THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1919.
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You should know that
You can reach every important
city by through sleeper from
Omaha in the territory bounded by
Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles and
Seattle.
Old "J. B." isn't dead his finger moved.
Fanning' bargain headquarters are locally
popular.
Stenographers at the While House today
are in for a busy time.
Any doubt as to whether the public would
eat the army food has been dispelled.
A man is pretty hard up for liquor when he
will impersonate a policeman to get it.
"Small countries are in need of credit," sum
marizes an observer. Most of us are.
The attack on "H. C. of L." in Omaha seems
to have "retired to a previously prepared position."
Advertising pages contain a solemn warn
ing to little Johnnie that vacation days are
nearly over.
Railroad firemen know what they want
a 50 per cent increase in pay and machines to
do the work.
Increased expenses is the reason given for
boosting the price of milk. Applies to every
thing, apparently.
Iowa towns now appreciate the advantage
of trading with Omaha. It is possible to save
a little money here instead of at Chicago.
At least 3000 automobiles outran the as
sessor in Nebraska this year. This is quite a
few to get away, but they may be overhauled
next time.
If the president has extended his objurga
tory equipment beyond tut and fudge, he may
be able to measure up to the requirements of
the Mexican situation.
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What the governor of North Carolina said
to the governor of South Carolina as they
passed Omaha was some very complimentary
things about the "Omaha Empire."
Just suppose the republican senators do not
take the same view of the senatorial spokesman
of the administration on the foreign relations
committee, what do you think he will say?
Secretary Baker might have said, "Oh,
pshaw I" but he did not. He simply said noth
ing when told of the Mexican, demand for
ransom for the American aviators.
"Come on with your complaints," invites
the federal attorney for Nebraska, but victims
of food profiteering rather incline to the view
that it is up to him to do a little digging.
If Carranza knew any more about history
than Henry Ford showed on the witness stand,
he would be a little more careful about how he
monkeys with Uncle Sam. Young America
broke up piracy on the Mediterranean, and was
never so patient with bandits as with the Mexicans.
"Sfhall town stuff" begins to lose its in
nocuous quality when it takes the form de
scribed by a youth who has just been over
hauled for robbing a rural postoffke. Big city
wickedness looks pale alongside the tale he
tells. Human nature is pretty much the same
wherever it is found.
Electricity in the Home
A writer on agricultural subjects recently
predicted that a day would come when the
farmer's wife on awakening in the morning
would touch a button and that breakfast would
thereby be prepared without further personal
attention. The time seems to be here. At the
latest electrical shows the accomplished fact is
witnessed. The demonstration shows how a
family can go out to spend the day, to return
at 6 p. m. in time for dinner. Uncooked food
is placed in the electric range, and a clock at
tached is set to start the cooking at 4 in the
afternoon, to be completed an hour later. The
clock of itself regulates the current, turning it
off at the time desired, but leaving enough
heat to keep the food warm. If the family is
delayed the meal is still ready for the table. It
is simple and also dependable. When it is called
simple due consideration musUbe given to the
ingenuity of the machinery employed, includ
ing the clock, whose performance is so famil
iar that its mechanism, perfected step by step
through the centuries, is seldom given a
thought.
Electric appliances for the household are
just getting a start. Their evolution is rapid
as well as strikingly useful and interesting.
Light, heat and power what a broad founda
tion for new utilities in the home as well as
in all forms of industry! Generated by the
water power available in all parts of the United
States, electricity ought to be cheap enough to
be freely used by everybody. Congress has
direct authority in shaping the future of water
in motjon. The responsibility is of the first
importance to the general welfare of every
citizen.
On the farms drudgery is happily a word
going out of fashion. St. Louis Globe-Democrat
MEXICO PRESSINQ THE LIMIT.
"What in hell will make you fight?" a Mex
ican officer asked an American a few years ago,
after enumerating the outrages committed on
our citizens, men and women, and patiently
viewed by the government
Just now Villa bandits are holding (or ra
om two officer! of the American army who
were so unfortunate at to land an airplane
within their reach. Their lives will be4 spared,
because the ransom will be paid, and another
note will go forward from Washington to Mex
ico City, protesting and demanding that Car
ranza control his subjects better.
