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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 23. 1919.
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This will be Mr. Wilson's busy week.
Dr. Mary Walker wore 'em, all right, and
made good in tbem, too.
'Iowa's energetic attorney general at least
likes to keep things from stagnating.
Chicago is about to tell us whether, war-time
patriotic indignation hold over into post-war
politics.
-tocal booze runners must have blushed for
their efforts when they read the story from
Michigan.
One point in favor of the League of Nations
is that Senator "Jimmy" Reed is against it with
11 his -yoice. '
The. Hun is reported to be "cocky" again,
, t : tut they will find the glove of velvet conceals a
, -gauntlet of steel.
' : The president talked to the secretary of navy
'r' ' over a wireless phone, but he can not reach
congress that way. '
J Alfonso of Spain says it is not tasy td be a
' .neutral. Maybe that is why his country did
V. ; not work at it very hard.
'Omaha must be a strange community, to
remain a Mrlcked as it is said to be, after all
. trhe effort to. reform its ways.
This is "not the first time Mr. Borah has
found himself unable to agree with Mr. Taft,
"but that doei not prove him right.
A blue-eyed bigamist, now in a nearby jail,
Is said to have strange power over women. He
could not hypnotize the law, however.
' : The fourth Liberty loan totals $6,993,073,250,
1 and we were just getting so we could play the
game. No wonder the kaiser weakened.
i One reliable way of breaking into print
; nowadays is to make some sensational charge
against public officials. It is being overworked.
Word comes from Paris that the Panama
canal will remain an American ditch. However,
it is open to the world. Our business is to
keep it ready for use.
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Mr. Wilson's plan to return to France at
once must ,be contingent on congress getting
through .with, its work. Otherwise his official
: duties-may operate to defer his departure.
k The Omaha Hyphenated having disposed of
the small matter of choosing a republican
speaker, for the next congress, may now re
sume its watch over the affairs of the universe.
If Great Britain really insists o'ri sinking the
German warships, that will probably be their1
"fate. They did Germany very. little good, and
perhaps would be of no greater service to a real
nation. '
!
Foch is willing to let the Germans have all
.'the food they can pay for, but insists on having
,real money in return. His French sense of
thrift will not permit him to trade good ma
terial for bad' paper.
Governor Allen sticks to his story, regardless
of What the general who led the division during
the fighting says. The fact that the general was
on the spot and took part in the proceedings is
rather a point in his favor, however. .
Graft in the navy it disclosed in an agly
caudal. Punishment of the offenders will not
sava the country from the shame involved by
the, men who have so entirely disgraced their
uniform and brought obloquy to the service.
' Munich it reported to be in a state of civil
war. Bavarians seemingly not having had
enough of fighting. If they use up their ani
mosity and ammunition alike on one another,
- they will save the Allies a lot of bother later on.
A baby born in'January is worth $100 more
'than one born in July, according to the revenue
bureau, but the dried-up accountants who live jn
the catacombs of the Treasury building; had
better consult with the parents before they in
sist, on making this rule general.
Post Mortem
In an interview which Marshal Foch gave
to the war correspondents in Trier the other
day someone asked if the armistice had not
; been concluded too soon.
' "It was not possible to do otherwise," he re
' plied, "because the ' Germans gave us at once
' everything We asked for. The German high
' command was not ignorant of the fact that it
1 ' faced a colossal disaster. When it surrendered
everything was ready for an offensive in which
it would infallibly have succumbed. On the
14th we were to attack in Lorraine with 20
French divisions and six American divisions."
This brief utterance by the allied generalis
simo answers effectively those who, at home
and abroad, rent the air with their demands for
- . "unconditional surrender." They were shout
, ins for a phrase when they already had the
fact.r The Germans did surrender uncondition
' ally. ..... .
. It answers, too, the possible suspicion lurk
. ing in some minds that the Germans were
Muffed into that surrender, that the assaulting
forces assembled in Lorraine for the battle that
.lt was never fought were like' an uncalled hand.
,. But . the fighting that ended the war' last No
vember was not that kind of poker. The time
for bluffing had passed. The cards were on the
"table. It was stud. Each side already had
three cards showing. Ours were all aces.
Theirs , were two weak hearts and a black king
. a very black king. To have played out the
hand would have been an idle gesture, a waste
ot' time. The hand was won. The game was
no. Stars and Srtipes, France.
