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The, Dee's Platform
1. Nw Ulo Pasofr Statloo.
2. Ctiad Improve! of tkf Ne
braska Highway, iasladiaf til pa,
meat of Mala Thoroaabfar Uadiaa'
Into Omaha with a Brick Surfaca.
3. A short, low-rata Waterway from tha
Cam Bait to tb Atlanlie Ocean.
4. Hema Rula Charter for Omaha, with
City Maaag r form of Cover omen t.
The Softening Influence of Age.
Seneca, wasn't it, who devoted some attention
to considering one of the accompaniments of ad
vancing yean, that of a more genial attitude to
ward all the world? The thought, perhaps, did
not originate with him, for many times have
ages and philosophers descanted on the topic,
and always with the conclusion that in the fading
light of life outlines soften and blend, until
things seem to change their form and, without
becoming unreal, lose so much of their harsh
ness and detail as to all but dissolve and flow
into a mosaic of experience whose chastened
colors and soft lights aflord a rest for the . soul
that has weathered the storm and now looks out
on the unclouded future with hope undimmed
and confidence supreme. Happy is he to whom
the setting sun pf.life brings shadows that mer
cifully enfold the asperities of ended days.
Clemenceau, "Tiger of France," is the latest
to add his testimony . to the accumulation of
human experience in thisv regard. Addressing
the villagci gathered to celebrate the establish
ment of a war memorial, at his birthplace, he
said: "I should like before I disappear to formu
late a last wish, that everybody should think of
me as a friend" This was the man who saved
France, who breathed into the nostrils of a
fainting nation the fierceness of his own nature,
awakening a high resolve to win a defensive war;
whoconfoundcd traitors at home, amazed foes
and delighted friends, and finally suffered defeat
through craft. His life was one of action; he
fought to kill, and slew, without sparing for
France, but only for France and never for
7 Clemenceau;.! Now,r at jthe height o. his years,
with the shadows deepening arpund him, he says:
I have passed all my existence in being im
,, .; patient,, but as.-Jife ;.bbs Jrom roc, I have
- learned p'aticnce,yandl I think" I cart' assure you
that hence forthward, I will conform to that
rule of life ..
-i Patienrt t the one lesson experience ; can
"(teach without fail; that an'd a gentler tolerance
' forxohers, is the reward years bring home. No
matter how bright the pathway seemed in the
morning, how hot the noon, 'or stormy its pass
T' iitg hours, sunset brings a solace, and the bitter
. ness of the conflicts floats away on the slowly
. moving current of existence, because the thinking
man learns to regard others and to realize as the
, perspective of time lengthens how insignificant
and inconsequential were the things that once
. loomed so large. "Vanitas vanitatum," but, oh.
' ! the happy, reflections of an age that can recall
the glorious battles of youth and generously con
cede the opponent his due or a little more, and
- whose prayer is to be looked on by all as a friend.
Art Progress in Nebraska.
A delicate, subject, indeed, and one that per-
haps may require a little adjustment of stand
ards before it be determined if progress is really
i. being made. To begin with, ample evidence is
stX hand that the stimulus to art is not absent;
, at the Public Library gallery and exhibition of
works of Nebraska artists is the tangible and
t commendable proof that the impulse is active.
In general, the character of the - work shown
supports the assertion that the activity is not in
vain. A group of thoughtful, earnest workers
Is handling color with a sincerity and devotion
t that indicates how surely we are moving to
wards a goal that marks social development.
: Nebraska has achieved some distinction in lit
erature; her poets and writers of fiction are
, known and honored outside her borders. Also
her musicians have sung for wider audiences-
-than the home folks, and sculptors,-who, if not
native-born, at least grew up amid the pastoral
surroundings afforded in Nebraska, have attained
to high place in the world's estimation. Naturally,
the painters have felt the urge to excel, and some
eady are known beyond the confines of the
This, of course, is highly creditable, and
surce of modest pride to all of us, for we like
known as a people who not only appreciate
E dually possess a cultural life that deserves
am. '
Such exhibits as that now under way are of
rvalue even above the occasional showing made
iisd, for these mark the actual ac
complishment of the home art, while those are
X .hut the productions of outlanders, worthy, to be
4 sure, and to be possessed with pleasure for all
Ltt are, yet lacking, that essential quality which
pMrmftt us to say with no sense of parochialism,
; This was done by a Nebraska man! Art is
' making progress in Nebraska, just because Ne
braska is going ahead."