These bandits are encouraged by the hot
and cold policy pursued at Washington. The
landing of troops at Vera Cruz and their sub
sequent withdrawal without accomplishing the
purpose of securing the salute from Huerta,
followed by the abortive expedition in pursuit
of Villa, marked as it was by the Carrazal
episode, give these outlaws fair reason to think
we will not fight under any provocation.
War with Mexico is not sought, but safety
of Americans along the border is demanded.
If the miserable subterfuge for a civilized gov
ernment that now exists down there can not
restrain its citizens, the duty is plainly up to
our own authorities. No show of force on our
side of the border awes them. No written or
spoken proclamation moves them. The only
thing they understand and are responsive to
is the crack of the rifle.
Mexico has very nearly attained the limit
of American patience. It must be plain, even
at Washington, that we can not go on forever
living in a pretense of amity with our neigh
bor, while the boundary serves only to afford
sanctuary to murderous ruffians who prey on
the one side and rest secure on the other.
In the meantime, a little careful attention
should be paid to the American citizen who is
acting as confidential agent for the bandits.
Episcopalians Making Progress.
When the birdmen began flying over the
front lines there was much turning to "Locks
ley Hall," and Tennyson's prophecy of man's
aerial flight was used as a text for many an in
teresting comment on the development of the
airship. Now we may again turn to the same
source of inspiration for another illuminating
bit of philosophical reflection. He wrote also:
"For I hold that through all nature one in
creasing purpose runs, and the minds of men
are broadened with the process of the suns.".
Solemnly and majestically those processes
move in endless cycle, and ever does the mind
of man show the effect of the widening vista
as it discloses newer and clearer views of
truth. The latest exhibition of this is given by
the Episcopalians, who propose certain amend
ments to the ritual of their church. Among
others the committee charged with bringing
forward suggestions for changes recommends
that the word "obey" be omitted from the wo
man's vows in the marriage ceremony. This
step towards the fuller recognition of the socio
logical fact indicates a desire to bring the
church abreast with the times. "Obey" is a
relic of an age that has passed; it echoes from
a time when the wife was property and not a
partner. Whatever significance it had in the
old dead days is generally lacking in these times.
Devout and earnest churchmen will ap
proach the change with timorous cteps, how
ever.. It involves further modifications in the
attitude of the church toward marriage. "Until
death do us part" carries with it little of mean
ing nowadays, and divorce and remarriage, still
a scandal to the church, are common enough
practices, sanctioned by law and social custom.
The "deceased wife's sister" is standing not
very far away, a silent witness to the slowly
unfolding intelligence of the makers of creed,
getting awayfrom primitive and medieval no
tions. If "obey" and "with all my worldly
goods I thee endow" go, several other bits of
dust-covered survivals from civilization's in
fancy are likely to follow.
Another Glimpse of the Picture.
Consideration of the high cost of living
has not proceeded along the routes of calm
deliberation, because people, when exasperated
by the presence of wrongs, such as established
or suspected profiteering, are prone to act on
impulse rather than judgment. Such thought
ful attention as has been devoted to the prob
lem has served mainly to emphasize the close
interdependence of the people in all their rela
tions. What seems complexity is really crystal
clear in this aspect. Experience of late almost
serves to justify the old "wage fund theory," at
least so far as the price of one commodity af
fects another. Governor Bickett of North
Carolina, passing through Omaha, draws atten
tion to this, telling the reporter who interviewed
him:
I' want you to tell the people of the
glorious state of Nebraska that the cheap
cotton goods they purchase today are made
possible by the women and children of the
south being slaves in the cotton fields and
factories. Provisions must and will be made
for male labor to supplant them.
Nebraska people do not want to buy cheap
cotton goods at the expense of the women and
children of North Carolina or any other state.
Neither do they relish paying high prices with
knowledge that the added cost serves only to
enhance the profit of the mill owners and the
planters. Nowhere has the movement against
child labor been more sturdy and vigorous
than in this state, and Governor Bickett will find
our people ready to second any honest effort
he makes to liberate the women and children
of his state from toiling in the cotton fields.
Another Straw for Old "J. B."
