THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1919.
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You should know that
Within a few miles of Omaha is
the finest grape producing soil in
the world. f
It was tome rain, all right.
Bulgaria now knows just what it cost to go
along with the kaiser.
Veterans of '65 are to get another boost in
pensions. They deserve it. A
Now man is blamed for woman's dress. Eve
is avenged oh Adam at last.
Bishop Shayler will find plenty to occupy
him here, and he can make a start almost any
where. I
Nebraskans are asked to contribute to the
relief of Corpus Christi. "He gives twice who
gives quickly."
Wheat should not be left to rot on the
ground in Nebraska now or at any other time.
Farmers should see to this.
, A French flyer proposes an airplane ex
cursion from Paris to Melbourne, but will go
most of the distance by land.
"Encourage your fool friend to hire a hall,"
the president told the Californians. He ought
to know the value, of the procedure.
The New England landlord who gave deed
to the property to his long-time tenant is the
only one of the kind yet discovered.
Horrors! The Minnesota legislature gave at
tention while "Hi" Johnson ripped up the
league! What do you know about that?
The senate proposes to make Enoch H.
Crowder a lieutenant general on his retirement.
He earned his promotion if any officer did.
One good way not to build up Omaha is to
discourage the rearing of families by refusing
ta rent dwelling places to people with'children.
'. Five thousand well-to-do British women are
said to be coming to America for husbands.
What's the matter with our home-grown girls?
The "prettiest girl ever arraigned in the
Omaha police Court" gave her address as Lin
coln. She can go right back home, as soon as
she pays her fine. f ,
Switzerland has decided to postpone entry
into the League of Nations, which probably
means the cautious Helvetians are waiting to
see what is coming. t
J From Chicago comes the announcement that
the Anti-Saloon league is going into politics
''actively." What would you say the brewers
called its past efforts?
The only perfect foot among seventy women
doctors assembled from all over the world at
New York was exhibited by a Japanese. Write
your own moral to this. ,
London newspapers are not greatly excited
over the president's explanation of the league
at affecting Ireland. For that matter the Irish
have not thrown any fits on account of it
Army surplus food was sold to packers
and wholesalers is the charge now made to ex
plain why it was not delivered to purchasers
who sent their orders to the postoffice.' Oh,
very well, as long as it did not break prices,
Mr. Baker is content
The Bee has been on the "wrong track" a
great many times during the last forty-eight
. years, as viewed from the standpoint of some
' body who was trying to cover up something.
However, It is steadily battling for the people
just the same.
Relation of Wine and Song
A speaker at a musical gathering in Pitts
burgh, quoted "Musical America," announced
his fear that prohibition would increase the
..efnand for liirht and frivolous music. "De-
f- Pved of alcoholic beverages," he said, "in
toxication oy music win oe sougnt oy tnose
whose emotional vibrations attune them to such
a stimulant." The result, he concludes, will be
much musical composition of an "inebriating"
and other undesirable character.
The inference that the age of booze wait not
productive of the kind of musical composition
he deprecates will hardly stand. What pro
duced jazg, we wonder?, We won't undertake
to say, but it doesn't sound exactly like a W.
C. T. U. convention to us. What sort of emo
tional vibrations were the musical revues of
the last 20 years written to catch? But we
don't need to be confined to the moderns. What
of that Venice that would always leave off
talking to hear Galuppi play? Didn't Brown
ing say he was equally good at grave and gay?
We judge that those balls and masques burn
ing ever to midday, when they made up fresh
adventures for the morrow, were not danced
to measures entirely wanting in emotional at
tenements, even though Venice did not lack
the stimulant we are now deprived of.
, On the whole bah! Music will continue to
be good and bad as it has always been, irre
spective of the habits of the age. If the age of
alcohol produced a "Salome" so did it a
"Messiah. The age of restraint probably will
not do worse pr better. Kansas .City Times. .