J When Gipsy Smith Comes.
The evangelical churches of Omaha have made
great preparations against the advent today of
a notable evangelist Gipsy Smith is coming to
' stir into greater activity the religious life of the
community, to add a stronger flow to its current,
.. and to catch np into it many who are now out
" side. Perhaps that will not be the end of his
mission; it may be that the greater of his ac
complishments will be to revive the lagging
, power of those whe long ago were convicted
and brought to the fold. However that may be,
. The Bee bespeaks for him all worthy success in
his undertakings. He will find Omaha much the
same as any other great center of cosmopolitan
life; a hosy, energetic people, striving to make
the city's good place to live, differing as to
. methods, but all looking to the same goal He
omen! Part in the Revolution.
edication of a monument to the mothers of
he revolution in Westchester county, New
York, is a reminder that women were as deeply
stirred as men in the struggle for independence.
Something is known and appreciated of the
mothers of Washington and Jefferson, and the
story of Molly Pitcher, who took her fallen hus
band's place at the cannon lingers in the memory.
But it scarcely has been realized how the women
of colonial days nursed the infancy of freedom
and that without their enthusiastic support
America might not have been freed.
Before the revolution patriotic societies of
women were formed in all parts of the country
under the name, "Daughters of Liberty" These
were pledged to wear only garments of American
manufacture and to drink no tea on which the
stamp tax had been paid. The movement seems
to have originated in Providence, with seventeen
young women who met to spin their own cloth,
this being a movement toward the economic inde
pendence of the colonies. The next meeting was
so well attended that it was held in the court
house. At the first graduation exercises at Brown
college, in 1769, the president and all the stu
dents appeared in homespun, and ' the same
policy was adopted at Harvard. In one com
munity a spinnipg match of the Daughters of
Liberty began at sunrise and lasted until sunset,
so great was their devotion.
These were the lighter aides, but still, to give
up the brocades and fancy goods brought in
English ships was hard, and even more of a
sacrifice was the pledge against tea. It was
through this movement that Americans even
L today drink much more coffee than they do tea.
I After the war broke out the course of the women
became more arduous. In many places the belles
united to refuse all suitors who were not in the
Continental army, and in one instance the house
wives took it upon themselves to mob a mer-.
chant who was profiteering in coffee.
There were no dangers that they did not
share. Left at home they worked in the fields,
carried food to the- armies, buried the fallen,
visited the hospitals and prisons and even turned
spies. On the frontier, where Indian, attacks
were frequent, the wives, mothers and daughters
often were left alone with the aged men. There
were massacres and there were victories in which
the women loaded the guns for the defenders and
carried water to put out the fires that menaced
the log houses and stockades.
Lydia Darrah, who rode through the night to
tell Washington of the enemy's plan for attack,
learned from officers billeted in her home, was
not an exceptional character. Sarah Hull, who
followed her husband to camp and was with the
Continentals at Saratoga was only one of many
wives who braved the dangers of the front. The
(Jiiaker, Deborah Franklin, who was banished
from New York City because of her liberality
toward American prisoners, illustrates another
tort of helpfulness. One likes to read also of
the Virginia woman who. defied the officer who
was taking horses out of her stable, and severed
the reins by which they were led with a sword.
There was a dauntless spirit among the
women of the revolution. The men of that day
(one thinks especially of the remark of John
Adams about the need of certain generals for
wives to push them on) appreciated this support.
It is all the more surprising, therefore, to read
that this granite monument dedicated so recently
on the site of a village that was burned in the
war, is' the first ever erected to their memory.
The Husking Bee
Ws Your Day
Siari It With a Laugh
Real Human Prosperity.
Gratifying indeed is it to read that the value
of American manufactured goods in 1920 repre
sented a three-fold increase over that of 1910,
and was 4'j times that of 20 years ago. The
number of industrial establishments in 10 years
increased 20,000 and the workers in them, 2,500,
000. These estimates suggest not only increased
production per man, but also a tendency toward
larger industrial units. . The rise in prices hinders
the effort to determine the actual increase in the
bulk of the output. '
In regarding these statistics some may allow
their thoughts to stray to the way in which
Charles Dickens dealt with certain similar mat
ters in his novel, "Hard Times.'' Mr. McChoak
umchild, the schoolmaster, called on Sissy Jupe
to answer some questions on national prosperity.'
