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- i' tr -,v- 8 B THE T)MAHA SUNDAY BEE; MARCH 7, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR NELSON B. UPDIKE. PRESIDENT MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aiaoelated Fmt, of wblra The list la a mrnbtr. ! -ehurtrelr entitled to the uh for publication of all newt dln-atcbaa eraditnl lo U or not otbenrle endued In IhU paper, ud alio U. locl neve publislied timiu. All rlfbie of pubilcaUon of oat paelal dtwatctus ere also rtumd. BEE TELEPHONESj Print Branch &rhante. Art for ttie Trlo. 11100 Ipertment or Particular Tenon Waatea. AjrlCr AWV For Night nd Sunday Service Call: , EdltnrUt Department ..... Tilet lOflul Circulation lK;rtiiiit ... Tyler 1W8L Advertlsuif Department ...... Tyler 100W. OFFICES OF THE BEE . I Horn. Office. Bee Building. JTLb and Farnam. Branca Offices: iro.i alio North 54th J Pirk ISIS iMranworta bm R1U UUltary Ate. uih Blda til N St. Couuoil Bluffs 15 Boctt HL I Walnut til North dlltb Out-of-Towa Offices! New Tors Offlc SS Fifth At, i Wialilnrtoo 1S11 O W. Ctuoaio Btener Bldg. I Lincoln , 1330 U St. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION: Daily 65,305 Sunday 65,057 Averts, circulation for the month lubaerlbad and aworn to bv i E B. Raatn. Circulation Minster. f Subscribers leaving the city ahould have The Baa mailed to them. Addrcas chanted aa often at required. You should know that Omaha is the only great grain mar ket where receipts are purely "pri mary," i. e., coming direct from the country. .', Come on with your "economy", prices! ( Omaha certaittfy went over the top in the bank clearings last week. , Moonshine whisky is still doing its perfect work in the Blue Ridse mountains. ' j Brick boosters are making considerable of I muss out of the. bitulithic pavement. I . Director Barnes is right about the' flour, but 1 it js hard to get folks to believe him. The public can face a rise in coal prices with more equanimity in March than in October. Marash has an ominous sound, and the Turks surely tried to make it a place to be re membered. ' " A French scientist says people are over eating. Was he looking at central Europe when he said that? Carter Glass is said to know the president's mind as regards the treaty, but he declines to talk and the mystery remains. "TVmrrnrnree will rnntintif tnw" artvieee I the weather bureau in regard to the present jj week. But the end must come. The Kansas City Star says no matter what figure the census gives' for Kawtown's popula tion, it is wrong. Same here, brother. A Kansas farmer adopted a very effective expedient of keeping his tenant. He shot him when he attempted to leave the place. The March lion was a little slow in getting under headway; but his performance lacked nothing fr,"vigor, once he was aroused. ' More merchant vessels are called for on the Pacific, and the cry must be heeded, if America is going to hold its own on the great ocean. i William Gibbs McAdoo again insists he is not a candidate for president. If he keeps this up long enough his party may take him at his word. ' Railway express employes who are bent on upsetting the government may learn that our institutions have withstood more pressure than a strike will likely exert. . A local minister announces a sermon on "Some Omaha Men Who Live in Contempt of God." If .all who do try to attend the church will not hold the crowd. "Junham" Lewis thinks the president will be renominated by acclamation at San Francisco. But "Jimham" thought he was going to be re elected over in Illinois last fall. We will agree with the -democrats in the house that four hours is not long enough time in which to tell all the" shame of the aircraft fiasco. Four days would be little enough. , Copies of the Treaty of Versailles are a drug on the market at 25 cents each in Paris. It may be worth less than that in this country if tne president's single-track mjnd does not find a place to head in. Omaha's building boom lias reached such proportions that it is getting more attention abroad than at home. This, however, is because our citizens are all too busy on big plans to note the effect their activities are'having on the neighbors. Out With the Turk ,We shall be disappointed with the liberal public opinion of the United States if it does not as heartily as the liberal public opinion of Great Britain condemn all proposals that would leave the Turk in Europe. Present plans give Constantinople an area smaller than Rhode Island. Within these limits -all the Moslem elements, probably not 40 per cent, of the people, boast an even smaller share of educated men and women. "Self-determination" by such a minority is tyranny or a trick. What is said of the alien hinterlands of Fiume and Danzig is true of