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THE BEE: OMAHA. FPIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 191&.
You should know that
Almost all of the Omaha balloon
observers in the great war were
trained at Fort Omaha.
Well, why was Paul Sutton reappointed?
- The president is already assured a full house
for his Omaha speech.
Why the president was so anxious last year
to have a democratic congress is now becom
ing; clear.
Backers of the recall movement at least
have learned where to start and how to pro
ceed the next time.
The grammar of the Omaha "morals" squad
could be excused, if its conduct otherwise were
commendable, which it is not.
Sir Edward Carson may speak for Ulster,
but he is getting a long way from home when
he includes the United States.
Omaha used to have an ordinance dealing
with fortune tellers and the like, but that was
before we had a "morals" squad.
SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The inquest over the body of Eugene Scott,
murdered Sunday night as the result of the
activities of the "morals" squad of the Omaha
police force, did not end with the verdict hold
ing the Union Pacific watchman as the man
who fired the fatal shot. Several questions re
main to be answered.
Chief among these is, What was Paul Sut
ton and his crew doing prowling arouud the
hotel at that hour of the night without a war
rant or any other shadow of law?
The law of Nebraska dealing with disor
derly houses, whether they be hotels or other
wise, is ample and prescribes a plain course of
procedure. This was not observed, nor was the
further provision of the law that premises can
not be invaded for purposes of search and seiz
ure without a warrant authorizing such action.
This is not the first instance of this willful
violation of law by the terror gang that mas
querades as a "morals" squad, and perhaps will
not be the last one, although it easily might be
made such if the city commissioners would se
riously act to give peaceful citizens proper
protection.
One of the absurdities of the inquest is fur
nished by the reported testimony of Policeman
Crandall. "Detective" Paul Sutton, who first
accosted the murdered boy, says he saw no
sign of his having whisky, nor was any bottle
found with or near the body. Yet Policeman
Crandall solemnly testifies: "I seen the bottle.
I seen the neck of it as he run by me; that was
after he started to run away from Sutton."
Curiously enough, this observant policeman
"seen" nothing else. He might have added ma
terial evidence if he had noted what became of
the bottle he "seen," and which no one else
saw.
The county attorney has a plain duty to go
a little deeper into this deplorable affair, while
the city commissioners would not be wasting
time if they also delved into some of its ad
mitted as well as its undisclosed details.
Mr. Bryan s Latest Panacea
The district attorney over at Chicago has
found that sugar can be obtained "for a price,"
but the profiteers will have to put it back.
One whistle, east and west; two whistles,
north and south; three whistles, fire depart
ment. What is the signal for the "morals"
squad?
The president says he is glad to shake off
the confinement of Washington. If he will be
patient a little longer, the people will help him
get away from there for good.
Senator Capper points out that there are
twenty million fewer wearers of shoes than
five years ago, and asks if that fact should not
have some effect on the market for leather.
When the socialists get through splitting up
into new 'parties" it will be found they have
about as many as they have voters. Still, it
will never make much difference in a national
campaign.
The American "communists" are consistent
enough in ruling out of the party all "boojz
wah," and interpreting this to mean anybody
who has anything. It's tough on the parlor
coal diggers, though.
Leasing public domain to stimulate oil and
mineral production, first proposed as a war
measure, is now passed to meet peace require
ments, for it seems that more oil and gas are
needed now than ever.
State fair attendance records are being piled
up to a point somewhere near the importance
of the event. Nebraskans should recognize that
this really is a state institution and deserves
the hearty support of all.
- Canada has unearthed a new Golconda, from
which is to flow such a stream of gold as will
soon afford backing for all the credit currency
now in circulation. It may also be a "flivver,"
as such finds usually are.
The constitutional convention question is
now up to the supreme court, where the valid
ity of the present act will be determined.
Failure does not mean the convention will not
be called off, but merely that it will be post
poned until the legislature can cure the de
fects, if any be found in the law.
Mr. Wilson's Keynote.
The president's first speech on his tour, ac
cepted as the "keynote" of his campaign, con
tains nothing new. His appeal is for the ac
ceptance of the Versailles treaty in its entirety,
League of Nations and all. Generalities and
specious promises are substituted for argu
ments, broad assertions taking place of the par
ticular explanations the people had hoped to
hear. The league, and only the league, will end
war, he says, and not to adopt it will be "un
faithful to those who died." Very able and
sincerely patriotic men do not agree with Mr.
