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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 10, 1918. The Omaha Bee AILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY 1 FOUNDED BY EDWAKD BOSK WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY PBOPBIETOR j MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Till Aiaoculed t'reni, ol which Ths Be u member, it exclmltslj snUUeo U U) um (or publication of ill news dupttchw credited to It or not otiwwiia credited In this ptiwr. and alto th local newt published herein. All rlfhu of publication of our special dlapatthet are tlao reserved. '.' OFFICES! Clilcwo People's Oat lliuldlna. Omalit Tht Bee Bldg. New Tork-2S Fifth Ate. South Omaha J318 N 8t. St. Loult New h i of Commero. Couucil Blufft U N. Main ot. Wathinton 1311 0 St. Lincoln Llttls Bulldini. OCTOBER CIRCULATION Daily 68,570 Sunday 60,405 Ararat circulation for tlie month subscribed and sworn to bj K. R. Ea8n, Circulation Manager. Subscribers leaving th city should hsve Th Bee mailed to them. Address changed as Often as requested. 'THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG iiiailliiiiiiillii Th Hun had his spree; now he must pay the score. The war program is not adjourned yet, so keep your spine stiff. t ;' Portents and omens suggest that the super man stuff "was pulled too soon. Afte,r four years and four months of fighting, 24 hours more or less will not make much difference. Chihuahua is opening the overture to what may prove a little job for our army on its return from Europe. ; The Omaha Hyphenated reluctantly admits that the republicans .will control the senate, which removes the last lingering doubt. ; I Now that truces 'and armistices are the order of the day everywhere, maybe the dove of pease ' may be induced to al?ght on the city hall. Senator Martin of Virginia has given his democratic brethren something to think about. Maybe the- Weeks resolution will now go through. "Vic" Berger is spouting brotherhood to the capacity of his lungs, but 'he will have todo more than that to convince the next house of his loyalty. ' Women did quite as well in the way of get ting office in Nebraska without the vote as in some, of the western states, where they have . full suffrage. ;The backwash of war in Austria is nearly as troublesome as an enemy invasion. Desert ing soldiers are more dangerous than a dis ciplined body. It will be rather interesting to the public if some, ; thirty-odd billions of that $57,000,000,000 program is cohered back into the treasury as unexpended balance. ..' .. "" And Foch "made the terms in a loud voice, dwelling upon each word," so the Heinies that heard might understand. The echo came back from as far away as Bavaria. Another 0,000,000 bushels has been added to the country's corn crop by the government reporters. If they keep on the total will event ' ually reach the normal figure. 'Among indictments returned against Hun leaden in "Whas Who in Crime" is one accus ing Eitel Frederick of being a confirmed thief. And they have him'with the goods on. END OF THE KAISER'S DREAMS. Reports, seemingly authentic, have it that Kaiser Wilhelm has abdicated as emperor of Germany. It is quite possible that he has taken this course to escape the additional humiliation of acceptance of terms formulated by his con querors. It will be accepted only as a final act of cowardice, an attempt to evade justice by the man who' in 1914, "drunk with sight of power," liberated on the world such a deluge of horror as never was imagined, let alone experi enced. It is a different Wilhelm who sits today, amid the dust of his dreams, to consider the choice between making the surrender h de manded of other nations or further opposing the force that is crushing his machine. He sees the ruin of three empires, drawn into the con flict by his act, and must note the ominous cracking of the bonds of blood and iron that have held his own together. His warlords still gather round him, but their voices no longer ring with the savage exultation over easy con quest and anticipated loot. Germany's war machine is not yet com pletely wrecked, but is capable of long and stub born resistance. This is why the terms offered by Foch are intended to end the war by such surrender as will render the Hun incapable of renewing the fight. Only with a disarmed and impotent Germany may peace be made. The world will know tomorrow whether these terms are accepted, or if the fight is to go on. For either event we must be prepared. Re fusal to surrender now may postpone the end for a tirhe, but the victory is at hand, the righteous triumph of liberty over tyranny. And decency may rejoice that so ignoble and" un chivalrous a foe has been put down, even at so great a cost. War Community Service Drive. Beginning with tomorrow, volunteer workers will undertake the" collection of Omaha's share of the fund that is to be raised by subscription for the war community service. Seven great organizations are united in this effort, the pro ceeds of which will be apportioned between them. Volumes have been