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, Nebraska has no use for the red flag.
' "Probing" the police looks like a continuous
performance in Omaha.
One thing the auto owners are sure of: Many
are stolen and few recovered.
The king of .Montenegro may have been a
good poker player, but he pressed his luck at the
wrong time.
Burning down the barracks is another way of
expressing disapproval of the army's way of
treating slackers.
According to the records of the house at
Lincoln, "Jim" Allan wants to regulate the
dairy business in Nebraska.
The number 11 is said to have been unlucky
for "ill" Hohenzollern. It is a good number
on the bones -when' you get it.
The new employers' service flag has many
things to recommend it, chief of them being
returned soldiers on the pay roll.
One firm of Nebraska cattle raisers has just
sold SO head for almost $200,000, and yet some
folks insist there is no money in breeding cattle
my more.
Herr Hohenzollern is figuring on going back
to Germany. That will help Holland out of a
deep hole, but will not protect the late head of
the terrorbund.
Omaha certainly is showing hospitality to
the returning soldiers. It is not easy to make
a wounded man feel good, but the best the city
has is at his service.
"Skip stop" rules have yet two months to
run before the edict expires by limitation. The
probabilities are that by that time the agitation
will take on another form.
Shaking "PrWe Arthur" off the payroll in
one spot will only emphasize the fact that he is
attached in several other, places. He is jk wise
democrat as well as a deserving.
Tursuit of the "higher-ups" in the automo
bible stealing business should not be allowed
to detract attention from the "low downs" who
are already in clutches of the police.
The government will let the jobs stand until
the strikers get ready to go back to work at the
shipyards. The men apparently do not fully
realize "that the emergency has passed.
Tht British army in Italy is showing its
spirit by sending trainloads of food to the
starving of Vienna. Contrast this with the
treatment accorded the peoples overrun by the
Huns.
The bill to permit the sale of cigarets in
Nebraska only gives recognition to a condition
that exists. The law prohibiting the "paper
pipe" has been a dead letter from the first, and
ought to be wiped off the book.
Secretary Wilson of the. Labor department
warns that most of the uproar over unemploy
ment is hysteria. He points out that the situa
tion as disclosed by reports to his department
is not abnormal, and that conditions will right
themselves if only common sense prevails.
The Third American army in France has
set on foot a movement to erect a monument to
the American women who took part in the war.
It will but reflect the monument already set
up in the hearts of their countrymen, but as an
enduring memento of great service it ought to
have full support. -
Brakes-Or Break?
' Government railroad control is now coming
into the limelight more and more. Our Mr.
McAdoo stood from under when he realized he
had bitten off more than he could chew. From
dividend-paying private enterprises the rail
mads are becoming a liability of the country.
The latest figures available on the deficit since
the great railroad system of the United States
was placed under he control of Mr. McAdoo is
5515,000,000. Where the end will be nobody
knows. Peoria is getting a taste of what it
means.
For instance, the Chicago, Rock Island St
Pacific used to work 22 engines in the local
yards. Now there are six. The Toledo, Peoria
& Western shops since 1870 have been in oper
ation. They are to be closed, and of the 200 men
employed there the expert mechanics, younger
in age, are to be given jobs in other shops.
Presumably they will crowd out older men. At
any rate their going is forced upon them, and
the city will lose an almighty fine lot f citizens.
That thev own their homes here, for the most
part, and that it means forced sales and re
moval of families, or else the breaking up of
homes, is immaterial, for the college profes
sors running things now figure the machinery
of the shops is obselete. and in the interest of
economy and efficiency the work is to be trans
ferred to West Burlington, la. And the older
men and laborers are left jobless. The econ
omy and efficiency that thus increases the
army of idle men in the country is rotten.
