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8 B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 2. 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUND ID BT ZOWABD BOSEWATEB ; " VICTOR BOSEWATEB, EDITOR THJI BM PUBLISHING COMPANY. PBOFKIETOB MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fko Associated Presa of walon Thi ht to I woto. M as eiaaltelr entitled to the use for publleauon of all am dUpctcM eredltof to It or lot otnerwlse credited la tola paper, and also m total nan pobltiaed hereta. All right of puMlcetlon of our special dlapstcln ara alio mowed. BEE TELEPHONES! Private Branca Sxenuia. Ail for the T V I P I 1 000 BaoaftaMat or Particular Perron Wanted. JTICr IwVU For Nlfht and Sunday Service Colli Mltorlal Department Wr 10M- Clrculatloa Department ...... .War Jo idrerUelag Dtpartmeot .... . . . Trier 1008U """ OFFICES OF THE BEE Roma Office, Bee Building, 17th aad rsmam. Imjf" ."lllo North Mth I Pari M1J Uarenworth Sauna tlU MUlterr Ara. South Bide 3318 N Street OwSeU Bluff! 15 Boitt 8t I Walnut lit North 40th Out-of-Towa Offleeat Hew Tor Cltf !M rift Ara I Wa.hin.to. 1S11 O Street , Chicago Seeger Bid. I Llnooln 1830 H Btraet SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION! , Daily 66,084 Sunday 61,893 Ararat elrculetloa for the month eubeoiibed and ewora to to B It Hasan. Clrcnletlon Manatee. - Subscribers leaving the city ehoald have the Boo mailed to thorn. Addroea changed aa often aa required. You should know that Railroads centering at Omaha . employ more than 5,000 persons in local headquarters and shops. 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. v 3. Pitiless publicity and condemnation oi inefficiency, lawlessness and corup tion in office. 4. Frank recognition and commendation of honest and efficient public- service. 5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true basis of good citizenship. Heed the Red Cross call I Nebraska's foot ball team is a glutton for punishment Looks like congress would get a very abort vacation, if any. J Turkey still looks anxiously for the arrival of American troops with plenty of rations. Plenty of "bone" remains in the police force to produce a lot of inexcusable blunders. Not how many quit but how many stay on the job will determine the miners' strike. Made up your trfind on the school bonds yet? Greater Omaha children need them. Sixty-two new stars have been added to the police galaxy. We will now see if efficiency lies in numbers. ' V Every man has an inalienable right to make a darn fool of himself, and too many are ex ercising it right now. It is now up to Mr. l almer to finish what he hat started. Passing the buck to the presi dent will not help any. ' . il seizure of coal enroute by the government is ! in 'process, on the theory, perhaps, that if ship- ment is stopped 'shortage will end. Things have come to a pretty pass when a special guard has to be placed over the store of confiscated "booze" in the sheriff's custody. Lady Astor's opponent for a seat in com mon is a plain alderman. Now we may get a true test of how deep the new democracy has gone in England. What is a little thing like a court order when you have made up your mind to strike? Especially when the government does not feel like making good. , t Senator Lodge wants to set November 12 to vote finally on the treaty, but Senator Hitch cock wants the date left open. Thought the "world was waiting on the United States. The work of estimating the damage to the court house is not such a simple process as was that of destroying it, Just the contrast be tween the creative and the destructive forces. French socialists are threatening to stop all the work of the world if the blockade of Russia is not called off., These are the same chaps who were going to prevent the war by a general re fusal to ibear arms. 1 The air derby is only a memory so far as Omaha is concerned, but those who were for- t - tunate enough to see the "flying parson" the first time he went over the city, will always i cherish the sight as the most glorious burst of speed ever witnessed by mortal eye. f Press Agent Creel, who illuminated the war with his wonderful fiction concerning sub marines and airplanes, scouts the idea that he was negligent Far be it from such; he may have scattered a few idle millions of Uncle Sam's money far and wide, but that is not a sign of neglect ; Lengthening Human Life Ttr. William T. Mavo. in his address before i the American College of Surgeons, made a def inite promise of prolongation ot me Dy metr ical science which laymen will accept in good faith. It is only, to be sure, an additional 10 years; it is not perpetual youth and it is not to be achieved by magic elixirs or by the grafting of glands. . But this new decade of years won from dis ability and death and joined to the IS years which Dr. Mayo says have been "added to the average length of life since the close of the civil war will mean that Americans born be fore the present century is half over may ex pect to enjoy a quarter of a century more of activity and