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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-21

peding the quarry. The wlld horses
would run for the nearest water hole
only to be met in the same cruel
manner and so at the third hole
But upon arriving at the final, Or
fourth, hole the men were concealed
and the poor famished horses were
permitted to fill their hides with al
kali water--when the cowboys let
loose a bedlam of diabolic yells al
most as savage as the average college
yell. Result: The boys. mounted on
fresh, fleet horses, soon had their pot
bellied, water-logged cayuse horse de-
combat. H. s. BELL, NJ. D.
p. S.-oh, avarice! What shame is
nyson said, "Oh, disconnected man.
takest what thou want; but pay the
price.
New Land Commissioner Speaks Out.
Scottsbluff, Neb., Dec. 19.-To tn"
Editor of The Bee: Newspaper In
will sometimes make one forget court
esy to a fellow official. Certainly
knowledge Of the duties Of the Office
and competent testimony" had little
to do with the recommendation of the
state auditor, that the state land COM
missioner's Office should be abandoned.
Thinking that it might be taken seri-
ously by the Legislators who are in
clined toward economy, I am inspired
to say why the land commissioner
elect does not concur in the recon-
mendation.
The Office is now elective and should
the duties be transferred to the audi
tors department a competent chief
clerk or department manager would
cost as much or more than the $4,000
now paid the commissioner. The Sc
lection of the new official would be
taken away from the people and made
by one person.
Just now the nation is breaking
away from the old and obsolete Gus
tom of selection by proxy and vesting
the power directly in the people and
progressive Nebraska can afford to
take no backward step.
At the present time and for the next
ten years and perhaps in perpetuity
the department of the commissioner
of public lands and buildings will be
one of the most important offices in
the state for the safeguarding of the
interests of western Nebraska. This
fact has failed to reach the vision of
the excellent editorial writer's of the
Bee, and western Nebraska may hold
them to "strict accountability" if any
harm comes of the avidity with which
they have commended the plan.
1t has been intimated that If | would
favor the movement to abandon the
Office of land commissioner it would
insure my re-electionl I am opposed
to it, / am not an idler and I want
no empty honors. / will not be a
candidate for any office where there
is nothing to do.
I am sorry that the auditor his
made the recommendation. I am SIRE
in his heart he has no other purpose
than being progressive and g.mo-
cratic, but he has made a mistake His
proposal will not stand analysis He
suggests the unethical possibility of
giving a man the power to audit him
self or the bureau which he dominates.
@. L. SHUMWAY
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-21

Finally, you cannot have a real city, strong
city, healthful city, an economic city, happy
city. clean city, city politically triumphant Of
democracy, city Of progress, city of industrial
efficiency city Of commercial power--you can
not have this kind of city if you neglect to
provide clean and healthful play and a need Of
this rich, historic wealth to those who come after.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28

lied for team play, we begin to get the
kinds of sacrifice that the group al
ways demands of the individual, and
I'm many respects the more victorious
forms of athletic sports are quite the
IuivaleHt of good fighting, so far as
the participants are concerned. The
motives are still those of rivalry, but
the prospective gain of victory is now
no longer for the individual, but for
the group. And when boys all but ex-
haust themselves for the GLORY of the
school," the moral results are of the
highest kind.
We go step further when the corn
clubs conquer insects and fungi, and
control the soil and the seasons for the
glory of their county or district, for
soon the interest may be extended
from the mere beating" of the rivals
to the increased contribution to the
corn crib ut home. The same kinds of
results morally are obtained when we
utilize the group rivalries in Clean
up Contest" The girls will make their
streets and yards and porches as at
tractive as possible, at first for the
purpose of making better showing
than those of the next street. Pres
emily, however, the interest may be
directed so as to center Upon the chass
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
Bibles.

