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Greed has no class nor limit nor sense.
Douglas county's lawmakers are not idling
away their time, at any rate.
' Woman now asks admission to the peace
table. There is where she shines.
Seattle shipyard workers are about to kilt
tthe goose that laid the golden egg. '
Chicago hotel owners are going to do away
with the "lady bell hops," for the good of the
service.
Maybe when the law allows the policemen
to form a union, the matter will not seem so at
tractive to them.
: .
Paris now reports a wave of crime. Can
this have any connection with the international
gathering of statesmen?
John F. Stevens has been named as head of
the Siberian railroads, but whether this is an
asset or a liability is not stated.
The president may not be responsible for
bolshevism, but he can not get out of the
blame for the secretary of war. s
New Zealand reports 57,932 casualties, with
16,500 killed and only 45 taken prisoners. The
Anzacs are highly respected by the Huns.
' The peace conference at Paris is likely to
have a permanent job. Some enthusiasts are
now proposing to take'the Mexican matter
there.
In Oregon the temperature of each legislator
will be taken as he starts the da's work. It
might be wiser to try 'em out after business
gets under way.
Nebraska Is certainly glad to get the boys
back from over there, and they need not worry
about their future, either. Plenty of employ
ment will be found for all.
Mr. Baker's latest act may not be intended
as a "bait to bolshevism," but it will not tend
to strengthen the discipline of whifih the army
must depend for effectiveness.
Thirty-one thousand hogs, averaging above
200 pounds and selling at $17.20, is one day's
record for the Omaha market, a prettyj fair
business incident, we thank you. .
Activity at the land loan bankj is a reflec
tion of the determination of a lot of farmers to
stick to the game, even if they have to borrow
money to carry on the business.
The "grandmother of the Russian , revolur
tion has followed a numerous brood of her
grandsons to America, where already enough
of trouble might have been noted.
Another "general strike" is called in Ger
many, where the practice has almost reached
the stage of a perpetual performance. . Some
body will have to go to work there pretty soon.
Mr. Armour explains that the 400 per cent
stock dividend paid by his company was the
result of the policy of reinvestment of earn
ings. The same result is achieved by borrow
ing money and paying it back as it produces
income. Tfiere is no magic in this way of
getting rich. '
The ship-building business is tin in the air,
and doesn't know how to get den. Federal
control will result in disaster, says a member
of ihe board, and cancellation of orders givtn
will also bring trouble. Here is a case on
which the doctors had disagreed for many
years, and concerning which the war seems to
have taught no lesson. 1
The Omaha Hyphenated presents an
elaborate and important program of work for
the legislature. . It may be impertinent to re
mark that each of its several items was present
and just as imperative when the last legislature
was in session. But that was a democratic or
ganization, and so its time was taken up id pass
ing laws that tinght give the party an advantage
in ways such as the gerrymander of Douglas
county.
Nation of the Water Wagon
By the final act of the Nebraska legisla
ture this country of more than 100,000,000, com
posed of citizens of varied ideas as to personal
liberty, moral duty and economic expediency,
is now committed to prohibition through a fed
eral amendment. We shall be bone-dry at the
end of a year at the utmost and may be bone-,
dry within six months at the earliest if the
emergency law passed by congress and apply
ing to wartimes is effective. The possibility that
actual or legal army demobilization may put
off the application of the war-dry enactment is
the only thing, therefore, that stands between
the states and an extraordinary revolution in
social life and habits.
The swiftness with which the amendment
lias been pressed to ratification by the neces
sary three-fourths of the states must be re
garded as in part directly due to the social and
economic upheaval caused by the war, in part
to the growth of a sober judgment that the use
of alcohol as a beverage- was social, industrial
and economic waste, and in part to the moral
sense of the various communities. Undoubt
edly the leaven of the states which of their own
motion had previously adopted prohibition as
a policy has spread resistlessly throughout the
'entire nation, and the growing policy of the
grreat employing groups to make the use of in
toxicants a bar to employment has exercised a
powerful influence in winning men's minds to
t'-.e view that liquor was an evil only to be erad
i.ited bv a drastic operation. Philadelphia
I t'-rr.
