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Balloons also break away in Washington.
Goodby, February. You've been right good.
Von Hinder.burg hopei to take Berlin, hav
ing failed to capture Paris.
The next order of business in Nebraska will
be to overhaul the planting machinery.
"Dan" Butler is also having trouble with the
legislature. He ought to concentrate his fire.
Pity the sorrow of the poor iceman, but
remember what he will do to you next summer.
Negotiations at Spa may have been inter
rupted, but the Yankee watch on the Rhine still
is vigilant.
Governors and mayors will be next to get
their orders as to what to do while the presi
dent is abroad.
A Paris correspondent says delegates to the
peace conference are drifting. They can't go
very far, however.
Seems funny, the Nebraska congressmen did
not go to the Washington headquarters of the
World-Herald for instructions as to how to vote
on the speakership.
Some of the country legislators appear to
know a hawk from a handsaw when it comes
to making laws "for Omaha."
"Norm" Hapgood's summertime acquaintance
with the president has now ripened into the job
of being minister to Denmark. It pays to be
patient.
The cigar dealers are now about to pass the
buck to the smoker again, a tax of $1 per thou
sand taking the form of a 2-cent increase in the
irice of a smoke.
The British Board of Trade and food ad
ministration might save a lot of time if they
would adopt the Colvcr trade commission re
port on the packers.
Every real American will congratulate Nurse
McDonald on receiving the distinguished serv
ice medal, proud that such women as her were
in the service with the boys over there.
The country will be a Sahara all right, after
July 1, if the house bill defining what liquors
are prohibited goes through. The call for
raisins and yeast will be more general than ever.
Princess Pat picked a war hero, and stepped
down to the rank of a mere "lady" by doing so.
Some day she will realize that being wife and
mother is the highest rank mortal woman can
attain.
The number of bills coming out of commit
tee Seclusion in Washington indicates that the
president's scolding hat stirred up a lot of in
dolent democrats. It is too late to pass most
of them.
Of course the democrats blame the repub
licans for the failure to do business in congress.
With control of both branches, all committees
and the entire machinery, the bourbons still hold
the minority responsible.'
Wilson and Taft are to talk from the same
platform in New York on Tuesday night. That
cfaght to be. some attraction. It will not be a
debate, however, for they are both on the same
side of the question involved.
Another demobilization center has been
closed, bringing the big work closer to the de
barkation points. Every move in this direction
emphasizes the blunder made when the draft
boards were relieved of the duty.
The Nebraska senate thinks it knows what
is needed in the way of language regulations for
-The public schools, and so cheerfully locks horns
with the house in conference. Out of the whole
muddle a workable law ought to emerge.
A. Mitchell Palmer steps from the job of
alien property custodian to that of attorney gen
eral. If he makes as good in the latter as he
did in the former place, the country will have
cause to congratulate itself on at least one wor
thy cabinet officer,
German People At School
Marshal Foch's successive hardenings of
the terms of the armistice as it is extended are
at last beginning to convince the German peo
ple -that they have been beaten in the war and
thoroughly beaten. Maximilian Harden at home
is now instructing the German people that it
was not the entente which started the war, but
their own government and kaiser, who in par
ticular is responsible for the "methods of war
for which the world will never pardon him."
Mr. Harden's scheme of instruction is less
forcefully persuasive than Marshal Foch's, but
it is likely in the end to have effects almost as
salutary. , The German people were deceived
from the start, and systematically deceived.
Their government, he says in effect, lied to them
about the invasion of Belgium, as in anticipa
tion of what France and England would have
done. It lied to them when it told them that
, Germany had been attacked and was acting on
the defensive. It lied to them in every step
taken to keep alive their hatred of peoples in
resistance to their government's wicked aggres
sions. Thirty years of militaristic teaching had
poisoned their youth and its spirit had soaked
into the whole body of them, and a mind to the
truth was no longer in them.
It is a hard school in which the German
people are now being compelled to learn. The
instruction is becoming painful. But it is an
instruction in truth and no more in lies and a
false philosophy of life, and it is truth alone and
a full realization of it that can set the German
people free. Jjew York Vorl4
LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND EUROPE.
