Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1915, Page 26

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE | ot st et od s ibtedechdeivn ol e S sty FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. i VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. | “The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. ji BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND n\'mi'rnm | Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. | T Tenws or sumscmieTioN. ! TERMS OF IUMCFR"EL'- By Sl per month. per year. f Daily and Sunday .60, 6.9 Datiy_without_ Sund b3 i and Su X | without Sunday 25¢ . 4.& nY tte of changs of address of cbwaints of . of ¢ enaulaity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Cirealation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft. express o~ postai order. Only two- ent of amall ac- tampa received in pa; cent postage sta mt P ahs a e counts, Personal checks, excedt on exchange, not A OFFICES. g:‘:n Omaha~— B‘l‘i“?t::fl | Council Blufta—14 North Main street. f Lincoln—2 Little Buildin Chicago—01 Hearst Bullding. New York—Room 1105, 286 Fifth avenue. 8t. Louls-58 New Bank of Comme: A Washington—12% Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRBAPONDENCDE, sk Address communications ath to s and edi- torlal matter to Omaha " “flnonflmn_.fi i MAY SUNDAY OIRCULATION, ! 46,903 Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss.: Dwight Willlams, eirculation manager, s that ! through the press th Ready for the Waste Basket. How deeply imbedded in the inherited tradi- tions of medievalism are all our diplomatic usagens aud etiquette is illustrated again in the circumstantial accounts of the transmission or “notes” between Washington and Berlin as ex- plaining the slowness and seeming delay. Ac- cording to authorities professing to speak '‘by the card,” all these documents have to be trans- lated into code word for word to insure utmost secrecy and then “decodized” by equally labor- fous process of re-translation. It is sald that it took three hours to put President Wilson's first note to Germany into the diplomatic code al- though it measured but 1,600 words, which must alto be “‘keyed” by way of further pre- caution and the whole job had to be done over lin before delivery to destination In man foreign office. Remembering that all these whole ‘“‘notes” ip original readable lish are given publicity moment final communi- cation to the kalser's government was insured the Ger- | and thus made available to friend and foe alike, the codifying and decodifying would appear to be a huge joke were it not for the seériousness of the subject matter. Why In this twentieth century should governnents try to talk to each other not only In eryptic language, which de- celves no one, buf also go to the expense of time, the average Sunday circulation for the month of May,'| money and trotible to provide a pretense of 1915, was 4,908, DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation qu;: } Subseribed Invmy presence and sworn to before me, this 3 day of June, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. Tune 18 —:;-::—a—_fi\ Thought for the Day Selected by Mrs. Herbert H. Bollard - Build a lte fence of trust around today; - il the space with loving wonk, and therein stay; JLook w.t through the sheltering bars wpon te- " morrow, God will help thee bear what comes of joy or sorrow. —Mary F. Butte. m Every cloud has a silver lining. Smb—— After a resignation from the cabinet—what? S—— xln and au revoir, Dr. Dernburg. v ! x — secrecy when there is no secrecy nor would such wecrecy be of any advantage if it could be pre- served? Some dpy—yes, we hope some not distant day—we may be big and brave enough to throw all this diplomatic tom-foolery into the waste basket. A Proper Measure of Prevention. Through advertisement of the telephone company in Chicago papers, subscribers are notitied that employes sent for any reason to enter private premises are each to carry identi- fication cards bearing photograph and auto- graph of such employe to be demanded and veri- fled in case of the slightest doubt ay to his right of entry or that the person i{s what he rep- resents himself to be. This strikes us as a move in the right direction, that should be fol- lowed, as it probably soon will be, by all public service corporations that employ meter readers, testers, inspectors, repalr men, etc. As patrons, ‘we are expected, if not required, to