DEBATING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
As might have been expected, the debate on
the League of Nations is becoming quite gen
eral, and some notable contributions are added
as a result of Washington's birthday observ
ances. None of these will have more weight
than that of Dr. David Jayne Hilt, whose ex
perience as a diplomat and whose standing as
a historian entitles his views to great respect.
Dr. Hill finds in the constitution of the
league much to commend, but, like most Amer
ican critics, halts at surrender of our traditional
policy, even for so great a purpose as to se
cure world-peace. He sees danger in our par
ticipation in European affairs, and nothing that
is reassuring in permitting Europe to interfere
in purely American questions. These are the
points on which argument turns, and to which
the whole debate must be reconciled.
Senator Borah frankly admits the right of
the American public to abandon an old and take
on a new policy at any time. He does not, for
this reason, concede that discussion is to be
omitted because the chief magistrate of the re
public is committed to the change proposed.'
Other senators have similarly expressed them
selves. These take equal issue with Mr. Taft,
who has thoroughly committed himself to the
president's plan.
It is for Americans to determine if they are
ready to give over all insularity, and assume a
part in the affairs of Europe, at the same time
conceding to Europe a part In home affairs.
Will we be content to submit our future. treaties
to the executive council of the League of Na
tions, and stand ready to assist in enforcing the
decrees of that council? This decision! affects
our internal as well as our external relations.
The president will directly address the coun
try on Monday, when his reasons and argu
ments will be presented. After that the discus
sion will probably be more general, but it is
certain that the unanimity he met in his war
plans will not support him in his peace efforts.
Poor Start on Economy.
Dropping the appropriation for the support
of the federal employment service seems a poor
start on a program of economy to whjch Mr.
Swager Shirley pledged himself. Yet he
has returned to the house from his committee
on appropriations the sundry civil bill with the
provision for the employment bureau omitted.
It is, of course, quite within the possibilities
that the omission be corrected. Not one of the
innumerable extraordinary activities of the gov
ernment in war time more thoroughly and com
pletely justified its existence than did the em
ployment bureau. It was hastily organized, and
perhaps it has not functioned with the precision
that might have been desired, but it has been
effective and is capable of such reorganization
as will make it of even greater service, For
many years efforts had been made to secure
the establishment of such an urgency for bring
ing together the jobless man and the manless
job. It has interfered with the operation of
private employment agencies only, and from
these comes the chief opposition to its con
tinuance. In a recent report the statement was
made that the free federal employment agency
had within the last year secured jobs for men
and women to an extent that fees collected for
the service by private agencies would have
amounted to $10,000,000. This sum was saved
to the workers. The democrats will be putting
some ornamental touches to their record of
blundering if they now kill this needed bureau,
just as it is becoming really useful. "
Respect for the Law.
Senator Jones of Washington voices' disap
proval of any effort on part of the anti-prohibitionists
to set aside or in any way nullify the
national dry amendment or any of the state dry
laws. He looks on the course of the "wets" as
one tending to bring all law into disrepute. The
lack of respect for the law, he points out, is a
menace to our existence as a nation. What he
says in an academic way is correct enough. Yet
only a few days ago th- senator sat in the
chamber while a number of members unspar
ingly criticized army courts that had sought to
punish soldiers who had disobeyed army rule
and direct orders. He did not at that time lift
bis voice in defense of the law. This incon
sistency is not alone a characteristic of the
Washington senator, but touches the whole
body of the people. Disregard for law is an
American trait, seemingly inherent It has
been troublesome in the past, is a danger at
present, and may bring us sorrow in the future.
But the senate of the United States could well
afford to set an example by giving support to
rather than sympathy against the constituted
authorities. If the law is wrong change it, but
respect for law is not increased by scolding
people for not obeying one, and tacitly en
couraging resistance to another.
Tea Tippling Replacing Dram Drinking.
