THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 15. 1920.
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You should know that
Nebraska is the leading state in
the production of potash in the
United States.
Friday the 13th was some day in Washington.
Xow we know why "Tom" Marshall did not
want to act as president.
The army store man thinks he sees spring
approaching. He has good eyesight.
Brain storms in high places have made a
lot of history, mostly of a troublous kind.
Thrombosis is not necessarily fatal, but it
does not seem to sweeten the temper, either.
Holland is wilting to export the ex-kaiser to
a desert isle, and 'may even let the Allies name
the one.
THE CABINET EXPLOSION.
The ungracious fashion in which the presi
dent dismissed the secretary of state from his
cabinet is the most amazing act of a career that
has many times given occasion for astonish
ment. It is the unquestioned right of the presi
dent to exact loyal support from his cabinet
officers, and one who can not give that should
in decency withdraw. But, the present exhibi
tion of official petulance goes far beyond the
courtesy thaordinarily marks the severance of
intimate official relations, and denotes a degree
of irritability that does not comport , with the
dignified offices of president and secretary of
state of the United States.
Mr. Lansing long ago found himself at
variance with the views of Mr, Wilson, but
withheld his contemplated resignation because
he did not wish to publicly assume an attitude
of opposition at a critical time. He should be
commended for this, and his consideration of
the prospects of his chief would ordinarily win
him warm approval.
That Mr. Wilson should take such violent
umbrage at the action of Mr. Lansing in, call
ing conferences of the cabinet members while
the president was sick, and while his physical
and mental condition was made a profound
secret, is the most remarkable feature of the
whole affair. Differences as to policy might
warrant the resignation of any cabinet officer,
just as it has followed in the cases of Mr. Bryan
and Mr. Garrison, but that one should be dis
missed for presuming to carry on the business
of the government in an orderly fashion at a
time when the executive was disabled surpasses
understanding. Ample precedent for Mr.
Lansing's action is found in our history, but no
parallel for Mr. Wilson's.
That the incident will widen the cracks that
have appeared in the fabric of the administra
tion's machine is the only certain thing. Mr.
Wilson still is president, will brook no interfer
ence, accept no advice, and counsel only with
, those who agree with him.
Flu has passed below the danger point in
Omaha, and most people hope it will never
come back.
The "bargain" sale of steamships seems to
have encountered a sn,ag- Marked-down prices
went a little too low. ,
'
Incoming cabinet officers must realize that
what is asked of them is just co-operation and
not too much of that.
Secretary Daniels says the navy's mosiJ
pressing need is a Pacific coast base. And' has
been ever since he took office.
"Father and Son" week ought to be cele
brated fifty-two times each year. The best in
vestment a man can make is in his boy.
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The program arranged for Merchants Mar
ket week in Omaha indicates ,hat all the time
wilt not be spent in looking over goods and
wares. ,
German officers are suing Mathias Erzber
ger on a charge that he libeled them. He must
have said iomething that could not be printed
in a newspaper.
A Wyoming man says he has bet $100 that
Mr. Hopkins count of Omaha noses will show
over 200,000. The compliment is appreciated,
even though the wager is of dubious value.
Canada's 'navy may not amount to much,
but eighty merchant vessels were built in
Dominion shipyards last year. This would
have been accounted some feat before the war.
Franklin K. Lane's statement with regard
to the cabinet conferences puts the president
in a rather peculiar position. And the public
will be apt to think that Mr. Lane speaks the
truth.
Thomas Mott Osborne says he did not re
sign as commandant of the navy's 'penitentiary,
and Josephus Daniels says he did. This little
'discrepancy will probably be resolved in favor
of the secretary.
j Mayor Smith gives it as his opinion that the
popular vote in favor of taking over the gas
plant at the valuation awarded by the board
would be 100 to 1. Perhaps not that high, but
certainly impressive.
M. Maeterlinck finds his visit to America
etouded by other things than his ability to
handle the English language. He is pestered
by functions, and a "function" he describes as
"a speech and a pjtcher of water." Up to date,
though, he has raised no objection to the large,
round dollars of the country.
