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THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1921.
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highways, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfares leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Beit to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
"THE SMALL ITEM MIND."
One of Omaha's good churchmen, Rt. Rev.
Bishop Stuntz, emitted a considerable chunk of
wisdom in addressing the assembled dominies
one day last week, when he said:
"There are men with 'small item' minds
and men with 'total' minds; men whose minds
just go round and round in eddies and men
whose minds progress like a stream. There
are too many of the 'eddy' minds minds that
don't take a broad view ol world affairs."
We have no inclination to undertake a classi
fication of these men; a roll call 'of them would
outstretch Homer's catalogue of the ships that'
bore the Greeks' to Illium. Presumably Bishop
Stuntz had in mind only those who have to do
with the activities of the church; at any rate ho
directly referred to certain theological teachers
who "went to heaven in a rut." They are not
confined to theological seminaries, unfortunately
Men in every walk and calling of life allow them
selves to get into ruts. Insensibly habit weaves
its tendrils about them, till finally they are
bound so firmly that it is impossible for them
to move outside the narrow groove to which
they have doomed themselves.
Such men do not appreciate the sweeping
vision of the leaders of today, whose thoughts
inscribe the great achievements possible for a
rejuvenated race, triumphs that will com:
through the renewed energy of man courage
ously taking hold of life and moving ahead un
daunted to his destiny. ' Little items and small
totals have nothing to do with the big things
that confront humanity. Whether the result
may be properly ascribed to the war or not
the truth remains that Americans made greater
progress socially in three years than in as many
decades.
For 80 years prohibition had been talked
aboit; it came almost over night. Suffrage dis
tinctions between the sexes were wiped out in
like manner. Had not the disturbance incident
..to the war loosened the bonds that held the
minds of men, it is probable the argument ovet
prohibition and woman suffrage might yet be
going on. As it -was the "little item minds" fell
for once at least under the control of the wide
gaugt intellects, and the change came. The
small total group is still casting up amounts
involved in segregated sums, but the leaders
are looking ahead to the time when othci
changes for man's good will be brought to pass.
A better alignment of social forces is sought
Amelioration of the hardships of life, admittedly
possible, is an objective. As much attention to
the protection of child life as is given to the
propagation of prize pigs or champion milk
producers, for example. It is recorded that
when a parliamentary commission was proposed
to investigate the evil of child labor in England,
such "noble minds" as John Bright and Cobdcn,
mill owners .who enjoyed handsome revenue
from their enterprises, opposed the move. Theii
minds were not only "noble," but "small item"
as well, and it took 80 years to convince the
British that 13 hours a day was too long to
require a child to work in a cotton mill, and
even a greater period was required to get any
thing like relief from child labor. In the United
. States we have the shorter work day well fixed
as a permanent institution, but we still struggle
futiley against child labor.
. Other illustrations might be presented of what
is involved in the vision hinted by Bishop Stuntz
in his impatient reference to those who retard
the forward movement ot all by meticulous de
votion to non-essentials or inconscquentials. It
is more comforting, however, to note ample proof
that the tide of progress is setting strong enough
to carry these custom-ridden individuals out of
their inertia and sweep them to a forward plane,
where they will probably wear for themselves
new ruts, only to be dislodged again when a
fresh upheaval breaks away the indurated crust
of established order and gives man a further
chance at something better.
. "Who Helps Himself."
! Isn't there room for just a little more self
ftelp in this land of ours? When prices are too
' high or too low, when credit is too. easy or
too tight, or when the sun rises too early in
summer and too late in winter, great hope is
put on legislation to correct the situation. It
frequently happens that the remedy, while cur
ing the immediate complaint, may give rise to
other evils which in turn have to be dealt with
by law, and so on, forever. Full of exaggcra
' tion though it was, the speech of Senator Thomas
in congress a few weeks ago, may serve a use
ful purpose. He said:
During the last twenty years the states and
the congress together have placed 79,000 laws
. upon their statute books all of them designed
' to produce a better social and political condi
tion by legislation.
The nation is not as happy now as it was
twenty-five years ago. We are more discon
tented, more dissatisfied with our condition
and that of the body politic, and therefore we
are clamouring for more statutes, like the
inebriate who, prior to the 16th day of last
January, was prone to, cure his malady by
prolonging his debauch.