What a perverse lot we are, and how we con
nive secretly to defeat earnest efforts to im
prove our condition. Morally and physically
we tend to wickedness as sparks fly upward. No
sooner had the agents of the uplift toppled the
Rum Demon from his pedestal, tharrwe set up
another in his stead. Where the sparkling
punch bowl once gleamed, now the bubbling
samovar sends forth its mystic vapor to allure
and seduce the wavering soul. Since four years
ago the annual increase in consumption of tea
in the United States has been 4,000,000 pounds
a year. At the stated daily consumption of .4
of an ounce by each slave of the samovar, this
indicates an annual increase of rather more
than 400,000 addicts. These are coming in for
some consideration just now, although their
case will not be seriously taken up till some of
the more pressing business is attended to, but
they may go ahead in confidence that they will
be saved in turn. Then will it come to pass,
maybe, that we will all do what we ought to do,
and leave undone the things we ought not to
do, and only health will be found in us. .
Members of congress who are seeing things
because farmer boys are being held in the army
ought. to listen for a moment to Secretary
Houston, who tells us that last year American
farmers cultivated forty million acres more
than they had ever done before, and most of
the boys were in the army then.
With little armies scattered about in unex
pected places, peppering passersby with indis
criminating impartiality, travel in Europe has a
flavor that ought to keep folks at home without
necessitating passport restrictions. .
The Canadian border may be an example of
good treaty-making, but it was made between
two nations, sincerely bent on maintaining
friendship, and sever submitted to a "league."
Vieivs and Revieivs
If Colonel "Bill", Would Only
Repeat for the Home Folks
It must have been one grand and glorious
day for our esteemed compatriot and fellow son
of Nebraska, Colonel "Bill" Hayward, when he
marched up the "avenoo" at the head of his
dusky regiment of "bloodthirsty black fight
ers," as they were dubbed by the Huns, who
had to take their onslaughts when the battle
was on. The New York papers picture Colonel
"Bill" in a tin hat beaming like a billionaire
trudging along without a limp despite his lame
ankle just to show how he could keep ahead of
the best of 'em, and was not to be classed with
the cripples who rode in automobiles. The
New York World's story of the reception is
graphic in the extreme. "At the head of the
line." it says, "rode four platoons of police 12
abreast, and then, afoot and alone, Colonel Hay
ward, who organized the 15th, drilled them
when they had nothing but broomsticks to drill
with, fathered them and loved them and turned
them into the fightingest military organization
any man's army could want. The French
called them 'Hell Fighters.' The Germans,
after a few mixups, named them 'Blutlustige
Schwartz-maenner. - But Colonel Bill, when he
speaks of them, uses the words, 'those scrap
ping babies of mine,' and they like that best of
all. Incidentally, they refer tenderlv to him as
"Old Bill, that fightin' white man." So it's fifty
fifty." It further disclosed that of the 2,992
paraders, 171 wore the "Croix de Guerre" deco
ration and the organization as a whole had been
twice cited as indicated by the bronze token
with green and red ribbons attached to the
regimental colors. And to think Colonel Bill
tried to break into the Spanish-American war,
succeeded as a captain of a Nebraska City
company but got no further than Chickamauga
Park! If he could only parade that regiment
of his in their war togs up the main street of
Nebraska City today wouldn't they try to make
up in appreciation for lost time. Come on back
Colonel Hayward and let the home folks look
at you.
I have a fine chatty letter from Major Amos
Thomas, who is now doing judge advocate duty
with the American forces at Treves, Germany.
While, not written for publication, the mayor
tells some things about himself and the work
he is doing that I know are in no way confiden
tial and will be of general interest to friends as
giving an insight into certain phases of our oc
cupation of Germany:
"I am very nicely situated here in com
mand of the First battalion, general head
quarters military police, of 20 officers and
600 men. In addition, I am provost marshal
for the city, and also provost court for the
city. In other words, I am policeman and
fiolice court. I deal with the civil population
argely, and try about 50 cases a week. My
court does not stand on technicalities in the
matter of pleadings or evidence. I try to get
the facts, even if I have to permit the asking
of a leading question without the proper foun
dation. While I wouldn't want to say that
the Hun is presumed to be guilty when he is
brought into court, the fact is that out of 50
cases tried this week there was only one ac
quittal, and sentences become effective as
soon as pronounced.
"Rather than try to tell you about the city,
I am enclosing a little pamphlet that gives a
very good description of the town. I imag
ine during peace times a great many tourists
visited the place, as it is a very attractive, up
to date, modern city, with a rather mild cli
mate. I am spending a more comfortable
winter here than I did last year at Camp
Dodge.