President Wilson's statement that, failing
the League of Nations, Europe will fall into
, worse chaos and turmoil than now exists, does
not seem to be the pat way of stating the case.
It is more nearly exact to say that the carrying
out of the plan as now proposed will hasten
the restoration of orderly life in Europe. Con
ditions could scarcely be worse than now. Prac
tically two-thirds of the population of Europe
have no responsible government; are without
control or protection, and involved in such con
fusion as defies understanding. The League of
Nations is looked upon as the agency through
which the affairs of the disturbed peoples will
be set right.
This does- not alone concern Germany and
Russia. Problems presented by these countries
must be dealt with separately and after the
smaller nations have been put on a business
basis. First of the jobs will be to effect some
sort of composition among the Balkan peoples
and to bring the governments of the emerged
nations into effective operation. The Balkan
settlement will not be so difficult, perhaps, when
the people are given to understand that the so
lution will be founded on justice, and that all
equitable claims will be adjusted in such way
as work neither harm nor hardship to any.
When it is considered that for generations these
peoples have purposely been kept at daggers
with one another, for the selfish interest of the
great powers of Europe, it may be believed that
the removal of this influence and the exertion
of mild pressure in behalf of peace will be
responded to in such way as will justify the
league here, if nowhere else.
Poland, Czecho-SIovakia, Ukrainia, Es
thonia, and the other old or new nations com
ing out from under German and Russian domi
nation, can be dealt with more easily through
a league of the great powers than by any other
means. They will respond to the promptings
that come from such source, when they would
not likely listen to counsel that might be con
sidered as being that of an interested party.
And when order is set up in a broad zone di
viding the disorder of Russia from that of Ger
many, the very fact will aid materially in end
ing the chaos in the now dismantled empires.
More complex justification for the league
could hardly be asked- than is provided by
European conditions and possibilities. Old
forms and governments have been swept away
'there, and new ones are to come. Along with
these should come different relations between
the peoples. Political life as well as social and
economic life should respond to the impulse,
and Europe may cease to be a maelstrom of
strife and come into existence as tranquil as
that of the New World.
Crowder Spikes a Bomb.
One of the high explosive missiles the op
ponents of an army had to use in their cam
paign of offense was the record of the courts
martial. General Crowder has touched this off,
but without the effect the schemers had antici
pated. In his capacity as judge advocate gen
eral of, the army, he takes the edge off the dis
closures made by General Ansell, assistant
judge advocate general, to the senate committee.
General Ansell left the impression that a
number of atrocious sentences, inflicted by the
army courts, were being carried out, and that
great injustice was being endured by the vic
tims. General Crowder makes it clear that the
sentences imposed by the trial courts are being
carefully reviewed, and that the cases in which
it appears injustice has been done are being
handled in a way to relieve the situation. Pen
alties are modified or set aside entirely. For
example, in 1,200 cases where dishonorable dis
charge had been recommended by the court, the
sentence had been set aside and the soldier re
turned to duty. In many other cases the sever
ity of the penalty has been reduced, so that the
culprit is asked to undergo a minimum punish
ment. General Crowder makes it plain that insub
ordination must be severely dealt with in order
to maintain discipline and military efficiency,
but he also makes it clear that the American
army does not propose, to exact the utmost in
the way of punishment from any soldier. His
testimony before the senate committee sheds a
different light on the whole situation.
Incidentally, the secret orders of the secre
tary of war as to the treatment to be accorded
to conscientious objectors clears up a situation
that was otherwise somewhat muddled. As ap
plied to those who from religious conviction
opposed making war, the instructions were both
humane and prudent; when political agitators
sought to take advantage of this generous at
titude on part of the secretary of war, trouble
began.
What About the Railroads?
When Mr. Wilson addressed the congress
in December, he referred the railroad question
to its attention specifically. The executive, he
said, had no recommendation to make, but
asked that the legislators give it especial con
sideration, and find a solution for the problem.
Mr. McAdoo suggested in his valedictory that
the control be extended for five years instead
of twenty-one months after the close, of the
war. Nothing has been done. But Mr. Walker
D. Hines, successor to Mr. McAdoo, is now
before congress asking for $7SO,000,000 in ad
dition to the $300,000,000 already set aside to
keep the railroads running. This billion and
a quarter, Mr. Hines says, is absolutely re
quired that the railroad administration can dis
charge its obligations to the companies whose
property was taken over. The $200,000,000 defi
cit in operation for 1918 will probably be du
plicated by the experience of 1919. It is
hardly necessary to enlarge upon these figures.
