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GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES.
Pursuant to its somewhat militant advocacy
of the League of Nations, the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger has organized a "forum," wherein
will be given "talks" on the general subject, pre
sumably to develop a stronger sentiment in favor
of universal peaca and tranquility. The first
of these was given by Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss,
who discussed the problem of world peace from
the vantage ground of the experience he had
in Europe and especially ' at the Paris confer
ence. Hi address simmers down to the state
ments that peace will not be secure until dis
armament is' general; "disarmament will not be
general until nations trust one another; nations
will not trust one another until no nation can
threaten another. Even with the United States
in the Leaguebf Nations, this will not be
changed. Disarmament can not be achieved at
once, and the only hope that General Bliss could
offer, finally, that all nations can be brought
to realize the need of laying by the sword and
appoint a time for the adoption of such a pro
gram. ' s
He sees, however, in the bolshevik! a menace
to peace, that will be removed only when Russia
is tranquilized and stabilized. A danger to the
world exists in uncivilized nations trained to
arms, but this may bp minimized by careful hand
ling of communications with stfeh. So in the
limitation of armament is to be found the only
. approach to the ultimate extinction of armies and
navies, the substitution of right for might, and
the dawn of the new era.
The advocates of this theory are traveling in
circles. The Bee long ago subscribed to the
doctrine that peace is desirable, that war is
abhorrent, and that anything short of dishonor
is preferable. But it did not and does not sub
scribe to the theory that nations can be brought
into relations that do' not subsist between indi
viduals. It is possible, however, that adjust
ments such as sustain harmonious relations be
tween man and man can be set up between na
tions, but this will only come when the group is
willing to accept a basis that is acknowledged
by the individual. A radical change in human
nature is involved in this, but when the Golden
Rule is accepted in its entirety, in spirit as well
as in letter, we may see the day foretold by
Micah, when "they shall beat their swords into
plough-shares, and their spears into pruning
hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
The conferences now in progress at Marion
ire far more promising than the forum at Phil
adelphia; for the visitors at the Ohio center are
stiy seeking a way out, while the debate
at the City of Brotherly Love are following one
another in, advocacy of a plan they agree lacks
Aioth authority and workability.
. , WiAoman'slrlelp. '
. : Omaha congratulates itself that its business
and professional .women arc lining up for tfio
Onward movement that was given such impetus
at the Chamber of Commerce banquet recently 1
There is a field for woman's effort as well a?
for men's in furthering the progress of our city,
and perhaps out of the very fact that the Busi
ness and Professional Woman's league, remain
separate from the purely masculine Chamber oJ
Commerce will come suggestions and plans that
otherwise would not have been devised.
,' . If women did not look at things from a some
what different ancrle than does the other sex they
would not be half so charming or interesting or
contribute so much that is valuable toward
human enterprise and welfare. There are, it if
fclain, many important matters that are not
touched on in the program,for "Onward Omaha"
A9 adopted by the Chamber. Some of these are
questions that women are practically qualifier
to handle in a specific manner. It is not merely
by acquiescing in the slogans of the men that
the women will be most useful, but by contribut
ing some ideas of their own.
The youth of the song who climbed ever on
ward up the peak bearing a banner with the
strange device, "Upicfee, Upida." quite evidentlj
did not originate his slogan; but was endeavoring
to render that of some one else into his owe
words.
President Ebert'a Sad Plight.
An excellent illustration of the quantitative
theory of money comes from Berlin, the story
being that President Ebert of the German re
public complains that he can not live on his
annual pay of 100,000 marks. When expressed
that way, ft is warrant for visions .of sybaritic
luxury. One hundred thousand anything sounds
'big. Bring it down to terms cf honest-to-good-ness
money and there is not so much to it. The
number of marks allotted to the president of
the German republic as his annual stipend
figures out $1,400 in American currency, and that
will not support Herr Ebert in the style he was
accustomed tr as a harnessmakcr before he was
elevated to his present prominence. In fact, youj
couldn't go out a few weeks ago and employ a
self-respecting American hod carrier at the
figure. We realize fully that anything we may
say on the subject will have little or no weight
fa the Reichstag, but we can not refrain from
a word in behalf of the president. He may not
be much of an executive, but he surely ought to
be worth enough to live on decently. Especially
when we are told of the hundreds of nvlHons of
Marks that have been going to Amerongen, do we
think, that a president at home should have from
his people as much consideration as an emperor
abroad. But it is not on record that the Hohcn
zollern ever approached the parliament to ask
for an increase in pay. He imitated Homer, and
took what he thought he might require.
