THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1919.
; : The Omaha Bee
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Subscribers teavinf the city ahould have th Baa mailed
to them ,. Address changed a often a requeated.
You should know that
' Omaha leads all , metropolitan
cities in per capita value of its
manufacturing output.
Some overdue resignations should come now.
jNow, let us all sober up and get down to
justness.
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nt throug
A little le
have
ugh.
a faint idea of what Louvain
ss red tape in military circles might
ive saved a lot of damage. ,
Omaha likes to see soldiers on the street, but
If patroling under arms.
I V'Mike" Clark - and "Sherm" Clayton
'itofliing to apologize for,
have
Being in .company with Washington, Boston
and Chicago does not give Omaha any conso
lation. - - -
The president passed a restless night Sun
day, but he did not have a thing oti Omaha in
that respect ''.
. The beautiful Douglas county court house
may be restored, but none who watched it burn
will ever forget the sight.
Paderewski sees 2,000,000 Germans ready to
spring to arms. But, as in the case of " Mr.
Bryan, he does not say whose arms. ' ,
Soldiers showed a proper respect for the
flajf by taking one away from some of the riot
ers. Old Glory does not fly over mobs, j
England is taking up airplane mail service
to replace that cut off by the general strike.
InTime the idea will be generally applied. '
' The city firemen carried themselves with
admirable coolness, even when powerless in the
grip o tfr. angrymoD. Their discipline is. ex-
Fnt. , ,
vIt was not a very pretty welcome to give t rye
early Ak-Sar-Ben visitors, but hundreds 'of
them seemed deeply interested' in the ' pro
ceedings. J .' : ".'
The governor ought to encounter little dif
ficulty in finding a starting point for his in
quiry, nor should he relax his efforts till he
sets to the bottom facts. ...... ; ,
Omaha has weathered a great many shocks,
and will survive the present affliction, but finds
no occasion for pride in the fact that it must
lift up its head again after being put to such
shame.
. ' Fraternizing is now permitted between
lAmerican soldiers and Germans in theioccu
'pied territory. This may add a little to the
ocial gayety of life over there, but will not
materially cnange imngs omcrwisc.
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Mr. Wilson's condition will prevent his see
s'; ing King Albert and Queen Elizabeth until
.w after they have made their tour of the country,
1 but-we hope he is well enough then to receive
their report on America's magnificence.
No more awful example of the blind un
reason of the mob could be given than its as
sault on Mayor Smith. That was not a blow
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at tnc man, Dut was airnea airecuy ai um nr-
3 talt-Ut-lVJlia, ad ,aw ,aaev v O "
And somctody wanted the newspapers to
"minimize" the reports of the riotl It is just
that sort of pussyfooting that has brought
Omaha to its present predicament. A little
. ijire publicity may smoke out the incompetents,
if ariy of them have' not yet been uncovered.
DISGRACE AND OPPORTUNITY.
- Omaha will not try tof hide the hame
brought upon it, but will bravely seek to re
cover the lost ground. Material damage may
be repaired, costly though it is; lives lost can
not be restored, nor may we wipe out the
record. -That is done. -
What may follow is to arouse our people to
a keener sense of personal responsibility and a
higher conviction of civic duty. Conditions of
police inefficiency aid lawlessness that are dis
graceful have been tolerated. Ample warning
was given of the approaching storm, but with
out awakening that element of the community
whose power might have been exerted to avert
the calamity.
Crying over spilt milk will do no good now,
but The Bee earnestly exhorts all good citizens
to devote themselves to the establishment of
order. It is not a time for the manifestation of
activity by a self-chosen "committee of 500,"
assuming censorship of public and private mor
als. It is time for sober-thinking, law-abiding
citizens to assert their influence, and through
proper action to put .Omaha's government again
on its feet, that the city may stand among its
peers once more.
The disgrace and shame can only be wiped
out by measuring up to the opportunty and
snatching what of good the situation still holds
out.
When the Mob Goes Wild.
No force of nature exceeds in its potential
destructiveness the insensate fury of a mob.
