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Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

world has plenty OF heroes and herOlnes
HUT they make a FUSS about It. They
noise their herolsm about until IL ceases
20 be heroic.
know woman who. turned her back
upon marriage 20 he the support OF an
invalid mother That was very fine and
heroic, but II would have been far finer
and more heroic had she kept quiet about
81. But no day passed without COM
plant about her fate. a reminder TO any
one who would listen, Of what she had
foregone and how hard was her lot.
know man who works as hard and
continuously as galley slave. That
would be fine and his patience would de-
serve its crown OF recognition on our
part, but that man whines ceaselessly
about his large family and corresponding
expenses. II Is good TO turn from these
to a man who tightens his lips as did the
little hero OF the hospital TO keep hack
his cries I see him often In the routine
OF our business lives. Always. no matter
how pressing his duties, nor how alb
sorbed in his task, he had found time
| to look w and smile, One day last sum-
mer he looked up. but he didn't smile.
| And again and again as passed his desk
noticed that the smile was gone. Gray
began 20 appear IN his hair. Finally the
gray quite displaced the brown.
And the months and the work went
which is life. Passing him on the way TO
the elevator / said to one who knew him.
HE is going home early. Isn't he well9''
He no longer has a home" said
the one who knew him. Didn't you
/ know that his wife died suddenly
last SUMMER He went home and
found her dead. Heart disease. This
chief Of his department was in Europe Al
the time and the force was small And
he had to keep right on with his work
He never spoke OF his loss unless he was
forced 20. You noticed he doesn't looh
/ we'll Sometimes think he 10 dying IN
the harness. But he never complains
remembered his wife A strong, ruddS
woman with a contrRlto voice and rich
deep laughter. l know Chat.
She was more an average heIpmest and
help eat. She was his wife and sistcl
ana mother and comrade and friend.
knew that the axe had been laid at th'
root OF his happiness that day she died
and that n would never grow again. Blu
the man at the next desk had said: Ell
never complained" Splendid. doubls
brave army. that never complains. ThiI
ranks OF silent heroesl You who beai
the pain OF life with frightened lips wh,
endure it's agony without a CRY. You VIII
sorrow are silent because patient silent
because unselfiAh heroes who. though
wounded march onl ] salute.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

makes sound like the brsying of a
hoarse trumpet"
picture in thirteenth century manu-
script shows an elephant carrying thirty
fighting men in a wooden tower on his
back
About the year 1855 the French king
presented 10 Henry Ill the first elephant
ever seen In England or Mathew Paris
believed, on that side Of the Alps. The
people, he says. Hooked TO see the
strange sight .a
Tho arrival Of that elephant must have
caused sensation. Here at last, for all
to see. was that strange creature 80
nearly human that according TO Bar
tholomaeus) when sick is gathered good
herbs. and ere eating ,heaved up the
head and looked toward heaven and
prayed Tor help In a certain religion (;
which saiuted the sun at his rising: which
visited certain river to purify himself
by besprlngiing his body with water ere
no saluted the new moon.
Pliny said the elephant possessed in 8
degree, rare even among men. notions
OF honesty. prudence and equity; that his
intellectual powers equalled his moral
principles
Matanius, three times consul. and
therefore a person OF probity, declared
he knew an elephant who wrote.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

