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1. New Union Pauenfer Station.
2. Continued improvamcnt of the Ne
braska Highway, including tha pa
mant of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A hqrt, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Bait to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Horn Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Crime and Its Expiation.
A bit of moral philosophizing by a convict
now held in Sing Sing prison deserves far more
consideration than it is likely to get. This man,
waiting in the prison publication, discusses the
attitude of society towards the criminal, espe
cially with reference to some words from a
widely read novel that seem to convey the idea
that the prisoner is society's "goat," seized be
cause it is "the weakest and most defenseless
thing on which wc can lay our hands." This
argument is carefully dissected, and then is
answered thus:
We inmates, fortunately, are not so easily
led by such doctrines, regardless of how com
fortable they may be to those of "easy virtue,"
or possessed ot a superficial' honesty that
seeks but outward approval and fears not God
or conscience. We, who are really guilty ol
crime, realize, and realize full well, that our
incarceration is due to the breach of one or the
other of God's commands: "Thou shalt not
kill;'' "Thou shalt not steal." We realize
that society is justified in segregating us both
for its own protection and for our good until
such time as we may have recovered from
our moral lapse and are again fit to associate
with virtuous women and honest men.
.In that plain statement of the case is con
's tained the doctrine so very often forgotten by
those who would aid the criminal. It is God's
law that has been broken, not man's; while man
may well leave the offender to the punishment
of God, who surely does visit His displeasure
, on those who transgress His laws, man is justi
fied in the sequestration of the offender in order
that society may be protected against him.
One of the interesting avenues of history
leads through the development of what are con
sidered offenses,- resting always on the primal
laws, "Thou shalt not kill;" "Thou shalt not
steal." These protect life and property, the
fundamental purpose of society, for unless life
and property can be protected, the communal
existence has little else to offer. One of The
Bee's interested and interesting correspondents
recently wrote; us a letter that attracted con
siderable notice, proposing that restitution br
exacted as part of the punishment meted out to
criminals. This, of course, applies to property
alone, for it is not thinkable that we will return
to the custom that permitted the payment of
wergild as reparation for murder. That served
well enough as a substitute from the primitive
practice of blood feud or atonement, especially
because it preserved to the tribe the services of
some member whose life might otherwise be
forfeited to the avenger. To couple restitution
with incarceration might deter the thief, Who
has dissipated his plunder in extravagance. But
the thought is that we have made much advance
in refining our definitions of crime, setting up
meticulous divisions, subdivisions and gradations,
until the enormity of the offense as originally
viewed is lost sight of. So many prohibitions
. have" been catalogued that we fail to comprehend
the fact that they are all included in "Thou shalt ,
not kill," or "Thou shalt not steal."
A little study of the convict's conclusions
will be conducive to some clearer thinking as to
the aspect of the criminal in his general relation
to society. He is not incarcerated because, so
ciety wants to be revenged on him, but because
society wants to be made secure from him. He
should be kept apart from his fellows until he
has undergone 'the change that will make him
fit for other human beings safely to associate
with. Misdirected sentimentality has perverted
this' sober truth, and has brought a great deal
6f confusion in its train, for it has encouraged
rather than repressed crime, giving the criminals
a false notion to the effect that they are but
breaking the law of man, in which course the)
may easily justify themselves by the cheap
sophistry, of the anarchist, when in very truth
they are violating the law of God, eternal, im
mutable as Himself, and punishment follows sin
as inexorably as night cometh after day, for the
one is the cause and the other the effect. Crim
inals and those who seek to, excuse or temporize
with crime must recognize and realize this
solemn truth. , ,
Fine Weather for Snuffles.
Spells, of warm weather are gratefully re
ceived during winter, but it is well to consider
that the deceptive mildness tends to throw us
off our guard and expose us to colds and other
slight illnesses that may merge into more dan
gerous ones. Care in proper clothing and avoid
ance of exposure are then as necessary as in
the coldest temperatures.
Mere man is inclined, of course, to consider
admonitions of this kind to be addressed to the,
women, but neither se has a monopoly of fool
hardiness It is all in what one is used to, and
the deviation from that standard that counts
for good or ill health. Here, for instance, 19
Ernest Thompson Seton, who declares that the
costumes of women today are the most sane
in the history of the race. He even expresses
the opinion that the shorter the dress and the
lower the neck of her bodice, the greater the
moral influence and the tendency to health of
woman.