usefulness than their fathers did when Lincoln was president Certainly that is a boon for which most peo ple will be more grateful than for delusive promises of physical immortality. Like the hymn writer, they "would not live alway;" they will be generally content with the "threescore years and 10" of the. Psalmist, given that they retain their faculties and their vigor unim paired for that span of life. It is the prolonga tion of life as respects its productive possibili ties that mainly appeals to laymen and they will attach more weight to the assurances of conservative medical investigators than to all the prophets of perennial youth. New vYork iYorld. v:- l GOVERNMENT AND THE MINERS. A remarkable situation confronts the gov ernment of the United States at the moment, arising from a domestic difficulty. For the time being the nature of the dispute between the bituminous coal operators and the miners is pushed into the background by the greater issue between the miners and the government This has been squarely joined. , A federal judge issued an order, forbidding the miners from doing certain things, to which order no atten tion has been paid in the way of obedience. 1 What does the government propose doing? Attorney General Palmer is quoted as saying he will not undertake any wholesale arrests, but will move against the leaders. Apologists for Mr. Palmer, interested maybe in his incipient presidential boom, blame the president for the suing out of a restraining order. Mr. Gompers thunders against government by injunction; as a matter of fact, the despotic process is re pugnant to most Americans, but the issue here is fairly between a body of men who propose using a right of citizenship in an arbitrary and despotic manner, and the sovereign power of the whole people. If the blow fell only on the "profiteering coal operators, against whom the president of the American Federation of Labor inveighs so warmly, the public might watch the proceedings with indifference. But the whole nation is concerned, for the strike means the limitation of food and fuel to all. No wrong or injustice is ever righted by the commission of another. However strong the legal position of the miners at the outset, mor ally it is indefensible, and since the court has intervened, the legal right has been temporarily suspended. No cause can permanently suffer through judicial inquiry, a fact the miners ap pear to have overlooked. The case presents the democratic adminis tration in its usual ineptitude, approaching the crisis sideways, merely drifting into it, as we went into the war stern foremost instead of head on. Firmness when needed has never yet been shown by the present government, and probably will not be in this case. Banzai t The Revolution! Hailt The editor of The Bee has just dropped into the waste basket a letter, prettily typed, and signed in type-written characters, in which the writer hailg the strike of the miners as the sign of an awakened working class. He sees, to quote his closing phrase, "the down of the bene ficent revolution in all its glorious 'Splendor." All right, let's revolt and revolve and reso lute, and do anything else but work. Exercising the mighty power that resides in the masses, let us usher in the day when there will be no more want and no more wealth, and no more toil; when the proletarian will "rise up at the voice of the bird," and continue till the going down of the sun in one unbroken course of idleness, loafing the clock around, blissfully indifferent as to the passage of time, for even to think re quires an effort and the expenditure of energy, and there must be nothing of that sort in the new world. To be sure, somebody will have to do some thing, or the rest will go hungry. It may be that some coal will have to be dug, or there will be no power" to drive the merry-go-rounds and light the movies, which the emancipated laboring man will require as adjuncts to his comfort Who will do these menial tasks is a detail yet to be determined. If any work is to be done, however, it will be on the basis of the doctrine laid down by Victor Berger a few years ago, when he set about to improve on Marx. According to Berger, the worker's pay should be sufficient to purchase atthe end of each day's work all he produced that day. Capital should have no return whatever. This is improved to some degree by the more modern devotees of the cult, who propose that we consume each day all that we produce, starting each morning fresh' to bring forth our breakfast before we eat it But this means work, and the revolution is to do away with work. American Legion's Alien Slacker Drive. . Energetically moving to a realization of its conception of worthy Americanism, the Ameri can Legion is pressing an anti-alien slacker drive. These men are located by examination of draft questionnaires. Almost 2,000 are now listed by the Legion for expulsion from the country. They are men of draft age who had filed declaration of intention to become citi zens, but who refused to fight, either for Amer ica or for their own