Jagree on the fact that the Yankee boys did their
share of the work very well.
It begin to look as if the crown prince of
, (Prussia must put off hii journey down the
iChamps Elyiea until some day when he can go as
r'a "guest" of the French government.
A. Mitchell Palmer can relieve a lot of etrrioa-
tr bv announcing the names of the kaiser-owned
luewsnaoeri of the country. Molt of them have
;been spotted, but folki would like to check up
The chairman and secretary of the democratic
national congressional committee are to be in
Omaha thii week for a conference with the local
jHemocratie bossei, presumably for the purpose of
jjnformmg them that "politic! i adjourned.'
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German military critic! are pouring forth the
Same sort of comment on American aoldieri that
ivas wasted on the British in 1915. And just as
Kitchener' mob" thwarted the kaiser'i designs
.then, so Penning' "school boys" will end his
dynasty.
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- l It may be desirable for Omaha tome day toon
to have a new and more modern police head
quarter! and police court, but the city already
haa a perfectly good jail, if it will only use it, at
the present location, which ii just as good as
the sew sit needlessly purchased.
JUST TO KEEP HISTORY STRAIGHT.
The hyphenated World-Herald gets its chro
nology a trifle confused in its delirious efforts to
convince its readers that the gyrating democratic
party of this state is going straight. Referring
to resolutions adopted by the democrats of Rich
ardson county, the local organ of the unterrified
contrasts the expression with the situation of six
teen months ago. That period is poorly selected,
for its readers must be reminded that at that time
the World-Herald was standing 6n it! head,
while its owner was visiting the White House in
a vain attempt to induce the president to with
hold his message from congress asking for a
declaration of war.
Twenty-four months ago this same paper was
hypocritically praising the president, endorsing
his "peace without victory" address, while G. M.
Hitchcock was receiving the support of the
German-American Alliance in return for his serv
ices to the cause of the kaiser.
The editor of the World-Herald does his read
ers small credit when he impudently recalls that
chapter in the history of his party arrd his paper.
The temper of Nehraskans has changed since
1916, and they know now how deliberately the
Omaha mouthpiece of the kaiserbund labored to
deceive and mislead them. At any rate, they will
not forget the performance which won for the
outfit the approbation of "Der Vaterland."
Lack of Teachers Menace to Nation
Higher Salaries One Remedy, Briefer Training ,
Periods Another
Following the Battle Line.
One point in connection with the battle of
Rheims is clearing up. The attack can scarcely
be regarded as a mere feint to cover a serious
attack on the line at another point. Three days
of persistent effort, with attendant losses in
excess of any previous experiences, hardly can be
looked upon as a mere diversion on part of the
Hun. Along with this, the purpose of the move
ment becomes plainer. Straightening out the
line from Verdun to Montdidier, thereby in
creasing the pressure on Paris, is the most ap
parent object of the crown prince at this time.
His desire to obtain possession of the French
capital amounts to an obsession, and to this
end he has devoted his greatest energy. Just
now his effort seems as bootless and as costly
as his monumental failure at Verdun. The fight
ing still is intense at local points, the battle
having for the moment turned from a general
engagement into a series of separated struggles,
in which one or the other side gains slight ad
vantage. Rheims remains in French hands, but
the Germans have established themselves along
the Marne for a distance of fourteen miles. At
the close of the third day the big drive looks like
a total failure, when the slight advance made on
a very short line is compared to the tremendous
price paid by the kaiser. The Americans are
holding the ground they occupied when the
battle began, a fact that is impressive even at
Berlin. Several dayi may elapse before the re
sult! can be fully summed up. but the Allies are
well satisfied with the situation.
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Quentin Roosevelt, Soldier.
