THB BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1919.
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of 150 miles of Omaha, the richest
agricultural area of like size on the
globe. 1
What The Bee Stands Fort
1. Respect for the law and maintenance ot
order.
2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation of the
courts. .
3. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of
inefficiency lawlessness and corrup
tion in office.
4. Frank recognition and commendation
of honest and efficient public service.
5. Irtculcation of Americanism at the true
basis of good citizenship.
The census man will have to hurry.
Little Johnny faces the real thing today.
'Pershing heard the siren song at Lincoln, all
right, but will he be led by it?
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Mr. Bryan advises that the treaty be rati
fied with the reservationi. He still has lucid
intervals. i
Reckless driving still takes heavy toll in
Omaha. Some way ought to be found to make
streets safer for pedestrians.
' A dollar is a dollar according to a New York
judge when applied to larceny, but It is only
about SO cents when you try to buy something.
A returned Knights of Columbus director
says what Europe needs most of afl is red blood.
A little less bad blood would be a good thing,
too. '
The revenue collector has a little mercy on
the public, and will not send out income tax
blanks until after Christmas bills are out of the
way.
Omaha women announce their determina
tion to persist in the boycott on eggs. At Lin
coln the price bounded right back as soon as
i the pressure was removed.
Commencement of work on new buildings
and announcement of plans for others afford
a pretty fair indication of what Omaha faces for
the coming year. Faith is bearing fruit.
Omaha detectives show about the same de
gree of judgment in picking up "vagrants" that
they did in carrying out raids last summer.
Just a little common sense would help a lot.
Wood alcohol is mighty poor substitute for
the real thing. Better let it alone, or put
your worldly affairs, into order, so as to make
it easy for the administrator when you are gone.
' Whatever .the census count may show, the
fact remains that Omaha's greatness does not
depend so much on the number of its citizens
as on the vim and vigor of those who are here.
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Josephus Daniels got away with a good
many things, but finally came a cropper on the
medal business. Even an admiral's patience has
its limits, and nothing ii firmer than navy tradi
tions.
Announcement that W. D. McHugh is to be
come general counsel for the International Har
vester company at $100,000 a year recalls the
fact that once the senate declined to confirm his
appointment to the federal bench because of
democratic opposition. In a worldly way they
"kicked him upstairs." .
Stressed Steel Mills
Assuming that the returned miners stay on
the job and do not anywhere lay down on the
job assuming that there will be a high effi
ciency output of coal in the bituminous fields
from now until midsummer will the obstructed
and retarded industrialism of the country by
that time have caught up and be in a working
situation where the output from the mills and
factories will be on something like equal terms
with the demand? It is safe to answer that the
demoralization caused by the five weeks' coal
strike will not be fully overcome by the end of
the next calendar year, even if the coal mines
produce up to capacity, everywhere, through
out the whole of next year.
According to a statement in the last issue
of the Iron Trade Review, it is a question wheth
er restrictions will not hava to be put upon the
operations of furnaces and rolling mills in the
great steel centers not because of interference
with operations by the steel strike, but be
cause of the depleted condition of coal stocks
and because of the difficulty of obtaining enough
coal to operate continuously at full capacity dur
ing the next two or three months. Asvto de
mand for steel products it is said in the Review
article that "new steel orders, no matter how
attractive in size or price, have gone begging.
Many mills have closed their badly congested
. order books to every Importunity or device of
buyers." ...
Expert business In steel 'has been aeverely
restricted. Steel, as everybody knows, ramifies
Into every other industry under the sun, and
behind the steel industries variously and gen
erally and as a condition precedent to function
ing of the steel plants, there is coal coal up to
the blast furnace and power machinery needs.
As never before the attention of the American
people is focussed upon the potentiality for
harm o! the abuse of organized power by an
organization controlling such a basic utility as
the country's coal supply. Baltimore American.
MR. BRYAN COMING BACK.
The question of leadership of the demo
cratic party seems to be solved. William Jen
nings Bryan shows every symptom of intention
to resume his direction of the party's affairs, and
is just now acquainting or preparing to acquaint,
tht people with what he has chosen for the
paramount issue of the coming campaign.