The first Bible printed In America
was in an Indian language, translated
by John Elliott, pioneer missionary
to the Indians, and published at Cam
bridge, Mass, the New Testament in
1861, the entire Bible in 1868. In 1868
one William Bradford proposed to
print an English Bible by subscription,
the price of the book to subscribers
being 20 shillings or n pound sterling.
In 1T77, during the Revolutionary war,
there were so few Bibles in the little
group of states that congress voted
to print 10000 copies. Even this was
found impracticable. Type and paper
were wanting, and by way of compro-
mise 10000 Bibles were then ordered
to be imported from Europe by author
ity of congress, the reason being given
that "its use was so universal and it's
so great" But even this
could not be done owing to the war
embargo. The work was then under
taken in 1882 by Robert Aiken of Phil
adelphia as a private enterprise. The
boSks were few and very dear.-Chris.
tian Herald.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
He Proved IL.

During the recitation of q college
class in natural philosophy, the pro-
fessor observed tall, lanky youth i'm
rear seat, his head dropping, his
body relaxed, his eyes half closed, and
his legs encumbering the adjacent
aisle.
"Mr. Frazer" said the professor.
The freshman opened his eyes slow
ly, but did not change his pose.
"Mr. Frazer, what is work?"
Everything is work." was the
drawing reply.
"Sir," exclaimed the professor, "do
you mean to tell me that is a reason
able answer to my question:"
"Yes, sir"
"Then 1 take 1t that you would like
me and the class to believe that this
desk is work?"
"Yes, sir" replied the youth YEARLY;
sit is woodwork. The Christian Her.
aid.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
With the Child, Fighting Means More
Than Defense-lt Is a Matter of
Overcoming Difficulties.

and inhuman motives, and, on the 9TH
er hand, against allowing the eXertions
to result in injuries, whether personal
or economical.
In childhood, playing soldier means,
usually, merely parading or hunting
or stalking. Presently, however, the
children become interested in each 9TH
er as members of groups. Because of
this interest it becomes possible for
us to cultivate an attitude of eXclu-
siveness or antagonism toward all who
are not members of the immediate
group. In extreme cases this attitude
ends in antisocial group action, and at
best it ends in rather narrow kind of
nationalism or patriotism" But it is
also possible to make use of the social
interests and impulses in cultivating
an overwhelming conscientiousness of
identity with other people. In the first
case we have a perpetual source of
antagonism or animOsity toward
strangers and foreigners. In the lat
direct the fighting instinct against the
enemies of the race, the distractions
to human welfare.
But even before the child becomes
interested in team plays or group ac-
tion of any kind we utilize essentially
the same interest in conflict when we
encourage rivalry, whether at home or
in school. through prize contests or
through invidious praise and blame.
We have guessing contests and spell
ing matches, and in athletics we have
races of various kinds. In these the
individual is encouraged to put forth
his best efforts, not for the purpose Of
attaining some predetermined stand
ard, not for the purpose of cultivating
his own abilities, but for the purpose
of excelling some other particular
child.
The bread-baking contests and the
dressmaking competitions for girls,
like the cornraising or shop contests
for boys, utilize the same motives of
rivalry as we find in the ordinary ath-
letic contests or street fights. But the
form of the conflict and the material
consequences are In no way objection
able.
When TIA older children are organ
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
lar brand Of righteousEees backed BY
the needful inside information. You
60 ahead and do your part and well
do the rest"

Brouillard. walking out OF Mr. Cort-
wright's new Offices with his thoughts
afar. wondered If it were by pure coin
cidence that he found Cashier appar-
emily waiting for him on the sidewalk.
Once more you are just the man
have been wanting to see," the young
missionary began. promptly making
use Of the chance meeting. May
break in with bit of bad news?"
There is no such thing as good
news in this God-forsaken valley. Cast
ner. What's your grief?"
There Is trouble threatening for
the Cortwrights. Stephen Massingale
is out and about again. and | was told
this morning that he was filing him.
self up with bad whisky and looking
for the man who shot him."
Brouillard nodded unsympathetio-
ally.
You will find that there is always
likely to be second chapter in book
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
SYNOPSIS.
d