A district judge at Lincoln has tossed an
other straw to the disappearing rum demon, in
the form of a marfcUmus to require the secre
tary of state to receive petitions for a referen
dum vote on the national prohibition amend
ment. This order is not final, although no in
tention to appeal from it has been signified.
If it should be sustained, it will be the opening
step at least to referendum proceedings in other
states. This may prolong the life of the liquor
traffic by so much time as is required for the
taking of the vote. How it will affect the final
result can only be conjectured. Such a vote ought
to determine whether the people of the United
States really favor the extinction of the traffic
so far as it is accomplished by law, a point that
has been challenged by the opponents of pro
hibition. The test ought to be welcomed by
both sides, although the Anti-Saloon league
will naturally object to being required to forego
any advantage that now is on its side.
In the City Room
Jay E. House In the Philadelphia Ledger.
In recent time no bit of fiction has so in
trigued us as that portion of Philip
Gibbs' novel. "The Street of Adventure,"
which is descriptive of newspaper proc
esses in Fleet street. Because the public is al
ways so deeply interested in the presumedly
mysterious workings of a newspaper office we
reproduce a bit of Mr. Gibbs' description of the
city room of the Star.
"It was a large room," writes Mr. Gibbs,
"with a number of desks divided by glass par
titions and a large table in the center. At the
far end of the room was a fire burning bright
ly in the grate, and in front of it were two
men and a girl, the men in swing chairs with
their legs stretched out, the girl on the floor
in the billows of a black silk skirt, arranging
chestnuts on the first bar of the grate."
We know nothing as to the environment of
newspapering on Fleet street, but we've seen
1,000 city rooms, and none of them was like
that. The city room runs true to type where
ever it is found. We know of but one depar
ture from it. That is in the city room of a
Detroit newspaper, where the windows are
washed every week? We never saw a city
room with a grate in one end, nor a reporter
with his legs stretched toward the fire. When
a reporter has nothing else to do with his legs
he drapes them over his desk or hangs them
on his typewriter. The spectacle of a lady re
porter garbed in a billowing skirt of black
silk and seated on the floor feeding chestnuts
to the fire would give the most hardened vet
eran pause. The thing simply isn't done. A
lady reporter who did it would get herself
talked about. The fact that she wore a billow
ing black silk skirt to the office would cause
comment.
Newspaper offices run true to type and
present an aspect familiar to every worker.
Not so long ago we changed meal tickets. Trie
room in the new place looked exactly like the
one we had left in the old. About the only dif
ference was that we left behind a scratched
and battered golden oak desk and succeeded to
one in mahogany in about the same condition.
When we saw the desk chair we had the im
pulse to kiss it. It was exactly like the old
one in which we had sat for 16 years.
"Fleet street," continues Mr. Gibbs the
while he puts his words in the mouth of the
lady reporter, "would kill you in a year. It
is very cruel and very callous to the suffer
ings of men's souls and bodies. We women
wear out sooner. Five years in Fleet street
withers any girl."
Which is interesting, if true. But our own
observation and experience is that newspaper
men do less work than any other class of hu
man beings. His is a loafing job. Unless he
can learn to loaf with it he is useless to his
newspaper. There is a fallacious theory, very
generally entertained by the public, that the
strain and stress of newspaper work wear men
out and make them old before their time. A
newspaper man becomes immune to stress and
strain. The spectacle of Rome burning and
Nero fiddling would excite a veteran newspaper
man not in the slightest- To him it would be
part of the day's work to be accepted calmly
and disposed of in methodical fashion.
Another fiction of newspaper making very
generally accepted as truth is that of the rush
and bustle of the newspaper office. The calm
est and most orderly place in the world is a
newspaper office when big news is breaking.
Otherwise it never would get into the paper.
However, Mr. Gibbs intrigues us. His pic
ture is entertaining, if nothing else.
Next Thing to Communism.
Mr. Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor, told the house commit
tee on Interstate Commerce in a hearing on
the Sims bill, which includes the Plumb plan
for dealing with the railroads, that he could
not see any reason why wealth should pass
from father to son.
That is a proposition that no doubt will
make a hit with those who have no wealth,
but it is not conceivable that it should find
favor with very many who have by their own
efforts accumulated even a moderate fortune
and wish to pass at least a portion of it on to
their children, either for educational purposes
or to enable them to make a start in life under
more favorable conditions, perhaps, than their
parents did.