admit these Bon | men to our houses and offices, often taking the chance of throwing our doors open to impostors or suspicious characters. The rule, too, if good _The weather man seems 1o be having troudle | tor public service corporations, would apply his bridal veil on straight. ST—————— . ——— Notwithstanding reports to the contrary, Russian bear has a fow claws left. e i l | equally to municipally-owned utilities. ' The enforcement of some dependable of identification Mofl, admission to private premises should be viewed not as reflection on the | the -'lqn. but as a precaution really for his /| protection, as well as for the protection of the louseholder. While resort to the ruse of per- —e . After stopping off in Omaha, “Liberty bell | sonating a meter-reader or repalr-man may be the 0. wedding month of June. most amazing part of the whole Meident Clark in 8o far “not sayin' & word.” ——— Peace 18 drawing strength from unexpected quarters. Chairman Walsh of the Industrial commission refuses to break into the uggestions for . comes from various quarters of the people are happlest when they baso ball is not a circus. The mere fact of the game looking thit way occasionally {s not con- clusive. Play ball! i §-nhmem 4 | SE—— *Golonel Roosevell has come out of the Loulsiana canebrakes long enough to say he is p’ufl-d doing team work. 2 Sprmegpe———_= 3 1t men hope to hold their place in society, pggressive organization is urgently needed to secure a share of the spotlight for June bride- . Shining by reflected light is 1lia- Aireraft in War. Among modern achievements undergoing the looking through his spectacles, is pouring over Merce test of war, aeroplanes stand out as the | , pyecious volume just taken from its well filled most important new factor iu land operations. ts whose wide pe! ve furnish com- ding generals with essential information t the enemy. In this activity seroplanes thus far wn their greatest usefulness. - Jeast they are responsible for the w have . men to dig themselves into open and covered ! to view the firing lines rarely of actual war. Swiftly moving perilous even preparation for open field in daytime, which accounts for the fre- of night attacks when aerial eyes are The use of aircraft for raids on enemy coun- have not as yet produced results com- L) e long-waiting democratic office-seekers depend- nm'um.nl-dznuy tratts. . t:;c. the former secretary of state to land | heroes wear Carnegle P8 D. route. No offense to the | rare in Omaha as compared with Chicago, there 13 every reason why we should have the benefit of the same measure of prevention. SEey—— A Touch of Human Nature. In the Michigan penitentiary at Jackson a convict saw another in imminent danger and sprang to his rescue. The life was saved, but wonderful success \achieved by Champ | (ne pescuer died. Here Is material for refloc- tion on one of man's noble attributes—one that knows nelther race nor clime, nor poverty, nor riches. No tle of f dship or affection héld these men; it may be Goubted if either knew the other's name, for"men in prisoa are usually merely numbers. The dead man saw the living starting & probe on tax in mortal peril, and without a thought of conse- quences thrust himself between death and the vietim, " It was an impulse that seems common to bumanity., No crisis, great or small, develops S——— Internal Revenue department rules that | Dut someone arises to meet it. Frequently “the native hue of reselution is sicklied o'er by the pale cast of thought,” and the individual loses & chance to bd a hero, But the impulse to help a stricken brother, to assume sudden and O —— But where the blow falls hardest is on those | unexpected risks, is common enough, and is one 4 Not all edals, but the world had its heroes long before institution of the com- mission on award, and most of them gre too modest to wear a medal, if given one. The conviet who died that his fellow might Agin' Bryan. The two colonels never did show |1ive had at least that much of nobility in his nature, and his self-sacrifice must strengthen the belief that some good exists in all men. Perversion of Book Tastes. A picture in Life presents a most clever satire on the superficial character of present- day book reading. Two open shelf sectiong of a public library are labelled to ipdicate the contents, A studious, sober-faced old man, stack neatly labelled “‘SBhakespeare, Hawthorne, They have become the eyes of the armies, the | 