And the extraordinary fact of trying to con
vert the railroad system into a vast political
machine for that is what, it means is only
ef'aled by the significance of the fact that
;-iIe wages have been advanced there is more
cT-'-sthfaction with wage conditions than ever
he -'ore. The telegraph operator may be receiv
i twice what he did before the war, but he is
t! Satisfied, because the car "knocker" about
the station, at rougher work and of a lower
sra f. is getting more than he. The car in-s-ec'or
is dissatisfied because the brakeman
Ys a bigger pay check, and the trainmen are
,i i '.apry because, if the government hadn't
t'.hert control, they might, through their power
ful unions, be getting even more than they do
now . I'eoria (111.) Star. ,
NEPOTISM.
If popular opinion ir as well set against
nepotism in public office, which is only a species
of camouflaged graft, as 'it appears to be, our
lawmakers will have a lot of excuses to make
for wilful failure to enact a proper preventive
measure. The incident out of which Governor
McKelvie happily escaped the odium proved
that.
So far as the pernicious practice of filling
appointive offices with brothers, sons, wives,
sisters, cousins and aunts is concerned, there is
no defense to be offered. In this great and
glorious country of ours, there is no job that
some one else can not fill if necessary and no
one family has a monopoly of the talents re
quired to draw a public salary. The pretense
that in some sparsely settled western counties
the county offices can not be manned satisfac
torily if the officers have to seek outside of their
own households for their help is too flimsy to
go down' with sensible people. And because
the "public-office-a-family-snap" graft has flour
ished so long without abatement is no valid
reason why it should continue forever all such
good things must have an end some time.
Scotch the nepotism game and do it thoroughly.
Time for Courageous Action.
If the democrats had had their way in 1900,
we could not now cite the world to a splendid
example of the practical application of the al
truistic doctrine the president is preaching in
Europe. Mr. Bryan made anti-imperialism the
"paramount" issue of 1900, demanding that we
withdraw from the Philippines and leave the
islands and their inhabitants to the fate that
hovered so close in the shape of Germany and
Japan. The "Boston tea drinkers" for months
belabored the president and his coadjutors be
cause of "enforcing slavery" on the islanders.
These have since been silenced, and the policy
they deplored has become the central thought
of world-peace.
At the moment a similar association of
equally devoted and as completely misguided
visionaries are engaged in a crusade against
any outside attempt to restore order in Russia.
It is admitted that our policy towards Russia
has been vacillating and uncertain. The present
administration lacks the courage of McKinley
and his associates, and has not faced any of
the great issues of the war with the intrepid
determination that made such short work of the
Cuban and Philippine questions. But it is
also true that any of the little group of ad
vanced editors who are pleading the cause of
the bolsheviki in America would encounter
short shrift were he to fall under the beneficence
of Lenine.
These "thinkers" have so immersed them
selves in speculative consideration of abstrac
tions that for them the concrete things of life
have dissolved. Human experience has taught
them very little. They defend the upside down
state of affairs in Russia as an achievement for
democracy, rejecting all evidence to the con
trary. Our own country will escape the scourge
eventually, because its safety is in the hands of
people who earn their own living and do their
own thinking, but it is not pleasant to watch
a group of so-called "intellectuals" flirting
with the dangerous elements of anarchy. Pru
dent men step very softly' when passing
through a powder magazine.
Let the Soldiers Have Their Cigarets.
Wriv should the retiring soldiers who have
riskedtheir lives to win the war for us be put
in the guise of law-breakers in Nebraska every
time they buy a package of cigarets?
Why should the good women of the Red
Cross or the Service League, the Y. M. C. A.
and K. of C. workers have to violate the law
of this state every time they give a cigaret to a
crippled veteran or put up a box" of goodies
for the far-away lads overseas?
These questions are suggested by the state
ment of Representative McLeod in explana
tion of the scope and purpose of his bill to
license the vending of cigarets under strict
penalty for their sale to boys and minors. The
proposed measure would stop the farcical con
dition now existing in this state, which gives
us an prohibitory cigaret law, constantly disre
garded and flouted, and makes it no more of an
offense to put cigarets into the mouths of chil
dren, than to sell to a mature man.
A workable law restricting the sale to re
sponsible licensed dealers would be such an
obvious improvement on the existing situation
that ft should have the unanimous support of
all the lawmakers in step with this enlightened
age.