The two extremes of governmental theory
are socialism and anarchy. The socialist would
nave the state regulate and conduct everything
the anarchist would have no state and let
each man make his own laws. Just now the
swing is toward socialism, which never will be
reached, any more than will anarchism. Some
where, in between, however, there is a point of
balance where individual rights and the rights of
society can be harmonized, and it is to this point
that people and statesmen should direct their
aim. '
Two Jobs, One Man.
Americans have an instinctive litaste for
one man holding two jobs; this rests on the well
accepted statement that no man can serve two
masters. Even when the jobs are similar in,
character, or so related that one runs into the
other naturally, objection is raised. When one
of these jobs is under the public, paid for out
of the public exchequer, and, for services to be
rendered the public, then the people look with
genuine disfavor on the acceptance by such em
ploye of private service, even if it be of a
nature that may not interfere with his obliga1
tion to the public.
In the case of a federal judge, for example.
He is selected on account of his peculiar fitness
for the responsible and exacting duties of the
bench. That he may be removed from all ex
terior influences, free from the gusts of pas
sion that sweep the masses, and beyond any
ulterior ascendancy, he is appointed for life or
during good behavior, which has almost invar
iably amounted to the same thing. His salary
is commensurate, in that it provides for his com
fortable living and enables him to accumulate
modestly if he so desires, while his old age is
made secure by the provision of a liberal retire
ment fund. From a material as well as from
an intellectual point, the position is one worth
having. Honor and sure reward go with it,
and the regard of his fellow citizens is not the
least of the compensations that is the due of the
federal judge.
When one of these is tempted to assume re
sponsibilities that do not belong to his office,
to perform services that are apart from his
judicial functions; to assume a definite connec
tion with a distinctly private enterprise; and
when his connection is solely sought to relieve
that enterprise from obloquy incurred through
conduct of those directly engaged in it, and to
cover by his honored name unsavory transac
tions and through his own standing to restore
something of credit to a disgraced business, the
public is perhaps justified in mildly inquiring
into the motives as well as the morals of the
transaction.
Therefore it is no wonder that a Chicago
lawyer has asked to have set up an inquiry
into the connection between Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis and the business of "organ
ized base ball." Nor need the judge be aston
ished to learn that such an investigation is hon
estly demanded.
When Mother Plays.
If you were brought up in the Middle West,
among your pleasantcst memories may well be
those evenings when with your brothers and
sisters you gathered around the cottage or-an.
This was particularly a Sunday night event, just
as the mush and milk that formed the evening
meal. Although she started with hymns, before
long mother's fingers strayed into the little songs
of childhood and to some of those darkey mclo
dies beloved of the young.
Impossible that such an institution should
perish. Today mothers of another generation
hasten through their household duties to sit in
the center of a gleeful and loving group at the
piano. The tiniest lad, who knows only Mother
Goose rhymes, must have them first, and the
girls, lately inducted into Sunday school, like
to practice the hymns, being particularly fond
of "Silent Night."
Mother, if left to her own taste, would prob
ably play opera music, and father, who frequent
ly is drawn in, knows only his old college songs.
Some of the,-,c "Bohunkuf." "W?ho Will Smoke
My Meerschaum Pipe." and that one concerning
the bull dog on the bank and the bull frog in
the pool, delight the children also, although
they feel inclined to criticise father's bass.
There is always considerable byplay, and
father, as if to explain why he can sing low in
the scale and his shining faced children cannot,
turns over the music to the song of "Three Little
Pigs," who "died of felo de se from trying too
hard to say 'Umph, Umph, Umph' when they
only could say 'Wee. Wee.'" With what gle:
they all join in on the final verse:
A moral there is to thks little sung',
A moral that's easy to see;
Don't try when you're young to ay "Umph,
Umph, Umph,"
For you only can say "Wee. Wee."
The moral, of course, Is lost, but the song
ranks in favor along with "Jingle Bells," "Riga-Jig-Jig,"
"Upidee Upida" and that other one
with usually meaningless title, "Funiculi Funi
cula;" the rhythm in each case being the main
attraction.