her eyes 1 saw-I understood, I knew
the whispered words she didn't need 20
speak, / had to struggle hard with my
self to push her gently away Il don't
know even now how ! ever sUcceededD
went over to the window 60 look out
Into the night. As stood there she came.
over to me, and putting her arms around
my neck, kissed me and then f1ed into
an inner room.
without waiting for her to return
snealSed away from the house like q
thief. feeling like a coward and a cad,
knowing what l had done I met her a
few nights aftsrward and lied to her.
telling her that / didn't love herr and
that she should forget me. I'm not a
Washington. but 1t is the thought that I
lied to her that hurts. She. soft little
! womanly woman, would never have
told me OF her love had she not read
mine first.
"As a mechanic in the building trades,
my position is not good. don't think
it would be fair to her nor US tc be-
come engaged and for me to rnonopOlise
her time, making her wait for a chance
to marry that may never come, and as
for deserving the ones at homo. whom /
love so well, and WHO are dependent
upon me. would rather die than do
that
what do you think ohouid do IN
the matter? Should / tell this girl the
truth about my love. depending upon her
clear mind TO reason and forgive me for
making her love me when / cannot
marry her? God knows want TO aet
the part OF a man"
say yes" a thousand times "yes. -
tell her. In a case like this, the man
owes 1t to the girl to at least give her
the consolation OF knowing that her
love is returned, and that she did not
give her affection unsought. II win also
be balm 10 her soul to know that she
did not love unworthiIy, and that the
man TO whom she gave her heart was
capable of a piece q sublime self
sacrifice in giving her up. instead OF be
ing that most contemplate of ali created
beings, a male flirt
Certainly no man rs ever put In a
crueler position than the one who A
forced to choose between love ana wife
and home and children OF his own, and
his duty 10 his family. More men thar
We realize are martyred on that eroas
since economic conditions are such thai
few are able to earn with their hands
iienough to support two families. That d
why We shall have 10 adopt the WIS.,
system Of the French bourgeoIse IN
which the wife is the business partner
as well as the life partner Of her hus-
band.
That is the only. way in which such
tragedies as the one that this mans
letter reveals can be avoided
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04
The Elephant in History
Our Ancestors Strange
BY GARRETT p. sERvIss.

To the citizen OF today an elephant cx-
cites little more comment than a horse,
yet the popular pachyderm was n center
of fantastic legend among our ancestors.
They built on n few facts as set forth
in strabo. I1iny and Piutarch, a monster
of rare Imagination.
Cuvier accepted the existence in Cochin
China Of elephants sixteen feet high, and
tales OF such an animal were current In
India 20 the end of the eighteenth CEN
tury.
The tusks of the male were said TO be
larger than those Of tho female, and
turned downward, hers turning upward
one was kept sharp TO svengo injuries,
while the other remained blunt to root
up plants and trees for food.
Rev. Edward Topsell. who collected
practically all that had been written on
the subject In his History of Foure-
Footed BeRstes." argued that inasmuch
as the horns OF tho elk grew out Of his
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

ago never to marry While the little
home had always been kept in fairly
comfortable way, still 1 felt sure that to
bring another into 1t would only ada
'hardships TO all concerned. Before
could drag a woman down and make her
companion 10 the heavy burdens OF my
posttion. I would remain alone and apart,
AZ need be. | never thought that some
day 1 might be the victim between Two
fires
But about two years ago became
acquainted with a delightful pretV
little girl. Having been denied the pleas
ilre OF a woman's eompanionship (other
than my mother's), / thought and felt
that 1 needed this girls friendship. AS
We became further acquainted, and
after 1 had explained my position ana
made II plain that ! could never marry
anyone. / asked her for that friendship
We often discuss the word friendship
in relation TO man and woman and both
fully understood that we were 10 DE
merely friends. and nothing more. Cn-
eonspicuously 1 tried to do the Impossible
without realizing the dangers ahead.
.'On numerous occasions l was invited
10 the girls home. looked tor"aIo 70
these meetings with great pleasure, i
liked the long walks and talks We oi'eh
had together. / found pleasure in our
discussions. / enjoyed advising her aooai
the little things she always wanted 10
know liked to help smooth out her
tales OF woe. In fact there was even
pleasure and charm in just being near
her.
she met with an accident one uay'
and vas slightly injured. l went 70 the
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

Is speech or So
lenee best and kind
est under such
conditions?
This is the ques-
zion that a man
asks me Ia a letter
written so simply,
so sincerely and
with such feeling
that 1 reproduce
IL here just as 1t
reached me. lie
writes:
with a dear,
sweet mother at
home. and a poor
crippled brother
too, I, as the only
one to provide for
them, decided long
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