Constantinople manyfold. Eight nations of Europe, including the richest Russo-Ukrainian wheat belt, look for-an outlet for commerce to the Bosporus. A population greater than all that of the United States finds its trade in part 'conditioned and the condition a heavy handicap by any Turk ish rule that is more than sham. In the heatr of the old capital of the eastern empire, the square of Galata is a silent me morial of Armenian . massacres typifying the cruelty of Turkish rule, as trade hamstrung by misgovernment proclaims its inefficiency. If there was one thing more than any other that this war meant to humane Americans, it was that this sort ot thing naa no piace in turope. Toa certain type of British Tory it may seem expedient to kowtow to Moslem senti ment in Egypt, India, Persia and Syria by spar ing the Turk in Constantinople, source of past wars and seed of future bloodshed though he be. Thn fin either side of the ocean who see more will have for such time-serving.counsels but one - comment and reply: Out with the Turk! New Vork World. . A CITY'S RIGHT TO BEAUTY. A recent decision from a Minneapolis court is of considerable interest in Omaha just now. The right of a city to abate offensive nuisances has long been recognized. Marking the limits of what constitutes an offense has not gone very far. In the case referred to the right of the city of Minneapolis to regulate erection of apartment houses and to forbid their location in certain districts was involved. Judge Holt of the Minnesota supreme court," who wrote the decision, says: It is time that courts recognized the es thetic as a factor in life. Beauty and fitness enhance values in public and private struc tures. But it is not sufficient that the build ing is fit and proper, standing alone; it should also fit in with surrounding structures to some degree. People are beginning to realize this more than before and we are calling for city planning by which the individual homes may be segregated from not only industrial and mercantile districts, but also from the dis tricts devoted to hotels and apartments. The act in question ' responds to . this call and should be deemed to provide a taking for public purpose. That this is common sense must appeal to all. Its importance to Omaha just now is equally apparent In the systematic city planning that has been in progress for several years, the zon ing idea has had a foremost place. If it be cor rectly applied, the benefit will be direct and tf-. fectual. Another point that may be considered is the spread of the city over too great an area. The Canadian expert who has just viewed Omaha gives the opinion that the waste places within the city limits are expensive, because they re quire the maintenance of utility plants beyond normal requirements. This, too, has been pointed out before. In the past The Bee has frequently urged that efforts to secure more compact construction would greatly aid in solv ing some of the serious problems. Realtors are alive to this, and hope to close some of the gaps. Omaha's right to be beautiful as well as prosperous is undeniable, and the end is within the compass of the citizen's power; if each only exerts that power in the right direction. proper movements for the soldiers' interests at may from time to time be formulated. The, lesser groups may stimulate debate on minor matters, but the voice of the veterans will vet be that of the American Legion. "Brick or Bitulithic ? This question in regard to the Douglas county road paving will now be answered by the courts. Injunction proceedings are under way, and the right of the public to require that the Board of County C6mmissioners pro ceed in accordance with the pledge made1 when the bonds were voted is to be determined. The defense set up by the board that only a small group of taxpayers is protesting is not suf ficient. It happens to be the same small group that interested itself in getting the bond issue submitted and gave its time to pushing the campaign through to a successful issue. Whether a sufficient quantity of brick may be secured is not in point. Brick manufacturers say that enough of that material can be had. The question of price answers itself Jn experi ence. Umaha has not used bitulithic for the reason, according to City Engineer Bruce, that it is a patented article and must pay a royalty to ,its patentees. It is known that brick pave ment is enduring; thoroughfares surfaced with this material have withstood the test of many years of heavy traffic and are yet in good con dition. What Douglas county voted for and wants is hard-surfaced highways, so constructed that they will last Concrete base and brick surface meet this requirement. That is why the effort is now being made to enforce the bargain made by the county commissioners when they signed the pledge since referred to as "a gentleman's agreement." 