land. To them the Legion holds out no welcome, standing on the proposi tion that a land worth living in is worth fighting for, and that a man who will not fight for American institutions has no right to enjoy them in any form or sense. Classification by nationality reveals the fact that ,the Swedes are the most numerous in the list, although the neutral nations are all represented. Nebraska is credited with a few, and the officers of the Legion propose to carry on their fight for thor ough and complete Americanization here as elsewhere in the country. New Warfare on Disease. The proposal of Dr. Simon Flexner that efforts to combat epidemic disease be carried to the "seed beds" finds an echo in Great Britain, where speakers, addressing classes at the opening of the medical school laid em phasis on the fact that medical science has busied itself with treatment of disease after it had developed and neglected looking after the cause of disease. The ideas are closely enough related to, invite consideration together. The Flexner plan is to go into the places where plagues are born and clean them up, as we have cleaned up the yellow fever and are com batting malaria, the hook worm and other dis eases. The British thought looks to a study of causes and their possible removal. The one has the broad, general scope of a world-wide endeavor for better ways of living by ex terminating easily accessible elements of dan ger. The other applies the effort to a more intensive study of the machinery of man, with a view to its better adjustment. Either invites man to take more pains in his way of living, that all the world may be gainer. Passing the buck on the army trucks that are rusting down at Lincoln is becoming in teresting. Chancellor Avery declines to allow the university to be the goat, so it will have to ,be charged up to the War department in the end. But the public paid for the machines. Mrs. Sage's net fortune is valued at over $45,000,000, a most flattering comment on her stewardship of the nest egg Uncle Rust left Views and Reviews Impressive Tribute Paid to a Pastor' 8 Life-work I do not recall ever attending a more im pressive funeral service than that of Rev. Leonard. Groh last Sunday. Here was a re tired Lutheran ' minister, no longer even at tached to a congregation, over whose bier a half dozen prominent peachers, including rep resentatives of other denominations, poured forth tributes of sincere appreciation of a life work truly exceptional. More than that, the beautiful church, whose erection had been made possible by the activities of the pastor who had answered his final call, was filled to overflowing, every seat taken and standing room occupied with sorrowing friends who re mained as spell-bound through a two-hours' service. How many preachers in Omaha, was the involuntary mental question, whose death would evoke such a demonstration of love and respect and sense of personal loss? Then from what was said could perhaps ' e gathered the partial answer. As a churchman Rev. Groh was above all "a gospel minister." He preached the word of God as he found it in the sacred books, not his own intermeddling into secular affairs. His prayers sounded in spired of God. His sermons were appeals to his hearers to lead a better life by heeding the holy word, not stump speeches on politics or pulpit-pounding harangues prompted by self seeking uplifters. That he was essentially "a gospel minister" and that this was the secret of his success and remarkable pastoral influ ence was emphasized over and over by all the speakers. Among other things disclosed, by the eulo gies was that he had served one church back in Pennsylvania 25 years before coming west and had preached to his Omaha congregation continuously for 21 years before his retirement. No rolling stone listening for a ietter paying "call." Again when the project of building a new edifice was ,taken up, he himself headed the list with a subscription of $1,000, which was practically all the money he had saved, and gave it freely, with implicit faith that God would in some way provide for his needs. In a word, he sought by his own course, by prac ticing virtue and teaching righteousness, to mark the path he would have others follow. In what a wonderful age we are living and with what tremendous speed world events are moving! The same thought comes whenever we reflect upon what has been compassed in the lifetime of a man who, like Dr. Groh, has passed well beyond the proverbial three score and ten. When he was born in 1833, Andrew Jackson was the president who occupied the White House, and Queen Victoria had not yet ascended the throne. He saw slavery then flourishing in all its hideousness not only in our own south but in many parts of the so called civilized world. The locomotive was at that time regarded as an impracticable toy and the telegraph an incredible experiment. The telephone, the phonograph, the automobile, the tractor, the airplane were not even listed in the dream-book. - Nebraska was the uncharted "Great American desert," inhabited