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THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER IB, 1919. '
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The people of Omaha are hospita
ble, opportunities here are many,
the climate is healthful and the
city is beautiful.
What The Bee Stands For:
1. Respect for the law and maintenance of
order.
2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation of the
courts.
J. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of
inefficiency, lawlessness and corup
' tion in office. ,
1 4. Frank recognition and commendation
of honest and efficient public service.
5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true
basis of good citizenship.
' Gary "reds" were nothing if not anibitious.
Well, Mr. Legislator, , what sdo you think
about it?
It'l about time to give the anarchists some
thing besides words to ponder over. .
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Governor Bar-tfws ought to be able to sign
thl new Omaha police bill all right.
It is nice to have an elusive subsidiary com
pany to lay it onto when 'any trouble threatens
tht parent concern.
Jerry Howard's voice is already heard
Whether his vote gets on record or not in the
extraordinary session. v -
Enough little 'wars are going on in Europe
now to make one pretty good sized war if they
were all rolled together.
King Albert is a tactfu) monarch, as wit
nest the fact that he referred to the "dreadful
fire" that destroyed San Francisco. .
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V Calling rand Whitlock "Lit. Doc." will
hardly improve the clarity of the style that
made Belgium's tragic story so real to Ameri-cans.
UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA.
One "drive" now in progress locally deserves
to succeed, and in all reason should go over
without tjuestion or delay. It is the effort to
adti half a million dollars to the endowment
fund of the University of Omaha. Our citizens
have been very generous with their contribu
tions for war purposes, and have aided liberally
in the many relief funds brought to their notice.
Here it one that it entirely for the good of the
community, and through it to the world. The
influence of a tchoot never can be bounded; it
spreads like the circle on the pond, but there
is no shore to limif the benefits that radiate
from the school room. Omaha has always been
proud of the educational facilities offered by its
public and private schools, its great institutions
of learning, where instructors of ripe knowledge
and tempered wisdom give to the young the
rich fruits of their scholarship. None of these
takes higher rank than the University of Omaha,
which, solidly founded and successful, is now
seeking to extend its operations and to accom
modate a larger student body. Money given to
this purpose by a subscriber is not only
invested in Omaha, but is also devoted to the
service of the world in general. The importance
of the school to the community can not be
measured, but its existence is one of the city's
great assets, and its success should be a mat
ter of concern to" every citizen. These are some
of the reasons why the drive should succeed.
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You may have noticed that I lie nee is al
ways at the front with new features. Photo
graphs by wire is the latest. Watch this novel
ervke.
j-' Prescribing death as a penalty for rape will
ot be ol material service, unless it be made,
clear that the punishment will be certainly in
flicted. '"' Travel certainly adds polish, for the "spud"
that tells for $1.30 a bushel in Sheridan county
becomes a "potato" at $2.60 per by the time it
reaches Omaha.
Baker at the Spokesman.
One of the outgrowths of the president's ill
ness is the formation of "cabinet government,"
something like the arrangement that prevailed
during July, August and a part of September,
1881, when Presitent Garfield was disabled by
Guiteau's bullet. Under this plan various func
tions of the executive will be apportioned be
tween the cabinet officers, and, while unity of
action is to be preserved, the modus vivendi
will be kept alive by the indjvidual administra
tion of certain definite assignments. It is quite
probable that the recommendations of anyone
of the cabinet as to the disposal of any ques
tion before him will be accepted by the others,
and this adds interest to another of the feature
of the program.
Newton D. Baker is to be the mouthpiece of
the cabinet in its new relation to the people. He
will voice the policy and indicate the pleasure
of the governments This may signify a great
many things. Hints have been thrown out that
Secretary Baker is the favored one of the group
for the succession to the presidency. Color is
lent to this by the deference of the others, none
of whom, not even Mr. Burleson, has shown any
inclination to(Contest for the place now held
by Mr. Wilson. Accepting this as the true in
wardness of the move, the public will await
somewhat impatiently for the message that is
to come from the new heir-apparent, and for
the purpose of which he is said to have seized
the opportunity afforded by an invitation to ad
dress the Federated Women's Clubs of Ohio.
