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The Morning Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO. FublUhar N. B. UPDIKE, rretident BALLARD DUNN. ' JOY M. HACKLER, Editor ia Chief. Business Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Auoeiated Prese, of which The Bee i» a member, I* axeluaivalj entitled to «he usa for publication of all nawa diapatehae credited to it or not otherwise credited In thla paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our >pec!al dlspatchea are also reeervcd. Tha Omaha Ben la a member of tha Audit Bureau of Circulations, (ha recognised authority on circulation audita, and The Omaha Bee's circulation ia regularly audltad by their organisations, Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha poetoffiee under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for sm |__a:. iaaa the Department or Person Wanted. A * laiMIC 1UW OFFICES Main Office—17th and Karnira Co. Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cr. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kanaae City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. Ban Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. MR. M'ADOO AND SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. Mr. McAdoo resents vehemently what he calls the dictation of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Mr. Reed attacks Mr. McAdoo because the latter seeks the'support of the Missouri democrats for his candidacy. Mr. McAdoo retorts that he is assailed bscause he refused to submit to what he calls black mail in the interest of the Reed candidacy. Let it go at that. Each of the gentlemen knows the other. Tht public is minded just now to take their words at their face value. « * * The public has a deeper concern in Mr. McAdoo. His name was one of a considerable number brought into notice in connection with the oil scandal. He admits that he was in the employ of Doheny and other concerns whose interests were not those of the public. Among the jobs he held were the fol lowing: To help Doheny in his Mexican oil troubles, in the handling of which he was to appear before the department heads of the democratic administration of which he had so recently been a part. To secure for Doheny tfc»; return of certain ships that had been taken over by the government during tha war. To “straighten out’’ the income taxes levied against the Republic Iron and Steel company. In the first case McAdoo has admitted his law firm was to get a contingent fee of $1,000,000. In the last case he admits his law firm received a fee •f $150,000. Senator Walsh, democrat, of Montana, was most considerate of Mr. McAdoo, democrat, ex-secretary of the treasury and candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, when the latter was s wit ness before the seriate committee. * * m There are many questions Mr. Walsh, In his par t ;an sympathy, no doubt, did not ask Mr. McAdoo, Many of the things that might have been learned from these missing questions have come out since— but the whole story has not been told. The people of the country want to get at the bottom of Mr. McAdoo’s activities. He is asking that be be made president of the United States. Many days have elapsed since the announcement "of the $1,000,000 Mexican fee and the $160,000 tax fee, but Mr. McAdoo has not been questioned fur ther. At the time there was much running around in Washington and statements that the democratic candidate would be called upon at once. Has Mr. Walsh, democrat, pigeon holed the sub poena for Mr.-McAdoo, democrat? Since the partisan character of Mr. Walsh’s committee has become apparent, it has lost the con fidence of the country. If Mr. McAdoo is permitted lo escape further inquiry it will lose what shred of confidence remains. Since he so successfully passed an ordeal whose terror was specially tempered for the needs of his particular case, McAdoo has been whitewashed by a conclave of hia friends. He now presents himself as a champion whose reputation not only bears no blemish, but ia the more refulgent because it haa been ao very carefully burnished by those whose in terest it ia to keqp the name of their candidate shin ing and unsullied. • • • Ia that enough? In the face of the declaration just made by Doheny, that he employed Mr. McAdoo because he was looking for the best lawyer ho could get for the money, does it not seem that maybe the one-time secretary of the treasury knew a little more than he has disclosed about certain shady deals? A character analysis of Doheny fails to give any sug gestion of a tendency toward pure philanthropy when it came to employing men. Members of the senate committee are skilled < rose-examiners. They know how to worm the truth cut of reluctant witnesses. Before them is a huge mass of documentary and other evidence. Their mission is to get all the facts and give them to the public. To suppress nothing, to whitewash no one. McAdoo should be recalled and given a full chance to tell all he knows. Until he does, his protestations and proclamations are but hollow, empty words. WHAT ARE THE BOSSES COOKING UP? Exactly what is going on behind the scenes in Nebraska democratic counsels might be interesting, were it frankly disclosed. Only one real conclu sion is warranted by surface indications. That is that the sachems are cooking up some sort of medi cine to be administered to the voters before the pri maries next month. Royal G. Copeland, senator from New York and medical adviser to the world at large, falls in line to preserve the pleasant little fiction that Charles W. Bryan is a presidential candidate. Mr. Bryan has coyly declined that honor, and puts himself for ward as wishing to succeed himself as governor. Yet, on the basis of courtesy due a favorite son, no democratic aspirant a.