Where -melody is, there is jox and peace. It
does not matter whether it comes from piano,
violin or from those modern music boxes that
have done so much to improve popular taste
there is a natural, healthy craving of childhood
that is not satisfied without music in the home.
Religion in Daily Life.
No one but a member of the cloth would
dare characterize any theological professor as
antedeluvian, though when Bishop Homer
Stuntz speaks in this way he is not likely to be
misunderstood. His criticism was that men
spending their lives in the confines of a semi
nary would go to heaven, not over the hard
path trod by the rest of humanity, but in a rut.
In this we may read an indorsement of the
modern tendency to bring religion closer to
daily life. There are influences, not so much in
the church itself, but in the lay world, striving
to keep Christianity a one-day affair and leav
ing the other six days of the week without
restraint. The public is hearing gradually of the
wreck of the Inter-Church World Movement on
the investigation of the steel industry conducted
under its auspices. This is only one of a number
of things that some would have taboo to the
church.
The charge that men in the pulpit are im
practical in their ideals must be admitted in gen
eral. But unless these beginnings in social service,
are made, they will forever remain so, and in
the theological seminaries there will remain
those antedeluvian professors of vhom the
Methodist bishop speaks. Theology has not
changed, and few of us least of all the bishop
would have the ancient faith altered. But
the world has changed, and is. crying out as
never before for the practical application of
Christianity.
The advantages of disarmament have been
apparent for a long time, but it remained for the
United States Eeuate to show where it. could b:
begun. The trouble heretofore was that it 'was
always the other fellow who was expected to
start the movement.
Of course, if Omaha is going onward, it wants
its women folks to go along
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A Line 0' Type or Two
Htw to the Lino, 1st tb quips fall where they nay.
TO 11. I. T.
(Qtiintus Horatiu Flaoeu loquitur.)
Slneenn.s Fpranir front royn.1 line.
You spring a T,ino diurnal.
(Perhaps my joke ifi drawn tno fine
For readers ot your journal.)
. But what T started out to vy,
Across the srulf of ajres.
Is that, in our ld Roman day
My patro'.i paid ine wages.
No barren wreath of fame was mine
When .Mac approved my Bluff.
Rut casks of Rood Falernlan wijiie.
And slaves and sold enough. -
And last to keep the wolf away,
And Kiiard my afro from harm,
He Rave me in his princely way,
My little Sabine farm.
But now. forsooth, your merry crew
O Tempore : O Mores!
What do they evpr set from you?
Tour Laura, Fan, Dolores?
They fill the Line with verse and wheeze.
To them your fame in due.
What do they ever get for these?
Maecenas? Jla: JIa! Tou?
So as T quaff my special wine,
At ease beside the Styx,
Wonid I contribute to the Line? '
Neo.uao.uam! Nunquam! Nix!
. CAMP-ON".
Our compliments to Old Man Flaccus. whose
witty message reminds us to entreat contribs to
be patient, as we are snowed under with offer
ings. For a week or more we have been trying
to horn into the column with some verses of our
own composing.
HORRIBLE EXAMPLES FOR THE FRESH
MAN" tLASS IN THE SCHOOL OF
JOURNALISM.
(From the" Kendall County Record.)
He Was a loving husband and a kind
father, esteemed and respected by ail who
knew him for he loved this beautiful old world
of ours with its flowers, its bowers, its towers,
all ours. As he was through with this beauti
ful earth he has gone to Join them where all
revel in mirth. He hag proven himself worthy
of a crown and a place where they can be
hold him and feel his embrace. He was ready
and willing to journey away from this beauti
ful world of ours.
A Friend.
THE answer to Admiral Schecr's claim that
he beat the British off Skagerrak is a Question:
"Where are the German ships of yesteryear?"
WOG WIGGLES THROUGH.
Sir: I see that a contestant has failed to pry
Gust Wog loose from his seat in the North
Dakota senate. Do you suppose Senator Wog's
wife is named Tolly? CALC1TROUS.
Sir: News of Gust Wosr makes me wonder
what's become of Wanda Gag, who formerly
was an artist in St. Paul. Her work didn't make
you feel that way, however. W. S.