It would be extremely hazardous to attempt
to anticipate this oracular utterance, for Mr.
jBaker's mind is subject to change without no
tice. We can think of several things concern
ing which the public Would like to hear from
him. Chief of these would be his reasons for
wanting to withhold surplus army foodstuffs
and clothing from the people, while he was sell
ing aircraft back to the makers for a fraction
of what it cost the government. He might also
explain his attitude in the past and his policy of
the future tdward slackers, skulkers, anarchists
and thelike.i In truth, a large number of in
teresting topics might be suggested, but we
greatly fear Mr. Baker will speak on none of
them. ; -
! A Texas paper warns Mexico that Pershing
it at home again. ( You perhaps recall that he
marched into Mexico and marched o'Jt again,
and Villa yet lives'.
V If the legislature should pass 'a bill making
the rental the basis for taxable jaluation,' the
lotal of Omaha assessed valuation will take a
long jump upward. ' -
- Stealing building material is , becoming a
popular sport in Omaha. At present prices the
jlrkf does not have to take a very 'big load to
jnike a profitable night.
The. more 'the aircraft policy of, the War de
partment is looked into the more astounding
the disclosures, yet some democrats deprecate
the "orgy of investigation."
The industrial conference has been told to
do something, and it may if .it will only con
sider the needs of the country- and not the In
terests of any particular group. t
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For a doctor who declines to give any de
tailed, information concerning the nature of the
ailment of his distinguished patient, Dr. Gray-,
toa is some letter writer. He might have told
'.the. world in plain words what is wrong with
"Woodrow Wilson in half the space he occupied
S taying he would not, . ,
Another Billion-Dollar Item.
One of the appropriations made last winter
was that of $1,200,000,000 to make good on the
government's guaranty to wheat raisers. A
slump to pre-war prices had been anticipated,
and it was the intention that the pleige to the
farmer would be redeemed. Events have so
shaped that no part of this money is called for,
nor is ft probable any will be?, so the entire sum,
less the cost of administering the affairs of the
wheat control bureau, will be recovered into
the treasury. It was included in the estimated ap
propriations against which the tax for 1920 was
levied. Its return to the treasury will enhance
the tax by just that much, so that the exchequer
will beN,just one billion dollars better off than
fiad been calculated. Up to now no mention of
this fact has been made in any of Secretary
Glass' public statements, but we may expect
later on, when the balance sheet is made up to
see this item appear as one of the economies
effected by an efficient administration. It will
go to meet a portion of the deficiency we have
been warned against, but taxpayers will feel
that somehow or somewhere they are being
bamboozled again by the figure-jugglers.
Business, Not Bolshevism,
? Beckons
Herbert Hoover told the Harvard club of
Sail Francisco the other day that unless better
pay it forthcoming for professors in our col
kget and universities "the nation will be face
to face with a dangerous radicalism from our
t centers of higher education." The nation, how-
ever, it much more livery 10 oe.iaceu wuu
dangerous exodB of capable mer from the cen
tert of higher education and a dangerous stop
page of the procession of capable men prepar
ing for positions in such institutions.
Business, not bolshevitra, is likely to lure
away capable teachers of scientific training.
Commercial and manufacturing concerns, at
well at other forms of business, are in the mar
ket for men of trained minds and forceful
characters and already they have made inroads
'n U MUlfCISIlJl lI.UIUCi vviiilcicilfc
i arofessors are' not hopelessly tied to teaching
job in this country. Men will leave the educa
tional insuiuuons uuicss nicy arc given a living
rate just at preachers are leaving their pulpits
;tnd officers are resigning from the army and
the navy to go into better paid servile. .
Here lies the real danger. The probability
that intelligent professors, irritated by their in
sufficient pay, will go mad and bite the existing
tocial organization it remote. Chicago News.
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Boycotting High Priced Foods.
A movement to boycott certain high priced
foods is being fomented by the mayor of Sacra
mento, who has invited all mayors of Califor
nia cities to unite with him in the effort to
force a reduction in price. In reports sent out
no mention is made of what articles have fallen
under his displeasure, but it may be assumed
that they are things California does not pro
duce. Any step to bring down the costof liv
ing is certain to secure support from people
who suffer because of the inordinate demands
df profiteers, but the boycott is a two-edged
weapon. Moreover, nothing that enters into
the daily bill of fare of Americans has been
more persistently bo6sted than those things
that come from California. 'The fruit growers,
raisin growers and other associations for con
trolling the production and marketing of the
crops have pushed up prices until the limit has
abou' been reached. Prunes, raisins, nuts,
everything that comes out of the orchards or
vineyards of the Golden State, fcel the influ
ence of the uplift supported by the combina
tions that have and exercise the power to con
trol prices, while folks on this tide of the
Sierra Nevada mountains' pay tribute to them.