^s for control of the delega tion from Nebraska. Far away in Florida William Jennings Bryan is meeting with some discouragement. His preferred candidate for president has declined to enter the lists. The men who have run Florida politics for generations are not willing to abdicate in favor or the newcomer. So there is some question whether the colonel will control the Florida vote at New York. He may not even be there as a dele gate. This has slight yet definite relation to Ne braska. If Charles W. Bryan can take along with him a devoted gr oup of 15 . others who are Bryan men • first and democrats after, then thev may have some thing to aay in the convention. Where a two thirds majority is the main thing needed for a nomination, 16 votes look mighty big at times. However, it is just barely possible that some other of the Nebraska leaders might have ambitions. A considerable influence was put behind the name of McAdoo. when he was first announced. Whctner this has dried up or been smothered under the Doheny oil flood can only be guessed at now. Yet it is certain that the only real point in common be tween that group and the Bryans is that both are opposed to Underwood. So there must be something doing under the cover, which will soon have to be lifted to expose the re sult, whatever it is. WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND A DISGRACE FUL MESS. * Four indictments, accusing two men of crimes against the government, is not a very imposing ar ray. Yet it is a start on the great job of cleaning up the veterans’ bureau. History cannot parallel this unsavory mess. In the generosity of a great na tion men disabled while engaged in the defense of that nation were liberally remembered. It was the pride of the American people that soldiers who suf fer from disability incurred in the late war should be cared for, and compensated as far as humanly possible for the sacrifices they had made. A miserable botch was made of the job, through incompetence and mismanagement. That was bad enough. Worse, infinitely worse, was the deliberate debauchery of the man at the head of the whole bureau. He is before the public, charged with ac cepting bribes, and doing other unlawful things in connection with his administration of the affairs that were in his charge. He had the personal favor of the late president, who trusted him until his un worthiness was disclosed. Warren G. Harding spurned Charles R. Forbes from his presence with scornful denunciation. A grand jury has now returned indictments in which the least of his offenses are specified. These should be enough to send him to prison. No punishment however, will be adequate for his far greater crime. He betrayed the crippled, afflicted and destitute soldiers. Under the best of conditions their plight was bad enough, but to have their sufferings aug mented while the man in charge connived to de fraud the government and to misappropriate the relief funds he was commissioned to administer is an offense so detestable as to be beyond expression. The epithet applied by President Harding to Forbes is mild compared to what he deserved. What is to be said of the men who plotted with Forbes to rob the veterans? Acting alone, he could accomplish little. With the aid of contractors, buyers, sellers, and others bent on getting a piece of the loot, he could and did do much. Justice will not be satisfied until all of these offenders are dragged into the open and made to assume their full share of the ignominy that rightfully belongs to them. The public was plundered right and left during the war. That is not yet an entirely closed account. But the harpies who feasted on the public at the cost of the suffering veterans are despicable beyond ut terance. A start is now made in the way of clearing up this disgraceful mess. We hope it will be pushed to the end, and not one guilty man go unpunished. Senator Reed’s supporters declare he is the only democratic candidate in sight whose record needs no defense. To date we haven’t seen a republican newspaper who has said anything as mean as that about the democratic leaders. It is just a bit strange that no female politician has called attention to the fact that to date no women have been involved in the oil scandal. But just wait until Uncle Sam sets aside a face powder and lipstick reserve. ' - — " 1 > 1 Colonel Forbea says he is the victim of a plot. He is, and of a dastardly plot, at that. The colonel shouldn’t whine, now that the plot caught him while working