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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14. 1919.
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Inhabitants of the "Omaha Em
pire" have more spending money
than in any other section of the
United States.
Copper also seems to have paid well.
The Omaha profiteer is a hard bird to scare.
Dean Ringer's vacation has brought a holy
calm to Omaha.
Anthracite coal is moving freely again, but
not at prewar prices.
Chicago says prices are coming down. The
wave may reach Omaha yet.
One good way to avoid trouble in Nebraska
is not to preach or teach disloyalty.
The president insists on saving daylight,
whether he does anything else or not.
Churchill says England is thinking of dis
armament, but no mention is made of the navy.
If plans and resolutions were sufficient, the
"H. C. of L." is now vanquished. Trouble is, it
takes action.
Anybody can find a pretext for advancing
prices, but it takes an expert to show a reason
for putting them down.
An American anarchist went peddling his
printed "dope" on Wall street, which looks like
a waste of time from here.
Nebraska's apple crop is now reported as
promising a greater yield than last year. More
encouragement for the farmers.
Our democratic brethren are still finding out
a lot of things that are not so about the code
bill. They may be reconciled in time.
If the New York theater managers win all
their suits, it will not matter so much to them
.whether the actors come back to work.
Russians around Archangel ask the Allies
not to withdraw their troops, a fairly good sign
of how popular the bolsheviki move is up there.
George M. Cohan declares he will fight the
actors till he goes broke, and has to run an
elevator. That might not be such a bad outcome.
Bishop Neely of the Methodist church has
the right name for the Shantung deal. It is
hard to get a minister to use that kind of lan
guage, though.
Alfred Patrick et cetera David of the 'Ouse of
'Anover had quite a busy day for his first on
American soil. He is in for some lively times
before he gets 'ome again.
Odd that Lincoln and Council Bluffs can
buy fuel oil cheaper than Omaha, but it is a
fact, just the same. Plenty of room for official
inquiry wherever you turn.
If the government is to foster the air service,
it should be for the benefit of national defense,
and not to bolster up private enterprise. On
this point Secretary Baker is correct.
Senators are keeping the peace treaty in
full view during all the distractions furnished
from the outside, and the "swallow-it-whole"
element is fewer today than before.
Digging up Senator Lodge's old speech in
favor of a league of nations only serves to re
mind the public that he has not as yet opposed
a league, but only some of the crudities in the
covenant presented for consideration.
Personal abuse of Senator Lodge is the
strongest argument the democrats have yet
presented in support of the league covenant.
This may win, on the old theory that if enough
mud is thrown some will stick, but it is a sad
commentary on the statesmanship of the pres
ident's party.
Brazilian Diamond Fields
Diamonds were first discovered in Brazil in
1725. But with their pockets full of diamonds,
the discoverers were unaware for two years
that they had made a discovery. Miners wash
ing for gold in the Minas Geraes district picked
up pretty pebbles from time to time. They
thought them worthless and used them for
counters in their card games. If they had no
money they gambled for the pebbles, winning
or losing, in blissful ignorance, a king's ransom
in. diamonds on the turn of a card.
A penniless adventurer drifted into the gold
fields in 1727. Some of the miners staked him
one evening to a handful of pebbles that he
might sit in at a card game. The others played
with listless interest, but the newcomer played
with care and skill. He had seen rough dia
monds in India and knew what the pebbles
were. As a result he won all the pebbles
around the table.
He did not remain in the fields to wash for
gold, but next day hurried to Rio Janeiro and
took ship for Lisbon, where he sold his pebbles
for a fortune and lived happily ever after. The
rush of diamond hunters to Brazil which fol
lowed carried back to the miners in Minas
Geraes the first intimation that they had been
rich for two years without knowing it. Detroit
News.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT AND THE TREATY
Ii public sentiment toward the Versailles
treaty changing? The answer seems to be in
the affirmative. On sober reflection, and after
due deliberation, the people of the United States
are coming to think that the League of Na
tions covenant requires modification before it
is proper for our subscription.
This was made plain by the reception ac
corded Senator Lodge on Tuesday, when he
spoke against certain of the features of the
covenant as they are presented. He was
listened to in respectful silence, as he outlined
the objections and indicated the way in which
they lead. When he had concluded he was ac
corded such an ovation as seldom has been
heard in the senate chamber. Even the presi
dent, when he last spoke there, did not get the
applause that greeted the senator from Massa
chusetts. Galleries were filled, among the at
tendance being many members of the Marine
corps regiments, lately come from France. The
"devil dogs" showed their approbation of the
senator's sentiments and arguments by leading
the demonstration. Later, when Senator Wil
liams of Mississippi directed a personal attack
on the chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee, he was roundly hissed.
