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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 30, 1919.
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Were you up on time this morning?
"Dress up" week is on us now, so go ahead
"One league of nations," shouts the W.-H.;
but it does not say which. .
That Iowa pardon investipation shows signs
of becoming a boomerang.
Prices on rivets and bolts have" been cut.
Lumber and brick will be reached in turn.
St. Louis is aheai of Omaha in one respect.
The police station here has not yet been robbed.
Keeping Paris safe for. the president is' the
job of the French pol:ce, and it is some job, too.'
. German boleshevikt want the police demo-'
bilized. Good idea, and always in favor with
the unruly." ,
Final session on the League of Nations is
et for April 4, which avoids the significance
attached to the first of the month.
"Pancho" Villa says he will fight for the
United States against a foreign invader. This
ought to make our future secure. ".
The octogenarian Hun who wants to fight
in vindication of the Hohenzollern honor has
a perfect defense in senile dementia.
Now that Germany- flatly refuses to accept
the League of Nations, no time should be lost
by the peace conference in adopting it.
The Nebraska Board of Control seems to
have been governed by one law that of fol
lowing the line to the least resistance.
A trail of blazing bonfires will follow the set
ting sun around the world when the peace treaty
is signed. But even that will not approach No
vember 11. ;
A Sioux City judge says he does not 4wder
take to nntangle "soul marriages," but he can
render th.Mii temporarily inoperative:" That
helps t little. N f
Gerferal March proposes to perpetuate the
names of famous divisions that served abroad.
He doesn't need to worry; the boys attended
to that long ago. ''
Uncle Sam is again offering a trio abroad
with all expenses paid to venturesome young
men who are not averse to fighting a little.
Watch the list fill up.
The young man who boldly proclaims hjm
self a friend of the bolshevik: and an unwilling
soldier is not unique. He is a typeNof the class
that does not help progress.
According to the noise made by the re
volving wheels of the legislative mill, the con
clusion is justified that the lawmakers scent the
planting season right ahead..
Nothing in regulations or demobilization in
the east can keep the horfu folks from going to
the dept to meet the returning heroes or
heroines. That is some consolation.
Austrian railroad men have struck to show
theip sympathy, for the "reds," and starving
Vienna is cut off from food that waits transpor
tation. Still there be those who contend that
the bolsheviki are not looney.
Fixing the status of drafted men in the army
of occupation will allay a lot of uneasiness, and
no great fear that r.ough will not be found
to watch Germany need be nursed. Uncle Sam
will stay on the job till it is safe to retire.
Neutralization of the Eltfe, the Oder, the
Rhine and the Danube will do more to bring
the European nations to amicable relations
than anything else proposed at Paris. It is
pretty hard to quarrel with your neighbor over
the highway to which each has equal rights.
Something of the spirit in which the veterans
of the Allied armies regard the bolsheviki may
be found in the reports of riots at Brisbane,
wucrc returning nus-dis udvciictuicu uui uic
Russian club and generally interfered with the
"uplift" movement. It is pretty hard to inter
est these men in the "brotherhood" idea, as
they can recall too ir.any comrades who lost
their lives because the Russians laid down their
arms.
The Boss of the Home
From, Judge Kunkel of the county court of
Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, comes a de
cision so luminous, sagacious and final that it
transcends county and state lines .and recom
mends itself by its own merits to the laws, the
codes and the hearts of all American states and
all the American people. A tyrant man com-
flained of "cruel and barbarous treatment" to
im given by the wife of his bosom. Accord
ing ' to his unverified and possibly romantic
plaint, the lady, undoubtedly for cause and his
own moral improvement, had kicked him sound
. ly in the shins, to the incarnadining of the tibiae
.aforesaid. The old defense and description of"
a justified or necessary gentle battery was
'molliter manus iniposuit," laid hands on him
gently. Doubtless the Pennsylvania tyrant's
vife molliter pedes imposuit, kicked the brute
in the most delicate and forbearing manner pos
sible. Whatever the manner of the operation,
the judge's opinion looms up as a world-beacon
An th downward nath of man:
"A man has full rights in his own home
against everybody but his wife. But when she
starts something it is the hnsband-'s business to
beat a retreat. When a man puts a wife into
bis house he cannot complain about her treat
ment. He had a large field to draw from."