No Need of Blue Laws.
There are many people in this land who do
not buy anything on Sunday, will not travel on
that day, and would never think of attending a
place of amusement or a ball game on the Sab
bath. It is inconceivable that anyone should
attempt to force them to change their manner
of observance, for such questions of conduct are
pretty widely recognized as being individual
matters. Inasmuch as it takes all sorts of people
to make a world, there are also many persons
with whom Sunday is a day of physical rather
than spiritual recreation. They also are gener
ally conceded the right to conduct themselves
as they see fit.
How does it come, then, that there are per
sons considerably agitated with fear that the
individual right to decide his own life on one
day of the week be limited by new blue laws?
Here is a parade in New York City with floats
depicting men arrested for whistling on Sunday,
smoking, riding on a train, one for kissing his
wife on the Lord's day, and a cage containing
two boys who were being punished for fishing,
There is enough exaggeration in' this to make
it amusing, and too much to 'terrify lovers of
personal liberty. Insofar as there is a move
ment for restricting Sunday recreation, it can
not be countered in such way, and much better
had be left to the free play of public opinion.
It is, after all, only a question of whether
enough people want a continental Sunday to
make it pay. There would be no Sunday paid
diversions if no one would pay. If those who
do want a day of peace will stay off the trains,
out of the stores, and away from amusements,
Sunday will be quiet enough for them, and the
rest of the people will be free to satisfy their
own needs. However, if the suspicion arises that
the greatest reason for an operSunday is com
mercialism, and that the people who are defend
ing it are doing so from a desire for profits,
then, and only then can there be any imminent
possibility of the ' enactment of blue laws. On
thevplea of the need of recreation there is every
reason to recognize the right of each citizen to
go where he will and do what he will so long as
no public harm is done, but on the plea, secret
or open, of profits, there is nothing to be said.
Harvard's Substantial Endowment.
Among the Pilgrim Fathers were many edu
cated men, graduates or students from Cam
bridge university; some who had attended at
Geneva, at Leyden, and other seats and ceflters
of learning, and all imbued with a desire to per
petuate in the new world the solid cultural
knowledge , they had brought with them. To
achieve this, and to make sure that the children
of the polony would lack-nothing in the way of
opportunity for obtaining instruction in the high
er learning, they went about to establish a school
for the purpose. The general court of Massa
chusetts in 1636 set aside 400 pounds as a fund
for the establishment of the school, i While the
work of organization was yet under way, in
1638, Rev. John Harvard died and bequeathed to
the new school his library of 250 books, and so
his name was attached to the oldest and in some
regards the greatest of American educational in
stitutions. v
This simple fact may in some way explain
the success of the great campaign for endow
ment which came to an end Saturday night. Up
to the middle of the week 89 per cent of the
objective' had been obtained; the mark set was
$15,250,000; the amount subscribed and tabulated
at the time of reporting being $13,500,000, coming
from an enrolled class body of 14,731, or 69.4
per cent of the known living graduates.
While the figures are impressive because of
the sunt they represent and the potency of that
mucn money properly administered, tne result
is significant of something far better. It indi
cates that successful graduates realize in some
measure the debt they owe the institution. This
is too often forgotten; the business of life presses
too closely on the college man after he has
gotten away from the campus, and even the
intimacy of the "frat" and other associations of
college life wear away under the attrition of time
and distance. Harvard men show they do re
member, and have set a splendid example for
those who have come from other schools.
The young man should, and most of them do,
take away from college or university something
not derived from class room or text book, but
an intangible, made up from all the experiences
of his school days, the aura of the institution,
which benefits fiim in his whole subsequent
career. It can not be measured in money, but
some recognition of it may be shown in an effort
to make possible a similar boon for others. The
Harvard endowment fund is a monument to
Harvard spirit and while Other great schools
have been active and generally successful in
increasing their permanent capital during the last
few years, it is espec'ally gratifying that this
pioneer of new world universities should be
given assurance that its activities are not to be
lessened, nor its influence circumscribed for lack
of mere money.
