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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
A Gate in the Fence

bright in June, and the winds sing in the
trees in autumn, though you do not love
me.
There IL much to enjoy. and I shall
enjoy it. Let's separate for awhile and
see"
Perhaps the man would have been glad
when she went-at first. Perhaps the
very sound of the door closing behind
her would have brought him out of his
vague dream of an imaginary perfection,
and he would have realized what he was
losing before his wife was gone a day
Who knows?
Once knew little boy who was the
best little boy in the world? He would
play. all the day in front of the house
where his father lived and never even
dream of running away One day his
father moved to a new house, a house
with a high fence around it, ito keep
the children from running away" said
the agent of the new house. And from
that moment that little boy was an in
corrigible runaway, till one day the little
boys father had a wide gate cut in the
high fence and gave orders that the gate
should always be left open. He loved his
home, but he hated to have a fence all
around 1t. When the fence was gone
he stayed,
Some men are like the little boy. and
some women, too. ....
When good wife sees. her husband
casting wistfula eye cover the marital
fence wonder IL It wouldn't be good
idea sometimes TO cut a gate in the wall
and leave 1T wide open for while.
Men are just grown up little boys
after all, and they never grow so very
far, either.
We women are the only ones who really
grow up. More's the pity. We have to
take care OF them every day OF their
lives and pretend we're letting them take
care Of US.
Where's my hat? Who took my pipe?
Isn't this the day to pay the rent? What
is there for dinner?"
Just boys all the way down the road
bless their hearts.
1t was all right 10 open the gate for that
runaway of your, little broken hearted
woman, but why need you have left home.
too? You may not be able to find your
way back and the world is a very lonely
place for a sad little woman, with no
one TO care what becomes OF her.
don't know who the other woman"
is. or who you are, but this much ! do
not fear to guess by this time that the
other woman looks Just about half as
attractive to that husband Of yours as
she did yesterday The gate is open, you
see. and he doesn't care to run very far
after all. may be.
You could have let him find that out
while you were in Europe or back home
at grandma's. couldn't you, and then
who knows?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14

doubt.
What an old mixup. I wonder IL divorce
was really the best way out of IL ali?
Wouldn't a good long trip to Europe or
q visit home to mothers folks have
solved the whole problem just as we'll and
perhaps even ali the better?
The man must be rather a decent sort
Of fellow. The woman has lived with
him for fourteen years and never had a
complaint to make of him before. I
wonder If he isn't worth a little heart
ache for awhile7-- "s.-s+ co.. , Re-
Perhaps. II. the wife said quite. gently:
7 am sorry, 4'swish- 1 had known be-
fore.
TT must have been very hard for you,
and realize now what it was that has
made me so unhappy at times.
Il never quite understood.
I'm go away for year and think 1t
ali over.
I'm take the children back to the old
homo for long visit to grandma. I
have many friends there. I'll put the
children in school and no one will be a
, whit the wiser about our affairs.
You see as much as you can of the
other woman. Maybe you won't like her
90 we'll when you can see her every day,
and at the end of the year we'll decide
what to DO.
I'VE don't stand alone, we two.
There are the children. am no
longer girl, can manage without what
used to think was love You have been
good to the children. They are fond of
you. 1t would hurt them for us to
divorce each other. For their sakes lets
see what we can do to patch up this
miserable business
II am bitterly hurt. l shall not try to
conceal that but can live without what
has not been mine for fourteen years, and
live well enough. too
The moon still shines, the sun is
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
What is It?
By Tad

Now Il will be remembered that Hal.
ley's comet was supposed 20 have swept
the earth with It's tail on May 10, 1910
less than three weeks before the strange
shining strips we're first noticed Pro-
lessor Barnard is too cautious a savant
to assert that the haze possessing such
remarkable pecullarities was introduced
into the air by the comet. but, at the
same time, he says; Did It not seem
unreasonable, one might suspect some
relation between this condition OF the at
mosphere and the possible passage OF
the earth through a portion OF the tail
OF Halley's comet" Then he calls for q
more general, and very careful, observa.
ton OF the phenomena
II these things had been remarked. only
by an ordinary observer they would de-
serve relatively little attention. but when
they awaken no more than a suspicion
In the mind OF a man like Professor Bar
nard, there are many who will be ready
to jump to the conclusion that his sus-
picion, guarded, as It is, by his UNI
rivalled acquaintance with the appear
anoe OF the sky, Is about as good as
an affirmation that after all. Halley's
comet did leave US a token OF its visit.
which will be forever remembered In the
ANIMALS OF astronomy and talked about
with eager interest three-quarters OF a
century hence, when. the comet comes
back again.
II It should be possible to capture some
OF tho particles OF this haze as they
slowly make their way downward
through the denser parts OF the air. we
may have convincing proof OF their
cometary origin. Surprising such proof
established. what an object for the
microscope would be those tiny bits OF
matter which have alternately exper-
fenced the rigors OF interstellar cold,
millions OF miles beyond the utmost
frontiers OF the solar system, and the
electric solar energies that fire the heart
OF a comet and make It q blazing wonder
In the sky when It approaches it's master,
the SUM-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14