An interesting point in connection with
the Garter that was recently conferred
upon King Albert OF the Belgians Is tho
fact that It was held for his uncle, tho
late King Leopold, for forty years, and
previously by his grandfather for half a
century. In the whole history Of lie order
there is no instance OF two occupants
holding the dignity successfully for so
long period.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04
The Cost of High Living

is in dollars cents alone but in the breaking
of those vital functions of the body that bring happi
and long life Neither the high cost of living nor the
of high living need disturb the woman who KIN
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04
Advice to Lovelorn

4 Motnrr,r NreIcom..

Dear Miss Fairfax: young man be-
comes engaged after two years court
ship, during which time the young lady
has never visited the young mans mother
or home.
Now the young man feels Il Is high
time that she should and has extended
an invitation TO his brtde-to-be TO come
to his home and meet his mother. She
refuses, saying that IL Is the mothers
place 10 CAN on her first. Now which
one is oorrectT Il. q. y.
1t is customary for the fianee's mother
to call on the bride-to-be and offer the
girl whom her son is going 70 marry a
mothers welcome into the family.
write 90 Him.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 10 and In love
with a young man six years older than
whom / met a year ago. He said he
loved me and proved a very good friend
until a month ago he went away. l did
when he sent a letter asking me 20 for
get him, as he had met another young
lady He also added insult TO injury by
Offering me money for any Inconvenience
he might have caused me. Please let
me know what to dor -
Chicago. SORhOWBUL.
You are well nd OF this man. Writa
and tell him that you consider yourself
a fortunate girl in that you have found
out Just how contemplate he Il. Tell
him that you would never lower your
self 60 accept anything from him. and
that no one would need any recompenss
TO make up for losing the friendship OF
man who could so insult a girl for
whom he had once cared.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

over by the motor
truck. DYING, he
said to the sur
geon. W h O W a =
about to try 10
straiEhten h 9
crushed little legs;
Il will try not
20 cry, but II | do
don't let mamma
hear me"
lie died under
tho operation. died
without a sound,
one OF the world 3
small army of ST.
lent heroes.
] said with intent
small" army. Tho
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

Does the clinging skirt portend swing OF the
pendulum away from the very full skirt? Ger
tainly Premet has selected narrow model for
this tete de negre satin. with tunic OF cobwebby
lace and corsage of embroidered beige-colored
mousseline Al curtain of brown lace falls from
the straw hat
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

swarmes, by shrinking together again
they inclose the flies, and so Kill them;
so that these crevices are unto them in
stead OF name, tail and hair"
The illustration shown here gives an
odd conception of this trunk. The artist
may have read Pliny, who says;
Tho elephant through his nostrils
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04

1t is regal, this evening gown OF cloth designed
by Premet over the fourreau OF gold cloth. and
surprisingly clinging one, is dropped tunic OF
gold tulle embroidered in blue and outlined in err
mine. The corsage of gold tulle is embroidered in
vari-colored stones and the sleeves are of blus
tulle
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04
BY DOROTHY DIX.

Shall man who loves woman, and
Who has reason to believe that the
woman returns his affection, but whom
he cannot marry, tell her of his love
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04
Silent
Heroes
BY ADA PATTERSON.

Hard eyes moisened as they scanned
tho three brief lines that announced the
death OF a little boy in New York. He
lived on the east side He had been run
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-04
Do You Know That

The waltz Is a national German dance,
and was introduced into England by
German baron 100 years ago.
II IL estimated that the number Of pos
tai packets delivered in the United King
dom during the year reached the colossal
total of 5,9ie, 400. 900.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16
FARMERS AND GOOD ROADS.