If the California mayors finally unite to boy
cott high-priced food, we suggest they can do
the country a great service by ttarting on their
home-grown products. i
Gossip? Of course there's gossip. With
the president of the United States tick in bed,
hit attendant physicians declining to tay what
ails him, but insisting that he will not be able
to attend to his work for many months, what
would you look for. Is it reasonable to think
that the American people have no more concern
in the health of their president than they do
in John Smith or Bill Jones?
The North Dakota Bank
(From the New York Timet.)
As a corollary of the cloting at Fargo of
the Scandinavian-American bank, which had
loaned $432,000 to the national nonpartisan
league and three subsidiary concerns, a loan
rather mildly called by the state banking board
excessive and made on unsound security, an
attempt has been made to examine the Bank of
North Dakota to ascertain "what moneys, if
any, have been diverted to illegal purposes."
The examination wat ordered at the instance
of the attorney general, one of the governort
of the bank, the other two being; the governor
of the ttate and the ttate commissioner of ag
riculture and labor.
The Bank of North Dakota is perhapt the
most famous and curious of the institutions es
tablished by Mr. Townley, the autocrat of
North Dakota and of the nonpartisan league.
In intention or pretense it is an imitation of
the numerous rural credit banks of Europe,
bankt where farmers, artisans, tradesmen can
get cheap money. In effect it is something en
tirely different, and it it conducted according
to rulea unknown in any code of banking laws
since modern banking began. It keeps no re
serve; at least it is not bound to. The state
banks have to have a reserve amounting to 10
per cent of their time certificates and 20 per
cent of their demand deposits. The Bank of
North Dakota, as Mr. Frank E. Packard, an as
sistant attorney general of North Dakota, told
the Montana Press association the other day,
"can loan out all of its money and keep nothing
to pay its depositors." It "can loan all of its
funds to one individual and overdrafts are not
forbidden." Only the legislature can declare
the bank insolvent. All public funds have to be
deposited in it. Thus it is sure of deposits,
amounting recently to some $16,000,000. "Yet,"
says Mr. Packard, "while such deposits are be
ing made, the bank may be insolvent and refuse
to honor the warrants of the political subdivi
sions makingj the deposits. It may continue to
transact business, including the receipt of de
posits after insolvency. No penalty is attached
to the. mishandling of the funds."
This extraordinary bank doesn't have to
publish statements of its condition. No pen
alty can be inflicted upon its officers for making
false reports.i It doesn't have to make good
bad debts, or impaired capital. "Upon depos
iting the public funds in this bank all public
treasurers and their bondsmen are released
from liability. If the money is squandered or
embezzled, the amount can be made good only
by taxation." Moreover, it is alloweri by the
act creating it to "transfer funds to other de
partments, institutions, industries, enterprises
or business projects of the state, which shall be
returned with interest to the bank." That is,
it may transfer the school endowment to the
credit of any state-owned enterprise from a
glue factory to a humming-bird aviary." The
public moneys may be appropriated, without se
curity, to any state-owned enterprise. If the
money is lost, the taxpayers can make up the
deficiency. "If there is a deficiency, the state
shifts money from one fund to another, and
taxes the people for the deficit." The public
bank examiner and banking boards have no su
pervision over this child of Mr. Townley's gen
ius. The directors are not bound to examine
its condition. The bank examiner does indeed
examine, but he reports to the governors, a po
litical body.
The attorney general, who happens to be
unsympathetic with the new banking, has called
on the state auditor, likewise an anti-Townley-ite,
to examine this singular institution and as
certain if there, has been any diversion of' the
public funds. The directors of the bank and
the magnates ot the nonpartisan league are re
sisting in the courts this wicked intrusion into
political banking. As yet the controversy is
sub judice, and one can only direct a reverent
attention toward one of the most eccentric
banks of the world.
Handicaps of Independent
Journalism
To one of his own union printers, who pro
tested against the Times' unsympathetic atti
tude toward the great railroad strike in the
British Isles, Lord Northcliffe makes a reply in
dicating some of the handicaps which aggres
sive, independent journalism has encountered
in those islands in the last four years.