Brouillard, chief engineer of the Niquoia
irrigation DAM meets j. Wesley Cort-
wright and explains the reclamation work
to him. Cartwright organizes company
and obtains government contracts to fur
gale threatens to start a gold rush IL
Brouillard does not use his influence to
bring a railroad branch to the place, thus
opening an easy market for the Little
Susan" mine ore. Brouillard tells Amy
Massingale Of his need for money to pay
OF his dead fathers debts. She tells him
to be true to himself. He decides for the
extension. Mlrapolis, the city OF num-
bered days, booms. Cartwright persuades
Brouillard to become consulting engineer
of the power company In return for $780,
900 stock. Stoppage of work on the rail-
road threatens a panic. Brouillard spreads
the Massingale story of placer gold in
the river bed and starts a gold rush.
which promises to stop the reclamation
project. Amy tells Brouillard that her
father is in Cortwright's financial
clutches. He tells her he has made $780,
900 and declares his love. She loves him,
but shows him that he has become demon
allied. A real gold find is made. Brouil-
lard sells his stock but does not pay his
fathers debts. Cortwright's son shoots
Steve Massingaie. Brouillard threatens
Cartwright with exposure II he pushes
Massingale to the wall. The magnate
promises to give the old man a free field.
Stories of the dams abandonment revive.
Foreclosure on the Little Susan" Is i'm
pending and Brouilard loans Dave Mas
singale his 800. 900 to clear him. Massin-
gale CANDLES away the entire amount.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
1 The City Of Numbered Days
Il w By FRANCIS LYNDE w |
ST. V ca7dsI by h1'-s Sons V
By FRANCIS LYNDE
that you own me. Mr.. Cartwright?
Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons

that you own me. Mr.. Cartwright?
have often wondered"
We'll, | might say that have made
you what you are, and"
That's true; the truest thing you
ever said" snapped Brouillard.
"And, ! was going to add. can I'M
make you just as easily. But l don't
want to be savage with you. All I'm
asking is little information first. and
little judicious help afterward. What
are your orders from the department? ?"
Brouillard got up and stood over the
stocky man In the office chair, with the
black eyes blazing.
"Mr. Cartwright, said moment ago
that you have made me what | am,
and you have. ! am infinitely worse
man than you are, because / know bet
ter and you don't. 1t is no excuse for
me that have had a motive which
haven't explained to you, because, as !
once told you. you couldn't understand
it in thousand years. The evil has
been done and the consequences, to
you, to me, and to everyone in this
cursed valley are certain. Facing them
as am obliged to face them. am tell
ing you-but what's the use? You
can't make a tool Of me any longer
that's all. You must cook your meat
over your own fire. I'm out of it,
II can smash you" said the man in
the chair, quite without heat.
mo, you can't even do that" was
the equally cool retort. mo mans
fate is in another mans hands"
He was moving toward the door, but
Cartwright stopped him.
"One more word before you go,
Brouillard. 1t is to be war between US
from this on?"
Il don't say that. It would be awk-
ward for us both now. Let is be
armed neutrality if you like. Don't in
terfere with me and ] won't interfere
with you"
"Ah!" said the millionaire. Nov
you have brought it around to the
point was trying to reach. You don't
want to have anything more to do
with me, but you are not quite ready
to cash in and pull out OF the game.
How much money have you got?"
The cool impudence of the question
brought dull flush to the young mans
face, but he would give the enemy no
advantage in the matter of superior
self-control.
"That is scarcely fair question
even between armed neutrals," he OBJ
jected. why do you want to known"
I'm asking because you have just
proposed the noninterference policy,
and I'd like to know how fairly you
mean to live up to it. A little while
back you interfered in small bust
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28