"MAKING A MONKEY" OF THE ARMY.
Secretary Eater has just committed the most
astonishing act of his amazing career as head
of the War department He has ordered "the
release of 112 conscientious objector held at
Fort Leavenworth, the remission of the unex
ecuted portions of their sentences, their 'hon
orable restoration' to duty and immediate dis
charge from the army." They will thus emerge
from prison to take their places, in civil life
alongside men who did the real work of the
army.
These men had been guilty of refusal to sub
mit to military discipline or to perform mili
tary service. Under the selective draft law,
every man between the ages of IS and 45 was
required to register for military service. He
was pursued as a deserter if he did not Such
as were wanted by the government were in
ducted into military service. Some of these
were defiant of authority, and under guise tH
"conscientious" objection, refused to obey any
order, no matter what, or by whom given.
A few of these men were sincere, holding
religious beliefs that taught them to abhor war
or the shedding of blood. Some extreme cases
of this devotion have been recorded, especially
among the Mennonites and Quakers, although
the latter found ways to serve without taking
up arms. Mainly, however, the "C. O." ele
ment was found among the radical socialists,
who,, following the lead of the St. Louis con
ference, sought to hamper the government in
every way. These men were and are insolent,
not only in their defiance of military order, but
of the civil courts of the land. Omaha has
heard fronijthem within the week.
Secretary Baker has heard the voice of
Upton Sinclair and other socialist leaders, de
manding that the "politicals" be released." He
has had a civil commission, headed by Judge
Mack of Chicago, a democrat of socialistic
proclivities, "review" the proceedings of the
courts-martial, and the first fruits of. this come
with the undoing of the work of the military
officers, who have tried to make an army.
I What may be looked for in the future, if this
sort of thing prevails? How can military serv
ice be enforced, if the certain way to escape is
through "conscientious objection?" And ho is
it possible to avoid bolshevism, when the sec
retary of war encourages resistance to author
ity by "making a monkey" pf the army?
Supply and Demand on Foodstuffs.
High cost of Hying is intimately bound up
with the price of foodstuffs, which in their, turn
depend on several elements, and not always the
cost of production. Two phases of the problem
are reflected in the current news. Out at Deli
ver the' commissioner of the general land office
warns live stock growers not to resort to limi
tation of product in order to maintain prices.
From Washington comes a story that a Sarpy
county farmer has complained that the selling
price of corn has been affected by the action of
the food administration. ;
Each of these points deserves careful ex
amination.' Meat has been selling at prices al
most out of reach, and with little sign of a
recession. Short supply is the main reason
assigned for this. If the American producers
should set about deliberately to restrict output
in order to keen up prices, they would be doing
humanity poor service. No one will deny them
a legitimate profit, nor begrudge them prosper
ity that has come with the "war, but none will
undertake to justify them in an effort to hold
up the world by curtailing meat supplies.
The corn rftarket is involved, because finished
meat animals are the product ofcornfeeding It
is not easy to say to what extent the price of one
depends on the other, so closely are they con
nected. The corn raiser is looking to profit,
just the same as the meat producer, and is en
titled to it In the present situation, the law
of supply and demand is operating, for the
latest break in corn came with the removal of
the bar against the Argentina crop. When
brought into competition with the'world sup
ply, the home-grown crop suffers in price.
American food products are entitled to some
protection against competition that will tend to
lower the agricultural industry to a foreign
standard, but that protection will not be af
forded by the limitation of output, nor by arti
ficial stimulation of market prices through
speculative control. A better balance than now
exists will be' found, but farm and range alike
must be used -to their utmost productive ca
pacity if we are to have the benefit of our won
derful natural resources. '
"Bait for the Bolsheviki."