written of the work that is being, done among the soldiers at home and abroad through these agencies, and all of it true. It does not matter if peace is declared at once, this work must go on until the work of the soldiers has been made complete. How long this will be no one tin say, but the need for the huts, the reading and writing rooms, the amuse ments, and the home surroundings will not be any the less because the boys are not on the firing line. In fact, these needs will be the greater, for the soldiers will have more idle time, and it is in their moments of idleness that the war camp' community service is most valu able. Therefore, it is up to the home folks to see that nothing is omitted that will help the lads who wear the uniform, wherever they are. Omaha has met every response, and should meet this one, generously. The light of real democracy seems to be breaking through in old Missouri, a negro hav ing been elected to the legislature down there. John J. ;Ingalls' "catfish aristocracy" must be dying out. . I. Closer counting makes it appear that the Douglas county delegation to the state senate will consist of five republicans. That is much more satisfactory, even if it does deprive the state of the services of two eminent democratic dispensers of legislation. Turning the sword into a plowshare and the spear into a pruning hook might be readily enough accomplished, but it is going to give the rolling mill hands steady work for quite a while to convert the Krupp and Skoda guns into structural steel and railroad rails. However, it can be done. Neutral nations about to recoup themselves for shipping losses by taking over German ves sels have just had a sharp notice from Johnny Bull that he has a prior claim on all such junk and proposes to exercise it. Settling with the kaiser is going to involve more than just pre senting a bill for damages. Where the Comedy Comes In In the face of the amazing world throes as thrones collapse Germany is still playing the fart of the court fool to the nations at large, or while the general staff has ceased to fur nish' its usual lying paragraphs for the joke col umns as to the high value of "their- strategic retirement,' Vorwaerts, the socialist organ, rubs the salt of grim wit into the wounds of the junkers and pan-Germans by crying out that in the face of the Austrian" debacle the famous "Berlin-to-Bagdad" line becomes a mere local "Berlin-to-'Bodenbach line,' reaching only to the borders of free Bohemia! How indeed have the plans of mice and men and emperors gone aglee 1 But the real humor, the real comedy, true to the Potsdam style, is .the announcement that our old college chum, Count von Bernstorff, has been "summoned" from Constantinople to advise the German gov ernment on "American" affairs. To begin with, Von Bernstorff is flying from Constantinople for his life, while if ever there was an ambassa dor who knew less aboilt the country to which he was accredited it was Von Bernstorff, with honorable mention of his haughty assistants Von Papen and Boy-Ed and the egregious Dr. Dernburg, a precious quartet indeed. Of course, Von Bernstorff .did know one man Bryan and ' aixe'd him up correctly, but the American people ; were to him a closed book. So as an adviser to the falling house of his kaiser he will but add mepitude to the folly of the Potsdam gang, now t its wits end as to whera to turn. Philadel phia Lcdgto . . Future of American Education. Among the bills slumbering on the files at Washington is one by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, appropriating $100,000,000 to foster free education in America through the bureau at Washington. Senator Smith made a consider able showing in support of his measure last spring by parading figures on illiteracy. These are impressive, but not sufficiently so as to en tirely cover all that is contemplated in his bill. First the poin.t as to standardization of our school systems should be disposed of. Within certain moderate limits, unification of study is desirable, but no hard or fast rules for cur riculum or method should be established. Indi vidual tastes in this matter differ as widely as on religion or politics, and should be left as free, with the understanding that some sort of cultural training must be provided for all, at the expense of the state or community. Equally as important is the tendency to cen tralization of power at Washington. The meas ure contemplates the placing of all educational institutions under the direction of the federal commissioner. This is exactly the German sys tem. While results such as flow in the kaiser's empire might not follow here, the wisdom of the experiment is open to question. We do not want such results Just now we view more power in Washington that ever before was gathered there, and even its temporary con solidation in the hands of one man has caused sober thought. It certainly is not desirable 'to perpetuate the condition. Americans will remain devoted to the spread of education and enlightenment, to the diffusion of knoweldge among all the people, for