Omaha Bee Changes Hands
The most notable newspaper transaction in
Nebraska for many years yes, for all time
was the purchase of The Omaha Bee by N. B.
Updike, one of Nebraska's foremost business
forces.
Mr. Updike announces that the paper -will
be published as an independent newspaper with
the purpose of fearlessly giving credit to public
officials where credit is due and criticism where
criticism is due. The city of Omaha and the
state of Nebraska should welcome this attitude,
particularly when the source of the announce
ment is known. Mr. Updike is one of th"e most
constructive business forces in the entire coun
try. Under his proprietorship The Bee will be
come one of the most useful publications within
the nation. It will play an important part in
the building of a better business and govern
mental structure in every sphere. It will prove
: an insurmountable obstacle to the unscrupulous
promoters 0f faise political and economic
' doctrines. Henceforth The Bee will prove one
of the great assets in the betterment and sta
bilizing of the security and welfare of Ne
braska. In our judgment the purchase of this much
needed organ by this particular man Nelson
. B. Updike is of incalculable value to the in
terests of every man who has a dollar invested;
to every man who draws a wage or salary, and
to the further establishment of law and order.
The transaction was effected at a most op
portune jme at a time when leadership pf the
tearless constructive kind is needed.
' , Knowing Mr. Updike, as we have quite in
timately for years, we do not hesitate to pre-
- diet that The Bee will become an exponent of
the best and soundest principles of business and
economies; that it will be always, a positive
force vigorous, courageous, never lacking in
decision nor discretion. Woods Brother
Empty Houses on the Farms.
It is reported that more than 24,000 farm
dwellings are without occupants in the state of
New York alone. This is based on a careful
survey. At the same time, not a city in New
York but is confronted by a housing problem
that only can be solved by a tremendous build
ing campaign. In this condition may be noted
one of the serious phases of our national prob
lem. "How, are you going to keep them down
on the farm?"
That bright lights attract the youth i? ad
mitted. This is not all the story, but it is a
considerable part of it. Boys and girls weary
of the monotonous round of life on the farm
and flit to the city. There they soon find them
selves so immersed in the struggle for ex
istence that they have little time to think of
the farm. When the novelty of city life has
worn off, the ugly fact sticks out that under
neath all its attractions is the specter of want,
that its glittering exterior hides morat and
material ugliness of a kind that is unknown to
the country.
Short work hours and high wages lure many
from the farm to the factory, only to find that
competition is keen, that advancement is for the
exceptionally fit, that the cost of living eats
away all the earnings, and that the pleasures
promised by the "gay life" are bought at the ex
pense of savings. Surrender to this is not al
ways without a struggle, but once it follows trie
victim is doomed to the treadmill round as
surely as though fate had formally passed sen
tence. ,
Life on the farm is not one of idleness, nor
set about with luxury. It promises only work,
but out of that work come not only a liveli
hood, but to the energetic and the thrifty a
competence or at least an independence rarely
attained by the city worker.
Aside from these considerations, though,
empty houses on the farm constitute a general
danger. They mean lessened production in the
basic industry. However much the factory may
need workers, the farm has more need for
them. Until the tide turns and the balance is
better adjusted, overcrowded cities will appeal
in vain to short-handed farms for cheaper food.
Lloyd George and "Nationalization."
One of the interesting episodes in the House
of Commons last week was in connection with
the "nationalization" of coal mines, which has
been forced by the socialists as a cardinal issue.
William Brace, former president of the mine
workers' union, interrogated the premier as to
his intention, offering an amendment to a pend
ing motion the passage, of which would carry
endorsement of the socialist plan. Lloyd
George met the issue squarely, and confounded
Brace and his followers by quoting Trotzky as
his authority for asserting that so-called na
tionalization of industry had failed in Russia
and would fail anywhere. The socialist plan
was characterized as subversive of liberty, and,
said the premier, "we have fought for our lib
erties before and will again." This statement
was received with cheers, and the government
on division was sustained by a majority of more
than 5 to 1. The incident denotes a recession of
the radical tide in England, and may possibly
presage a similar change in this country. At
any rate, it offers a gleam of hope to the sane,
who have long awaited the coming of this
change in the public mind.