only by buffalo and other wild animals and occasion ally straying bands of Indians. This preacher of the gospel of peace and good will witnessed our country's participation in four wars the war- with Mexico, the civil war, the Spanish American war, the great world war, too. Who will dare to prophesy as to what will happen in the time of those already born? I have been reading to my children out of Mark Twain's books. Mark was a great hu morist because he . knew human nature. One of the chapters in "Huckleberry Finn" tells how "the duke" and "the king" corralled a goodly pot of the realm in a backwoods Arkansas town by putting on a show entitled "The Royal None such." On the hand bills executed for the oc casion the biggest type was used for a post scrip line, "Ladies and Children Not Admitted," with the result that the theater was quickly oversold. What's the application?' Why at the Powys lecture on "d'Annunzio" before the Drama league, the realism of the Italian author's work was powerfully, character ized and his novels listed with the admonition, "This one I do not advise you to read." I am told that book stores and public library were unable the next day to respond to the demand for d'Annunzio books. Boycottsand Cheaper Breakfasts As a means of bringing down the prices of foods that cost too much the one already tried by the National Housewives' league and now again advised by it is sure to be successful. It has, too, the charm of simplicity, being noth ing more than a refusal to buy the objection ably expensive articles until they can be ob tained more cheaply. At present the sugges tion is to boycott butter, coffee and eggs, two of them counting among the necessaries of life, but not really deserving that name while other things to take their place can be obtained, and the third being little, if anything, more than a luxury the abondonment of which will hurt nobody and do some people good. v The planners of the boycott should remem ber, however, that while, in the, way proposed, the prices of these things unquestionably can be lowered, to do it will require theunited ac tion of a large number of .housewives, and they must be prepared to encounter, as an inevit able result of their triumph, a rise in the price of the foods to which they turn as substitutes. They would be wiser, probably, if they did not attempt to do so much at once if they con centrated, that is, on a single food, and waited till they had brought its price down before they tackled another. And, after all, better than a boycott of anything is the careful and economical use of everything. It is the elimina tion of waste and excess that is best calculated to bring consumption into adjustment to scanty supply. New York Times. The Girls Men . Marry There seems to be no end to the discussion of marrying and giving in marriage, and the viewpoints of the disputants are as various as their previous condition of servitude. The latest to add fuel to the ever-lambent flame of the controversy is Dr. Kristine Mann, who tells the International Conference of Women Phy sicians that "what every woman knows" today is that "pale, weak women are most appealing to men" because of the chivalrous instinct of pity aroused in a man by the sight of fragility and pitiable dependence. To this finding many will enter their respectful demurrer. There is nothing particularly attractive to a man in the prospect of having a life partner whose health is precarious and who is unable to look to the ways of her household or to be the participant in the husband's interests in his business or in his recreative hours. There are all about us the most beautiful and touching examples of devo tion and interdependence between husband and wife, when the one or the other is enfeebled bv an inherited or an accidental ailment, but such an ailment is a liability and not an asset in the partnership, and while in the mid-Victorian days, of which we hear so much, it may have been fashionable to look as though one were passing into a decline, and it may have been considered soulful and spiritual to be un healthy, today it is held to be morbid and even immoral to make anything less than the most and the best of the bodily tenement that is the home of the immortal spirit Philadelphia T.crlaar. "v. Home Health Hints Reliable advice given In this column on prevention and cure of disease. Put your ques tion In plain language. Tour name will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Help You. In the Matter of, Measles. .While the serious aspect of measles is recognized by doctors, most people do not regard the dis ease with the fear it should carry. It is dangerous, and is preventable. The popular conception of measles as almost necessary and little harmful ailment of children is wrong; it may be accompanied by or followed by grave danger, and it is no more needful to the welfare of the child than is smallpox or tuberculosis. 