1 The Government's Weakness. On his retirement from the cabinet, Mr. Lane repeated the old story of inefficiency, neglect and waste in the government departments at Washington. Everybody understands it and de plores it, but few stop to dig at the roots of it There are a multitude of contributory causes for this evil condition which prevails at the Seat of the national government, but what are the sources of it? A comparison of business and official methods will reveal them. No man can hope to remain in a business organization unless his work contributes to its profits, e is not employed so much for his own benefit as for that of the business which pays his salary. This fact is impressed upon him daily, is the spur that prods him to constant exertion. The man in government employ, al most without exception, enters it on an entirely different basis. He is receiving a reward for political services already rendered. His tenure in office hangs not so much on the prompt per formance of his duties as upon his political ef ficiency. The psychological effect of this we see in every department in Washington. It cannot be escaped, even though it breeds a laxness, insufficiency and unfitness that, would cause the discharge of any man from a business organization. ' Even the civil service system has been powerless to eradicate sloth from the depart ments, beeause under it appointees are required only to show the knowledge necessary for a'd mission to a department, not to develop high efficiency after installation. Once in, they are strongly fortified against competition, which is 1 practically unknown among civil service job holders. ' ' Authority and responsibility are "the es sentials of business authority to act, responsi bility for acts. In Washington there is authority, but responsibility is so diversified, distributed and scattered over a multitude of unnecessary employes and minor officials that authority it self is impaired. Grover Cleveland said "public office is a public trust." As a matter of fact, it continues to be a "private snap" for a large organization of Washington's salaried job holders. One need seek no farther for causes of inefficiency then. Veterans and Their Voice. Hearings before the committee of congress relative to bonus to be paid ex-service men has developed the existence of several organizations of soldiers of the Great War. While, the far greater part of the. men who wore the uniform are in the American Legion, a number of smaller groups are composed of men who find, or think they find,, their individual aspirations more sufficiently expressed ) through another agency than the one big organization. Bicker ings between these before the committee must give the public some idea as to the reason for their existence. These disputes also indicate the weakness of the rival societies and point to their early dissolution . through failure of the members t6 agree on anything. It is well for the ex-service men that the American Legion has been formed for the purpose of giving an outlet to soldier thought, and to support such New Testament a True Record. , When men now in their late SO's or early 60's were studying the evidences of Christianity in college no New Testament manuscript earlier than those of the Fourth century was" known to exist, and none of them was written in the language commonly spoken by the people dur ing Christ's lifetime. . ' ' Late research has proved, however, that those manuscripts are accurate transcripts from the original gospels and writings of the first century after Christ; a distinguished scholar. Prof. Cobern, declaring the new discoveries prove that the New Testament text "can be trusted more confidently than any other ancient record.' Every fragment of papyrus writings between t,he Third and Sixth centuries, purporting-to be parts of the New Testament, ate in essentials remarkably like the text now gen erally read in the churches. An Arabic translation written midway the Second century is believed to give "the text of the Gospels accepted by Christians" within two generations of Christy. A New Testament in Syriac discovered at Mount Sinai in 1892 cor roborates the earliest Arabic translation. Greek documents recently exhumed, dating back to the First century, and written in the Greek lan guage as then spoken by the people, afford ample evidence that Paul, Mark and Luke wrote in the every day language of their time. The lately revealed papyri yield evidence of the substantial truth of the New Testament writings by those variations which are so con vincing to judges and lawyers skilled in detect ing perjury, and who always suspect a too close