Railroad Wage Question Adjourned.
The decision of the railroad men to post
pone further wage negotiations until after the
roads have been returned to their owners is
wise. Differences then may be taken up and
adjusted with those who are to be responsible
for the operation of the transportation industry
in the future, and where adjustments will be
made with greater accuracy and more with a
view to permanency than is possible in dealing
with the government at this time. Wages and
other conditions of employment will be settled
in view of the new law, and with an eye to
the expansion that ought to follow the termina
tion of government management. When labor
relations of cordial co-operation with manage
ment are brought about, and such a result is
possible, the roads will bein position to do
some of the things that are expected from them.
But the recovery is not going to be immediate,
and the wage question is the most pressing of
the managers problems.
Winston Churchill makes no bones of his
opposition to bolshevism, and to clas govern
ment He may ruin his chances for i-c-e lection,
but trill deserve to be remembered for bis
frankness at a time when a lot of Us eon
Umporaries axe inclined to hetJfe,
Society's Right of Self-preservation
From the Chicago Tribune.
On Sunday a public meeting was held at the
Coliseum in protest against alleged restrictions
upon the right of free speech.
We hope and believe the American people
will always be jealous of their fundamental
rights, among which one of the most vital is
freedom of thought and speech. We are aware
that irresponsible radicalism has raised against
itself among most Americans a spirit of resent
ment which in some cases may have expressed
itself by proposed legislation or by acts of sup
pression not consistent with our accepted ideal
of freedom.
This is not likely to continue unless its
provocation continues, but we should like to
say that if the report of the principal address at
the Sunday meeting is substantially correct and
if it represents the protest we think the Amer
ican doctrine of fre,e speech needs wiser cham
pions. The American people will respect free speech
without forgetting that public speech should be
not only free but marked by at least a little
good sense. In fact, we are inclined to think
there is more speech at this moment than sen
sible speech.
The chief address at the Sunday meeting
seems to be a case in point. It was delivered by
an orator who was, rightly or wrongly, de
scribed as a Jewish rabbi from New York City.
His judgment as to the limits of free speech
seems to be represented by the following: "Let
us grant that this or that group openly advo
cates in speech or writing the overthrow of the
government by force or violence. Let them ad
vocate it as long as no overt acts are commit
ted." Now what this recommendation means in
plain English is this: "Let anyone with the gift
of gab and' filled with confidence in the superior
rectitude of his own thought or feeling, or filled
at any rate with a desire to create disturbance,
do his uttermost to inflame other men to vio
lence. Then when they act in accordance with
the incitement we have allowed, punish them."
This means inflammatory speech, followed
by violent action, followed by stern repression.
It means bombs, machine guns, executions. It
means the slaughter of innocent and guilty alike.
This is not common sense. It is. not justice.
It is not what Americans conceive as American
ism. It is not what was intended to be included
within the doctrine of free speech.
But this champion of free and unlimited
preaching of violence has other views which
perhaps explain his theory. He declares that
fundamental changes are needed in the world
today, including, of course, America, and they
are these: "For example, political dictatorship
must be taken out of the hands of the minority,
of the privileged few, and the political powers
must be placed in the hands of the great masses
of the people."
How this is to be done we do not learn that
he prescribed. In this country every man votes
after he has reached 21, and soon every woman
will vote. Every man votes directly for his
legislators, for most of his judges, for most of
his administrative officials, for the president of
the United States.
If the political power is not now in the hands
of the masses how can it be put there?
The trouble with our radical orator is that
he is using the jargon of European radicalism
without respect for American facts.
From the same foreign arsenal of revolt
conies the following: "Economic dictatorship
must be taken out of the hands of the small
oligarchy of bi'sr business men and their satel
lites, lawyers, teachers and clergymen, and the
power put in the hands of those to whom right
fully it belongs the masses who work with
hand and brain." t '
This is the jargon of the bolshevist orators
in Russia, echoed with the intelligence of a
parrot in defiance of the different facts of Amer
ican conditions. If our "radical protester had
given five minutes' honest thought to American
facts he would know that business men in Amer
ica, big or little, are drawn from the masses of
the people, like the lawyers, teachers and clergy
men he calls their satellites; that a good part of
them worked with their hands to get forward,
and that there are mighty few of them who
don't use their brains.