Wilson in this conclusion. These "astonish"
but do not dismay him, for they are mainly
those who "have not read or do not compre
hend the document."
There is the real source of trouble. Most
of us do not comprehend the document, and the
president has never set himself about to ex
plain it in such a way that we can grasp its
meaning. He and his supporters have busied
themselves with making extravagant claims for
it as a panacea for all the political and social,
and most of the economic, ills of humanty, but
they never get close enough to the ground to
give an ordinary mortal a real chance to find
out what they are driving at. As a matter of
fact, whenever the treaty has been subjected
to careful inspection, some new and serious
flaw has been found.
It has been to correct these that the effort
has been made, which so exasperates the pres
ident, and has driven him from home again,
that he may carry his case to the people. He
is staking his success on the present venture,
hoping to arouse public sentiment to such a
pitch that the senate will be overawed and
forced to give in to the executive will. His
political craft is obvious. He will assume that
whatever of regard exists for the president of
the United States in his proper person is ex
tended to everything the president does or
proposes to do. In this he may be disappointed,
for Americans are not deceived by the surface
aspects of the treaty. They have gone deeper,
have found Shantung, Article X and several
other things that are not to be disposed of by
pleasant words or pretty phrases. The people
want to know.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
If we are to have centralized control of the
carriers, Mr. Bryan would remove it from Wall
Street to Washington. But he would seek to
diminish the dangers of public ownership by
having the government become the possessor
of the trunk lines and by having the states
own and operate the branches. He has, he
says, devoted his attention to the railroad prob
lem for IS years and he is convinced that the
question for the future to determine is whether
the public shall own the railroads or the rail
roads own the public. What he believes to be
beyond the peradventure of a doubt is that
"some time" public ownership will come.
To the extent that nobody else has pre
scribed such a "remedy," the plan has the
charm of novelty. Nor, should it be patented,
would there be any danger of infringement.
It will not address an appeal even to Postmas
ter ueneral Burleson, who, though he be an
exponent of state rights, is in favor of federal
government ownership subject to no qualifica
tion whatever. It will not commend itself to
the president, who takes no socialistic view of
the problem and the disposition to dismiss it as
a "Bryanism" will be general.
This would be sufficient to say of the
"panacea," but for the fact that the witness
went into other matters. One of his question
ers became personal, asking him whether he in
tended to be a candidate for another presi
dential nomination; also, whether he regarded
it as possible or likely that in the next plat
form of his party a plank would be devoted
to government ownership. His answer to the
inquiry as to another nomination was that he
had "heard nothing of this:" His reply re
garding the plank was that it "is ripe for con
sideration." It is, therefore, obvious that the witness has
concluded to reserve his rights and to provide
himselt with an issue government and state
ownership. He also rendered it obvious that
he did not propose to alienate any of the
votes the four brotherhoods and all who af-
niliate with them may be supposed to influence
or to control. He not only protested that none
should be alarmed bv the Drooositinn to con
cede to them five out of IS controllers, but
saw no reason why the railroads themselves.
.1 ti1 r,- ' i , ... :
inrougn irieir omciais, snouia have an equal
representation, or, for that matter, any at all.
What he refrained from suggesting was that
the five he would like to see taken from them
should be added to the proposed representa
tion of the brotherhoods, making two-thirds
in all.
The customery alternative to public owner
ship was paraded by the witness. Amplifying
his statement that the question is whether the
railroads shall own the public or the public own
the railroads, he wanted to know whether the
"predatory interests" were to be permitted to
weld the carriers into one vast system, with
all the banking power behind them and all the
big newspapers controlled by them. But he
did not want to know what would happen
should the vast system be run wholly and
solely in the interest of the employes. Possi
ble candidates must be circumspect.
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Answer.
Travel Pay for DischnrKod Soldiers.
S. R. S. The law passed In Feb
ruary of this year fixed the travel
pay for discharged soldiers at 6
cents per mile. This applies to all
soldiers released from service since
November 11, 1918. At first the
rule was to pay the rate only to the
place of enlistment; this has been
changed to provide for payment of
rare to bona nde place or residence,
Ifr you were paid only at the rate of
i Vt cents per mile, you have . tne
difference In the amount still com
ing to you, and should write to the
zone finance officer, Lemon building,
Washington, applying for the bal
ance due you. Mark the envelope
"travel allowance."