conformity in. the words used by a number of witnesses. The most recently discovered papyri say Judas "bare off" the money bag. The "beam" referred to by Jesus was a "splinter." Paul said: "I have loyally guarded the trust," instead, of "I have kept the faith;" and one's calling and election are made "legally secure" instead of "sure" all variations of the most convincing character to judges of evidence. The marks of the first century of the time of Christ's life itself are at last established in the New Testament as we know it, and add tremendously to its authority as an irrefutable evidence of Christianity. At the same time it disposes of suspicion and charges of interpella tions in the text during later centuries, at least so far as essentials are concerned. The Chicago Convention. The republican nominee for president is not going to be chosen as the result of "hurrah, boys, hurrah" methods. ' Not this year. Regional enthusiasms, band wagon plays, and stampeding tactics are not going to count for muclu There's a reason.. Twice in succession the national presidential elections have gone against the republican party. A third defeat would be disastrous beyond measure. Caution, deliberation, and safety first, are imperative. A cool, unimpassioned and exhaustive in vestigation of the comparative merits of the strong and worthy men in the field by the dele gates and leaders who will assemble at Chicago is a logical necessity which is impressing itself more and more powerfully on the party every where. The republican party has no solid south to hold H together , by a great sectional division of sentiment through twenty years of successive national defeats. The supreme im portance of the coming convention is startlingly evident. , . m . Already the distribution of strength between the candidates in the great string of republican states extending from New England to the Pa cific coast insures the convention against hurry up methods which might make impossible the choice of the best and strongest man. Unwise speed will be checked. There will be such a threshing out of the achievements, records and political assets of the candidates as never oc curred, perhaps, since Abraham Lincoln was nominated in 1860. The auguries for unselfish and patriotic action by the convention are fair indeed. The issues demand it. The stake is prodigious no less than the prosperity, the independence, and the constitutional integrity of the nation. The republican party has met equally grave issues before, and won. It will win this time, because the most enlightened patriotism of the country is rallying to its support. Age of the Auto, the Truck and the Tractor. Ceremonies which closed the most successful of all Omaha's automobile exhibitions, ended at the Auditorium last night, were such as merely transfer the activity to the various local plants, where the industry hums all the year arourid. Crowds that jammed the big building day and night were not made up of curiosity seekers en tirely, for the dealers report the biggest sales in their experience. Cars on' show were in spected carefully, improvements appraised and bargains struck promptly. It'wa"s not among the passenger cars alone that time was spent or business done, however, for trucks and trac tors came in for examination as they never did before. The "horseless" age is advancing fast, and men who have to do with hauling or drag ging, whether it be merchandise, material or farming operations, are beginning to realize the advantage of the machine over the animal. It is interesting to note right here that Ne braska has, according to the government report, 3 per cent fewer horses and 3 per cent fewer mules than a year ago. The self-propelled vehicle is conquering the state. - Former War Lord a Dutch Asset A mercenary purpose ( to exploit William Hohenzollern as a lure for tourists, is attributed to the thrifty Dutch as a potent reason for their refusal to surrender him to the Allies. No revelation is made of the particular method by which Holland may exhibit her "greatest show on earth." During the war Americans would have enjoyed, seeing him with the edge of a hatchet sunk four inches in his skull. Later, this desire was modified to the extent of com i promising on his display n an iron cage, manacled hand and foot At the present time the sight of his repellant face, seamed with the deep creases of his evil deeds, would suffice. Incidentally, word comes that the fallen em peror Ssfwearing patches pn the seat of his trousers. Here is an opportunity for American enterprise. Our overall manufacturers will grasp at It at once, and on second thought drop it; for as yet there is no disposition in this country to contribute to the physical comfort of the great offender. . . ., Preparedness