of such is the Temple of Liberty built, but they will probably insist upon a more democratic system than that possible under the Smith bill. NBoth Indemnity and Annexation. While the British government maintains a discreet and exemplary silence on the point of annexation, it does not conceal its purpose to require full indemnity from the Germans for all damage done "by land or by sea, or from air." The other point is freely debated by news papers and political leaders, and they are quite agreed that Germany's South African colonies will not be returned. A suggestion that these be placed under protectorate of the United States has been made, but is not highly favored on this side. Peace council proceedings on this point will be interesting, but it may be accepted beforehand that Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey will be required to pay to the uttermost farthing for the damage they have wrought, and it is almost equally assured that the immense areas in Africa will not again be turned over to German exploitation. A friend of The Bee's offers this, which has our full endorsement: "If President Wilson's European letters prove as successful in making republics as they did in making republicans in the United States, he will go into history as some letter writer." Nebraska voters appear to have corrected the "mistake" made in the office of the secretary of state, and the constitutional amendment to stop alien voting in the state is save'd. This is a real victory for Americanism. A French steamer entered the port of New York with all lights lit, paint scraped off the deadlights and everything wide open. This sort of thing used to be done right along, and may become the fashion again. I mmmmn ii L J" Right in the Spotlight. Having set tight as an alderman for 10 years and filled the office of sheriff for one term, Sir Horace Brooks Marshall yesterday wejnt through the picturesque ceremony of being installed as lord mayor of London. As lord mayor Sir Horace will have to eat a prodigious num ber of official dinners during the en suing year, spend twice or thrice his salary of $50,000 in entertaining, wear gorgeous robes, ride in a most uncomfortable and wonderful old coach, and go through a lot of fussy ceremonies just as they were car ried out hundreds of years ago. The new lord mayor is 53 years old and a native of London. As head of a large firm of newspaper distribu tors and publishers he has accumu lated an immense fortune, a gener ous portion of which he has devoted to philanthropy and charity. One Year Ago Today in the War. Lenine was made premier by the rebel government in Petrograd. Helsingfors, capital of Finland, re ported occupied by the Germans. In Flanders the British drove back the Germans over a wide front. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. Charles M. Bachmann, connected with the firm of Drexel & Maul, was wedded to Miss Georgiana Bean, a well known young lady of this city. W. F. Fitch, late manager of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Vafl- ley railroad, was banquetted by his associates of that road. After the banquet Mr. Fitch was presented with a beautiful glass set valued at $100. The Happy Hours club has been reorganized for the coming season with a membership of 45. The of ficers of the club are M. J. Scanlon, president; John M. Mullen, vice president; George J. Paul, secretary and treasurer. Mrs. E. S. Rood has returned from Minneapolis. Mrs. Charles Hamilton gave a luncheon to her" friends. Mrs. J. E. Boyd, Mrs. Bierbower and Miss Boyd have returned from Chicago. The Day We Celebrate. - George A. Day, judge of the dis trict court, born 1859. Martin L. Kimmel, attorney with the Commercial Adjustment com pany, born 1884. Henri Rabaud, the celebrated. French composer, who has become conductor for the Boston Syoiphony orchestra, born in Paris 45 years ago. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former United States minister to The Neth erlands, now a chaplain in the navy, born at Germantown, Pa., 66 years Vice Admiral William Lowther Grant, who has been serving as liaison officer of the British embas sy in Washington, born 54 years ago. Winston Churchill, one of the most successful of present-day American novelists, born in St. Louis 47 years ago. Rt. Rev. Richard H. Nelson, Epis copal bishop of Arbany, N. Y., born in New York City 59 years ago. This Day in History. 1807 John Todd Stuart, first law partner of Abraham Lincoln, born at Lexington, Ky. Died at Spring field, 111., Nov. 28, 1885. , 9 1859 Peace of Zurich, ending the war between France and Sardinia on the one hand and Austria on the other. 1890 British cruiser Serpent foundered off northwest coast of Spain, with loss of nearly all on board. 1914 General Beyers' rebel force defeated by Union of South Africa troops. 1915 Report of the sinking of the Italian steamer Ancona by Austrian submarine. 1916 Serbian army recaptured the last height commanding the road to Monastir. Timely Jottings ahd Remarks. 