Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 22, 1915, Page 6

THE BEE: OMAHA, WED — e e e e e e | There is much merit In President Wilson's “‘short E f W TOUNDED BY EDWA . ROSEWATER. | ballot" plan It is one of those reforma not yet ripe The Economics of War i CY 0 ke government ownership of rallroads. It will com e JCTOR ROSEWATEL, DITOR. __ | qiong n time, but not now. The “short ballot" no sona Bolds Olek The Bee Publishing Company Proprieter. matter how worthy, I8 a reform not yet ripe.—Colum- | Professor Political Boomomy, Columbia University. Ploemmres st et | bug Telegram. §EV 7 PART I Ewm Whatever its present stage, the ‘‘short bal- | the sarih pea Entered ot Omahs postoffice as second-clase matter. | |o\" js ripening very fast. The commission plan | An B e bt L oo goodners an jove Are . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. y | And city manager plan of municipal government | o, " iU Cbaness and hate; and, in general 'Br;:-:'l:' nr! :’:‘-‘r. | #re accompanists of the ‘short ballot” campalgn. | that parts of God's country are turned into a devil s ty and Sunday..... 6e 8.9 | The most notable progress achleved, however, | country. No expert from a counting house can make BHE “witnout, Bhda - g e s » w balance sheet that will shew the amount of such nirg and Su Un‘- ::; | for the “short ballot” has been that scored in Samage onday Bes ONIY. .. Aty 2% | the New York state constitutional convention | . Yet it is extremely well worth while to measuro, end noties of change of eddress of complaints of | vhich has embodied the principle in the consti- | It we can, the sheer loss of wealth which war entalls. plarity In delivery to Omaha Bee, rtment. REMITTANCE. At by draft, expreas or postal order. two- stamps feceived In payment of small ae- Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern wnpe, wot ¢ecoepted. OFF1 . maha-The Beg Bullding. $ Omaha~3i8 N street. aa ouncil Bluffs—14 North M. wtreet. In~3 Little Buildin, om| Hearst Bullding New York~Room 1108, 386 Fifth avenue. st Lovis- 508 New Bank of Com! Washington—1% Fourteenth 8t., w":: — CORRESPONDENCE, Address communications relath \om ftoriel matter to Omaha Bee, %flo AUGUST CIRCULATION, 53,993 £tate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, se: Duight Williamis, circulation manager of The Bee ish.ng company, n, uly sworn, sa; CEutatton for fhe ‘month of "AUgust: " DWIGIT WILLIAME, Cireulation Manager Subscribed presence and aworn to before . a tember, cop “IUNTER, Notary Publie ul a Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. = September 82 ==-====’a» Thought for the Day Selected by Margaret Scott 1 shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that 1 can show to any Juman Leing, let me do it now. Let me not de- fer it nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.—Henry Drummond. ML TIET AR e Altogether too many of these joy rides end In grief and sorrow it's “Governor” Baunders again—-but this fyme Ak-Sar-Ben governor. e "huy-n-ln-ofiun" has a double force when it is also “Made-in-Omaba." S— The swelling record of stock yard receipts in- aexes tho business coming Omaha's way. Loost! ——— The Rev. “Billy” has already vindicated the judgment of those who sald Omaha was a 00d | had reached the incandescent stage iown—for a revival, em———— . Between the lines of Messenger Archibald’s oxplanation runs the solemn exhortation: me from my fool triends.’ e—— _ The foot ball season opens at a strenuous pare, bui there is no occasion for public con- corn. Hospital accommodations are ample. Smm—————— It is difficult to analyse the brand of home putriotism which seeks faraway fields for peace promotion and ignores ravages of voeal war at neme. Brother Vietor Murdock declares that the Lullmoosers of the western states are walting for eastern leadership. Why eastern leader- vhip? Is it as bad as that? e—— The district court i in full blast, King Ak- Sur-Ben is drilling his hosts for the fall festival and ths fall emEEEe— Note that revision of SBouth Omaha school tehchers’ salary schedule is all revision upward, | stitution of the dollar for the pound ‘Ibis I8 the reward to the South Omaha school | the world's standard is not yet somplef illy" Is drawing crowded houses, Now is | biunder, “the time to stop off in Omaha and enjoy life to | in the field of foreign commerce, tution submitted to the people of the Empire state as its most sallent innovation, and if the people of New York therefore ratify the pro- posed new constitution, the “short ballot” will | be finally established in the greatest and most important state of the union Regardless of all that, however, the “short ballot” reform is ripening very fast elsewhere, let us remember that a thing is short or long | only by comparison. Here in Nebraska the shift to biennial elections, crowding the names for merly on two ballots onto one, so lengthened the ballot as to force an immediate reaction. The last Nebraska legislature passed several meas- | ures aiming in the direction of a shorter ballot, abolishing certain elective offices and showing | & preference for longer terms for others, and the next legislature is certain to go still further in the same direction. Should we have constitu tlonal revision either by convention or initiative