This is pathetically shown in the damage done
at the Douglas county court house. By no
stretch of imagination, sober or inflamed, could
the way through the county treasurer's office,
or that of the; register of deeds lead to the
county jail. Nor could the priceless records
contained therein, compiled by painstaking
labor for years, aid in any way the mob in its
attempt to get at its human victim. Wanton
ness is the chief characteristic of such a gath
ering, and was so manifest in these great of
fices of public records and service. Deliber
ately the vandals rifled filing cases, emptied the
contents on the floor, devoted books, records
indices, whatever could be destroyed, to the
holocaust. The loss entailed in this does not
cease with the actual money value, which is
beyond estimate, but continues through the
delay that will result to the public business.
Taxes due or coming due are. needed, for the
carrying on of the business of the city and
county. Collection of these will be indefinitely
put off, till the records can be restored suf
ficiently to enable the officials to proceed. How
long this will take can not even be guessed at.
That it will add tremendously to the other
damage wrought by the vandals is plain. This
does not take into account the irreparable
private losses endured by the judges, whose
libraries were burned, or by the societies who
had headquarters in the building and lost all.
I,f the persons who took part in this vandalism
will quietly reflect on this, it may aid them to
achieve better behavior for the future. ,
I Who Pledged Us ?
President Wilson says that we have pledged
ourselves to support the covenant of the league
of nations and that therefore we must sign it
or be caught in an act of perfidy.
Who pledged this nation? Who had the
authority to say that the nation would accept
the obligations which were conferred upon it
at Paris? f ..... , ,
By what process did the nation make known
its"! intent to assume these responsibilities and
ti: hese risks? When and to whom did it
declare that it would put its signature to the
When did anybody with a mandate
Fiume and the Future.
"Fiume or fight!" is the slogan in Italy
now. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has
adopted a resolution recognizing Fiume as an
Italian city. This is even more of a direct
challenge to the conference at Paris than was
the raid of d'Annunzio, which now receives of
ficial and perhaps complete endorsement at
Rome. Just how the matter will be taken at
Paris may only be conjectured. In Italy the
sentiment among the people is all in favor of
d'Annunzio, and it has been flatly stated the
army will not move to expel him from the city
he capturid. No government can survive in
Italy that seeks to turn the city back to the
Jugoslavs. The settlement is squarely and
finally up to the powers who, with Italy, com
posed the conference. France and England,
it has been reported, are not inclined to go to
extremes in the matter of coercion, and if moral
suasion fails will content themselves with the
situation, just as they have allowed Shantung
to go to Japan over China's protest. Several
days ago dispatches from Paris said the set
tlement had again been left with President
Wilson. No intimation has yet come as to
what he has in mind, other than that he
might possibly suggest a boycott of Italy until
it is willing to abide by the original decision.'
A Jugoslavian representative in New York on
Saturday prophesied war between his country
and Italy for not later than March, with Greece
siding with the Balkan people. Any way the
situation is viewed, it presents an interesting
aspect, and one that does not' argue very
strongly for a league that would involve Amer
ica any deeper in European quarrels.
- Now1 for the World's Series.
It is permitted, even under the -stress of ex
citement' that surrounds us, to turn for a mo
ment to contemplation of the premier sporting
event of the ' season. The Olympian games
have, been preserved to us in classic annals, and
who shall say tbat dwellers beneath the moons
in ages yet unborn will not pay similar respect
to the World's Series, in the course of which
the honorable title of World's Champion Base
Ball Team will be determined? Greece did not
breed a finer lot of athletes, nor more of them,
that come forth from America's fecundity. They
did not know base ball in those days, or the
games between Troy and Athens might have
afforded means to evade , the war and so have
lost immortality for "the face that launched a
thousand ships and burned the topless towers
of Illium." The annual event is enlivened this
year by the presence of a stranger. Not in the
history of the National League has Cincinnati's
team emerged on top until this time. That the
victory of the Reds is popular is indisputable.