in the reverse motion. Are we approaching the time when a statesman will be defined as one who never dabbled in oil stocks, or at least hasn’t been detected at it? Perhaps if the people investigated candidates more before election, there would not be need of so many congressional investigations after election. Mr. Andersen of Anti-Saloon league fame, is probably regretting that he met up with a mythical King instead of a practical Doheny. Even the rising generation would doubtless have no objection to seeing the oil investigation switched from crude to castor. If electrocution is proper punishment for murder, what would be the proper punishment to mete out to Colonel Forbes? Senator Brookhart's new committeeship will provide more opportunities for vociferous vocalisa tion. ‘‘Will you walk into my parlor, said the Spider to the Fly.” And the ex-city clerk walked right in. Governor Bryan’s neglect of the roads make it harder for him to travel back to a second term, For the sake of brevity we suggest that tha Jim reed platform be: "Whatever is, I'm ag’in.” Perhaps they named it "Teapot” because they could forsee so much "spout” about it. The bait of public office has lured more than one man into trouble, Mr. Bossie. Powder River at the municipal auditorium. Face, gun or bug—take your choice. Let’s feed the starving German babies first, and talk about reparations later. r > Homespun Verse —By Omaha'* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie _I_/ WHERE SYMPATHY ENDS. I have met with mortal* cultured, I have met with mortal* wt»e, I have met with human being* That the Devil would d#*pl*e. Day by day I've seen the honest. The congenial and the true— Those who worehlp at the altar. Those who bow beneath the blue. I have mingled with the allent. With the talkative conversed, I have seen the “outward highest,” T have seen the “Inward worst.'' I have loved the Joy of meeting. I have known the pstn of tears, I have hern a keen observer Through kaleidoscopic year*. I've felt kindly toward the robber, And I've sorrowed for the thief, For the fallen l have hankered For redemption and relief,— But I haven't much to offer To the fellow In thla Ilf# Who la mean enough to beat It With another fellow’s wife. t By EDWIN G. PINKHAM. The United States Under the Articles of Confederation That in the creation of the United Stales the tvorld had reached one of the turning points in its history, seems at the time to have entered into the thought of not a single European statesman.—John Richard Green, History of the English People. XXV. BIIAT were the 13 states which his Britanic majesty, signing at Paris by the hand of David Hartley, acknowledged on September 3, 1783, to be free, sovereign and in dependent states'.’ In the Declaration of Independence they had been styled the United States of America. In the promulgation of that document con gress had appointed a committee ‘‘to prepare and digest the form of confederation to be entered Into be tween these states.” That committee reported a draft of "articles of con federation and perpetual union” be tween the states, and It was debated, revised and finally adopted__by the congress on November 15. 1777. It was determined, however, that the articles of confederation should not become effective until ratified by all the states, and this unanimity was not effected until March 1, 1781, when Maryland, the last state to act. gave in its adhesion. The first article of this instrument read. “The stile df this confederacy shall be 'the United States of Amer ica.’ ” That confederacy existed from 1781 to 1789. and we have now to see what it was and why it was superseded by the government under which we now live. The confederation, as plainly ap pears from the articles, did not con template a national unity nor a na tional government for the states. Their union was only a "firm league of friendship.” Each stats remained sovereign except as to certain speci fied powers expressly delegated to congress. These powers chiefly con cerned the common defense. No executive was provided except congress, which body wag elected an nually or “appointed In such manner as the legislature of each state shah direct." and each state was repre sented by not less than two nor more than seven members. Voting in con gress was by states, and each state, no matter how many delegates it had, had one vote. A “committee of the states” was provided to exercise the powers of congress when that body was not tn session, the committee consisting of one member from each state. The ar ticles conferred no powere of taxation upon congress and none for the regu lation of commerce, these power* being reserved to the states. The ex pense of government was apportioned among the states on the basis of the value of the land they contained. Con gress merely estimated the expenses and the state laid and collected the taxes necessary to meet their quotas. Congress made war and peace, coined money, administered the postal service, made treaties, appointed of ficers to military and naval com mands and exercised other specified powers pertaining to the general de fense and welfare. But It could