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
"Only a Woman" writes to The Bee that
she finds in the Declaration of Independence
the strongest possible argument against the
League of Nations. She advises that this im
mortal document be republished day afterday
for a time, until all readers become familiar
with it. This may not be complied with, for
obvious reasons, but The Bee joins her in
recommending that all read the stirring sen
tences of the Declaration of Independence, and
ponder them well.
In setting forth that the United States are
and of right ought to be free and independent,
the Fathers did not mean it was to lead to any
form of "magnificent isolation." They had in
mkid that Americans should be forever free to
manage their own affairs, without interference
or dictation from another nation. Intercourse
with the world should be unrestricted, save as
the growth and welfare of the United States re
quired. Friendly relations should be cultivated
and maintained with all, without sacrifice of
national dignity and honor or the abatement of
home control of domestic concerns.
This was the ideal in 1776, and it was main
tained up to 1919. , All of a sudden we are told
that in order to proceed in harmony and live
in amity with the rest of the world, we must
give over a considerable part of our national in
dependence into the keeping of a super-nation.
Some things we have always done for ourselves,
and a few of which involve warmly cherished
rights, are to be decided for us in the future
by a great body, in which we have but limited
rights or voice. ; .
A large and perhaps a preponderant portion
of the people are not in favor of surrendering
now vor any" time the rights sanctified to our
country by the War of Independence and in the
free exercise of which America has grown so
wonderfully. At no time has the exercise of
those rights, even to their utmost, menaced in
any way the peace and happiness of the world,
and it strikes a lot of folks as odd, to say no
more, that they must now be surrendered in
order to secure the stability of human govern
ment and the tranquillity of nations. .
Read the Declaration of Independence, and
decide whether it does not yet afford a fairly
good starting point for American aspirations.
Danger to Age in Exercise
Strike in the Steel Mills.
Next to a general tieup of the transporta
tion industry of the land, the most serious labor
disturbance will be a strike in the steel mills.
It will fundamentally affect all other lines of
activity, including the railroads. Such a' strike
is imminent, and at the moment appears to be
inescapable. It turns on the elementary dif
ference involved in the policy of employing men.
Judge Gary, as the head of the United States
Steel corporation, has refused to meet or treat
with a committee claiming to represent em
ployes, his position being that he will deal with
a body representing men actually at work in
the employ of the concern, but can not meet a
body that comes from a labor union. For many
months an active campaign of organizing effort
has been carried on at the great steel and Iron
making centers. This has met determined op
position from representatives of the tompanies
concerned, but has persisted. How many of
the men have been taken into the unions can
not be told by anyone accurately, as they have
been received into the forty-four different na
tional or international unions whose crafts or
trades are represented in steel mill operations.
This condition makes the question a broader
and more important one than if it were con
fined to a single union composed exclusively
of those directly engaged in the industry. The
men have set forth their demands, chief of
which is the right of collective bargaining, as
opposed to "shop unions," followed by a num
ber of points chiefly of interest to the workers
and the companies involved. President Wilson
asked, that the strike be postponed until after
the general conference he has called for Octo
ber 6, but the unions have voted to go ahead.
How extensive the walkout and its accompany
ing shutdown will be can only be told after fact,
but the situation .,1s extremely grave.
"Injun Day" for Nebraska.
.Governor McKelvie has set apart Friday of
next week as a day on which he requests "our
people to meet together, and that the public
schools take up the subject of the American
Indian and in a fitting manner observe the day."
The Bee commends his suggestion that the
public schools take up the subject of the Amer
ican Indian, and that the people in general
will do well to give it some attention. Not from
the standpoint of , the "Eeatherstocking
TalTs," the Simon Girty stories, "Hiawatha,"
"Ramona," the Buffalo Bill yarns, or anything
of that sort. Some fairly interesting informa
tion may be had in an easily digestible form, so
that it may be readily assimilated, in ' John
Fiske's '"Discovery of America," volume I; in
Parkman's "Jesuits in America" and "Pontiac's
Rebellion." These writers deal authoritatively
with a topic on which the density of popular
ignorance is appalling. After attaining fa
miliarity with the facts set out in these, the In
dian will take on a new interest for many, be
cause he will have been stripped of the glamour
thrown about him by romanticists, poets and
plain liars, and will appear as a man, facing the
problems of primitive existence, slowly strug
gling up to the light. "Indian Day" will be a
good thing for Nebraska or any other state, if
it be intelligently directed to getting at the
truth 'with regard to the red man.