If any conclusion is to be drawn from this,
it is that American opinion is in favor of proper
safeguards for home interests and institutions
being inserted in the treaty. The plan of the
president to overawe the senate through an
appeal to the public has failed. He must now
take the advice of those he deliberately Ignored,
for popular opinion no longer sustains him in
his attitude of all-sufficiency.
How Are We to Know?
Here are two paragraphs from the day's
news concerning the airplane industry:
No sensible man is justified in keeping
money invested in the aircraft industry under
the conditions which have been maintained in
the United States since November 11.
Commission Representing the Manufacturers,
reporting to Secretary Baker.
Colonel Jordan says airplane factories are
swamped with orders for planes for indi
vidual and commercial use, and that the
Omaha field should be arranged to accommo
date all flyers crossing the continent. Re
port on Arrangements for Omaha Air Mail
Service.
' Who is to decide between these two state
ments as to the predicament of the aircraft in
dustry in America? It is true, no great ap
propriation has been made by congress to pur
chase planes for immediate use. It would
hardly seem necessary, when it is re
called that the immense number bought during
the war is not yet entirely delivered, that
planes in France were burned, and in this coun
try those used on training fields have been sold
again to the makers at about one-tenth of
original cost.
The aircraft industry was. born during a
stormy period, and its career to date is not one
to which Americans point with pride. When
all the scandal has been cleared away, its pro
moters may approach the government asking
for help and stand some chance of getting it.
Just now is not an opportune time for them
to press for a separate department with a big
appropriation to support it.
Where Do the Democrats Stand?
John Sharp Williams, who easily maintains
his eminence as chief comedian of the United
States senate, flashes a clear ray of light on
the dilemma of the democrats today. Uncon
sciously, perhaps, but unerringly he exposes
the confusion that prevails in the ranks of the
"swallow-it-whole" element of the president's
party. "I am a citizen of the United States,"
he shouts in the senate hall, "but I am also a
citizen of the world." Just at present he pro
fesses to be willing to put the claims of the
world first. What a departure this is from the
teachings of the school in which he was nur
tured. Thomas Jefferson, Randolph of Roanoke
and other fathers of his party put the state
first. Robert E. Lee resigned from the army
of the United States to tender his sword to the
defense of the sovereign state of Virginia, feel
ing he owed his first allegiance and duty to her.
Every democrat of any standing in the south
has devoted his life and energy to the promulga
tion of this doctrine, until now, when we find
the decadent and decrepit donkey wandering far
from his accustomed crib, following errant lead
ers along a vagarious course widely divergent
from the straight and narrow path the found
ers of the party marked out. To be a citizen
of the world is the fate of all who live in it, but
to give first attention to the interests at home
is the strongest impulse yet implanted in man.
Senator Williams may know where he is going,
but he has the rest of us guessing.
Railroad Chickens Coming Home.
The strongest point presented by Glenn E.
Plumb to the house committee on interstate
commerce has to do with sins of commission
on part of railroad managers in the past. His
specific charges that bonuses have been paid
to stockholders or others by certain of the
great transportation lines have reference to
manipulations carried on by the magnates for
purposes of their own. Inquiry may develop
the exact nature of these operations, but the
public is not so deeply interested in that as in
the passage of a law that will make them im
possible for the future. The greatest clamor
against the railroads arises because of the stock
jobbing transactions, whereby values were jug
gled and sound and profitable properties were
wrecked through the machinations of "high
finance." Not only did this arouse general con
demnation, but it did more to destroy railroad
credit than any other agency, not excepting the
unwise and exasperating interference of the
separate state boards with the conduct of the
business. History of the New Haven, the Rock
Island and other deals, as developed in court,
was not of a sort calculated to induce people
to invest in railway stocks. Information de
rived from Mr. Plumb on this line is of value
as indicating again the absolute need of regu
lation to remove the railroads from the danger
thus exposed.
Russian radicals are preparing to leave
Baltimore to enjoy the beauties of bolshevism
in the "old country." It will be interesting to
hear from them when they apply for readmis
sion here.
Senator McKellar of Tennessee is in the
right church but the wrong pew. The meat
packers do not hold all the food in storage, not
by several warehouses filled with butter, eggs,
and other comestible:
Beauty of the Moon
Garrett P. Serviss in Philadelphia Bulletin'.