"The soldiers of the United States army,"
he cites, "compelled to wear high collars and
tight-about-the-neck clothing, show an average
of diseases of the throat of 43 per 1,000, while
the sailors of the United States, with more ex
posed life and collars wide open and low. show
but 21 per 1,003 with throat troubles."
Be this as it may. winter is hard on those
with weakened vitality. Youth and health may
brave many terrors that are fatal to those with
less of the fire of life. The main thing to be. re
membcred is not to go from heavy clothing to
light merely because the thermometer ris.es
few degrees.
Civilization by Extermination.'
Bombs dropped from British airplanes have
broken the power of the Mad Mullah of Africa
and scattered IitsT followers in the jungles,
Thirty-four years of trouble in Somaliland w?s
ended in three weeks by 200 airmen, assisted by
a native camel ccrps, with only two casualties,
It may be significant that although this hap
pened back in 1919, news of it has just leaked
out. Reports of similar use of aviation have
drifted back from India, and taken altogether
these incidents give assurance that no subject
race hereafter will be able to win its freedom
through violent revolution.
The mechanical ingenuity of civilized man
puts the backward peoples of the world more
and more at his mercy. The hard fact is that in
moral development civilization has not kept
pace with mechanical progress. It is to be
questioned whether humanity can be trusted with
the powerful machines that it has evolved. Not
only is there the temptation to use engines of
destruction against less advanced raxes when
other and peaceable means might be found, but
there is danger that one nation may turn its
power against another equipped equally well
intellectually.
Efforts to rule out the use of poison gas
for military purposes by international treaties
are opposed by a British general, and the world
is asked to forget the horror with which it re
garded this invention of the Germans. Gas war
fare, he states, gives a great advantage to the
intellectual and more highly developedpeoples
As a nation improves in brain power, lie notes
a tendency to lose in brawn. Chemical warfare
has put in the hands of the more advanced na
tions a weapon that would render them absolute
ly safe from successful attack by any assailant
who relied more on brute strength. '
Gases, the argument runs, form the ideal,
weapon of the civilized man. Like airplanes,
gases have certain peace time and industrial
uses, and their manufacture clearly could not be
abandoned. -Having them at hand, it is natural
to be skeptical of the success of any movement
to prevent their use in cases of international
emergency, civilized nations now are seeking
to find some adequate way of avoiding another
resort to violence, but it is indeed doubtful it
general peace can be hoped for so long as there
is anywhere in the world exploitation by one
race of its inferiors.
Education, Real and False.
Thought, some one has said, is the refrain
ing from speech or action. It may also be
asserted that much talk and much action is not
preceded by thought, and that people who are
always talking or always on the go do not give
themselves time to think.
Rev. Percy Stickney Grant has opened up
quit, a controversy by his, statement that the
educational status was low in America. Thia
assertion from the pulpit has been given backing
by a report of the congressional conmittee on
education that the United States ranks ninth in
educational level. Quite probably the congress
men, who designed their statement as a recom
mendation of the Smith-Towner bill for federal
school aid, based their estimate on illiteracy.
Dr. Grant, no doubt, was using a different
yardstick, and was not speaking of the more or
less- mechanical ability to read and write, but of
the power of independent thinking. Dr. , J. L.
Qnackenbos of Columbia university enters the
discussion with the declaration that "the average
man doesn't think." In other words, the ability
to reflect is not large.
"Thinking cannot very well be taught," says
Dr. Quackenbos, himself a veteran teacher.
"The average man can learn things, cram his
mind, fill his poll-parrot memory full of facts,
but we found k the university in the graduate
courses that it took a student two years to think
enough to produce any original work."
The "educated fool" is far from being a myth,
and it sometimes appears that modern educa
tion, by turning out carefully molded minds,
has discouraged ' reflection and given only a
sorry substitute. Illiteracy, no doubt, exists
more widely than is necessary or advisable, but
instruction in taking thought is every bit as im
portant as learning to read and write, for; after
all, the spirit counts as much as the letter.
Reading on the Street Car.
The greatest variety of literature is found
on the street cars, and the amount of informa
tion that is added to the public mind by reason
of the distance between home and office is in
calculable. Newspapers, of course, predominate,
and the habit of starting out the day by ob
taining the latest news apparently is gaining.