What About Fiume?
. Opinion as to the action of Gabrielle d'An
nunzio and the mutinous Italian troops, who
seized Fiume and expelle! the allied forces,
unites on the foolishness of the project. Gen
erally, it is accepted that on Italy rests the
duty of getting the rebellious soldiers out of
the city. How this is better to be accomplished
is not so clear. At Paris the Peace conference
is waiting on word from the United States,
which is not as yet forthcoming. Premier Nitti
has not been able to present a definite plan for
consideration, and that delays action by Presi
dent Wilson, who is expected to uphold his de
cision awarding Fiume to the Jugoslavs. The
affair presents a very pretty preliminary test
for the League of Nations. Although that body
is not yet formed and operative, the underlying
principles may be applied to this case, and the
question of moral obligation as well as the right
of self-determination" settled. D'Annunzio is
determined to hold on; what will Italy or its
Allies do with him?
Lloyd George says the demand for surren
der of the ex-kaiser will be renewed. This will
be sad news in Berljn.
From the London Mail t
The septuagenarians who have written ac
counts of their cycling feats are obviously men
of exceptionally sound constitution. It would
not do for every old man, at even for all in the
SO's and 60's to imitate them by riding 60 or
70 miles in a dav. v
It is not easy to prescribe suitable exercise
in any variety of men in later life. In the ma
jority Of people one or another vital organ has
grown weak and there is always danger of put
ting too much pressure on blood vessels. But
exercise is as necessary at tnis as at any time
of life.
Walking, of course, is the ideal form. There
should be no haste, no effort that would cause
breathlessness and so raise the blood pressure,
and the walk should not be continued to the
point of weariness. The best plan is to take
three or four short walks in tne aay.
Walkintf without some object soon palls
and therefore a man should have other forms
of exercise available. Up to a late age golf
is sate and an excellent reason lor wanting,
frontiet on a fine summer's afternoon is admir
able. Every middle-aged man should have a
garden to wQrk in, but the more ne avoids
heavy digging the longer he will live. Potter
ing about in a greenhouse, however, is not
exercise, and it is by no means a healthy occu
pation: More severe exercises than these can
be undertaken by exceptional men who have
continued to use their muscles throughout life.
But there is undoubted danger when violetft
exercise is resumed in middle age after a period
of sedentary life.
The chief daneer of overstrain after SS is
to the blood vessels. Even a minute's quick
walking will often do a man of this age serious
injury. In nearly all violent exercise one holds
the breath now and again, a matter ot no impor
tance in youth, but a great danger in late life.
The heart is another danger spot, and un
less it is known to be sound any great strain
should not be put on it after 50. It is not the
risk of sudden death or paralysis alone that
confronts the man getting on in years who
overstrains himself; lesser injury may be done
which leaves him more or less ill for the day
or even several days. The basal fact to con
sider is that every part of the body is less
efficient and may be dangerously weak as age
comes on.
In some the need for a quiet, even life may
not arise until 60 or later, but in the majority
it is well to begin to be cautious when in the
fiftieth year. Probably, indeed, men would live
longer if they confined themselves to the gentler
forms of exercise soon after 40, even when
there is no sign of failing power.
A Simple Solution v
At last a solution for the cost of living prob
lem has been found and it is seriously set forth
by such eminent economic authorities as the
Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun.
The thing is so remarkably simple that it is
remarkable it was not thought of sooner and
immediately acted upon.
The first premise is that all food costs are
based on the cost of wheat, and comparative
tables 'are set forth showing how the prices
for corn, hogs, eggs and even cotton, rise and
fall pretty much with the price of wheat.