Third in the list of major plans proposed at
Paris' for dealing with .bolshevism is that of
furnishing free food for the mass of ignorant
and hungry humanity now caught up and car
ried on by the swirling flood of madness. Sen
ator Harding of Ohio has debated this point in
connection with the 'president's statement that
force alone would not control the bolsheviki.
The senator takes the position outlined by The
Bee at the time Mr. Wilson made his request
for an appropriation of $100,005,000 to provide
food for the starving pillions of central and
southern Europe.
If the plan is merely to feed these people
and coax them back to a state of reason, its
wisdom may well be questioned. Assuredly, we
can not and will not permit them to starve
while we have means for providing relief. But
it must be made plain to them that our effort
is temporary and not permanent, and that with
the coming of another planting season they will
be expected to take steps to provide their own
food. Absurd as it may appear, the people of
the greatest grain growing region of Europe
are starving to death because the lands were
given to them to live on and cultivate I This
paradox could only exist in a country where
all ordejj had vanished.
Bolshevism is a terror only as it tends to de
stroy all organized effort save that bent on de
struction. It embodies the primal passions of
savage man, manifesting itself through the im
pulse of the untrained mind to strike out
blindly, brute force exerted without direction.
To feed these and stop there is to invite just
what. happened when the nephews of Con
stantine sought to compound a similar situa
tion with the Goths and the Visi-Goths. Along
with the food must go such instruction as will
not be lost on the child-mind of the mujik.
Russia's nearest neighbors insist interven
tion is the only remedy for the terror, but
philanthropists hope to find another. In the
I, meantime, the madness is not getting any less.
Swindling Bond Owners
Christian Science Monitor.
For months the United States mails have
been used for the transmission of letters and
circulars addressed to persona presumably in
possession of Liberty bonds informing them
how easily they might use capital now tied up
at a low rate of interest in the purchase of
shares in companies which would, so the circu
lars have asserted, double, and. perhaps, quad
ruple and quintuple, their incomes." The litera
ture employed, as a rule, is skillfully prepared,
and the propositions, whatever they may be, are
attractively presented. It would seem as if the
names of Liberty bond purchasers had been
obtained in some wav. and usually it is the
moderate buyer of those national war securities,
or the small saver, who seems to have been
selected for the attack.
It is said that in the Middle West some $20,-
000.000 of Liberty bonds have so far been ex
changed for shares in mining and oil promotion
companies of questionable standing, and that
the unloading of these bonds upon the market
recently, with those gathered in by financial
schemers in other parts of the country, contrib
uted toward the decline in their market value.
The success so far achieved by the mine and
oil stock promoters, and by others offering op
portunities for "getting rich quick," has, it is
believed, so whetted the appetite of the un
scrupulous that they are redoubling their eftorts
to find ready buyers.
It is a sad commentary upon the adminis
tration of the law in the United States if, not
withstanding the legislation enacted to prevent
misuse of the mails, the postoffice of the coun
try is now being used as a vehicle for the ac
commodation of an army of swindlers. The ques
tion ot protecting the Liberty bond and the
Liberty bondholder has been taken up in con
gress recently; it is being discussed in several
of the states. Edward S. Broftan, assistant dis
trict attorney of New York, as a result of a re
cent inquiry, found that unscrupulous promoters
of worthless financial enterprises had taken ad
vantage of many small bond buyers' ignorance of
market affairs to start a selling movement in the
market, that holders of government securities
might be induced to exchange them for stocks
of fictitious value, and on the strength of his an
nouncement of this discovery, Senator Loring
M. Black, of the New York legislature, pro
poses to introduce a bill into that body for the
enactment of a "blue sky law," similar to those
now in force in 31 of the states. With refer
ence to the matter he has written Mr. Brogan,
in part, as follows:
"Your investigation into the exchange of
valueless stock by so-called stock brokers for
Liberty bonds has strengthened my belief.
that the state of New York should have some
form of blue sky law on its books..;.. A great
many states in the union have such laws, but
some of them seem very drastic and a hin
drance to legitimate business."