Thus the whole duty of man wlren his wie
"starts something" is laid down by authority.
In such a case the sometime lord of creation
must take leg-bail at the top of his speed. When
Dido has quit cutting up her ddos, pious Aeneas
can sneak back home. New York Times.
PEACE AND THE GERMAN FUTURE.
A "stern peace for Germany" is now fore
casted from Paris. Less could not have been
expected. German opinion is expressed by
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, present foreign
Minister of the empire, who says the delegates
from that government are not going to Paris
to sign on the dotted line, but to discuss terms.
His "Views are quite at variance with what the
world has been led to expect from the confer
ence, nd therefore it is plain that either Ger
many or the Allies will have to modify require-d
ments.
Reading von Brockdorff-Rantzau's formal
statement along wjth the state documents put
out by von Jagow and other of his predecessors
in the foreign office, the impression might be
gained that the German cabinet really believes
that it is to be allowed to dictate and not to
accept terms. It may be but a continuation of
the beautiful bluff, that the collapse was due to
hunger and not to inferiority of military
strength, out the German delegates will be deal
ing with men who know the truth, and who will
apply justice. ,
N Dispatches from Paris covertly hint at con
ditipns that may be very distasteful to Ger
many, aad even conta-n the germs of future war.
ISome diftculty may be found in meeting
French demands for the boundary of 1814, and
for the Poiish dominion over certain regions
now essentially German. These delicate ques
tions have npt been publicly discussed, how
ever ample may have been private approach.
France wants to be made"""secure against a
renewed invasion, and is not willing to take
German assurances as substantial guarantees.
This sentiment may be found among' nations
generally. The next treaty of peace should be
more than a scrap of paper. '
A German people, freed from its aristocratic
rulers, determining its own destiny, may work
out its salvation and recover the respect of the
world and a standing among responsible na
tions. But only such a Gerrnany can i be dealt
with on ccjual terms, and it does not exist now.
Problem of Emigration. ...
We still think in pre-war terms of immigra
tion, and plan for the sifting out, classification,
distribution and assimilation of foreigners seek
ing asylum on our shores. Maybe the exper
ence of the coal- ooerators will turn , our
thoughts to a different phasjf of the question.
The Black Diamond says:
A recent survey made by the National
Coal association, covering ar proximately one-"
third of the total number of foreign-born
workers in the, bituminous coal fields, shows -that
approxivrtately 12 per cent of the foreign-. .
born miners expect to return to Europe as'
soon as they can obtain passports. Slightly
more than half this number intend to remain
permanently. Should this proportion be
' maintained throughout the entireJirdUstry, of
the estimated 300,000 foreign-born workers in
the bituminous fields, it is figured that about
36,000 will return to- theirhomes across the
Atlantic as soon as the --government will "
allcrw them to do so. . . . i
If this be extended to other of the basic in
dustries, In which' the foreign labor has largely
predominated, we may foresee a general recast
ing of plans in America. With government lib
eralized, standards of living improved, and the
bane of militarism removed, Europe will hold
many who formerly left for political or social
reasons, while the great task of rebuilding is
going to set up such economic conditions as will
offer quite as much to the workjngman as may
be had in this country. It is a problem of emi
gration with which we may have to deal.
Thrift for American People.
Somewhere in The Bee this morning' will be
found a sermon by Harry Lauder on thrift, ad
dressed to the American people. It is not at
all remarkable that this man, who has learned
the habit of saving in the hardest of schools,
should discourse convincingly on the subject,
but it is noteworthy that he has undertaken to
influence the most extravagant and unthrifty
people in all the world to give over their habits
of waste.