Girls with novels and magazines, men witn
books on engineering or salesmanship and
women looking over the lists of bargains among
the advertisements are rivalling in numbers
those passengers who content themselves with
looking out the window or cleaning their nails.
There are even those who by dint of long prac
tice have learned to hang to a strap and to a
newspaper 1 at the same time.
What this system of reading on the move
adds to the amount of literature consumed may
be estimated at least in hours. Thousands of
people spend half an hour in the morning and
another half hour in the evening on the street
car. An hour each working day totals almost
two solid weeks in a year. This is a lot .of time
to spend riding to and from work, but those
who keep their minds employed on the way
cannot consider it entirely wasted.
Every Home a White House.
It is impossible not to sympathize with the
wives of certain congressmen who are urging
their husbands to appropriate government funds
to build an apartment house in Washington.
Representative, John W. Langley, chairman of
the house committee on public buildings and
grounds, has introduced a bill for the erection
of a flat building with 300 apartments of from
three to ten rooms, to be rented to members
of congress and their families, cabinet officials,
supreme court judges and such other officials
as can be accommodated.
Nowhere . have rents been pushed up to
greater heights, than in the national capital, afld
that the wives of government officials should
be up in arms over this profiteering is natu-at.
But if houses are to be built for them, would
not plain citizens demand the same considera
tion? What greater rights have public1 servant
to state aid than have the people themselves?
A Line 0' Type, or Two
Haw to tha Line, Jet tha quip fall where they may
A TWELFTH C'ENTCKY MISSAL.
No creature of a papal chancery,
To drudgery conventual dismissed
Conceived these characters, no copyist
Flourished so freely .and so legibly
These Latin lines of round calligraphy;
Rather some transcendental humanist,
In adoration raised to rliapsodist,
Here hymned the Virgin in high rhapsody.
Through life he made a pious pilgrimage
Devotedly from vellum page to page,
Swinging the censer of a heart whose scent
Rose to the throne of Heaven's firmament.
Oh, that the labour of my bent-backed days
My queen might serve with such sweet-smelling
praise. PETRARCH I NO.
MR. HARDING'S new dress. suit is viewed
with horrified alarm by the mercHmt tailors in
VALUE OF VACCINATIONS.
As I walked up Church street,
Nashville, the other day I .ran head
on into a yellow flag hanging from
and a smallpox warning card tucked
to the door of a residence set four
feet back from this busy thorough
fare. A lot of boys 10 to 15 years
of age were playing in the yard
next door and in the street in front.
convention assembled. It seems that the lapel , tJZ ' V i i"LZ
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How to Keep Well
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and collar are fared with sill: which in a snite.
tail, is small town stuff.
NOT KNOCKING THE BRIDK
(from the San Francisco Examiner.)
Following, the ceremony Commander
William Glassford. under whom Macfarlane
served as an ensign in the navy during lh
war, decorated the toom tor bravery.
MR. CHFSTERTON is' skeptical about Eng
land going dry. It might, he says, "if the rich
were able to devise some means of taking the
beer away from the poorer classes without giv
ing up their own champagne." We don't quite
get that. The rich are not interested in depriv
ing the poor of their beer. That is the business
of the League for Making Virtue Odious, and it
succeeded in this country. Through the ages
one increasing notion runs, that the way to help
the poorer classes is to take things away from
them.
THE EIGHTH VEIL.
By J-mes Hun-k-r. ,
There was a wedding under way. From the
bright-lit mansion came the evocations of a loud
bassoon. Ulick Gufne, in whom the thought of
matrimony always produced a bitter nausea,
glowered upon the house and spat acridly upon
the pave. "Imbeciles! Humbugs! Romantic
rot!" he raged.
Three young men drew toward the scene.
Ulick barred their way. but two of the trio
slipped by him and escaped. The third was
nailed by Duffle's glittering eye. Ulick laid an
ineiuctaDie nana upon the strangers arm.
"Listen!" he commanded. "Matrimony and Art
are sworn and natural foes. Ingeborg Bunek
was right; there are no illegitimate children:
all children, are valid. Sounds like Lodb da
Vega, doesn't it? But it ten't. It is Bunek.