' It must occur to thinking people, one would
suppose, that this is a matter not for state, but
for federal action, and it must flash upon the
thought of well-informed people that the rem
edy is already provided. Laws carrying heavy
penaltiesi are to be found in the federal statute
book which, if enforced, would soon prevent the
United States mails from being used as a ve
hicle for and an accommodation to unscrupulous
stock promoters. The nation has the laws; it
also has an excellent secret service; it has all the
machinery for detecting, , arresting, indicting,
trying and convicting and imprisoning vio
lators of postal regulations. If it is really in
tended to protect the people who responded to
the appeals of the, country in behalf of the
different Liberty loans, why is not this ma
chinery put in motion?
There is something more than a few cents
on the dollar involved in the depreciation of
Liberty bonds; there is the question of national
pride and national honor, and there is the ques
tion of common solicitude for and common
gratitude to those who in the time of its trouble
were ready to make any sacrifice within their
power for the. country's ake. v ' -sS
Warning io Bogus Heroes
There have been a lot of bogus heroes in
America since the army began . dispatching
men back to the States for sickness, wounds,
training and other reasons. Every t soldier
who has gone back has been a hero until
proved otherwise, and the temptation not to
prove themselves otherwise has been too much
for some. '
There is the case of the air service me
chanic who went back with heart trouble. His
home-town newspaper printed his "diary,"
which recounted several stirring fights over
the German lines, all imaginary. The nearest
he had been to the front was Issoudun.
Thee is the case of the sergeant who
lectured on the battle of . Cantigny for the
fourth Liberty loan (and sold a lot of bonds,
too) until he was found to have spent all his
stay in France, barring traveling time, at Le
Mans.
And there is the case, just to show how
hard it was not to be a hero, of the major
who returned and,, merely obeying military
regulations, refused to be interviewed. As far
as he had got toward gunfire and danger was
a training school at Langres. "Modestly de
clines to speak of his part in .Chateau-Thierry
fighting," was the second line of the heading
over the story about him in the next morning's
paper. The fault was the newspaper's, not the
major's. I ('
To date, in the eyes of the people back
home, every soldier ,who has been in Europe
.has undergone the horrors of the front Private
Johnnie Jones of the S. O. S., whose greatest
ardship in this war was taps at 9:30, was
pictured in his home journal and "captioned,
John Jones, of this city, now battling for free
dom in the trenches." It is going to be hard
to convince the home folks that of the 2,000,000
Americans in France, half of them, through
no fault of their own, of course, never - got
under fire.
But, once the idea is around, and once we
get back with our first-hand knowledge of
affairs over, here, the bogus hero is going to
have a pretty thorny trail. Stars and Stripes.
ron-AV
The Day We Celebrate.
v W. A. Foster, deputy sheriff, born 1862.
M. F. Shafer of; the M. F. Shafer company,
born 1870. -
F. W. Harwood of the Thonfas Cusack com
pany, born 1881.
Mrs. Beatrice Webb, a recognized English
authority on economics, born 61 years ago.
Ernest Poole, who has written several suc
cessful novels of American life, born in Chicago
39 years ago.
Maj. Gen. Henry P: McCain, former adju
tant general of the United States army, born
in Carroll county, Miss., 58 years ago.
Maj. Gen. George Bell, who commanded the
33d division (Ilinois) in France, born in Balti
more 60 years ago.
- Dr. Ezra S. Tipple, presiden't of Drew Theo
logical! seminary, born at Camden, N. Y., 58
years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
The Union club gave a brilliant reception in
its rooms at Fifteenth and Farnam streets. ,
The general freight agents of the roads cen
tering in Omaha organized, among them, W.
N. Babcoclc of the Northwestern, Thomas Mil
ler of the Burlington, Daniel King and J.
Phillippi of the Missouri' Pacific, M. B. Wil
liams of the Wabash and F. A. Nash of the
Milwaukee.
John A. Vandenburiz sold his drug store at
1611 Howard to C. G. Hunt
Night Clerk W. A. Strong of the Millard is
away for a vacation.