1 xen, Thackeray, Ellot. At the other side is & variegated lot of men and women, young and old, serambling for a pick of the books remain- teg on depleted shelves bearing the illuminating names “Myrtle Mush, The Countess, Katherine In. part &t giumore, Natalle Nutt. Translated into word nprecedented | 4rawing, the good old substantial works of what ' use of entrenchiments, having compelled fIEhtIng | 4;q xnown as the standard authors remain dust- covered and readerless, mere reminders of by- en and forced to resort to every avallable | .., quys while the effervescent, sentimental, od of screening artillery. So thoroughly | o yung transitory output of the so-called 3 popu- concealments practiced that human eyes | 1. uthors have their brief run ome after the %60 | other because they appeal to & passing faney or alreraft | yoppen to hit upon a fashionsble fad. Is the pleture overdrawn? Perhaps. But alas! there is much more truth than poetry in it. S——— Court Control of Newspapers. How Willlam Howard Taft could suggest to the New York constitutional convention that the with the risk. Dropping bombs on | rreegom of the press should be comstricted to distant from the battle lines has not prevent “newspaper trials” is a little difticult to the progress of the war. Even the huge | yugerstand. To prohibit the newspapers pub- Zeppelins have falled signally as a fac- | juhing court proceedings would simply confirm in the fighting. Thelr vast bulk makes | yne judges in their e - @ conspicuous target for artillery, which | tepches, we have much more to fear from judic thelr raide exclusively at night. The | eia) tyranny than from newspapers overstepping , and, as history upe ly of the swift moving aeroplane over | ine bounds of propriety. The Bee ventures to ved in the recent suggestion were to be By VIOTOR ROSEWATER. OUNT on William Jennings Bryan to soize what 1o him seems to be the psychological moment for a spectacular performance. His whole public career has been a scries of sensational exploits ap- pealing strongly to the imagination, but talling short ot holding the sober second thought. T attended the historic 15% Chicago convention and heard the famous ross-of-gold”’ speech which won him his first presidential nomination. To an outsider 1t doubtless looked ns if it were all wholly spontane- | ‘ous, but in fact it was carefully thought out and pre- | parea tar in advance. in revefse when it reached our embassy in Ber- The only trust-to-luck part of that dramatic act was in choosing the time for stag- ing it, which had to walt for the favorable opening. | And, as 1 have often remarked, the wonderful re- sponse elicited by that oration was due as much to its contrast with the dull and tiring speeches delivered | by those who preceded him as to its own resonant ring. At the 190 St. Louis convention, which Bryan startied with his midnight outbreak over the Parker ®o0ld telegram, I was again present, and no unbiased observer doubts that had not the nomination been already actually made, Parker would never have been named, despite all the pins set up and all the deals entered into to Insiure that result. Because of other engagements I was absent from both the Grana Tsland convention and the Baltimore convention, where Bryan played very similar roles, though with foredoomed faflure fn the first and un- expected success in the second. On all these occasions that have brought him Into the glare of the limelight —and perhaps his resignation as colonel 6f the Second Nebraska should be mentioned in the same connec- tion—his judgment has been seflously questioned even by his closest friends and admirers. although his audaclous courage and sublime confidence in his own persuadive power and in his ultimafe vindication has been universally conceded. Bryan must be a believer in his ‘‘star’—newspaper men who were with him over the election each time he ran for the presidency Insist he was really cock- sure that he was about to win out and genuinely sur- prised at his defeats which everyone else clearly fore- saw. I have not the slightest doubt that right now he has thoroughly convinced himself, regardiess of the opinions of others, that his resignation from the cabinet and the program he has mapped out is the supreme call of duty. The Bryan debacle filleq the house and supplied a windfall for the box office for Stephen Wise's lecture. His subject, “Is War Cureless?