MR. WHITTAKER quotes Mary Garden as
saying. Unce 1 had a voice. It might have
been graciously and truthfully added that she
still has it, and that it is the one operatic voice
that many persons care greatly to hear.
The Supreme Test of Writing Well.
(George Moore. "Avowals.")
Dickens need not have spent the whole of
Ins youth on the Boulevard Exterieur. A few
years would have been sufficient to dissipate the
vile English tradition that -humour is a literate
quality. He would have larnt that it is more
commercial than literary, and that, if it be Intro
duced in large quantities, all life dies out of
the narrative. A living and moving story re
lated by a humourist very soon becomes a thing
or jeers and laughter, signifying nothing. We
must have humour, of course, but the use we
must make of our sense of humour is to avoid
introducing anything into the. narrative that
shall distract the reader from the peauty, the
mystery, and the pathos of the life we live in
this world. Whosoever keeps humour under
lock and key Is read in the next generation, if
he write well, for to write well without the
help of humour is the sunreme test. I should
like to speak in my essay of the abuse of
numour. mit it would be difficult to make this
abuse plain to a public so uneducated as ours,
whose literary sensibilities are restricted to a
belief that some jokes are better than others,
but that any joke is bettor than no joke. 1 do
not wish to libel the daily or weekly press, but
it would seem to me that we have not a critic
among us who is prepared to say that humour
is but a crutch, by the aid of which almost any
writer can totter a little way.
WHEN he gets on the subject of English
novelists. Comrade Moore lays about him with
a destructive club, but he spares Jane Austen,
placing her among the few great ones.
"OX, WISCONSIN!"
(From the Wisconsin State Journal.)
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lormer, residing
southwest of town, are the parents of a, son,
born Thursday at their home on South Fourth
street.
Sir. and Mrs. Wilson Lormer, residin?
nouthwest of town, are the parents of a daugh
ter born Saturday at the local hospital.
MARQUIS OKUMA flatters the United
States when he says it is not sincere about a
naval holiday. In any except the most domestic
relations the United States is 'incapable of in
sincerity. Love and Literature.
(George Santayana, in The Athenaeum.)
English lovers, I believe, seldom practice
what in Spain is called conjugating the verb;
they do not spend hours ringing the changes on
I love, you love, we love. This, in their opinion,
would be to protest too much. They prefer the
method of Paola and Fransesca; they will sit
reading out of the same book, and when they
come to the kissing she will say, "Ucw nice
that is!" and he will reply, "Isn't it?" and the
story will supply the vicarious eloquence of their
love. Fiction or poetry. In some supposititious
Instance, reports for the Englishman the bash
ful truth about himself; and what English life
thereby misses in vivacity. English literature
gains in wealth, in tenderness, in rambling fidel
ity, and in preclousnesu to the people's hearty
ON his way to the office Mr. Pasley, the
Demon Rewrite, picked up a half-frozen Mal
tese cat. Wc are advised that as snnn a l)r
Evans pronounces on the sex, a name will be
given to .puss. May we not suggest Harmlcar
or Carrie? the first for the famous feline of
Sylvestre Bonnard. the second for the less cele
brated sphinx who, some years ago. reposed
beneath our office desk, upon 'a pile of wheeze
and verse.
BUSINESS OF HITCHING ON WOODEN
LEGS, FALSE TEETH, AND SWITCHES.
(From the Beardstown Star.)
Congregational Let us not forget the as
sembling of ourselves for religious services.
WE are surprised that only one reader has
been moved to reply to W. M. K., who wondered
why women still wear their hats in church. Tell
him, writes M. E., to read I Corinthians, 11:5.
' First AM.
Sir: Our house guest had a nightmare last
night. Hp. dreamed that he had been bitten
on the ankle by a rattlesnake. Then he woke
me up to help him hunt the snakebite medicine.
E. M. A.
"TEXAS Democrats Give Wilson Walking
Stick." Headline.
And the republicans, as W. S. N. communi
cates, gave him the papers; so he is all set.
BUSINESS AS USUAL.
. (From the Tryon, N. C, News.)
Wallace Jackson called on Miss Jennie
Barnette Sunday as usual.
