Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30

according to the display heading Rich
Woman Fell Down Cellar-Not Hurt
The falling down the cellar is OF no in
terest to us when the woman is not rich;
but no rich woman can fall down cellar
and we not yearn to know all about II
and wish It was us
II suppose we must expect that un-
avoidable and Irresistible circumstances
will gradually take away the powers Of
the state and concentrate them in the
central government and that the re-
public will then repeat the history of all
time and become monarchy, but I be-
lieve that II we Distract these encroach-
ments and steadily resist them the mon
archy can be postponed for a good while
yet"
Railroad Funerals.
In the work quoted is drawn this pic
ture OF the mortality statistics of Amerl-
can railroads:
IT had a dream last night. It was ar
admirable dream. what there was of It.
I'm It 1 saw a funeral procession; l saw
it from q mountain peak; saw It crawl
ing along and curving here and there, ser,
pert like, through q level vast plain.
seemed to see a hundred miles of the pro-
cession; but neither the beginning of Il
nor the end Of 1t was within the limits oi
my vision. The procession was in ten di
visions, each division marked by a sombr'
flag. and the whole represented ten yeari
OF our railway activities in the acciden
line. Each division was composed of SOC
cripples. and was bearing its own year
10000 mutllated oorpses to the grave: il
the aggregate 10000 crlpples, and 10000
dead, drenched in blood"
Lynch Law.
In the speech put into the mouth o
Colonel Shsrburn, addressing a cowed Ar
kansas mob, in "Huckleberry Finn" Mar
Twain excoriates certain phases of south
ern lynch law In this style
'The idea OF you thinking you had pIuo
enough to lynch a MAN! Because YOUR
brave enough to tar and feather poor
friendless women that come along her,
did that make you think you had gl
enough to lay your hands on a MAN
Why, a MANS safe in the hands OF te
thousand OF your kind-as long as II
daytime and you're not behind him.
DO l know you? I know you cles
through. / was born and raised In II
south. and I've lived in the north; so
know the average all around. The averaa
mans a coward. In the north he let's an
body walk over him that wants to, ar
goes home and prays for a humble spir
to bear II. In the south one man, all /
himself, has stopped a stage full Of me
In the daytime and robbed the lot Yoj
newspapers call you a brave people.
much that you think you are braver this
any other people-whereas, you're just
brave, and no braver. Why don't 70,
juries hang murderers7 Because they
afraid the mans friends will shoot them
the back, in the dark--and it's just VIII
they would do.
so they always acquit. and then a ms
goes in the night, with a hundred mask'
towards at his back. and lynehes the "a
cal Your mistake is that you didn't briT
a man with you; that's one mistake, al
the other is that you didn't come in Il
dark and fetch your masks.
Now the thing Tor you to do is TO dro,
your tails and go home and crawl in
hole, II any real lynohings going to
done II will be done IN the dark, southe
fashion. and when they come they'll bri
their masks and fetch a MAN along"
Coed Life n Preaehmeht.
MY mother lies buried out in the beaut
full city OF the dead overlooking the banl
OF the mighty Mississippi" he said in
sermon in the church at Hannibal. AT N
age Of mine she cheers me. She was