Against War The Church: Yesterday-Today When the Father established upon the soil of America a govern ment in which democracy was to be tested as It had not been since the days of Pericles. When they estab-1 iianea tne government of the United States, they had In mind the Idea of keeping aloof from European and Asiatlo politics. They were opposed to the system known as militarism which had long been fostered in the old world by designing rulers and ambitious military leaders. . As a result of the early sentiment of the American political leaders the republic maintained a comparatively small' army and navy In the period immediately preceding the war of 1812. Our total unpreparedness in that war convinced a large number of leaders that we should Increase our strength both on land and sea. However, every succeeding war found us unprepared. The Mexican war, the civil war and the Spanish war followed In due time, one after the other, but still we slumbered. In 1861 the federal government could nave preveniea me secession or a numoor or states or could have im mediately taken adequate steps to restore order had it had at its serv ice a reasonably strong armv fullv trained and. Inspired with a zeal for tne well-being or the nation. In the period Just preceding the Spanish-American war. Theodore Roosevelt then assistant secretary or me navy.mane an eloquent and forceful plea for an adequate Dre- paredness, and not only did he do this but ha- practiced what he preached by Immediately taking steps io put ine navy m shape so that It could in case of war with Spain successfully cope with the Spanish vessels. To Colonel Roose velt, next to Admiral Dewey, him self, the sweeping victory of the American fleet at Manila harbor was due. In the summer of 1914 the great European war broke out. We were told at first that it was none of our concern and for a while we hoped to keep out or it. However, we were gradually drawn into the struggle, The violation of Belgian neutrality, the sinking of the Lusitania, the shooting of an English nurse, the actual murder of innocent women and children on land and sea, shocked the conscience of the world Many believed that we should in 1914 have instantly demanded of Germany that she respect the neu trality of Belgium. We were totally unprepared, militarily speaking. Then, too, our navy which in Mr. Roosevelt's administration, was sec ond -only to that of Great Britain, had fallen to third place. Slowly, while the British, French, Belgian and Italian armies were batt'ing valiantly against heavy odds, we pre pared our "lazy but fortunately tre mendous strength" and in the last few months of the war, as Colonel Rocsevelt once said, "played an overwhelming part." We are now face to face with pre cisely the same problem with which for years prior to the great war we had been confronted, the problem of preparedness. The pacifist has loud ly declared that preparedness breeds war and that brotherly love alone can preserve world peace. Prepared ness not militarism but reason able preparedness, is the' only thing that can prevent us or can at least give promise of preventing us, rrom being dragged into another great war whether the latter be within 10 years or fully 50 years from now. Let us foster wherever possible the spirit of brotherhood, but let us be sure to face conditions. Now. as a matter of fact, the pacifist by his very weakness invites war; invites aggression, tie views conditions not as they actually are, but as they ought to be. The advocates of preparedness are In the vast majority of cases the most sincere friends of a righteous peace. They do not believe tn pre paredness for aggressive, purposes. Nothing is so utterly absurd and so utterly at variance with the facts as the argument of the pacifists that the friends of preparedness wish to see us prepare so that we can attack some other nation. The advocates of preparedness love a righteous peace; they love It so strongly that instead of hiding from a wrongful attack upon it as would the foolish ostrich whom the pacifist would Imi tate, they would Instantly fight for it It Is today our sacred duty to so prepare ourselves by means of a sys tem of military' service similar to that of Switzerland or of Australia; to so prepare ourselves that out young men can at least be furnished with a rudimentary understanding of the principles at military science. We should so arrange matters that "never again will it be necessary to draft men in June and kill them in I September." A very considerable number of our young men are in their graves today in their graves today in far-off France because with only a few weeks' training they were unable to use the bayonet at close quarters or otherwise defend themselves with