Lauder neither preaches nor practices par
simony; his personal ways in the matter of
money spending have been the subject of many
thoughtless jests among us.'yet none who know
him well deem him stingy or even, as expressed
in the word the .Scotch better understand,
"pawky" to an extraordinary degree. But Harry
Lauder learned-early in his life as a collier lad
to give to each and every "bawbee", coming
into his hand its full value. And this experience
qualifies him to speak to us on the topic.
For the present he advises saving as a pa
triotic duty. Americans owe an enormous debt,
piled up during the war. This must be paid,
and not until it is paid will the war be over and
the people freed from its clutch. Till that debt
has been 'discharged no individual in all the
land can escape its effect. Therefore, through,
thrift, and the investment in government secur
ities, the first steps wi'l be taken to.bring around
the liberation of the land from the load placed
on it by war.
It is not advised that folks stint themselves;
only that each put by a portion of his daily in
come, larife or small, that in the end the ac-
Lclimulation will be not only respectable, but
potent beyond conception. It was this habit
of the French people that enabled them to pay
so swiftly the enormous fine laid by Bismarck
on that country in 1871. Out of the hoardings
of the British commoners came billions to
finance the warfor three years.
Lauder's sermon is commended to all, espe-'
cially to the workers. They will profit through
following his advice. It is not a fancy picture
he draws, but one of a land financed by its own
people through exercise of moderation in spend
ing their earnings.
"Government Aid on Housing Problem.
The "own your own home" propaganda is
being helped along by the Department of Labor,
which suggests several thoughts. It may be an
intimation that the federal government plans
to follow up its war-time activities in the matter
of housing workmen. Great .Britain already
has gone, a long way in this direction, and our
own government made considerable progress
around certain industrial concentration centers
while the waf urge was pressing. North Da
kota has been 'blessed with a law under which
city dwellers may receive assistance up to
$5,000 and farmers to $10,000, although in each
instance the borrower must have at least one
fifth of the sum he wants from the state. Under
similar conditions he can borrow on terms quite
as favorable from a building and loan association
or from a bank. The advantage of substituting
public for co-operative help, in this respect does
not appea. Home-owning is properly urged on
all. Thrift is fundamentally involved. Whether
the help comes from federal or state govern
ment, the home-owner first must help himself.
Views and Reviews
Comment Suggested by General
Current News Topics.
From a handsomely red-leather-bound roster
book issued by the Jacksonian Club in 1894, that
has come to the surface in a desk-rummage
round-tip, came several reminders of the hey
day of Old Hickory politics in this neck o'
woods, just 25 years ago. At that particular
moment, the Jacksonians were officered
by W. D. McHugh, president; W. S. Shoemaker,
vice president; Charl;e Connoyer, treasurer; W.
F. Wappich, secretary; R. V. Montague, corre
sponding secretary, and R. E. L. Herdman,
financial secretary. Euclid Martin was chair
man of the executive committee, Jim Sheean
chairman of the wnbersh'p committee, and
John Powers chairman of the campaign com
mittee. In an appended statement, information
is vouchsafed that the Jacksonian Club was or
ganized on the 7th day of February, 1891, and,
"selecting Andrew Jackson as its ideal
democrat," it sought to emulate his 'exam
ple and to honor hisMnemory. Dissatisfaction
with local conditions, a wint of part fealty,
and a lack of organization, emphasized the need
-of such emulation. "Political activity is made a
test of membership. The passive member is
displaced to be succeeded by one more active,
and the interested party man is sought out and
recognized. Loyalty to party nominations is
respected and enforced." On the 8th of Jan
uary of each year, the anniversary of th.e battle
of New Orleans, the Jacksonian Club has cele
brated the event by a banquet. According to
the record incorporated into -the booklet, the
J receding banquet had as the headliners: Hon.