SINCE prohibition came in, says the Onion
King, Americans have taken to eating onions..
As Lincoln prophesied, this nation is having u
new breath of freedom. B. L. T.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Question concerning byfle-ie, Malta
tion and prevention of dlseas. sub
mitted to Dr. Eans by reader of Tha
Bee, will be autwered personally, sub
ject to proper limitation, where
stamped, addressed envelope ia en
closed. Dr. Evans will not make
diagnosis or prescribe for Individual
diseases. Address letter In car of
Tha Bee.
Copyright, 1920. by Dr. W. A. Evan,
Complain of Live Stock Rate
Should Make Us Humble.
Betelgeuse, the new star, is 30.000.000, times
larger than our earth but we doubt it even this
information will take the conceit out of so.'jc
folks. Boston Transcript.
x The Real Ranger.
The danger in kissing lies not so much in the
possibility of spreading disease Its in flic proba
bility of contracting a lawauit. Sioux City
Tribune.
CONQUERING LOCKJAW.
How effective vaccination against
lockjaw can be made is demonstrated
by tho figures from Great Britain
now made available. In the world
'war the British had 2. OS:". 142 wound
ed. The number of ciisps of teMous
which developed Was 2.385.
Of these the number dying was a
little more than 500. Five hundred
deaths in "more than four years does
not equal our Fourth of July rate in
the good old days. Two thousand
three hundred and eighty five cases
Is a rate of 1.17 per 1,000 wounded.
In August, mil. the rate was more
than throe times that high, being 3.7,
In September it. was 9 per 1,000. By
1917 it had fallen to considerably
less than 1 per !,000, reaching low
mark In December with 3-10 of 1 per
1.U0P, or 1-27 tho rate at the maxi
mum. More than that, as the war
went on the death rate among those
who developed lockjaw became less
year by year.
The period elapsing between the
wound and the onset of lockjaw grew
longer and the longer this interval
the less tho death rate. At the end
more than one-third of the cases
were developing more than five
weeks after the wound, and when a
man postpones his lockjaw more
than flvo weeks he has a 6 to 1
chanco to get well.
In August and September. 1914,
the fighting was done in Belgium
and northern France, where the soil
was highly fertilized and therefore
badly infected with lockjaw. At the
same time, the fighting was not done
right down in the dirt as it came to
be when, after the first battle of the
Marne," the troops dug. In for the
winter.
The very great prevalence of Iock
iaw in September. 1014, was largely
due to the fact that vaccination was
done. In August and September,
191 4, . the British were frantically
preparing for war as they fought and
aAartxata KlinnlleN Of lOCklaW
vaccine were available. By October
they were beginning to eaten up.
whon thov mnld eet to it they
adopted the policy of injecting every
wounded man with 1.500 units of te
tanus antitoxin. Later they Improved
the method by injecting 500 units
once a week for four weeks. The
lockjaw rate dropped under each of
these changes. Later tney mjeuieu
i Knn units once a week for four
weeks, but. getting no improvement,
they went back to the 500 unit dose, j
We could adopt that plan in civil
ian life with advantage.
t n A A it inn tn inlectlniT . vaccine
they changed their method of treat
ing Wounds. Our experience in Cuba
and theirs in South Africa taught
that the best policy to follow with
wounds -was to seal them up and not
handle them much. But when deal
ing with the very dirty wounds en
countered in Belgium and France it
scon became evident that it was best
to clean the wounds well, cut away
all mangled tissue, and dress them
open.
It Young, Build Health.
X. E. writes: "I suffer very great
lv with poor circulation, always feel
cold, and frequently have severe
pain in my back. Do you think I
should live in a warmer climate in
the winter? I had a severe attack
of pleurisy last winter. Would
Asheville. X. C be a desirable place
for me?"
REPLY.
If you are young my advice Is that
you stay whore you are and build up
your resistance to cold. This you
can do by taking cold baths, expos
ing your naked skin to cold air, and
indulging in outdoor winter sports.
If you are old you will increase your
comfort greatly by spending the cold
season in the south or southern
Pacific slope. The climate at Ashe
ville is delightful.