; American of all station will turn towards
.Sagamore Hill with heart full of lympathy be-
cause of the shadow that haa fallen across the
home there. Yet they will realize that the
stricken father and mother find in their deep aor
' ,row a consolation that death came to their son
in line of duty. Quentin Roosevelt is but one of
million! of young American! who have joined in'
the crusade against despotism, offering them
selves willingly as living members of the wall un-
der which freedom liei lecure. He took up hii
work with the enthusiasm of a boy who had been
trained to believe in his country and its institu
tion!, and he found his fate in a gallant effort to
make them safe. In this he did no more than
any of his comrades in this great war, nor will his
father ask more for him than he is willing to
, give to any man who has laid down his life in the
combat Young Roosevelt had been taught to
"hit the line hard," and he did hii part just that
. way. Democracy will honor itself by giving a
brief tribute of condolence to one so representa
tive of his people aa the distinguished father of
this dead soldier, while common humanity will
mourn with him as it does with each bereft fam
ily in the union.
Tantalizing. I
The publication of a paid advertisement over
the name of the big meat packers of the country
answering the charges embodied in the recent
trade commission report is apparently proving
embarrassing to some of our country exchanges.
Perhaps the one in greatest discomfort is our old
friend Edgar Howard, whose political capital has
for years been largely built out of harpooning the
beef magnates. "Someone will ask," writes
Edgar, "why does the Telegram publish the ad
vertisements of the packers' trust? We see no
way to get around it. Perhaps we might refuse
to accept such advertisements, and then we might
be up against a mandamus suit. Such suits are
very expensive to a country newspaper."
O, compose yourself, Edgar. There is no
danger whatever that any profiteering propa
ganda can be forced into the columns of your
paper by a court writ of mandamus. You can
refuse to print the advertisement if you want to,
and you can refuse to take money for it, even if
you print it
Another squeamish country newspaper, the
Bloomington Advocate, takes the edge off its of
fense by announcing its dissent to the argument
presented by the packers with the further ex
planation: "We are running it the same as any
other ad and with the proceeds we will buy war
savings stamps and .thus, help the government."
It is certainly laudable for anyone to help the
government by making such a good buy as in
vesting in war savings stamps or Liberty bonds,
which surely will hurt the packers terribly, where
as turning their money to the Red Cross, or
Knights of Columbus, or Young Men's Christian
association, which would not produce cash re
turns might not make them feel so badly.
Really, those naughty packers ought not to put
the country editors in such a tantalizing predica
ment.
All of the German slush fund for American
newspapers was not kept in New York. The
kaiser-coddling chorus, excusing submarine ruth
lessness, palliating murder and rapine, advocating
the embargo on munitions championed by Senator
Hitchcock in congress, was heard in many place!
throughout the land. No, all the money was not
kept in New York.
Thomas M. Balliet, Dean of Pedagogy N
A serious outcome of war conditions
which appears not to have received the pub
lic attention it deserves is the threatened
lowring of the standard of efficiency in
teaching and general education which have
been built up through long years of effort
on the part of educators throughout the
land.
The enrollment of students in the three
teacher training schools of New York City
is reported to be just half what it was prior
to the outbreak of the war, and even worse
conditions exist in other cities and states.
Reports are coming in from numerous states
that many of their schools, particularly those
n smaller communities, have been forced to
close for lack of teachers. United States
Commissioner of Education P. P. Claxton
is sending out appeals from Washington to
former teachers to get back into harness for
the duration of the war.
Thousands of trained teachers are leaving
their posts for war service and for employ
ment in industries paying much higher sal
aries than they have received for educational
work.
The problems presented to Boards of Edu
cation must be met promptly and vigorously.
Standards of efficiency in education are be
ing lowered just at a time when it is more
mnortant than ever not only that thev
should not be lowered, but that they should
be raised, because, as Commissioner Claxton
points out, conditions that will follow the
war will demand a higher standard of gen
eral intelligence, industrial efficiency and
civic equipment than we have yet attained,
and this can only be had through education.
One might well say that the safety of the
nation and the welfare of the people are in
volved in the crisis threatened by great and
growing lack of teachers.
I he problem should be solved wherever
possible by the simple process of raising
teachers salaries to meet the larger pay of
fered in commercial, industrial and clerical
occupations. I he increase should be in pro
portion to the increased cost of living and
the better wages paid for other kinds of
work; and in many cities material increases
have been made.