reasonable skill. These things must never happen again. Our navy, too, must be kept in the highest state of efficiency as has already been pointed out by General Pershing. Admiral Mayo. Admiral Sims, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and many others. Ours is a solemn obligation. We owe it to our children and our children's children to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy of war; or at least of the tragedy of criminal unpreparedness which we would all be guilty of if we fail to profit by the mistakes Of the past Let us hope that we will never repeat the folly of Pwar days. The probabilities are that we have now learned our lesson. HARVEY J. CLARK. r67 South Twenty-sixth Avenue, Omaha. IN THE WORL DOF INDUSTRY In the southeastern corner of British Columbia there are more than 1,000.000 a.cres of proven coal lands, carrying thousands of millions of tons, in which the Pefcentaif high grade coal is remarkably hih. Five new sugar mills, with a total capacltv of 5,000 tons of. cane dai y, are to be erected in Negros Philip pine Islands. Ten mills with a ca pacity of 3,000 tons of cane daily are already in operation in Negros. The project of harnassing the Rhone river from the Swiss frontier to the sea. and developing it for navigation and irrigatlon.purposes. a matter which has been under con sideration for more than a century. Is again receiving the attention of the French government. French men of science are using sorghum for producing coloring ma terial The husks of sweet sorghum and those of sorghum with black eeds, hitherto of no use at all, yield a gum with very fine shades of color that range from pink to bright red. salmon. scarlt pearl gray, dark gray, dark brown and khaki. When one thinks of diamonds, It Is generally as gems, pure and sim ple, sparkling brilliants set in beau tiful settings. One is apt to forget their value in industry. It is not gen erally known that boring for oil would In many cases be out of the question but for the help of the dia monds which are set in the rim f the steel drill and enable it to cut through the hardest rock. Electric lamps depend for a. part , of their manufacture upon the diamond, and diamond dust is used for cutting and turning the tremendously hard steel terhlnri let lifter! In thA tttunufaittiiM of modern armament - J Who among us having passed be yond middle life cannot mark the revolutionary changes wrought In the Protestant churches over the land during the pasti 40 years, and that those 25 years of age and under know practically nothing about the church of a third of a century ago? What was the church to practically 'all the people 40 years and more ago? Everything, their all in all. It was" the social as well as the relig ious center of the various communi ties. There the pious went In mass to worship and where the worldly went for pastime, to scoff and often to remain to worship. There nearly always the young people went There the young men started the wooing of their future wives, and when mar ried their children followed them. What are these great changes wrought in the churches? Example: The little church 40 years ago at Bellevue, a counterpart of the churches all over the land. Gener ally that church was filled morning and evening. Sundays, with the old and young. It had a preacher filled with the Holy Ghost. He would preach for an hour to an hour and a half. His gospel while one of fear as well as of love, since invariably he would in word pictures portray a literal burning heU fire in all its lurid colorings, got results. He was a man after the Paul and Peter type. The congregation did most of the Ringing, there being no cultivated voices, but what they lacked in tech nique they made up in volume. That church had a mourner's bench at which the penitents would kneel night after night while the brothers and sisters would kneel about them, encouraging them with song and prayer. Often some of them would become so happy that they would shout up and down the aisles, em bracing both paints and sinners. The church had its midweek praver and classineeting, where prac tically all members attended, prayed and gave testimony,- while from all parts of the house could be heard aniens and hallelujahs. Almost ev erybody had prayer and family wor ship. Thus the church reached down into the home, the schools and the social life of the nation, and was the bulwark of-all society. TWere 'was practically no desecration of the Sab hath. ',' The church today? Example: A little church well west of Farnam street, and a counterpart of the churches all over the land. That church has a splendid Christian min ister. He preaches a short half hour or less on practical subjects, in a calm voice. There are no loud, vehe ment