The protection of private wealth and its
safe transfer frorn parent to child, or to other
beneficiaries, is supported by a liberal inherit
ance tax. The state takes toll as it provides
fdr the transmission by law to the heirs and
that levy upon wealth is generally approved.
But no state has yet been foolish enough to
destroy absolutely all incentive for the accum
ulation of wealth to be transmitted Hrom par
ent to child. When it does, it will reduce the
energy, the activity, the enterprise, the pro
duction and the habit of thrift to a minimum.
The mere fact that a comparatively few heirs
of wealth inherit vast fortunes and squander
thein uselessly creates no justification for de
priving the average man of the privilege of
providing even for minor children in the event
of his death.
The proposition springs from nowhere ex
cept that ugly feeling of envy which prompts
the comparatively unsuccessful to help them
selves unrestrained to the accumulations of the
more successful. It is not necessary to follow
it very far to run into the jungle of communism
and the destruction of initiative and incentive
without which society cannot progress cannot
even maintain itself. This certainly is not
American Federation of Labor philosophy.
Minneapolis Tribuqe.
The Day We Celebrate.
Guy C. McKenzie of the Corey-McKenzie
Printing company, Jorn 1876.
R. S. Flower, general secretary Y. M. C. A.,
born 1882.
Orville Wright, one of the inventors of the
airplane, born at Dayton, Ohio, 48 years ago.
Bernard M. Baruch, who rendered distin
guished service as head of the war industries
board, born at Camden, S. C, 49 years ago.
Elsie Ferguson, prominent actress and mo
tion picture star, born in New York City, 36
years ago.
Walter Clark, chief justice of the North
Carolina supreme court, born in Halifax
county, N. C., 73 years ago.
Fred A. Stone, one of the most popular
comedians of the so-called musical shows,
born in Denver 46 years ago.
Homer D. Williams, president of the Car
negie Steel company, born at Johnstown, Pa.,
56 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
J. T. Bell, H. B. Wiley, L. Doll and H. M.
Hurlburt have offered to the city for park
purposes 50 or more acres of land on Leaven
worth street, southwest of Dundee Place. It
is a wooded ravine, full of shady 'nooks, and
has several springs.
The board of education elected Mrs. Adele
E. .Robertson, teacher of German, and Miss
Bessie Snyder, teacher of Latin, in the high
school for the ensuing year.
Frank Murphy, president of the Omaha
Street Railway company, returned from the
east.
John Mulvihill has commenced the erection
of a large wholesale warehouse at the corner
of Twelfth and Jones streets for occupation by
D. M. Steele & Co
&est
More About Behrena.
Lakeside, Neb., Aug. X4. To the
Editor of The Bee: In your Issue
of August 13 one Henry C. Kehrens
takes exception to your editorial of
August 10, entitled "Making a Great
Mistake," which I am sure if he
could read without putting the Ger
man construction on it he would
find no ground for offense. No one
but a German would speak of being
an American citizen, as he does,
and In the next breath speak of
being a German-American. I claim
that he must be a German pure and
simple, fr we have no German
Americans listed in this country.
The trouble with all German-bred
people is that they can't get rid of
their German instruction, which
they are simple enough to call "kul
tur." What does their education
amount to? Such as the sinking of
ships of defenseless women and
children, and make the event an oc
casion of an annual celebration.
Can anyone believe that an Amer
ican citizen would write or say, "I
am one of them and am proud of
It?" Think of such an 'one claiming
to be an American citizen!
He uses the word "bushwhacker"
and then straightway shows that he
is one of the first waters, because
he says, "Remember, the war is
over, and the espionage law is not
always in force," showing plainly
that he now says things that he
dared not say before. But that is
"kultur," and no doubt he feels
proud of it. My parents came from
Germany, but I never heard them
say they were proud of it. On the
contrary, I have heard them say
they were thankful that they could
raise their family in a country of
freedom. There is no reason why
a person born in Germany, or of
German parents, cannot be a good
man or woman, but an American
don't believe their (the German)
goodness is found in the German
government, because it is anything
but freedom. I would say to such
as Mr. Behrens, be an American or
else go back to your country of
"kultur" and be miserable.