Getting Too Much Help.
One very apparent trouble in America at
present is that everybody can take his or her
troubles to Washington, with advance assurance
of sympathy and assistance. Uncle Sam has
undertaken the pleasant job of making all his
nephews and nieces happy and wealthy. In
the far away pre-war period those who ventured
on a business enterprise did so in full realization
that certain hazards attended the effort. They
knew that industry and thrift must be the foun
dation of success, and that they must enjoy
confidence to attract patronage on which their
continuance in business depended. Now that
has all been changed. If profits shrink and
calamity impends, a trip to Washington, an in
terview with cabinet officer or a bureau chief,
a bill in congress, and the trick is done. Risk
no longer attends American commerce or industry.-
Prosperity is assured, by the govern
ment, and all would be well, were it not for
the fact that somebody has to foothe bills.
In undertaking to assure profits whereon taxes
might be levied and from which wages might
be paid, the government has found that the
vicious circle can not be changed to the benefi
cent by legislative thaumaturgy. How to re
verse the process and get down to a safe basis is
now the question, the answer to which will cer
tainly be referred to the next congress. The
democrats have muddled things by helping too
much, and the republicans will be forced to take
up the big job of straightening out business in
America.
"What's time to a hawg?" queried the Texas
breeder, and the market is begining to wonder
if the embargo has any more effect on the
brute. He keeps coming right along, no mat
ter what the food administration says.
One way to increase the demand and so re
duce the supply is to get the price down to
when ordinary folks can buy what they need.
Reducing Bulk of Meats
John W. Harrington in New York Times.
Inquiries have come from all directions con
cerning the new process by which meats and
fish can be kept indefinitely without preserva
tion and then restored to full bulk and unim
paired flavor by the application of water.
Flesh prepared by this method, the origina
tors of the process say, only fills about 8 per
cent of the space it fills when fresh. This would
multiply eightfold the facilities for shipping
meat, without adding tonnage.
This discovery grow out of researches be
gun a year ago in the Harriman Laboratories
at Roosevelt hospital by Drs. K. G. Falk and
E. M. Frankel when the laboratory was taken
over by the Division of Nutrition and Food of
the Medical department of the United States
army, at the instance of Lieut. Col. J. R. Murlin,
The final steps of the test were worked out at
Columbia university in the Department of
Chemical Engineering under the direction of
Professor Frank H. McKee who made the first
announcement concerning the process.
The first step in the drying of meat and fish
is the removal of bones, superflous fat, and
gristle Here at the very start is a cutting down
of the bulk to about vne-half. The drying pro
cess reduces what eft to approximately one
sixth. The decrease in bulk is not so marked
with the fat, which consists largely of oil, as
with the lean meat.
Owing to certain legal reasons not all the
steps of the process can be published at this
time, but in the main it consists of drying the
prepared meats in a vacuum oven at a low tem
perature. " The air having been nearly exhaust
ed from the receptacle, its interior is warmed by
the passage of warm water through it in pipes
which maintain enough heat to cause the mois
ture of the meats to evaoorate. The orincinle
of the vacuum pan which is used by confection
ers ana makers ot extracts annlies in this case,
Just as the Shakers in makine their products
from fragrant herbs in the old days used to
keep the odors and flavors from escaping by
exhausting the air from above the simmering
liquids in vacuum pans, so the taste of the
meats treated by the new process is imprisoned
in the fibres instead of being driven off by ex
cessive heat. In ordinary cooking operations
high temperatures necessary to overcome the
pressure of the atmosphere are likely to destroy
the delicate enzymes and flavors.
The use of the low temperature also prevents
tne coagulation ot the protein m the meats, the
solidifying of this substance in dried meats
makes them unpalatable and indigestible. The
drying or desiccating of vegetables can be ac
complished with satisfaction even in crudely
controlled ovens and with great efficiency m
the dehydrating plants, because vegetables con
tain very little protein as compared with the
quantities of starch. The meats do not retain
their redness, but as they are served cooked this
is not a grievous fault.