amendments, we may be sure the "'short ballot” principle will govern as opposed to the old idea of multiplying elective offices with consequent | scattering and weakening of official responsibil- | ity., Tested by approaching ripeness, the ‘“‘short | ballot” reform is not to be mentioned in the same breath with government ownership of rail roads, which has not yet gotten out of bud Harmony at the State Hous: The latest manifestation of how happily the brethren are dwelling together at the Nebraska utate house is furnished by the threat of Fire Commissioner Ridgell to bring suit against State Treasurer Hall-—not to adjudicate any claim for the benefit of the state, not to establish the truth or falsity of the governor's allegations that the sate treasurer is farming out state money, but clently temerarious to stand on the provisions ot the constitution as regards the paying of money into and out of the state treasury. | Treasurer Hall refused .to cash warrants | drawn in favor of Ridgell, because no specific appropriation had been made for their payment. At lgast to that extent both the treasurer and fire commissioner agreed. It now tranepires that o colorable appropriation was made, but, through the careful conduct of business by the democrats in and out of the legislature, charged with man- | axing the state’s atfairs, the item was lost track of, turning up only after the warrant controversy and the state treasurer relented enough to pay the fire commissioner his salary. Not so for the commls- sioner, who has employed an attorney with the Ve | avowed purpose of visiting on the treasurer the penalty for failure to comply with a law neither of them knew existed. In the meantime, nothing is heard of any ef- fort to investigate the o publicly made by the governor that the state treasurer's bond was made the occasion of dividing $1,000 between certain of the favored, or that state funds are being farmed to personal and political friends. The quarrel is over the only thing the democrats at Lincoln seem to care for—the payroll, Difficulties Our Dollar Must Overcome. Dr, E. K. Pratt, chiet of the Bureau of ¥or- oign and Domestic Commerce, under the Depart- ment of Commerce, addressing the investment bankers at Denver, suggests that the loan to be made to the Allies at present may be an economic It is giving ald to our greatest rivals His apprehen- slon on this point does not seem to be justified by the facts. While the financial strength of the United Btates i{s steadily growing, the sub- erling as Dit- teachers for manifesting a willingness to meet | fleulties of several kinds must yet be overcome, werger half way. —n— Perhaps, to be wholly comsistent, Mr, Bryan should also advocate junking the navy we now Leve and disbanding the regular few gold-lace officers needed to serve as military wides for White House soclal functions, Colller's specially commissioned cross-con- t.uent auto tourlst threw Omaha women & bouquet for up-to-date and modish dressing. and the most important of these is how to take full advantage of our present eminence as a creditor nation in the matter of trade. Great Britain is the leading nation of the my down to a | world, in the matter of forelgn investment, hav- ing at the beginning of the war, in round num- bers, #17,5600,000,000 invested abroad; France then had six and one-half and Germany two and ‘one-halt billions in foreign investments, and Hol- land and Belgium were also heavy holders of for- elgn securities. It is this that gives London its Tlie clothes of Omaba women reflect the up-to- | overshadowlng commercial importance. For ex- dateness of Omaha's enterprising merchants and | ample the external debt of Japan is largely held in modistes. e — Years of experience and observation in that locality convinces a magazine writer that the | trade. Wall street game Is unbeatab! of ink, News of the cutting of & melon will draw more | gre similarly owned in Europe. London, and consequently Japan's securities are worth just what London says they are worth, basing this value on the volume of Japanese Argentina, Chile, Brazil and other coun- tries with which we are seeking trade extension This coddition lambs in » day than experience could frighten | must be altered before we can become actual In A year. The clty councll adopted plans of Architect Myers for the vew city ball, whieh contemplate & bulld. g to cost mot to exceed $180,00, An interesting mcoing at the Young Men's Chrls- tlan assoclation hall discussed a new building for Among those . Howard, Wecretary Joplin, Willlam Fieming, Dr, ise, Mr. Street, O, Henderson X Dufice is still confined to her rooms in Millard, but her husband has taken her place the wagon, and packs Harney street, near Four- crowds as large as his wife usually t friends. Joe Needham, one of the amateurs of the city, dnadd & remarkable run in the billlard pariors at _the Milierd, scoring 68 points In one hovr and firty ! of Captain and Mrs, QGeorse H. Crager célebrate their twenty-fifth anniveisary home on SBeward street. Butler returned from the east, ha\ing y seversl weeks, during which he attended #t Long Branch and and other eastern citles, leaders in the world's trade, For many years the annual balance of trade Eas been in favor of the United States, yet