Rev. A. W. Lamar was presiding moderator
at the annual meeting of the First Baptist
church.
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Bolshevism and Hunger.
Oxford, Neb., Jan. 20. To the
Editor of The Bee: President Wil
son requests, congress to vote $100,
000,000 for food relief In Europe and
give as a reason for congress to
act Immediately that "food ia the
key to the whole European situa
tion." Bolshevism Is steadily ad
vancing westward, Is poisoning Ger
many. It cannot be stopped by
force, but It can be stopped by
food." A man by the name of White
corroborates this statement and
adds: "Bolshevism now completely
controls Kussia and Poland and la
spreading through Germans." The
house rubber-stamped thig enor
mous tax without 'the slightest In
vestigation as to who was to get the
rood, certainly we do not want
to be taxed to feed bolshevism and
keep it alive where It is in complete
control, nor do we care to be taxed
to' feed Germany when It Is
abundantly able to feed itself. Is it
not about time our p resident should
come down to plain English and tell
us exactly what Is to be done with
this little sum of $100,000,000? Is
it not about time that we should
have a little self-determination re
garding: our taxes? When the war
was going on we asked no questions.
When the president told us he
wanted this or must have that to
win the war he got it without a
murmur, tfeisnevism la not caused
by hunger, nor can it be checked or
blotted out with food. It springs
irom socialism and bears different
names In different countries and is
more harmful under different gov'
ernments. Its growth In any coun
try is cultivated when there Is lack
of a fearless administration of Just
government, ana tne united mates
with its stores of food is no excep
tion.
Food will not cure the bolshevism
of Germany or tha. I. W. Wism of
America, (living them rood or sym
pathy Is like casting pearls before
swine. If they want to kill . one
another off, let them hoo to it. On
tne litn nay or last November an
armistice was signed for 80 days in
which to make a treaty of peace,
and here we are Without a begin
ning, spending time trying to hatch
some kind of war preventive before
we have told the conquered on what
terms they can have peace or told
the German people to get busy
working to pay the allies for the
cost of the war they forced upon
them. The delegates from the
United States should be deluged
with demands that this country is
reimbursed for our war cost even
to Ford's ghost chasera. Of course
there will be plenty of the sob gang
that will contend that Germany
cannot pay, that we should forgive
and kindred rot Germany can pay,
or at least let it woric at that occupa
tion for the next 200 years. It is
time enough to forgive when it
showa works meet for repentance.
sucn a treaty or peace would put
Germany out of the war business:
and the league of friendship culti
vated, among tne allies during this
war should be a greater safeguard
for future peace than any concocted
league of nations that would in
clude our present enemies or coun
tries that did not have the sense of
justice or backbone to declare war
If President Wilson will consider
advice from one ef his most humble
and obedient subjects during the
war, he will hold the league for pre
venting future ware in abeyance till
tne present war is settled and settled
right' A. C. RANKIN.
Votes, Religion and Wages.
North Platte. Neb.. Jan. it. To
the Editor of The Bee: In your
issue of January 18 I see Mr.
Agnew advocates the franchlsement
of the negro and also of whites who
have not that privilege. My idea
is that a man should be educated
to those privileges and then given
them as they are earned. In some
ways the negro has won many
prizes, both ot education and ad
vancement, as an American citizen,
particularly during the present war,
and he should be recognized and re
warded as he is capable of receiv
ing. -
And I would like to say In answer
to the writer who signs himself
"Paganus," there are many Cath
olics who are our best citizens and
who do wonderful work in the ad
vancement of our great United
States of America and we. cannot
get along without them. Their
schools are fine, and be it under
stood that when they teach their
children they do it well, no matter
what is taught I am not a Catho
lic but speak from experience of
associating with them in school and
business life. But here is the point,
it seems to me: Don't combine the
affairs of church and , state. It
won't, work, because no two people
tnmK auKe, and. as In Christian
faith our Lord did not in any way
associate Himself with politics, so
let the Bible teaching be to Itself,
and, as our constitution says as
every man's heart dictates (except
such as is not Christian and for
Christ our Lord). We are a Chrls-
tion nation, and as such we must
stay, to prove to the world we are
founded on the teachings of the
Bible. Such were our best leaders,
Washington, Lincoln, Garfield, Mc-
Kinley and our present far-seeing
president, Mr. Wilson.