It will do little good for the followers of
Woodrow Wilson, now eagerly striving among
themselves for his mantle, to struggle against
tht inevitable. Bryan holds a control over the
unwashed that none of them may hope ever to
attain. In the case of Gilbert Monell Hitch
cock, with whom the great commoner hat re
cently signed an armistice, his cake is dough
already. The southern senators have aligned
themselves in support of Oscar W. Underwood,
and this is accepted as indicating that the
place of senate leader will go to him. Hitch
cock's failure to put through the treaty as the
president ordered, together with his varying
course in the senate, has done away with his
chances for party leadership. He will, however,
be a figure of strength until after the conven
tion, and this must be reckoned with.
Mr. Bryan always has been strong in the
south. The old time democrats have accepted
him and his many policies without question,
simply because he has never sought to inter
fere . with their local affairs. They are not
so keen about national control if they may be
assured of undisturbed dominance at home.
The Bryan-Hitchcock rapprochement 1s of
significance chiefly in Nebraska, where the long
existing feud has at times imperiled each in his
wider relations to the party. With this tem
porarily laid aside and it is merely adjourned,
for neither has ever forgiven the other some
thing like an harmonious delegation may be
sent from Nebraska to the next democratic con
vention. '
Omaha will soon be told of Mr. Bryan's plans
by the peerless himself. In the meantime it is
good to see' the old champion girding himself
for another round against the demons of Wall
Street and the monsters of monoply.
Universal Military Training.
The senate's subcommittee on military af
fairs has agreed on a plan for universal mili
tary training for the youth Of America, and the
house committee is working along similar lines.
This makes certain that the matter will be
brought forward in congress for consideration
sometime in the next few months. Compulsory
training does not include compulsory service in
the senate plan. The selective draft law estab
lished the service principle beyond question. It
is the right of the republic to exact from each
citizen whatever of ability or power he has that
may be needed for the common good. Train
ing in military science goes beyond the simple
use of arms; it carries with it physical and
moral development, the disciplining of mind
and muscle, teaches lessons of obedience and
self-reliance as well, and gives to the youth at
a, time when it will be of greatest service in
the way of forming his character. It will be
applied at that time of life when the youth best
can afford to devote a few months to the service
of his country, and will interfere very little with
his future work. Alongside a comparatively
small body of highly trained professional sol
diers will be set up a citizen army, ready to
take the field with little delay in an emergency.
The plan contains no germ of militarism, holds
no menace to our liberties or threat to another
nation. It only means that America will not
again be found unready for self-defense if this
or a similar scheme be adopted.
"Medals for Valor."
The secretary of the navy has asked his
board of awards to reconvene and revise the
list of recommendations for medals and other
war honors. This followed when two other
hjgh officers joined with Admiral Sims in de
clining to accept such distinctions because they
thought the awards had been unfairly made.
Mr. Daniels slips out of an awkward place by
stating that the lists submitted were but ten
tative and nqjf .final. This, however, will not
distract public attention from the fact that they
were submitted, and had it not been for the
protests of nfficers who resented the manifest
injustice, would have gone through. Under .the
circumstances it is likely that naval medals
awarded for valor will be given tothose who
have won them somewhere else than In a re
volving chair before a roll-top, desk. ,This does
not discount the service of the men who served(
on the staff, or who were charged with arduous
and important duties ashore, and were thus un
able to share in the glory won at sea. They
were just as essential to the winning of the war
as were the men who did the fighting. Elimina
tion of distinction won by political influence is
aimed at, that the medal may mean what it
purports to be.
Wood Alcohol and Christmas Joy.
Prohibition had an effect on Christmas that
hardly was expected, and yet is not especially
surprising. Persons accustomed to spicing
their holidays with alcohol are not always
either particular or careful as to how it is pre
pared or procured. In the present state of pub
lic mind, something piquant appears to attach
to securing the forbidden liquor in a sur
reptitious manner, although the sales from
which the wholesale death list resulted seem to
have been open enough. It is impdrtant, though,
for the future that customers of bootleggers or
speakeasies take due precaution to see if the
concoction furnished them be compounded from
ethyl or methyl alcohol. The changing of the
carbon content alters the nature of the fluid,
and while the wood alcohol will be as potent as
anything in the way of inducing intoxication,
it has the further quality of bringing either
death or blindness, and science knows no anti
dote for it The unwise will imprudently dally
with the danger, but the man who looks for
ward to other days in hope of better times will
cautiously approach the "hootch" that does not
come with its title as clear as can be made in
these days of "dry" ascendancy, for now if ever
"death lurketh in the cup."