wa have been extensive borrowers from Europe, for the purposes of development. The exten- sion of our commerce will depend on our ability to enter the forelgn fleld as investors or operators. The time is favorable, and the pros- pect ls inviting; the point to be settled is where to start, and the mortgage just taken on Rug- land and France looks like a beginning. S —— Respect for the interstate commerce law has reached such an altitude in railroad cireles that one company is suing a Jerseyman for the recov- ery of 34 cents bluffed from a passenger con- ductor. Money is no object in the case, the com- pany having spent hundreds of dollars gathering evidence to cinch the malefactor. The inspiring motive is to vindicate the company from the charge of rate discrimination. If honest endeavor ever commands decorative honovs, the company deserves first choice of the crosses. ——— Southern bankers are accused by a federal reserve officer of charging as high as 100 per cent for loans. Rates of | and 2 per cent a month are common among banks of the south and in the northwest. In the light of these offi- clal figures the chattel loan shark does not ap- pear as dark as he is painted. ts punish the state treasurer for being suffi- i The impove ishment of a country affects a people’s physical and mental well-being, and character itsed suffers seriously when the strugsle for life becomes hard and material returns moager. If we can meas | ure approximately the diminution of wealth which a belligorent country suffers, we can form some rude conception of the more general disaster that has ocourred and possibly decide whether it is too Eres to be repaired. Wil the Injury inflicted by th present war on Europe be about as well repaired 100 ears hence as was the Injury caused by the soleonlc wars of 100 years ago in a like perix Will the economie losses of this war be great enouk to follow and curse mankind through the whole the twentleth century and leave a bequeft to ti twenty-first? On the hizhly favorable assumption that the war will close before 1916 and that peace | will reign for a hundred years thereafter, thers is | much to be hoped for within the period which h begun so Alsastrously Though the earlier generations following the end of the struggle will have much to there is a redesming possibility that the may emerge from the state which the Armageddon creating. For the dead, hardshipe and privations are already over, and for the maimed and the halt they will be over in much less than a century; hut a great reduction of the accumulated wealth of the na- tions now fighting may concelvably have more last ing effects. The destruction of literal wealth and of #kill and Intelligence which are equivalent to wealth, the check on production and the breaking up of th organization that carries it on—these are sume of -he Influences against which the world must hereafte: contend; and it will requirc a great power of re- covery and more of melf-mastery tham has recentiy been shown to bring it out of the pit into which it has lightly leaped, The countries of Furope are becoming poorer month by month, and how much wealth they will have when the war 18 over depends on the length of time it will last. It Is the purpose of the economic division of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to cause to he made as accurate an estimate as it 1ll be possible, after the close of the war, to maks | of the reduction caused in the wealth of the varicus countries of the world. A comparison of the amount | of such wealth existing when the war began with | that existing when it shall have closed will measure the positive shrinkage which the struggle will have entailed, but it will not measure the whole of (he economio effect. In every belligerent land weaits was increasing, and there is littls doubt that this increase has beeri cut off and that a diminution has been substituted. The sum of these two amounts will measure the direct economic injury. How muck Ith would France or Germany probably have possessed it no war had taken place? The answer wiil furnish @ minuend; the subtrahend will be tue amount that it will actually have when the war ls over; and only at that time cam the latter quantity be even approximately kmown, The absolute amount of wealth a country contains does not gaume the purely material well-being of the Inhabitants. That depends on the amount there is per unit of the population. If the capital of the world should continue unchanged and the population should grow enormously, it ls concelvable that tho per capita wealth would decline more than it usually has done In consequence of destructive wars If on the other hand the capital should remain the same and the population should greatly shrink, there might be an increase of economic well-being for those of the people who should survive. Because Germany lost two-thirds of its population, more or less, during the thirty vears war the survivors, badly off as they wers, were less desperately poor than they would have been if the whole original population had still been obliged to extort a living from the re. sources of their ravaged and desolated country. In & traglo sense the majority dled for their country— perished as some of the starving survivors of & ship- wreck