H. F. SAHMAN, Sr.
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Mother's View of Mexico.
Omaha, Aug. 15. To the Editor
of The Bee. According to press
dispatches, our democratic govern
ment Is preparing to send our boys
into Mexico for the plain purpose of
shooting into the poor peons of that
God-forsaken country, a willingness
to become good faithful slaves to
the Standard Oil company of Amer
ica and the Pearson oil interests of
England.
If the Wall street grafters want
to protect their sacred rights to the
property they have stolen from the
Mexican people, they should shoul
der a musket and do it themselves.
The Amt"-; -n bovs are robbed
pnough at home without helping
Standard oii lu rob the poor work
ers of .Mexico. At the same time
that we are being told that we must
give our boys to Wall street to take
part in this plundering expedition,
we are forced to undergo a gas at
tack about the League of Nations,
having as its purpose the protection
of small nations, that is, all small
nations except Mexico, Ireland, In
dia, Egypt, Korea and all others that
the allies may wish to take under
their loving and protecting care.
As a mother I urge the other
mothers of America to refuse to aid
in any way this infamous scheme to
rob and exploit our little neighbor.
The capitalists of both Japan and
America are trying to frame an ex
cuse for a clash over their rival in
terests in China and Siberia, and a
little plundering expedition would
be just the thing. We gave our boys
to save the, world for (and from)
democracy. They are young and life
should be a joy to them.
Are we going to remain silent
while another holocaust is planned,
or are we going to be true to our
ideals and refuse to allow our boys
to invade Mexico as the Germans in
vaded Belgium.
DOSHIA BLACKKTT.
2915 Michigan Ave.
That lionesaw Kiot.
Kenesaw, Neb., Aug. 14.- To the
Editor of The Bee: In your issue
of the 14th there appears an ac
count of the carnival at Kenesaw,
the alleged riot with a narrowly es
caped lynching, in which one par
ticular at least was very misleading
and should riot go uncorrected.
I refer to the statement that the
people of Kenesaw thought the
show company was unobjectionable
and held it blameless for the events
of the week-end, which now have
such publicity.
For the last three years I have
been a resident of Kenesaw as the
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and as such have taken an
interest in everything that affects
the morals of the community. In
the 40 years of my ministry in Ne
braska I have never known such a
demoralizing institution to visit any
town of my residence. " The prosti
tution was so open and so shame
less, and the means used to solicit
and Inflame the passions of the boys
were so gross and brazen as to
arouse the indignation of the whole
community, especially the farmers
of the surrounding country. From
every side of town I was notified of
the shameless proceedings and the
indignation of the citizens.
As early as Friday morning I
went to the mayor and to three
members of the council and plead
with them to cancel the license. I
laid before them abundant facts and
I warned them of the danger to the
community if they failed to act
promptly. To their lack of moral
stamina may be laid the blame for
the alleged riot of Saturday night,
together with the shameful pro
ceedings of the week. I feel that
it is due the great majority of the
people of Kenesaw to correct the
impression given in your issue of
te 14th that they approved of the
carnival, or of the people connected
with it. T. H. WORLEY.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
(Peggy, Billy and the blrdi ara drawn
Into th woods by a myatertou bird song.
They find that the singer la an old. whis
kered man. Billy think him a alren.
After the blrda escape from the apell of
hla song ha draws Peggy by it aweet
power.)
"THE SINGING STRANGER."
He Seeks a Daughter.
faTTIEAR not!" sang the mysterl-
J0 ous stranger to Teggy. "I
come with love In my heart seeking
a lovely little daughter. You have
answered my call. Embrace your
new father!"
"But 1 already have a father
whom I love dearly," answered Peg
gy, while Billy held her tightly so
that she could not be drawn away
by the supposed spell of the stran
ger. "I cannot be your daughter."
"Alas! Alas! I feared it would be
so," cried the singer, his song turn
ing to a sorrowful chant. "Far and
wide have I sought a lovely daugh
ter; far and wide have I sent my
song to draw her to me; far and
wide have gone up my hopes and my
love, but alas and alack, only sad
ness is my answer." He looked at
Peggy with such longing eyes she
felt a quick desire to comfort him.