A Line 0' Type or Two
Hw te the Line, bt the quip fall where thay may.
CLASSICAL WHO'S WHO.
Reglna erat lnfellx
(Some years ago ahe crossed the Styx)
Amavlt, heu, Aenean. Ilia,
And took him to her royal villa.
Non tamen poterat manero, -Because
the gods were so contrary;
Evaslt ergo llle stat'm.
And when the o,ueen could not get at 'lm,
Conscripslt 111a mortem stbl ahl
And so died Dido queen of Libya.
FERUS.
WITH employment conditions as they are, J
How to Keep Well
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By DR. W A. EAftS
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Evans will not make diagnosis or prescribe for individual dlaeases. Address
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Copyright, 1820. by, Or. W. A. Evans.
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK.
Recently Dr. S. VoronoCf or the
College of Franco visited several
cities In thia country speaking- on
means of restoring vital energy and
prolonging life. The subject excited
a good deal of Interest because al
most evury person over 60 years of
this would seem to be a good time to complete aee and many who nro younger are
.the Dixie and Lincoln hiehwavs. lanitors mieht I caRer lo know how to restore vital
find road building a relaxing change from so
skilled an occupation as shoveling coal and
ashes.
A DISTRESSING feature of, the employment
.situation is the over-supply of cooks and laun
dresses. One hopes that none of these deserving
creatures will starve to death. 4
A NATURAL CONFUSION.
Sir: The elevator was going up. A man called,
"Sixteen." Another followed-with, "Thirteen."
The next called, "Twelve." I cried "Ten." When
fcnrffv nnrt nmlnnir Ufa
Dr. VoronWf's views have been put
ruo a dook entitled "Lire" and
nave gono through this carefully
ooKing ior something that the pub
lic generally would be Interested In
Voronoff Quotes Metsfahnlkoff a snv.
lng low forms of animals, certain of
me single cell varieties, have eternal
life or at least live until they are
killed oft by other living beings.
The lower an animal in the scale
or me tne longer it lives relatively,
we reached the eighth floor the man next to me j Flurous and liuffon said that an ani-
Dry Land Philosophy.
With the ruins of Cork before them, the Irish
compare their situation with that of Belgium
during the German invasion. To the general
impression that many Irish patriots did not
understand the pitiable situation of the Belgians,
it may be added that the Belgisns seem equally
incapable of active sympa'.l-y in their turn, just
as Americans appear for the most part rather
cool toward comparisons of the Irish revolution
with our own, and the burning of Cork's city
hall to the burning of our capitol. 1
The world, after all, is much like the phil
osophic stevedore who sat on the dock smoking
as a young man who had fallen over the edge
screamed, "Help, help, I can't swim."
"Wot of it?" asked the stevedore mildly, "I
can't neither, but I ain't yelling my head oft
about it."
There is no pleasure without pain, as the
Creighton college youth might have said when
he dislocated his knee cap while showing a girl
the latest dance steps.
Decreasing the farmers buying power by
$5,000,000,000 and cutting everybody else's
wages is a poor way to provide a market for
anything.
The man who paid $9,600 for a miniature por
trait of George Washington overlooked the op
portunity offered at any postoffice. for 2 cents.
demanded, "Nine." Then the woman in the car
asked the operator: "Are we going up or
down." BOB.
"SENATOR FALL said he thought the mind
of Mr. Harding was swinging in this direction.
Due, perhaps, to the Jupiter-like pull of that
"master mind," Colonel Harvey.
ANOTHER reader who exhibits more or less
familiarity with our literary tastes guesses that
we are collecting first editions of Harold Bell
Wright. But this writer is too prolific; we
should be ruined collecting him. Our author
has written only eight or nine books.
TO ROBIN, EXILE FROM ARCADY.
Robin, It's more than a year ago
Since first you mounted the marble stair
To the rhetoric teas, and found, we know,
Goodly assemblage of wise and fair.
What if we uttered, gathered there,
Critical dicta more warm than true,
Damned or applauded without a care
We didn't tell; no more did you.
Oh, Riq may sit in your favorite chair,
A Use your 6kees and your tea-cup too;
I But though he be famous and debonair,
We'll trade Rlquarlus back for you!