"Now this schoolroom is a nation," he says,
"and in this nation are 50,000,000 of money.
Isn't this a prosperous nation, and ain't you in
a thriving state?"
Poor Sissy was a flat failure as an economist,
and gave the wrong answer. "I couldn't know
whether it was, a prosperous nation or not, and
whether I was in a thriving state or not unless
I knew whd had got the money, and whether
any of it was mine," she replied. '
The teacher came at the problem in another
way: "This schoolroom is an immense town,
and in it there are a million of inhabitants and
only ftve-and-twenty are starved to death in the
streets in the course of a year. What is your
remark on the proportion?"
Wrong once more, to the disgust of the in
structor, Sissy said that she "thought it must
be just as hard on those who were starvtd
whether the others be a million or a million
'million." '
Real human prosperity can not be gauged by
grand totals or by per capita averages. "There
is no wealth but life," said Ruskin. And in
truth computations as to how much was pro
duced have not as much bearing on national
prosperity as how it was produced with how
much wear and tear on the minds, souls and
bodies of men, women vand children and how
it was consumed.
Mary Pickford, according to a Paris spe
cialist, is suffering from "screenitis," which he
defines as the wear and tear on the nerves,
caused by the perpetual effort to please. She
has nothing much to worry about, if she only
knew it the public has not developed any great
critical faculty as yet -
If Prohibition Commissioner Haynes is en
couraged over the outlook for enforcement, it is
time for a good many other persons to be dis
couraged by the same set of facts.
Will that Denver mail man, who is accused
of burning letters, plead spontaneous combustion?
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
The shimmy mutt go, say the dance supervisors,
To wiggle is naughty and vulgar and crude.
So when we're down-hearted Irom joyousoetS
parted.
How can we now hope to SHAKE off the
mood i
Toddling, waddling, hugging the bunny,
Fox-trotting all are pronounced as nasse:
Though maids are progressing in manners of
dressing,
The dances go back to our grandmother's day,
Written in vain has been all the Jan music,
Dumb are the cow-bells that always rang false.
Back let us nustle to noon-skirts and bustle.
Control every muscle come girlie, let's waltit
PHILOSOPHY.
An eloquent man is one who caa win a poor
argument by force of rhetoric.
' Usually the lower down a man gets the
harder up he is.
When a storekeeper finds a lead nickel in the
day's receipts he imagines the country is infested
by a desperate band of counterfeiters.
That recent grand jury probe has convinced
a lot of men that it is easy to be fooled, and also
foolish to be easy.
"Prohibition officers find still in cornfield."
News Item.
You may break, you may shatter the jug if
you will; but the moonshine will come from the
farmyard still.
CAN'T HELP IT.
A man who really loves his wife
Will sympathize with her, '
.Will smooth the rough spots in her life
When such rough spots occur;
Though hell not laugh at bet mistakes
Nor ridicule her style
A home-made flannel night-gown makes
Most any husband smile.
We "certainly enjoyed the world series. While
it was on we saw scarcely a kthing in the kpapers
ancnt Fatty Kbeltbuckle or the K. K. K.
Welt, the eirls have one consolation. If those
heather-mixture, virgin wool stockings itch the
knees, it won t be much trouble to scratch em.
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: UNIMPORTANT ITEM.
As far as we know the Esquimaux have never
had a fire-prevention week.
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HUGE FIGURE.
Ouch.: Did vou-ever count up how much
you've paid out in rent since you were married?
Grouch: Nope. Never telt that I could attord
an adding machine.
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While we never won an automobile in a raf
fle, we take a chance on one every time we cross
Farnam street
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Ahhal A wheeze from the South Side:
NOT ALL JOY RIDERS.
V We have no morals, one would think,
To hear reformers talk,
Yet midst the babble of those yaps
. We hear of girls who walk. Brutus.
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POSTHUMOUS PROSPECTS.
Lost: Maltese Angora cat. Finder rewarded,
dead or alive. Want Ad. , -
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ONE GUESS ONLY,
"I guess it's time to go," he sighed,
5 Just as the cuckoo clock struck ten;.
"I hope," the weary maid replied, ,
"That you won't have to guess again."
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Although the world series is over, dope ex
perts are still borrowing each other's pencils try
ing to figure out what would have happened if
"I-told-you-sos" are wagging a wicked chin
piece, but we have one consolation they can't
cash an "I-told-you-so." .