On a cool evening after a panting hot sum
mer day what sight is more refreshing than
that of the full moon tranquilly shedding its sil
very rays down upon the reposing earth, while
the lambent stars glow softly through the
transparent curtains of the night? It is no
wonder that in the poetry of all nations the
moon is figured as a goddess, or that in the
folklore of every people it is the subject of the
most romantic legends and of superstitions
that lose their mischief if any they have in
their beauty.
"Who is she that looketh forth, fair as the
moon?" sings Solomon in his love song.
"I beheld the moon walking in brightness."
admiringly recounts Job, the poet-philosopher
of the desert.
And while I gaze thy mild and placid light
Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast.
So writes a modern poetess.
And oft I think, fatr planet of the night.
That in thy orb the wretched may have rest;
The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go.
Released by death, to thy benignant sphere.
And the sad children of despair and woe
Forget in thee their cup of sorrow here.
The astronomer knows that all this beauty
of the moon, awakening so many charming
thoughts and longings, is due to the enchant
ment of distance. The moon is the only world
in the sky whose features can be seen with the
naked eye, and thus seen they show no rugged
ness and give no hint of the terrible spectacles
of planetary disaster and death which stare at
the beholder in telescopic views.
Seen by the unaided eye out of the shadow
of the earth, gilded by sunlight in the far
depths of space, the bare luna skull is rounded
into the semblance of a face modulated with
delicately graduated shades and graceful in its
outlines. An opera glass view but heightens
the resplendence of the impression made by the
full moon upon the naked eye. The sight re
calls ancient cameo cut by some great artist
out of a precious stone. But exchange the
opera glass for a telescope and all is at once
different.
The spectacle still possesses its elements
of beauty, but now they are submerged in the
impression of death dealing violence that over
whelms the mind as once it overwhelmed that
little world. The fascination of the scene is
akin to that which one feels in looking from
an icy peak over the snow choked and life
abandoned landscapes of the inner and higher
Alps.
Now, curiously enough, the same telescopic
magnifying power which reveals the true aspect
of the moon and banishes its seeming lifelike
charm is just that which brings enough to the
observer to give it the appearance of a most
idyllic world, appealing at once to the imagina
tion and the desire for scientific investigation.
It is not improbable that if telescopes could be
constructed capable of magnifying Mars 22.S00
diameters, which would bring it. when nearest
the earth, to be the same apparent - distance
that a power of 150 diameters brings the moon,
we should at once be able to settle all the
puzzling and captivating questions that have
arisen concerning the habitability of that planet
and the wonderful doings of its inhabitants, be
cause then we might see plainly and decide
beyond controversy what the real state of
Mars is.
To return to moon superstitions which may
not all be absolutely without foundation I
have a letter from Gary, Ind., dwelling upon
the question of the influence of moonlight fall
ing upon the face of a sleeper. This, like the
popular saws concerning the influence of the
moon on plants, etc., is an exceeding ancient
superstition, found in all parts of the world.
Indeed the word "lunacy," describing a par
ticular kind of insanity, is derived from the old
Roman name for the moon, Luna.
The antiquity of this notion is sufficiently
attested by a passage in the 121st Psalm, which
reads: "The sun shall not smite thee by day
nor the moon by night." We accept this evi
dence of an early recognition of the danger of
sunstroke, but the progress of science has not
yet produced a conviction that the moon, too,
can "smite," whatever the experience of indi
viduals may have induced them to believe.
Poor Relative Nations
It begins to be apparent that it is the little
countries which give moral tone to the house
hold of nations. They are the poor relatives,
arid their position is secure only so long as
they keep on firm ethical grounds. The poor
relative cannot do the mean little thing or the
brutal big things that the other members of
the family get away with. She is living in the
house on sufferance. The others are always
watchful for the slip she may make which
would cancel their moral obligation toward her.
So, while the grand dames of the family sell
their souls in jealous bickerings and rivalries,
the demure little poor relative must continue
to treat them all honestly and with considera
tion. Besides she is usually above the con
flict. Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark
and Luxemburg are some of the poor relatives
of Europe. Belgium is the only one who took
part in the recent family row. She was dragged
in against her will. And she was by reason
of her weakness the only combatant whose
purpose was above reproach. Everyone knew
that she was not in it for what she could get.
Switzerland, Denmark and Holland quietly
minded their own affairs. Luxemburg had
none. She was unfortunate enough to get in
the way of the first flatirons. As to the former
three, when asked questions they answered in
words that put the questioner to shame.