They tell the story. If government "control"
costs a billion and a quarter in a year in spite
of all the economies enforced and savings made
that were denied to the owners and - were
achieved at expense to public convenience,
what may be looked for unless some limit is set
to the dictator's activity?
The democrats have turned to Connecticut
to get a real politician to succeed Vance Mc
Cormick as chairman of their national commit
tee. , It is almost certain that Mr. Cummings
will not put over as much "raw" work as did
his predecessor. He has the reputation of being
of a smoother variety.
Seven Spanish anarchist suspects escaped the
federal clutches in New York because the de
tectives had been overzealous. Some day the
thief-takers will learn to observe legal methods,
and then not so many of their prey will get
away because of their own blunders.
The New Wireless
H. Cernsback in Electrical Experimenter.
It will come. as a profound shock to all wire
Jess enthusiasts, scientific and amateur alike,
that their present-day notions on wirelesss are
totally erroneous and not based upon actual
facts. For years we clung to the theory that
a wireless message radiates from the aerial
wires of the sending station and speeds over
the surface of the earth through the ether to
wards the receiving station. We thought that
we were sending out pure Hertzian waves from
our transmitters. We thought that we received
these waves over the aerial wires of our receiv
ing station. All of these theories are wrong
and will be relegated shortly into the past along
with the early notion that the earth stood still,
while sun, moon and stars revolve around it.
Remain only the physical facts that we did
send and did receive messages without wires
but they are not sent by means of pure Hertz
waves, nor do they go by way of the ether as
radiations.
In a highly illuminating article Nikola Tcsla
explodes all of our present orthodox views as to
wireless propagation and makes it clear that the
earth is the sole medium through which our wire
less impulses travel, in the form of true conduc
tion. Particularly does this hold true for long
distance messages: Here we are sending out
a compound impulse three-quarters of which is
galvanic current, traveling through the conduct
ing earth, the other quarter or less is in the
form of Hertz waves, going by way of the
ether. This explains why we can send signals
to airplanes and vice versa; but even here we
probably have to do not with pure Hertz
waves; it is almost certain that we have capacity-inductive
effects as well.
Tesla maintaining that there can be no long
distance effects by radiations transmitted
through the ether, but rather by currents
through the earth, it follows that in his opinion
all our radio apparatus is designed and operated
faultily. Indeed, this is not a brand new idea
of the famous inventor. He has been preach
ing it ever since he took out his first patents
and described his system in 1893 long before
Marconi thought of wireless. But he was
preaching to a stone-deaf scientific world.
But how simple it all becomes when we stop
to apply a little reason and logic to Tesla's
claims. For instance, we can send radio im
pulses three to five times as far over salt water
as over land. Why? Simply because the im
pulses go through the water, which is a much
better conductor than earth alone. If we were
sending pure Hertzian waves, why do we con
nect one wire at both sending and receiving
station to the ground? Hertz never dreamt of
such a thing. If you are still unconvinced that
the earth is the chief medium of transmission,
disconnect your ground wires entirely and try
to send and receive. Now you may work with
Hertz waves, but the distances you can bridge
will be pitifully small.
Already Tesla's logic is filtering into our
radio scientists' minds. All the big stations are
beginning to scrap their towers and aerial
wires, at least for receiving. They now bury
their "aerial" wires in the ground, and lot they
can receive signals twice as far as before.. In
credible, but it is being done every day. And
wonders upon wonders how we will laugh af
our present and past blindness the static inter
ference is practically gone the minute we pull
our aerial wires down and bury theml Static
electricity? There never was a reason for hav
ing the bugaboo, for there is no "static" in the
ground.