Ihjbm the' American people make a promise to ' Of course the White Sox stand as high in the
'a Jv other nation or association of nations? estimation of the public, and many a fan finds
'a v other nation or association ot nations.'
' i ("Who pledged this nation in such a fashion
to deprive it ot tne moral ngnt to examine
den
covenant? Was it President ilson? It
. and as oresident Mr. Wilson derives his
iUufhority from a document which specifies that
h United Mates senate snan Rive aavice ana
olisent before the nation assumes any obliga
'"leAis under a treaty.
'' The nation is not pledged and Mr. Wilson
i j'.vs it Mr. Wilson particularly knows it be
. s? last year in the congressional election he
Aed for authority to speak, for such authority
S tie re-e'ection of a democratic congress
ftWcrSt trivf him. and was denied it by the voters.
fx
r. Wilson, who said he needed this vote ot
Valence in order to speak with assurance at
ns, did not get it, but is not now restrained
tom'sayi'ig that he not only had such assur
1.,. hut he had more than any election could
Inm, that he naa autnonty 10 raant a ircaiy
,ich was morally beyond the power of the
amena.
erston
lured States senate to ai
' 3 This is not only i.erve
I This
cago Tribuut
of facts but it
1, ...-version of the essence of our government
Oicagu
himself torn between two loves in an endeavor
to determine which team he wants to see come
out on top in the big struggle. More eyes will
be turned to the score board for the next few
days than ever were riveted on the doings of
congress. We may occasionally view with in
difference the proceedings of law-givers, or
anybody else of ordinary importance, but no
business is too absorbing entirely to distract
us from the World's Series.
Home-made wine is said to be the cause of
a doctor lighting out from home in his night
clothes. Must have been something like the
sort they used to sell in the "bad lands."
1 Lloyd George will quit' politics, according
to a report from London. He may have dis
tinguished company in the course of about
J eighteen months.
The Show-Down at Hand
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
President Wilson said in his Cheyenne
speech that he would interpret any reserva
tion by the senate on Article X of the cove
nant of nations as a rejection of the peace
treaty, if such reservation were made a part of
the ratification resolution. It mattered not,
he said, how mild the reservation might be.
He reserves to himself the privilege of saying,
when the senate shall have acted, whether its
action is an acceptance or a rejection.
If this is not General Order No. 1 (or some
other number) by the executive branch of the
government upon the treaty-making part of the.
legislative branch to do as it is bid, what else
is it? The whole burden of all the president's
speeches during his tour has been that the
treaty with Germany, including the covenant,
must be ratified without change. He has stated
it as his view that any opposition to this plan
makes out the opponent a "pygmy mind," a
"Contemptible quitter" or an adherent of the
pro-German sentiment of the country or all
three.
Senator Lenroot, one of the so-called "mild
reservationists," has in turn served on the presi
dent a notice that without a reservation on Ar
ticle X the treaty will not be ratified. He doubt
less is morally certain of his ground. At any
rate he has had an advantage over the oresident
in getting at the exact status of sentiment in
the senate.
It appears now that the reservation to Ar
ticle X which was vociferously applauded at
Salt Lake City when Mr. Wilson read it, was
a mild draft upon which opponents of the cove
nant precisely as it stands seemed likely to
come to an agreement. The spontaneous cheers
which greeted it and plainly nettled the presi
dent indicate something as to what the Ameri
can people are thinking, about in connection
with this Article X, but the president is now
giving up his tour and is going back to Wash
ington, according to newspapermen on his
train, with the assertion that he carries a man
date from the people for ratification of the
treaty without change. -
The president's virtual ultimatum to the
senate that it either accept or reject, the treaty
as it stands comes at a time when that body
seems most insistent on its dignity and pre
rogatives as a constitutional part of the treaty
making power and when the president appears
to have become peculiarly impatient with the
trend of things in Washington. The challenge
to a "knock-out" fight has been sent forth and
has been accepted. The senate has felt ever
since last December that it has been unduly
ignored and flouted. At no time has it been
taken into the confidence of the executive de
partment sufficiently to give it the light it needs
for the most intelligent possible performance
of the duties that devolve upon it. The White
House conference was the nearest approach
to it up to "'that time, but the president "re
gretted" that he had not at hand certain import
tant data that the senators asked for. That in
formation has not yet reached them, and the
senate has not been helped a whit to a better
understanding of the treaty by what Mr. Wil
son has said during his tour.