1,563rd day of the great war. Today is fixed as the date for the consecration in St. Louis of the Rt. Rev. C. E. Byrne, the new bishop of the Catholic diocese of Galveston. Tex. The battalion band of the Great Lakes naval station of Chicago, con sisting of 300 musicians, led by Lt. John Philip Sousa, is to appear in Toronto today to aid in the Victory loan campaign in that city. in t Storyette of the Day. A schoolmaster received the fol lowing note one morning from a pupil: "Dear Sir: Please eskcoose little Tommy for his absens yestiday, as he waz kwite il, and the doctor tolled me to kepe him in bed. So I let him stay home. Yours resptively, "MISSES SMITH." The master was a trifle suspicious. 'Tommy," said he, sternly, "who wrote that note?" "Wy er mother did, , if you please, sir." "Well, I must say that some of that spelling is remarkably like the spelling you generally give me." But Tommy was equal to the oc casion. "Yes, sir," said he cheerily. "Everyone says that, as far as spell ing is concerned, I'm the image of my mother." Pittsburgh Cnron icle-Telegraph. Linguistic Impotence. William Howard Taft said in an address at Waterbujy: "Before the hideousness of the Hun language falls us. "Yes, the man who would try to pajnt the Hun finds himself as im potent as the clergyman golfer whose caddie joggled his arm dur ing an important put. "This clergyman, red with rage, looked at his caddie a long while; Jien he stammered: " 'You you you naughty cad lie' "Detroit F- Hgf Historic Versailles Scene of. Hohenzollern Rise and Fall Brooklyn Eagle. , Versailles, where Louis XIV carried absolu tism to its highest .point, where bolshevikism first snarled at autocracy in 1789, where William the First was proclaimed German emperor in 1871, when the doom of the Hohenzollerns is being pronounced today. What a theme for poet and historian I Versailles! No American who visits Paris fails to visit Versailles. It is the incarnation of the glory that was France's in the days of Le Roi Soleil, of Marie Antoinette, of Louis XVI. Its gar dens are as beautiful in a formal way as any in the world, its enormous palace is unrivaled in massive splendor. And today the world's leaders are meeting there to pronounce sentence against the central empires at the close of the world's greatest war. It was at Versailles that the armistice of 1783 which preceded the peace' treaty between Eng land and the United States was framed. It is at Versailles that the United States and Eng land, as brothers in arms and in purpose, are preparing the foundations of a new world iade "safe for democracy" at last. No city has witnessed so much splendor, none has incarnated in like degree the glories of a royal dynasty, the pomp and circumstance with which autocracy enforces reverence from a deluded people. And by one of those master strokes of irony in which Destiny delights, this same Versailles, whose glittering glory intoxi cated the autocrats of France, whose Hall of Mirrors launched Hohenzollernism into a grum bling world, is the same Versailles which cra dled French republicanism and where there is now building the new order which will rid the world of autocratic rule. Libraries are filled with books detailing the events which have occurred at Versailles. The famous Court Memoirs of the seventh and eigh teenth centuries deal largely with the intrigues and scandals, the plots and camarillas, the fads and festivals which spiced the lives of those residipg within the precincts of the Versailles palaces. Some of the best pages of Carlyle's "French Revolution" deal wjjh the memorable events that occurred in and without the palace during the memorable October days of 1789. Here are a few paragraphs from his description of these memorable days: "Yes, friends, a hideous, fearful hour, shame ful alike to governed and governor, wherein governed and governor ignominiously testify that their relation is at an end. Rage, rage, which had brewed itself in 20,000 hearts for the last four and twenty hours, has taken fire; Jer ome's brained corpse lies there as live coal. It is, as we said, the infinite elements bursting in, wild-surging through all corridors and con duits. "But glance now for a moment from the royal windows 1 A roaring sea of human heads, inundating both courts, billowing against all passages; Menadic women; infuriated men, mad with revenge, with love of mischief, love of plunderl Rascality has slipped its muzzle, and now bays, three-throated, like the Dog of Ere bus. "Now too, is witnessed the touching last flicker of etiquet, which sinks not here, in the Cimmerian world-wreckage, without a sign, as the house cricket might still chirp in the peal ing of a Trump of Doom. 