. Sterling Morton and Hon. John P. Irish, evi
dently as antithesis to the guest of honor of
the year before, Hon. W. J. Bryan. Incidentally
Mr Morton's subject was "Truth Points out
the Proper Path in Politics; Right is Always
Expedient." It is history that the Jacksonians
shipwrecked on the test of "loyalty to party
nominations." When was St. Jackson's day last
duly celebrated here with feast and fiery words?
I would have to look it up in the guide book.
It has been noticeable that we have not had
so many banquets and dinners and toasts and
good-fellowship gatherings during the last two
years s before. As a rule this slowing-up has
been explained as due to the absorption of our
time and energies in the multiplication of war
activities and we have forgotten that Nebraska
also went dry just about the same time the
country vent into war. That it was the dry
ness more than the war has been more than
once hinted, but it may give assurance to have
expert authority reinforce the proposition.
Readers who remember Sam Blythe's. scintil.
lating satire on post-prandial talk-fests, I "We
have with us tonight." which made sucha hit
because so true to nature, will therefore find
equal delectation in his forecast of the dis
appearance of after-dinner oratory as a con
sequence of the impending advent of "aridity."
After treating of other phase of the dry-wave
in his article in the current Saturday Evening
Post, he. expatiates: "
x - "Now I desire to poirjt out one great and
glorious beneficence that will attain' to the
people therefrom. I refer to the inevitable
lapse into desuetude of that appalling Amer
ican institution, tho banquet; and its co
related scourge, the after-dinner speaker. No
booze no banquets; or at least fa fewer;
for not even an amendment to the constitu
tion can force the American people tq go to
these affairs and listen to the turgid oratory
at them without the seductive assistance and
' influence of a fewi drinks during the course
of the dinner, ana while the speakers are
pulling their ancient wheezes and subtracting
from the sum total of human knowledge. It
can't be done. I have been to several dry
banquets in my time, and I am here to say
that a dry banquet is the form of human en
tertainmtnt the amoeba of amusement.
"The merry little quip that sounded great
because it was absorbed after a sufficient
quantity of drink had been absorbed to add to
its piquancy will fall like a 16-pound lake fish
on a marble slab at Fulton Market on a De
cember morning. The wheeze will die
a-bornin', and the peroration will be delivered
to harassed and sleepy waiters. The only thing
that made most of these banquets endurable
was the drinks that were served, and now that
they will be on a water basis it will be Kitty,
bar the door.
"The curse and calamity of American life
is after-dinner speaking, preceded by formal
dinners. It has driven many men to crime
who were normally respectable citizens. It
has bored millions of our countrymen to that
extinction that was the forerunner of excess
by its pomposity, its platitudes and its piffle.
Prohibition will attend to the banquets. They
will die the death and the after-dinner speakers
will undoubtedly expire as well they may
from the 'That reminds me,' and 'Two Irish
men one day,' and 'Now, tny friends, I must
be serious for a moment,' that will come to a
great congestion and undoubtedly, and happily
cause tliem to explode into many pieces.
There will be no mourners."
So face the music, you Palimpsests and Fine
Artists and Knife-and-Forkers, and figure it out
for yourselves. The feast and the fun-malcer
are in danger of divorce and the calamity, if it
be a calamity, threatens not us in Omaha alone,
but everybody, everywhere in the country un
less we devise and develop some other way to
serve the purpose satisfactorily.. .
r The announcement that Ak-Sar-Ben will
transform its street carnival into an agricultural
exhibit and live stock show, with incidental rac
ing and amusement features, and for that pur
pose has acquired a tract of land near the West
Center street road, marks the completion of a
circle back to the starting point. For be it re
called thai Ak-Sar-Ben was originally instituted
in 1895 to furnish entertainment for state fair
visitors, the fair then being located here on
these very grounds, prepared and maintained
under an agreement to continue for five suc
cessive years. Three of the annual state fairs
were held as stipulated, the fourth and fifth
being merged into the Transmississippi expo
sition and its Greater America aftermath. Then
the institution was permanently relocated at
the state capital and Ak-Sar-Ben left to hold
the board" for undivided attention at Omaha.