The justice of this demand can readily
be seen when it is remembered that the 740,-
000 tarhers of our 24,000,000 boys and girls
throughout the land, including rural schools.
north and south, receive an average annual
salary considerably less than $600. The pro
portion of teachers whose salaries are below
the average is indicated by the fact that in
towns of 5,000 and over, where the higher
salaries are paid, the total school population
is 35 per cent, the teaching force 33 per
cent, and the amount paid in salaries 51 per
cent, leaving 49 per cent of the amount of
salaries for the remaining 69 per cent of
teachers who instruct 65 per cent of the
boys and girls attending school in the smaller
towns and rural communities. This sug
gests increased state appropriations to rural
schools.
Where salaries cannot be sufficiently in
creased to hold teachers a temporary solu
tion may be worked out in New York and
other states having similar school laws by
shortening the training period for teachers,
ew York University, in New York Times.
which ordinarily is two years after gradua
tion from high school. Instead of holding
hard and fast to the two-year requirement,
state Boards of Education could provide for
an increase in their teaching forces by short
ening this period to a six months' course of
intensive training, and by requiring a rigid
examination in academic branches to insure
scholarship and native ability.
Temporary or provisioral teachers' cer
tificates could be given to high school gradu
ates who complete such a course, with the
ruling that those holding such temporary li
censes must complete the full training course
after the war, if '.hey wished to continue
teaching. In the present emergency it is
better to have teachers well equipped in gen
eral education and intensively trained in the
most essential qualifications of pedagogy
than to suffer a shortage of teachers and
either overcrowd some schools or temporar
ily close them.
Special courses for the intensive training
of teachers could be organized quickly in all
the normal and other teacher training
schools. I can say emphatically that New
York University stands ready to co-operate
with state Boards of Education to the utmost
degree along this line. The university is do
ing somewhat similar work to this the year
round in its extramural division, in which are
enrolled 2,000 students, fully 80 per cent of
whom are teachers taking special courses to
fit them for more responsible posts in the
schools.
In our summer school the same work is
being done, about 75 per cent of the 1,000
students enrolled being teachers taking spe
cial courses.
In standing ready to train teachers for
the emergency, many educational institutions
are operating at serious financial loss, as the
war has touched them just as severely as
all other departments of our national life, yet
not one school of which I know has contem
plated any curtailment of its efforts because
of financial problems.
There must not be a devitalizing of the
nation's educational forces, and teachers who
are not actually compelled by circumstances
over which they have no control to leave
their posts for higher pay in other work are
certainly, it seems to me, not acting patriot
ically by going into outside employment for
temporarily higher pay. If teachers would
stop to consider the conditions after the war,
their self-interest in most cases would clearly
show them that it is to their advantage in
the long run to continue teaching.'' Teachers'
salaries will not go down after the war,
while these temporary positions will either
be abolished, or, if continued for some years,
will command decidedly lower salaries. Re
turning soldiers will have preference in fill
ing such positions.
Teachers must also think of the education
al pension requirements of many states, in
which an essential to eligibility for pensions
is continuous service. Those who control our
educational systems have a duty in the emer
gency which cannot be escaped. No greater
calamity could befall the American people
than to come out of the war deficient in the
mental preparation which is essential to their
future development.
Our National Bonfire
Excessive Fire Waste In June and the Half Year
New York Journal of Commerce.
The losses by fire in the United States and
Canada during the month of June, as com
piled from the records of the Journal of
Commerce, aggregated $24,890,600, in com
parison .with $15,513,270 in June last year
an. $12,247,500 in June, 1916. The losses for
the first half of this year reach the total of
$144,022,635. This compares with $142,621,
725 for the first six months of last year and
$125,776,420 for the same months in 1916.
The month of June this year made a seri
cus addition to the year's total fire waste, as
may be seen from the following comparative
table giving the losses by months for the
first half of this and the two preceding years
and monthly losses for the balance of 1917
and 1916:
191. 1917. 1918.
181,423,350 136,437,770 $37. 575,100
24,770,770 29,587,660 20,688,155
January
Feb
March ,
April ..
May ..
June . .