Representative Britten thinks Europe will
be in a turmoil for many years without Amer
ica's steadying hand. What they seem to want
over there most of all just now is unlimited
food on eredit, that they may go on fighting
over how to establish absolute equality and
peace on earth.
A New York woman solved the servant
problem by adopting a brother and sister who
ministered onto her. Some men have tried to
get around it by marrying the cook, but it
doesn't always pan out that way.
British View of the Treaty
On the day congress adjourned last month
the Washington correspondent of the London
Times sent a long dispatch to his paper, review
ing the situation that had developed with rela
tion to the treaty of Versailles and the covenant
for a League of Nations contained therein. As
the Times has staunchly supported the league
from the first, the opinion of its Washington
representative is, interesting at least. After
carefully analyzing the progress of the treaty
from the time of the president's first departure
for Paris, and its reception in the senate, and
reaching the conclusion that the people of the
United States have lost their enthusiasm for the
league, having domestic problems of greater
concern, he writes:
One thins, meanwhile can be said withcer-
tainty. The president will not be helped in his
discomfiture by lectures to the American people
Dy his late coadjutors in fans.
The republicans are making capital out of
the statement by Lord Kobert Cecil, in which
the word repudiation was used. They are de
riding General Smuts' remarks about the oris
tine enthusiasm of the American people for the
league. General Smuts and Lord Robert Cecil,
they say, ought to have studied the American
constitution and contemporary American ooh
tics before they put all their money on the
president. , Mr. Lloyd George, M. Clemenceau,
ana others ought to have done the same before
imgaining that by committing the president to
a settlement in which many of the details are
unpalatable to the American people they were
binding: the United states.
The president, they say, went to Paris to
oush his own oolicies when after a soecial an
peal for the support of the public he had failed
in tne general election, tie went unaccom
panied by any member of the senate, despite the
fact that the senate shares with him the re
sponsibility for treaties and is controlled bv the
opposition. The peace conference ought, more
over, to have seen from his inability to get ac
ceptance for the league when he returned to the
United States last March that there were break
ers ahead.
There is a good deal in .this argument. There
can be little doubt that one of the major causes
of the danger in which the league finds itself
is the way in which the president overreached
himself in his enthusiasm for a great idea and
the way in which the conference ignored his
constitutional and political position.
Mr. Wilson was too confident at Paris, too
confident on his return home. Instead of try
ing to propitiate and educate the senate, he
consistently antagonized it by sneering at their
attacks. Instead of patiently explaining the
league and the treaty to the people, he took
too much the line that they should accept what
he deemed good for them. Had he been will
ing to compromise some months ago, the
United States would and might now be a mem
ber of the league subject to reservations which
really would not greatly matter.
American reluctance to enter the league un
reservedly and to bless a peace settlement
whose wisdom they question in many respects
is due primarily to causes which we have no
right to criticize. The United States is in some
what the same position towards the treaty of
Versailles as we were towards the holy al
liance after the Napoleonic wars. Her tradi
tion and training alike make her doubt the ad
visability of Routine interference in European
affairs. She prefers to continue a policy which
corresponds closely to our policy of glorious
and beneficient isolation during the last century.
The Atlantic, she thinks, is even in the 20th
century as broad as the channel in the 19th.
The idea may be wrong, but it is natural
It does not of necessity connote an unfriendly
aloofness from us or any other power. But
there can be little doubt but that its force
might have been much weakened had the presi
dent been more conciliatory to the republicans
and had he taken more pains to educate both
them and public opinion about the broad signi
ficance of the changes wrought by the war, and
about the impossibility in the circumstances of
making a Utopian peace settlement
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Talked Too Much.
While Maynard has perhaps talked too much
the country has listened too much to a remark
it should have passed over like it does lots of
others. Raleigh News and Observer.
Chance for Bryan.