The biggest drawback of the old state fair was
its inaccessibility, being reached only by a spur
line of the street railway. There were no pave
ments within hailing distance and the roads
were the worst ever. I remember the opening
of the fair following a protracted season of heat
and drouth. The .constant procession of carry
alls, hacks and other conveyances taking people
to the grounds, pulverized the clay road surface
till it lay in fine yellow dust three to six inches
deep and filled the air with dust clouds that
made breathing difficult and seeing almost im
possible. Of course such an experience can not
be repeated, because we have improved our
roads and revolutionized our transportation
methods. The big lesson Ak-Sar-Ben wants to
keep learned, however, is that the best show
on earth will be worthless unless the oeoole
who want to see it can go to it and return 1
viivoij :u 111 IUI111 JI l.
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.
Health and Disease.
Health may be defined as that
condition of the body in which all
of its functions are normally per
formed to the end that a feeling- of
nientaj and bodily comfort is expe
rienced. Eating, drinking and sleep
ing, work, play and rest, are factors
which should promote a general feel
ing of well-belii. that in turn should
manifest itself in the desire to eat,
drink, sleep, work, play and rest, all
normal functions which the healthy
human being craves. Disease, on the
other hand, is characterized by dis
turbed functions and to unusual sub
jective sensations and objective
phenomena. The modern conception
of Jhe causation of disease no longer
gives credence to the belief that its
causes are novel and mysterious, but
on the contrary, places them among
the actual phenomena of the phys
ical world. It does not admit the
spontaneous development of disease,
but places the blame on sojnething
that has invaded the body from with
out, v
When an extraneous cause acts in
juriously upon a person his organ
ism does not remain passive, but re
acts with all its might to conteract
the cause and repair any defect the
latter's presence has given rise to.
This power of the body to protect
itself lays in a defensive mechanism
evolved during countless age of sue-
Hungary and People
Hungary has a population of 20,-
000,000.
The area of Hungary is about
equal to that of the state of New
Mexico.
Hungary is unusually rich in its
mineral deposits. Its mines contain
almost Inexhaustible quantities of
gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, coal,
ana roca salt.
Hungary, like Austria, is inhabited
by several races, but since the ninth
century, while the MaKvars Invaded
the region from Asia and conquered
u, tney nave controlled the govern
ment, j
Self-government through Darlia
ment in Hungary is of ancient origin,
being founded upon a charter called
the Golden Bull, which dates back
to 1222, and is thus almost contem
porary with the Magna Charta of
England.
Budapest, the capital city of Hun
Rary, consists of thesister towns of
Buda and Pest. - Lying on either side
of the Danube, just at that point
wnere it definitely sets south: Pest
spreads Itself out over the flat sandy
piain on tne left bank, while Buda
occupies a series of small and steep
hills on the right bank.
Empress Marie Theresa Germanized
Hungary as completely as she Ger
manized all her alienated Austrian
provinces, and German flourished as
the otilcial, bureaucratic, scientific
and society medium in Hungary until
the Magyars broke loose from Aus
trian thraldom and secured their
political emancipation. Then Ger
man went to the wall, and today
there are millions in Hungary wholly
ignorant of the German language.
The great national hero of Hun
gary was Louis Kossuth, whose mem-
cessful efforts to survive destruction ! orv ls revered by Hungarians as that
against narmful influences in the
universal struggle for existence. So
nicely is the body's mechanism of
derense adjusted, that constant .
adjustments are ordinarily made to
passing dangers without conscious
ness being disturbed. In this way
me Doays neaitn ls maintained.