38,080,250
12,681,050
15,973,500
12,247,500
17,523,000
18,597,225
24,968,800
15,613,270
20,218,980
20,108,900
20,545,900
24,890,000
Total.. . $125. 776,420$142.621, 7251 44,022,633
During June this year there were recorded
some 240 fires, each of which resulted in an
estimated property damage of $10,000. or over.
This compares with 248 fires of $10,000 or
over in May, 201 in April and 266 in March,
and a total of 1.736 such fires during the
first six months of the year. The June fires,
when classified according to destmctiveness.
and foodstuffs warehouses are included in
the June record.
The fires of considerable magnitude dur
ing the month under review, as recorded
above, number 23 where the loss was esti
mated to reach or exceed $200,000. Of these
the following are worthy of special mention:
Location Description Amount.
St. Louis, Mo., government ware
house $3,000,000
Noxen, Pa., tanning plant 2,250,000
Chicago, 111., Union Stock Yards.. 1,000,000
Caribou, Me., 10 stores and dwell
ings 400,000
Indianapolis, Ind., grain elevator.. 400,000
St. Louis, Mo., railway barns 200,000
Emporium, Pa., tannery 500,000
Pembroke, Ont., business portion.. 1,000,000
Richmond, Va., bakery and whole
sale store k 300,000
Boyne City, Mich., mill and stores. . 300,000
People and Events
Bootleggers may command the spirits to
do their will, but at the same time the gh st
v.-alks to the piui,. treas.i'y. Power misap
plied usually works that way.
The New York World heads a movement
for a municipal memorial as a fitting tribute
to the life and death of Mayor John Purray
Mitchel, former mayor and aviator. The
Times applauds the action. Both papers
start the fund with $1,000 each.
The official count of the Billy Sunday
ballots at Chicago shows a total of 16,401
20,000 to
JO.000 to
50,000 to
75,000 to
100,000 to
30.000..
50,000..
75.000..
100,000. ,
200,000. .
200,000 and ox-er.
show the following comparison
Estimated loss No. of fires. ! bona fide conversions and 14,344 reconsecra-
$10,000 to $20,000 76 tions or persons aireaay in tne ioia. rorty
43ioreed preterences were taDuiatea, giving yne
Presbyterians the highest score and classing
1,342 as "miscellaneous."
A joyriding auto thief in Minneapolis
kept the swiped car going around town for
three months, eluding police and owner with
apparent ease. The joke was too good to
keep. At last the joyrider generously sent
the owner a fat bill for repairs. A fine sam
ple of the pleasure of "passing the buck."
Architects of feminine headwear are
clearly outclassed by the artists fashioning
war bonnets for fighting men. The steel
cady holds first place in active service at the
front. Behind the line a riot of fetching
style prevails, ranging from the American
soft hat to cocky caps of varied shapes,
which are esteemed "picturesque and per
fectly lovely." Milliners who translate these
war bonnets nail down a fortune.
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21
2"
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Total 240
The material increase in the June losses
as shown in the above figures is rather disap
pointing to fire underwriters, and the fre
quency with which large plants engaged di-rectly-or
indirectly in war work appear in
the loss record is taken to indicate that the
campaign of fire protection is not always
maintained at the highest standard in some
localities. Heavy tannery losses are rather
frequent and, despite the government vigi
lance and the efforts of the national board,
it will be noted that several grain elevators
One Year Ago Today In the- War.
' The Russians lost Kalusz to tha
German. ,
Many killed and Injured in atreet
fighting following an uprising by regi
ments of the Petrograd garrison.
The Day We Celebrate,
Dr. Lee B. Van Camp, practicing
physician, born 1875.
Bishop Joseph 8. Key of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, South, born
at La Orange, Ga., 89 years ago.
Rose Pastor Stokes, under convlc
tlon for violation of the Espionage act
born in Russia, $9 years ago.
Baron Graham, prominent Montreal
newspaper publisher ana war worker,
born in Huntington, Quebec, TO years
ago.
Prince Victor Napoleon, Bonapart
1st pretended to the throne of France,
born 51 years ago.