. Again and again, he says, the Times has
been proscribed in Parliament and prosecuted
in the courts of law. It has been banished from
clubs and reading rooms ' and. what is much
more serious, boycotted by advertisers. The
indignant public has frequently made demon
strations against it and collected copies of edi
tions and burned them in the streets. For a
long period it was assailed by the Asquith gov
ernment and threatened with suppression, and
lately has begun to be viciously assailed by the
Lloyd George government. As the Times,
despite all these painful experiences, has seemed
to (flourish and grow in influence, the owner
wants to know if it is likely that- intimidation
will now cause him to modify a position he re
gards as right. Rather, he says, he will sus
pend its publication voluntarily.
The Times may 'not always have been right
in the policies that aroused the greatest indi
vidual and public resentment. It may not now
be right. But in general it must be conceded
to have a record of singular usefulness during
the unparalleled emergencies of the war.
Of course, the fact that a newspaper has in
curred odium and been forced into unpleasant
situations because of that odium is not neces
sarily an indication of its worthjr character. It
might have been led into wrong-headed policies
because of stubbornness, personal malice, the
baffled hopes of its owner or owners for prefer
ment. But so far as it has exemplified courage
in distinction from mere obstinacy, indepen
dence of official or private coercion, strength of
conviction based on principle, and a disinter
ested study of the facts and a cheerful readiness
to abide by the consequences of its attitude, the
Times has exemplified the true fighting spirit in
journalism.
Every country in the world is in need of just
that kind of newspapers, perhaps more in need
of them now than ever before in history. St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Day We Celebrate,
Edgar E. Calvin, federal manager of the
Union Pacific and other western railroads, born
at Indianapolis, 61 years ago. 1
Brower E. McCague, vice president Mc
Cague Ifivestment company, born 1874.
Charles C. Morgan, vice president of the C.
W. Hull company, born 1877.
Frederick H. Gillett, speaker of the national
house of representatives, born at Westfield,
Mass., 68 years ago.
John V. Farwell, eminent Chicago merchant
and philanthropist, born in Chicago, 61 years
ago. ,
Earl of Cavan, who commanded the British
forces operating in Italy in the late war, born
54 years ago.
Rt. Rev. James D. Morrison, Episcopal bish
op of Duluth, born at Waddington, N. Y., 75
years ago.
Dr. Herbert L. Stetson, president of Kala
mazoo college, born at Greene, Me., 72 years
ago.
Thirty Yeart Ago in Omaha.
Mrs. W. J. Connell is in New York.
The government has purchased 365,000
ounces of silver ore from the Omaha Smelting
company for shipment to the United States
mint.
About 50 citizens gathered in Max Meyers'
hall on Eleventh and Farnam streets for the
purpose of organizing a tariff reform club. J.
J. Points was selected as temporary chairman
and W. S. Poppleton as secretary. The chair
appointed Messrs. Lewis, Curtis, Gibson, Pop
pleton and Montgomery as a committee on
constitution and by-laws, and Wallace, Emery,
Blake, Kaufman and Henshaw as a committee
on business and location.
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Johnson'a Experience, with Omaha
Police.
Oklahoma City, Okl., Oct . To
tha Editor ot Tha Bee: In an lsaua
of a Nebraska paper I hava Just read
the statement of Commiaslonar
Ringer in his attack on The Bee. In
that tatement Ringer saya:
"If Mr. Roiewater Had told the
truth he would have aald that the
Indirect cause of the riot waa the
undercurrent of the after-war ao
clal restlessness such as follows all
great wars; and that the direct
cause was the crystallization of mob
spirit by vicious, unprincipled and
false newspaper criticism of the po
lice department. These vicious anar
chistic attacks by The Bee have
Nbeen constant for the last eight or
nine months. Inspired by newspaper
stories, a lynching party was form
ed at Gibson and marched to the
court house."
Was the news of the assault on
the woman a story? Did The Bee
instigate that so-called story to In
furiate the public? Ringer says
that the newspaper stories was
the direct cause of the mob. What
are the people of Omaha and Ne
braska made of, if they were to be
lieve one word that Ringer or the
State Journal would say, except
their statements were backed by
other evidence? Ringer and the city
government were the indirect cause
of the mob, and the assault on the
woman was the direct cause of the
mob. Why should Ringer put such
a statement out to the public with
the expectation that anyone would
believe it? If the truth was told
in the newspapers the assailant of
the 'woman had confessed to the
authorities and that information had
been published: the assailant had
also been identified by both the vic
tims of the assault. Was it a story
or was It the truth? Was the as
sault on the woman the direct cause
of the mob, or was the direct cause
of the mob the newspaper stories of
The Bee? The people will not be
fooled on such trash as the state
ment that Ringer puts out, and they
will not be moved by the preaching
of a few weak-minded ministers who
are ready to defend so-called law
and order. The trouble with Ringer
is that he is a natural trickster, and
he is overloaded with a case of
swell-head, and he believes thnt
what he does not know Is not worth I
knowing.