But Tesla goes much farther. In time he
will show the world wireless power transmis
sion effected not by ether waves but by cur
rents through the earth, which is a first-rate
conductor. . Like all big things, the problem is
simple. At some point on the globe he will
erect a station powerful enough to charge the
whole earth with electricity and keep it
charged. To do this we need about 10,000 kilo
watts. Then at any point on the globe the cur
rent can be tapped by means of suitable appar
atus. Like a bell ringing transformer, con
nected to your supply line, no current is con
sumed unless you close the secondary circuit.
Tesla's world wireless works just that way. No
current is consumed, till it is tapped at the dis
tant receiving station.
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Townleyism and the Red Flag
The action of the North Dakota nonpartisan
legislature in refusing to pass a law forbidding
display of the red flag had an echo in the elec
tion in Washington county, Minnesota, last
Thursday. Following the action of the North
Dakota legislature, Mr. Townley undertook to
make a speech in Stillwater in favor of Mr.
Wilcox. He referred to the action of the
North Dakota legislature and in effect indorsed
it
This performance by the head of the Non
partisan league had two interesting results. It
"spilled the beans" so far as Mr. Wilcox was
concerned, resulting in his defeat by 265 votes.
In the previous election his majority on the face
of returns was 35, but on the evidence of gross
misconduct by nonpartisan election officials, the
senate unseated Wilcox and ordered a new elec
tion. The misconduct in the first instance? oc
curred in Woodbury precinct, in which precinct,
in Thursday's election, in spite of the Townley
plea for the red flag and the proof of miscon
duct in the previous election, Wilcox got 230
votes, while Sullivan got 11. That is about all
that anybody wants to know about Woodbury.
The other point of interest was the official,
authorized, personal apology for the red flag in
a Minnesota election contest by the head of the
Nonpartisan league.
The mere record of this fact is sufficient
proof of the character of the people, or at
least of its leader, substantiates the charges
against it of disloyalty and illuminates again the
whole nonpartisan movement with its socialistic
tendencies within itself and its affiliation with the
socialists outside of the league. It is a thorough
ly socialistic institution and all those who be
long to it ought to understand that they are
aiding and supporting socialistic aims and pur
poses and helping to disseminate socialistic no
tions and socialistic principles throughout the
state. If that is what they want, they are in
the rigfit place; if that is not what they want,
they have no excuse for not getting out. Min
neapolis Tribune.
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The Day We Celebrate.
W. W. Slabaugh, assistant county attorney,
born 1856, will not observe his anniversary this
year. He is a leap year celebrator and will make
good in 1920.
E. C. Garvin of Garvin Brothers, born 1860.
Charles C Morrison, physician and surgeon,
born 1875.
Geraldine Farrar, who has become equally
famous as an opera singer'and motion picture
actress, born at Melrose, Mass., 37 years ago.
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, the noted medical
missionary to Labrador, born in England 54
years ago.
W. Bourke Cockran, celebrated New York
lawyer and orator, born in Ireland 65 years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Manager Selee of the Omaha base ball club
has signed George Proesser, who pitched last
season for Cleveland.
The commission firm of Troxell & Williams
is retiring from business.
At the meeting of the Omaha Homeopathic
Medical society these were in attendance: Drs.
C M. Dinsmoor, A. P. Hanchett, Amelia Bur
roughs, D. A. Foote, M. T. Breckenridge, R. W
Connell, F M. Langton. W. J. Willard, C. W.
Hayes, O. S. Wood, M. J. Chamberlain, W.
H. Hanchett, W. A. Humphrey and P. J. Mont
gomery. James O'Neill played the "Count of Monte
Cristo" at the Boyd and Creston Clark per
formed as "Hamlet" at the Grand.
With the help of the police, Miss May
Dundy recovered her magnificent mastiff
which had been placarded as lost or stolen.
S. O. E. A southerner by birth, a
westerner by circumstances and
choice; a mine owner in the west, a
clubman in the east: a scholarly
man, strong in speech, but prefer
ring silence. Such are the outstand
ing characteristics of HuKh O. Wal
lace, nominated by President Wilson
ns ambassador to France. OUjt in
Taconia, his home town, the ambassador-to-be
is rated as an A-l man
in ability, high character, gracious
in manners and personally popular.
Publicity has no attractions for him.