E. H. B.
LIKE others who have traversed delectable
landscapes and recorded their impressions, in
memory or n notebooks, we have tried to com
municate to other minds "the incommunicable
thrill of things": a pleasant if unsuccessful en
deavor. When you are new at it, you ascribe
your failure to want of skill, but you come to
realize that skill will not help you very much.
Vou will do well if you hold the reader's inter
est in your narrative: you will not, except by
accident, make him see the thing you have seen,
or experience the emotion you experienced.
SO vivid a word painter as H. M. Tomlinson
acknowledges that the chance rewards which
make travel worth while are seldom matters that
a reader; would care to hear about, for they have
no substance. "They are no matter. They are
untranslatable from the time and place. Such
fair things cannot i be taken from the magic
moment. They are not provender for note
books." t T
HE quotes what the Indian said to the mis
sionary who had been talking to him cf heaven.
"Is it like the land of the nusk-ox in summer,
when the mist is on the lake's and the loon cries
very often?" These lakes are not charted, and
the Indian heard the loons call in his memory;
but we could not better describe the delectable
lands through which we have roamed. "When
the mist is on the lakes and the loon cries very
often." What traveler can better that?
HE OUGHT TO BE DEPORTED.
'Sir: Gum Boot Charlie, an Alaska native.
was discussing the present h. c. 1. with a group
of citizens of Takutat. and while condemning
the present administration and conditions gen-J
erauy, na was mien uiueu uy h oweue wnu Bala,
"You dam native. If you don't like this country.
why don't you go back where you came from?"
W. W. K.
A FRIEND of ours wonders what the people
and press of the United States would sav if a
commission were sitting in London to hear testi
mony on the treatment of the negroes of Ala
bama or Illinois. Iherc is no harm m wondering-
AS he was an Englishman. Matthew Arnold
was possibly prejudiced, when he wrote of Eng
land i
"Yes, we arraign her! but she,
The weary Titan, with deaf - -Ears
and labour-dimm'd eyes, sSv?.
Regarding neither to right ;-jft
Nor left, goes passively by, - ---'
Staggering on to her goal;
Bearing on her shoulders immense,
Atlantean, the load,
We!l-n;gh not to be borne,
Of the too vast orb of her fate."
YOU'D HARDLY RECOGNIZE THE PLACE.
From the Bloomlngton Pantagraph.l
F. D. Wickery is having his house re
modeled by having a new chimney put on
it.
IF the league is dead, the nations that are
joining it every day or so must be going "just
for the ride."
A BOY in Wisconsin picked a bouauet of
arbutus yesterday, and , the bottom fell out of
the Pittsburgh coal market. Looks like an early
spring. B. L. T.
if ul should l:ve to an ago six or seven
times the number of years required
for that animal'!) bones to complete
their growth The highest forms of
life do not attain this longevity; the
lower forms live beyond it. Voronoff
ngures mat on this buBia man should
bo able to reach 140 years.
In the tissues of man there are
highly developed cells which do the
special work of the different organs
and lowly developed Interstitial cells
which remain oft the primitive level
In old-age these low cells overgrow
ana kui out tno higher cells. The
process of senility is one of return of
tne ocay to a low levei, a plane on
wmcn me mjgni oe greatly pro
longed, a condition not possible
witn the rapid burning pace of
younger years.
ino thyroid eland Is ft rlutlfs
gland with many functions, one of
wmcn is to restrain the develoment
iu me connective tissue which over
grows and kills out other cells. When
the thyroid ages these cells overde
velop and presently age other or
gans. Since all the ductless glands
are hooked ud In one rnmhlnattnn
it would be well to have a word or
two as to each.
The parathyroids regulate the ac
tivity of nerve cells. The supra
renal glands maintain the tone of
the blood vessels and the distribu
tion ot the blood throughout the
system and do other things as well.
The pituitary gland Is divided into
two parts. The secretion of the
front part determines whether the
body will grow short and umnil n
the one hand or into a state of giant
ism on me otner. Tho secretion of
the back part stimulates th nmrinr.
tion of milk and of urine and gov
erns the muscles of the organs.
When the pineal glarfd of a youth
Is diseased rhe changes of puberty
and adolescence do not work out in
the usual way. The gonads or sex
glands in addition to propagating
the species produce an Internal
secretion; absorbed iirec!y into the
blood which profoundly affects not
only tho other ductless glands, but all
other tissues of the body.