Denmark refused to accept parts of Schles
wig where Germans predominatetd.
When asked whether they would help
starve the Germans in case they did not sign
the treaty, Denmark, Holland and Switzerland
said: "No."
Now, while the victors wrangle over the
plunder, the tiny Duchy of Luxemburg consid
ers a thank offering to France of 1,000.000
francs, and to Belgium of 200,000 francs, for her
delivery from the Germans. A little nation sets
the example of international amity to the con
querors. Boston Globe.
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The Day We Celebrate.
David M. McGahey, general agent for
Omaha, Home Life Insurance company, born
1870.
Robert D. Neele'y, United States commis
sioner, born 1887.
Ex-Prince Henry of Prussia, who has writ
ten a letter in defense of his brother, the
former German emperor, born at Potsdam 57
years ago.
John Galsworthy, eminent English novelist
and playwright, born in Surrey 52 years ago.
Daniel C. Jackling, famous mining engineer
and capitalist, born in Bates County, Mo., 50
years ago.
John Jacob Astor, born in New York City
7 years ago today, four months after his father
perished in the Titanic disaster.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Building permits for the day aggregated
$134,360; real estate transfers, $10,396.
The board of fire and police commissioners
has authorized the purchase of a hose cart for
the G. W. Holdrege volunteer fire company,
recently established west of Hanscom park.
Ex-Senator Charles H. Van Wyck passed
through Omaha on -his way to the Grand Army
encampment at Kearney.
Benjamin H. Barrows. ex-United States con
sul to Dublin, and now chief of the literary
bureau of the Union Pacific, was married to
Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick at the home of the
bride's parents on Fairview street.
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Xew RfHllstriotlng Law.
Holdrege, Neb., Aug. 10. To the
Editor of The Bee: No law on the
statute book reads more plainly and
none has been written with more
care and with clearer construction
than the new redistricting law. But
for some reason, perhaps because it
does not conform exactly to their
notions, certain interests have tried
to confuse the general public; cer
tain agents of publishing houses
have put fear Into the minds of
some county superintendents and
some officials and teachers of estab
lished high schools have insisted
that it will surrender to them all
of the unorganized territory, which
may be forced into consolidation
with such organized districts against
their will. We have consulted the
offices of both the state superinten
dent and the attorney general, and
they both most emphatically declare
that they have never so construed
the law. Their interpretation is
that it will in every case take a 61
per cent petition of the legal school
voters of the unorganized territory
to make the consolidation possible,
unless the voters of the unorgan
ized territory decide to attach them
selves to the already established old
high school district, the lines remain
only as a proposed boundary and
no change in rural school district
lines or conditions takes place.
There is no part of this law that
permits the forcing of any territory
into a consolidation, except by a 51
per cent petition of the rural school
territory so concerned. There is
neither any part of it that forces
village, city or rural high school
district to accept the rural territory
unless district so votes.
It has been reported that some
county attorneys, many high school
authorities and a few county super
intendents have misinterpreted this
law .either ignorantly, or for some
ulterior motive.
Every word of that law is plain
English; every clause was written by
farmers with long rural sihool ex
perience, and all of them well versed
in the intricacies of bill writing.
And now that we have a decided
ruling, by both the superintendent's
office and the oflice of the attorney
general, there should be no further
confusion. J. O. SUKOYEH.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE JEALOUS ELEPHANT"
(Judge Owl, Brown Into the biggest bird
In the world. Joins a circus. .Major, a
jealous elephant, leads a revolt against
him, but Judge. Owl appoints the other ele
phants policemen and sets about arresting
Major. )
A Now Way of Spanking.
WHEN an elephant turns a som
sault and lands on his back
it naturally jars him a lot. So it
wasn't strange that Major was a bit
dizzy as he struggled to his feet.
j In spite of this he heard Judge
j Owl order the elephant policemen
I to arrest him.
i "I'r-ur-ur-umnh! I'm lord of the
menagerie," he trumpeted. "I'm
the strongest animal in the world.
I'll prove it by running amuck and
smashing up this whole circus."
"Oh, that will be awful!" gasped
Peggy. "Think of all the women
and children he might slay."
But she didn't need to worry, for
Judge Owl again proved that he
was a wise bird. He hopped close
to the elephant policemen and gave
them an order in a chuckling whis
per. "Dance up around the old
rascal," he said. "You don't need
to fight him nor hurt him. Just
Competition is Needed.