There are no castes or classes in this coun
try. There js no height, politically, economi
cally, or socially, that men are not constantly
raising themselves to in this country from the
bottom of the ladder. Rockefeller came from
a farm, Marshall Field from a country village.
Carnegie and Schwab were poor boys and vir
tually every man of substance in the land has
won his own way to the top.
The preaching of revolution in this country
is the raving of minds fuddled by jargon. Revo
lution by orderly' process that is, by political
and social and economic evolution is the most
outstanding fact in American life. It is going
on every day. In Illinois at this moment a body
of men elected from the people, by direct vote
of all the people, are engaged in revising the
fundamental law of the state. In the nation two
amendments of the most revolutionary character
have recently been passed, one for the enfran
chisement of all women, one for tlje prohibition
of the individual's use of alcohol. The govern
ment and all the laws and conditions which the
foreigners among us. find so oppressive can be
changed or abolished at any time by the direct
and constitutional action, of the masses of the
people in whom already resides all power.
Incitement to violence in such a country is
insane folly without the dimmest shadow of ex
cuse in the facts. 'There is no excuse for it and
no excuse for permitting it. Against it is op
posed a higher right than the right of free
speech, and that is society's right to protect
itself from destruction and chaos, the first right
of society, the first right of the individual, that
of self-preservation.
The Conscientious
Objector
Genius In Oregon
We all know now hospitable the people and
state of Oregon have long shown themselves
to experiments and innovations in government
Nowhere else in the United States, perhaps, is
there such political open-mindedness, such a
zeal to propose and readiness to consider with
out predjudice, and, if convinced, to try, re
forms, amendments, new or revived old political
machinery and methods.
Witli an, expectation of pleasure and edifi
cation, then, do Ave begin to read the platform
of the united land and labor party of that
Athenian state. The single tax, to be sure, is
an old acquaintance that has become a bore to
most of us, and, remembering the financial
beauties of Mr. Townley's North Dakota, the
Oregon yearning for a State bank, the legal
depository of public funds, doesn't quicken the
beats of any sober heart, but who can read with
out refreshment and amaze this inspired pro
ject for relief and enrichment of owners of real
property:
Each owner of land shall assess his own
land, with the provision that the state may
add 10 per cent to the valuation and take
the land.
This method of assessment is too palpably
sublime to suffer comment. Jack up the valu
ation, let the state jack the jacked 10 per cent,
pocket the money, leave the state 1 To the tax
payers who remain the plan may be less invit
ing; but has anything simpler, greater.' grander
been begotten even in the fertile Oregonian
brain? Every man his own assessor 1 New
York Times.
Little Brothers of the Rich.
The 16 college professors who have affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor are little
brothers of the rich. Louisville Courier-Journal.
. May Popularize Them.
A Boston chemist says there is 9 per cent of
alcohol in canned blueberries. Ah, ts that so
Pjesie b kind enough, to 9911m the bhssberpee.
The Bible In the
Public Schools
In, the Columbia University Quar
terly Harlan V. Stone discusses the
case of the "conscientious objector"
in the light of experience trained
while he was serving 011 the board !
appointed by the president, during
the war to visit the different army
cantonments and examine the men
who had refused to do military duty.
As the subject presents ale. entirely
new problem in American life, the
conclusions reached by Mr. Stone
are ot peculiar interest. Statistics
of the War department show that
"under a draft of something over
four imillions of men there were
3,9S9 who claimed conscientious ob
jections. It became neeessarv, how
ever, to bring only 2,294 of these
men before the board for examina
tion. Of the total approximately
1,300 accepted noncombattant serv
ice and approximately 1,300 were
given the privilege of the farm fur
lough, 99 of the number having been
furloughed to the French reconstruc
tion unit in France. Only 404 ob
jectors were subjected to court mar
tial." While the great mass of the citi
zenry submitted to the conditions
laid down by the selective draft law.