In the early part of 1918 I had
built a heavy piece of machinery,
and assembled it on South Twpnty
fourth street, qpiaha, and secretly
three or four fellows undertook to
break my business, and In attempt
ing to do so they came onto mv
premises and made three sensrat? I
assaults. i appealed to Mayor
Smith and Ringer directly, anil
Smith told me they expected to elect
a police judge some time in the fu
ture, and Ringer had another ex
cuse. Eberstfeln was at that time
-head of the department of justice,
and belsr that I had certain letters
from the government concerning the
operation of the machine, I appealed
to him when the city authorities
failed to protect my business. Eber
stein was just like Smith and Ringer.
As a matter of fact, we lost thou
sands of dollars because of the an
archists who were holding office in
Omaha, who refused to extend po
lice protection. We did not ask for
anything except protection from
assault. And we ft'd not- ?et it
WALTER JOHXSON.
Rack-Rontlnsr House Lords.
Omaha. Oct. 13. To the Editor
of The Bee: I was pleased to no
tice in The Bee that there is a
chance of the special session of the
legislature soon to meet to straight
en out the kinks in Omaha, taking
up the subject of profiteering house
lords.
This is one of the things in con
nection with our late unpleasantness
which has caused more unrest and
bitterness of feeling (next to the as
sault on women) than any other
matter which afflicts us. This
profiteering is not confined to the
apartment houses, but is felt all the
way down to the humble cottage. I
rented a five-room cottage two
years ago for which I paid $27.50.
Now I have to pay $40, and there
is neither back yard nor back porch
to this cottage of 13 windows (not
counting basement windows): there
are just four that have storm sash.
I have to do all the chores clean
out the furnace, sweep the side
walk and pay for coal, light and
water.
The real estate men tell me I
have got to do it or get out. And
these real estate men! They sure
are birds. They toil not, neither do
they spin, and yet our no, our
Heavenly Father does not feed such.
They are Just parasitescooties
that prey on the toilers and spin
ners. Most of them, as I know, are
church members, not because they
are anxious to go to heaven just
yet, but it serves their purpose to
have their names on church rolls-,
as I guess it's cheaper advertising
than The Bee could give them.
And I see some of these have cut
out advertising with The Bee.
I have noticed their names and
so have others, because you had the
grit and honesty to show them up.
But you stick to your guns, Mr.
Editor, and when the smoke has
cleared away you'll be ton top.
Meantime tell Jerry H. not to both
er about Ireland Just now, but to
get busy at Lincoln knd have some
laws passed (as the British did for
Ireland) to deliver us from the rack
renters. j.
Refused to Handle Horse Meat.
A strike occurred at Ooole docks
on Saturday in connection with the
traffic in old horses, sent for food
purposes to Belgium. The horses are
now killed in England and the flesh
is frozen before being exported.
On Saturday, when the steamship
Hodder was to receive a quantity of
this meat, the laborers refused to
handle it. Another gang of dockers
were offered a bonus of five shillings
per man, but they also refused.
London Dally Mail.
DAILY CARTOONETTE,
YES -YOU ARE" SMOtf iNfjV
T60 MUCH .50 iNSTfrlll
OF 16 CIGARS flJjW l'M
qoiNfj Try HADE You
SMOKE FUST OfV!
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DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE GIRL IN THE TOWER."
(Pattr, Billy and Hollo, tha menkay.
raacua from a tawar Panalopa, a girl who
haa naver playat nor had any fun, and
give her aa hour offraedom.)
CHAPTER V.
The Langhlng Explosion.
fftTTHAT a queer beast! It to a
W Hon or a tiger?" exclaimed
Penelope, the girl from the tower,
when she saw Balky Sam on the
other side of the rippling river.
"Hee-haw! Hee-haw!" brayed
Balky Sam.
"Gracious! Hear lta fierce roar!
It wants to eat ua up," cried Pene
lope In great fright. She ran to the
rope ladder and was half-way up
the stone wall-when Billy stopped
her.