ness matter of mine very pointedly.
What became Of the one hundred thou
sand dollars you gave old David Mas
singale?"
How do you know / gave him q
hundred thousand dollars?'
That's dead easy" laughed the man
In the pivot chair, once more the genial
buccaneer. you drew a check for that
amount and cashed 1t, and few min
utes later Massingale, whose account
had been drawn down to nothing, bobs
I'D at Schermerhorn's window with ex-
actly the same amount in loose cash.
What did he do with it-gamble 1t ?"
THAT is his own affair."" Brouillard
countered briefly.
We'll. the future-next months fu-
ture-is my affair. II you've got money
enough to interfere again--don't.
You'll lose It, the same as you did be-
fore. And perhaps / sha'n't take the
second interference as good-naturedly
as did the first"
Us that all you have to say?" Brou.
illard asked impatiently.
mot quite. don't believe you were
altogether In earnest a minute ago
when you expressed your desire to call
Il ala of. You 3ont want the Mirapo-
lis we'll to 60 dry right now. not one bit
more than do"
II have been trying pretty hard to
make you understand that II is q mat
ter of utter Indifference to me-"
! But ysu haven't succeeded very
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28

"HERE are three possible atti-
tudes toward the instincts of
children. At one extreme we
find the rather crude natural
ism which assumes that whatever Is
natural must be right; this leads to
Indifference and indulgence. At the
other extreme is the somewhat less
crude but equally arbitrary Puritanism
which suspects every desire and i'm
pulse of being satanic in origin; this
leads to suppression and sterility.
Then there is the more or less rational
eclecticism that chooses 10 encourage
some impulses and to suppress others.
When we take into account the teach
ings of modern psychology and biology
we shall make our selections and adapt
our methods more effectively. Today
we do not simply repress or indulge;
we try to utilize the driving forces of
the growing child to forward our own
ideals of what a child should be. We
take the child as we find him, and try
to make him little stronger here and
to rub off little there.
I'll the lllutteT III llSHllllS III - pstTll-
cularly difficult to form balanced judy
ments and to develop sane plans. With
our usual habit of emphasizing one
aspect of problem to the exclusion
of all others, we either fix our atten-
ton on the injuries resulting from con-
flict and become extreme pacifists, or
we fix the attention upon the need for
resisting aggression, for defending
our rights" and become belligerent
In one case we make fighting an end
in itself; in the other case we make
the avoidance of fighting the goal Of
effort. With the child, however, fight
ing means more than defense, and it
need not always mean that; it means
something different from the conse-
quences to person and property. 1t Is
almost entirely matter of exertion, Of
overcoming difficulties, of conquest-or
defeat sometimes, but even then
chiefly as incidental to the conflict.
Our problem is therefore to make
full use of youths eagerness to exert
effort, to sacrifice, to devote itself. But
we must guard, on the one hand,
against drawing upon the antisocial
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
Needed.

Senator Kern was talking about a
noted foreign statesman.
"The people want to get rid Of him."
he said, 'but I'm afraid they can't do
without him. They're like the jeal-
Gus husband.
"a husband was very jealous of his
capable, managing wife. She had got
him his job and he owed his various
advances to her, but, nevertheless, he
got so jealous one night that he point
ed q revolver at her head.
"'What are you going TO do, Jim,'
she asked, staring into the murderous
weapon, calmly.
SIN going to blow your brains outr
roared the frenzied husband.
'.'Jim, don't you do Il, she said.
You need my brains whArs they are -
Washington Star.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28