"there was a residue whose peculiar
beliefs, due to an almost infinite va
riety of causes, of which religious
training, environment, ill-balanced
mentality, not to say sheer stupiditv,
lek of self-discipline, false social
and political theories were the most
frequent, refused to yield to the opin
ions of others, or to force. As was
to be expected, cowards and slack
ers sought refuge among them, but
the number of such were far smaller
than has generally been supposed."
Those who 'objected because of
religious scruples or beliefs pre
sented no very serious problem. It
was a matter of establishing the sin
cerity of the individual. Quakers,
who were the most numerous of the
20 sects represented, "produced a fa
vorable impression by their high in
telligence, and their evident desire
to render service to the country in
its time of need so far as possible
within the limits of their religious
convictions It is diffi
cult to speak thus considerately of
most of the other sects represented
among the religious conscientious
objectors Their average
mentality was low Most
of them were neither moral nor phy
sical cowards. They had accepted
the dogma1 of their churches as the
ultimate truth and were ready to die
for it if need be. For them there
was no hope of salvation if they
should bear arms or wear the uni
form. Born under different condi
tions and in different nevironmont,
and enlightened by education, they
would have been loyal citizens, the
first to offer their services to their
country In all something
more than SO per cent of the ob
jectors appearing before the board
belonged to well organized religious
sects.
"But. it was the relatively small
residue of nonreligious objectors who
brought to the board its real per
plexities In this group,
as with the religious objectors, was
encountered the coward and slacker
who had consciously taken refuge
under the pretense of a moral objec
tion to participating in war. . . ,
Of the nonreligious objectors, the
group about whose good faith there
was the least doubt, were the ex
treme pacifists who were able to es
tablish that they had before the war
held and asserted the belief on moral
grounds of nonresistance to force.
. . . . Of quite different charac
ter was the little group ot college
pacifists gathered into the camps ot
conscientious objectors from leading
colleges and universities of the
country.
"All of them yearned for martyr
dom, and, unlike the religious ob
jectors, not one of them would ac
cept the farm furlough when it was
proffered to them Nearly
all these men had been carefully
reared in good families. They had
had little contact with the realities
of life, their experience having been
limited to college or university life
with occasional more or less of dil
letante engagement in settlement or
social service work. Their ultimate
position was that of the philosophi
cal anarchist, strange, and, let us
hope, abnormal products of our
modern educational system. One
can but wonder what forces are at
work in our social and educational
life to produce the ill-balanced and
distorted intellectual processes by
which these young men. in many
respects intelligent, had worked out
their social philosophy. Neither
family life, nor education, nor con
tact with the world had given them
the kind of intellectual discipline and
self-control on which all social co
operation must be founded."
Another type of objector was the ,
extreme socialist or I. W, W. After i
giving some dtails of interviews with
these, Mr. Stone goes on: "One thus j
gained some impression of the great
currents of social unrest which are
being turned to advantage by the
loose-thinking, wild-talking agitator
whose dream is a world in chaos
that a new Utopia may arise on its
ruins. When one realizes the se
riousness of their purpose and the
power of their influence over the
ignorant and discontented, he can
have no illusion that the mere ap
plication of force to (hem or the for
cible suppression of their incendiary
utterances will bring any solution of
the problem they create. Firm but
impartial adherence to the law by
those in authority, and ceaseless and
untiring efforts to educate and en
lighten these men and especially the
class to whom they make their ap
peal, together with the fullest dis
cussion and most searching analysis
of the doctrines which they preach,
are the only methods which hold
out promise for the triumph of
democratic institutions over the as
saults now directed against them."
Mr. Stone discusses briefly but
lucidly "the larger question whether
there is any basis in morals or
sound policy for exempting the con
scientious objector from liability to
military service." Considering its
practical aspects and reviewing the
law as it stands, he concludes: "How
ever rigorous the state may be in re
pressing the commission of acts
which are regarded as .injurious to
the state, it way well stay its hand
before it compels the commission of
acts which violate the conscience. .