When through senility the brain
has lost somo of Its power, the spirit
some of its vigor, and the skin and
other tissues have undergone changes
which every one recognizes, it is still
possible to do a great deal of re
juvenating by introducing some of
the ductless Kland secretions of the
gonads into the blood stream. This
Brown-Sequard proved about SO
years ago. H, injected what came
to bo known as goat lymph, hypo
dermically. Voronoff has gone one step further
and . planted the sex organs under
the skin in the tissues Dr. G. F.
Lydston did this before Voronoff
did and has reported good results
lasting for a period of years. The
scientific repoits made on the tlasues
of the transplanted organs by Dr.
E. Retterer confirm the scientific
reports on similar organs made by
Dr. Lydston.
Dr. Voronoff only used the organs
of closely related animals. However,
by grafting suitable glnnds on goats
and sheep he succeeded In bringing
about a remarkable degree of re
juvenation and this was continuing
when the book was written. He
has had no experience in grafting
gonads in human beings. This
Lydston, Stanley, and others in this
country have done wlh an encour
aging degree of success, re) least for
a term of years.
.
Probably Is Crc-aMo.
Mrs. A. L. writes: "I should like
to know whether mV 9-months-old
baby can be cured. Two weeks attr
birth I noticed a little red spot In
ba"k of its ear, wh'ch Is now a big
red swollen piece of Van, extending
down over her eye. It looks as
though somo blood hal gathered to
rether and stays in that one Dlace.
Tf that cannot b cored. n I was
told, my poor child will be dii1gurei
for life, so I beg you to tell me, tf
you can. what I can do to try and
cure her."
REPLY.
I ude yo"r ch'ld has a b'rb
msrk. Some birthmarks ae curable
with x-rnvs-or radium, others w'h
the electric needle, ethers by operation.
Neu'-ltl? Ad Rhnma'"!.
M. A. M. writes: "li Will you
nlease tell me the dl"erence. If any.
between ne"rit'a and rhumatism
"2. Are both caused by uric acid
in th blood?
"S. If tea; coffee, st'mu'ans. and
tfhxeco are r-HmlraW from th d'et.
will lith'a tablets help or cure rheu
matism?" r
T REPLY.
1. Neurit's meant Inflammation of
a nenre. Rheumatism is a ratnr
loosely used term whirh general'y
means Inflammation or a joint or
muscle.
2. Neither is caused by uric acid
In th blood.
3. There ftre certan painful condi
tions onW'ies cp'led chronic "rheu
iraf'8m which are' bennflted bv stoo
ping the use of tea and coffee. There
are other painful conditions which
are due to tobacco poloning. It Is
doubtful, if lithla tabii-.ts cure anv
thfne whntever. Lttliin ran do "oth
Ini? that plenty of Plain wp.ter taVen
irt"-"allv will not accomplish as
satisfactorily.
Diet for--Mont!-OW rMM
Mrs. E. V. N. writes: "1. What
shou'd a hiby girl 9 months old
weitrh? She. weighed 8, pounds at
birth. '
2 What should she have In ad
dition to mother's milk?"
REPLY.
1. About IS :-2 ponndP.
2. A child 9 months old can have
hard bread crust and crackers, thin
cereals, fruit Juices. thn veprc'able
soups, and cow's milk diluted with
ac-third water.
From A Real Furiiror.
Central City, Neb., Dec lT.To
the Editor of The Pee: Being a
subscriber of your dully paper and
as I read It pretty close, both the
news and editorials, a fellow can't
help but see the the Letter box
and notice the ignorance of Borne
of the writers. While a few of them
sign their names a lot of them are
afraid possibly that If they put their
John Henry to their letters it goes
to show that either they are afraid
they will lose their Job or else they
are ashamed of the letter they have
written, knowing themselves that
they are trying to mislead the public
by misstating the real facts, as they
don't know what they are talking
about.
I took particular notice of the let
ters written by two of your corre
spondents, ,one by the name of Fitch.
This man f itch is to sore at nim
self that he did not vote the good
Baja Calif ornina
Worse Than Beer
From the New York Times.!
The way of the reformer is hard. Every vic
tory that he wins only opens up the prospect of
more battles to be fought. Human nature, or
From tho yew York Time.