At the present enhanced price of silver that
son of the people, William Jennings Bryan,
ought to shy his castor in the ring for the fourth
time. Los Angeles Times.
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JOHN LAUDERDALE KENNEDY.
The getting money is a job where lawyers
rarely sleep. Their talents in this line of work
have made all others weep. They call the smart
stenographer to fill a printed blank and charge
you for her servicea a fee that's tall and rank.
They write a text whose wind is long and name
alone is "brief," and when you get the bill you
need some medical relief. '
But while they gather in the stuff with tal
ents rich and rare, they see it flutter on again
to decorate the air; for books of solid ivory en
cased in hides of sheep they pay on the install
ment plan at prices far from cheap. They sit
behind mahogany artistic and refined and nest
their feet in Persian rugs to incubate their mind.
' But when they learn the bankers' trade, be
ware and still beware 1 It is the ne plus ultra in
the game of getting there. Behold in John L.
Kennedy this keen and brilliant type, imbued
in the financial arts with talents round and ripe.
In law and courts he reached a point of high
and helpful rank, and now is once removed from
chief in a distinguished bank.
He graced the halls of congress wtih his
presence and his voice, a good republican and
thus the right and proper choice. He helped
create the savings banks to gather in the kale
at offices where Uncle Sam sometimes delivers
mail he fought for postal savings banks suc
cessfully and now he's in the U. S. National to
teach his uncle how.
(Next subject Joseph Barker.)
I ODAV
The Day We Celebrate.
George A. Sargent, manufacturers' agent,
born 1873.
R. A. Leussler, assistant general manager
of the Omaha Street Railway company, born
1866.
Horace Chilton, former United States sen
ator from Texas, born in Smith county, Texas,
66 years ago.
Charlotte Walker, prominent emotional ac
tress and film star, born at Galveston, Texas, 51
years ago.
Clarence Ousley, late assistant secretary of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, born in
Lowndes county, Georgia, 56 years ago.
William J. Fields, representative in congress
of the ninth Kentucky district, born in Carter
county, Kentucky, 45 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
The new county hospital was completed and
ready for inspection by the county commis
sioners. Mr. Oscar K. Davis assumed the editorial
management of the Merchants' Criterion, a
wholesale trade journal.
Mrs. George H. Willard of Lead City, S. D
was visiting in Omaha.
W. F. Patterson, the founder and editor of
the Progress, a paper published here in the in
terest of the colored man, aevered his connec
tion with the sheet to go to Des Moinei. Mr.
F. L. Barnett was to cotninue the paper.
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Price of Eggs.
Omaha, Deo. IS. To the Editor
of The Bee: I see that the annual
fight over the cost of eggs is begin
ning. It seemi that tha ones who
make this annual fight would rather
strike at the small home-owners
who produce a few fresh eggs In this
wintry climate, than to strike at the
big concerns that control millions
of pounds of sugar, of the concerns
that have millions of. pounds of
hides stored away to as to keep up
the price of leather, of the concerns
that have millions of pounds of
butter stored away for the benefit
of the rich, of the concerns that have
millions of pounds of meats stored
away so as to keep the - prices of
meats of all kinds as high as possi
ble, of all the various concerns that
are holding back all the necessaries
or life to keep the prices high.
I will dare these women to pro
duce eggs for 65 cents a dozen or
$1.00 a dozen or even $1.60 a dozen
the way things of all kinds cost this
winter. It simply can't be done at
the present cost of feeds of all kinds.
I have had experience with poultry
for more than 30 years and I know
the business from A to Z, and I
know that It la hard work to get
hens to lay eggs even when we have
mild winters as the one a year ago.
If hens get to laying before winter
sets in, they will lay fairly well dur
ing the months of December and
January, but winter set In so early
this year that few hens had started
to laying and it is hard work to get
them to laying until there Is a letup
of the eold weather.
When you women want to strike
at the big culprits. Is time enough
to talk about striking at the smaU
egg producers. Better get after the
people who charge you $10 and $15
for your high heel shoes. Don't
make the poor, innocent egg pro
ducers the goat and let the big cul
prits go. , FRANK A. AGNEW.
Defense of Nonpartisan league.