Ord, Neb., Jan. 15. To the Editor! cf $140,000,000 and much of It Is
obtained by this very ineinou ur uu
talnlng excess freight rates and so
robbing Nebraska people that they
may cut enormous melons annually,
besides tho regular dividends on the
stock of 6 per cent guaranteed by
the government and ot which 40
per cent U water.
Every load of stock shipped over
th C. H. & U. between the points
I have mentioned deprives some one
of the necessaries of life and lessens
their ability to build up the country
and wealth to the state. Now comes
the. rate clerk of our own railway
commission with the comforting as
surance in the above letter that the
rate cannot be changed, only ad
justed so as to raise it and rob others
who are on line of Union Pacific.
Was ever such A travesty on Justice
that the I. C. C. has power to raise
a rate but no power to lower it ?
What a helpless thing this I. C. C.
Is that has power to raise a rate but
no power to lower It and no power
to compel the C B. & Q. to furnish
needed transportation for caretaker
with stock beins shipped over its
lines. a
What is the I. C. C. for except to
give some "lame duck" an office at
expense of the people? Why not
abolish it? For tho very simple
reason that the I. C. C. stands as the
best friend of the railroad and in
this case raised the rate on stock
Just as was desired by the railroad.
Has anyone heard of the railroad
asking for a change because they got
no stock shipments from Ord or
other competitive points? AVell
hardly, as they have a lead pipe
cinch on the people of central Ne
braska while backed up by their
long-time friend, the I. C. C.
I will ask the attention of all
shippers between Aurora and Alli
ance, between Aurora and Sargent,
between Aurora and Erlcson, to this
systematized robbery and that they
write to their representatives and
senators and demand that this crim
inal rate be corrected or the L C. C.
abolished by act of congress.
H. C. MARKS.
You are Acting Wisely.
A reader writes: "A- 7 -year-old
girl had searlet fever and it de
veloped into nephritis. Is it dan
gerous? Will it leave this child deli
cate? She is under the care of a
doctor and a competent nurse."
REPLY.
1 Xephrilis or Bright's disease Is a
f ren,uent complication of scarlet fev
er. It is dangerous. It may leave
after effects in both the kidneys
and heart. You know the situation
and its possibilities and are taking
precaution's and the chances are
good that your child will completely
recover and have no after effects.
Six months after cure appears to be
complete have her heart and kidneys
examined as a precaution.
Let Baby Giraw Bones.
"Mrs. X. P. writes: "My 1 -year-old
baby weighs 23 pounds. She has
been fed certified milk and barley
water, lime water and sugar of milk.
At present she is taking a quart of
milk, two ounces lime water, and one
level teaspoonful of sugar of milk.
However, she takes only two-thirds
of her seven ounce bottle. Please
give me a proper diet for her. I
give her no other food except fruit
juice. She is a wonderfully healthy
baby."
REPLY.
Your baby is doing well, but the
time has come to vary her diet She
should have hard bread to gnaw
likewise meat bones to chew on.
Give her cereals and soups. The
fruit juice and milk should be con
tinued. But when she gets bread
and cereal she does not need sugar.
Xor does she need" lime water. Since
she is somewhat tired of milk you
need not give her more than five or
six ounces at a feeding.
of The 1-ice: 1 have received the fol
lowing letter from tho State Hallway
commission under date of January G,
1921:
"Answering your letter ot the 29th
ult. referring to the rate on live
stoc k from points on the C, B. & Q.
to Omaha.
"Beg to advise that tli rates over
the Burlington are hiaher by reason
of the fact that tho Interstate Com
merce commission In Docket No.
975S and Docket No. 9928 ordered
tho C, B. & Q. railroad to put into
effect rates that wer not to exceed
6 cents less than the rate to St.
Joseph and Kansas City. This or
der must continue In force for a
period of not less than two years.