"We have little trouble with the inhabi
tants. In fact, they are so very decent to the
American troops that they are strongly sus
picioned of indulging in propaganda to turn
usagainst the French. It is not necessary
to say that our treatment of the enemy is en
tirely different from the treatment he accord
ed his vanquished foes. We have so thor
oughly acquired the habit of paying for every
thing we use and respecting property rights
that we seem to be following about the same
policy here as elsewhere. We are sometimes
criticised for the reason that the Hun does
not, and cannot, comprehend such treatment.
He knows but one policy the iron fist, both
in the civil and military.
"I" find the Hun to be an awful baby
Practically everyone I try for crime cries like
a child and always puts up some sort of a
pitiful tale to secure mercy. If he thinks he
has the upper hand, however, conditions are
entirely different. I think Germany is very
short of foodstuffs. The people look under
fed. They haven't the ruddy, healthy com
plexions you expect to see here, but they al-,
ways keep up a good appearance, seem to
have plenty of paper money and are ready to
start merchandising at the earliest possible
moment.
"The German people, I believe, expect to
resume their former trade relatione when
peace is declared. They do not seem to be
able to understand that they have done any
thing they should be required to pay or atone
for. It seems beyond them.
"I am very anxious to be released from
active service, and again resume my law prac
tice. I think a high percentage of the offi
cers desire to return to civil life. My work
is very pleasant and interesting. My battal
ion enjoys the reputation around here of be
ing one of, if not the crack, organizations
of its kind in the American expeditionary
forces, and we have every accommodation
for comfortable quarters, plenty of plain food
and good equipment. The commissioned
personnel I have under me, and those above
me with whom I come in contact, is the finest
I have met in my 21 months of service." .
A Great Renunciation
Of all self-denying ordinances and solemn
leagues and covenants against evil, that ot the
New York Federation of Women s Clubs
against women's evening gowns designed by
designing men and that "have led fashion to
the extreme limit of indecency,' and are hav
ing a most demoralizing effect upon the youth
of the country," is the most stringent, ascetic
and nobly virtuous. The members of the ted
eralion, it seems, are to "set their hearts like
flint and refuse to wear the gowns, no matter
how becoming they are I" This is the topnotch
of feminine altruism, and few there be that
find it. ... , ,
Since horrid man is notoriously blind to the
aestheticisms and refinements of female dress;
since he can but ignorantly worship some vague
added charm in that costume which the severer
sisters reprobate; since he is too dense to un
derstand the fantasies of women's dress, con
trived, the wise assure us, only to impress or
excite the envy of the once ruling sex, the fears
of the federation about the male "youth ot the
country" are unfounded.
To the stupid masculine mind woman s dress
is always charming, becoming, decent. Yet the
most obfuscated survivor of the dethroned sex
can't hide his wonder and admiration when he
hears of high female souls whose bodies are to
scorn, "no matter how becoming," female fash
ions. How can what is "indecent" be "becom
ing?" The federationists need a dictionary.
It is the way of this world of sin to say that
Puritans in petticoats never hate a mode in
which they have the faintest hope of looking be
comingly arrayed. New York Times.
They Used a Lot of Words.
The nation's four-minute men poured out an
jiggregate of 1,000,000 speeches in the several
lampaigns, each and every speech radiant with
eloquence, patriotism and pull. Their pull on the
money bag: was a caution.
Home Health Hints
Reliable advice given In this
column on prevention and
cure of disease. Put your ques
tion In plain language. Your
name will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Help You.
IIpullli of Returning Soldiers.
The eyes of the world are just now
focused on the relation of the re
turning soldier to social diseases.
Tho examination of enlisted and
drafted men showed an alarming
stale of affairs In this respect anion
our population; in fact, the Inci
dence of social disease was so sreat
that those In authority were oon
confronted with the alternative for
accepting for military service the
majority of those affected, or of con
fessing defeat in the rapid mobili
zation of a great army such as was
required to win the war. Larse
numbers of afflicted men were,
therefore, accepted, and treatment
was given at the various canton
ments. While under military con
trol all of our soldiers were sub
jected to disciplinary measures cal
culated to minimize both recurrent
and new Infections. If, therefore,
treatment in the army has been rea
sonably effective, and control of new
infections has been as excellent as
the reports from the surgeon gener
al's office Btate, then It would ap
pear there Is greater danger to the
returning soldier from social dis
eases from our civil population than
to our people from the returning
soldier.