Mr. Wilson, says a friendly correspondent
with him. admits his pride has been hurt by
the questions raised regarding the document
he helped formulate and signed. That might
be expected as quite natural in the case of one
so sure of himself, but are the injured feelings
of any man to tip the scales against the collec
tive judgment of many men some of them
equally able in a matte of such great mo
ment? The senate is quite right in asserting its
majesty at this time of all times. The issue is
fast becoming if it did not long ago become
one of executive monopolization of treaty
making power against the wise division of that
power set up in the fundamental law of the land
by the statesmen of vision who drafted the
American constitution.
The Two Hundred-Egg Hen
Poultrymen have long been looking for the
200-egg hen and the quest seems about finished.
There have been individual hens which have
laid more than 200 egs a year, but what breed
ers have sought to produce is a strain of hens
that would do that much as a regular business.
In these days of high poultry prices 200 eggs
from one hen, at an average price of 40 cents
a dozen, amount to $6.67, not at all a bad con
tribution by a single fowl, to which must be
added the market value of the hen herself. The
higher the cost of feed and the sale price of
eggs the more important it becomes to have a
flock of hens that actually lay eggs and are not
merely supposed to do so.
There has for a number of years been con
ducted at Mountain Grove, Mo., at the State
Poultry Experiment station, an 'annual egg-laying
contest, one of which is now in its tenth
month. A coop of five hens of one breed is a
unit in the contest. Most of the well known
strains of chickens are represented each year
and the same breed is not always a winner of
first place. The leading coop at the end of
10 months has an average of 208 eggs, the next
206, and the third 203, each with two months to
go on. The first and third are Rhode Island
Whites and the second is composed of White
Leghorns. These are two radically different
types of fowls. The Leghorn is a small breed,
valuable for its laying qualities and the size
of its eggs. The Rhode Island breed, both
white and red, as well as the Plymouth Rocks,
both white and barred, are what is known as
the American combination fowls, large and good
layers, valuable both for eggs and the table.
Thesetontests show two things. First, they
prove that the pure breeds of fowls lay more
eggs than mongrels, or "just hens," as one
farmer recently designated his variety. They
also show that '.he laying qualities of each
breed may be largely developed by a process
of selection for the purpose of perpetuating
special qualities discovered in individuals. This
process of selection is rapidly giving us the
200-egg hen as a regular thing instead of an
occisional show fowl. It means millions more
of dollars in the pockets of our farmers if they
will but avail themselves of the knowledge these
experiments are producing. St. , Louis Globe-Democrat.
Falling Foreign Ex
changes and U psets in
American Markets
Qom&r
From The literary Digest.
Unsteadiness and alarm in dur
own markets followed the recent
fall of foreign exchange rates to
record low levels. "How long can
the outside, world continue to buy
the goods of the United States at
the prevailing rates of exchange,
and how long can the outside world
continue to buy our goods so enor
mously in excess of the value of the
goods we buy from the ' outside
world?" asks Richard Hoadley
Tingley, succinctly stating the prob
lem in The Financial World. The
outside world cannot settle in gold,
and it cannot settle in goods. Bor
rowing seems to be the only re
course, but England, one of our
greatest debtors, refuses to borrow.
According to The Wall Street Jour
nal: "Rather than add to her indebt
edness to this country, she prefers
the lesser evil, as she regards it,
of sterling droDDing to lower levels,
I particularly as the decline will tend j
Vto restrict British imports and force'
her people into ways or greater
economizing. With the pivotal ex
change of the world thus left to its
own devices, the work or stanuiz
ing the other exchanges is rendered
more arduous.