. . . Every ethical and practical
consideration w-hich should lead the
state to avoid the violation of the
conscience of its citizens should
therefore lead a wise and humane
government to seek some practical
solution of this difficult problem."
Omaha, Feli. 10. To tho Editor
of The Bee: I have learned with
amazement that the committee on
education of the constitutional con
vention, sitting at Lincoln, the other
day, despite an earnest protest that
was made to them, nevertheless, and
that. too. by a tie vote, passed the
resolution making permissible the
reading of tho Bible in the public
schools of Nebraska.
To ine it is almost inconceivable
that such an astounding and revo
lutionary thing should have been
done by any public body in America.
For do we realize fully what it
means? It is nothing less than a
blow at the fundamental principle
of America. Our country stands for
the fullest religious liberty and
equality. To safeguard this most
sacred right as well as wisest politi
cal provision' which expressed tho
lesson ot all history written in letters
of blood, the fathers of the constitu
tion expressly ordained, making it
explicitly an organic part of the law
of the land, that "Government
should make 110 establishment of re
ligion," that church and state should
be forever separate. The state, while
fostering religion in that it gave
equal protection and opportunity to
all.identifled itself officially with
none, recognized nono above the
other, favored none at the expense
of any otjier. A fair field was given
to all, leaving it to each to work
out its own destiny and exert what
ever influence it could. This has
constituted America's chief glory,' its
absolute religious freedom. Abovo
every other form of liberty, its re
ligious liberty has been mainly
prized. 'America was "the Land of
the Free and the Home of the
Brave," because it guaranteed the
right of freedom of conscience to
every citizen.
The Bible, whatever else it may or
may not be, is nevertheless primarily
and distinctively a religious book,
and (o introduce the Bible into the
schools, for whatever reason and un
der whatever pretext, is to inject re
ligion into the schools, when the
constitution expressly forbids any
uniun of church and slate. Whether
it is U 'iiuininational religion or not
does not matter. K.Oigion of any
form is forbidden, though it is bound
to be sectarian religion. Even if not
denominational, it will be sectarian,
for nondenominational religion is
sectarian compared with other reli
gion. Christianity in any form is
sectarian compared with Judaism or
Mohammedanism, and Christianity
in the Protestant form is sectarian
compared with Catholicism, as Ca
tholicism is sectarian compared with
Protestantism.
No matter what version of the.
Bible were introduced, no matter
what passages were selected, even
though it were read without com
ment, it would still be an infringe
ment of the constitution and the up
shot would be the teaching of a par
ticular kind of religion which ulti
mately would be the religion of tho
majority. This would constitute a
tyranny of the majority, and a re
ligious tyranny, which is the worst
kind of tyranny.
The world is not. going to take
any backward step. The work
is not going to r elapse into mediaeval
bigotry with its attendant barbarism
least of all is America, hitherto the
foremost, the most enlightened and
progressive nation of the world.
With infinite sacrifice we have made
"the world safe for democracy."
Making democracy safe for tin,
world, we are not going to make it
unsafe fur America; we are not go
ing to destroy democracy here in its
very h.me.
And Nebraska is not going back
on its own proud record as one of
the most progressive and American
of the states. We look to the com
mittee on education to yet redeem
itself, to rescind its ill-considered ac
tion (the mere fact that it was a tie
vote on so important a matter shuuin
cause it to do this). At all events
we look to the convention, and we
are confident that the just and lib
eral people of the state as a whole,
look to the convention, in this criti
cal period of the world and when
we stand upon the threshold of a
new and what is confidently hoped
to be a better era. that Ne
braska should not stultify itself, but
should write its name high among
the most progressive, the most
glorious commonwealths of our be
ljved America.
FREDERICK COHN.
f 1 " r aw
Tho Day Wo Olebrole. "
W. It. Gates, real estate, born
1858.
Kenneth S. Finlayson, attorney,
born 1S8S.
K. A. Bennett, hotel clerk, born
18SL'.