. Spit and Argue club is still discussing how to
pronounce Meusel, or rf the que is silent as in
chink. . . '
Babe Ruth fainted in the dugout Monday, but
the humane Giant pitcher, Nehf, fanned htm.
We trust the Babe's injuries will noti in
capacitate him for vodville. '
AUTUMN THOUGHT.
Wefider what one could get for a truck load!
of old straw hats, F. O. B. Battle Creek?
. . .
AYE, AND WORTH IT.
Dear Philo: I notice where an Omaha woman
was so extravagant as to pay $80 to a beauty
parlor for a permanent wave. I have a bald
headed friend who says he will pay $150 to any
one who will put this thing on his head.
. ' M. A. P.
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BUT THEY DONT R. S. V. P.
When a woman enters a crowded street ear
she mutely extends to the men a standing" in
vitation. .
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"That little woman over there in the corner is
a wonder.."
' "That so?. Why, she seems so quiet and un
assuming." "Yes. That's why she is a wonder."
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Frail can dance all night, but if she has to
stand 15 minutes to wash the dishes,- her feet
ALMOST KILL HERI
Clay pipe is the darb for a laiy man. If he hap
pens to drop it on the sidewalk there is no ex
cuse for stopping to pick it up.
ISNT IT TRUE?
If you've the goods, you've naught to fear,
A man will win if he's sincere,
No trick can down good common sense,
And cold facts beat hot arguments.
..
e COME AGAIN.
D. J. Lockwood, Onawa, la., wins the five
iron men by a neck and a collar button, with the
following
LIMERICK.
A fellow who once had a date
Drove his flivver up to the girl's gate,
But alas, at his shout
Her father came out
The starter worked two seconds late.
Sad indeed had been this fellow's fate if all
the things suggested by our numerous contribu
tors had happened to him mostly to his pate.
Our hoard of examiners, however, decided that
Mr. Lockwood's offering had the best touch,
leaving as it did, a little to the imagination. .
We trust those who failed to cop will shoot
again. Remember the old adage: "If at first
you gather no moss, roll again."
The contributions received were legion some
limped a trifle, some hobbled in on verbal
crutches, but for the most part they came in hot
foot and close to the winner.
Five smackers for the best last line received
before Wednesday noon to this incomplete
LIMERICK.
An Omaha maiden, quite fair,
Took a notion that she'd bob her hair,
Though she did it in fun,
When it had been done
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AFTER-THOUGHT: It is better to be a
small noise than a big echo. PHILO.
How to Keep Well
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The Dante Myth Exploded
FLU AND HEALTH RECORDS.
Thro year auo right now we wero
In the miitui of an eutAemifl of Inrtn
eniA. part of a pendvniie of the
dleorder which involved all Hint pan
of th world that baa a hlirhly dn
vr loped civilisation. Where It tamo
from wo do not know, and where
It went to la ateo unknown. It
swooped down on the United Btatra
nd found ua unprepared and al
most unwarned. This anniversary
work U a very good time to pauee
and take inventory.
Tho report of the United State
eeneua office show that the year
ISIS ha a mortality rat or 11 1
in the reglatratlnn area, aa roni pared
with 14.1 In th preceding year. If
w go back Ju"t SO year before this
epidemic, w find that th tiverajr
death rat year by year of tha dec
ado preceding waa hlrhcr than that
of 1I1S. In th tntervenlne SO year
w had grown, ao accuxtonied to
better health that Betting down In
111 In th midst of 1891 condition
shocked u almost beyond bcllrf.
wnnt mad matter seem so bnd
was th concentration t of so much
of th 1I1S elckneea In September.
October and November. Few of the
dlr prophecies -made in ISIS have
been fulfilled. In 1918 it was said
that Influensa becat consumption,
liefor June, 1919. th Buffalo
health department waa out with
proof that th infliiena epidemic
had not increased th amount of
consumption In that community.
Sine that time substantiation ha
com from every direction
Never In th history of tho world
ha th decline In the consumption
rat approximated that of tho last
three years. When one develops
consumption It 1 natural to blame
It on an attack of Influensa If there
ha been one.
There is no proof. In fact there
la some proof to the contrary.