Carnegie Rival of Franklin
Andrew Carnegie, like Benjamin Franklin,
could turn an epigram neatly. Some of the more
famous of them follow:
Wealth lessens rather than increases human
happiness.
Millionaires who laugh are rare.
Dealing wkh petty affairs tends to make
small men; dealing with larger affairs broadens
and strengthens character.
A chaperon's duties are often most success
fully performed by a wise and salutory neglect.
A great man settles things; a small one
nibbles away at petty reforms.
Two women, my mother and my wife, made
me all that I am.
Put all your eggs in one basket and then
watch that basket.
Jewels are to woman what wine is to man
not recommended till after 40, and a poor
help at any age.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless
he is willing to climb a little' himself.
It seems to me it is not God but men who
are disposed to make the path so very thorny.
I always pity the sons and daughters of rich
men, who are attended by servants and have
governesses at a later age, but am glad to re
member that they do not know what they have
missed.
It is the stagnant pool of contentment, not
the running streams of ambition, that breeds
disease in the body social and political.
No man is a true gentleman who does not
inspire the affection and devotion of his
servants.
If a man would eat, he must work. A life of
elegant leisure is the life of an unworthy citi
zen. The republic does not owe him a living;
it is he who owes the republic a life of use
fulness. Such is the republican idea.
No One-Year Enlistments.
Father There were no one-year
enlistments in the army. If your
son volunteered In the regular
army, he took on for the regular
term, which Is three years' active
and four years' reserve service.
Many of the drafted men were
taken into- the regular army regi
ments, but these will only be held
for the period of the emergency,
which terminates four months after
the declaration of peace. Many of
them already have been released,
being replaced by volunteers. To
secure the release of a soldier for
industrial or family reasons, a
statement should be prepared and
sworn to, setting forth the reasons,
and this sent to the officer com
manding the company in which the
soldier is serving. The rest of the
operation is provided for by military
rules.
Turnip Sum Payments.
Soldier The war risk insurance
law provides only for the payment
of Insurance in installments to the
uenenciary. However, a bill to
amena tnis and provide for pay
ment in a lump sum is pending.
Should It pass the beneficiary on any
policy will get the lump sum, less
such amounts as already have been
paid in installments. The govern
ment has no control over the money
after it has once been paid to the
beneficiary.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"RACING FOR A THRONK."
(Peggy. Billy, Balky Sum, General
Croaker and the birds rare for the throne
of Blrdland, one-third of the nice being
by air. one-third by water and one-ihlrd
by land. Peggy and Billy are ahad when
they reach the land third, but atop when
they aee a cottage afire.)
A Surprise at the End.
UTpiRE! Fire! Fire!" shouted
i- Peggy and Billy, running
toward the burning cottage. Smoke
was now pouring out of the window
in a cloud. "Fire! Fire'" th
shouted again, but no one on.
swei eu.
On the roof of the cottage was a
dinner bell. Peggy srasned thA mno
and the bell clanged out an alarm!
uang: Dang! Fire! Fire!"
Billy threw open the riilta
and there found the floor ablaze. Hil
ly grabbed up a water pail and
emptied it on the tire. Then he ran
back to the lake for another pailful
x-tBsy seizea a oianucl from a bed
it Formation of a general wage commission to
T deal with the entire proposition throughout the
i United States is the latest of vagarious sug-
tf gestions for settling all our troubles. It might
4 not be a bad idea at that, for most of the diffi-
culties would resolve themselves while waiting
- for the board to get arodnd to action.
1
Mexico Not 'Our. Belgium'
Japan's "Overtures" to China.
"I do not say that these will be our exact
terms," says Yosuke Matsuoka, "but I am pre
pared to declare that our overtures to China
will be along these lines." Mr. Matsuoka is
a member of the Japanese foreign department,
and was one of that country's peace delegates
to the Paris conference.
He is presumably familiar with the history
of the dealings between Japan and China, and
therefore may readily recall the last "overture"
of his government to the Chinese on the point.
It was that if China did not return within twenty-four
hours a satisfactory answer to the twenty-one
demands, the imperial governmentwould
take such steps as it deemed advisable. One of
these demands was that Japan be permitted to
succeed to the territory grabbed by Germany.
What dependence can be put on the word
of the government that has so deliberately set
about to rob another? And if Japan intends to
restore Kiaochow and Shantung to China
within a year, why seize the territory at all?