Whitman, too, divined the truth. Love is a
germ; sunlight kills it. It needs l'obscurite and
a high temperature. As Baudelaire said or
was it Maurice Barres? dans la nuit tous chats
eont gris. Remy de Gourmont . .
The wedding guest beat his shlrtfront: he
could hear the bassoon doubling the cello. But
Ulick continued ineluctablv. "Woman ia a sink
of iniquity. Only Gounod is more loathsome.
That Ave Maria Grand Dieul But Frederic
Chopin, nuance, cadence, appoggiatura there
you have it. En amour, les vieux fous sont
plus fous que les jeunes. Listen to Rochefou
cauld! And Montaigne has said, C'est le Jour
et non le posseder qui rend heureux. And Pas
cal has added, Les affaires sont les affairs.1 As
for Stendahl. Flaubert. Nietzoho.
Balzac, Gautier. Dostoievsky, Rabelais, Maupas
sant, Anatole France, Bourget, Turgenev, Ver
latne, Renan, Walter Pater, Landor, Cardinal
Newman and the Brothers Goncourt . .
Ulick Seized his head With hnrh hnnrla onJ
the wedding guest seized the opportunity to beat
it. as the saying is. "Swine!" Ulick flung after
him. "Swine, before whom I have cast a hatful
of pearls!" He spat even more acridly upon the
pave and turned away. "After all," he growled.
"Stendhal was right. Or was it Huysmans?
No, it was neither. It was Cambronne ."
started this line of
THE attention of Miss Garde
called to the news that J. A. Wrezgowski of
coone, la., has resigned from the Northwest-
em s car repair department to take operatic
training in Chicago.
THE AMATEUR INQUIRING REPORTER.
Sic: Instituted an inmiirlne- renorrer
tion of my own recently at a party (with straw-
wrry ice cream), question: What would you
do if you were married and your husband wan
dured oft with another woman?
Sarah: "Let her have hi m. T never vena
much of a picker, and the chances are Td h
glad to get ri(l of him."
Henriette; "Find me a husband first."
Susan (laconically): "He wouldn't." .
Jane: "Celebrate."
Ann: "Huh!" WELL W. WELl
BENEATft the prediction of a Mil
astronomer, that the country will be flooded
with twins, triplets and Quads durimr the next
six years, the inspired makeup of the Kenosha
..News placed the line, "If you want help, try a
want ad."
TO FRIEND HUSBAND IX FLORIDA.
It seems a long time since you left me,
To roam 'mongst the flowers and fruit.
And I sigh o'er the fate that bereft me.
(The moths have destroyed your best suit.)
You write of your languor and leisure,
As you sit in the sunshine and blink.
A.nd I'm glad you are having such pleasure.
tinere are mice in the pantry, I think.)
I hope you get thoroughly rested.
You best and most charming of men,
Ho you'll think the trip's cost well invested.
(The skylight is leaking again.) ,
Although 1 have missed you severely,
I've done very well, on the whole,
And perhaps will just love you more dearly.
(They haven't delivered bur coal.)
I'm glad that your prospects are pleasing,
(Our janitor's gone on a bat,
Can't write, for my fingers are freezing.)
Oh, do hurry home. And that's that!
IRIS. ,
'HE received the -wound at an entertain
ment," reports the Trib, "when some one struck
him on the head with a club."
ALAS. POOR PATRICK!
(From the Hollandale, Wis., Review.)
Pat Maloney has been quite ill with
pneumonia at the hotel the past week, but
at present is improving. v
Or. H. F. McDonald of Hollandale was a
professional caller here last week. I
Miss Gorley, trained nurse of Hollandale,
is taking care of Pat Maloney during his ill
ness. John Maloney of Mlnetal,T't. visited his
uncle, Pat Maloney, Sunday.
M. is. McDonnell and A. B. Hamilton of
Hollandale visited with Pat Maloney Sat
urday. Lewis Paulson and S. T. Shanley of Hol
landale called on Pat Maloney Thursday
evening.
ASKED 'what the r.:ket was all about, the
spired waiter at the Woman's Athletic club
replied, "It's the Vassar illumini."
"A GOOD Samaritan Still." Western Chris
tian Advocate.
"Come, lean on mc, ye that arc weary I .
. Haste, ye that lag by the way!"