All animal flesh must be cut into comnara
tively thin steaks or into one-inch cubes before
the drying begins. Meat can be dried in about
10 hours and fish in from four to eight, accord
ing to the thickness of the pieces. under treat
ment.
It is possible to cut a sirloin or oorterhouse
steak, according to the standard restaurant
dimensions, dry it by this recent method, and
then wet it betore cookinp- and serve it hot. even
passably rare, without anybody's knowing that
it did not come directly from the butchers
block around the corner.
All meat may be ground up after it has been
dried, then mixed with fresh vegetables and
cooked without any previous soaking. A meat
flour can be so made that within ten minutes it
can absorb its full water content, and thus be
ready for preparation in short order. For a
composite ration dry raw meat hashed with
potatoes, onions, carrots and other vegetables is
recommended as excellent.
The announcement is made that during a
period of comprehensive tests meats which
had been dried by this process and kept a year
were restored to their fresh state-and served in
the homes of the professors interested in these
experiments and to their unsuspecting guests.
A shipment of 300 pounds of beef thus treated
was sent to Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia, a few
weeks ago and eaten with gusto by the soldiers.
This restored' or condensed product differs
from the jerked or sun-dried beef of the western
plains and of South American countries. Jerk
ed beet must be torn into long shreds, and when
it is dried even under the best conditions it is
without much of its original savor and is best
adapted for cooking with red peppers. The new
process dried beef may be kept in neat and
presentable collops or steaks oy boned chops
and served in a sightly fashion. Cutlets of
large fish and small fish can be kept in their
original form, and the chef may "just add hot
water and serve, As the flesh remains sterile
there is no danger, according to the inventors,
ot its spoiling.
The New Treason
On his annearance as a witness before the
house postoffice committee at Washington it
developed that Edward Reynolds, formerly gen
eral manager of the Postal Telegraph company,
had been dismissed by Fostmaster oenerai
Burleson for refusing to comply with orders
issued after the telegraphs and telephones had
been taken over.
Having made this fact a matter of record,
Chairman Moon proceeded on a line of ques
tions indicating his belief that Mr. Reynolds
had been guilty of high crimes and misdemean
ors. "You were dismissed because you were
treasonable?" and "You were disloyal to Mr.
Burleson?" he asked, to which the witness in
dignantly responded in the negative.
We used to suppose that treason against the
United States consisted "only in levying war
against them or in adhering to their enemies,
giving them aid and comfort," but the authors
of that clause in the constitution did not know
Albert Sidney Burleson of Texas. If they had
even suspected that he would one day come
upon the scene and be in charge of all means
of communication, they would have prescribed
the death penalty for any hireling who ven
tured to question the Burlesonian authority.
In view of Mr. Burleson's great popularity
in congress, why does not Chairman Moon pro
pose a constitutional amendment defining his
new theory of treason, just to see what may
happen? New York World. ,
The Day We Celebrate. "
Milton T. Barlow, president of the United
States National bank, born 1844.
William H. Wheeler, insurance map, porti
1870.
Nathan. Straus, eminent New York merchant
and philanthropist, born in Rhenish Bavaria, 71
years ago.
Zane Grey, one of the most successful of the
younger American novelists, born at Zanesville,
O., 44 years ago .
Rear Admiral Washington Lee Capps, U. S.
N., former head of the Emergency Shipping
Corporation, born at Portsmouth, Va., 55 years
ago.
i
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Governor Thayer spent the day in Omaha, re
turning to Lincoln in the evening.
Mrs. T. C. Bruner presided at the committee
meeting of the Pennsylvania club, arranging for
a banquet. The others present were Mrs.
Swartzlander, Mrs. Levering, Mrs. Elliott, Mrs.
Whitman, Mrs. O. T. Ferner, Mrs. Joseph Red
man. The Evangelical Immanuel association has
bought lots in Monmouth Park on which a hos
pital is to be erected. The incorporators are
Rev. E. A. Folegstrom, George L. Miller, John
Helin, Alfred Millard, Rev. A. M. Anderson,
Fred Drexel, G. A. Lindquist, Wm. L. McCague,
John Johnson, Peter Colsuth and . Anthony
Johnson. .