'Monsieur,' said some master of ceremonies, (one hopes it might be De Breze), as Lafayette, in theee fearful mo ments, was rushing toward the inner royal apartments, 'Monseieur, le Roi vous accorde les grandes entrees Monsieur, the king grants you the grand entries' not finding it convenient to jefuse them!" .t Scenes akin to these have already been wit nessed at the Winter palace in Petrograd and may soon recur at Schoenbrunn and Potsdam, arising this time from the verdict of a demo cratic body now in session in the Petit Trianon on the Versailles palace grounds. No one who has traveled in Germany has failed to see numerous reproductions of the fa mous historical painting which depicts the cor onation of the first Hohenzollern as German emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Versailles palace. Versailles was the headquarters of the German army during the siege of Paris and provided a well-gilded setting for the coronation ceremony. The great question in connection. wih the event was the exact title which Wil liam the First would assume, whether he would become German emperor, as Bismarck insisted, or emperor of Germany, as he himself desired. A paragraph in Bismarck's Memoirs tells the outcome: "This condition of affairs (William I's in sistence that he must be crowned as emperor of Germany, to-which title all the other German rulers took strong exception) induced me to hunt up the grand duke of Baden on tke morn ing of the coronation ceremony. He was to be the first to speak after the reading of the im perial proclamation, and I desired to ask him how he would address the new emperor. He replied: 'As emperor of Germany, according to the orders of his majesty.' The most ap pealing argument that his concluding cheers for the emperor could not be called for in that fcjrm which I was able to present was that the text of the future constitution was already fixed by a decision of the Reichstag in Berlin. This ap peal to his respect for constitutional form in duced him to hunt up the king once more! What was said between the two gentlemen I did not learn, and I was rather tense with expectation while the proclamation was being read. "The grand duke avoided the issue and did not call for cheers for the German emperor or for the emperor of Germany, but for Emperor William. His majesty was, so much put out over the issue of the controversy that when he stepped down from the raised dias reserved for the rulers he passed the place where I was standing in the cleared space in the foreground, completely ignoring me and shaking hands with the generals who were standing behind me. This attitude he maintained for several days, and it was only gradually that we got back on our ol dterms." It is the grandson of this first Hohenzollern emperor who is now anxiously awaiting sentence at the hands of the world court sitting in this same Versailles. It was, according to the grandiloquent proclamation of 1871, "by the grace of God and the will of his fellow princes" that William I became German emperor. It will be by the grace of God and the will of the princes of democracy that William II must re linquish the autocratic authority his grand father assumed. And historic Versailles will be the source of both events. People and Events Report has it that Prague renamed a street for President Wilson, but Oyster Bay will have to be shown. Several carloads of Hohenzollern trunks are reported having arrived in Switzerland. The forehanded tourist sends his baggage ahead. Washington attempted too much when it presumed to regulate the styles of men's clothes. The election returns gauge the size of the come back: The chemically treated anti-cootie shirt for The trenches was invented by a woman. Still, Where are male grouches who think the war could be won without women. Back in Philadelphia, where the flu raged in virulent form, whisky failed ltterly as a preven tive. A score of saloon men, who had the dope within reach, died of the disease. Local Jere miahs are entitled to another lamentation. Chauncey Depew says that in his 62 years of public life he has met every one that amounted to anything. Twenty years ago Chauncey vis ited the Transmississippi exposition and round ed out his score of worth-while people. That's a corking good war story about the government of Onjsk rescuing $400,000,000 in gold from the loot gathered by the bolsheviks of Russia. The notion of anybody beating Le nine and Trotzky to a bundle of yellow coin is sufficiently incredible to put the rest of the world in the Missouri attitude. Around the Cities - Six wholesalers at St. Louis caught with the goods together paid a tine of $3,800 for profiteering on food stuffs. The Mummers "of Philadelphia have abandoned their annual New Year parade. The money will be devoted to more serious and worthy uses. Sioux City's food regulators have read the riot act to restaurants ac cused of shaving the butter portton served to 'customers. Nothing less than one-half ounce is permissible. An Episcopal church in Philadel phia has installed six young women as ushers in place of men called to the service. The new ushers are clad in cap and gown and look quite nifty parading up and down the aisles. Police commissioners of St. Louis, hitherto posing ns th autocrats of the f(4-ce and the city, have been siven a body blow by the courts. In the case of two captains suspended without charges or trial the court fleclared the commissioners exceeded their authority and cannot arbitrar ily suspend men from the