do none of these things without' the as sent of nine states. This plan of government failed to work from the start, and its defects were no lees apparent In peace than they had been In war. Its main de fects were that congress could 'raise no revenue, but only ask the states for it, and that it had no power to enforce obedience from the states. The result was that the states com piled with or refused requests for revenue, as they chose. Some paid and some didn't. The year the con federation went into effect, for ex ample. congress estimated It would need **.000.000 for common purpose* and this sum was requisitioned. More than a year later the collections had reached no more than *500,000. The treaty of Paris provided that private debts on both sides should be paid, and that neither country should raise any impediment to their recov ery. But about half the states Im mediately passed laws violating the article and congress was helpless to do anything about It. The war had created a national debt. Money was not only owing at home and abroad* hut to the army; but congress was powerless to ratisfy the public creditor snd even to pay the soldiers. Washington’s personal ap peal to the latter alone prevented mutiny. In preparing to read a statement to a delegation of the *«1 diers. the general was obliged to hunt for his spectacles. "You see.” he said. ”1 have even lost my eyesight In your service.” The decided effect of the confedera tion was to extend irresponsible stst# authority and limit that of the gen eral government. The state even paid the salaries of Its congressmen, snd as they could be recalled and other* sent in their places at any time, they felt their responsibilities were wholly to the state rather than to the union. The voting In ongress was, more over. highly unequal. Virginia with a population at the close of the revoiti — — -■ ■> Abe Martin _J I In in’t it a r#e occasion f have somebuddy agree with us on a re semblance? We don't know how anything as busy as gossip ever got th’ reputation fer bein’ Idle. (Copyright. lfS4 ) tion of 532,000, and Massachuaetts and Pennaylvanla with 330,000 each, having exactly the same voting strength a* Delaware with 37,000 peo ple. This inequality and the neces sary assent of nine states to public measures made Jhe defeat of what may be called national legislation easy. It was only with difficulty that congress mustered the votes necessary lo ratify the treaty of peace. In New York the assembly, under the leadership of Alexander Hamilton, had passed as early as 1782 a resolu tion for a convention of the states. Similar action was taken by other states, and in Virginia steps were taken that led in 1786 to a convention at Annapolis where five states were represented. This convention, how ever. took no action other than to recommend that another convention be called to meet in Philadelphia in May, 1787. Congress, acting on this recommendation, issued the call, but vs there was much opposition and dis trust of the proceeding, took pains to specify that the meeting was to be "for the sol# purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation.’* It was this convention at Philadel phia that made the Constitution of the United States a work declared by Gladstone to be the most wonderful ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. (Copyright, Kansas City Star.) listeningIn On the Nebraska Press. ’ Progressive minded people never quite agree; conservatives never en tirely fall out," observes *h# North Platte Fsrber-Labor Herald. • • • The Bayard Transcript Is of the opinion that this Teapot Dome inves tigation is becoming "too darned Im partial.” see "Nobody pays for advertising: it paya for itself.” declares the sage who edits the Holdrege Citizen. a • a Noting that a recent crow hunt at TiMen resulted In the slaughter of 1.750 crows. Allan May of the Auburn Herald suggests that they be put In cold storage foe the consumption of defeated candidates next November. a a • Noting that Mr. Bryan has declared wealth to be a disease. Editor Pont of the Stanton Register la spending his spare time trying to locate the serm. • • a ’’No ml smeared candidate will do." asserts Ed Curran in th«Greeley Citi zen. a • • Noting that Mr. Rryan still persists in keeping his prsferred candidate’s hat in the ring, Adam Breeds of the Hastings Tribune expresses a fear that Dr. Murphree Is going to gst sun burned for nothing. • as Dick Maupln of the Gering Midwest says he never was In a saloon in hit life, but admlta that he has heard a lot of the language from fellows who voted for prohibition. • • e Rays Editor 8weet of the Nebraska City Press: "The man who waved the biggest flag and sang “Over Thera’ with the most vehemence during the more or leas well remembered war, is the moat vociferous objector to the payment pf adjusted compensation to the Objects of His Love In '17 and ’ll." e e e Noting that former State Senator Emil Placek of Wahoo has filed for the democratic nomination for con grats in the Fourth district, the Schuyler Fun says of him that he "ia an energetic cuss.'