The assurances of Yosuke Matsuoka ring as
false as any of the other evasive and noncom
mittal utterances heard on behalf of Tokio.
S " One can easily see the cunning slant of the
' Latin mind involved in the suggestion from
!i Mexico City that the United States can hardly
'i hope to reassure public opinion anywhere if it
proceeds to treat Mexico as Germany treated
. Belgium by right of its military superiority and
the helplessness of Belgium before its great
4 and autocratic neighbor. Of course, there is
j not the slightest analogy between the hideous
i, and unprovoked dragonnadeof hapless Belgium
S ' by Germany and the necessity that has forced
I the United States from time to time to exer
j cise its police power south of the Rio Grande
in order to protect its own citizens and to se
'! cure some semblance of civilization in a coun
ij try otherwise given over to factional anarchy
I. under rival banditti, with the central govern-
ment tarred with the same stick. However,
ft the ingenious but not ingenuous person who
, has invented the phrase that Mexico is the Bel-
gium of America in the presence of the colos
si sus of the north does not care for facts or for
t the exactness or justice of the analogy. He
simply wants a slogan to stir the pacifists and
rf, the anti-American heart to bleed for Mexico
f at a time that the senate is about to reveal the
Y humbug that has stood for government down
i' there all too long. That any considerable num
; ber of people here, or in Europe, or in South
; America, who are endowed with horse sense
jl will accept the pathetic picture of shrinking
tj Mexico posing as the innocent Belgium of the
V western world is hardly thinkable. Philadel
- ' phia Public Ledger,
Give the Courts a Chance.
Governor McKelvie is justified from every
standpoint in his refusal to grant especial pro
tection to the organizers of the Nonpartisan
League in Nebraska. These gentlemen are
under the general protection of the laws of the
state, and must look to them for security. So
long as they carry on their mission of proselyt
ing within the law, and with due regard for the
proprieties, they deserve all the liberty and
rights guaranteed any citizen, but no more. It
is peculiarly unfortunate that not all of them
have shown at all times the due regard for law
they would exact from others. This has served
to exasperate the communities in which they
have operated, and has brought about proceed
ings that are discreditable, to sajr the very
least. Law officers should see to it that order
is maintained, but missionaries of the new
political order are under some obligation to
carry on their campaign along lines that will
give the least offense and will not tend to in
cite people to riotous conduct. Nebraska is
progressive in all ways, but is not fruitful
ground for disloyalty.
Settling It-Just Like That
Off-hand, deftly, no-trouble-to-show-goods,
William Jennings Bryan says the president
should have granted the railway shopmen's de
mands for increased wages to meet the higher
cost of living and that if, or when, the cost of
living is reduced, the scale of wages could be
reduced accordingly.
For a free-hand-and-fancy settler of things
the Nebraskan is as adept as ever on paper.
Great problems solved while you wait is one of
his specialties. There's nothing much that isn't
tackled light-heartedly in the Bryan tinker shop.
The philosophy of the place seems to be that
two plus two is five if you only think it so, but
you have to think quick and keep your mind
off everything else that might butt in and spoil
the "figgering."
So far as we know, Mr. Bryan is the one
living human being on the soil of the free and
in the home of the brave who seems to think
that wages can be reduced just like that
everybody willing, everybody happy, no fingers
crossed, easiest thing in the world, watch the
professor, the hand deceives the noodle, bring
on the next little old puzzle.
We don't remember a. word from the
brotherhood chiefs, or the railway shopmen's
spokesmen, or from any other source save the
lips of the handy runner-up for the presidency
suggesting that wages can be reduced under
any given circumstances and that everybody
concerned would feel that a lovely time had
been had.
Has the ken of all the wise men of the land
been overlooking a bet? Can this strange
thing, forsooth, be wrought in the tinker shop?
Well, we have the forsoothsayer foi it. Minne
apolis Tribune.
Many Questions Answered.
A Sister Motor transport com
pany No. 310 has boon Hemnhlli7
We have no record of any other
motor boat unit of that
Are you sure you have the right
number?
M- C. The prisoner of war ps-
cort service has not yet been re
leased, nor has any word been given
when it will be. It Is not liK-olv thnt
soldiers who re-enlisted in France
will be furloughed home right away,
for most of them are coming home
anyhow, being replaced by troops
from this side.
Henry. Armv nostofflr-A w 7n
is located at Gievres, Ioire-et-Cher.
one of the concentration camps of
the A. E. F. The supply company
there is No. 322. and it is still n
active duty, not having been or
dered home.