Many persona with heart disease
charge their troubles to Influenza. A
study made In Cincinnati soon after
th epidemic subsided seems to
prove that there was some Increase
in heart disease in the wak of the
Influenza, but as time has rone on
there has come no support of the
theory that Influenza, causes heart
disease. ,
Some people with Bright's disease
lay their trouble to attacks of influ
enza. There la no proof that Influ
enza causes ricrht a dispose.
Of couree, the neurathcnlcs lay
their troubles to inllucnzu, but exag
gerating their discomforts and blam
ing" the other fellow are two founda
tlon 'stone of their disorder. As a
matter of fact there is no proof that
Influenza caused any organic diseases
irom baldness to corns and every
thing in between. Whoever says his
disease, disorder or discomfort,
whatever it may be, originated in
an attack of influenza is saying
sometning ne cannot prove.
On the other hand, the death
rates never have been so low as they
nnve oeen since tne influenza left us.
The 1918 influenza wave held on
until Into 1919, and yet the death
rate of 1919 was enough below the
average to half offset the excess of
1918. There was a small wave of
1920. and yet 1920 had a death rate
ns low. or lower, than 1919 ' The
1921 rate so far is much lower than
that of 1920. No important, group
or diseases is more important than
It was prior to the . great influenza
epidemic of 1918.
Symptoms of Appendicitis.
Miss M. R. S. writes: "1. On
which aide of the body is the appen
dix located ?
"2. I have had a pain in my right
aide for several days. Could it. be
appendicitis? It has never bothered
me before."
REPLY.
2. If It is low down on the right
side, it may be due to aDiendicitis.
Appendicitis pain at first is colicky
and apt to cause nausea. Later it
is sharper and steadier. There is
tenderness on pressure and the ab
dominal walls are rigid, especially
on tne rignt side.
Beware of Paris Green.
A Reader writes: "To rid a house
of roaches mix 10 cents worth of
Paris green to one part of powdered
sugar. Make a funnel of stiff paper,
fill with powder, and let just a little
green line or the powder sift out all
along the bottom of the baseboards.
Kaise up the little plates around the
radiator pipes, sink and bath pipes,
take a spoon and carefully put the
powder in the hole, then replace the
plates. Leave powder around for a
rew days and the roaches will dis
appear. Do not use a great deal or
puiT It around as other powders are
uewa.
REPLY.
One should be careful with Paris
gretn, particularly if there are chil
dren around.
"Patient, Forget Thyself."
M. S. M. writes: "About eight
months ago I was. forced to leave
school, due to a breakdown from
overstudy.- I was examined by a
good physician, who diagnosed my
trouble as introspection. How long'
is required ror one to- recover from
such a malady? Will my mind ever
regain its former mental vigor?"
. REPLY.
What th doctor meant was that
you were suffering from too much
study of yourself. You spend too
much time thinking about yourself
and you grossly exaggerate your
aches, pains, discomforts and mal
adjustments. In other words, you
have bad mental habits. You will
never get any better until you culti
vate better mental habits. Get in
terested in your studies, forget your
"Innards" and your wheels will go
around all right. Continue as you
are now and your works will creak
as long as they run. It is up to you
to cure yourself.
The Pauper Cln?s.
Some of the teacher's pupils were
not overenergetic, so she determined
to warn them against the evils of
laziness. She drew a terrible picture
of what happened to men" who will
not work. Finally she proceeded to
question her class on the lecture she
had .Just given them.
"Now tell me, Tommy, she said to
a small child whose thoughts were
obviously far away, "who is that mis
erable individual, that wretched
specimen of humanity, who gets
clothes, food and lodging for noth
ing?" -
Tommy's face glowed with pleas
ure. This was a sabject he truly
relished. "Please, mum," he . an
swered. In a voice vibrating with
triumphant vengeance, "the baby."
London Post
Oratorical Fanner.
The feller that knows Jest exactly
how t' farm is alius on th' lecture
platform. Abe Martin, in Farm
Life.
, irnm Iks If Tt.)
Of all the alMtirdiUe before whlrh
tiiB Utrrail bow down the pant
inih, whlth i lins; ewphiuliwd
i In (ir In Hi relwbratiun of th
South snnivrary uf his death, Is
Mie uf the miwt monstrous
I'uld, cMxered, clammy, wet with
lit rt of th tomb, th Floren
tine survives a kind of unread
Immortal, a deathl womhluptr of
death.