* AOVKSTiBEmorr. If Yoo Nted a Medicine Yea Sliauld Nan tha Bast Have you ever stopped to reason why It la that eo many products that are extensively advertised, all at once drop out of eight and are eoon forgot ten? The reason Is plain—tha article did not fulfill the promleea of, the manufacturer. Thla applies more particularly to a medicine. A madi clnal preparation that has real cura tive value almost sella Itself, as like an endleaa chain aystem the remedy ia recommended by those who have been benefited, to those who are In need of It. A prominent druggist says. ‘‘Take for example Ur. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a preparation I have sold for many yeara and never hesitate to recom mend, for In almost every ceee It ■hows excellent results, as many of my cuatomera testify. No other kid ney remedy has so large a sale." According to awom statements and verified testimony thousands who have uaad tha preparation, the success of Ur. Kilmer's Swamp-Root la due to the fact, so many people claim, that It fulfills almost every wish In over coming kidney, liver and bladder ail ments. corrects urinary troubles and neutralises the uric acid which causes rheumatism. You may receive a sample bottle of Swamp-Root by Parcel Poet. Address U. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton. N. Y.. and enclose ten cents: also mention this paper, l<args and medium site bottles for aale at aII drug store*. “The People's Voice" Editorials from readers of The Morning Bee. Readers of The Morning Bee are invited to use this column freely for expression on matters of. public interest. Joins Taring Debate. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: In the other evening paper a letter appears that Is lambasting Joe Koutsky about paving with wooden blocks. He also says that ho is experienced In that kind of work and further says that the base should be from 14 to 16 Inches thick. Something unheard of In this United States; at least I have never heard of lev Now in the old country, such as around Rome or Paris where they have crushed rock for a base and from time to time it depreciates into ruts and crevices, those are filled with more crushed rock and the wheels of traffic mash and crush those stones down Into those hollows. The same has been going on for years, hundreds of years, thousands of years, and from constant replenish ing of.the same, I have no doubt that you would find from one foot to five or six feet or even more than' that. Ha also says that as one that has done this kind of work, there is too much skimping. I do not know what he means by skimping, in the follow ing a person can get an leda of what he means. The person who looks after the work In the interest of the state often turns his heed the wrong way and puts his hand out to the contractor, that Is how the work Is skimped. He also says If you want good roads, gst a good honest man who will look after h1s business /md not ' shake hands with the contractor too often. Now, I do not know what is the matter with this man, I think he ate too much and has Indigestion. I will suggest a remedy. He must take a dose of that world renowned medi cine. Mrs. Mislowa Soothing Syrup, I think that will allay his troubled brail); or he'may be afflicted by that terrible disease known as the writer's cramp, that is a disease, when it rightly gets a hold, it is hard to get rid of, or It may be in nis arm from reading It out behind him so much that he has no control of It and he himself is not responsible for what his arm does. Maybe in look ing over his shoulder too suddenly, he dislocated his arm at the shoulder which is a terrible disea.we of itself, and I would have him consult a physician st once. However, I hope that before this reaches him his arm will be whole again and in proper shape to take another fling at it. P. A, BURKE. Progressive Stays With Republicans. McCook, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee; My attention has been called to an article in' The Bee which gave an account of a meeting held at Grand Island, by a few- citi zens affiliating with the so called progressive party of this state. At this meeting a list of delegates to the national convention of the farmer labor party, to be held at St. Paul. Minn., this spring, was selected. My name appeared as one of these dele gates. Please allow me to make the following statement: My name ap pears In this list without the slight est authority from me. It was placed there without my knowledge or con sent. I would like to Impress on the parties who placed my name before the public In a misrepresenting man ner, that the compliment is not ap preciated. I never did nor do I now affiliate with this new party, nor do I bellve In any new party at thla time, believing that better results can be accomplished by the progressive republicans in keeping up the fight for progress within the republican party. CHARLES SKALUA. Sunny Side up y&ke Comfort, nor forget Jhat SunrUt n**r ' NEBRASKA. You may talk of balmy weather at Palm Beach; You may rave of bathing beauties, each a peach. Talk of California aunny An a land of milk and honey. But about a better country I would preach. While of far off placet others