service. The lid is on tight in Kansas City, on account of the flu. No lights downtown, jio theaters open, saloons and cabarets closed. Such was the gloomy situation Tuesday, when election returns showed tho demo crats scooped all the local jobs in sight. All het up for a celebration and no place to go. Truly the Joy killer Is without mercy. Mayor Short of Sioux City com bines the material with the spiritual In practice devoting six days to the job of bossing the town and the sev enth to preaching in the Central In dependent church, of which he la pastor. Last Sunday, preaching on "The Efficacy of Prayer," he gave the material side the best of the ar gument. In the mayor's opinion "few rightly educated persons be lieve that prayer is of any direct avail to stay the course of disease," such as the influenza, "or to stay events that are governed by natural laws." EDITORIAL SHRAPNEL. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: France was never bled white enough ten show the white feather. Glorious France! Washington Post: American emigration to France continues at a high rate, every emigrant carrying a Hun silencer. Detroit Free-Press: The German people seem to be greeting the kaiser and his gang with that famous old German slogan: " 'Raus mit "em." Baltimore American: The ghosts of Bismarck and the old Emperor William must hover appalled over the Versailles conference, where all their work of founding a great em pire is to be undone. Kansas City Star: Well, well! Here Germany has been running around trying to find somebody to surrender to getting as far from home as Washington at one time and there was Marshal Foch just around the corner all the time! New York Herald: Once more kaiserism is endeavoring to impress upon the world the undesirability of an outbreak of bolshevlsm in Ger many. It is only natural that kaiser ism should object to taking its own medicine, but why should it expect the rest of the world to care? Brooklyn Eagle: More common sense in dealing with constructive "desertions" by drafted men has been long desirable, and now is or dered from Washington. A reward of $50 is not too much tor arresting a willful deserter. But all absent men are not willful deserters, and spies are needed only where the pur pose of the man to break the law is reasonably suspected, which is the principle on which the new regula tion is based. ' DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "There are only two classes of people In this country now." "What are they?" "Those that own Liberty bonds and those that don't, and the second class doesn't amount to much." Detroit Free Press. Husband It Is a strange thing;, but true, that the biggest fools hav th mnt beautiful wives. Wife (Dleased) Oh vnu fl.tt.r.r Judge. "My wife Is trying to teach me to knit." "So Is mine, but I have rebelled. There's about as much to be gained by trying to teach the average man to knit as trying to teach the average woman to sharpen lead pencils." Washington Star. Percy Say, major, old man, I want to come round and see you about marrying one of your girls. Major Which one do you want cook or parlor maid? London Opinion. "What are we going to do when we have the girls interested In these feminine political clubs?" "Don't worry. In the nature of things, such clubs are bound to be miss managed." Baltimore American. "She's a splendid dresser, Isn't she?" "Wonderful! Scarcely a day goes by that she doesn't put on at least three uniforms." Life. "Now, do you think you can be satis fied on $10 a week?" "No, sir, I'll Immediately begin trying to make myself worth $15." He got the Job. Louisville Courier-Journal. "I wonder which is the worse method." "What's on your mind now?" "To spend your money faster than you can earn lt, or to hang onto every' cent you make in the hope that you will be able to crowd a lifetime of Joy into the last few weeks allotted you?" Detroit Free Press. She (indignantly) Here's a man says women are inherently dishonest. He (tenderly) Well, aren't they al ways stealing men's peace of mind and robbing them of their hearts? Louisville Courier-Journal. "Is Grlsby unhappily married?" "I'm afraid so." V "But whe he married his wife he called her his 'jewel.' " "So he did, but he discovered later he couldn't afford the kind of setting she de manded." Birmingham Age-Herald. THE RIVER' From a sheltered nook on mountain side, 'Neath a hanging rock, a crystal tide Burst through the moss, and leaping free, Started its Journey down to the sea. At first but a silvery trickling thread. Seeking a path where its fancy led; Others lt met with a fond embrace. And hand In hand continued the race. The soft rustling leaves, the hum of bees; The whisper of winds among the trees; The chirp of cricket and song of bird, And Its own murmur alone were heard. Squirrels hid treasures close to its brink; Sweet woodland songsters lingered to drink; The sunlight peeped through and caught the gleam Of rippling waves on the rushing stream. Past the old mill with moss-covered wall With wooden wheel towering over all, Sparkling and