One of the principal reasons why there is GER
tain to be much greater interest shown by all
kinds of people in the construction of good roads
is the constantly increasing general use of the
automobile Users of motor ears have from the
first been leaders in boosting for better roads,
but for a long time there was feeling by good
many people, particularly farmers, that auto
mobiles were for the pleasure OF the tourist, and
that these We're n comparatively small number
of the population. Thus there was a prejudice
against the automobile and suspicion directed
against the boosting which auto enthusiasts did
for easy-to-travel highways.
This is changing rapidly. Prejudice against
the automobile has almost entirely disappeared.
This is because the gas machine has become so
common, and because it is now looked upon as
a necessity where formerly it was cassed entire
ly as a luxury for the few. Furthermore far
mers are now greater users of automobiles i'll
proportion to their numbers than the business
man or pleasure seeker from the city.
The farmer has become more of an enthusiast
ic good roads man with using his machine on the
hard surfaced highways which lead to the cities.
But what the farmer needs most is not system
of highways parallel to the railroads, but rath-
er good roads running from the town back into
the country so that country produce can be cas-
lily and cheaply transported to market centers.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16
HERE ARE SOME; TRY THEM

The Gate City Journal of Nyssa has invaded
the realm of higher mathematics and proposes
mathematical puzzle. The statement is that
if the sum of five dollars is multiplied by five
dollars the result is $25.00, but if five hundred
cents the equivalent of five dollars is multiplied
by five hundred cents the result is not $500 but
$2500.00. Nothing extraordinary at all.
One cannot multiply five dollars by five dol
lars nor can he multiply five dollars by five jack
rabbits. If five dollars is multiplied by five, an
abstract number the result is $500 But in the
second ease the five hundred cents, the equiva-
lent of five dollars, is not multiplied by five but
by five hundred, hence the result of $250000,
which appears to the editor to be too large.
Another way to explain the ease is by consid-
ering the multiplication of ten feet by ten feet
which gives 100 square feet, but if ten feet is
multiplied by ten the result is 100 linear feet.
If reduced to inches we have 100 inches Y 100
easily To 100 square feet. In the case proposed
by the Nyssa editor we do not have the concep-
ton of 'square dollars" and "square cents.'
If we assume that conception and reduce the
'square cents" To ''square dollars the results
are consistent.
We have several simple ones which we think
beat the ease presented in the Journal Sup
pose steel band were fitted around the earth
so that 1t touched at every point, and suppose
that the earth were smooth, thus making per-
feet circle, If the total length of the band were
increased by eighteen inches, by how much
would it be raised from the earth at all points,
or, stating the problem in round numbers, by
how much is the radius of circle increased when
the circumference, already twenty five thousand
miles, is increased by eighteen inches
The Gate City editor may also enjoy himself
by multiplying the number l42S57, by 9, 3, 4, 8,
q, and Z, making separate multiplication for
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16

ductions that were made i'm tariff duties Then
when the war in Europe started we had the ''war
tax" with special tolls on bankers brokers, com
mission merchants, proprietors of amusement
places tobacco dealers and manufacturers and
stamp taxes on all kinds of commercial paper
The war tax law now in force expires by limi
tation December 81. But instead of the tax be-
coming obsolete then it will be re-enacted with
increased rates and many additions to its sched-
ules. 1t is reported that among the additions
will be tax on gasoline and possibly automo
bes, and an internal revenue tax on -four, salt,
sugar, coffee and tea is said to be under consd
Grafton. This is believed, will be necessary even
if there should not now be an additional outlay
of $20O,0OO,000 made necessary by the adoption
of n national defense program.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16
PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION
(Sermon by Rev. w. N. Brown, of the United
Presbyterian Church)

On this day of prayer for public schools, not a
few sermons will have to do with some phase of
school work. Our attempt along this line will
be rs far from the fault finding spirit as we can
make it. 1t is our desire to deal with the posi-
tive side of character developement thru the
schools. In this development the home church
schools and state must unite the efforts of any
or all of them will be failure in proportion as
they fail to work together If anything in this
message will help the parents, church, school or
any citizen of our great state to that the aim
of all these institutions should be development
of character and usefulness in the young people,
and if any word of ours will help to bring about
more united effort toward this end, we will re-
joice that we could have some part in SO great a
work.
Both the text and the morning scripture les
son from the first chapter of Daniel refer to
schools supported in part or in full by state
funds. These schools correspond to our public
schools of today. Our text records an act of
Jehoshaphat the good King of Judah in the
third year of his reign. Among the reform
works initiated by him was the movement to
give public education to the people of his realm.
He selected a number of prominent persons and
Taught in Judah, having the book of the law of
Jehovah with them" We shall not take time
to follow the record to note in detail the success
Continued on page A.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16
NATIONAL DEFENSE-FINANCE