loudly sing I arise to let the whole world know. b'JIng. That Nebraska suits me fully, And she never looks so bully As when she begins to blossom forth in spring. How 1 love her rivers winding to the sea! All her fields that promise harvest* yet to be! How I love her women fair— You can t match them anywhere! Say, in all respects Nebraska Jufct suits me. Golden sun that beams f om out a sky of blue. Friends and neighbors "ho have hearts so warm and true. Peace and plenty all around. Where the joys of life abound— I have never found a better place. Have you? The palatial new home of the Elks will soon be dedicated. One of the in novations will be a telephone that will automatically say, "No. he is not here,” every time the telephone rings and a feminine voice makes inquiry. We are still living In hopes, a! though old age la just around the corner and it would seem that our chances are growing tenuous. But before we are called hence we would like to r.ead about some shoplifter, or divorcee, or female companion of an auto thief, who Is not "pretty.” We did not begin until a comparatively recent date our present task of keep-1 ing tally, but up to last Sunday morn ing we had tallied Just 983 cases wherein women were either in the tolls atf the law or seeking escape from the tolls of matrimony, and In 983 of them the woman was de scribed* as "pretty” or "attractive.'' If you will go to Gayety any Sat urday you will see. If you look, a short, heavyeet man seated away back, busj- with note book and pen oil. After the matinee this man will wander backstage and hold converse with the manager and principals of the show. He is OM Man Johnson, and he will, if necessary, tell the show folk just what gags they have to eliminate, or just what particular| piece of "business" has to lie doc tored a bit. Every now and then some prim q "il puts up a howl about h!a best laughs being cut out. but Ola Man Johnson merely replies that ha is more Interested in securing the Increasing favor of women patrons than he is in allowing some comedian to g»t a laugh at a coarse Joke. We are often impelled to wonder after reading the tearful sobs r.f some professional child saver, what would have become of some of our well known citizens If there had been so many savers during their hoyhooa. Perhaps the fact that men like Carl Gray. Byron Clark. J. E. Davidson. George W. Holdrege. E. Buckingham, and a hundred others we might name, were not compelled by law to loaf their summers away, had some thing to do with their success. Our acquaintance with the sugar beet industry in Nebraska began some 25 years ago. and for the IS years last past we have been in close personal touch with it. Moat of the beet field boys of 15 and SO years ago are now driving around over the North Platte valley in big automo biles, paving taxes on the best Im proved farms In the valley, and smil ing as they listen to some people who are standing around and whining that "There ain't no chuace for a poor man no more.'' During these 15 or SO years we have seen more'boys ruined by con tracting lazy and shiftless habits tlian we have boys ruined by being compelled to work too hard in the beet fields. And as for the bousing conditions that the professional sav ers bemoan as prevailing In the beet fields, the real facts are that those who inhabit them prefer them that way. They are far better, as a rule, than the domiciles they denned up hi before they left their native land. Despite the sobs of the professional child savers, who must do a certain amount of sobbing tf they hold their jobs, the matter of child labor in the beet fields is not an industrial ques tion; it is an educational question. The solution boes not lie in prevent ing the children from engaging In a useful industry, but lies in confront ing the school year to that industrial condition. This may easily be done without curtailing the school year a single day. The great difficulty, how ever. is that It «eems almost impoe ftble to convince our professional edu cators that there really Is no well founded reason why the school year should arbitrarily begin the first Monday in September and continue until June 1. Every year we hear this same way about the poor beet field childreii We would feel lost without it. And the beet field children continue to grow up into stalwart, healthy men and women who know how to work, and who are rapidly coming Into the ownership of the best farms in irri gated Nebraska. The state doesn't r*ed lnw« to prevent their working in the beet fields one half as much at it needs- to devise some method of edu eating them and Americanizing th»m WILL M. MAtTPIN. Said Too Much. A victim of chronic bronchitis call ed on a doctor to be examined. The doctor, after careful questioning, as sured the patient that the ailment would respond readily to treatment "I suppose you must have had » trrfat deal of experience with this dis t-ase?" asked the sufferer. The doctor smiled wisely, and re piled; "Why. my dear sir. I've haf bronchitis myself for over 16 years." —Christian Evangelist. ».• -Safety for j. : JZaftndrWmitTT-. 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