"England is much more favorably
situated in the matter of her ex
changes than some of, the other
countries, notably France and Italy.
She has . only a single problem on
her hands, exchange with this
country. As a matter of fact, ster
ling even in some of the neutral
centers, notably the Scandinavian, is
quoted at a premium, while in others
the discount on it is little more than
nominal. Furthermore, were she
able to realize the credits she has
advanced to other nations, she would
have little difficulty in liquidating
her obligations in the United States
and restoring sterling to normal.
The amounts owed her by the other
allied nations, including Russia, ag
gregate in the neighborhood of
$7,500,000,000, while her indebted
ness to this country totals approx
imately $4,900,000,000, including
the $4,316,000,000 she has borrowed
from the United States treasury.
"British authorities have looked
With considerable favor upon the re
cent acquisition by Kuhn, Loeb &
company of 750,000 shares of the
Shell Transport & Trading company
from British interests, Sand they hope
that other similar transactions will
be consummated. For, while the
purchase tended to steady sterling,
it did not signify the contraction of
any debt in this country on the part
of any British subjects, but merely
the entrance of Americans into
partnership with Englishmen in a
huge business enterprise."
On September 6, when rates on
Paris, Rome, Berlin and Vienna
went to the most unfavorable figures
ever recorded at that time, and ex
change on London went within 2
cents of the lowest rate, the New
York Evening Post commented:
"Just how great this depreciation
of exchange on belligerent Europe
has been, both during the war and
since the armistice, will be seen from
the following comparison of the low
rates of the foreign currencies in
American money this week, the low
rates of wartime, and their normal
parity:
Thl
Wppk
English lb. ... $4 . 14 .
French franc. 11.9c
Italian lira... 10.2c
German mark. 04.35c
.Austrian crown 01.86c 10.6c Z0.3c
"All of this week's low rates are
Lthe lowest ever reached, except that
exenange on lonaon toucnea 4.izl4
on the 20th of last month. Compari
son of the separate columns makes
the rather remarkable showing that
all of these rates have fallen nearly
or quite as heavily since the war as
they fell during the war. itself.
"This is not at all what was ex
pected during the war. Most people
looked for a decided movement of
exchange in favor of these European
markets as soon as peace was ar
ranged. But then it is perfectly safe
to say that nobody imagined at that
time that the balance of actual
merchandise trade in our favor and
against belligerent Europe would be
actually larger after suspension of
hostilities than it was when war was
going on. Yet here is the record of
our exports in the first seven months
of 1919, compared with the same
seven months in 1918, at the climax
of the war, and in 1914, just before
the war began. The figures are in
thousands of dollars:
Exports to 1919 1918 1914
England ..11,342,72. 11,210,094 J29S.B8S
Prance 683,259 555,201 68,187
Italy : , 272,818 274,548 38,126
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE WANDERING MONKEY."
(Peggy and Billy, aearching for Mr.
Holt'a diamond brooch, which haa been
stolen from a locked room, find a monkey
In the wood. They think him tha thief,
until he tell them of a black robber who
haa a sparkling Jewel, and offers to lead
them to th robber' roost.)
CHAPTER III.
The Black Robber's Roost.
THE monkey hopped along so fast
that Peggy and Billy had to
run to keep up with him.
"How far is it to the rob
ber's roost?" asked Peggy, as they
plunged deeper and deeper into the
woods.
"Ett-kee-ee. .Wait and see," said
the monkey.
"How do we know that you are
not leading us into a trap?" asked
Billy, who had heard of monkey
tricks.
"You don't know, and I don't
know," chattered the monkey. "Any
way, I am taking you to the black
robber's roost, and if there is u trap
there you'll And it."
That answer didn't please Peggy
and Billy a bit, and they stoppeci
short in their tracks.
"Who are you anyway, and how
did you come to the woods?" askec!
Billy, suspiciously.
"I am Rollo, the wandering mon
key, and I came Xo this woods when
I escaped from circus that wa.
War
time Par.