Should, however, a harmful influence
be unusually strong, then the reac
tions of readjustment to which it
gives rise are correspondingly vigor
ous and widespread, so that con
sciousness is disturbed, functions are
corrupted.y and most astonishing
changes in the external appearance
are observed.
These phenomena of reaction are
evidence of the battle that is being
waged by the body against a harm
ful force, and collectively they con
stitute the symptomes of disease. All
harmful influences are provocative
of disease; yet disease does not exist
unless khe reactions are sufficiently
pronounced as to upset the orderly
unconscious functioning of the
body. There are many causes of
disease, yet they readily lend them
selves into division into four groups,
viz., mechanical, physical, chemical
and animate.' The chemical and
animate are the most important, and
these we will discuss in our next in
stallment.
Agricultural Resources of Hungary.
The central regions of Hungary are watered
by the Danube and Theiss rivers, and from .their
valleys vast plains stretch away to the moun
tains in the north and east, furnishing an area
particularly adapted o agriculture. The region is
one of the best wheat-growing districts in
Europe. Tobacco, flax, hemp, and culinary
vegetables grow in great quantity; choice fruits
are produced in every, part; its vineyards yield
the most delicious - grapes in so rich an
abundance as to supply ,a larger amount of
export wine than in any other portion of
Eurooft
Euifcnlc Marriage.
The British Medical Journal, Feb
ruary 8, thus summarizes the new
Norwegian marriage law, which
came int force, January 1: A man
under 20 and a woman under 18 may
not marry without the consent of the
authorities. Birth and baptism cer
tificates must be produced before the
bans are published. Under certain
conditions one or both of the parties
may be required to show that they
have not been insane. Both must
declare in writing that they are not
suffering; from epilepsy, leprosy,
syphilis or other venereal disease in
an infectious form. In the other al
ternative, the' subject of these dis
eases must prove that the other
party to the marriage contract is
cognizant of the fact, and that both
parties have been instructed by k
physician as to the dangers of the
disease in question. The physician
is not to be tied by professional se
crecy and is bound to interfere if he
knows that any one of these diseases
is being concealed by either side. A
written declaration must also be
given by the parties as to previous
marfiages and to children born to
them out of wedlock. The marriage
may be nullified if it is afterward
proved that insanity or any of the
foregoing diseases has been con
cealed, or if an incurable morbid
condition incompatible with married
life exists. Dissolution of the mar
riage may also be claimed if false
declarations have been made or ob
stacles concealed. If the woman has
become pregnant by another man, or
if the man has rendered another
woman pregnant and this has not
been revealed, dissolution of the
marriage may be claimed, whether
the child of this irregular union be
born before or after the marriage;
such a claim must be made within
six months of the facts becoming
known to the claimant. Many other
oauses are defined as valid for the
dissolution of the marriage.
Mental Diseases in New York During
War Period.
'H. M. Pollock, statistician of the
New York State Hospital commis
sion, in an article on the subject
named in the State Hospital Quar
terly, February, 1919, published by
the hospital commission, offers the
following figures and conclusions:
Comparing the admissions on ac
count of mental diseases for the pe
riod, 1911-1914, with the period.
1915-1918, there was-an increase in
senile cases of 5.5 per cent, in gen
eral paralysis of 14.2 per cent, a de
crease in alcoholic cases of 22.3 per
cent, an increase of 17.5 in the ma-nic-depressive
and allied groups, an
increase of 37.9 in involution melan
cholia cases, an increase of 42.9 per
cent in dementia praecox and allied
forms, and a decrease or 12.5 per
cent in the psychoneuroses. It can
reasonably be inferred that the war,
like all great emotional disturbances,
has been a precipitating factor in the
causation of some forms of mental
disease among the civilian popula
tion. Patients under treatment in
the institutions for the insane in the
state Increased more rapidly during
the war. The increase was due in
part to the accumulation in the hos
pitals of deportable aliens. The ratio
of first admissions to the general
population of the state increased
during the war period. The rate-of
alcoholic insanity decreased during
the war, especially in the years 19111
and 1918..