Mary. The units nf trip FMrat
vision are now arriving at New
York, and are to be given a great
reception there next week, when it
is hoped General Pershing will be
in the reviewing stand. As you do
not say which unit vou are inter
ested in, we can not tell you more.
WROTE BURROUGHS' THEME.
Jay Gould Collected 70 Cents From
Boy Naturalist.
Moe than 70 years ago two boys
nc.iut-u uit: v.uage scnool or Kox
bury, among the Catskills, together.
j-uvy bhi in aajoining seats. One
wrote a composition for the other
and charged him 70 cents for thA
performance. The man who col
lected the cash for his writing was
Jay Gould, who died at 56 and left
an estate valued at $70,000,000. The
man who paid cash for the compo
sition was John Burroughs, the fa
mous naturalist and writer, who re
cently celebrated his S2d anniver
sary at his beautiful vine-clad cot
tage on the Hudson.
Burroughs hasn't been bending
all his efforts to getting money, al
though he has acquired a compe
tence of this world s goods. He sa-s
he has taken real joy out of life.
Nature appeals to him in a marvel
ous way, and he has passed his feel
ings on to the world in his many
books. Detroit News.
Flat Dwellers.
Mrs. Pester Oh dear; I haven't a
Z wear- 1 wish vou could
afford the money to buy me a new
suit for this season.
Her Husband It isn't the money
m,v dear. If you get a new suit
i ii nave to give up my hook in the
closet for you to hang it on.
Houston Post.
"Ah,
at Last You're
Chuckled Billy.
Here,"
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G7y
Real Estate Descriptions.
Omaha, ' Sept. 3. To the Editor
of The Bee: I cannot understand
why the old custom of reporting the
transfers of title to real estate in
this city has been changed.
There are more than 1,000 addi
tions in this city, divided into lots
and blocks, and the old custom of
reportng the transfer of a certain
lot in a certain block in some ad
dition or subdivision was verv sim
ple and easily understood.
The method now and for some
little time past describes the trans
fer of a piece of land a certain num
ber of feet north, south, east or west
of a certain street, and on the north,
south, east or west side of a street
and a man trying to local oie of
these transfers has to use a map of
the city to determine wnero .t is.
Such descriptions cannot be
foi;nd on the tax lists, on the Looks
in the county clerk's or county as
sessor's offices, nor on the numeri
cal index in the office of the regis
ter of deeds, and they are not ac
curate in all cases, for I happened
to discover in the list in last Sun
day's Bee a reported sale of a Iati
wiiu.n i own and which I certainly
nave not sola.
The reporter who gets this in
formation must be working by the
hour, for it would take him a long
time to change the lots, blocks and
additions mentioned in the deeds, to
such ridiculous descriptions as he
furnishes to the papers.
JONATHAN EDWARDS.
And Stopped Talking?
"Well," said the Far West mayor
to the English tourist, "I dunno
how you manage these affairs in
your country, but over here, when
some of our boys got tied up in
that thar bankrupt telephone com
pany I was tellin' yuh about, they
became mighty crusty."
"Oh!"
"Yes, they didn't like the way
the receiver was handiin' the busi
ness nohow."
"Indeed!" commented the earnesi
listener. "Then may I ask what
they did?"
"Sartinly. They just hung up the
receiver." Dallas News.
and soaked it lrt the rain barrel.
When it was wet she beat the fire
with It. Billy poured more water
on the Are, and In quick time the
blaze was out. Just as the last em
ber gave a dying sizzle two boys
tiasned up on mcyeies. "What s the
matter?" they shouted. Billy told
them. It seemed that the boys had
left a fire In the stove when they
went to pick berries. In some way
the stove door had come open and
falling brands had set fire to the
floor.
"If you hadn't come along Just
then we wouldn't have had any
cottage left," said the boys' grate
fully. "Well, I guess we have lost the
race, but it was worth it," sHtd Bil
ly. He and Peggy ran to the door,
only to see the other racers far, far
ahead of them. Balky Sam, with
the birds still on his back, was Just
entering the woods that stretched
from the beach to the old mill
where the race was to end.
"We can't catch them now," cried
Peggy; and then she and Billy told
the boys about the race for the
throne of Birdland.