He shuns it. For him the qutet life
has the greater charm, and this ex
plains why the public generally ask
ed, "Who is Wallace?" when nomi
nated for the post at Paris. Yet he
haa made several diplomatic trips to
Europe at the rafluest of the presi
dent, doubtless performing his tasks
in a manner to win the present hi(?h
reward. Mr. Wallace is in his 56th
year.
Just 2S years ago, February 21,
1891, Mr. Wallace, then a young man
of 28, was the guest of honor of the
New "frork Southern society. Re
sponding to the toast, "The South
erner in the West," he paid this
tribute to Jhe pioneer empire build
ers: "For more than 100 years upon
this continent, a silent army has been
marching from the east toward the
west. No silken banners have waved
above it, and no blare of trumpets or
beat of drum has heralded its prog
ress. And yet its conquests have
been grander than those of Peru or
Mexico, its victories more glorious
than those of Marengo or Friedland,
or of Austerlitz. It has subdued an
empire richer than the Indies with
out inflicting the cruelties of Cllve,
or the exactions of Hastings, and
that empire is today, Mr. President,
a part of your heritage and mine."
Today this speech, of which the
quoted words are only a paragraph,
is Included in a collection of modern
eloquence selected and complied by
Edward Everett Hale and Thomas
B. Reed: It is typical of his power
of painting a sublime truth on the
canvas '-of history.
Ime Star Senator Morris Shep
pard of Texas is a native of the state
and stands in the front line of dry
"favorite sons." He put the District
of Columbia on the dry map, though
it Is doubtful if he could get the
popular vote of Washington. Al
though not yet 44 years of age Shep
pard has served six terms in the
house of representatives, and one
term in the senate. To his individual
persistence and Insistence is due the
present advanced stage of national
prohibition.
Ole Hanson, the all-American
mayor of Seattle, who chased 54 bol
shevlkl out of town and to the de
portation station at New York, gives
the Brooklyn Eagle a terse outline
of law and order on the American
plan. "One cannot compromise with
wrong," he says. "The right thing
is always the best thing to do. A
man who will not leave his party for
the good of his country should be
forced to leave hie country for the
good ot all parties. We want to
abolish unearned wealth and unde
served poverty, give men opportunity
and opportunity will give you men.
Patriotism, love of country, desire
for freedom must not be lost sight of
in the race for gold. Our struggle
will not always be wise, but in the
struggle for freedom it Is always
noble."
Homer S. Cummings, chairman
elect of the democratic national com
mittee and successor of Vance C.
McCormack, hails from Stamford,
Conn. He is an easterner by educa
tion and association rather than by
birth, Chicago being his native city
and Yale his alma mater. A lawyer
by profession he combined politics
with the law and the "state of steady
habits" afforded as fine a variety of
the article aa bloom anywhere. Mr.
Cummings served as mayor of
Stamford, president of the local
board of trade, has been active In
state national politics, and was his
party's choice for United States sen
ator In 1918.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS
Minneapolis Tribune: The bar
berry is about aa popular in this
country today as an article marked
"Made in Germany."
Minneapolis Tribune: Asking ac
cess to the seas, the Swiss govern
mens lets it be known there is such
a thing as being too "dry."
Brooklyn Eagle: "Let us have
peace," said the victor of Vicksburg
and the Wilderness. "Let everybody
have peace" is a fitter rallying cry
for a nation that has become a world
power.
Baltimore American: So success
ful were women of wealth in the
management of food canteens that
possibly some of the retired muni
tionmakers will seek to employ them
in their kitchens.
Detroit Free Press: Don't try to
fool your conscience by cheering the
returning soldiers and forgetting to
pay your income tax. An income tax
evader hasn't much on any of the
other pro-Germans.
St. Louis Giobe Democrat: Fixing
the size of the standing army at
175,000 does not mean that there
will be no universal military train
ing. The country may decide that
it is "going to raise its boy to be a
soldier."
New York World: A bill pending
in the house grants a sum equivalent
to one month's clerk hire "to each
member of the Sixty-fifth congress
not elected to the Sixty-sixth con
gress." Will It take that long to ex
plain to their correspondents why
they are leaving Washington?
DAILY CARTOONETTE
MH-luETRiraEVEMTHIKfr
TO MAKE THIS CfiR(jO-BUTiT
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(While rousing the growing things
from their winter Bleep. Trine Bonnie
Blue Bell, Vtssy ana Hilly are attacked
by the Frost lmr. who rebel against re
turning; to the North Pole.)