would perish If they were drowned in ordar that the remainder might have food enough to live on. Losses of life in war would help to sustain the standard of living st extreme reduction If all classes of the population were sacrificed propors tionately and if none were maimed or enfesbled. When bread-winners perish and the children and the agsd survive, when men are taken and women are loft, standard of Mving I8 lowered; and it {s #o in a tragic way when men are rendered helpless and left to be maintalned by women and children, or even by the impoverished state. Then it is that destruc. tion of life by warfare takes its most terrible economic toll and does not ocountersct, gerates the effect of destruction of productive wealth. This effect enters directly and disastrously into tha problem of the effect of war on the per capita wealth of the countries. Military expenditures by governments are more nearly measurable than other elements in the total waste which war entafls, and yet even these can now be estimated only in & rude way. It I8 a safe guess that more than $50,000,000 are spent dally by the states now at wer. The effect of this on public finance s more easily calculated than its effect on the existing wealth and the future prosperity of the peoples affected. Not by any means all the total ox- penditures of the governments are chargeable to the war That accounts, however, for a vast excess of outlays above those incurred in times of peace, and it is this excess of which our economic study must take account. Not all the directly military expense of the gove ernments does, in itself, make the countries poorer. Feeding and clothing soldlers is giving them a partial equivalent for the living that, In the absence of war, they would heve gotten by their own produc. tive effort. The living they get is rather salvage secured for themes: 4 minus what the governments | | | on them | i | What the world parts with In consequence of | war is products that would have been created if | peace had continued. Of course it le not, to any { extent, money. All the gold colns in the warring countries would pay thelr billa for only a very shoit time, and they cannot all be used in that way. Mueh of the supply must be used to sustain the value of paper substitutes, in order that commoditi® may he bought and wold at something like normal prices Some gold Will leave the belligerent lands to pay for Importations and some of it may go into hiding but it s wealth in commodity and not in currency that goes out of existence and produces the effeots that we should like to measure, Bince the amount of the commodity, however, has in some way to be appraised, we express the measure of it by the equivalent in money. By how many billion dollars worth of us€®ul commodity will the fighting countries be made poorer by the war? This is the essential problem; and most of this impoverishment comen from the check on production which the fighting oauses. Direct destruction of useful commodity also accounts for a part, and In the absence of new debts these two amounts of goods which In some way the countries lose would constitute the whole material wealth of which war would deprive them. The greater part of this total Is directly lost by citisens in conrequence of war without appearing at all in the account books of the governments. If the #tates spend publicly 350000000 & day, it s safe to consider that citizens privately lose much more than that amount. It would be strange if they weie not losing from $70,000 000 to $100.000.000 per day, over and above outgoes which can be in the publie ex. chequer. Plants Mo fdle and wages and interest are lost on an cmormous scale: but what this literally means is that the goods in which the incomgs of the laborers and the ocapitalists would have chiefly con- slated are not now produced. Food and clothing for soldiers, however, are produced, and this fact re- duces the total of useful commodity which 1s lost by the war A Concluded Tomorrow blit exag. | than waste, from the point of view of the people | themselves. The incomes which the men would have | dole out to them measures the loss that at once fails | | written by the son-in-law of George W | second-hand pair of socks that you won't Motto OMAHA, or the High Sehooi Girls To the Editor of The 16, page | has been | Bee of September Timoihy. 111 adopted as a motto by high school girls all over the country 1e writer consid ers the sentiment of the verse in question a very good one and commends the next verse respectfully to evangelists of a cer. tain type. This verse reads as follows But whun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungod- liness.” G, L. Bee In T column \n Indoor Bathing Beach, OMAHA, Sept, 21.