C B. Rodgers has been appointed Burlington
district superintendent witli headquarters at
Wyuiort.
People and Events
A little more than 80,000 farmers
of Pennsylvania own automobiles, a
gain of 23 per cent since 1914. War
time prices for farm goods readily
crowded the gas wagon procession.
Bellhops and newsies are often
featured In the movies as favorites
of fortune, the lucre coming to them
as rewards for courtesy and service.
The scenario looks good, but some
how lacks the thrill of reality. Yet
such things do happen In real life.
A New York bellhop is the benefl
clRry of a rich woman's will to the
extent of $76,000.
Pennsylvania, New York and Now
Jersey are the latest states to Join
in the fight against Burleson's tele
phone rates. This trio of husky
scrappers promise to stay In the ring
and give the Texan a finishing clout.
New York lawmakers are looking
for trouble, with good prospects of
getting it. They talk seriously of
imposing an Income tax and a whop
per tax on ice cream collected on
the spot. Either one will bring the
lawmakers an earful of knocks.
Chicago's domestic court stair
tragedy and comedy in nearly equal
proportions. All shades of domestic
trouble gets an airing, and not a
little of it needs fumigation. Prob
ably the rarest source of trouble
aired there Is fashion sartorial
fashion affected by an ex-minister
of the colored persuasion. "Judge,
he is a regular Beau Brummel", said
the complaining wife. "He always
dressed in the height of fashion and
the women of the congregation felt
for him hard." Thinking life In
Chicago would diminish his sartorial
splendors wlfey persuaded him to
move from town to city, but the
treatment failed. Court ordered him
to pay his wife $10 a week out of
his salary as hotel porter.
HERE AND THERE
The men of Portugal, as a class,
have the reputation of being the
best dressed in the world. ,
Chile, the "shoestring republic,"
is as long as the distance from New
York to San Francisco and as nar
row as Lake Erie.
England Is preparing for a suitable
celebration this year of the 150th
anniversary of the birth of the fam
ous artist, Sid Thomas Lawrence.
Motion pictures as a means for
"keeping the boy on the farm" are
to be tried out by some of the agrt
cultural societies In southern New
Jersey.
One "hundred thousand Japanese
are now living in the United States,
all but 6,000 of them in the Rocky
Mountain and Pacifio coast districts.
Prince Edward Island is proud of
her record of not having a single
murder or manslaughter case in the
whole province within the past five
years. ,
For many years the commercial
prosperity of Portugal has centered
in the export of port wines, the city
of Oporto being the chief distribut
ing point.
Primitive races beleved that man
could be changed Into an animal hy
means of charms and magic, such as
wearing' the skins of beasts, drinking
water out of the footprfnt of an
animal, and so on.
The president of the Swiss confed
eration, who is elected by the federal
assembly, holds office for only one
year, from January 1 to December
31, and usually the vice president
succeeds him. His chief duty Is to
direct his country's foreign policy,
for most of the internal administra
tion is in the hands of the cantons or
districts.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
EM
"T API
X No.
(Santa Claus, busy feeding th hungry
children 'of the war lands, forgete to
n.ak his usual supply of Christmas toys.
Ha appoints Peggy and Billy Belgium to
tana up nis joo. )
CHAPTER V.
Santa Claus No. 2.
APPOINT you Santa Claus
2," roared Santa Claus to
Billy Belgium, tapping him on the
shoulder with gloved hand. In
stantly a wonderful change came
over Billy Belgium. His head be
came covered with white hair and
whiskers, and he was clothed in furs
like those which Santa Claus him
self wore.
"And I appoint you Santa Claus
No. 3," roared Santa Claus, tapping
Peggy on the shoulder. And in
stantly Peggy was changed the same
!-- A 111 . 1
M M
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
French senate has given Mr. Wil
son a luncheon, a hint that should
not be lost on ours.