But it Is not my purpose to dis
cuss this phase of the welfare of our
demobilized men; they have had far
greater opportunities of becoming
familiar with the above diseases
than was or will be possible to any
one In civil life. As a matter of
fact, attendance on lectures on so
cial diseases was made compulsory.
That part of their Instruction, there
fore, it can be taken for granted, has
been very well taken care of, and It
is up to them to profit from It and
act accordingly. What I wish to do
here is to add my voice to those who
see a far greater danger to the
health of the returning aoldier from
another source. It - Is this: The
urgent needs of the world war made
absolutely essential the Intensive
physical training of the soldiers.
Even those inured to physical exer
cise and hard work found the train
ing taxed their endurance often to
the point of exhaustion. Soldiers
that did not show a physical falling
after a brief training gradually re
sponded to the requirements, so that
in a comparatively short time those
in charge of training camps were
able to report an average increase
in weight among the troops. This
increase In weight under training
signifies two things principally, viz.,
enlarged and firmer musculature
and enhanced ability to absorb nu
trition. Now It Is a curious physi
cal phenomenon that when the nu
tritional capacity of the body is en
hanced by exercise it continues for
an indefinite period after the exer
cises are discontinued. This results
in the excess of food Ingested being
laid on as fat throughout the body.
Accompanying the laying on of fat
from food ingested, we have anoth
er source of fat in the Involution of
the muscles which were enlarged bv
exercise. Formation of fat is part
of the process of decrease In size
of muscles resulting from dis
use, and it is first deposited
within and between the mus
cles' fibers; In other words, the
passage from a condition of ' great
physical exertion to one of compar
ative inactivity is characterized by
a fatty degeneration of muscles ana
organs that were enlarged to meet
the needs of that exertion. And
right here lies the greatest danger
to the returning soldier; the danger
of not very gradually resuming his
pre-soldier days. If he would not
put his future health In Jeopardy he
must needs devote part of each day
for some months to physical exer
cise. These he can gradually lessen
over the months until only so mucn
is practiced as Is required by his
place in life. In this way he may
avoid the commonest sequel to spor
adic soldiering, viz., a weak, and
often permanently, crippled heart.
Cost of Preventable Sickness
A recent survey of five townships
in Dutchess county, made by the
State Charities Aid association, dis
closed the fact that preventable sick
ness was costing the county at a con
servative estimate $412,000 a year In
actual money, to say nothing of con
tinued invalidism, bereavement and
loss of productive power to the com
munity which could not be estima
ted. A close study was made of
1,600 cases of serious illness and it
was estimated that the county was
losing 9,000 working days by men
and women, and 13,700 school days,
and that these two items alone were
costing the community $25,000 a
year. Report Dutchess County (N.
Y.) Health Association.
Problem of the Mental Defective.
Mental defectiveness is hereditary
and constitutional, and consequently
not amenable to our preachings,
asylums, reformatories, penitentiar
ies, etc. We must ever bear in mind
that each year a new quota of de
fectives is born with statistical reg
ularity. They pass through the
hands of parents, then the peda
gogues, the theologians, the physi
cians, the social workers, the em
ployers, the courts, the prisons, and
back on society, each one in turn
passing them up to the next, and no
one willing to acknowledge their im
poteney in the face of mental defec
tiveness. Hickson.
Treatment For the Itch.
What do you recommend for the
Itch? R. ti.
The itch is due to a very minute
parasite which burrows into the
skin. As its principle activities are
performed at night, it is then that
the most Intense itching is experi
enced. Treatment: Scrub the obvious
bites thoroughly (using a brush)
with green soap and hot water, then
after drying, using another brush,
rub in thoroughly a mixture of two
parts of balsam Peru and one part
of castor oil. Make the applications
several successive nights, and always
put on clean night clothes. For the
irritation remaining after cure, use
zinc oxide ointment.
1 TODAY
The Pay We Celcbrnte.
Alexander P. Thomson, of Par
triilne and Thomson company, born
1850.
Herbert A. Dowd. cashier in the
I'nited States internal revenue of
fice, born 1859.
Vice Admiral Henry R Wilson, tT.
S. N., who has been seriously 111 in
Kngland. born in New Jersey, 08
years ago.
Sir George Cave, who held the
post ot home secretary in the late
Uritish government, born in London,
63 years ago.