S4.4S ti.U.
l.4c 19.3c
10.9c 19. So
16.4c 23.8c
Total . . .J2,198,805 12,039,843 $404,901
All Kurope 3,079,745 2,208,433 735,046
"This unexpected increase in ex
ports to such countries since the
war has not been offset by any
rreat increase in imports, which for
the same seven months compare as
follows, also in thousands of dol
lars: Import to ..1919 1918 1914
England $118,075 I 98,882 1176,838
France , 46.611
Italy 15,393
37,946
15.655
70,407
33.641
The Day We Celebrate.
Henry B. Liggett, treasurer of the Pan
torium, born 1844.
Max Rosenthal, proprietor Palace Clothing
company, born 1869.
Dr. Cyrus Northrop, president emeritus
of the University of Minnesota, born at Rodge
field. Conn., 85 years ago.
Pierre B. Mignault, judge of the supreme
court of Canada, borrt at Worcester, Mass., 65
years ago.
Thomas W. Lamont, eminent New York
banker who served as financial adviser to the
United States peace delegation, born at Claver
ack, N. Y., 49 years ago.
Wilton Lackaye, one of tne. well-known
actors of the American stage, born in Loudon
county, Va., 55 years ago.
Dr. John Henry MacCracken, president of
Lafayette college, born at Rochester, Vt, 44
years ago.
Rt. Rev. Joseph G. Anderson, Catholic
bishop of Boston, born in Boston, 54 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. .
Omaha Medical college opened at the col
lege building, Twelfth and Pacific streets.
E. Rosewater, editor of The Bee, left for
Milwaukee and Chicago.
General D. B. McKibben, father of Gen
eral Purchasing Agent McKibben of the Union
Pacific railroad, is visiting in Omaha.
"A Midnight Bell" was presented to a large
audience at Boyds opera house.
Total 1180,079 1162,482 1280,784
Cancellation of export orders as
a consequence of the exchange sit
uation are noted by the New York
Journal of Commerce. "The resul
tant situation is admittedly serious,
and is regarded as one of the dis
turbing elements in the current do
mestic position," this authority re
marks, and quotes "a leading inter
national banker" to this effect:
" 'But while we are waiting for
the exchange market to right itself,
it is conceivable that on this side
American plants would, have to close
down for lack of business while Eu
rope's progress in the direction of
normal would be enormously ham
pered. " T have never been one of those
who believe that Europe could not
ret along without our assistance. If
the United States should erect an
Impenetrable wall against European
purchases, I have the utmost confi
dence that Europe would eventually
gain its feet again. Europe needs
us, however, and needs us badly.'
"The old governments of Europe,
it was asserted, are missing no op
portunity to gain trade and, mean
time, are watching every move by
the United States with the keenest
interest. In the case of . one can
cellation reported, it was said that
the government of which the ror
eign buyer was a. subject, ascertain
ing the existence of a cancellation
clause In the particular contract,
had instructed the purchaser to can
cel and buy the materials needed at
home. The European nations are
understood to be devoting special
attention to the development of trade
relations with their colonies on a
broader scale than has hitherto been
observed."
MUSTERED OUTI
It ia fine to he back In God' country
once more,
And yet, it I iust a bit tamo
To be plodding along as you did before
It will never be Just the samt!
For who can forget those atarlesa nlghU,
When the furloua cannon roared
When the skies were aflame with qulcR
darttng lights .
And the boche flares heavenward
soared.
It was hell all right, up there in the line.
And grim death always stalked In your
track, .
But when thoughta of those days are
thronging your mind.
Don't you-wish sometimes you were
backed .,
C. Holmslykke, In th New Tork Times.
He Sprang Nimbly Into the
Branches.
AMERICANS IN NEAR EAST
Relief Organization Making a Proud
Keoorcl in Asia Minor.
It makes an American proud to
see how his country is saving the
lives of thousands of people almost
every day in Asia Minor. The Amer
ican commission for relief in the
near east is feeding 500,000 people
in the Caucasus region alone, not to
mention many thousands farther
west. It is spending $1,500,000 a
month, and, among other items, is
distributing 6,000 tons of flour a
month. It plans to carry o this
work of first air for about a year.