I am not sneaking politlcallv alone
or for the Christian faith alone.
Each has and must have its place,
but keep them separate. And, Mr.
"Workman," you voice my senti
ments exactly as to the workingman.
If he is self-respecting and does a,
run day's work; for the wage agreed
upon by the employer, he is entitled
to any and every good thing, Our
country was won from a wilderness
to a condition not surpassed by any
other, 'and, by whom? ' The man
and woman who was brave enough
to "tackle" (excuse the expression),
any obstacle, by subduing mountains
or aimcuity. so I say give us the
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
Daily Cartoonette.
CH-EORQ-e -THOSE HORRin
L.El-LflF?
WDHEDID:
(Balky Sam lsada n army of multi
to racu eaptlv Belgian and French
anlmali from tha Oarmana. 1'etgy and
Billy Belgium fo along.)
CHAPTER IV.
The Army of Ghosts.
Gallop, caiiop. rtI op; went the
troop of mules along a snow-covered
road, until' they came out upon
the brow of a hill overlooking a
large camp.
"Hee-haw! Hee-haw! There are
j the Germans," brayed Balky Sam,
nailing nis army. ' liipmer and Car
rie Pigeon will you scout ahead and
see if you can find any Hun horses
for us to whip?"
Homer and Carrie Pigeon, who
had been opposed to Balky Sam's
....,... .... - . .
Phantom-Like Figures Rushed Over
the Wall.
new war until he explained that It
was to free the Belgian horses and
cows carried off by the Germans,
were now eager to help him. Thev
fiewi away and were soon out of
sight. Dusk was falling when they
came back. '
"The horses are at the far end of
the camp," they reported. "You can
attack their corral through a grave
yard on the hill."
"Are the horses guarded?" asked
Balky Sam.
"By a whole company of Ger
mans!" replied Homer Pigeon.
Galloping to the graveyard, the
mules halted to prepare to go over
the top. Peggy did some fast think
ing as she looked down toward the
big enclosure lliat held humtrtus
and hundreds of horses. Anrt hw
thinking caused her to face Balky
Sam very seriously.
"Do you know if you attack those
Germ.in nilun'r:' nn w 1 hp iig
Wrong to Uncle Sam?" she asked.
"How'e that?" asked Balky Sam,
rolling his eyes at her in surprise.
"Because Uncle feam promised he
would quit fighting while peace was
being arranged. You are part of his
army. If you make war on the Ger
man soldiers you will cause him to
break his word."
Balky Sam didn't like that Idea a
bit He frowned and pawed the
ground.
"I'll not touch the Germans, but
just thrash their horses. That will
not harm Uncle Sam," he finally
concluded.
: How can you get at the horses
without fighting the Germans?"
asked Peggy.
"I know," broke in Billy Belgium.
"Scare 'em Into fits."
"That's a good Idea," brayed
Balky Sam.; "I'll hee-haw- at em
and kick up my heels."
"No," said Billy. "Have all your
mules roll in the soft snow until
, they look like a lot ot ghosts. Then
can. That will puzzle and alarm
the Germans. Peggy and I will play
tricks on them, making them tjilnk
spirits are around so when they see
a whole white troop come galloping
out of the graveyard It will send
them scooting."
"Hee-haw! Great!" brayed the
mules, rolling in the snow. In quick
time they were covered with pure,
white coats and looked very ghostly
Indeed.
Billy Belgium chanted the Go
lickety Shrub charm, which made
him and Peggy their usual size
again, but invisible to human eyes.