Today In History.
1864 federal raiding force in
Mississippi destroyed a large section
of the Atlanta & Montgomery rail
1$ JO Austria, announced her neu
trality In the war between France and
1893 Kansas military companies
disbanded by the state authorities' as
result of political dissensions.
1915 Berlin reported Russian front
pierced north or Warsaw.
- 191 Russians pushed j back von
LInBingeas army in voinynis
Just 80 Years Ago Today
General Manager Holdrege of the
Burlington railroad, has gone to Chi
cago to consult with the "Q" officials
on the strike matter.
The soliciting committee for the
Toung Men's Christian association
building have had over $15,000
"1 j r i
MS
pledged to the building fund during
the past 45 days. About $10,000 is
yet needed to complete the building.
The Omaha guards are considering
a proposition to go to Spirit Lake and
go into camp for a week.
The Immanuel Baptist church has
been Incorporated. The trustees are
G. W. Mansfield, J. H. Johnson, w. N.
Gates and the clerk, C. M. Crissey.
Mr. and Mrs. P. Besen and family
left for Salt Lake, where they will
visit two weeks.
A pleasant reception took place at
1224 South Twenty-ninth street to
witness the marriage of Mr. William
Beaver of San Francisco to Miss
Blanche Payfr "
Over There and Here
Before the war Germans ownd
and operated most of the metal mines
of Australia and waxed rich there
from. Never again. The Australian
government has taken over all mines
and Intends to hold on for all time.
One more blister on the Hohenzol
lern hide.
A St Louis soldier in France, in a
fetter to the home folks, tells of
meeting a French mother who has lost
'seven sons and 23 nephews since the
war began. She is old and decrepit
and has to get out and make a living
as best she can." A simple statement,
typical of thousands, reflecting the
magnitude of the sacrifices ot France.
George Bell, a Georgia negro in
training at Camp Clayton, features a
tall army problem. George measures
7 feet 11 inches in his socks and
weighs 51 pounds. If he is sent to
the front special trenches will hav
to be built to "save his block" and
dugout roofs raised. All this can be
avoided by making George a mobile
signal station.
Home folks with boys at the Great
Lakes training station may be par
doned for feeline a bit alarmed lest
the chow wagon overload the kids.
The daily menu is more than a flller.
On holidays it's a corker. The Fourth
of July dinner consisted if roast
chicken, ,Travy, potatoes, bread and
jam, cocoa and salad, watermelon,
mince pie, apricots and brlik ice
cream. "Gee, matey, that was some
eais."
Right to the Poin'
Minneapolis Tribune: President
Wilson declares that it even pays to
advertise a war next to pure reading
matter, particularly when the adver
tising is gratis to Undo Sam.
Minneapolis Tribune: There is a
painful suspicion on the part of the
kaiser that perhaps the late sultan of
Turkey did the logical thins in dying
just before the Fourth of July. .
New York World: History records
"great refusals" of preferred honors
by individuals. Perhaps General
Crowder's declination of a lieutenant
generalcy may not rank among these,
but at least it is a signal example of
military modesty and establishes an
Interesting precedent in the American
army.
RrAftlrlvn TCjicIa? Pnunf vrtfl Mtr-
bach, German ambassador at Moscow,
takes tne assassination route, xne
bolsheviki government blossoms true
to form and must yield the seed of
chaos. That seed will Mow over Into
Germany, where the soil of socialism
is certain to welcome this new weed.
The farther the Germans go into Rus
sia the more burrs will stick to them.
New Tork Herald: It took a treaty
backed by force of arms to stipulate
that in Poland "in any locality where
there are ten German children a Ger
man school shall be opened." That
stipulation was not in any of Ger
many's treaties with the United States,
but the desired end seems to have
been aecomplishd by the "peaceful
penetration" policy of the German
American alliance under the direction
of Berlin
Twice Told Tales
The Usual Lineup.
Thy were having a lesson in his
tory at a public school. The teacher
was examining the pupils on the sub
ject of British sovereigns.
"Who came after Henry the
Uighth?" asked the teacher.
"Edward the Sixth," answered pupil.