quite, as bright as the Milky Way in
it, average portions. In transparency
they resemble ordinary haze, and their
LUMINOSITY Is uniformly steady.
Professor Barnard has watched them
until dawn and has noticed that, "as
daylight killed them out there were
strips OF ordinary haze exactly the same
In form and motion and occupying the
same region OF the sky MY impress
SION" he adds, rs that these hazy
luminous strips were only ordinary haze
which, for some reason, had become self
luminous"
There is the whole mystery. Why are
they luminous. and why have similar OBJ
jects not been noticed before? Professor
Barnard is a most persistent watcher Of
the night sky; perhaps there is no one
who knows II in all It's aspects so we'll
as he and yet he had never seen any
thing OF this kind previous to June 7,
1910.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
Is the Universe Infinite?

nothing for two reasons. First, there are
necessarily IN the sky many extinct and
obscure stars; we know a number of
them which have been carefully studied
and which prove their existence by eclips-
ing the neighboring stars around which
they revolve Secondly observations
have proved that the celestial space in
many places is filled with dark nebulous
absorb the light OF more distant stars.
II lie easily seen, therefore that an An
finite number Of brilliant stars is per-
fectly compatible with the faint bright
ness OF the nocturnal sky.
And now, If we adjust our spectacles-
our telescopes should say-and pass
from the domains Of the possible TO those
OF the real, the observations made during
recent years with the most powerful in
struments supply us with certain num-
Der Of facts which are quite remarkable
and which irresistibly lead to the follow
ing conclusions: The number Of visible
stars is by no means as we have long
been used to believe limited only by the
power Of our visual or Photographic tele-
scopes. As we so away from the sun the
number OF stars contained in the unit OF
volume, the frequency of the stars.
might say, does not remain uniform. but
diminishes as we draw closer 20 the lin
Its OF the immense ant-hill OF stars which
we call the Milky Way. Our sun seems
placed IN the central regions Of this heap.
which is rudsly shaped like q watch
case which seems TO be about half as
vide as Il 10 long Light, the speed Of
which being 10000 kilometers a second
permits II 70 run around the earth at the
equator in ons-eighth OF a second, takes
$50 centuries 10 traverse this space
The number Of stars in the Milky Way
seems to- be between 5O0OO0,OOO and 1000
Ooo.OooOOo. This is a very small number.
far smaller than the number OF iron mole
eules contained in a pin head.
Outside the limits OF the Milky Way.
space seems deserted and devoid Of stars
for enormous distances, compared to the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14

centration Of matter. is nothing but a
bubble OF isolated ether. II this be so,
II around our universe there be spaces de-
void OF ether. II will be forever impossi-
BILE for even the faintest ray OF light. the
smallest quantity Of energy. 70 come 10
US from worlds which perhaps live and
breathe beyond and these worlds shall
forever be for US as II they did not exist
at all
There are then things we are never 10
know" cry the astonished simpletons. A
pleasant pretention 20 want everything in
existence TO be contained in few cubic
inches OF gray matter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
Deuced Bad Form

These people obey the letter. perhaps.
but they won't obey the spirit Of the
law"
The speaker, Commissioner Rhine
lander wsldo OF New York. was discuss
ing certain troublesome and willy trans
gressors. He continued;
And they don't even interpret the let
ter OF the law correctly. They and their
attorneys bubble like the young man in
q rural county.
- young man and his girl we're stroll
ing in a country meadow when a bull
dashed down upon them
stay here and protect my retreat,
cried the girl, You know, Reggie, you've
often said you'd face death for my sake,
But Reggie. who had already sprtnted
fifty yards, called back over his Shout
der:
DO you call that bull deadr"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
Innocent Farmer