There ought to be nothing but pure patriot
ism enter into the question OF military prepared
4 ness, of which we hear so much OF late. Un-
\ doubtcdly the most of those who are strong for
y big increase incur army and navy act from
pure motives But there are exceptions UNI
doubtedly. For instance politicians of a GER
J tain type think that in these times such move
is popular and the purity of their patriotism is
mixed with n little alloy.
Along this same line we have doubts if some
# the big newspapers OF the country do not
\ inwardly chuclllc little when they commend
President Wilson for bcstrring himself on the
national defense question. They remember that
even if conservative program of additions to
the army and navy is carried out it will mean
an additional tax burden for the national gov
crnment of about $200,000,O00.
In contemplating how the administration will
meet this problem we must remember that the
treasury is now running behind, and even if this
additional tax for defense purposes is not re-
quired still steps must be taken soon to make up
n deficit already staring us in the face And we
must remember also that this condition is true
i'm the face of the 'war tax" Theoretically this
was made necessary because we lost the revenue
from tariff on goods that would have come to
our ports had it not been for the war in Europe
But if the war should stop tomorrow this reve-
nue. would not be restored little OF it would,
and in the time an appreciable amount. But
we would not go back to former conditions for
war has played havoc with business as well as
with men, and there would be little commerce
with any ports until there can be financial and
commercial regeneration in the war-stricken
lands.
So the administration has a reason to worry,
and which the national defense problem only
makes little harder. Patriotic Americans,
however, will not object to paying the tax bill
for reasonable increased budget for the mill
tary and naval defenses of the nation. This APP
peal may aid in covering up the necessity for
raising additional revenue besides what is want
ed for defense purposes Thus the administra-
ton was lucky to have the war as an excuse for
the additional tax called "war tax" and it will
be lucky in having the national defense" slo-
gan to rely on in defending its own plea for more
finances
In fact President Wilson has been mighty
lucky in many ways At the very outset when
he undertook the difficult peculiarrto- the Demo
Gratis plan of maintaining the revenue by cutting
down the income, he was favored by the timely
adoption of the income tax amendment, which
the government to raise many million
which would have otherwise been lost by the re-
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16

each number, and noting that in all but the last
ease the sequence of the figures is unchanged
For example if multiplied by three the result is
1851, the same number as we started with ORR
ginally except that the | is transferred to the
other end We should be glad to have an eXpla-
nation of this phenomenon. We have some 9th
ers when these are finished
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16
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The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16
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The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16
GAS FOR PESTS.

A new use for the deadly gas, used in the Eur
opean war, has been found. 1t will kill pests
Near San Antonio, Texas, prairie dogs are pest
just as rabbits, squirrels and grasshoppers are
here, In Texas, chlorine, produced by an APP
paratus, attached to an automobile, is forced into
the holes through hose The holes are then
plugged The plan may be used with benefit in
this vicinity, The suggestion that "pest army
could wear respirators and explode gas bombs
over rabbit, squirrel or grasshopper fields,
sounds like the work of wag. Some plan is
needed for fighting pests in this vicinity and the
gas idea may be worth considering.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16

The farmer fruit grower and the stockman
who fails to do his part to make the county fair
a success is standing in his own light and is am
obstacle in the way of progress. For after all
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-09-16

All lovers of good racing will be pleased to
know that a rare treat is in store for them at
the Malheur County fair A galaxy of horses
from all over the northwest are already ON the
grounds and such racing as they will offer has
never been seen in Ontario or in Malheur Coun-
ty.