Carroll, Neb., Aug. 10. To the
Editor of The Bee: I notice that
11 cars of fruit and vegetables were
allowed to rot in face of the high
cost of living in Omaha. Now, is
not that fault directly due to the
iTw that was enacted some three
or four years ago forbidding any
one from shipping fruit or vegeta
bles into our rural towns and re
tailing, thereby giving the whole
sale houses and country merchants
an opportunity to monopolize? If
they were compelled to lose that
$27,000 instead of the producer,
perhaps they would not try it
again. Another remedy would be
to repeal that law in the state of
Nebraska and let us have some
competition. You know the old slo
gan, "competition is the life of
trade." U. S. G. YOUNG.
Cream on the Creameries.
Omaha, Aug. 12. To the Editor
of The Bee: Recently a corre
spondent asked me why the cost of
living had increased while he and
every other producer had multi
plied their output many times. I
have before me the statement of
one of the big creameries. In 1914
this company had clear profits of
something over $200,000 and paid
a little over $1,000 federal taxes.
In 1018 this company extorted gross
profits of almost $1,000,000! They
paid over $400,000 in federal taxes,
leaving net profits of over $500,
000, or double the net profits of
1914.
This company collected from the
producer and the consumer over
four times as much as in 1914, paid
back to the government more than
$400,000; but put down in its jeans
more than double the net profit of
1914. This was all done in the name
of patriotism and sacrifice. These
men betrayed a sacred trust for
their own profit and enrichment.
They are in exactly the same class
as the trustee who makes way with
the funds left in his care. It is
a tine example of loaded dice, mark
ed cards, scientific stealing, every
thing that is dishonest, unfair and
unsportsmanlike.
This is of interest only because
the condition is general. The chief
executive was given ample power to
correct all these evils. They are
possible only because he condoned
them or possibly encouraged them.
The head of the creamery trust was
appointed on the advisory board
and fixed things so ther creameries
doubled their net profits, so it was
all along the line. As long as dif
ferent interests fight there will be
no justice, only the survival of the
strongest. The remedy is for every
citizen to demand that each and
every law, civil and religious, be
strictly enforced, without fear or
favor. S. J. WOODRUFF.
Guaranteed High Prices.
Bread is cheap in England. The
reason is that a barrel of flour costs
the English baker not more than
$6.72. The British government
guaranteed this price and stands
such loss as is incurred in making
good the guaranty.
Bread is not cheap in the United
States. The government of the
United States also makes guaran
ties but its interest is not in the
people who eat bread. The gov
ernment guaranty merely protects
the men who raise wheat. The gov
ernment says the farmers shall have
at least $2.26 per bushel for wheat
and the government regulations so
work that in fact the wheat sells for
more than that. Is it any wonder
that undr such a system of propping
the high cost of living there should
be protest from all consumers who
are so organized as to be able to
voice their protest? Detroit News.
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Judge Owl and an Klephnnt Policeman.
crowd In so close that he cannot
stir."
Major couldn't hear what Judge
Owl said and so he was very curious
when the elephant policemen be
gan to dance. They circled around
him and drew closer and closer,
but it wasn't until he found himself
caught tight In a sudden Jam that
he knew he had been tricked. Then
he was mad all over, but he couldn't
budge an inch.
"Hoo, hoo! Too, too! I'm ruler
of this menagerie, and I sentence
Major, the elephant, to be spanked
for disturbing the peace," said
Judge Owl.
At that Peggy and Billy couldn't
help laughing out loud, while even
the animals grinned. The idea of
spanking an elephant! It seemed
very foolish.
But Judge Owl knew what he was
about. He ordered the elephant po
licemen to crowd up close to Major
at either side and in front, but not
in the back. And Major was so
much longer and taller than his
fellow elephants that his back
stuck out quite a little behind the
others.
"Ur-ur-ur-umph! I'm the biggest
of all elephants. There isn't any
thing on earth can spank me!"
boasted Major.
"We will see," chuckled Judge
Owl. He called two of the ele
phants and Billy and Peggy to one
side of the tent where stood a large
circus parade wagon. There he
whispered his plan, chuckling loud
ly, and Peggy and Billy chuckled
when they heard it, and so did the
elephants.
Acting on the plan the two ele
phants put their head against the
front of the wagon and pushed it
backward across the tent. Billy
and Peggy steered it by means of
the long wagon pole to which the
horses were hitched in the parade.
Judge Owl, clutching the roof, pull
ed with all his might.
"Hoo, hoo! Too, too! Everybody
sing!" hooted Judge Owl.