Senator Ashurst of Arizona, who
In 1919 introduced a resolution pro
posing acquisition of Lower Cali
fornia by -purchase, described the
sun-baked peninsula, that reaches
down so far along the Mexican
coast that the tip of it Is in the
latitude of Zncateras, f,s "the Ach'l
les heel of the United States." ' To
most Americans tho mention of
Lower California suggests nothing
but Magdalena Pav at Cape San
Lazaro, because Japan has been
suspected of designs upon it and be
cause our own navy covets It for a
bese. In oil the world there is no
more desirable stretch of water for
a naval station and rendezvous. For
that reason, and becausa the Amer
icans in possession of Magdalena
Bay would deminate the Pacific
coast of Mexico and Central Amer-,
iea, the government of President ;
Obregon would be inclined to put an I
extinguisher upon the ARhurst pro-'
posal if it should bo brought up
To the Cal!?ornlans and their visi
tors Baja Caiifornfa suggests Ti
juana (Mexican spelling). Just over
me international line where "there
it'ii c no Ten commanaments, a
place more wicked than Suez in the
view of the San Dieeo pulnlt. Cer
tain it Is that any form of Iniquity
that enriches concession holders may
be found wido-open on the other
side of the brown trickle of water
that figures on the map as the In
terrational boundary. The auto
mobilist, untroubled with a thirst for
firewater and indifferent to the lure
of the race track and the gambling
nen, may take the onlv good road
much stronger array of Mexicans
was soon on his trail Walker had
attracted " moro daredevils to his
standard while he lay for several
weeks at La Paz an. I the expedi
tion lnglorioi'Sly ended in submis
sion to the United Sta'es command
er at San Diego. It was the first of
a series of surrenders ot this hardv
filibuster in Spanish -.American lands,
the last on the Rio Tinto, Honduras,
and to the ceptain ot the British
man-of-war Icarus. Reluctant he
must have been, if the Englishman
was red-blooded, to turn the wan
toa tempter of fate over to the Hon
duran authorities. The filibuster's
wings were scorched at last, but he
died manfully.
Nearly 70 years have passed sine?
Walker's fiasco In Baja California,
but the country remains agood deal
of a geographic mystery-" Adminis
trations in the City of Mexico have
paid littlo attention to it. But the
other day when Estaban Caiitu medi
tated insurgenry fur a space and
thought better of It, an anonymous
writer contributed an Informing
article to the Mexican Revlsta de
Revlstas. Ho estimated the popula
tion the territorial area is 1 50.109
square kilometers at 42,243. The
distinguished Mexican, Matias Rem-
ero. In his "geographical and statis
tical notes of Mexico," published In
New York In 1898, made the popu
lation of Baja California about 10,
000 greater, but it was terra in
cognlta to him. With nothing to
say about its tonography and people,
it Is singular that he should sopak
of the "Lower California Railway,"
projected from tmj town of Sin
Oulntin "to a point on the Mexican
Central" in Chihuahira. Such a
railway would have hod to round
the northern end of the Gulf of Cali
fornia and traverse the dreaded
Sonora desert, whose denizes Tare the
coyote and the rattlesnake a mad
"promotion."
Our anonymous writer makci the
Binned nf thA rirdlll(rft. or backbone
of the penlneola, which is cut by
vatt gorges, more precipitoos on tne
gulf side. Accoi-d'ng to "the em
inent historian" Manuel Orczco y
Berra, the Oult of California was
'ailed Mar Hojo. or- Mar Bermejo,
by the Jesuits, because its waters,
had a red color. Taken as a whole,
the long peninsula 1h oppressively
desolate, and Is at Its worst In the
.region of the volcano of Las Vir
Vencs and In the S!erra de los
Cncuoas. But here and thero In the
interior are small, fertile table
lands, lacking, however, the rich
tropical flora of som! parts of
Ponora and Slralf-a. The pop'-'a-tlon
of the northern capital. Fn
sensda, la riven as S.?00. and that
of the southern capital La P?. oc
cupying a bav on th gulf s'de. as
R.184. Rmkine th'rd is Mti!e.
elso on the gulf sldo, with 1.01.