—To the Editor of The Bee: The swimming season for 1915 over | and not one person drowned at Carter lake since competent lifeguards were em ployed. This speaks well for our efficient lifeguards. Early in June 1 suggested through your paper that the city hire a lifeguard who could pass a strict examination and prove his efficlency for the job of lifeguard. I |* was glad to note they followed my sug gestion and hired Willlam Westlund, a man well fitted for the position and who & has succeeded in building up a corps of lifeguards which are very proficient in this work and are a credit to Omaha Swimming is one of the most useful of athletic sports and also the best exer- cise known, The large eastern citles are installing natatorfums in all new school bulldings and 1 hope Omaha will foliow this good example and not be the to ree the good derived from teaching everyone to awim. The weather was very unfavorable for swimmirlg this season, but the municipal beach ang the swimming tanks in the parks have proved to be the most popular places in the olty. This shows what the people want In the parks and now that we have a good start In the right direc tion I hope 'he city commissioners will keep the ball a-rolling and give us more natatoriums next year The city Auditorium basement is not in | use. Mr. Commissioners, you have made the right start, and why not turn this basement Into a valuable asset by bulid- ing & large sized natatorium, so we may swim all winter as well as In summer? Money spent along this line would be for more than value recelved. G. P Main and the Corm Crop. BENNINGTON, Neb,, Sept, 20.—To the Editor of The Bee: Since reading the article of Ted Holyoke, in which he says, “Most corn safe from frost,” I cannot pass this up without a few comments. 1 don't give a rap if the article was | | | last | | | | | Holdrege of the Burlington. Thess rail- road managers take cvery opportunity to boost for the bumper corn crop, wh.ch i not in existence at the present time, Just as they did about the billion-bushel wheat crop that rainy weather—but, lo and behold! The rain almost ruined that bumper wheat crop—in fact, there will be very little wheat that will make good flour. And that will be the case with the corn should frost strike it at this time, for not more than 25 per cent would be good enough to grade No. 4. Mr. Hol- yoke says he cannot see why so much fuss is being made about the corn from | the frost. And then he suggests the silo s being the salvation of the frosted corn, and that every bit would be utilized without danger of loss whatever. Let us discuss this question of loss, ‘worry and silos from the farmer's stand- point. In the first place, let us take into consideration the fact that according to statistics renters predominate in this state. This belng a fact, who will butid sllos for this great number of renters? I think the man who pays from $ to §7 rent per acre has just cause to worry about frost when his corn is in roasting- ear state. lHow oan this great army of renters pay their notes and meet thelr obligations should such a misfortune as frost overtake them? It is one thing for railroad men to sit In their palatial cars, going at the rate of forty miles an hour, and tell the farmer that %0 per cent of his corn is safe, but it is another thing to make him believe it, The writer has a fleld that was planted April 25, just 140 days at the date this article Is written, and only 25 per cent of the ears well enough dented so that they would not be injured by a killing frost—the other 76 per cent would be soft and unfit for the market. There were no early frosts during the fall of 1%, but rainy growing weather which kept the stalks and ears sappy, and the re- sult was poft corn which spoiled when put in the erib, { Last week a rallroad manager re- ported from 100 to 110 per cent for the different divisions, which is impossible, 1 have met men from different parts of the state, and their reports differ very much—some even report that thelr corn | that was replanted and growth retarded by cold, rainy weather, was only in the roasting-ear stage then. In the name of common sense, how can we have condi- tions averaging 106 per cent? Nothing but two or three weeks of warm, dry weather can save the corn crop, and that is not likely under present conditions. CHARLBS GRAU. Automobile, GRAND ISLAN Neb,, Sept. 0.—To | the BEditor of The Bee: I ltke The Bee ! and have read it about every day for the | last tour years. But I must say my stock in The Bee has dropped about % points from the stand you seem to take in this Sunday stuff. You know as well as the general thinking public knows that this man is a fake. There is no doubt about it, and as @ reader of your esteemed | paper | want to protest against the stand you take 1 will bet a Ford automobile against Keep Yo print this letter (unprintable part has been expurgated), but | am telling you | anyway what I think. I have read the | stuff pro and con, and heard the bird “screech”, and know that he is a fake, | and all of his assoctates. Tha all. | C. C. BCOVIL, A Travellng Man Out of Des Moines. | Wants Pollard for Governor, GIBBON, Neb., Sept. #1.—-To the Editor of The Bea: Please give me space for part of a letter sent by me to Hon. B. M, Pollard, accompanying & petition signed in large part by exhibitors at the State falr, representative men interested In ag- rieulture in many parts of the state, ask- ing permission to use his name as & candidate for governor. “In thus forwarding yot this petition | permit me to state that my acquaintance | with you began in the year S, on the occasion when I attended a farmers' in. stitute in your home town where you were engaged in teaching in the publie | schools; you took part in the institute | and I was a guest at the home of youw father, Isaac Pollard, then and still one of the most delightful farm homes in the state, Since that date I have cultivated your acquaintance, as on meeting you I at onde realised that you were well equip- | Bee ped for a life of large usefulness and that you had a desire, an, atubition, 9 be belps,Gpd s ”.!