"That'a only Balky Sam, the army
mule," he laughed. "He has come
at my call to carry you over the
river."
Balky Sam galloped across the
stream and Peggy patted his nose
and fed him grass to show Penelope
how tame he was.
"Climb on his back," said Billy,
but Penelope drew away.
"Do you think it would be per
fectly prim and proper?" she
asked.
"Up with you," was Billy's only
answer, and he gave her a boost that
landed her astride of Balky Sam.
Peggy, Billy and Rollo, the monkey,
climbed up behind 'her and away
went Balky Sam through the water.
He didn't stop when he got to the
other side, but went on and on to
ward Blrdland.
"How do you like riding?"
chuckled Peggy to Penelope.
"I don't know," gasped Penelope.
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WD HE DID
Peggy Patted Ills Nose and Fed Hiju
Grass. ,
A Roosevelt Definition.
Here is a characteristic story of
Mr. Roosevelt, which we find in an
exchange: "Young Roosevelt, at a
flying school in France, talked i.bout
his father's farming experience. 'My
father, he said, 'was a gentleman
farmer for many years. Now he'd
have a ranch. Now he'd have a
plantation. The experience was cost
ly. "Father." I said to him one day
in my childhood, "what is a gentle
man farmer?" "Quentin," said my
father, "a gentleman farmer Is a
chap who never raises anything ex
cept his hat." ' " Outlook.
"It makes me feet ahlvery and tlckly
and Jlrgly. And not a bit prim and
proper.''
'Welcome,' Prince Billy and Prin
cete Peggy," ahrleked the birds.
Balky Sam galloped into the
play-ground of Blrdland, and there
were, the birds having an early au
tumn plctle frolic. With them were
Balky Sam's chuma, Billy Goat and
Johnny Bull, the bulldog.
"Hurrah," shouted Peggy and Bil
ly. "Now we'll have a lot of fun."
And they started In to play tag and i
hlde-and-go-aeek wren me oirae ana
animals because they wanted to give
Penelope aa much play and fun aa
they could in her short hour of free
dom. But 'Penelope. a they quickly
learned, didn't know how to play.
She looked at them with -pussled
eyes as if she couldn't understand
what they were about. Having been
shut up in a tower all her life by
her perfectly prim and proper Aunt
Prue ahe never had a good time her
self nor aeen any one else glad and
joyous.
"It looks very interesting." she
said with a sad sigh, "even though
Aunt Prue might not think It per
fectly prim and proper."
Peggy and Billy were disappointed
when she did not Join in the fun.
They were afraid her rescue from
the tower had been too late. There
didn't seem to be a bit of play spirit
left in her.
"If we could only make her laugh
just once, maybe that would start
the funny bubbles dancing inside of
her," whispered Peggy to Billy. Billy
passed the whisper on to the ani
mals and birds, and in a minute
every one was cutting' up the most
comical antics they could think of
to make Penelope laugh. Billy Goat.
Johnny Bull, and the monkey walk
ed on their front legs; the birds
sang and danced and said pieces;
and Billy stood on his head on Bal
ky Sam'a back, but Penelope never
even smiled.
But while Billy was still upside
down on Balky Sam s back, there
came a startling happening that
changed everything. Rollo, the
monkey, still walking on his front
legs, got in the path of a busy bee
sailing Howard its hive.
Ring! The bee stung Rollo. Click!
The monkey, thinking the doe had
nipped him, pinched Johnny Bull's
tali, crunch! ' Johnny Bull s teeth
snapped at Billy Goat. Bang! The
startled goat butted into Balky Sam.
Whoof! Balky Sam leaped upward
in startled surprise. And whizz!
Billy Belgium flew head over heels
off Balky Sam's back, kersplush into
a black mudhole. 1
"Ha, ha, ha!" Peggy started to
laugh, when a strange sound caused
her to look at Penelope. The girl
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from the tower waa coughing and
spluttering and choking all at once.
Sharp little explosions came from
her throat. , Something seemed to
be trying to' break out, and In a;
moment it came like the rattle of a
rapid-fire gun: "Ha, ha. ha! He,
he, he! Ha, ha, ha! He, he!"
Penelope was laughing laughing
wildly, uproariously, furiously.
"Stop her," shouted Billy from
the mudhole. "Stop her or she'll
burst herself to pieces!"
y
(Tomorrow will be told the vftacta of
Pcnelopa'a laugh.)
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Centlemen :
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