CENTER SHOTS
St. Louis Globe Democrat: All
crooked ways of getting laws on the
'statute books contrary to the wishes
of the majority -will eventually act
like a bent piece of wire when it
gets into a threshing machine bust
the works.
Baltimore American: One benefit
of modern surgery is that any sol
dier now can have a face built to
order on his own plan. The privi
lege of picking a face is, indeed, one
of the modern miracles.
Brooklyn Eagle: And now the
United States government is taking
"night letters" as telegrams to send
them by mail, by the confession on
the back of its blanks. The efficiency
of what was most criticised in cor
poration methods is thus abundantly
vindicated.
New York World: Once more
Carter Glass' reveals his qualifica
tions for his new position as Secre
tary of the Treasury by entreating
congress to relieve him of the duty
of enforcing the war prohibition
act. He suggests no alternative, but
the job seems to be about the size
of the army and navy,
of Washington is revered by the peo
ple of the United States. Kossuth
visited America in 1851, and it is a
matter of history that no foreigner
save Lafayette ever received at-the
hands of the American people such
marks of esteem as were bestowed
on the Hungarian exile.
After the failure of the Hungarian
revolution, of which he was the lead
er, in 1849, Kossuth sought refuge in
Turkey. Austria and Russia demand
ed his extradition, but the Porte, re
sisting ail threats, declined to give
him up, in wheh attitude Turkey was
supported by England and France.
At length the intervention of Eng
land and the United States secured
his liberation, and at the beginning
of September, 1851, he was permitted
to avail himself of the Invitation of
the United States to come to America
as the guest of the natoln. In New
York, where he landed, he was en
thusiastically received. He attended
meetings and received deputations in
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing
ton, Boston and numerous other
places. At the national capital a
great banquet was given in his honor
by the members of congress. '
PfiOPLE AND EVENTS.
Down in Knoxvllle,- Tenn., an in
ventive woman has turned dried ap
ples to some account by making dolls
out of them. A future of usefulness
looms ahead of the dried and hum
ble frune. '
Little old New York a.nd other salt
water towns are hoping that the ex
ecution of John Barleycorn will be
postponed until some other effective
entertainment can be provided for
visitors from the provinces.
Victory-medals made of captured
Hun cannon are to te symbols of
service for all hustlers In the com
ing Liberty loan drive. Active hust
lers may also annex a Hun helmet
and lead a classy parade in the rare
days of June.
Owing to the evil repute of the
pump as a dairy appendage, a for
ward looking statesman has i intro
duced a bill in the Pennsylvania
legislature reducing the butter-fat
standard of milk so that mediocre
and hookworm cows may market
their output. It's a r"or cause that
cannot find a booster.
No matter what happens July 1
or later Missouri will not be a bone
dry state. Not because the Missouri
river .flows through it and the Mis
sissippi washes its eastern boun
dary, something more touching for
dry interiors. Last year the state
fompounded and put on the market
7,411,000 gallons of soft drinks. The
quantity is a mere appetizer for the
flood to come when fluids with the
"kick" take their long snooze.
ODD BITS OF LIFE. '
In many parts of England there is
a superstition that boys born on
Christmas day should be brought up
to enter the church, and girls should
become nurses..
Blue diamonds, tho'ugh unusually
beautiful stones-are considered very
unlucky. So much so, that in the
Orient they are known significantly
as "diamonds of death."
Prince Edward Island is proud of
her record of not having a single
murder or manslaughter case in the
whole provipce within the last five
years.
A pair of oxen hauling wood down
a steep wood-road from Bald Moun
tain, at Camden, Me., suddenly made
a , dash, defying all efforts to stop
"them and ran down the hill. A- big
owl had alighted on the back of ofte
of them. -
Congressman Campbell, of Penn
sylvania, casually told a friend that
a rich war widow in Carnegie had
written him to find her a husband.