The coasts, eonf ra"v low and marrhv
abound in al"gato", rentiles
and noxious Insects. To land for
water Is In most places fut'lo. Onlv
tn the Interior can vegetable mold
be found, and not meh cf It a
waterless and apra-ontlv a Godfor
saken lnd. It may be doubted
whether therf Is go) to be had in
omnt'ty nnjiv.here. The nrosooct of
silver isbetl!cr. Palms of the troics
are infreonent. Wherever moist land
occurs in thi interior. h"nouen and
hmn can be grown, a"d with ir-r'-aMon
ell tlw fru'ts and vegetables
of the tropics Amon? the fauna
nre deer and the tya, which seems
to be a desert sheen. Our author
wpxes enthusiastic ab'iot the pearl
fisheries of Tvx Paz ard Loreto ard
h is'andt r.f Coro-ados and S""
Mrcos. The gulf tems with
flsh and turtles. Lmscr California's
b"St harvest is in the fea, aUhourh
if irrigation on a lnrge scale were
contrived, and If water were nva,l
able in the gi'lhos, its agricultural
a"d mineral wealth world be con
siderable. The population will al
ways be sparse pnd tho sdventitrocs
will net tarry Ion?. When all if
sa'd. Lower California's prime pos
session Is Magdalena Bay.
old republican ticket that h even
tries to make tho poor, farmer be
lieve that the great majority In the
electoral col logo of 29 votes Is a
groat calamity. But Mr. Fitch, if
you will only wait a little while an1
not keep a knocking on the real
farmer, we will make you so happy,
under the next four, years of repub
lican rule that you will then say.
"I am Just heglning t( live."
The other correspondence that I
take exception to is ft um tJoim-,,-burg
by one who was afraid to imu
his John Henry to it but signs him
self by. that great American narn
with a capital Y. and K. Mr Yan
kee, we poor farmers are not Ksk
Ing anyone to give us a big fat
turkey nor to donate aryiMn.;
to us, bu-t what we do a :'k in
a square deal. We pay Just as high
prices for our products as the mer
chants, the iwme ones tor whom you
are trying to whoop It up, for we
admit we got good prices In the Isst
three years, and now. all we ask is c
fair deal of the cards and all curds
on tho tablo and no fudging. What,
makes you so wrought up, Mr. Van-'
kee? Did you loose your Job or
were your wages cut down, and nov.
trylng to blame thp farmer for It.
Now, we are not whining as much
as some of those tin-horn farmer.
We do not ubi; any favors or special
legislation, as some of us real farm
ers that are still on deck with tho
stranded ship, , have seen harder
times than even now. , who went
through the drouth-stricken years
of the 90s, through other wars, will
now in this one make good as we df.
when we were asked to produce and
keep on producing till we produced
so much that we can't even now give
it away, but tske our med'rine,
which we are doing good-nnturedly.
But you tin-horn faimers are the
ones that are . doing all the
whining, not the real dirt farmer.
All he is asking and all he ever
expects to gt if he can and which
he is naturally entitled to, is equal
rl?,'hts to all ; and spoc'al privileges
to none. .
( C. F. SEEFUB,
A Real American Farmer.
Enforcing Dry Laws.
Norway, Neb... Dec lG.i To the
Editor of The Bee: This regime of
prohibition It seems to me is be
coming more of a farce every day.
How the lawmakers of this
country can let it, continue on its
present basis is unbelievable..
There is more liquor in the Btate
of Nebraska today 'than whea we
entered prohibiten. How? I the
country is full of 1 moonshine 'dens
and stills. There are seven operat
ing right hem In this county to my
knowledge, und I'm not a' drinking
man at that. , Let us either have
liquor and have It manufacture)
legitimately, or let us have prohibi
tion in force. , i
Stronger laws I think would re
move to a la-"e eyto- th'
ace. Ten to 15 years in a federal
prison instead of a $0 fine would,
r th'nk, be the solution.
THOMAS COUNTY RANCHMAN.
others Wi'l fio TIkto to Weep.
Truly moral people will ehun the
Milwaukee Public Museum while two
bottles of boer are on dlsplav in its
cabinets. Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
THE UNREST.
From whitir" aroxn this unrrR'
Thin devoa-lnf di-adly -M
breeding divtrur Hon. want r1 crime.
On trery hand In every clime?
Th'a vnllurr who m nation TeiU
To natlnte the'r hi"'sh creed. j
Throiiffh wr ffave i f;- tn the urr(Vt.