Baltimore American: The chair
man of the democratic national com
mittee has resigned. Whatever his
motive he at least escapes an era of
prolonged apology for his party.
Minneapolis Tribune: How hard
will a man be able to let his cider
eet next year without running up
against the law prohibiting "the
manufacture) - of intoxicating
drinks?"
Philadelphia Ledger: William
Hohenzollern is said to have aged
10 years since he fled Into Holland.
At this rate the problem of what to
do with him will be solved auto,
matically.
Brooklyn Eagle: The Salvation
Armv went straight to the heart of
the nougnooy over tne aougnnui
route. The doughnuts were a free
as salvation and Jew, uentne,
Greek, bond and free, could draw
near and fill up on both. It is safe
to say that the Salvation Army will
never run short of melodeons or
bass drums when the boys settle
down.
"Ask tbcm to give yon some of their
toys."
way. Her face grew long whiskers
and white hair fell over her shoul
ders. A snug fur cap and a warm
fur coat clothed her from head to
toe. "Prancer. Dancer, Dasher
and Vixen will be at your service.
Peggy Santa Claus," laughed Santa
Claus, and quickly the four reindeer
lined up. Harnessed to them was a
pretty sleigh into which Peggy
promptly hopped. ,
"Cupid, Comet, Thunder and
Lightning shall draw Billy Santa
Claus," roared Santa, and the other
four reindeer jumped into line, all
harnessed to another snappy sleigh.
"A joyful journey to you!"
"But, please, Santa Claus, tell us
what to do," pleaded Peggy.
"Ho, ho! I nearly forgot that,"
laughed Santa Claus. "Well, you tell
,v.a B-nnA urall-tn-rin rhilrlren how
busy I've' been feeding hungry kid
dies, and explain mat i naveu i uo
time to make toys. Ask them to
anmA nf thplr tnvfl RO I Can
take them around tomorrow night.
I don't want broken or worrmut
tovs. but good, strong, attractive
toys that will make other young
sters happy. Appoint the toygivers
mv assistants. Have them gather
C .
their toys In one place and tomor
row night I'll takfl a few hours off
from my work in war lands and
make my Christmas eve trip just the
same as ever. Does that sound all
right?"
"And we can ask the old bachelors
and the loving-hearted unmarried
ladies to be assistant Santa Clauses,
too," suggested Peggy.
"Great!" roared Santa Claus. "The
world is filled with men and women
of good will. All you need is to find
them and tell them what they can
do and they'll do it. Hurry, hurry."
"Uood-by and good luck!" an
swered Peggy, as Prancer, Dancer,
Dasher and Vixen jingled their bells
into a rollicking chimes and sped out
into the wintry night. "Good-by
and good luck!" echoed Billy Bel
glum, as Comet, Cupid, Thunder
and Lightning sped in the opposite
direction.
Down from the Arctic raced the
reindeer into the thickly settled
regions. And as they sped over the
cities, the jangling of the bells
brought many a curious youngster
rushing to the window. And to each
youngster Peggy shouted a message,
"You are appointed an assistant
of Santa Clans. Help him fill his
pack for those who have less than
vou have.
And as the reindeer galloped on,
Peggy saw that the message was re
ceived wiUi eagerness and with glad
ness. There were thousands upon
thousands of children who saw a
new Christmas joy coming to them
the joy that Santa Claus feels him
self, the joy of making others
happy. The big-hearted bachelors,
too. and the loving hearted unmar
lied ladies, all set to work preparing
toys nnd gifts for Santa Claus's
pack.
After a long time Peggy found that
her message and that or liiuy nei
gium had gone "far and wide. Tens
of thousands of willing helpers were
doiner Santa Claus' work.
Satisfied that she had done all she
could Peggy turned the reindeer to
ward home. But even as she did so
there came a great roaring protest
it was Santa Claus's voice.
"Not enough! More toys! More
toys!" he shouted. At the same
moment Peggy felt a pair or neia
classes thrust into her nands. iooK
ine through them she saw that they
were like Santas all-seeing glasses.