Cashier"
Of that sort-if the first one isn't con-
elusive"
"But there mustn't be this time"
Cashier insisted warmly. 1--WE must
stop it; it is our business to stop it,"
Your business, maybe; 1t falls right
in your line, doesn't it
mo more in mine than in yours"
was the quick retort.
Am I my brothers. keeper" said
the engineer pointedly, catching step
with the long-legged stride Of the ath-
letic. young shepherd Of souls.
mot IL you claim kinship with Cain.
who was the originator of that very
badly outworn query" came the an
swer shotlike. Then: what has come
over you lately, Brouillard? You are
friend of the Massingales; I've had
good proof Of that. Why don't you
carer"
Great heavens, Cashier, do care!
But IL you had a cut finger you
wouldn't go to a man in hell to get it
tied up, would your"
You mean that l have brought my
cut finger to your"
"Yes, I meant that, and the rest Of
1t, too. I'm no fit company for a de-
cent man today, Cashier. You'd better
edge off and leave me alone"
Cashier did not take the blunt inti-
maticn. For the little distance inter
vening between the power company's
new offices and the Niquoia building
he tramped beside the young engineer
in silence. But at the entrance to the
Niquoia he would have gone his way IL
Brouillard had not said abruptly:
II gave you fair warming; I'm not
looking for chance to play the Good
Samaritan to anybody-not even to
Stephen Massingale, much less Van
Bruce Cartwright. The reason Is be-
cause l have pretty decent backload
of my own to carry. Come up to my
rooms If you can spare few minutes.
/ want to talk to a man who hasn't
parted with his soul for a money
equivalent-if there is such man left
in this bottomless pit of town."
Cashier accepted the implied chal-
lenge soberly, and together they as
cended to Brouillard's offices. Once be-
hind the closed door, Brouillard struck
out viciously.
You fellows claim to hold the keys
to the conscience shop; suppose you
| open up and dole out little of the
precious commodity to me. Cashier Is
It ever justifiable to do evil that good
may conner"
No" There was no hesitation in
the denial.
Brouillard's laugh was harshly de-
! risive
II thought you'd say that. No qualifi-
cations asked for, no judicial weighing
Of the pros and cons-the evil of the
evil, or the goodness of the good
just a pli.in, bigoted No."
The young missionary left his chair
and began to walk back and forth on
his side of the Office desk.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28

ing of dirt as the villain of the drama.
Now the older children can be led to
abandon the group rivalries as they
had already Outgrown the individual
rivalries, and the object of attack can
now be made some impersonal enemy,
rather than some particular person or
group. There is enough to fight for
and to fight against. Boys and girls
who have learned to work together In
the various kinds of contests need not
abandon the fighting motives, and the
powerful organizing influences that
these motives exert upon our activities.
But they must learn to fight real enc
mics, and for larger and larger groups.
Disease still remains to be conquered,
and the best physicians and nurses APP
proach their work in the spirit of the
soldier. Fire prevention and fire de-
struction call for as much thought and
effort as the best can put forth. The
vast engineering and economic and So
cial problems furnish worthy foes for
the fighting instincts Of our boys ana
girls.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28

Once more BrouiIlard Is
tempted by Cartwright. II he
accepts cortwright's offer he
can mako money and stand a
chance Of defeating the crooked
capitalists purposes In the long
run. II no refuses, he loses not
only his Job but his savings.
What would you do-consider-
Ing that acceptance 10 wrong?
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28

VIII the ctean-minded young .
missionary persuade the enSi-
neer to refuse Corta~rIehts o.
fer, or will he see the ultimate
possibility Of BroulIlard's win !
ming and counse' him to aecept7 I,
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28


$50 m CONTtNUEnJ
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28

and inhuman motives, and, on the 9TH
er hand, against allowing the eXertions
to result in injuries, whether personal
or economical
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
TRAINING TODAYS
BOYS AND GIRLS
Fighting Instinct Diverted Into
Other Channels.
REAL ENEMIES IMPERS0NAL
Healthy Group Rivalries and Competi-
tions Will Absorb Energies That
Otherwise Are Likely to Be
Misdirected.
BY sIDoNiE M. GUTENBERG.

HERE are three possible atti-
tudes toward the instincts of
children. AT one extreme we
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armierter 0ampfer bari a6fahren.

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ben borbergebeuoen ied)s Gbnliden
lSallen bat Die 8unoesregierrng sic
Oes init @eidilben benonn
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Qe6nt llnterindlmna ab.

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3ioliiten IN Der aoutfner allsge.
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DUB bon 3eputierten Die 3uitdnoe
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abgelebnt~ por0en. Gie qeplante
ltnterindrma bate fidl auf ale uid,t
rein militariideu 9inae mo 8l
eritredeu ioaen.
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pornen, od cr BON 6rontns Suub
1ebiiicn lUllroc; CT bhtte ouf $4,000
aeflaat,
drol Wilma Scbcrnaml lit nod
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i4r Dr 8ltsuarenaeidaft ~ MAIDEN.
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