"Can't you find a girl who hasn't
DAILY CARTOONETTE.
f05H.I WANT TO (O0UT WITH
THE BQY5 TONItjHT-ANIl I
KNOW MY WIFE WILL BE
TJEfVD R(?fllNST IT.1 I LL HAVE
TO fcET flROUNU HER SOME-J
H0UJ!
-""le-f
MD HE DID-
A-
I'eggy Listening With Delight to His
Song as 5he Lay on the Ground.
any father?" she asked. "I'm aure
that in this broad world there must
be some lonely orphan who would
be happy to become your daugh
ter." "That Is my hope," replied the
stranger. "That Is why I sing and
sing and sing, for the daughter that
I want must love the song of birds
and be happy living among them as
I do."
"But you can't And a daughter
away out here in the woods," de
clared Billy.
"My song went to the borders of
the forest and drew you here," an
swered the stranger with a shrewd
smile. But to tell the truth, I had
begun to fear that my own singing
would not bring a daughter to me,
so I drew the birds with my song,
and I was teaching It to them, so
that they could go out and find some
fair maiden in need of a father and
lead her to me. But of a sudden
away went all the birds up the
chimney, vanishing like smoke from
a Are."
"You'd have had trouble teaching
them your song," said Billy.
"Most of them were lady birds and
you know lady birds are usually
so busy raising their families 'ny
leave the singing to the males."
"Come, birds! Come and have a
singing lesson, so you can go forth
and find a lonely orphan girl to
become the lovely daughter of the
mysterious stranger," cried Peggy.
And at once the birds came flocking
out of the bushes to get their lesson.
The stranger was a good teacher,
and soon many of the male birds
were singing his song almost as
good as he was himself. Catbird and
Brown Thrush were particularly
bright pupils and they made the
woods ring with their warbling.
When the song was learned, the
birds darted away to try it on any
little girl who looked as if she might
become a lovely daughter to the
mysterious stranger. While waiting
for their return the stranger sang
his story to Peggy and Billy, telling
them how, when he was a young
man, ne naa loved a maiden of
wondrous sweetness and beauty. On
the eve of their wadding day, her
father had carried her away and
forced her to marry another. That
was the last the stranger had seen
of her.
"And all these years I have been
lonely," he sang. "I afi true to my
first love and will wed no other. But
DAILY DOT PUZZLE
TRICKS OF BOOK TRADE.
Unscrupulous Merchants Have Ways
of Disposing of "Plugs.'-
Wtlliam Harris Arnold in the Atlantic
Monthly
The money losses incurred from
unsalable books are enough in them
selves to render the bookselling
business unprofitable in this coun
try to many of those who engage
in it; but there is a still greater
loss involved: the accumulation of
unsalable books often becomes, in
the course of a few years, the major
part of the bookseller's stock and
ties up a large part of his capital.
This lessens his ability to pay his
bills promptly and also lessens his
capacity to buy books that his cus
tomers want. "Dry rot" sets in, and
the business becomes precarious.
This often leads to bad practices
improper means of getting rid of
undesirable stock. Books which can
not be sold at normal prices in the
ordinary course of business are
calleii "plugs." When there is a
large number of any one or more
"plus's" they are placed in piles,
called "monuments" in the jargon of
the trade. The "monuments" will
sometimes be put in the most prom
inent position in the shop and the
morally blind proprietor will say,
"Now, boys, it's up to you to sell
these." Under this instigation the
salesmen will try to dispose of the
"plugs" at their original selling price.
If the "monument" of any one
"plug" is unusually big a premium
of 5 to 25 cents is often given to
the salesman for each copy sold.
In. such a shop "plugs" of which
there are only one or two copies
are constantly recommended Instead
of acceptable books.
Of course, this sort of forced dis
tribution must injure the morale of
the business and, in the long run,
discredit the bookseller with many
of his customers. For what he has
done is not in its essence different
from the intentional passing of a
counterfeit coin; indeed, it is even
more heinous, because the booksel
ler is violating the trust imposed by
his calling. Instead of being a stimu
lus to reading, the book is a deter
rent. After such an experience the
reader more readily turns from
books to other means of recreation
and the futile volume remains a
reminder of misplaced confidence.