'If You Must Know.
(From the Atascadero News.)
, O. W. Kellogg is 'changing the fence in
front of his house to a line on the correct
survey.' "I am digging postholes becauso
I don't find them already dug," says O. W.
"SITUATION wanted Married man, 8
years' experience." Classified ads.
References, presumably, supplied.
A BURST of candor from the Smart Co. of
Wausau, Wis!: "k's easy to trade here no
choice between godl and bad."
GROCER EBNER of Atchison. Kan., is
advertising: "Bushel baskets all sizes."
MR. COX called on President W"ilon yes
terday. You remember Mr. Cox. B, L. T.
house. This
thought.
The members of the 'family were
no doubt greatly discommoded by
the carelessness of one member of
the family. Doubtless the business
of the neighborhood was somewhat
upset (a large, dairy had its milk
plant diagonally across the street).
No doubt Nashville' would bo able
to conrtol its smallpox better with
less disturbance to business and with
more scientific and humane care to
the sick If they had a smallpox hos
pital. But that policy would have
cost the taxpayers some money and
most of the people who pay taxes
are careful to keep protected from
fmaljpox by vaccination. Neverthe
less, we must take people as they
are, the sheep and the goats, the
vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
the sensible and the woozles, and
my advice Is that communities not
on -provided eauiD themselves witn
fjmallpox hospitals and take care of
nil their cases of smallpox therein.
While following this line of
thought I ran across a paper read by
Dr. W. F. White before the Evans
ton Medical aociety Just as this win
ter wave of smallpox put health of
ficials on the anxious seat. For many
years Dr. White vaccinated all the
employes or Marsnai rieia e i. o.
Almost 30 years ago the large de
partment stores of Chicago decided
thev could not afford to have busi
ness periodically upset by smallpox
among their employes.
Since then they have required vac
cination as a requisite for employ
ment. They found it to be good
business policy. Dr. White kept sev
eral thousand records of vaccina
tions and . results, and, studying
those, he came to several conclu
Eions. First, Ahe only vaccination
scar which . is typical and which
guarantees immunity from small
pox for five to seven years is the
small, flat stippled, pitted scar free
from heavy Rear tissue. People with
that tyoe of a scar are often pro
tected for life. The large "scarry"
scars with shinv surfaces and ir
regular edges indicate that the origi
nal sore was often only a pus sore.
People with such scars sometimes
have smallpox. When vaccinated
thev take.
Winter vaccination Is much better
than that done in summer.- Vaccine
readily becomes inert. Vaccine which
has knocked around a drug store or
a doctor's office in warm weather is
generally Inert. The proportion of
takes in Dr. White's experience was
much greater in winter vaccinations.
The pus infections and bad arms
were more frequent in the summer
vaccinations.
Vaccination should be done In a
cleanly way by a clean person. No
shield, adhesive .strip or other air
excludini "device should be used The
blisters should not bo pricked open. ,
Most of tho baI results following
vaccination are due U lack'of clean
liness on the part of the vaccinated
person or due to faulty after-care.
Just as all communities should.
have smallriox hospitals, all indus
trial establishments should follow
the example of the Chicago depart
ment stores. And. finally, if all phy
sicians and the laity would heed the
counsel of Dr. White fewer people
would have bad arms and fewer
would place their faith in large, rag
ged vaccination scars.
Try Carholatc of Zinc.
W. H. D. writes: "Am a man a,
little past 60. I have cheved tobacco
for at least 30 years. My new year
resolution is to quit. Is there any
harmless thing I can take to make
the ordeal easier? Would you sug
gest quitting gradually?"
RE FLY.
Get some carbolate of zinc tablets.
Nibble on one a little whenever the
brassy taste begins to die out.
Usually Above 17 Years.
Miss R. writes: "1. Cold a girl of
17 possibly begin training to be a
nurse?
2. Would she have to get a col
lege education first or would it be
possible to start with a grammar
school education and study in the
hospital ?
3. How long would she have to
stay at the hospital to become a
nurse? .
4. Is there a hospital in Pough
keepsle where she could start train
ing?" REPLY.
1. The standard schools do not
accept pupils at 17.
2. No training school that I know
of requires a college education as a
prerequisite. Most of them are glad
to get grammar -school graduates
who meet all other requirements.