"Ur-ur-ur-umph!' 'trumpeted tthe
elephants. "Ow-ow-ow!" howled
ithe beasts in their cages.
The singing made so much noise
the rattle of the circus wagon
couldn't be heard. Thus Major
didn't have the least idea of what
was coming until wham, blam,
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FROM HERE AND THERE.
In China when a pupil is reciting
his lesson he turns his back to his
teacher.
Middle names were once illegal
In England.
The "Orloff", a magnificent dia
mond of 103 carats, and the chief
adornment of the sceptre of Rus
sia, was for centuries one of the
eyes of an idol in a temple in My
sore, until a French soldier stole
it. After many vicissitudes and
changes of hands, it was purchased
at Amsterdam by Prince Orloff and
presented by him to Catherine the
Great.
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The use of dogflesh as a staple
article of food has obtained in
liagio, in the island of Luzon, from
a veiy remote period. From time
to time progressive traders have
tried to introduce other kinds of
meat, but in vain. The dogs are
prepared for the table in a variety
of ways, but are never boiled. For
in Bagio the boiling of meat to be
used for food is considered either
irreligious or unlucky.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
Stranger Can I get a drink In this
town ?
Native Tes, If you'll hang around a
while.
Stranper About how long?
Native Why, until congress rhanges
tho constitution again. Kansas City
Times.
One-eye Jake Does the sun ever et
In the east. Pete?
Pete I don't know. Jake. I ain't been
further east than Denver, Widow.
"Our salmon are nice and fresh, mum."
"Kr have they roes?"
"Well, yes, mum. the price la a bit
higher." New York Olobe.
"No," said the positive girl, "I will
never tie myself down to one man."
"Perhaps,' 'he said, sarcastically. "If
I organize a syndicate you will consider
our offer." Forbes Magazine.
Bertie What's that bell around the
row's neck for?
t'harley nh. that's what she rings
when she wants to tell the calf that din
ner's ready." London Blighty.
Mrs. Parsons By the way, why Is It
you always address your congregation as
"Business Is Cood.Thank you"
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In the eermon?
Vicar My dear madam, the one em
braces the other. Pearson's Weekly.
"The crows don't seem to pay any at
tention to that scarecrow."
"No. The pesky critters think it's one
o' them artists from the city drawln' pic
tur's." London Answers.
FRANCE.
The lightsome touch that made life seem
As if a holiday, or dream.
"With song and dance;
The boulevards and fashions gay.
The window of tho Rue de la Palx,
The Champs Klysees golden way
Thst was not France!
Chateau, cathedral, legends told
Of bygone glory; armor old
And rusted lance;
Kings, cavaliers, and ladles fair.
With manners grand and debonair,
Jewels, and lace, and powdered hair
That was not France!
The mood that set a final seal
To nothing changing with the wheel
Of circumstance;
The coup d'etat so quickly made;
The sans-culottes, the red parade.
The murders of the barricade
That was not France!
But when the great world-peril came,
There rose a mighty soul of flame
As from a trance;
It faced the monster whose foul blow
Would all life's noblest thines o'erthrow.
And stayed him with a thunderou "No"
And that was France!
When hope was faltering, and distress
Seized honest hearts lest righteousness
Have scarce a chance.
We heard a voice cry: "All is well!
I'm dying, but no tongue shall tell
I flinched before the hordes of hell I"
And that was France!
When Moloch fell at last, whose breath
Had swept with suffering and with death
The land's expanse,
A figure stood, face toward the goal,
With bleeding heart, but honor whole,
Sublime in aim and self-control
And that was France!
Samuel Valentine Cole, in 4he New York
Times.
Why does Susie cry out "Oh"?
It's a great big cawing .
Draw from one to two and so on to the end.
bang! the broad end of the circus
wagon crashed into him. "Umph!
Oof! Ouch!" trumpeted Major.
Hack came the circus wagon, and
then wham, blam, bang, it walloped
the big elephant a second time. Then
a third time, and a fourth, and a
fifth. All the while Major kept
trumpeting: "I'mph! Ouch! Oh
quit! Please don't spank me any
more. Ill be good! I'll be good!"
He was just like a bad boy getting'
a sound paddling.
Finally when Major got the sixth
big spank one that caused him to
grunt and wail Judge Owl hooted
loudly: "Who is the ruler of this
menagerie?" And Major trumpeted
at the top of his voice: "You are,
most noble Lord Owl! Stop your
spanking! I've had enough!"
(In the next Installment will be told how
a curious accident changes Judge Owl'a
form again.)
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