Therefore, all that is necessary, tm!y say, is
first to lower the price of wheat and all these
other essential foodstuffs will come tumbling
down to a level of prices at which all the people
can have all they need. The proposition is for
the government to pay the farmer the $2.26 a
bushel as agreed upon, and then sell the wheat
to the public for $1.76 a bushel.. The govern
ment would, of course, lose by this transaction;
but only some $250,000,000; which, it is pointed
out, the people would gladly pay because they
would be so greatly benefited by the drop in
cost of all other foods.
The only puzzling part of this proposition is
why he price of wheat to the public is set at
$1.76. Why not bring it down to $1.00, or 50
cents, or even give it away free, if the lower
the price is made the greater will be the drop
in prices of other foodstuffs? Then this could
be made a permanent policy of the government
so that from now on all that need be done to
secure cheap food will be to artificially lower
the price of wheat.
Was there ever a prettier example of the
"reductio ad absurdum" argument? Boston
Post. .
A
The Search for Men
The paragraph that follows was written by
Mr. Heywood Broun as part of a book review
in the New York Tribune: .
"It is something of a blot on all forms of
art in America that in no profession except
base ball is the search for new talent diligent
and careful enough to cover every village and
hamlet. If Al Simpkins or Joe Spruggles, in
the tiniest of upstate towns, can throw a good
curve and get it over the corners, John Mc
Graw or Pat Moran or somebody else will give
him his chance immediately to prove his worth
in fast company. Opera impresarios and book
publishers are not so far-reaching in their in
vestigations, nor so quick to act. .
Are banks so quick to act? Are the large
industrial companies? Are the churches? The
search for new talent occupies much of the
time of the executives of any large organiza
tion. Not McGraw nor Moran alone, but every
big league manager combs the country for new
players; every club has scouts that watch the
games in small cities, and even on sand lots.
Men like Cobb and Speaker are discovered as
the result of this process; and not these great
players only, but also all the other men who
have made the standard of ability in base ball
so high. No team of a large city, not even the
constant tailenders, is obliged to tolerate real
incompetency very long at any position. Mana
gers buy a few players from each other, but
most of their men come to them as a result of
close investigation in small towns. It is a big
part of the base ball business and a profitable
idea for any other business that needs more
men or better men. The recruit needs train
ing, of course, but he receives that training
when he comes out of his seclusion and goes
to work for a first rate boss. Collier s.
7Y
The Day We Celebrate.
Gen. Bryon Root Pierce, one of the few sur
viving general officers of the federal army in
the civil war, born at East Bloomfield, N. Y., 90
years ago.
Ex-Princess Cecelia, wife of the former
German crown prince, born in Mecklenburg 33
years ago.
Dr. Charles A. Prosser, who recently re
signed as director of the Federal Board for
Vocational Education, born at New Albany,
Ind., 48 years ago.
Dr. L. Clark Seelve. president emeritus of
Smith college, born at Bethel, Conn., 82 years
ago.
Pierre. Maupome, celebrated three-cushion
billiard player, born at Vera Cruz, Mexico, 39
years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
The democratic state central committee met
at the Paxton hotel and decided upon Omaha
as the place for their state meeting. October 15.
W. W. Morseman of Clarinda, la., is in the
city visiting E. M. Morsman, president of the
Pacific Express company. He may decide to
locate in Omaha.
" George W. Lininger is erecting a large con
servatory just south of his art gallery, in which
he will place the collection of palms recently
the property of Mr. Clark Woodman. .
W. H. Hall, manager of the City Water
Works company, has gone to Detroit fdr a
short vacation. ' N
Zffie&oe's
Dates In President's life.
Omaha, Sept. 10. To the Editor
of The Bee: How long waa Presi
dent Wilson a widower? C. 8. '
Answer The first Mrs. Wilson
died on August 6, 1914. The presi
dent waa remarried on December
18, 1915. He was, therefore, a
widower Just over 16 months.
It la Worth Reading.