Convention of the Trees.
The trees, on the approach of an
acute crisis in their affairs, held a
great convention to determine the
one among them to be selected as
Presidential Timber. After due de
liberation, they unanimously hit
upon the Willow, because it is ut
terly useless for all purposes and
so easily bent in all directions.
Life.
Trained In Diplomacy.
Surely the railroad brotherhoods
demand a good deal when they ask
the people of the United States to
buy up all the railroads, run all the
risks of ownership, pay them ade
quate wages and in addition turn
over to them half the profits of the
business. Chicago News.
St. Peter and Profiteers.
The average consumer likes to
imagine what good St. Peter will do
to the profiteers when they try to
pass through the golden gate. Des
Moines Register.
How to Get Evidence.
The congressional committee ap
pointed to investigate the high price
of shoes can learn some of the facts
by simply buying a pair of congress
gaiters. Boston Transcript.
Resinol
keeps skins clear
in spite of everything
The smoke and dnst of city life,
the sun and wind of the country,
the steam and dirt of housework
all spell ruin for good complex
ions But the regular use of
Resinol Soap, with an occasional
application of Resinol Ointment,
keeps the skin so clean, clear and
fresh that it simply cannot help
being beautiful.
All drtiniata sell Reainol Soap and Oinfc
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LAUGHS AND LYRICS.
One-eya Jake Doea tha sun err set
In tha east, Pete?
Pete I don't know, Jake, I ain't been
further eaat than Denver. Widow.
Bertie What'a that bell around the
eow's neck for?
Charley Oh, that's what aha ring
when she wants to tell the calf that din
ner's ready." London Blighty.
"Tou aay you ara In love with Mils
Baftgs?"
"I'm aura of It."
"But 1 can't see anything attractiva
about her."
"Neither can I ae it But It's in th
bank all right."
'T understand that none of th boya
takes a drink now "
"No, answered Three-Finger Sam.
"'Taint nafi: If you smelt Ucker on a
man's breath now It's a Hure sign he's
been robbin' a baggage caj somewhere."
Washington Star.
"The map .will hava to be changed con
siderably." "Yea We're going to have boundary
lines instead of Klndenburg lines."
Charles: John, you'r getting old,
aren't you?
John: Aye, that I am. If I live to the
end o' this month I'll be a hoctergera
nium. Christian Record.
"What's In a name?"
"Nothing," anBwered Mr. Stormington
Barnes. "If there was anything I'd put
on a show and call it "The Street Car."
Maybe It would play to standing room
only."
Dubhs: The girl made a couiplete fool
of me.
Mifs Bright: She didn't have to do
nuirh remodeling, either. Boston Transcript.
"Excuse me sir," said the beggar, "but
diil you ever hear It said that money
talUs?"
"1 have." said the gentleman Rccosted.
"Well, would you inlnd letting me have
a dime for a few minutes' chat? I'm
awful lonesome." Boston Transcript
TWO WOMEN
Pity her not who at the bright day's Hose
We-ps o'er the petals of a long-dead rose,
A rose that In some treasured volume lies
Faded, but precious for lis memories.
Gently her tears fall on the petals pale
That In the past such fragrance did exhale.
Her youth is gone, and I.ove will ne'er re
turn To Hps where unforgotten kisses burn.
Nay, pity her who In a chamber dim
Sits desolate, and listening to no hymn
Of love from out the long dead bygone
years.
Who hath no token to bedew with tears,
To whom the perfuma of a faded flower
Returns not ghost-Ilk in the twilight hour.
Ah! pity her whose sad lips pale and cold
Warm to no memory of a love long told.
Mary McMulIen in the New Tork Times.
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perhaps If I had a daughter I could
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Peggy, listening with delight to
his song as she lay on the ground,
and noting the tender light In his
kindly eyes, thought to herself the
orphan who got him as a father
would be lucky Indeed, he
had so much love to give her.
The song was broken Into by a
shriek from General Swallow.
"Here comes a charming orphan
girl. Sing, stranger, sing."
And the stranger sang so sweetly
that no one could possibly resist the
spell of his song.
(Tomorrow will be told how th stranger
loses a lovely daughter whin b almoa
has her.)
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