She beheld great heaps of toys, but
waiting for the toys she saw long
lines of empty stockings. There
were not near enough toys to go
n pnnnil
Ppfov felt a touch or despair, our,
bravely set to work to make up the
sVinrtnirft.
Rieht beside her she saw tne
heautiful mansion or a ncn man,
The rich man was at the window,
frowning sadly and bitterly at the
lincrle-lancle of the reindeer.
"Christmas bells ringing joy to
others, but gloom to me." Thus did
ho rnmnla n. h 3 words coming in
onm mvsterious way to reggy. un
for the days when i naa cnuoren
around me and Christmas was
merry."
Away rushed tne reinaeer, biup-
I'KltS WI.V.NKK.
Th following; ara prut winners la
th lint I'uuta mnleat. Another eon
rmt will be announced soon. Watch
for It.
Franres Tletlens, tJ3 North Forty
eighth street, Omaha.
K.lalne Young, Ravenna, Neb.
f.tlua Mlilttrn, Colon, Neb.
YmtI Uroth, Craig, Neb,
Karen Anderson, Audubon, la
Daily Dot Puzzle
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A LANE IN FRANCE
I have beard full-throated songbirds
In the woods Behind Messlnes.
Where th trellis of the sunlight '
Shines through trees along the lana
I walk upon theae peaceful days.
When guns are still at morn:
But I'm hungry, famished, longing
r-or the place where 1 was born,
With Its sighing pines, and singing birds,
Ana iieias or yellow corn.
TIs pleasant nights to roam a bit.
In paths where grasses grow:
'TIs Jolly with a maid of Franca
To sing and laugh, I know.
But all the while my truant feet
Are turning westward far.
Where yesteryear, on such a night,
Beneath that same bright atar.
I walked with Jennie down the lane.
Clear to the pasture bar.
And there beyond the pasture bar.
Beneath tall southern pines,
Stands Jennie's house, all covered o'er
With morning glory vines
In summer. And tonight I dream
Beneath thia pleasant sky
In sunny France, so far from home.
Hearing again the cry
Of mocking birds In plney woods
Soft singing lullaby.
MARSH ALL L. MERTINS.
Daily Cartoonette.
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Sign Your Names.
Again The Bee asks its correspon
dents to sign their true names to all
letters Intended for publication.
These will not be published, unless
it is the wish of the writer, but are
required as a guaranty of good faith
by the editor. Anonymous lettotn,
or letters signed by fictitious names
only, will not be published.
Religion In Politics.
Omaha, Jan. 27. To the Editor of
The Bee: Let us start a rock-p.lo
or some other form or occupaumi
for those who are inviting political
suicide for the Nebraska G. O. P., by
introducing bills to abolish the pri
vate schools, and drag in religious
question, to upset our administra
tion in 1916, Iowa furnished an ex
ample of what happens when preac!i
ers take a hand in state PoWIcj.
While no sane person thinks these
bills will get any where, still demo
crats are rejoicing privately over the
fact that we have a handfull of
fnnntics in the legislature,
fanatics ATCHpuTj WAITING.
Woostcr for Osterman Bill.
Silver Creek, Neb., Jan. 27. To
the Editor of The Bee: While false
or misleading in almost every par
ticular, the article in The Bee ot
January 27 on the Osterman right-of-way
bill, is particularly interesting
from the fact that, to those on the
inside it is easy to see that tne
"gal department of the Union Pa
cific, which, in this case , mea ns Mr.
Edson KIch. general solicitor of the
Union Pacific, thinks the bill will
pass the senate as It has Just pas. ed
the house on third reading and with
out a dissenting vote.
If Mr. Rich is correctly reported,
ho represents that the Osterman nill
"cuts the Union Pacific right-of-way
through Nebraska from 400 feet to
200 feet." and that it "seeks to do
away with an act of congress and at
the same time deprive the company
of the right of eminent domain, all
of which is misleading and false, and
Intended to deceive.