The friend passed on the informa
tion., and now Congressman Camp
bell is getting so many letters that
his mail is sent to him from th post
office on government trucks.
Guzman Blanco, one-time presi
dent of Venezula, is entitled to a
place in the front rank of conceited
celebrities. He not only had his
portrait painted about 200 times, but
erected about a dozen statues to
himself, equestrian and otherwise,
during his lifetime, writing with his
own hand their fulsome inscriptions
and invariablly calling himself "The
Illustrious American, Pacificator and
Regenerator of the United States of
Venezuela." s
OUR COfcONEL.
Deep lovinfr, well knowing
His world and its blindness,
A heart overflowing
With measureless kindness.
Undaunted' In labor,
(And Death was a tritle).
As swift as a sabre.
Direct as a rifle.
Ail Man In his doing.
All Boy in his laughter.
He fronted, unrulng.
The Now and Hereafter.
As stanch as a cedar
A comrade, a brother
O, such was The Leader
We loved as no other!
WtVn weaker souls faltered
Ills courage remade us.
Whose tongue never paltered.
Who never betrayed us.
His hand on your shoulder
All honors exceeding.
What breast but was bolder
Because he was leading!
And aUll In our trouble,
In peace or In wartime,
His words shall redouble
Our strength as aforetime.
When wrongs cry for righting
No odds shall appal ua:
To clean, honest fighting
Again he will call us.
And. cowboys or doughboys.
We'll follow his drum, boys,
Who never said "Go, boys!"
But always said "Come, boys!"
-ARTHUR QUITEBMAN, In N. Y. Times.
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The Day We Celebrate.
Q. W. Clabaugh, vice president of
the Omaha Gas company, born 1859.
David C. Dodds. railway mail
clerk, born 1869.
De Wolf Hopper, veteran of the
American musical - comedy . stage,
born in New York City, 61 years ago.
Sir Charles Walton, noted author,
explorer and educator, former di
rector of the American Archaeologi
cal School In Athens, born in New
York City, 63 years Vso.
Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys,
president of Stevens Institute of
Technology, born in Scotland, 68
years ago.
Joseph Caillaux, former French
premier, now upder charges of trea
son, born 56 years ago today.
In Omaha SO Years Ago.
Mr. W. J. Finch, cashier of the
Garneau Cracker company, was mar
ried to Miss Mabel Howard in St.
Pauls church in Minneapolis, the
ceremony being performed by Rev.
F. R. Millspaugh. The little 12-year-old
sister of the bride, Miss Addle
Howard, was maid of honor.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. SUles gave a
party at their residence, 1015 Center
street, for the occasion of the birth
day of their daughter, Miss Emma
Stiles.
Judge Dundy and Clerk Frank are
off for a fcear hunt, coing In General
Manager' Burt's private car.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Deuel
have returned from their wedding
trip.
Miss Maggie Richards, daughter of
T. W. T. Richards, formerly of Oma
ha, is the guest of Miss Mary
Stephens.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Life must hav bn Urrlbl living is
those trenches."
"Humph! living la th trenches hasn't
got anything on lhaa hous-elanlng
time." Baltimore American. ,
"Is ah fond of mualo and ptaturaaTI
aaked th friend.
"I should say so," rpltd th adoring
young man. "Una doesn't think any movl
theater Is complete without an orchestra.'
Washington 8tar.
"I'm surprised at Alice. Sh was going1
with that fellow long nougtt to know
better than to marry him."
"Y. but too long to do botUr." Bos
ton Transcript.
She What Is th correct translation of
the motto of that lovely ring you gav mT
He Faithful to th last.
She The last! How horrid! And
you'v always told me beforo that I waf
the very first!" Minneapolis Tribune.
"I don't call th girl you admlr so
much a fair sampl of tbla taction's
besuty." ,
"Of court not. How can th bt a fair
sample when the't a brunette?" Detroit
Free Press.
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