dripping, it moved with a glh' . A V And gave it a turn as lt hurried by. O'er protruding cliff to 4he vale it splashed; Then bounding and dancing onwara It dashed, Bringing good cheer to all who might be Found in tts path on the way to the sea. Steady, majestic and frrand and deep. It flowed with a stately swing and sweep. Through woodland dense and through low land plain; Through rorky gorge and through ftelaa of grain; ..... Through towns and cities, the haunts of - men; , , . . Through barren desert, mountain and glen; Through peaceful farms and through homesteads free, It passed on it. .dl. Oman Out of the Ordinary Sand of different colors can be fed through a new, pencil for children to enable them to draw outline pic tures. The world's richest ruby mine, which is in Burma, is known to have been operated for t least two cen turies. Two Berkshire county (Mass.) boys had a good itay when they brought in a mink and got $25 for the hide. A gray squirrel was seen to cross the Sandy river from Randolph to Farmington, Me., on the high-tension wire of the Central Maine Powe company. When Sanford K. Hatch of Rock land," Me., planted his war garden last spring he threw in a few pump kin seeds for luck. Up to date he has harvested 140 pie pumpkins. A widow with four young children at Rutland, Vt., convicted of selling intoxicating liquor without a license, declared to the judge that she would go on selling liquor unless the city gave her more than $5 a week to help support her family. Now her case is being investigated. To help the Liberty loan cam paign Phil Cooley, president of the Structural Iron Workers' union of New Orleans, had arranged to leap from a window 14 stories high through an open space of 15 feet and then to grasp a rope down which he would go to the pavement, but his wife protested, and the authori ties intervened, and Phil didn't leap. HERE AND THERE. The costliest aoap In the world la that manufactured specially In the Levant for use In the harems of wealthy Mohammedans In the Near East, and In India. Examination of trustworthy rec ords has convinced scientists that there has been no appreciable change in the climate of northern Europe in 1,800 years. Until the sixth century the silk worm was only cutivated In China, where the precious product and the secret of its cultivation were guarded with vigilant jealousy so as to insure China the monopoly of silk manu facture. Clerks in the main office of the Pennsylvania railroad have Just dis covered that when George Potts grove died, 25 years ago, he had $187 due him in wages from the r-oad, and a check has been forward ed to his widow. Taffy, a dog living on a ranch In Oregon, pays no attention to the rings on a seven-party telephone line unless the call is four rings, which means that the ranch is wanted. Then he rushes to hunt up his mis tress and gives four short barks. Walruses are now being killed for their hides in ever-increasing num ber. Walrus leather is the toughest known, next to the elephant and rhlnocerous. Besides being made into heavy boots for trench wear, lt makes the best of polishers for big guns. ODDS AND ENDS. Flying-fish are chiefly found along the trade patch of the North At lantic. The yearly average of sunshine In Spain is nearly three times that of England. More than 22,000 men and women are employed in the pulp and paper industry of Canada. Hartford, Conn., has a new build ing 790 feet high, one of the six tall est buildings in the world. The Danish Aeronautical society Is preparing to start aerial mail services when the war Is over. The roar of a waterfall is pro duced almost entirely by the burst ing of i-.illions of air-bubbles. Ninety-four per cent of the entire population of Alaska is enlisted in tUe membership of the Red Cross. One of the most costly buildings In Benares is a temple for the re ception of monkeys, which animals are held sacred by "the followers of Brahma. N Italians take the lead In the sale of human hair, the main source of their supply being obtained from the peasant women of Italy, Dalmatia and Switzerland. Signposts of Progress According to a British dentist, weight for weight, macaroni is aa valuable a fiesh-bulldlng food aa beef or mutton. ' The latest development of the tele graph Instrument is said to have a capacity of 6,000 words a minute. This is four or five newspaper col umns. For the use of physicians and den tists a tongue depressing instrument has been Invented that switches on an electric light to Illuminate a pa tient's mouth when it is used. Chemists have found that from the waste tomato seeds from Amer ican canneries more than 17 per cent of oil useful In food, paints and soapmaklng can be obtained. Exports of silver broke all records for the month of August, being over $23,000,000, as against $7,500,000 for August, 1917, and $157,600,000 for the eight months, compared with $52,000,000 for the eight months of 1917. Banish Pimples Easily, Quickly Let Stuart's Calcium Wafers Civ You a Complexion to Rival th Kind People Rave Over. 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