1 The school authorities have been aware of this for a long time and have done a great deal to head off epidemics, yet they have not always had the hearty co-operation of the home in this work. How gravely the problem is taken abroad may be gained from the fol lowing, contributed to the London Times by its medical correspondent: .' The campaign against Infectious disease in this country is of such great importance that all those who are interesting themselves in it will welcome the publication of the lat est statistics of the incidence of no tifiable diseases in each sanitary dis trict in England and Wales. (New Series, No. 124, year 1918.) These statistics serve to show the magnitude of the problem with which we are faced. For it must never be forgotten that infectious diseases, such as measles and scar let fever, are the starting points of innumerable other ailments. They kill many children; but few realize that they kill, in process of time, many adults also and that, too often, at the most productive period of life. Measles and German measles eas ily head the list, with 414,346 noti fications, or a rate of 12.38 per 1,000 of the entire population. This fig ure can only be regarded as shock ing when we remember that measles is a preventable disease, and that it kills children as no other malady kills them. Next to measles we have tuberculosis, with the huge figure of 72,741 for lung tuberculosis (con sumption) and 19,391 for other forms, a total of 92,132. This, again, is a dreadful figure, and should arouse most widespread anxiety and inspire to action, on every hand. Scarlet fever is next with 48,180; diphtheria follows closely on this figure, 43,713. After these the num bers are more reasonable, though erysipelas has 12,463 and puerperal fever 1,206. Plague, which is so greatly dreaded, has but seven cases, cerebro-spinal meningitis but 798. These figures are exclusive of sol diers and sailors. They do not show a marked difference on the figures for last year, though pulmonary tuberculosis is down? by about 1,000 notifications. London had 15,286 of the pulmonary tuberculosis notifica tions, Lancashire had 2,522, the West Riding of Yorkshire 2,034, Middle sex 2,218. As showing the possible continuity of evil effect from infections, it may be recalled that during a reCent ex amination of 61 apparently strong young men, it was found that 17 showed some signs pointing to the presence of disease. Of these six had had scarlet fever, one typhoid fever one diphtheria, two suffered from "rheumatism," one from tuber cular glands, one from the effects of-rickets. In no case where the symptoms referred to were absent had there been a history of Infecti ous disease except measles. MUCH IN LITTLE. , A new metal guard for incan descent lamps is mounted on a split wooden handle that can be closed and locked around a socket and ex tension cord. . - Girls in England are said to have grown larger during the war. Waists now measure on an average 26 to 28 Inches, while size 7 in gloves and sizes 7 and 8 in shoes are sold. Because of their success on war craft, the Italian government plans to Install radio telephones on both passenger and merchant vessels. To help athletes develop their neck muscles, a leather ring, that is weighted with shot and 'worn around their heads has been invented. A Missourian has designed an ad justable book mark to be clipped to the edge of a page and with a guide that moves sidewise or vertically. Inclined top Jacks, two to be pivoted to each axle of an automo bile, which lifts itself by backing over them, have been patented by a New Orleans Inventor. El Mercurio, the leading news paper of Chile, printing editions in Santiago, Valparaiso and Antofa gasta, has recently opened an office in the Times building, New York City, for the purpose of giving serv ice to manufacturers and exporters in this eoutltry Interested in trade with Chile. In addition to other services the newspaper maintains a credit information -service. H. P. Ewing, a negro, who has a 1,000-acre farm near Kansas City, and is known locally as the potato king, and originator of the back to the farm for negroes movement, has acquired control of 35,-000 acres of northern Arkansas land and is get ting together responsible men of his race and returned negro soldiers whom he will settle on the land, with the understanding that they will buy it as they develop it For ages the fourth finger of the left hand has been, chosen for the bride's wedding ring, but few know how the custom originated. The fact is, that the Romans, who were the first to use the wedding ring, selected that finger because they be lieved that a nerve went from it direct to the heart. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. A luminous paint of English in vention for automobiles is said to make a car coated with it visible two miles at night. An inventor has brought out a tent with a frame so shaped that it can be used as a garage with very little waste of room. Greece has required radio equip ment on all passenger vessels of 300 or more tons dead weight capacity, and on all cargo ships; of 1,000 or more tons. ' , For treating victims of insomnia an Englishman has invented appa ratus that flows water through a pad, massaging their forehead until sleep comes. For testing the dangers of mine gases an Englishman has invented apparatus that photographically measures the duration of flashes of explosions. According to the report of the commission of labor, the first strike in the United States took place in New York city in 1741, when a num ber of journeymen bakers combined and refused to work until theii wages were raised.. An organization known as the Beveren club, has, the London press reports, inaugurated a scheme with the object of keeping at home, by means of rabbit breeding, some part of large sums of money that leave Great Britain annually in the pur chase of furs. A cablegram from Consul General Hollis, dated London, October 16, says that the Vlckers company has contracted to supply airplanes, han gars and airplane works to the Chinese government, for which they are floating a 9,000,000 (43.798,500 at normal exchange) loan at 8 per cent Better Control of Our Defectives Columbus, Neb., Oct J8. To the' Editor of The Bee: Strikes, mob law, bolshevism,' criminal acts and the like always follow in the wake of any war, to a certain extent. How ever, it seems that the rumblings are of a more volcanic nature than would naturally follow such a war, great as it was. The American peo ple have been suffering for years from a putrid sore, which has been neglected, and still remains un healed. But under the analgesic ef fects of this great war, it has re mained quiescent, and has given us little or no trouble. The signing of the armistice brought the war to a close and removed its anesthetic ef fect from thesore, so that this so long neglected irritation has become more angry. A person can stand a great amount of suffering some times, but the time comes when, if no relief is obtained, the pain be comes unbearable and finds an out let in unlawful and insane acts. Who is to blame for this condi tion of things? No one but the suf ferer himself. For years we have had the "barring of undesirables" preached to' us, but we have not heeded the advice of those who gave it To admit undesirables now is to invite trouble for- this country, and it always has brought trouble to us. We are beginning to sense our mistake, but it is like locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen. They would now, if admitted, do as they always have done in the past, produce discord and disorder, and produce the ma jority of those who commit our greatest crimes. ' Judges and prose cuting officers are bribed or afraid to maintain order. Criminals are convicted and then turned loose. Many times criminals would receive severer punishment and more jus tice If left to the Judge rather than the Jury. People blame the courts for not acting when they themselves are at faulty because 12 of their peers decided the criminal not guilty. The Judiciary are at fault when they allow attorneys to abuse witnesses, and when they order money spent in the defense of a person who pleads guilty. The courts are at fault when dishonesty is allowed in the practice before them, and when they select Jurors who cannot speak or understand English, or the language of the American. Our higher authorities, as well as the lower, are neglecting their duties every day without being reproved by-their superiors. This sore I have been writing about is the result of our past trans gressions. There was a time when children were taught to obey their parents and respect their elders; but, alas! such teaching is now ob solete. At the present time it is no uncommon thing to hear children not yet in school contradicting or calling their father or mother "liars," "old fools" and the like, without being reprimanded. Edu cation is the root of the whole evil. The mother who Is responsible for much of what her child knows be fore he or she goes to school has never been taught how to raise chil dren, consequently the child in the malority of cases gets on the wrong track, and is like an uncultivated plant wild, and you can't make any thing else out of it. The immigrant is like a child and it is the dutv of the state or nation rviov urn eotten onto the l ..it. -' - right track and they should see that they stay there. We must navo obedience if we ever expect xo eood government. I wonder how . ....lta aaiiM ronent the Ten many cluuho . - - i . Commandments? I venture the per cent would be sman sun umj mo embodied in the statutes of every state. If we make laws for the government of our people, we should see that they are enforced. If we can't do it or the laws are obnox ious to a majority of the people repeal them. Every immigrant, ev ery child, every vagrant, criminal or other suspicious person should be compelled to take a physical, men nr.A ntmnaotAr nnnirsis examina- I lai O.UV4 V-1 . . . - - tion, and If they are found in any way aereciea iney wwuiu turned to the country from whence they came, even though they had pained admission to our country, or they should be placed where they can be best handled. Most crim inals are defectives in some