Omaha, Sept. U. To the Editor
of The Bee: The best argument the
writer has vet seen astalnst the
League of Nations la the Declaration
of Independence, and l wouia sug
gest that you reserve a good con
spicuous space in your paper and
run that important document day
after day until the people are suc
cessful in denouncing and over
throwing the proposed league.
ONLY A WOMAN.
"Jerry on the Job."
Omaha, Sept. IS. To the Editor
of The Bee: Thanks for your edi
torial in today's issue headed. Presi
dent and Ireland." I most earnestly
recommend a careful study of said
editorial, especially by those whom
you refer to in another editorial that
says: "If the Irish are fooled by the
president's explanations, it Is because
they want to be." On this occasion
I have an idea that the rank and file
of the Irish are on the alert con
cerning the leazue of nations.
But, alas! alas! the Oraadhauns
and Bodrahs together with the cor
rupt politicians have been hood
winking the Irish for decades as they
are proficient in their deceitful trade
of misleading the unsuspecting,
therefore it is well to be on guard
against the schemes of these trick
sters.
The elite of the Irish, those who
were ever and alwavs faithful and
true to "liberty's cause" need, no
tocsin or any other alarm to notify
them of their duty. However, it is
pitiable to witness the schoneens and
tho spalpeens of the race paying
homage to the House of Morgan, the
House ot Rockefeller, the House of
the Packers and a swarm or lesser
autocrats. Perhaps they inherit such
slavery from their ancestors who
were accustomed to take off their
caubeens to the landlords in Ireland,
JERRY HOWARD.
Objection by a Democrat.
Omaha, Sept. 16. To the Editor
of the Bee: I have a few objections
to the proposed league of nations,
whioh I believe are strong enough
to merit attention and being a
democrat, I naturally embodied
them in a letter to the World-Herald.
That paper has seen fit to refuse me
the courtesy of its columns, and I
therefore appeal to you. I oppose
the league because:
1st Its . prime purpose . is to
guarantee an unjust peace. Last
November we offered and Germany
accepted peace on the basis pf
Wilson's "fourteen pbints," but Mr.
Lansing tells us that when peace was
being made, the "fourteen points,"
were not so much considered. I can
see . no difference in principle be
tween Germany's deliberate repudia
tion of her promise to maintain Bel
gium neutrality, and the Allies' delib
erate refusal to make peace on the
basis they had promised. I believe
it is the duty of all good Americans
to try to maintain our honor brighter
than Germany's.
2d. Its secondary purpose is to
stop all war. I have found by
questioning, that many readers of
the World-Herald would be no more
surprised by rain out of a clear sky
than they would by a war after the
league has been .established. One
needs to- be no prophet to say that
the league will not stop war. We
might hope that war would be post
poned for many decades, if England,
rance, Italy, Japan, Poland and
Roumania had given any evidence
since last November that they had
a new outlook on International poli
tics, and proposed to follow a differ
ent policy than before. But, know
ing as we do that a nation goes to
war to satisfy a dishonest desire for
something that rightfully belongs to
another nation, and knowing that
most of the Allies today have those
dishonest desires and are dishonest
ly satisfying them at the expense
not only of their enemies but even
of friendly, helpless China, we would
be criminal fool to suppose that
having gorged . themselves for the
nonce, they would never again have
the same desires, or that those de
sires would not. In the future as In
the past, lead inevitably to war.
3d. How can we hope to benefit
the world at large, and ourselves in
particular, by associating ourselves
with a group of nations whose In
gratitude to us and whose hypocrisy
before the whole world is without
parallel in all history? Their in
gratitude to us is shown by the fact
tnat tney nave deprived us or the one
thing we fought for an honorable
peace although if we had not gen
erously gone to their assistance, they
would have been German slaves by
this time; and their hypocrisy is re
vealed in their claim of standing as
guardians or international honesty
for all time, when they would not
even begin that guardianship' until
they had taken as many choice bits
or tneir enemies' territory as they
could safely assimilate, in flat con
tradiction to their written promises.
ln. loose who sunnort the
league offer many contradictory
arguments, and their methods are
sometimes disingenious. We have
been told in one breath that the
members of the league are all honest
therefore we should Join them:
and In the next that they are all so
cusnonest that they will not form a
league unless we do Join them
Mr. Wilson tells us that unless we
vote to do so, we do not have to
aid in a European war, although we
are certain to be "advised" to do so:
but he also says that the moral ob
ligation arising from being ' advised-'
is stronger than a legal one As
to methods, let me point out that the
league is a "rider" on the peace
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
THE MERMAID IS KIDNAPED.