3. Some hospitals require three
years; other tw..
4. Ye.
(From the New York Times.)
An argument used in the house of
representatives the other day, when
the question of increasing the mem
bership to 4S3 came up. was that the
House of Commons had a larger
I membership. This was really a
' boomerang argument, for the
popular chamber in England is
crowded, tinftomfortable. ill ventilat
ed, and. its" accommodations for
the lawmakers are primative. On
this point let one of its members,
Lieut. Col. Gerald B. Hurst, be
quoted:
Other assemblies are lmused In
rooms which are adequato for their
numbers, which are circular in
shaoe. and which are furnished
with appropriate desks. Ours
finds sitting accommodation for
barely half its personnel in a
chamber of an inconveniently
oblong shape, and with no ledge
for Ink or for papers in front of
members We may en
joy no desks; but, on the other
hand, we throw no inkpots.
In an article In The Nineteenth
Centurv. from which the above is
taken, Colonel Hurst calls the House
of Commons the Mother of Parlia
ments, but he speaks frankly about
some of its shortcomings. It is be
cause the Mother of Parliaments is
august with age, and has long en
joyed a reputation for dignity, com
mon sense and practical legislation
that here in America we are in
clined to look up to it as a model
for deliberative assemblies. It
continues to bo old-fashioned in
its consideration for the men
who do business there; that
is to say, they are expected to work
under physical disadvantages. By
comparison the house of representa
tives, with its liberal floor space,
comfortable seats, desks for papers
and writing materials, and numerous
committee rooms, is luxurious. In
fact, in so many ways are the caso
and convenience of the American
representative consulted that condi
tions in the House of Commons seem
archaic. When it comes to the con
duct of business and the behavior
of the respective lawmakers in tliese
unsettled times, the Americans have
nothing to extenuate or apologize for.
Their house of representatives is
the more sober and dignified body,
although it does have inkpots to
throw if it wants to do so. The
House of Cpmmons sometimes re
sembles a bear pit; it has degener
ated in manners and deportment,
whereas the house of representatives
Cold Wratlier Sport.
Extreme cold weather, has one de
light for ex-hangovers. They find
excuse for spending some time de
tecting the perfume of the automo
bile radiator. Minneapolis Journal.
Nothing Can Stop That.
"Inaugural change not to inter
fere with Wilson's plans." It is
still his purpose to retire on March
4. Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
SAID IN JEST.
Want white man to milk and run Ford
car: one mile south of Fifteenth on Levsri.
Devlin. Ad in Tulsa World.
A rrmer hitched his team to e. tele
phone pole.
"Here," exclaimed a policeman, "yoi
can't hitch there!"
"Car.'t hitch!" shouted he irat farmer.
"Well, -why does the sign pay. "Fine for
Hitching'?" The Catholic New.'
"No. sir." cried the irate parent, "my
daughter can never be yours." "
'I don't want her to be my daughter,"
interrupted the younsr man. "I want her
to be mv wife." Edinburgh Scotsman.
has improved in both. Enemies of
Mr. Lloyd Georgd suy that ho arts a
bad example in the House of Com
mons. A saviige crltio observes:
The Houso of Commons was once
the greatest instrument of its kind
in the world, but Mr. Lloyd George
has played on it like the leader of
a jaz orchestra till alt is noise and
vulgarity.
But to hold one man responsible
for the unseemly behavior of his
associates is to exhibit narrow par
tisanship. Tho Houso of Commons
has gradually become an unruly as
well as an unwieldy body. The scene
the other day, when members howled
like jackals and lost all self-control
when Joseph Devlin', with his light
ing spirit up, defied tho once august
assembly, was a reproach to British
traditions. It may be true that the
Irish members have occasionally
been irrepressible and offensive, but
in the past it was proudly said it
can no longer be justly said that
the House of Commons was an as
sembly of gentlemen, even If they
did sometimes forget themselves.
Other times, other manners, per
haps! Demos is on the driving seat
in England.