War, bred and fouslit at their behrxt.
And now they count their filthy poll.
And view unmovrd the mnd tnrmnll
KiiKenderefl by the'r rrt ven bralna
Turmoil that ilko a Isabel relgr.a.
I They e, Immrn Trom lawn, daei-eea
Men nflmiiworU f renturleri
I.evHd and rrmnliled Into rlay
By their dupe tlnveii within a drr.
They nee lor.lt & a Croat of bread:
Thn unmarked frravea of myrlp.d dead ;
Anil othi-r millions madly ntrive
From cold and hunger to furvtve.
Behind the shield of atataithey esa
A world in Bernl-savagery;
Tho ml'llon cripple. ?aMed, Insane-
Wrecked victim of their greed for fain.
Will ever dawn the blessed day
When frc-men will arise and aay
To these l.cae thieves of liunnin richta
If war you'll have, wage your own f lirhte.
Qeo. B. Child.
malicious animal magnetism, or that old ser- -In tho peninsula for the northern
capital', Bnser.ada de Todos Santos,
where Governor Cantu flourished
pent, or whatever it is, always manages to en
trench itself a few miles furthpr hark anrl mm.
pel the armies of the light to prepare for a new for, 10tyea": Iord of a territory 800
offensive. We had sunnosed from the JnSila-I n 8 200 at its widest part. In
t.one at h of iU. vii(.,j -ii Lts r..anper of life It was ns remote
.L ui "i'-V0" .,7. '7" w rrom Insurgent. Mexico as Patagon'a.
the problems of humanity had been solved. Now , Baja California Is no longer to be
u seems nidi pracucany an oi tnem will De neglected by the federal govern,
solved if we only dye Sunday blue; but the sus- I ment. which understands its strate
picious citizen with a mempry will begin to f'c value and If-not blind to the un
wonder what is going to be done to him after oeveiopea worm or its natural re
that.
That Galahad-Gideon of our age, the Rev. Dr.
Wilbur F. Crafts, has now turned his attention
to the movies. All sorts of things are wrong
with the movies. They are open on Sunday.
They inform the pure youth that vampire women
exist in the world about him. They must be
controlled, and controlled by a federal censor
ship. It seems that Dr. Crafts lately -went to a
movie theater -not. of course, to see the show,
nor with any worldly purpose of getting pleasure
out of it. but purely to Investigate the problem
confronting the moral forces of the community.
And there he saw pictures of a vampire woman.
Take it from Dr. Crafts, she must have been
pretty bads Says the doctor:
I would rather have my son stand at a bar
and drink two glasses of beer than have him
see that vampire woman. He may get over
the effects of the beer in a week, but he could
not forget that vampire woman until he was
80 years old.
To the worldly this may seem 4ike pretty high
praise of the lady; for when your reformer says
that she is worse than two glasses of beer he
has said his utmost particularly if, as in this
case, the beer is potent enough to be remem
bered a week after taking. No wonder she will
be remembered by octogenarians; old age, in
that case, may lose much of its sting.
However, admiration for the lady should not
blind us to the moral problem. , Things are worse
than we had suspected. The" serpent has been
chased out of Eden, but all in vain so long as
Eve is still there. We can sec only one solution.
The nine Cornell seniors were on the right
track, but the" didn't go far enough. They
seemed to feel that woman might still be toler
ated, in her place. Dr. Crafts makes it clear
that she cannot. Let woman be abolished;
only then will the world be safe for the pure
voiinu rnan.-
sources. King Cantu's reign has
enoea.
One of the first Americans to take
tho view that the treaty makers of
1S48 had left Lower California out
of the reckoning, and to act upon
the view, was that lean and restless
dreamer, William Walker, who fili
bustered from the Joy of adventure
and peril and ended his days in front
of a Honduran firing squad. Born
in Nashville, rtudent of medicine in
Heidelberg, Journalist in New Or
leans and lawyer in Fan Francisco,
he began his checkered filibustering
career at Ln. Paz, in Lower Califor
nia, where he landed with 170 men
and three field guns in November,
1853. His final objective was to be
the state of Sonora. and the first
thing he did after disembarking his
army, as motley a force of adven
turers as ever Joined in a forlorn
hope, was to pr'c'a'm himself presi
dent of the Pacific republic, A
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