(In previous atorlea the Prince ef Dol
lars has sought to woo Anita, the charm
ing mermaid, onl to nave her run away
from htm first after aha had saved him
from drowning in tne lake, and second
after he had reaoued her from the burn
ing mill.) -
Chapter i.
The Extra.
UTXTRA! Extra! All about the
J-i mystery of the charming
mermaid and the Prince of Dollars!
Extra! Extra!"
Peggy Jumped quickly from the
hammock when she heard this cry
coming through the stillness of the
early evening "Extra! Extra!"
The loud newsboy call would
nave neen exciting enough on
the city streets, but here in the
woodsy quiet of her lakeside sum
mer home it was startling. "Extra!
Extra!" The cry came hearer and
Peggy ran out to the road to look
for the newsboy who was still out
of sight among the bushes and
trees.
Clumpety-clump! Up galloped
Balky Sam, the army mule, to see
what the excitement was about. Be
hind him were Billy Goat and John
ny Bull, the dog.
"Woof! Woof!" snorted Lonesome
Bear, rushing from the underbrush.
Clitter! Clatterl Cree! The birds
rustled through the trees Reddy
Woodpecker, Kingfisher, Blue Jay,
General Swallow, Mrs. Swallow, Mr.
Robin, Warbler Ovenbird Nightin
gale, Judge Owl, and all the others
eager to hear the news.
A Beautiful Maiden Sitting Before a
Cottage Door and Singing.
"Hee-haw! What's the matter
now?"brayed Balky Sam.
"Hoo! Hoo! Who is raising this
hullabaloo?" hooted Judge Owl.
"Hey! Heyl I want an extra,"
shouted an anxious voice, and here
came rushing the Prince of Dollars
himself.
"Extra! Extra!" And into view
trotted the newsboy, it was Billy
Belgium. "Extra! Extra edition of
the Blrdland Gossip. All about
why Anita, the charming mermaid,
is hiding from the the Prince of
Dollars."
"Ah! That's just what I want to
find out," exclaimed the prince,
throwing a 5-cent piece to Billy.
"Here it is then." replied Billy,
handing him a piece of ordinary
wrapping paper on which an item
was printed in penciled letters. The
prince eagerly read the Item out
loud, and all the birds and animals
crowded around so they could hear.
Every one of them wanted to know
why the charming mermaid had
run away from the prince, who
loved her so dearly. This is what
the prince read:
"Birdland, Summertime, 1919.
Carrie and Homer Pigeon, while fly
ing over the Valley of the Woods to
day, saw a beautiful maiden sitting
before a cottage door and singing.
They knew at once she was the
charming mermaid, for none other
could ting so sweetly. And this is
what she sang:
" 'The Prince of Dollars is idle and
rich,
While I, poor mermaid, have
scarcely a stitch;
Until he becomes the same as me
I cannot be the same as he.' "
The prince looked up puzzled
from the extra. "But I love her and
she loves me, that makes me the
same as she," he said.
"There's more of the extra on the
other side," said Billy. The prince
turned the sheet over and read:
'"My troth has been plighted to
Blacksmith Joe;
I must wed him tonight! Oh, woe!
1 Oh, woe!' " V
The- prince gave a cry xf grief.
"Alas, alas, my beloved is to wed
another."
"But It isn't tonight yet," cried
Peggy. "The sun has Just set and
the moon isn't up. If we could only
stop the wedding!"