And vi t this voleo from th tomb.
thin advttrut of tho divln right of
kiiiK. till man wn moved Shd
looked bMikwarda n lllfnttutf. thin
Peudo-i IcnlUt who arcued that
water run up hill is, if w am to
beilevti III deluu or ftiUKasin ana
newspaper artli-l now appearing,
pre-emlniMit smiinf tne pnt-ia.
It Is not to be denU'd that ho wrote
In th vrrnai-uUir and thrly rend
ered valuable awrvlo in the develop.
ment of the Italian lamtuac. It Is
also true that he lapsed Into th un
dvistanduhle and even the beautiful
now and then In hi wast of word
lie, It in not also ho mild to his credit,
probably invented a new and highly
flexible ven form.
Hut these am technical matter
end cannot bo advanced aa claims
for lasting fame. Dante stands out
not as n n Immortal Mungster but as
another proof of the survival or a
fi-tii'h. lie Is icrent because a thin
line of critic ItmlHted that he was
great and Inter ones have found It
easier to accept than to discredit
him.
Nevertheless, wo expect eertaln
things of a poet, among them being
facility in rxproiwion, lucidity and
life-throb. His vision, too. must be
not only sustained, but sound.
Judged by such 'a standard, Dante
must be placed In the second rank
among maker of sung.
Hi writing are no difficult that
they can only be unlocked by the
most perslatent scholars. If he saw
thins clearly he fiiilcd to make
ethers soe, which is the only kind
of lucidity thut counts In a writer.
Ills Imagination was feverish rather
than insplrlngly strong.
At a time when the world waa
being reborn, he became the histo
rian of the tomb. When man were
about to go in quest of new regions
of the earth and of the mind, he
charted and chanted about the
mythical reaches of hell. When lib
erty was about to assert himself,'
he was the apologist for absolutism
in government and in religion.
And love? Ho never so much a
held Beatrice's hand! However,
he married and had numerous chil
dren by another woman, all the
while writing of his undying pas
sion for some other man's wife. Had
he been a real Romanticist, he
would have grabbed her up and
taken her away. Had lie been a
elolld I'utltaii, ha would Imvo kept
hU mouth Nhut about her and would
hav sold a few good wont for hia
own wife, lining neither, h walked
with her down th lig aUle of th
regions of lhu dead. unreal In hi
lalan as It was runny in nia pnu
iMtophy. ,
II H out. b It remembered, to
lead th whol world. tn inron
uf (JimI and ended by merely spin
ning glided phraor around th time
worn teaching of the , monk and
the commonplaces cr . u r a
thinker. -
III tholotry Is as stilted and ss
vacuous ss hi politic J, which is
Ntylng a good deal when It Is re
raited that h snrloOaly argued that
I ho world wa about to, a perma
nently under the Joint rulo of a pop
and an emiieror.
Great I Dante that Is to say, a
great myth!
Th world owe Mm nothing hut
a yawn.
When Kenoe Degltw i fhw.
There will be far lea unemploy
ment - when the litndii rlM gets
ta th. point where It iieknowtedges
that hnlf a loaf la better thun no
bread. Philadelphia North American.
' Mill Witticlrrttir.
There ought 1 be something bet
ter than muddling through the
nfier-war period, but poor human
man hus not discovered It. Chicago
News.
CENTER SHOTS
Figure showing the ot of liv.
Ing ar being prepired fur th m
iuyiuent eonft rem . It might oet v
a a ueful purpose to lend them V
tho conferem on th limitation 01
ariiuuntita lltun TranTlpt.
Tt I predicted that the burning of
coal will be mud a penal often
In England, lit ihU country, with
price at their present riisi. It u
goats an exhibition of reckl cour
age. liostnn Transcript.
Prosperity la ut around th eor
lire ouutd the high-rent dlatriot.
Hutu Post
It t ofllclally declared that rent
are going dhwn, and nothing remain
to b don except to niak the land
lord boliova IL Detroit Kr I'reos.
Moat men hat long sermon, but
If they war given the preacher'
rhn to Ulk without Interruption
th eight-day clock would run down
first. Toledo Ulad.
Th Idea seems to b that tabor
oueht to ao around asking for a re
duction In Its earning th way tha
retailers, for example, hav been do
ing. Indianapolis War.
Satisfactory tax legislation Is not
to be expected until congnwa puts
vision In revision. Norfolk Virgin-ian-I'llot.
Ten Million Itjicliclor.