Don't think that a man IL slow when
II comes TO dollar-gatherins just because
he wears blue jeans and ealf-hide boots,Y
remarked Herman Peters to some, Gro
mics who had been deerying the bucolio
population because OF alleged dumbness
He mayn't work your way. but he gets
there all the same. l know an cid plow-
pusher whose homestead fronts on the
highway leading from one important
Iowa town TO another. Lots Of automo-
biles pass his place during the summer.
and many OF them come to grief-es-
pecially at night-in a hollow In the
road just outside the house.
Why don't you fiji up that pit?'
once asked him.
II guess not he drawled. Why. I'm
making heaps o. money hauling autos
out OF II all summer long,"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
PROF. CHARLES NoRDMANN,
President Of the Paris Observatory.

PROF. CHARLES NORDMANN,
President Of the Paris Observatory.
Kant. this Srumblng genius who found
it horribly monotonous to see the same
sun shining every year and spring al
ways returning at the same time, lost
himself in metaphysical speculations
trying 70 prove that the Infinite space is
everywhere filled with similar stars
1t 10 perhaps prudent to. examine this
problem only in the light Of recent re-
liable observations. carefully leaving out
all confusing metaphysical thoughts
which may force US 10 define what we
call space and end by making us confess
that we know nothing, not even that It
actually exists. Using, therefore. only
common sense, we will begin by admit
ting that an infinite space really exists.
u the number OF stars unlimited
There are those who deny this . priori,
reasoning In this manner: No matter
what the number Of stars is, It may al
ways be added to. II is. therefore. not
infinite, since nothing may be added TO
the infinite. The argument is plausible.
but Il IL false. though Voltsire was
taken in by it, One does not,need to be
doctor OF mathematics 10 know that
one may always ada to an infinite num-
Der aud that here exist infinite numbers
that are infinitely small compared 20
others
II the world OF stars were endless,
there would not be . single line OF sight
from the earth which would not meet
one OF these stars The astronomer
Oilers has remarked that the nightly
sky would then be Of a brillianey com
parable 10 that Of the sun. Now the
total brilliancy OF all the stars taken
together Is barely 1000 times greater
than that Of a star OF the first magni-
tude, that is to say, 100000 times less
than that Of the sun.
Because Of this II was once thought
that Il could be proved that the number
u stars was limited. Hut one forgot 10
'emsmber that Oilers argument proves
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
Nostalgia and It's Nepenthe

love It. Then they have complete
change OF outfit at hotel, another at
the club and an office boy trained to
telephone excuses.
The men who come home about often
enough TO forget whether the latch key
goes in the lock right side up or upside
down are also never at a loss for kick.
They don't like the angle as which the
elevator boy wears his cap. Or the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14

/ never told the
other woman that
/ loved her" SAID
the husband. Il
had too mitch re-
spect for my wife
to do that, but l
have loved her
ever since the first
time l ever saw
her.
Poor disillusioned
wife, poor decent
husband, poor un-
conscious "other
woman" II she
really was uncon-
scious, which. In,
afraid, 1 am just
wicked enough to
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14

ance since tho
early part OF June,
1910 II is a self
luminous h a 2 .,
which has a slow.
drifting m otto n
among the stars,
and distributes IT.
self in ali quarters
of the sky In the
form OF long, glow
ing strips, usually
straight and diff
used. and as much
as much as fifty
degrees in length
and three or four
degrees In width.
these enigfnatic OBJ
In some cases
tects are nearly. or
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
A Trifle Dyspeptic

Many a bare-faced lie Is old enough TO
have whiskeTs.
That old adage about the new broom is
rather a sweeping assertion.
Some people break into song as though
they we're committing a burglary.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
Nv GARRETT p. sERvIss.

The keenest observer among living
astronomers, Professor Il. Il. Barnard,
calls attention TO most singular appari-
ton in the sky, which seems to have
made its appear
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
By WINIFRED BLACK.

A Kansas City woman divorced her
husband the other day because he told
her that he had been in love with an
other woman for fourteen years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-14
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oopyrsAt lpil. N,tiOpI Nev, AssOcistiOn-
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-11
WATTS ELECTED FLOATER.
BilbO and Collins Make Safe Landing
Ii State Election.