CH.UTKR V.
A Dash for Safety.
T If US. KOBIN was already frozen
i stiff when Feggy snatched her
away from the Frost Imps, driving
them back with the blazing stick.
So was Air. liobln. A few more
She Hurled npr Toreh Into the
Midst of Them.
blasts of Icy breath from the mouths
of the Frost Imps would surely fin
ish him.
Now Peggy was in a quandary. In
one hand was Mrs. Robin: in the
other was the blazing torch with
M m.JT Jiff
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Plea for the Films.
Ravenna. Neb., Feb. 25. To the
Editor of The Bee: I see where they
are trying to make Nebraska a film
less state. Do they intend to take
all the enjoyment out of life? I see
the Omaha women are fighting the
movies. Now I wonder if they ever
go to a movie show and if they don't
like them that is no reason the ones
who do should not go. If I did not
like the picture shows, is that any
reason my next door neighbor should
not go? Don't they intend to let the
boys have any amusement when
they get back? The picture show is
all the amusement our town has.
Now the boys are coming back from
over there, do they intend to stop all
the enjoyment we have for them. I
bet one-half of the women fighting
the movies never had a son in war
and the other half are crankv old
maids, MRS. MARY SWEENEY.
Wliat Did tho Governor "Mean?
Bertrand, Neb., Feb. 25. To the
Editor of The Bee: Let me make a
few remarks about the governor's
speech in Omaha. Among other
things the governor said: "There is
a bill up before the legislature at
Lincoln which would make anyone
who opposes the laws of the state a
disloyalist. I think that is a good
bill."
What does he mean by the word
"opposes?" I do not believe in op
posing the law, or existing conditions
by violence or anarchism. There Is,
and I hope that there always will be.
a legal way to oppose a law if it
needs a change. Shall this legal
method of procedure be prohibited?
Then let this prohibitory law be ap
plied to all law-makers, too.
The proposed bill presupposes the
Idea that the law-makers have at last
become Infallible, and that the judg
ment of the people shall be muzzled
by calling It disloyalty. It seems as
they never read of the autocratic
conditions of Russia before the war.
Then no one but a few autocratic
bosses had the right to say anything.
It is good and well to have a strong
centralized government, but if it im
plies that the individuals must sell
out their personal freedom to a stated
mind or soul, there is great danger
ahead of us.
Is that the lesson learned from the
war? Is this the way of making the
world safe for democracy? Why do
not the candidates come before the
public with their proposed program
or laws? If the legislators are the
servants of the people as they really
are, let them find out what the peo
ple want by a referendum vote? If
the people would get a chance to ex
press themselves on some of the
bills up before the present legisla
ture, the law-makers would be sur
prised. Why shall it be necessary for
the people to stick around the halls
of the capitol in order to protest, to
watch, and guard their rights? What
would happen, had we not our
American constitution? We need to
guard it these days, it seems. I
doubt that such a document could be
produced today. Thanks to God for
our democratic form of government,
for the ballots, the people have a
right to cast and thereby correct
rash fellows. The people after all
have a right to rule.
But what in the name of common
sense does tho governor mean by
such statements? What is meant by
such a bill? The people of the state
have a right to know.
E. J. ELLMAN.
The League of Nations.
Omaha. Feb. 24. To the Editor
of The Bee: This is no time for
America to take a backward step In
international affairs and the ques
tion Is not in aliy sense a partisan
one.
America has built herself up
from the few sparsely populated
colonies in 1760 to the richest,
strongest and most progressive na
tion on earth, not by the assistance
of any foreign nation, but in spite of
the aggression of foreign nations,
and you may open the pages of his
tory anywhere and It is very easy
to see what foreign nation has been
the most potent aggressor.
' The daily newspapers which are
endeavoring to "mould" public senti
ment to un-American ideas will
surely find that the day of retribution
is not far distant and that oblivion
will overtake them with greater
dispatch (than their rise in popular
ity has been. A great number of
newspapers in America appear to
have bartered with some foreign
element to the extent that they have
lost all American expression. Let
them go where they belong.