Sir Ernest Fhackleton, celebrated
Antarctic explorer, born in Ireland,
4$ years ago.
1 Albert B. Cummins, senior United
States senator from Iowa, born at
Carmichaels, Fa., 70 years ago.
Elihu Root, former cabinet official
and United States senator, born at
Clinton, N. Y.. 75 years, ago.
James A. Farvell, who rose from a
common laborer to be president of
the largest corporation ia the world,
burn at New Haven, Conn., 57 years
ago.
Edward K. Stettlnius. former as
sistant secretary of war and one of
America's eminent leaders in Indus
try, born at St. Louis, 65 years ago.
James Ring, pitcher of the Cincin
nati National league base ball team,
born at Brooklyn, N. Y., 25 years
ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Mr. ami Mrs. Thomas Swobe, ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. W. N.
Babcock. left for the south foV an
absence of four weeks.
Mrs. J. It. Ringwalt entertained in
honor of her visitor, Miss Robin
son. .
The annual meeting of the East
Omaha Land company was held, at
which the capital stock of the com
pany was increased from $500,000
to $1,250,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rial left for
a month's stay in old Mexico.
MAPLE-SUGARING.
Through snow that melti beneath a fer
vent iun.
The youngsters wade with woodeu spiles
ti tao
The maples, giving down their yearly
si v.
Along the bluffy banks of Bowman a run.
They gather In the buckets, one by one.
And take them to the camp, near Dev
il's gap,
Whore not a thought Intrudes of soma
mishap
To mar th afternoon and evening's fun.
The small, light clouds sail stately by
j the moon
A nnrthward-flying. lost and crying loon
Cuts in tho curling smoke above 1 the
trees. 1
While In the pans the syrup gralnt too
soon
Tor slpp-rs of the early sweets like
these.
WILLIS HUDSPETH.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
With the Chinese yellow is re
garded as a color of royalty.
In the rural districts of Australia
many of Jhe horses wear cowhide
shoes.
There are less extremes ot wealth
and poverty in France than in any
other country.
In Holland the breeding of cuts
for, the sake of their fur is a recog
nised industry. 1
Musio as a curative power was
employed by the Romans In cases of
gout and sciatica.
. Owing to the increase in size of
our brains, it is stated, our skulls
are becoming thinner.
A shark six feet long was recently
caught by a girl fishing with ordi
nary hook and line in J3ude I '.ay,
Cornwall.
The longest pendulum ever made
was 377 feet in length and whs
swung from the second platform of
the Eiffel Tower.
There is no complete divorce in
Ireland. The best that misnniied
couples can obtain is "judicial sep
aration," which does not permit re
marriage. The criminal records shew that
the most cases of murder ni-enr in
January, June and Aupust. ami tin
fewest in November, I'lecenibcr and
February.
The recent tour of flic prince of
Wales in Canada and the United
States was officially filmed, 15, nun
feet being required for the Canadian
Visit alone.
A hundred years ago London
was 13 times as populous as New
York. The census Just taken in New
York Is expected to show .that ciiy
to be considerably larger now than
the British metropolis.
In the days of ancient Koine a
person was required to enter a house
with the right foot foremost, be
cause the left was thought unlucky.
K boy was kept at the door to see
that no one entered the house left
foot first.
The descendants of the aborigines
In Australia are very fond of Jew
elry, but they do not pay much for
it. They use telegraph wire to
make bracelets, earrings and nose
rings, and tear down the telegraph
lines for that purpose.
Of the world's cathedrals, prob
ably the most curious is that which
crowns a hill in Uganda. In ap
pearance it resembles nothing so
much as a mountain of grass, al
though on closer inspection one. is
able to see that mud and wood have
been extensively employed. The
structure can accommodate 4,000
rsople.
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vorld which, respond to
the musicians every mood
with, the flexibility of the
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human voice itself?
jcnesr price
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The Turks spouting about "right
and justice" might be reminded to
limit their oratory to matters they
know something about. Pittsburgh
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Classy High Grade
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K'ranich & Bach, Vose & Sons. Sohmer, Brambarh,
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