Crofton, Neb., Deo. 22. To the
Editor 'of The Bee: In the Decem
ber 11th issue of The Bee, is pub
lished an article entitled, "A Non
partisan League Test," reprinted
from the not too reliable Minneapolis
Tribune. This article tries to make
it appear that the Nonpartisan
league leaders want to bring waong
teaching into the South Dakota
schools. The article says, "Repre
sentative Burtness of Grand Forks
happened In the state circulating
library department upon an assem
bly of books which, he said, were
ready to be forwarded to one of the
country schools under the direction
of a socialistic librarian. It is as
serted that these books Included
works on free love, socialism, an
archy and bolshevlsm works that
assail sanctity of home and family."
Now, the casual reader would think
that the Nonpartisan leaders sent,
or ordered these books to be sent
to that South Dakota country school.
But read the article again, and you
will notice that these books "were
ready to be forwarded to one of the
country schools under the direction
of a socialistic librarian." Does that
say that the Nonpartisan league
leaders had anything to ao witn tne
aforesaid books?
The Minneapolis Tribune, The Bee
and other newspapers know, or
ought to know, that the leaders ana
membes of the Nonpartisan league
will not tolerate such books -nor
similar literature. Neither will the
Nonpartisan league leaders and
members tolerate any red radicals,
I. W. W.'a, pro-Germans, socialists,
etc. Therefore, the very fact that
the librarian was socialistic, further
proves that said librarian and books
had no connection with the leaders
or members of the Nonpartisan
league. . M
The Nonpartisan leagua is xor tne
protection and strengthening of
farmers and laborers. That Is Just
what the millionaire pronteers ao
not want, for they wish to keep on
gouging both the farmers, who are
the chief producers, and the city
people, who are the chief consumers.
These big profiteers realize that they
won't have such easy picKings wnen
the farmers band together and set
their own prices on the t proaucis
they raise (same as the Manufac
turer sets his own prices on the ar
tiMos ha manufactures) and send
their own men, real farmers, to the
senate and congress, to help make
laws favoring the people, not the
few millionaire profiteers. I do not
mean that all millionaires are pron
teers. It Is all right for a man to
be a millionaire provided he has ac-
MiTnnisLteri his wealth nonesuy.
But I feel that It is wrong for a
man to make 200 per cent or 300
per cent profit on the necessities of
At the beginning of our war with
Germany, the millionaires put up a
terrific howl, calling tne .Nonpartisan
league all sorts of names, such as
I. w. w.'s ano pro-uermans, do
causa tha Nonpartisan league said
that wealth should be eonscrlpted to
halo tha United States government
fight against Germany, when the
boys were conscripted.
The millionaire pronteers are
fighting the Nonpartisan league bit
terly, using all the nefarious and
underhanded methods they can
think of, bribing the big eity dallies
to fight the Nonpartisan league In
all the sly ways that crooked pub
lishers can devise.
As heretofore stated, during the
war, the Nonpartisan league was
labeled and libeled as I. W. W.,
bolsheviks and pro-Germans. These
accusations were false, for none
were more loyal to the United States
government than the Nonpartisan
league leaders and members. The
Nonpartisan Leader, a weekly Non
partisan league magazine has Been
presented with a document from the
United States government, saying
this: "Presented to the Nonpartisan
Leader in recognition of- patriotic
services for the United States dur
ing the period of its participation In
the great war for universal democ-
Reading a Landscape.
Br IRBNB I. CLEAVES
Francis W. Parker School
"Gee," sighed Frank, "I'd like to
be alive a few hundred thousand
years from now, to see what this
canyon will be like by that time."
' "Yes, or a hundred thousand years
ago," agreed John. "I'll bet there
wasn't even a gully here then."
These boya knew that the pretty
little limestone canyon, 20 feet deep,
with a tiny stream at the bottom.
why:h they had been exploring, had
not always been there. They knew
that if would not keep its present
form forever. And they know that
when you look at any landscape,
you can read its past and foretell
in iiuure. xney nice to imagine tne
days long past, when there were
arctic conditions where they now
live, s and when great icebergs
ground each other to pieces in the
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channel of a mighty rushinar river.
where only a pile of boulders, in a
dry valley, remains to tell the tale.