The birds were still on Balky
Sam's back, because, after he had
ferried them across the lake, they
wouldn't let go. They knew he could
run over land faster than they
could, and so they stuck right to
him. Balky Sam fussed and fum
ed, but Judge Owl Just hooted at
him: "Hoo! Hoo! That's our little
trick on you!"
To get rid of them Balky Sam
plunged through the bushes, brush
ing off a lot that way. But Judge
Owl, Mr. Robin. Keddy Woodpeck
er and Blue Jay clung tightly to his
back, and Reddy Woodpecker kept
spurring him along by digging his
oiii into uaiKy Bam s tough hide.
Balky Sam easily passed General
Swallow, General Croaker and Wild
Duck, and there was the old mill
and victory only a short distance
ahead.
Now Balky Sam was shrewd and
he didn't intend to be tricked out
of the race by any of the birds. So
he stopped short, and over he rolled.
Of course the birds got off in a hur
ry, but when Balky Sam jumped up
and dashed away, there were the
birds again on his back. Judge Owl
was even on his head, leaning far
forward, so he could jump off, and
be the first when the mill was
reached.
Seeing that he couldn't get rid
of the birds that way, Balky Sam
tried another plan. On the path to
the mill was the mill dam, over
which a stream was flowing In a
pretty waterfall. Quick as scat
Balky Sam jumped under the water
fall, and in a flash the birds were
washed off his back. Then Balky
Sam raced up the bank and dashed
toward the mill.
"I win! I win!" he brayed. "I'm
president of Birdland."
But Balky Sam was mistaken, and
as he rushed forward to the front
oi tne mill, he got the surprise of
his life, for there, sitting on the
mill platform as though they had
been waiting all day, were Peggy
and Billy.
"Ah, at last you're here."
chuckled Billy. "Peggy and I have
won in a tie, so we will both be Bird
land's president. I will rule one
day and she will rule the next."
"Hurrah! Hurrah for President
Billy! Hurrah for President Peg
gy! Hurrah for the Republic of
Birdland!" screeched all the birds,
flocking up by the air route.
How had Billy and Peggy man
aged to get there ahead of Balky
Sam? Why, it really was very sim
ple. The boys at the cottage had
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loaned them their bicycles and
shown them a smoother, easier and
shorter path than the rough, wood
sy way by which Balky Sam had
come. And so they had won the
race, the race for the throne of
Birdland!
(In the next Installment another jolly
Birdland atory will be told.)
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The Day We Celebrate.
William Newton, president Haskins Bros.
& Company, manufacturers, born 18S9.
Tobias Crawford Norris, premier of Mani
toba, born at Brampton, Ont., 58 years ago.
Sir John Newell Jordon, British minister
at Peking since 1906, born 67 years ago.
Rt. Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, Episcopal
bishop of Connecticut, born at Windham,
Conn., 71 years ago.
Thomas H. Birch, United States minister
to Portugal, born at Burlington, N. J., 44 years
ago.
Napoleon Lajoie, for many years a star
player in the American base ball league, born
at Woonsocket, R. I., 44 years ago.
A Missouri aviator has been fined for flying
too low over a farmer's thicken yard. The
fowls can not comprehend that sort of hawk.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Fifty thousand people witnessed Merchants'
week parade, a pageant which has never been
equalled in the west.
A grand pyrotechnic display added to the
glories of Merchants' week.
Racing at the fair grounds is attracting big
crowds.
It is estimated that 30,000 people visited
the fair grounds during the day.
THE WORLD OF SHIPS.
T want to go back to the world of ships:
To the kicking leas where the salt sleet
whips;
Where the flying apray will cling and
freeze,
And a ten-inch atlck will snap In the
breeze:
Where a dog's a dog, and a man's a Jack,
yr a man's a cur If his deeds are black.
Ju' "end me back to the world of ships.
Where a skipper knows his men.
I shipped for a cabin boy at ten,
My lot was cast with hairy men;
Grizzled and rough, but true as steel,
Wicked as sin, but they were real,
The God they knew was the God of the
sea.
And a creed like theirs will do for me.
So send rne back to the world of ships.
For I'll know my billet then.
Sunrt me aloft at brail and clew,
hiieh me there 'tween blue and blue;
Send me below where the black gang
heaves,
Where the pistons spit, and the crank
shaft grieves;
Send me on deck with bucket and swab,
Name the packet, and pick my Job,
But send me back to the world of ships
And I'll be happy again.
FRANKLIN JENNESS, In the New Tork
Times.
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