"Right And who succeeded Ed
ward the Sixth?"
"Mary," answered the second little
bright-eyes.
"Correct; and who came after
Mary?"
There was a pu?zled pause. Then
a pupil who had heretofore not con
tributed much to the progress of
learning had an inspiration. He
lalsed his hand and, being called on,
unswered triumphantly:
"The little lamb!" The People's
Home Journal.
Xenons But Brave.
"Nervousness isn't funk. Guynemer,
the French ace, and Bell, the English
one, were both nervous chaps," said
Quentin Roosevelt at his American
fiying school in France.
"No. nervousness isn't fuuk. I heard
of a doughboy who hook with ner
vousness as he stood i.i his trench and
waited for the whistle that was to
start him out across No Man's Land
on his first raid.
"'What's the matter. Smithson?'
said the sereeant, sternlv. 'Are you
tremblln" for that dirty hide of yours?"
"Smithson grinned.
" 'No. sergeant,' ho said. 'I'm trem
blln' for the boches. They don't know
Smithson'a here.' "Washlngtoa Star.
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More Prayer Need of Our Nation.
Red Oak. Ia., July 14. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: July 10 as I took up
The Hee and turned to the "Letter
Box" I became thoroughly disgusted
and grieved when I ran across the
piece "Better Than Prayer." To think
any one in this day of grief and
trouble would try to tell the public we
don't need prayer when if ever we
needed prayer and God it is now. It
doesn't seem like any one could dare
to publish anything as this person has.
We need prayer and more earnest
prayer than ever in past. Of course
we must fight if we should win, but
who will help when all is done that
human can, and we can do no more?
We will wish to look a little higher.
"Save food!" You hear that all the
while; and "Food will win the war."
That's all right so far as It goes, but
where do we get our food? We must
plant and till the ground; that's our
part. But what about the weather?
Can we make it rain or have the
weather just as hot as we need? Oh,
no, that is God's part. We have done
ours and are at a standstill if God
doesn't step in and do His. Shall we
not ask of the One from whence these
things come? Sure. And through
prayer we make our wants known to
Him. So we need prayer.
God says "Ask and ye shall receive."
He didn't say when, but He said ye
shall receive, and in His own good
time He will answer our prayers, and
is doing it as we obey orders. "My
ways are not your ways," saith God;
"neither are your ways mine." So,
after all is said and done, we must de
pend on Him who is over all. We find
in the Bible wars it was the sins of
the rulers and people which brought
on war, a great forgetting of God; and
they would lose in the war, no matter
how large an army or whatever, until
they turned back to God and did His
will. I read it all the way through.
Same to all nations. Now we must be
humble before God if we would win.
When we look around and see the
great mass of people and the churches,
some nearly empty, and the open
pleasure houses on God's day, and
the pomp and finery people are wor
shiping, is it any wonder we are at
war? Oh for a great turning to God
and the victory will be ours. You
may say this is a preacher's talk. I
am a common layman. Now, with all
the good works we are doing to help
the war, let more prayer be mixed in
and after. Food alone won't win;
prayer alone won't win; soldiers alone
won't win. We need all. Let us get
on our knees before God more often
and let the bell ring for prayer, as
some have to have a reminder. So
let it ring; freedom will sound when
we take God as our captain and obey
Him, and, praise God, we will win,
and not until then. Many of our boys
are writing home for prayer. Why
not do that for them. It doesn't cost
you any money, nor does prayer from
a hard heart do any good, but from
the pure, earnest heart God will hear.
Hia word says pray always.. So let
us pray, save, fight and obey, and the
victory is ours.
ONE WHO BELIEVES IN PRAYER.
SAID IN FUN.
Odd Bits oj Life
A new excuse for watering milk hai
Just been given by a British farmen
He asserted that without his knowh
edge his son had filled wiyi water I
bucket which his cow had kicked
over. A fine of $200 immediately wa
rforthcoming.
Houses are so scarce in Bath, Me.,
that Fred Knightly of Waterford, whU
is employed in Bath shipyards, de
cided to move his house from Water
ford to Bath. It was taken down in
sections and shipped to Bath, when
it Is being reconstructed.