* just fitted in with the hour and he treated it in a powerfol Impression- making way. As a whole, overlooking the side sal- les, his talk was brilliant and seemingly Inspired. But Dr. Wise's bold badin: nd keen satire are also telling. I wonder if everyone who heard caught the note of irofly in his profuse thanks for the handsome personal tribute to him in the flluminated letters of his name surmounting our municipal welcome arch From his meére words one would infer that the deli- cacy of the compliment quits overcame his modesty and blazed a path straight into his heart. P. B.—Does not someone in authority in the city hall possess the hardihood to have that hideous areh removed and, if ‘Wwe must retain it, re-locate it at a more suitable spot. where it will not destroy the beauty and symmetry of the most consplcuous civic and architectural center of our eity? -l What gives the Ak-Sar-Ben initiation entertatn- ments thelr holds year after year? It's the clever ideas, the melodious music, the spiey yet free-from- offense character of the stunts and the constant up-to- dateness. To the first-timer the Ak-Sar-Ben show is & stunner, and to those of us who have gone through the ‘mill twenty-one times It exhibits steady Improve- ment. What I remember most of my Initial entrance into the mysteries of Samson was a steady pummeling with air-blown bladders swung by strings attached' to sticks in the hands of a star athletic team. Mern- bers of the Initiation crew were chosen, then, not for thelr sweet volces or ahapely figures or accomplish- Ments as dancers, but for brawn and muscle that would enable them to deal properly with refractory novitiates. Thnes change in the Kingdom of Quivera. Twice Told Tales Kept His Promise. Little Bob was playing at quolts in the yard when he hurt his hand with one of the frons. “‘Oh, the.devil!” he exclaimed impatiently, “T—I—" His mother, who heard the ugly exclamation, in- terrupted him. “No more of that, young man,” she commanded, ‘mo more such exclamations. Never use that word again* Bob, a dutiful son, promised never to use it again and had his hend handaged and went an playi Sunday came and he went to Sunday school as us When he retursed home his mother asked him what the lesson was about. “It was about when our Lord was tempted by For tingly, “the=the—gentle- | army officer has designod an automobile by—by," Bob explained h man whe lives down below.""—Loulsville Times, Twe Views. Richard Hardir.g Davis sald at a tea in New York: “The Germans, every time they take a drink, lift their glasses solemnly and may, ‘God punish Eng- land!* They say, ‘Ged punish Eugland,’ when they | | Coarse sAnd and lemon pwp will cleanss enamelod ware effectively. Contemplating the population of the e tire earth, there are thirty to the square mile. The julce of raw potatoes will remove staine from the hands and also from woolen fabrics. Massachusetts studlents of wireless have had good success with experiments send- ing and recelving messages with aerlals iaid on the ground. The greatest danger in inhaling fames of woond aleohol is thelr effect on the optic merve, which often results in total and incurable biindness Aluminam caps and masks through which hot or cold water can be circu- lated have been invented by a Vienna surgeor. for use as surgical compresses. An acre of bananas, will produce more than one and a third times as much food as an acre of corn, almost thres times as muth. as an acre of wheat or potatoes and four times as much as an acre of rye. WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES. Miss Bina M. West, who was re-elected supreme commender of the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World, declined to have her salary ralsed from 36,00 to $10,00 a year. That 1s very unusual for a na- tional ofifcer to do, and it is a matter of congratulation that it was a woman who set the example. Two women in St. Louts have written state songs recently, that of Mrs. Meyers having been sung at St. Joseph at the state club meeting. Mrs. Edward B. Wat- son has also written a vVery pretty little #ong that was given publicly for the first time at the annual frolic of the Woman's counell, and was sung by the Bay View club, At the meeting of the council of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in Pourtland, Ore, Mrs. Thomas G. Win- ter of Minneapolls suggested that each cludb woman in the country, that is, 2,000,- 000 women, deny themselves a pair of silk stookings each year and give the