Royal Meeker, United States com
missioner of labor statistics, born in
Susquehanna county, Pa., 46 years
Dr. John H. Vincent, retired
bishop of the M. E. church, famous
as the founder of the Chautauqua
.....x.-. hnm ut Timcalnnsa A In...
S7years ago.
Jonathan uourne, rornier i.imra
Ptates senator from Oregon, born at
New Bedford, Mass., 64 years ago.
In Omnlin 30 Years Ago.
John A. MacMurphy, late 'of the
"Hoof and Horn," ie planning to
open up in mercantile business in
South Omaha.
Wholesale butter quotations are:
Creamery, fancy print, 24 to 26c a
pound; choice, solid packed, 15 to
17c a pound; dairy, fancy roll, 17 to
19c a pound; good 12 to 14o a pound.
Wholesale egg quotations, strictly
fresh, 11 to 12c a dozen.
Since the ice season opened 1,825
cars have been taken from Carter
Lake, making In all 91,000,000
pounds and it is thought at best
only 65 per cent of the demand can
be supplied before a frost sets in.
Chief Seavey has posted 12 new
rules in the police station, the most
important one providing that the
cells must be swept and scrubbed
every day and the walls and ceil
ings whitewashed every week.
AROUND THE CITIES.
Work on the new union station In
Chicago has been started again. The
war is over and the railroads in
terested are loosening up.
Philadelphia proposes to raise a
fund of $2,000,000 to finance a war
memorial in the form of a Temple
of Victory to be built on the Park
way. An average of $1 a head will
do it handily.
A quartet of youthful burglars,
three of them under 18 years, have
been captured by Chicago police. A
record of 30 store robberies and $32,
000 worth of loot recovered testifies
to the skill of the leader, 24 years
old, in picking apt and obedient
pupils from the local school of
Fagins.
Advance notice from Chicago land
lords promise tenants a rent boost
of from 10 to 20 per. cent, begin
ning May 1. Sixty days is sufficient
to let the announcement Bink in. At
the same time the city council com
mittee on finance recommends that
legislative approval be sought for a
raise in city taxes from $1.10 per
$100 of assessed valuation to $2.
Landlords hope to get the money
first and Jingle It awhile before the
tax gatherer gets his work in.
Baltimore is sore in all sectors of
its anatomy. For some years past
townspeople took recreation and en
joyment out of Sundays, among
other things the harmless sport of
ball games. To the straight-laced
the ball and the club and the crowds
spelled perdition and straightway
sought legal action to squelch the
sinful practice. The state supreme
court has Just decided the games are
unlnwfnl fnvnliinff a hills law 200
years old to sustain the ruling.
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
Washington Post: Insolence from
the Hun helps to prevent the alliee
from scrapping among 'themselves.
Minneapolis Tribune: Something
in the sound suggests It might be a
good thing to let the late kaiser go
to Heligoland.
Philadelphia Ledger: The world
prefers in the sunshine of the new
day to make hay instead of provid
ing cannon fodder.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: The
shooting of the Roumanian king is
ano.ther reminder that kings are be
coming easy marks.
Brooklyn Eagle: "Barriers around
renascent industries," as the French
put the expression, has a strangely
familiar sound. "Protection to in
fant industries" was its American
prototype, now wholly lost in the
shuffling of the cards.
Baltimore American: The time is
apparently advancing when it will
be at the risk of jail a man will kiss
hiswife or mother her child on Sun
day. And the blue laws go on get
ting bluer until suddenly the public
patience will give out and they will
become too red hot to handle.
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
Time saving sharps on the Penn
sylvania lines report that the fashion
of titrht skirts spells a loss of 17
seconds at every station stop.
Something of the kind has oeen
noted before. A profusion of clocks
tends to confuse train hands.
Just as countrymen were getting
next to tne line points 01 mo ca.mei
family some heartless cuss smudges
the enchantment of distance and
smothers the Impulses of affection.
The ungainly water wagon carries a
kick like a trip-hammer, which
would be an object of suspicion on
a dry road. Another idol shattered.
The failure of the groundhog to
show himself and measure his shad
ow on the appointed day drew from
the founts of publicity In the middle
west the finest line of free advertis
ing ever featured in February. The
famous poacher on the preserves of
weather prophets has all rivals beat
en in general esteem.