Blind soldiers in England are being
taught to dance and after a few les
sons are able to whirl about the danc
floor as if they had net lost theil
sight. Recently in Fleetwood 40 blind
soldiers went through the latest
dances with the nurses at the hospital
there.
To prove statements niade in recent
articles vrltten by him that reptiles
are good for food. Prof. A. M. ReesS
of West Virginia university, gave an
alligator dinner to 24 of his friends.
The dish received the warm indorse
ment of his guests, among whom were
professors of the university.
Practically nothing but brick is
used in building houses in the Am
sterdam district, except the wood for
beams, rafters, etc. For outside walls
and foundations a hard brick is used,
and a soft brick for inner walls. Al
most never is stone used except for
window sills, door sills and the like.
No wooden houses are built
"That old millionaire makei blf children
toe tha mark."
"You bet."
"Must have a strong will."
"They think it Is, anyhow. The law
yer who drew It up says nobody wfa breatt
it." Louisville) Courier-Journal.
Doctor (to lira. Perkins, whose husband
Is 111) Has he had any lucid Intervals?
.Mrs. Perkins (with dignity) 'K's 'ad
nothing except what you ordered, doc
tor. Pearson's Weekly.
Bo Jones' riches took to themselves
wings."
"Yes; he backed two or three unlucky
theatrical enterprises."
"Oh, I see. They were theater wings."
Baltimore American.
"Life without you would be a hollow
mockery."
"Pooh, pooh! I've heard that before."
"But you've never heard me say It be
fore." "No. That's because I'm above eaves
dropping." Birmingham Age-Herald.
"That little brother of yours ta a case.
He told me Just now that be should ex
pect a quarter if I kissed you."
"Mercy! You didn't give him anything,
did you?"
"I gave him a dollar In advance. Boston
Transcript.
"When I csme to this town, everything
t had was tied up In a red bandanna," said
the old citizen.
"And now?" asked his Interviewer.
"And now, everything I've got In the
vorld Is tied down with mortgages." Bos
ton Transcript.
"Hurrah," cried the young doctor. "I
have my first patient, a case of mumps."
"Good."
"I hope I distinguish myself."
"Well, said his wife, "you have, as they
say In the vernacular, a swell chance."
Kansas City Star.
"Dd you hear about the delicate hint Mr.
Irtaylate got last night?"
"No; what was it?"
"Well, Edith found that looking at the
elock and other familiar devices were of
no avail, so she ordered some refreshments
and her mother sent in a dish of breakfast
food." Boston Transcript.
"What do you think about the doctor
who says babies ought not to be allowed
to ride Id go-cart and perambulators?"
"I rather think the babies will be up In
arms about It." Baltimore American.
Patience Why was Peggy'a house so bril
liantly lighted last night?
Patrice Oh, It was her birthday, you
know, and I guess she had all the candles
In the cake lighted. Yonkers Statesman.
"A DREAM OVER THERE."
Over there a boy Is dreaming,
Dreaming of his home once more.
He can sen his aged mother,
Ana nis sweetneart at me aoor. e
Over there, a heart is yearning,
Yearning for a loving hand,
Just to welcome him In slumbers,
Dreaming 'midst his valiant band.
'Mid the stream and hall of bullets,
'Mid the rain of shot and shell,
Far away his thoughts are wand'rlng
Far away from living hells.
How he's happy, happy dreaming.
That he's back back home once more,
With his sweetheart Nellie waving,
Waving to him from the door.
He can see an Ivy cottage,
Sitting in a little dell,
A cozy path winds way up yonder.
By his side Is little Nell.
There's a smile, a happy smile.
Lighting up his pallid face.
When a shell ahet by the enemy.
For an Instant lit up the place.
Morning came from the East,
When a band of comrades found him,
Gently back to camp they bore him,
'Mid the gloom and circling din.
Boftly. softly they spoke In whispers.
Lest they should disturb him more.
Dreaming, dreaming, forever of Nellie,
Waiting for him at the door.
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