The Germans were gathered
around a campflre, as Billy and Peg
gy ran down the hill. They were
laughing and joking among them
selves, evidently glad that the war
was over.
Suddenly there came an awful
noise from the -graveyard. It was
like a great, mournful groan, fol
lowed by an agonized wall. Peggy,
badly scared, grabbed Billy Belgium
by the arm. Then she remembered
it was only the mules.
But the Germans, not knowing
about the mules, were badly fright
ened. They Jumped to their feet and
looked up the, hill. Again came
that awful ghostly noise. . Then a
sergeant's cap flew oft his head and
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Editorial Snapshots
Washington Post: If you want
to understand how darkness can be
made visible, listen to a senate de
bate on Russia.
Detroit Free Press: Having lost
its place In the sun, Germany is also
experiencing difficulty in maintain
ing its place on the map.
Washington Post: The poor gold
miners are asking for help. If they
will trade some of their raw ma
terial for It, the thing might be ar
ranged!' Baltimore American: Now, where
the Salvation Army to make those
famous doughnuts available for civi
lians, it would stand a good chance
of enlisting all the church members.
Kansas CJty Star: The discovery
that Washington has never been
legalized aa the capital of the United
States is worrying Senator Myers ot
Montana, who introduced, a resolu
tion to repair the neglect Well, In
the meantime we've got Paris. '
Philadelphia Ledger: The presi
dent's message from Paris to the
war labor board was Just as effective
in ending the Intolerable conditions
in New York harbor as if it had
come from Washington. In spite of
the prophets of evil, the White
House has not "ceased" to function.
New York World: Those who re
member how suddenly Germany
plunged lht,o war maybe forgiven if
they marvel at the long delay of the
victorious enemies of that country in
taking up the considerations of
peace, and yet war-making and
peace-making are different trades.
Brooklyn Eagle: Whatever Amer
icans think about "entangling alli
ances," they have a growing admira
tion for the Father of His Country.
Perhaps that accounts' In a fneasure
for the fact that Gilbert Stuart'a
George Washington brought $21,000
at a city auction, though three years
ago it had been sold for $3,500.
good, honest brave, self-respecting
workman, no matter what his work
may be. But, above , all, teach
Christianity and not "kultur."
Down with the Germans.
MRS. JULIA M. SIEBOLD.
CHEERY CHAFF. 1
"t understand your fauaband ! keeping
late hours again."
"He certainly 1," replied tho woman
with tha poaltlvo voice. "I hare (Ivan
John Initructlone to keep the house warm
If he haa to alt up with th furnace till
I o'clock In th morning. "t St, Louis
Globt-Democrat.
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"A recent Invention provide for 10
telephone meaase to be lent at th
lame time."
"That will cauv no nd of talk." De
troit Free Freaa. t
.
"Row th war and uddta peace bar
apeeded up everything!"
"But a dollar travels only about half
as far aa It did." Life.
"Children ao very young gtv partle
nowadaya. It u not so In th good old
tlmee." '
"I don't know about that, ma. I myself
was only a day old when I save my flrat
bawl." Baltimore American.
Well, if ypu'v had ten years' ex
perience taking ear of children, I think
you'll do."
"I'll Just take a look at th children
an' ae If they'll do." Browning's Maga
sine. "That man Is an old resident of this
town," said th visitor.
"How oan you tell?" '
"By the freedom with which he knocks
local lnetltutlons and his Indignation If a
stranger tries to help him knock." Judge.
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"Business is Good f rank You"
began to dance around the fire. The
hat of a corporal followed. An
empty, coat, assumed, shape, and
Jigged violently. A sword Jumped
out of a scabbard and waved vio
lently in the air. A gun whirled
around pointing irf all directions.
Yells of fear arose from the Gar
mans. Like an -echo came that
ghostly wail again, but this time
much nearer, as dozens of white,
phantom-like figures rushed over
the graveyard wall and toward tho
terrorized Huna
(In tomorrow's chapter Balky Sam pre
pares to fight a duel.)
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