"Hee-haw! I'll stop It!" brayed
Balky Sam. "I'm a happy bach
elor, and I think the prince Is
lucky not to be married, but if he
wants to marry the mermaid,, marry
her he shall. I say so!"
"So eay I, even if I, too, am a
contented bachelor," hooted Judge
Owl.
"So say we all!" screamed the
birds and animals, and away they
rushed pell-mell. Peggy, Billy and
DOT PUZZLE
DAILY CARTOONETTE.
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FROM A WINDOW IN FEZ.
Life on Moroccan Housetops Sug
gests Days of Haroun el Rascbid.
The motor paused before a green
door in Fez, where a cadi in a silk
en craftan received us. Across
squares of orange trees divided by
running water we were led to an ar-
caded apartment hung with Moroc
can embroideries and lined with
wide divans; the hall of reception of
the resident ' general. Through . Its
arches were other tiled distances.
fountains, arcades; beyond, in green
er depths, the bright blossoms of a
flower garden. Suoh was our first
sight of Bou-Jeloud, once the sum
mer palace of the wives of Moulay
Hafid.
Upstairs, from a room walled and
celled with cedar, and decorated
with the bold rose pink embroi
deries of Sale and the intricate old
needlework of Fez, I looked out over
the upper city toward the mauve
and tawny mountains. '
Just below the windows the flat
roofs of a group of little houses de
scended like the steps of an irregu
lar staircase. Between them rose
a flw cypresses and a green mina
ret; out of the court of one house
an ancient fig tree thrust its twisted
arms.
The sun had set, and one after
another bright figures appeared on
the roofs. The children came first,
hung; with silver amulets and am
ber beads, and pursued by negresses
in striped turbans, who bustled up
with rugs and matting; then the
mothers followed more indolently,
released from their ashy mufflings
and showing, under light veils, long
earrings and craftans of pale green
or peach color.
The houses were humble ones,
such as grow up la the cracks of a
wealthy quarter, and their inhabit
ants doubjess small folk; but in the
enchanted) African twilight the ter
races blossomed like gardens, and
when tho moon rose and the muez
zin called from the minaret, the do
mestic squabbles and the shrill
cries from roof to roof became part
of a story in Bagdad, overheard a
thousand years ago by that arch de
tective Haroun el Raschid. Edith
Wharton in Scribner's Magazine.
SAID TO BE FUNNY.
She Never Knew.
She never knew a mother's earej
. She never had a mother's wing
And so no chance to nestle there.
Poor thing.
It seems a most unhappy fate,
But still we needn't worry when
0Ve learn she waa an Incuba
. Tor hen. Kansas City Journal.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
Labrador has an area or 200,000
square miles, but the population is
only 4,000. .
The British House of Commons
possesses a postoffice of its own,
which handles over 3,500,000 pieces
of mail to say nothing of a tremen
dous numberXof telegrams during a
single accaiuii. .
One of the newest uses of alumi
num is its employment in making
the soles of shoes to be used by
workmen employed in damp and
wet places. The aluminum-soled
shoe lasts much longer than an or
dinary shoe and is said to be imper
vious to moisture.
Hindu children are remarkable for
their precocity. Many of them are
skillful workmen at an age when the
children of other nations are learn
ing the alphabet. A boy of 7 may
be a skillful wood . carver, while
some of the handsomest rugs are
woven by children not yet in their
'teens.
The stork is treated with great re
spect in Holland. The house select
ed by the stork for a resting place
is considered fortunate, and special
facilities are provided by the house
holders to enable it build a nest
comfortably. At The Hague many
of these birds are maintained at pub
lic expense. !
Silk is the most costly of all fibers,
and in the raw state represents a
value so great as to be guarded in
its transportation like a shipment
of bullion. It is shipped from coast
to coast in special, solid, express
trains, under strong guard, the ship
ments ranging in value from
15,000,000 to 25,000,000.
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end.
the prince, taken by surprise, stood
staring after them, wondering what
they were going to do.
(Tomorrow will be told how the mer
maid finds herself kidnaped.)
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