The only manner in which the rates
complained of can bo adjusted Is
by making application to ralrfe the
rate from Union Pacific points. Of
course this would not be of any bene
fit to anyone. For your information
I am enclosing herewith a copy of
tho decision of the Interstate Com
merce commission In tho above men
tioned dockets and would thank you
to return tho samn when you have
finished with them. Yours truly, C. f
A. Ross. Rate Clerk.
Tt seems that the freight rate that
robs the people of central Xebraska
was made on the application of a
few men at St. Joseph and Kansas
City. No notice whatever was given
the shippers of stock on the lines of
road affected by the order and it
looks like the sole intent of the or
der was to benefit the C. B. & Q. rail
road and to punish the people of
central "Nebraska for daring to pass
a law to compel the railroads to fur
nish transportation to a caretaker
with each car of stock that was
shipped to market. This law could
not apply to points outside of the
state. Had due notice been given
the shippers of such a hearing on
the question at issue there is no
doubt that a protest would have been
made against such an extortion, but
it is evident that It is not the ship
pers or the people of Xebraska
whom the I. C. C. represent, but the
railroad Interests of the country. Of
course the C, B. & Q. were not In
any way averse to such a ruling that
gave them an excess profit over the
IT. P. of $19 per car on hogs and $25
per car on cattle. There are only
a few points like Ord, St. Paul and
Loup City that central Nebraska
shippers could obtain the lower rate,
whereas all other points between
Aurora and Alliance, Aurora and
Burwell, Aurora and Sargent, Aurora
and Erlcson were helpless and have
been stood up and robbed by the or
der of the I. C. C.
It may seem a trifling matter to
the members of the I. C. C. to de
prive these people of the sandhills
and central part of the state of the
necessaries of life and compel them
to pick up "buffalo chips" to use for
fuel to prevent freezing, but tnc
people of Xebraska will not forget
It nor do they forget that this same
C, B. & Q. railroad Is now before the
I. C. C. asking that they may divide
among themselves an excess profit
EDITORIAL NOTES
Well, we are getting quite Hard
inged to it. Columbus tS. C.) State.
Some "wild oats" ought to be pre
served in the Smithsonian Institution.
Greenville (S. Piedmont.
Food prices break Headline. Cu
rious considering what a little dis
tance they have fallen. Dayton
News.
Ernest Thompson Seton says mor
als have no relation to dress, but
what Is worrying the moralists is
that women don't seem t. either
Philadelphia Xorth American.
Pctregrad is now Inhabited bv
cripples; at least the population has
been reduced ,71 per cent, and It I--HfRiinicd
that 'everybody who could
walk left. St. Paul Xews.
South American women getting to
bn leaders in fashion. Of course,
down around the equator, there's not
so much chnncc of catching cold.
Dayton News.
SPICE OF LIFE
She "Tto you write poetry?"
He "The editors ay not." Tk
'.Vatchman-Examiner (New Tork).
The Missing Blush.
II tnld the shy maid of his love.
Th cnlnr lpft her cheeks:
But on the fhoulder of his coat
It showed for several weeks.
Scalper.
"I don't like thrse photos st all." he
aid. "I look like an ape."
The photographer favored him, with a
glance of lofty disdain.
"You nhould have thought of that befora
vou had them taken." vaa his reply aa
he turned back to work. American New
Trade Journal.
Prof. "Why were sou tardy7"
Tom "Clas began before 1 got there."
Orange Peel.
Teacherr-"Thomas. will ynu tel! ma
T.hat a conjunction Is. and compose a
sentence containing one?"
Thomas tafter reflection) "A. con
junction Is k word connecting anything,
such s 'The horse Is hitched to the fence
by his halter.' 'Halter' it a conjunction,
because it connects the horse and the
fence." Harper's Bazar.
The origin of the hagpipa was being
discussed, tho representatives of different
nations eagerly declaiming responsibility
for the atrocity. Finally an Irishman said:
"Well. I'll tell you the troth abont It.
Th Trish invented It and sold It to the
Scotch as a Joke: and the Scotch ain't
seen the Joke yet:" The Watchman-Examiner
(New Tork.)
'BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK Y0U
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Have you seen "society" on the street
Wearing galoshes on their feet?
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Well, that Is the latest fad of today.
It was called slovenly a few years ago.
But now all society's doing It, you know.
No doubt It's attention that they would
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Though many would wonder It thev were
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Unlike other poor mortals, they scarcely
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The gods only know what next they will
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testator's meaning.
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bate matters, it would have
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