L. J. HARRIS.
which to keep the Frost Imps at a
pufe distance, and at her feet lay
Mr. Robin. She couldn't pick up
Mr. Robin without laying down the
torch, thus becoming defenseless
against the Frost Imps. She couldn't
leave Mr. Rubin to curry Mrs. Robin
to safety, for the Frost Imps would
get after him again. The Imps saw
her difficulty and danced around her
in high glee.
Then Peggy surprised them. She
hurled her torch into the midst of
them, sending them howling as they
tried to dodge the hot flame. She
snatched up Mr. Robin, and with a
bird in each hand, dashed for the
protection of the brush heap fire.
At the same time Prince Bonnie
Blue Bell took a hand in the ex
citement. Jumping into the chariot,
he drove his team of White Rabbits
full tilt Into the Frost Imps, knock
ing them right and left. This gave
Peg-fry time to reach the protecting
warmth of the fire. The Frost Imps
could freeze Prince Bonnie Blue Bell
in a hurry, but he tumbled them
over with his chariot so quickly, and
raced back to the fire so swiftly, that
by the time they recovered he waa
safe again. All the Frost Imps could
do was to yell: "Kl yl! Kl yl," and
wait for the fire to burn Itself out
And the fire was burning itself
away so rapidly that Billy was wor
ried. By the time General Croaker
and Mr. and Mrs. Robin were thaw
ed out, the brush heap waa only a
mass of blazing embers. Seeing this
the Frost Imps drew nearer.
"Kl yi! We will soon turn you
into dead Icicles!" they shrieked
In a way that made Peggy ahiver.
Billy looked anxiously around to
see If Another brush heap waa in
reach of a quick dash, but none was
in sight. Then his eyes turned to the
White Rabbits, to the chariot, to the
fire. '
"If we had started before all the
sticks burned up, we might have
made a dash through the Imps and
beaten them off with blazing clubs,"
he muttered. "But now we haven't
a single weapon to use against
them."
"You have your sun glass," Peggy
reminded him. Billy brightened up
at once.
"Good!" he shouted. "That'a
worth trying. At least we can per
ish fighting instead of waiting here
to be frozen. I wish we had more
burning glasses."
"I have a looking glass," answered
Peggy, digging down into her wrist
purse and bringing out a little
mirror, "Will that do?"
"No that will not make a burning
ray," said Billy. But Peggy, looking
at it, got an idea an idea with which
she made it hot for the Imps later
on.
The fire was now low and thej
Imps were drawing closer, making a
complete circle around them. Peggy,
Prince Bonnie Blue Bell and Billy
jumped into the chariot, taking Gen
eral Croaker and Mr. and Mrs. Robin
with them. The Imps massed at the
side toward which the Rabbits were
headed.
"Away Away!" shouted Prince
Bonnie Blue Bell. The Rabbits dash
ed forward, but not at the side where
the enemy was massed. They whirl
ed and went galloping over the sur
prised Imps at a place v. here the cir
cle was thinly held. They broke
through and sped across the broad
field.
(Tomorrow will be told how Peggy's
mirror helps to save them )
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end.
LINES TO A LAUGH
Redd The doctor aald he'd have me on
my feet In a fortnight.
Greene And did he?
"Sure. I've had to acll my automobile.''
Tonkera Statesman.
"Did Palm Beach set you up any In
health?"
"Oh, my, yes! It almost counteracted
the effects of th Journey home hy our
government-owned, railroads." Judge.
"I don't see why you should kick. Ton
got 150.000 with your wife. Wasn't that
enough?"
"Oh, the money was enough, but the
wife was toe much." Boston Transcript.
"They ay they used to wear leopard
skins as part ot tha uniform In the Brit
ish army."
"I should think such uniforms would
be too easily spotted." Baltimore Ameri
can. Willie Willis Pa, what do they mean
when the speak of tb "mysteries of tha
East?"
Papa Willis How is many people In
New York get along without working.
Life.
"Mike," said Plodding Pete, "let's git
back to our favorite old-time question.
What would youa do If you had a million
dollars?"
"Quit plkln". Nohody nowadays starts
anything wit' less dan a billion." Wash
ington Star.
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