Although it is not generally known
in America, where we rail a our
insufferable talkers and deride "leave
to print," the House of Commons is
full of indefatigable and tiresome
conversers oratory ' is no ninro
there. "Too many men," saya Colo
nel Hurst, "drift almost unconscious
ly into the fatal fluency of the House
of Commons. In a body of 700
there must always be more people
who want to speak on any point of
importance than can possibly gain a
hearing, and the speaker's eye ranges
at haphazard among the just and
the unjust, the experts and the
bores." Colonel Hurst declares
significantly that "the most obvi
ous of all apparent vices
is a terrible waste of time in
debate." So honors are easy,
or perhaps the advantage in loquac
ity is with the House of Commons.
There, as in this country, the statute
book is appallingly cumbered with
unnecessary laws. But there are
some things to be said in favor of
England's popular body. Flag-waving
is considered bad form. Mem
bers are often ruggedly independent.
Business men abound; "the lawyers
are taboo." Here in America there
are far too few business men in con
gress and altogether too many lawyers.
PUNGENT POINTS.
If you have a half hour to spend,
don't' spend it with some one who
hasn't. Columbua (S. C.) Record.
Here's wishing you many littlo in
come lax exemptions for the current
year. Houston Chronicle.
If they succeed in exempting
American ships engaged .In the for
eign trade from yie Volstead luw. it
will be the old boys in thw country
who will be running away to sea
Greensboro (N. C.) News.
The man with the hoe used to be
the .tiinn with the dough, but now
he is the man with the woo. Sioux
City Journal.
Success has its penalties, and the
higher the salary the higher tho
blood pressure. Ohio Htato Journal.
But the grievous fact isMhat there
is danger in low blood pressure.
Toledo Wad.
That "old-fashioni'd winter" is
playing "hide and seek" with the
weather man. Halifax Chronicle. I
The IVtuilty of Winning. ('
It is reported that a racehorse was)
tried by court-martial and sentenced
to death by a bolshevik i oi a charge
of having won a cup offered by the
late czar, and so "having hsd ileHl
Ings with the old regime." One
might fancy hat the members of the
court hed bet on tho other nag.
Buffalo Express.
Business is good thank you"
LY Nicholas Oil Company
"Aren't -oii afraid America will be
come isolated?"
"Not If ua farmers keep raisin' things
the world needs." answered Farmer Corn-
tossel. "The feller that rings the dlnner-r-ell
never runs much risk of? bein' lone
some." Washington Star.
"Dr. Fillers seems to be a fashionable
physician."
"1 snouid say so: lie nas paucnts at
tome nf the most expensive health resorts
In America and a waltinu-llst of people
whose health will give way as soon a
they get money enough to consult him."
Birmingham Age-Herald.
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First Church of Chrlit. Sctantlit. ol Omaha.
Nebraska. Announces a
FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
By Prof. Hermann S. Hiring, C. S. B...
of Concord. New Hampshire,
AT THE CHURCH EDIFICE
St. Mary's Avsnue and 21th Strut
Monday Evening. Jan. 3 1 it, IP ft. at 8 0'Clock
Tuesday Evening. Feb. 1st, 1921, at 8 0'Clock
Tho Public It Cordially Invited to B Present
Mr. Hering t a member of the Board of lec
tureship of the Mother Church. Tho First
qhurch of Christ. Scientist, in Boston. Mass.
Mtyon Hamlin
an Amati violin, today
it priceless for itTcanno
he dplicated--its maker
haviikj -passed away.
aaallv' priceless
would he any lasor
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More Than One Blood Test.
Mrs. H. G. N. writes: "My husband
died last year from what the doctor
said was a ruptured aneurysm of the
aorta. My blood pressure Is now
i over 250' and thero is a black snot
in front of my left eye. An oculist
said it was a hemorrhage and
wanted me to have a blood test and
urinalysis. hink it was an in
sult to me to want a blood test, as I
never had such a disease. So I went
to another eye doctor and he said
the other one was just guessing and
he gave me a pair of glasses. What
do you think I should do?",
r.EPLV.
If you hav - a blood pressure of
250, hemorrhages in your eye and
impaired vision, have ynifr blood and
urine examined as advised. The
luxury of being offended can-be af
forded by iomo people, but not by
those with high blood pressure and
eye hemorrhages. ,
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Won in a Walk.
It begins to look as if President-elect Hard
ing doesn't want even a $10 automobile. He
may walk, and why not? He won in one!
Detroit -N'ews.
Unburdens His Mind.
Muriel A Happy and Bright New Year to
i you. This ft an awful country. bnatchet.
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