money to the endowment fund of the Gen- eral Federation. The plan was endorsed by the women present. Miss Virginia C. Giidersieeve, dean of Barnard college, was the speaker ut the annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa. the first time a woman has ever leen honored by being permitted to be the speaker. Miss Gildersleeve took advan- tage of the opportunity to deliver « speoch on suffrage. She says that women wre not adopting the medical profession to s great extent of late years, but that more of them are taking up architecture, and many more have gone into the ministry during the last ten years. Belentific pursuits also call many women, SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS, Cape Cod, the peninsula of Massachu- setts, is no longer a cape. It has been made an island by the eompletion of the Cape Cod canal. By a mew process in the manufacture of cotton, it is sald to be possible to make & produet which will take the place of bunting in making flags. The United States mavy will establish & wireless station on Cape Cod especially equipped to guide vessels along the At- lantic coast In time of fog. A Cleveland woodworker has mounted & work bench on wheels and tows it be- hind his automobile, using the power of the auto $o drive a band saw and other tools. A new fron mine now being opened ‘n Minnesots has an estimated content of 4,000,000 tons of ore. It will be worked by the open-pit method prevalent in that state. A rancher has applied for rental of 320 acres of the Pike national forest, Col>- rado, to be used in connection with pri- vate land for raising elk as a commercial venture, One of the gasometers of the Newtown Gas company, New York City, which is 5 feet high and has & holder 31 feet in alameter, is belioved to be the largest In the world. Two million fruit trees, occupying be- tween 25,000 and 30,000 acres, mostly irri- gated lands, are being planted in the vari- ous districts of eastern Washington and Oregon, 1daho and western Montana. military purposes a United States that will carry fourteen men, with full oquipment and three dnys' rations, 30 miles on ome filling of its fuel tanks. gt seioacs B b s s 0DD BITS OF LIFE. A theater manager in Hungary sells meet and when they separate. Bills inscribed ‘God | seats in accordsnce with the sise of his punish England' are posted up In public places, and patrons, the shorter being seated in the people all over with ‘God punis| and’ written on them. “That's one side of the picture, the German slde. Here's the other aide, the English side: “1 journeyed recently through a quaint English vil- lage. THere was & bust of Bimmarck on the village :‘flln. Beneath the bust the old village gardener had tten: “ “God forgive Germany! "~Washington Star. Those Impudent Sagas. . Mrs, Bddy had suddenly become wealthy through the death of an old uncle, and had begun to climb into socioty. She endeavored to ergate the impression uu::—- new manner of living was nothing unusual to her, One afternoon she became engaged in conversation with a prominent woman. “Are you famillar with the Norwdglan sagas, Mrs. Bady " queried the woman. “Indeed, o, not the least bit!" replied Mrs. Eday, hastily, “I always make the servants kmow thewr Places.” —~Philadelphla Ledger. #chool team by 22 to 8 Captain C. B. George of Pullman Oar and Miss Elisabeth C. Clark of Jersey City were mar- ried at the residence of Rev. Willard Scott, 1308 Park ! i i i i E f i j : i S Lt i E % H ny wear buttons and brooches | front rows and the taller behind them. Twenty-five dollars “for scrubbing of the tombstones of my neighbors in the graveyard” was one of the peculiar be- quests in the will of Mys. Margaretts H. Schmidt of Belleville, Iil. Nine Congregational ministers donned overalls and shingled a church roof at St. Louls, Mo,, the other day. They boasted that they could do it, and the pastor of the roofiess church called the bluff. A marvelous flower grows on the Isth- mus of Tehuantepec. Its chief peculiarity is the habit of changing its color during the day. In the morning it is white, when the sun is at its senith it s red, and at night it is blue. & Four surviving members of the Min- nesota Old Settlers’ assoclation with rec- Kid of the vemerable quartet is past 86 It was the fifty-ninth snnual reunton of the assoclation. The largest pulr of shoes ever ‘made in Kansas City now adorn the “tootsle wootsies” of Samuel D, Crowley, the b: i the | I People and Events Texas boasts of blooming watermelons large enough to stuff the mouth of six- teen-inch guns Lone stare hot alr Is manufactured on the spot A Chicage court jolted a dentist who sought to collect a bill tor professional service from a girl who had been his swestheart. “A labor of love,” remarked his homor, “cannot be transmuted into cash. Judgment for the woman.' An unromantic mutt in Pennsylvania | Jars the merry music of the center aisle by raising in ‘court the question: “Who owns the wedding presents?’ When bridegrooms come out of tha trance what they say must not be taken seriously. Promiscuous Issuing of prescriptions for spirits frument! in dry counties ia classed unprofessional and decidedly obmoxious by the suprema court of Missouri, which upholds the State Board of Health in re voking the licenses of offending physi- cians, * A public school savings bank in New York closed its first year with deposits of $13,000. Three cigarette shops and one candy store in the neighborhood were put out of business since the bank started. The possibilities of thrift, rightly di- rected, are immense, An ornate certificate and large golden #eal constitute a rich side line of the New York City marriage bureau. Brides are fascinated by the decorated paper and bridegrooms dig up up liberally, An official stumbled onto the graft and heartleasly syyelched a good thing. There isn't much doing between sunup and sundown in Fairmont, W. Va. So when five of the town's Hebes, in abbreviated skirts, frolicked in the waters of the Monongahela the male population scooted for the river banks. The rush at the rear crowded the fromt row into the water, giving the first comers a deserved ducking. Opposition against transporting Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to San Franclsco persists. Daughters of the American Revolution have issued a vigorous pro- test, and newspapers are agitating aban- donment of the trip. The Philadelphia Ledger urges that a committee of appointed to determine whether the his- toric rello can stand the journey. Rounding up professional beggars in Brooklyn led to several discoveries. One confessed that his "“blind" sign was a blind and that he owned two houses in Boston. Another flashed a typewritten paper stating that he was fendered speechless by falling off a bridge, but he put up a warm scream agajnst a work- house sentence. Fighteen others had various imaginary afflictions to lure the nickels of charity. AROUND THE CITIES. sl Pittsburgh decides that pig pens within the aity limits are a nuisance and must be abated. Portland, Ore., this spring added 31,000 rose bushes to itn growing stock. Port- land leads the world as the rose city. Topeka and adjoining towns in Kansas abe buying gasoline for 10.3 cents a K lon. It is cheaper to burn gasoline ti wear out shoe leather. Fifty thousand pies are consumed every day in St. Louls. This flerce appetite is the one explanation offered for putting xinkers on the parkway project, That Indian ptince who moved into the in Salt Lake Cify. The capture of the thief brought & reward of $100 in cash from the Punjab purse. New York's famous Madison Square ‘Garden, which has sheltered all kinds of shows, has surrendered to the movies. The equally famous Fxden Musee of Twen- ty-third street, the last of its class, has gone into the amusement discard. Boston is gradually coming into its own. The Board of Street Commissioners or- dered certain downtown sidewalks cleared of all obstructions. Poles, posts, clocks and the like must go, so that pedestrians swing for hands and A Wichita jury decided In an elderly breach of promise case that the mittened widow did not Aeserve much, but the gay old fiirt of §7 should pay for the fun. His love letters showed a total of M0 kisses sent by mall. The jury put a bargain figure of % cents on each kiss and re- turned a verdict for $323. A pecullarly sad tragedy happened in a Denver cemetery last week. Overcome by grief and blinded by tears, Mrs. Lena Higgins slipped at the graveside of her husband and In falling struck her head against & tombstone, fracturing her skull. The injury caused her death and she was buried teside her husband. A witness in a divorce case gave an in- teresting sketoh of dancing society in| “I was at a subseription | Now York City. dance,” she testified, '‘where there were 100 guests. I danced with the defendant. H told me his wife was the only painted thing in the room. He stepped on my toes dreadfully, ana I had to turn my head away to avoid his breath, which was very offensive becauge of the stuff drank. I heard him say to his wife, ‘Frances, you make me tired.’ Other- wise it was a lovely party.” Sure, Mike. metallurgists from Franklin lostitute be | © west a few wi #go sutfered a touch % SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. Baltimore American: The present age is making its appeal to men to be clothed about by the rightecusness of religion it with a garment. The ideal of religion is to present every man faultless in the presence of the Heavenly Father. Cleveland Plain Dealer: A local evans gelist predicts that the waters of Lake Erfo will turn red with blood, and that we shall have a hallstorm in which each hallstone will welgh sixty pounds. We shall have to buy distilied water, but {there will be a compensating saving in the ico bills Houston Post: Dr |vesterday on 'Why Young Men and Young Women Fall.” Sume of them fail because they get it into their heads that in order to be in the swim they must de- vote nearly all their time to frivolous pleasures, and when that idea gets into & young head there is no room there for sense. Brooklyn Eagle: Publicity is something {that is sought in one way or another by |every ltving enterprise. The church must seek it, not In a way to produce a just or unjust impression that it is eommer- | clalizing itself, but to famillarize the pub- | lie with its real appeal. The brass band, the sandwich man, the poster, offend as many as they attract, and those who are offended are the ones who could accom- plish most for the church. The message of the Almighty to His children s what the church conveys. A solemn message demands dignity In spreading it as well as dignity In its human formulation. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Jacobs preached Little Girl—My father says he has often seen you act Pleased Actress—~What did he say he saw me In, dear? Little Girl—In the seventies.—Puck | She~There was a man on the crowded car that I came home on who is a perfect hr;;!e, Why, 4 X e—Why, dear She—~Why, I trod on his feet a dozen times and he never offered me his seat.— Buston Transcript “Why do you never take your family out in your car?’ | “‘Got ‘seven in my family.' ell, seven-passenger you have a a “'Yes, and when {t's full people think I'm operating a jitney bus''—Louisville Courier-Journal, ““What was the subject of your com- cement essay, Jane?'' lers Know of the In- ars. Why such a queer subject?" ) “1 didn’t have time to write much.”— 1 Philadelphia Ledger. | “‘What 1 object to,”” 8aid the thoughtful ’s'mml woman, the idea of taxation without representation.” X “If 1 re a married man,’" responded the admiring youth, “'I'd be glad to take my wife's advice on how I voted. How would you like to have me represent you at the polls?’—Washington Star. 5 “‘Guess T'd better order a few going " sald she brightly. * was the cheerful response. | “Then just order a few staying at ih:lmn gowns.”"~Louisville Courler-Jour- | nal. | “1 was Queen of the May," boasted the | “And 1 was & June bride,” auoth the | d. “Pooh,” exclaimed the third haughtily, 'm the sweet girl graduate and the world is mine oyster.”" “Well, you won't find any pearls in jour oyster, remarked their father, who had Daid for their dreases.—Philadéiphia Record, A PRAYER. Mary Aldis, In Chicago Herald A prayer is forming on my tightened 1ips— , grant that T may keep my soul from hate! I have known love, I have been pitiful - Lord, I would keep my grief com- passionate! Faln-maddened cries | hear from out the sea, Upstaring at me, faces of the dead; Those silent bodles seem to cry aloud, Those silent souls are' still comforted. And w: are here to bear the weight of n— on.:::gp the polson from its awful Lerd, let me be as they are ere I hate, !&ll mo. love on! This, this s what ask. However long the way, there is a urning, !vchhon beyond the storm there lies a land ‘Where Peace abides, where love shall live again And men shall greet with friendly out- stretched hand. While dittle children laugh, and women wee) thh E-wlnur(). Lerd, until that our Keep Thou my soul, keep Thou my tengern: em., Keep Thou my trust in Thy far-seeing power! EXCURSION FARES EAST lllinois Central To All Principal Points, Via Direct Routes: Atlantic City, N. J.......... . $51.35 )T G RURIOR T .85 Portland, M. ........ g .00 Lake George, N. Y .$45.30 .$44.05 30 { 1 A