When these boys tramp over a
long gravel ridge, even though it
is miles from any lake, they know
that only waves can grind rocks up
into sand and gravel. So they lay,
"There must have been a lake here
once." When they see a hill of
pure land, they say, "Only wind
piles up sand like this. This is a
sand dune." When they climb over
clay hills, with occasional swampy
spots, they recognize the end of an
ancient ice sheet. Other bills they
can see have been left when rivers
have cut away the soil on either
side. If Frank and John lived in
a mountainous country, they might
see hills that were made by the fold
ing of rock when the interior of the
earth shrank. If they ever go to the
drumlin region of Wisconsin or
New York, they may be puzzled at
seeing many hills, all of the same
strange elliptical shape a shape
similar to that of an egg. But even
if they cannot determine at first
sight that these hills were formed
under the great ice sheet, at least,
thev will know that investigation
and reasoning will reveal their his
tory. This knowledge makes every
place they go more interesting.
(Next week: "Reviewing for
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Boyi' and Olrlt' Nwapapr Servle.
Copyright, nil, by j. H. Millar.
Homea of the Muskratt.
By ADBLIX BELLH BEARD
Ha is very active just now, the
savage little muskrat no sleeping
through the winter for him. The
only terror cold weather brings is
the deadly trap which springs and
catches him without warning. Once
in its clutches, it ii all up with Mr.
Muskrat, because his warm, winter
coat is coveted by humans who
dress and dye it and call it Hudson
Seal.
Many boys trap muskrats and sell
their skins; they do it near my
home, from the price they receive,
you would never think a Hudson
Seal coat would cost almost $500,
but then it takes a good many skins
to make one coat. In spire of the
trappers, there seems little danger
that these small animals will be ex
DOT PUZZLE.
racy. The splendid morale of the
people, upon which rested the suc
cess of the army and navy, was In
no small measure due to the co
operation of the advertising profes
sion. "United States Government Com
mittee on Public Information, Chair
man: Robert Lansing. Secretary of
State; Newton D. Baker, Secretary
of War; Josephus Daniels, Secretary
of the Navy; Carl Byoir, Associate
Chairman."
Do you suppose that the govern
ment would have made and sealed
such a document if the Nonpartisan
league had really been nothing but
I. V. W.'s, pro-Germans, and the
like, as all the newspapers were pub
lishing? Hardly! The government
commends the Nonpartisan league.
In my article published In The
Bee, December 9. I neglected to
make it clear that my statements
concerning strikes, are entirely apart
from the statements about the Non
partisan league. The Nonpartisan
league does not favor strikes, but
rather the use of the ballot box. In
settling differences. When better
laws will be enacted, strikes will not
be necessary in order to eempel big
business interests to pay living
wages.
- (As eminent men, usually have
very poor handwriting, I was unable
to make out the chairman's name.)
MRS. VICTOR WALTER.
(Editor's Note: The name of the
chairman not Inserted above Is per
haps that of George Creel, and it Is
not at all surprising that the Non
partisan Leader got such a certifi
cate. It may Interest Mrs. Walter
to know that "Panoho" Villa once
received from the secretary of state
of the United States a note thanking
him for his "services to humanity."
The conviction of Townley on a
charge of sedition la also In point.)
Up In the Air.
John Barleycorn Is still In doubt
as to whether he Is to be exported
as a friend or deported as an enemy.
New Tork World.
Admittedly Experimental.
Bonner Springs is to have an ath
letlo club, according to The Chief
tain. The experiment of starting a
brand new athletlo club In territory
which has long been dry will be
watched with Interest. Kansas City
Star.
On the Retired List.
We don't know what Dr. Garfield
will do now, but we suspect that he
and Colonel House will form an
alumni association. Grand' Rapids
Press.
Hope Abandoned.