There sr Said to be 10,000,000
bachelors in America. Figures are
inconclusive; when does one cease
being a kid and begin to be a bache
lor? Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Or a Plstolless Wife.
Nature may have to Invent a bullet-proof
htielmnd If the rue la to
furvive. Nashville' Tcnnessean.
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Mars and the Moon
An Arkansas Tip.
One thing we notice, your poll tax
and dog tax are the same. Moral:
Don't disgrace your dog. Searey
Ci. -en.
(From the Bntton TraJiMrlpl.)
There Is again a spasm of inter
est among astronomers In the physi
cal conditions in those unknown
worlds which astronomically are so
near to us, tho moon and Mars.
Starting id 1871 with the Italian
Schiaparelli, who died in 1910, a
good many observers waked to an
interest in the singular markings on
the surface of Mars. The observa
tions of that very worthy son of
P.oston, Pereival Lowell, made at the
observatory which he build at Flag
staff, Ariz., are well known. He died
thoroughly convinced that thesb
markings are the result of la -go irri
gation operations carried on by in
tclllgent beings. But he never con
vinced the scienitflc world of this.
The process which he employed 1
combination of telescopic magniflca
tion and of photography was pro-
.nounced a peculiarly uncertain one,
in which very' vague and possibly
accidental lines or shadings, varying
through merely mechanical causes,
would appear. The general Judg
ment of astronomers undoubtedly is
that while there is certainly an at
mosphere on Mars, and in all prob
ability vegetation, nothing like proof
has ever been developed that the
changes observed are the result of
intelligent direction. In other words,
while there is "life" upon Mars,
nothing now known goes to show
that there Is "soul."
The lifelessness of the. moon has
always been regarded as quite dem
onstrated. The general Judgment of
astronomers pronounces it a dead
planet. Conclusive evidence of its
airlessness is supposed to be found
in the fact that there is no refrac
tion in the light of a star when seen
coincident with the limb of the
moon. That is to say, a star, pass
ing to bur eyes againat the edge of
the moon, would have Its light re
fracted or deflected by thu moon's
atmosphere if it had an atmosphere..
But not the slightest evidence of
such refraction has ever been re
corded. But now comes Prof. W. H.
Piekerine of Harvard lintversltv. one
of the most distinguished and care
ful of the world's astronomers, who,
from the vantage point of the Har
vard observatory In Jamaica. ' turn
announced his posltlv observation.
on the surface of th moon, not
only of appearances which he does
not hesitate to ascribe to clouds and
vapors there, but also of vegetation
of a prodigious and mushroom sort
which develops and disappears with
in eight days. "We are able," Prof.
Pickering says, "to watch the effects
of life as it slowly moves across the
surface of the moon;" and he delib
erately pronounces the moon to be
a living world lying at our very
doors, where life in some respects
resembles that on Mars, but is en
tirely unlike anything on our
planet , -
The importance of this conclusion
can hardly be overestimated. It
suggests, in the first place, the vir
tual failtfre of astronomical observa
tions in northern latitudes, and this
failure Prof. -Pickering emphasizes
In a recent statement. The observ
ers of the southern latitudes, he
says, see things which the northern
observers do not. It Is not the north
ern observers' fault. Prof. Pickering
adds, but he strongly intimates that
It la thoir fault i fhatr Ma.li !
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tive conclusions based on their in
ability, when others can' see better.
Prof. Pickering, it is to be noted.
makes no claim whatever, and offers
no opinion, as -to the existence of In
telligent beings on the moon. He
asserts no more than the existence
of vegetation there. -The extraordi
nary unlikeness of the life he has
found to anything that wa know of
on the earth certainly operates
against the assumption that any
thing like human beings could have
been - developed there. But it is
clear that observations of th sur
face of the' moon must proceed, to
the end that the little that has now
been learned may be increased
that we may make a much closer
acquaintance with the "living neigh
bor at our door."
As to the researches concerning
Mars, we have had a recent hint
from Mr: Marconi to the effect that
certain wireless wave signals or vi
brations, of a wave length vastly ex
ceeding any In commercial use on
the earth today, have been picked
up by his instruments, and he has
suggested . th . possibility of their
coming from .Mars. This is a mere
surmise..' But "it ia -worthy of being
considered and Investigated. Prof.
Pickering's extraordinary moon ob
servations have already Indicated
that a totally negative attitude with
regard to such investigations is the
reverse of scientific.
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