Notwithstanding the bitter fight
made on Senator Bilbo by dIsaffect-
ed Democrats at Tuesdays general
election. from incomplete returns
received from over the State. the
regular Democratic ticket is elected
by a good majority. including Mr..
Bilbo. who will have at least 5 600
votes the best of lit, over his Social
ist opponent. Mr.. J 7 Lester.
Hon. Ross Collins, who was the
Vardaman candidate at the August
primaries for attorney general. and
who was also voted against or pass
ed up by q goodly number Of voters
also made safe landing.
WATTS WINS FOR FLOATER.
DR.. Van B. Watts. Of Brook
haven. won out by over hundred
votes in Lincoln and Franklin TO
fill Hon. R. E. Benefits unexpired
term.
Thursday DR.. Watts received a
phone message from MeadviIle that
his right to the Office would be
contested in Lincoln on account Of
the fact that none of the candi-
dates names were printed on the
special election ballot. Notwith-
standing this he left for jackson
the same night to take his seat
with the makers.
All of Lincoln's nominees. whose
names have been printed in The
Leader since the primaries. got
good big majorities
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-11
Board Of Supervisors
Finish L.abors Thursday

The County Convict and Poor
Farm raised 100 barrels of corn,
pressed 500 bales of hay. repaired Z
cuIverts. built 2 bridges in Beat q,
one 156 feet long. the other Ia feet
long: graded z hills, built 2 bridges
in beat 3, and graded A hills, and
repaired other bridges. the whole
being valued at $340. Paid guards,
Joe KYzar. one day. 85c; John Bow
man. 81 days, SIS: Joe Hampton,
same, $25: Mrs. G. C. Williams,
experimenting cooking, $12:
|superintendent's salary. $40.
The voting precinct at Ritchie
Schoolhouse was changed to Union
Church School, in District 8.
DR.. D. W Jones. County Health
Officer. reported prevalence of
smallpox in eastern part of county.
The source Of infection was young
negro from the delta. There are
about 20 cases. one. little girl in
the family of J.. w. Pennington
One case reported six miles east Of
Wesson. steps have been taken to
prevent spread of disease.
Report of Highway Commission
ers of District /: G. B Perkins.
one ak, 81; P. T. Byrre, one load
wood for stakes, ST.; Eugene Diet
zen Co., metallic tape. 81 28: r.
b. Noodle, ak handle and lumber
crayon, Soc; Jno. McGrath 4 Sons.
postage. SOC; Leader. publication
notice. $4.64; PROXY Livery Go !.
teams. $500: j. r Anderson.
teams. 81 F. F. Meyers. per ac-
count advanced pay roll account,
So. 20: same. engineer, 20 days,
$140 80; Felix Miller. assistant en-
gineer. 26 IL days, $64 10; Jones
Maxwell. rodman., one day. $1.50:
Barber Bardwell, chairman, 16
days. $40; Laurin Farr. chairman.
10 IL days at $l.25, $11 80; total.
1878 81. Worthington Construc-
tion Co.. estimate of work on roads
as per contract. less the Is per cent
reserved as per detailed statement
filed, $2508. .28.. All accounts were
approved by commissioners and
engineer. Report approved.
Accounts allowed and board ad-
iourned Thursday afternoon.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-11
Bishop Guerfy Sides With Vardaman on
Race Issue Being National.

Newark, N. j.. Nov. 6.-.'T The
|evangeIlzation of the negro is nc
longer a Southen question, but one
OF national scope" /" declared Bishop
Guerry. Of South Carolina at last
nights session of the missionary
council Of the Episcopal church.
There are today more negroes
in New York than there are in
New Orleans. = continued the
bishop. and as many in Philadel-
phia as il any Southern city out
side of New Orleans. You lynch
negroes up here the same as we do
|in the South. 1t is national
Crime. We need You and you need
US, and we must work together in
doing our duty to these people. 1t
is the greatest blot on the American
|church today that we have trified
with the great missionary question
at our own doors. =
Bishop Guerry saw a menace in
the intellectual training Of the
negro without moral education and
said that education without
Christian standards meant placing
in the hands Of the negro q dan
gerous weapon.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-11
WOMEN OUTRAGED.
Troops al Fulton. ~.