outbursts in his sermons, and while teaching a place of bliss and of suffering, does not word-picture a literal hell-fire. There are no amens and hallelujahs from that church; there is no shouting and no mourner's bench. The preacher does the praying as well as the preaching. A choir composed of cultivated Quick Action Corn Cure "Gets-It" Stops Pain Instantly and Corn Soon Lift Right Off. A few dropa of 'GeU-It" buenche corn pains like water quenches fire. Gives you immediate relief. "Get-It" fT reels it utr The corn begins to lose its grip at once. In a day or two it is so loose that you can lift it off, roots and all, 'twixt thumb and finger. That's the last of it, aa millions have found out It is the simple, effective and common sense way to be rid of corns. I "Gets-It," the never-failing, guar anteed, money-back corn remover, costs but a trifle at any drug store. Mf'd by E. Lawrence A Co., Chicago. 1 TO DA VI The Day We Celebrate. Dr. J. C. Hammond, physician, born 1861. George K. Howell, lawyer, born 1881. Everett S. Dodds, architect, born 1886. 1 Henry Meyers Hyndman. chair man of the national socialist party of Great Britain, born in London 78 years ago. Champ Clark. Missouri representa tive in congress and former speaker of the house, born in Anderson county, Kentucky; 70 years ago. Hon. A. O. Mackay. former liberal leader in Ontario, now a member of the Alberta cabinet, born at Syden ham, Ont, 60 years ago. Luther Burbank, famous naturalist known as "the plant wizard," born at Lancaster, Mass., 71 years ago. Dr. Ira H. Hollls, president of Worcester Polytechnic institute, born at Moorestown,; Ind., 64 years ago. Thirty Years Ago In Omaha. Mr. H. W. S. Cleveland, landscape gardener, was employed by the park commission to replat Hanscom park and draw plans for the new Leaven worth and Belt Line parks. ' General Brooks returned from Washington. The linemen employed by the Electric Light company, the Western Union Telegraph company and the Union Pacific railway were out on strike A Mother Goose carnival was given at Washington hall for the benefit of the Woman's Exchange: voices does most of the singing. The congregation sits' immobile through the services without any demonstra tions to exhibit their feelings. That church has no midweek prayer or class meetings, and family worship is largely a thing of the past. There are a few, a very few young people in the congregation, but where are the masses? Almost everybody desecrates the Sabbath. But thanks to a blessed Provi dence which has declared that the gates of hell shall not prevail against His church, there are evi dences everywhere today that at last the church is drifting back to its old moorings. GEORGE B. CHILDS. HER LAMENT. I NaT Did Get to Oo to Omaha, t ve allaye wanted to travel ever since Jennie lrkln an' me was little flrla In school at Sycamore Corners. We uaed to go at nljrnt to see the Flyer Plash across her father's farm. We'd see long rows of llghtsd ears Olenmin'-against the duak An' people Inside havln' such a lovely time Readln'. wrltln' letters, aa' talkln'; taughln an" eatin'; All drevsed up with nothln' to do But travel to the West: an' we said Whsn we grew up, we'd go West on the Flyer Well, Jennie got grown in' htd a beau, lie had a ranch left him out near Omaha, An' ah said when they was married. They'd pay my way out there to vtalt them. How I would have loved t- go to Omaha! A -rutin' out thre on the PWea F.;.tln' on the dlnr All the Way, an' lookln' out the winders At coyotes an' wild Injuns. An' great flat pralrlf an' whoopln' cow boys. But It all fell through. Jennie's mother said aba'd sooner s her gtrl A lyln in her coffin than marYltro To any man alive.. She M she'd cut her throat If Jrnnie left her, So .Teunle la an old woman now In the'Old Ladles' Home, An' I never did git te go to Omaha 1 ALICE MART KIMBALL In the New Tork Tribune. , IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "Our profeasnr gave a lecture on 'Meta phvulrs In Lampson" yesterday." "Was there a mined audli'ncet" "Mlxflri? I Khould say there was. No one iindoretood word he aald." Tale Record. Sympathetic Parson And how II your pcor husband. Mrs. Jones t Mra. Jor.es He suffers something awful with his foot, sir, and I know what ifa like becaunej ve had It in ny eye. L.011- uun jDiiai'iv. "Pld your wife vote?" Ves." "(let along all right T" "Yea. but It took her a long while t Ret her ballots folded like a lapr nap kin." Detroit Free Prs. Klrnr fiojer Hay. Bill, lemnie have five, will yerT Jack Just borrowed five off m. Second 8o.1er Can't do It, buddy. 1 Just borrowed five off Jack a minute ago. The Home Sector. "If yon notice, the poets Invariable refer to the earth aa 'she.' 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