But it hopes to keep in operation
for 10 or 12 years a number of or
phanages which it has opened.
The extent of misery among chil
dren in Turkey is frightful. There
are many waifs who are the offspring
of Armenian mothers and Turkish
fathers. In Urfa alone I was told that
there are several thousand Armenian
girls homeless after being released
from Turkish harems. Most of them
are mothers or about to become
such.
Ordinarily the Armenians are set
tled farmers or traders, while the
Kurds, who persecute them at the
instigation of the Turkish govern
ment, are pastoral nomads. But at
present the Armenians are nomads,
toe, for most of them are homeless.
They are living like an army on the
road. All the way from the Cau
casus to Adana, Aleppo, and Jerusa
lem vou find them on the byways,
and Bagdad is full of them. They
are too tired to think about ven
geance. All they want is to get the
scattered survivors of their families
together again and to build up as
well as they can their ruined homes.
Gregory Mason in the Outlook.
A Mystery Solved.
Her eyes were red and she ex
plained that she had been to a wed
ding. "I always cry more at a
wedding than I do at a funeral it's
so much more uncertain." Boston
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here two moons ago," answered the
monkey.
"Maybe you are a bad monkey,"
said Peggy.
"I'm a bad monkey when folks
are bad to me. I'm a good monkey
when folks are good. What are
you going to be, bad or good?"
"Good, of course," declared Peggy
indignantly.
"Then I am good," chattered the
monkey, and he put on such an
impishly Innocent look that Peggy
and Billy had to laugh. They went
on with him. and, after a time,
came to a tall, tall tree. Away up
near the top of the tree was a nest
as large as that in which they had
found the monkey.
"That's the black robber's roost,,"
whispered Rollo, the monkey.
"Climb up there and see If he Is
home." '
Billy looked up the tree, then he
shook his head.
"No, thank you," he said. "May
be I'd find the black robber in."
"But maybe he is out, and maybe
the diamond brooch is in his nest,"
suggested Peggy. "If it is, we can
Just get it and take it back to Nora,
and everything will be all right."
Billy walked around the tree and
looked up at the nest from all di
rections, even climbing part way up
another tree to get a better view.
"I don't believe the robber is
there. I'm going to climb up," he
declared. )
"So am I," chattered Rollo. the
monkey, and he sprang nimbly into
' the branches.
"Caw! Caw! Caw!" a warning cry
.suddenly rang through the silence
of the woods. Billy and the monkey
stopped in startled surprise. Was it
the robber, or one of his clan?
"Caw! Caw! Caw!" again came
the cry, and Peggy gave a nervous
laugh.
"It's only a crow sentinel left to
guard the nests while the flock is
away looking for food." she cried.
"Caw! Caw! Caw!" cried the
sentinel, and Billy and the monkey j
went on with their climbing. Now :
they were sure the black robber
wasn't home, for they thought if he
had been, he would surely have
looked out when aroused by the
crow's loud warning cries. Rollo,
growing bolder, raced on ahead, and
popped his head up over the side of
the nest. He started to call back:
"He isn't " ,when suddenly he
gave a loud scream, and something
hidden in the nest seized him by the
nose.
"The black robber," he shrieked.
"I'm caught in his trap."
At the first scream, Billy turned
to flee. Then he stopped still. He
couldn't leave the monkey to flght
alone. He broke off a dead branch
from the tree, and thus armed he
climbed to Rollo's aid. The mon
key, his nose held tight, was thrash
ing around with all four feet, try
ing to tear himself loose. Billy
couldn't get near the nest, but he
thrust upward with his stick, again,
again, again, until he broke through
the bottom. A startled squawking
arose above the shrieks of the mon
key, and some big, dark creature
fled from the nest, leaving Rollo
free.
(Tomorrow will be told how the dia
mond appears and disappears, as if by
magic.)
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