Some bumptious crusaders of re
cent vintage claim credit for giving
the water wagon its winning start. A
daring woman in Milwaukee, Mrs.
Louisa K.Thiers, 104 years old, boldly
swats the kid claimants by showing
that her father, Beth Capron, drove
the wagon to the front back in 1822.
Capron lead Neal Dow by 25 years,
and that is going some for a Milwau
kee man.
A staid and solemn pedagogue in
a Philadelphia school looked an in
terrogation point at a misa who
asked to change her studies from
stenography to domestic science.
"May I ask the reason?" he whisper
ed. "Yes," she replied, blushing the
while. "He's a soldier and he's Just
back home. He's waiting outside.
Must I bring him in?" The peda
gogue shook his head and let it go
at that.
ODE ON LOWELL CENTUARY.
Lift up thin eyes, Sad Earth,
From contemplation o( tha years of wrong-,
Rhk the last tears away,
And through thy glistening lashes,
Ses how tha bright dawn flashes
On ths dark frontiers of another dar.
He. who was born a hundred years ago.
Greets thee from out his sl'.ence,
He had hl share In that great answer
Of ths milllon-throat?d, Nn
To tho lmse-plot for Freedom's overthrow;
All lovers of dlvlnest Libert
Were present In that Concord;
And Lowell's voice, free.
With the freedom of two nations.
Vibrated In that trumpet tons;
How could that soul oe allye snd salon
Who nourished Freedom in her direst
need?
Watcher pf the world's turbid tide.
He found our faults; Truth wii bis only
nrlde.
But Truth had taken Humor by the hand
For Counsel, that she might understand,
Ills mind was cheered and lit
Itv the still silver Ismps of elder days:
He pierced the gloom of many a clinging
haze
With arrows of burning wit;
He knew that Thought Is master of Deed.
He dwelt in mansions with tha Lords of
ThouKht,
And by their wisdom we are freed.
m
Thought flies before tha Ventura,
Prompting with lonoly Impulss
As It mova and breathes;
W hen the deed is fact.
And Victor-laughter crowns the act.
Thought heaps the dlnRlng portal
With the roses and tha w-eaths;
When they are sad
Thought summons a few' wordit,
Clear with light and tha songs of birds.
Graves them on gold:
The deed Is. made Immortal!
Come, let us dream ths dream
That Milton and Shelley,
That Lowell and Whitman dreamed.
Prompting ths Future with our thought;
Then, when tha deed '.a wrougnt.
The thinkers who come after
Will Join their thoueht with ours
And crown ths event;
Liberty Justified of her roots and flowers:
Then we, with silence bbnt.
Shall feel tha Vlrtor-laughU'r
Thrill all our silence, anl shall ba well
content.
DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT.
Quaint Bits of Life
The whale t said to yield a barrel
of milk at a milking. But what hap
pens to the milker if she gets care
less with her tall?
One of the most costly buildings
In Benares is a temple for the recep
tion of monkeys, which are held
sacred by the followers of Brahma. ,
As a beet-puller, Mrs. William Inh,
of Findlay, O., thinks she beats the
world. In Just two weoka Rhe pulled
32 tons of beets, topped them, and
had them in the sugar factory.
By transplanting young trees up
side down so that the branches will
develop roots ami the roots leaves,
an English railroad has produced
small shade trees in less time than
ordinarily.
China had women soldiers long be
fore they were know in Russia.
During the Tae ring rebellion, IS 50,
women, as well as men, served in the
ranks. In Nanking, 1853, an army
of 600,000 women was recruited.
In Turkestan every wedding en
gagement begins with the payment
of a substantial consideration to the
girl's parents. If the girl jilts her
lover the engagement gift has to th
returned, unless the parents hav
another daughter to give as a sub
stitute.
In ancient times the country nov
known as Portugal was called Ltiai
tunla. The present name is derived:
from Porto Callo. the original ap
pellation of Oporto, which has evc
been the chief commercial city of the
country.
i&tPKGiis or
hsm Kgspccir
A well conducted funeral la a token of
reaped to the deceased. Our mnthoils f
conducting a funeral have given un an op
portunity to serve you in a manner that
will command your respect. W are
equipped to serve you satisfactorily.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor (Established 1888)
17th and Cuming Sts. Douglas 1060
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