Fulton, KY, Oct. ga good
sized crowd of Illinois Central
strikers and sympathizers met the
soldiers sent here to preserve order
when they arrived This morning.
but did not attempt violence. Only
kissing and Jeering was indulged
in. With the troops guarding rail
road property, the situation is
quiet tonight. For the first time
since the strike was declared. many
of the neutral element went to bed
unafraid.
The militiamen posted tonight
about the shops, round house and
along the tracks to the Tennessee
lines a short distance, were Issued
ball cartridges and instructed to
shoot when ii becomes necessary "
The strike breakers have been NOV.
ed from the exposed camp which
was the target for the fusilade
Thursday night.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-11
The BlbIe.

Young people are accused of not
reading the Bible. If the accusa-
tion is true, as it probably is. the
present year should mark cnange
for the better It is a year when
the Bible has been much in mind,
because 1911 is the three hundredth
anniversary Of the appearance Of
the King James Version. and there
fore much has been printed about
the Great Book and the channels by
which it has come down to US. A
heritage is valued ia some cases for
what it does. in other cases for
what it has cost. Judged By either
standard. the Bible is the most
precious heritage Of the English
speaking race.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-11
Whom Shall Man Marry.

Sharon, Pa. Rev. "A. N. AsKey,
Of the Oakland Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church, preached an nm
usual sermon on Whom Shall a
Young Man Marry?' Among
other things. ne said:
Do not marry the young lady
who allows herself to float around
the neighborhood in a top buggy or
automobile until 2 o'clock in the
morning with a counterfeit sport
with a weak jaw and weaker
morals.
Do not marry the young lady
who insists on changing partners
six nights week in the front par
lor with the lights turned low.
Don't marry the young lady who
has been paved over by every yap
In the community.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1911-11-11
NOT ENOUGH STOCK
FOR NATCHEZ PLANT
Mississippi Farmers Have % Send to
Missouri fOr Cattle and
Eioes.


An interesting commentary on
+ th result Of years of devotion to a
crop idea cotton is given in an
interview with Secretary L. E.
Davis, Of the Natchez Commercial
Club. and secretary of the Missis-
lsippi Land Improvement Associa-
ltion, and how as yet Mississippians
have not recovered from their one
Esided way Of farming. Mr.. Davis
was In jackson last week to attend
/ the meeting Of the directors Of the
Mississippi Land Development AS
Isociation. and was asked about the
Natchez packing plant and how it
was getting on.
They are doing splendidiy
marketing every ounce of meat
they can put up. and shipping it to
Iall sorts Of places in competition
with the best western pack. but
what do 5ou think of the fact that
the Mississippi Packing Plant has
to send to st. Louis for its prime
steers, and is buying hogs in Ken
lucky. Now what do you think of
that?
The available supply in South
Mississippi has been exhausted
months ago. OF course there are
scrawny scrub cattle and razor back
hogs yet to be had, but / mean
prime packing material. OF
course. having to pay freight on
this raw material from st. Louis
and Kentucky cuts down the profits
considerably, but it looks as If the
packing plant people will have to
continue to buy in those foreign
markets until Mississippi grows
enough Of the right sort Of cattle
and hogs to keep running.
but after all the hurrahing for
packing plants in Mississippi, -
then to have to 60 outside the state
for stock to put up just think of
Eit! There are great many
farmers ia the Natchez district
who are now going regularly into
the hog and cattle business and
handling the right breeds. but it
will take a year or more for their
herds 70 get to the point where
they can begin to dispose of the
surplus.
The Natchez packery can take
every tirst-class hog and every first
class steer IN Mississippi today,
and it would not run the concern
|six moltE II il terrible COM
l1ivnfaE'5 5ll our boasts OF diversIii.
cation.
/ believe that now the farmers
find out there is ready market
for the right sort of cattle and
hogs they win begin raising them.
By the way. / saw one place with a
five-mile frontage on the Y. Il M.
v. railroad being fenced with hog
wire fencing. and that indicates
that some one is going into the
business On considerable scale.
but it will be few years before
there is any considerable surplus Of
cattle and hogs at the present ratio
of increase.
There is no reason IN the world
why we should not raise the finest
cattle and hogs in the world; we
have the land, the corn and the
mild climate and fine range. 1t is
just that we have not paid serious
attention to it. and believe that
when we do have a surplus of hogs
and cattle we will also have a large
surplus Of money.