(‘1 ful to mankind and 1 have not been uis- appointed, for you have taken an active interest in public affairs, you have made kood at every turn of the road, have met oceasion offered You have served as a member of out state legislature and in the halls of con- You are a temperance man In practice and from principle doubtless be- lieving, as does the writer, while In favor of prohibition, that the people of the state, In a non-partisan manner, by the use of the Initiative, should determine the gress. auestion of prohibition in the coming cam- | paign 10u believe In and have been a strong advocate of the principles of the repub- lean party You are the type of man needed on the farms of Nebraska to encourage and develop & more intelligent and progressive agriculture; the type of man most needed to interpret and execute our laws in the interests of agriculture, in the Interests of the producer and laborer, rather than of corporations and the so-called special interests.” 8. C. BASSETT “By The'r Works." OMAHA, Sept. 20.—To the Editor of The I saw a man sick unto death, and bending over him was a young surpeon making heroic efforts to revive him, Along comes a pompous individual and says “Here, you had better let that man the Bible says it is glven unto man once to die, and after that the judg- ment alone; The doctor looks up and saye: “Well, 1 am an assistant surgeon, sent here by the Great Surgeon to revive this poor man, and I intend to do so if possible, and please remember the same book says, ‘while there is life there is hope.' If you don't belleve in revivals, please stand from under while I am doing my duty.” As the knocker passed on the surgeon asked, “Who Is that man?' “Why,” sald & bystander, “that's the fellow who al- ways Interferes in a work of this kind. He spells God with a little g and church with & blg C. We all know him and pay no attention to what he says.” You are right, “Billy” Sunday, go ahead with your good work OBSERVER, Common Sense Religlon. FLORENCE, Neb., Sept. 21.—To the Editor of The Bee: As “Billy” Sunday #seems to be all the go these days and as I have had the pleasure of attending one of his meetings I thought it would be worth while to get right down to brass tacks and expound a few of my re- Mglous views to the interested public. the outset I wish to say that the evening 1 attended Mr. Sunday's meeting I went over to the Empress, and, between the two, T am frank to say that Sunday's meeting has the Empress skinned a city block. Mr. Sunday said at his meeting that he has brought many souls to Christ, but 10 per cent of them are backsliders; and the clown at the Empress sald he could cut thirty-five acres of alfalfa with a safety razor. Both of these men are entirely wrong, especlally Mr, Sunday in At | in b into saying that once a man gAn, 'I \ hl[J’!A‘ \"Ivhh gives ov Savior little credit for tenacily. Thd Wiy jdea that a man at one time can be saved |and 1s on his way heaven can the | next day be plunged in the depths of hel | the full measure of a useful citizen as|\What kind of a God does the preachers of this day and age of the world believe have? Why j& not the corroct theory to belleve that everything that happens in this world s for the best and for God's This is my personal belief { consequently 1 am not finding any fault with Mr. Sunday or the clown at the Em | press in any of their jokes | Common sense religion is to give God credit for .each and every act on this |earth and be satisfled with the results. 1 am leaving my lot In God's hands, the Maker of this universe, a Superhuman | Belng Who gives us light and heat through the sun and moon, and no man | we | Plensure only has knowledge of how it ia done, I find no fault with any one, but always give my Maker, the Lord Jesus, credit for everything whether it fs to my liking or not, as He certainly rules the world and even the devil himself, and I have faith in Him looking aftr His children regard- less of Sunday's ‘sawdust trail.’ | C. L. NETHAWAY | GRINS AND GROANS. | _“Bibber says he kept his glass upside down moat of the time at the banquet Iast night.” 80 he did, with the open end of {t in | | hie face."—Louisville Courfer-Journal. How's he succeeding a3 a reformer? | “Great. He's got the whole neighbor- I hood feeling micerable about their pleas- | ures."—Detroit Free Press . Mrs. Greene—Here's a most interesting [article, Ezra, entitled “The Money Ques- tion in a Nutshell.” Ezra Greene—I know all 'bout it, Han- |nah; the pea ain’t there et all when yc pick the 1l up, darn ‘em!—Puck. “Does your congressman discuss public fons Intelligently " 0 " replied the = political boss; ‘'he |comes right out and says exactly what | he believes to be true, without regard io the effect on his chances, 1 pever saw 4 man act so unintelligent.”—Washington tar. “I trust,” said the prudent friend, “that you will think before you speak.’” ‘I shall do #0,”" replied the energetic orator. 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