We must say to the dreaming
reminiscencers and restrospectors of
this Elysium of Ecstasy that not one
of 1,600 empties on the sidetrack at
Louisville, awaiting a base on balls
from the Supreme Court, is headed
for Texas. The water supply Is the
only hope for moisture. Houston
Post
"business is good thank you'
LV. Nicholas oil Company
r
Twortrr tXMS,(eoLO
terminated, for like Molly Cotton
tail, Mrs. Muskrat rears several
large families in one season and they
grow up very fast
Muskrats live in and near the
water and they ai'e very good swim
mers even under the ice. They have
two kinds of homes: burrows and
houses which closely resemble those
of the beaver. The burrow is quite
elaborate with numerous galleries,
some leading to the several rooms
from under the water front door
and others extending inland with
back doors opening on dry land.
When these burrows cave in, they
are liable to do some damage to
levees and dami as well as fields.
The house itands in shallow
water and looks like a heap of
drifted sticks, marsh grass, and
reeds. Nevertheless, it is well built,
suDoorted bv erowinir reeds, and
held together with mud. Above
water level, there is a room from
which several passages lead down
ward; the entrance is under water.
You cannot get Very near the
muskrat house without a boat, be
cause the marshy ground is so in
secure, to try it means being very
sory and lumpinsr instantly trom
one sinking foothold to another
as I have done to keep from going
in over shoe top. '
(Next week: .tenants of the
Barn.")
Boy" and Glrlt' Newspaper Servlea,
Copyright, 1911. by 3. H. Millar.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
"Now about my obesity, dootorT,"
"Diet."
"And my sray hair?"
"Dye It." Loulivllle Courier-Journal.
Would-be Writer What da you aoneld-i-r
the moit Important for a beginner In
literature?
Old Hand A email appetite. London
Blighty.
"Mtea Primmer le very preclie la her
manner of paklnf."
Te."
"Dlecueelne automobile! the ether day.
the aald ehe wlehed ehe could afford to
buy one of those 'iuperlor ilxee.' " Bir
mingham Ace-Herald.
"Why did Wllklni decide to atay In the
army?"
"He didn't lee any other way of getting;
an overcoat this winter." The Home
Sector. ,
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"Hello, Brown! Wasn't It a fine day
yesterday?" ,
"It seemed so. They fined me once for
speeding and once because my lights were
out." Cartoons Magazine.
Dasher This parcel post package Is
being delivered in unusually quick time.
How do you account for It?
Mall Carrier The department thought
It contained a time bomb, air. Judge.
"Have short skirts begun to oome In
style again?" "
"I'll swear, I eannot say. Since those
tight sweaters came Into vogue I've never
given tha matter a thought." Wichita
Eagle.
Lawyer Tou want a divorce ea the
grounds of Insanity; but are you sure
your husband Is Insane?
Woman Well, if he lsn-t sew, Til live
with him until he is so get the papers
ready. Houston Post.
LEAST OF THESE.
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God save you all, and give yea grace.
That live within this dwelling plaoe;
May you not lack for meat or wine.
Or fire-light, or candle-shine
Or aught that you may most desire.
But as you stir your Christmas fire
Think upon ua whose fires are dead.
Whose cup 1s dry. who have no bread.
Think upon us whose hearths are cold.
Whose eyes are dim, whose hearts are old.
We are the aged and the poor;
We have no choice but to endure.
We are the children to whose eyes
No gift will bring a rapt surprise.
We are the weak, the halt, the blind;
We are the suffering of mankind.
God rest you all, and give you grace.
That dwell within this happy place.
Tour house Is warm with candle light . . ,
Ah. leave your latehstrlng out tonight.
EDITH BAI, LINGER PRICE In tha
New Tork Times.
Rcnlnt.nnc W
Every American citi
zen who has the in
terest of this country at
heart should make one
resolution tot which they
would adhere closely.
"Resolved that dur
ing this year I will
work industriously and
save every dollar that is
not positively essential
to my health and hap
piness." Such a resolution
would materially in
crease your income)
strengthen your position .
in society and work a
great benefit on your
entire community. Only
by working and saving
can the perplexing prob
lems of the day be
solved; '
THERE is a completeness about our
thoughtful service that appeals to
those who are in momentary
clouds of doubt and activity. It is a
condition that comes to all at some
time in their lives, and affects all classes
of people in much the same way. We
have spent much time and thought in
bringing our service to its present com
pleteness, and the benefit of our ex
perience is yours for the asking.
There is a sentiment of nearness
that enters into our relations and makes
hard times much easier for those most
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