The Osterman bill takes cogni
zance of the fact that the Union 1 a
cific is persistently laying claim to
land that for fifty years it has not
a or, a mm the nature of the
case, never can use in any legitimate
way; and simply says to tne umu
i)m "null- vnnr dnsr-ln-the-mang-
er work or lose your right of eminent
domain.
That is really all there Is to it If
the company wishes to retain posses
sion of the land in question in so far
as the present situation gives It pos-
aaeclnn nil If TOnillri Tl SI VA tfl ll Cl f T P T
! J ,1 1 V I , Ml. w itwm.m . v w
the bill might become a law, would
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that case, it would automatically lose
its right of eminent domain. There
would be no court process and no
interference with court decisions and
acts of congress.
That the state the legislature, has
power to give the right of eminent
domain to the railroads of the state,
and with such conditions attached
as it may see fit, no lawyer will deny.
I think, too, no lawyer would deny
that the state has power to take the
right of eminent domain from all
the railroads In the state, and that,
if it saw fit, without giving any rea
sons. The Osterman bill Is entirely In
the interest of right and justice, and
ought to, and I believe will, become
a law. CHARLES WOOSTER.
CHEERY CHAFF.
"Friendship takes queer turns. Here
I get Into a fight. Two of my friends
hold me and the other fellow punches me
In the nose."
"Well?"
"If they wanted to show their friend
ship why didn't they hold htm ?" Iyouis
vllle Courier-Journal.
"The man next door gave my kid a
drum, but I got even with him."
"How so?"
"I told my ton his Jaw band social
could meet here." Baltimore American.
"I have liad the same cook for five
years," remarked Mrs. Crosslots.
"Indeed," commented Miss Cayenne.
"One of you must have a lovely disposi
tion." Washington Star.
Mrs. Exe Why do yon say that Mrs.
Brown la very thoughtless?
Mrs. Wye She had the parson to din
ner the other evening and she served
deviled eggs. Boston Transcript.
"Pat, here's the dollar I borrowed of ye
last wake."
"Bedad, Mike, I'd forgot all about
"Och, why the dlvll didn't ye say so?"
Boston Transcript
"I find the professor's statistics stupid."
"I don't He told me there were 400,
000.000,000 people In the world and that
I was the prettiest girl In the lot." Stray
Stories.
"Mamma, did you love to flirt when you
were young ?'
"I'm afraid I did, dear."
"And wero you ever punished for It,
mamma?"
"Yes, dear; I married your father
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Draw from one to two and so on to th.
end.
J
ping in a moment before a huge toy
factory, crowded from cellar to gar
ret with toys. At the door stood the
toy man. He, too, was bitterly com
pjaining. "Christmas bells, ringing
joy to other, but gloom to me. My
sons are at war, no one buys my
toys, woe, woe is me."
"Ho, ho!" shouted Peggy as Santa
himself might have done. "Here's
something to be set right.. The rich
man, wails; the toy man weeps; the
toys stand idle, and the stockings
stand empty. Whoa, my speedy
reindeer. We have work to do."
(Tomorrow will be told how Santa
Claus' pack Is filled to overflowing.)
Eases Stiff Jsints,
'ain in Huscls
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9 iTJ
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neck, one touch of wonderful "UJypto
Ointment" will give you soothing, instant
relief. There's no mustard oil or mui
tardy odor. It contains the maeio essence
of the eucalyptus tree.
It produces remarkable results alio oa
stiff joints, rheumatic pains, neuralgia,
chest coid, catarrh, nose stoppage, piles.
earache, and on any Inflammation and con
gestion. Hunt the wide world over,
there's nothing known as ouick. glorious
and soothing as "Ulypto Ointment." Sold
at all drug store up-to-date, in 2 Be and
50c jars, or sent on receipt of price by the
MacMillan Chemical Co., Falls City, Neb.
Get the drop on that cough, take
"Ulypto Cough Drops." Bo everywhere. For
ale and recommended in Omaha by 8her
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This i3 not an extraordinary exam
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Get Neohn-soled shoes at almost
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