way. Most backward children in school are: defective. Character analysis, psychology and the like will weed the feebleminded defected from the physically defective. I believe I can do this and others can if properly educated. The capacity of each fac ulty should be considered and util ized for good. I would get all the defectives registered and kept con stantly under control. I would teach them .obedience and a aspect for good government. I would let them have free rein, but guide them in the direction where they would become the most useful. If they did. not have enough mentality to respect the laws of good society T would put them under Institutional restraint. Persecution never helped anyone. I wouia teach by firm ness and kindness. I believe we have much to learn in the matter of public v elfare, and that it will take men and women with common sense and hearts to correct many of these evils and not a policeman with a club using brute force and having little or no brain. TT CITIZEN. EARLY FALL PIPPINS. . "Is thai poetry what you call blank Ve,T think io," anewcred Miee Cayenne. "Anyway it reads as If th mind of tn man who wrote it wao a blank." Wash ington Star. Blnke The under crust tJ that chicken pie you brought mo was abominably tough. . . Walter There wasn't any under crust to thai pie, elr.. It was served on a pa per plate and you've oaten It. Detroit News. . "He who puis his hand to the plow must not turn back," screamed the park ora tor. "What's he to do when he gets to the end of the furrerT" come the Inevitable voice from the crowd. Edinburgh Scots man. 'So you are engaged? ' Tea." "How romantic. Is he your IdealT" "No," said the girl candidly, "merely the best offer I could set." Louisville Courier-Journal. "We might brighten this Congressional Record a whole lot,", said Senator Sorg hum, reflectively. "How?" "By cutting out a lot of theae epeeches Hnd putting In cloakroom gossip." Waslilng'.on Stat. "Cholty tried to kiss me, upset the ca noe, fell out, ruined his new suit and was nearly drowned. He's In the hospi tal now. What should I dot" "I think you should go around and give him that kles." Kansaa City Journal. "Hello, Cap!" saluted an acquaintance. "Whur have you and the children and dogs been at off chasing a fox J" "Nope!" replied Hap Johnson of Hum pua Ridge, Ark., "chasing my last boy. Bearcat, to give him a dese of castor oil." Kansas City Star. First Boy (gloomily) I've got to cut kindlings and empty three buckets of ashes and build two fires and go to tho store on errands and then fill tho coal bin. Second Boy (enviously) Vou've got a regular picnic, you have! Just think of m! Mother said when I come home from school today I'd got to hold the baby. Philadelphia Inquirer. "Now if guilty you may get aa hlgb as three years. ' "But I alnt guilty whatever." "Tho district attorney, however. Is em powered to recommend a six months' sen tence on a plea of guilty." "Take him up, boss. I guess I'm that much guilty." Louisville Courier-Journal. rrnrw The Day We Celebrate, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, who is mentioned as a possl ii MnAiriatei for the republican presidential nomination, born in Morrow county, unio, d years ago. Bishop Adna W. Leonard, of the Methodist Episcopal church, born in Cincinnati, 45 years ago. , Miss Abbte Rockefeller, eldest child and only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr., born 16 years ago. Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury of the United States, born at Morrlstown, Vt, 71 years ago. James E. Watson, United States senator from Indiana, born at Win chester, Ind., 66 years ago. Thirty Years Ago In Omaha. C. E. Moody has been quite ill for the past week but is recovering. The defunct Western Casket com pany transferred its plant and land to the newly organized Omaha Cof- "AMERICA." Our forefather may havo oomo From France or Italy, Or England, Spain and Russia And countries 'croes tho seal But In thla great free country We'll welcome any man Who'll taks tho oath that bo will bo A true American. No hypenated name wo want In this our own United States. No other flag we'll fight for Should enemy aggreas: And In this land of plenty , There'a freedom for every rnaa. Who provea. hla loyalty to bo A true American. No Dutch or Hlavo-Amerlcaa But plain United Slatea. And protection will bo gives To all who emigrates, But a foe or traitor in our land. On him we'll put a ban. And want only In our country A true American. "BELtVIEW." fin Manufacturing company, th consideration being $10,000 for th grounds and $8,000 for the plant Emma Abbott visited The Bee of flee after her performance at thi Eoyd theater. Dr. Amelia Burroughs has re turned from California. Txlapting ike tove principles oTtKe violirv to the piatrvofortC' rva-5 teen successfully ac-" complisked only in, tke Jfamt&lf Art As a. resulf, J Jason GrfamJin ions and resonance improve , with age just as tk. Otradivanus mellow with, the vears. can Ae taiti afria other a'ano In tie world. 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