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...bone and walls out as his nose strikes live coals. On the other side of the lake hidden in the timber there is a fire stabbing the sky. Before it sit a few solemn figures nodding gently to themselves thinking or casually dozing in the heat. Around them a ring of naked, glistening figures are cast against the sky in studied crouches. The American Indian has raised the old Hob again...
...General William McDaniel Rowan, brother of Lieut. Andrew S. Rowan who carried the Message to Garcia, is Deputy Prohibition Administrator of Nebraska. Last week his area was under Investigation by Washington because of a liquor ring said to be operating successfully in Omaha. Four men have been taken for "rides" in the last six months, five murders have been attempted. General Rowan denied a liquor ring exists...
...recent letter in these columns contained a very entraining argument: If they want us to eat with congenial people, why I' God's name do they want us to eat in the House? Very fair, but let's join in a ring-around-the-rosie with the High Table in the centre and sing some chant to remind ourselves that the House provides not only showers, not only it braries, but also congenial friends. That's the purpose of it. One suggestion has been that people may charge their meals in any House. If these are to be charged...
Other magazines have likewise fallen from popularity because the times have passed them by. In the eighties, "Harper's Weekly" crusaded almost single-handed against the pioneer racketeers of the Tweed Ring and won its fight by the efforts of the cartoonist Thomas Nast. And in the turbulent days of the Roosevelt campaigns, its drawings by Kemble crystallized the opinion of the opposition. But because "Harper's" could not remake its pages in the image of Baron Steiehen or Covarrubias...
Plan No. 4 had a familiar ring. Sick industries, like oil, shipping and agriculture, eventually seek some sort of Government regulation. Hale industries fight it. Declaring coal a public utility so that...