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JULY CinCVLATIO.
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ma, thla 4th dav of August. 1914.
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Surmcribrr tearing rhe city temporarily
should hare The Bee mailed to them. Ad
dree will be changed aa often aa requested.
The Bee's war news service ! 1U own best
"recommendation.
The Missouri mule Is beginning to hear the
Inevitable rajl to arms.
It's "watchful waiting" again for your
hxewd Uncle Samuel.
... The direct successor of "firing tn the wind
ward channel" Is yet to be presented.
Something serious must hare happened to
Mr. T. Withdrawal's ready letter writer.
May we pause for the question, where is the
eld-fashioned man with the hickory shirt T
In the general war conflagration, there is bo
telling where the next flame will burst forth.
Walters Want to Flrht Headline.
Oh, better wait and live to fight another day.
The blackmailing brigade and the crooked
lawyers who divvy up with them know whom
they want.
Something to speculate on: If European
monarchies were all republics, would they be
fighting one another?
. In the midst of the furious fighting In Eu
rope, Old Sol continues his relentless fire upon
the peaceful hosts of King Cora's dominion.
The Honorsble Link Steffens has hurled the
batteries of his support behind Colonel Al Jen
tings for governor of Oklahoma, yet why speak
of the obvious.
Wfeet a calamity would befall us If our lec
tion commissioner should die or resign before
another man honest enough to fill the Job could
te grown for us.
With all the winnings the grain men are
making, that new grain exchange building ought
to go up promptly without a shadow of a mort
gage loan to help finance it.
Fifty dollars ft day out of the taxpayer's
pockets to subsidise our vote-chasing water
works employes running for office. Btlll they
teU us there Is no politics In the water board!
County Judge Crawford has a right to feel
particularly satisfied with his conduct of the
office as satisfying the public. He Is the only
officeholder hereabouts facing re-election with
out any opposition whatever.
The law that compels a district judge to re
sign and quit drawing his salary when he wants
to become a candidate for a party nomination
might with propriety be made to Include other
high-priced officers attempting to finance their
personal campaigns oat of the public treasury.
President Wilson has succeeded in finding
another professor for ft foreign post, Garrett
A. Droppers, now of Williams college, formerly
president of the University of South Dakota,
who goes to Greece, where the Irrepressible
C-eorge Fred Williams stopped dlplomatlng
when he refused to stop talking.
Tha aummar garden of tha German theater waa
crowded to capacity for tha rendering of Kataer's
musical farca entitled "Doctor and Barber." Tha
prtuclpal roles ware taken by Sllaa Xslman and Mra
Pula-Ahl. Mr. Neiman and Mr. Schmldthof.
I-aat night a party of young people went up to
Cut-Off lake, which; by tha way, la about a quarter
of a mile from the end of tha green car Una, and
Indulged In a boat ride on tha new steam yacht, "Un
dine." Tha lake la about three 'mllee tn lngtb and
makes Just a nice ride.
A German Cleveland and Hendricks club waa
formed at Brandt'a summer garden.
The Omaha Katuhla Templar ermmandery will
attend the funeral of W. B. White, one of the mem
bers, who died at Tokamah.
The Bcott residence property, Juat cat of Pratt's,
In Hanacora place, la belaa- offerad at a great sacri
fice by Barker Mayae, Thirteen! a and Farnara.
Wild pluma are railing wholesale at It for one
third bushel box, and peaches at li te per boa.
Jt Is announced that the season for prairie chick
ens commences August It, and that they will prob
ably not bring over 1H a dosea aa long as the wane
-ether lasts.
It is reliably reported at Chaw Pad fie head.
Quarters that 8. H. IL Clark, for soma time past sea-
oral manager, . has tendered his resignation oa ao-
eount of poor health, and will remain with, the road
enly long enough to straighten out mat tars with his
vucceaaor. who has not yet bean frfed.
War in Terms of Gold.
In a speech on the floor of the house last
April, Congressman Johnson of Washington re
minded the country of the fearful financial toll
it was paying for the maintenance of an army
and navy snd all the grave accoutrement of war.
Deploring such sheer wsste of money, he went
on to show that In the Isst ten years the United
States, "without sn enemy In the world," hsd
spent for wsr, past or to come, $1,975,000,000,
enough to build the Tenants canal three times
and wipe out the national debt, or criss-cross
the country with the best roads ever built. Nor
wss that all. In the Isst thirty years this nation
had spent 71 per cent of all its limitless Income
for war, Its consequences and preparation, leav
ing only 29 per cent for all other purposes com
bined. How amazing when we think what we have
accomplished with that 29 per cent!
The picture Is impressive. But who knows
now, In view of the startling events of the last
few days in Europe, whst msy happen? The
United Ststes still cherishes the hope of having
no enemies, but, as we see, It does not take di
rect enemies to provoke wsr. At any rate, the
argument for disarmament, frightful and ap
palling as war Is, loses force at present. Europe
Is said to be spending more than $50,000,000 a
dsy at this devilish business of war. England
already has set aside $1,000,000,000 for Its cur
rent expenses. It Is not so much a matter of
what we would like to do and ought to do as
what we must do, so long as so many other na
tions persist In doing what Is being done right
now over the ocean. Human greed and lust
run deep. It was fifty years ago that General
Sherman condemned war as hell, and yet,
though he has not to this day been disputed,
war still goes on. Here Is the entire remurk
attributed to Sherman:
I am ttrad and sick of war. Its glory la all
moonshine. It la only those who have neither fired
a shot nor heard tha shrieks and groan of tha
wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more ven
geance, mora dteeolatlon. War la hell.
Hell In human suffering and sacrifice and
hell also In terms of gold.
Why the Pork Barrel.
A recent cartoon In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
piotured the "Why" of the "pork barrel"
about as aptly as anything could. It showed
in the first part the righteous "statesman"
standing beside a barrel of "federal appropria
tions" deprecatlngly observing: "I object to
the pork barrel;" In the second drawing the
same "statesman" making way with a huge
bundle under his arm, labeled, "For my con
stituents," remarking with a grin, "but I don't
mind' bringing home the bacon." v
The only point lacking from the cartoon to
complete the situation was the one recently
brought out by The Bee, that the congressman,
sfter all, is only conforming with the time
honored or dishonored demands of his con
stituents, "get the bacon." So, while, perhaps,
the congressman ought to take his constituent
In hand and educate him up to a higher level of
statesmanship than this, few congressmen are
apt to do it so long as It would cost them their
Jobs. The dear people may take most of the
blame, therefore, themselves.
Time for Discretion.
The president has wisely warned all army
and navy officials to refrain from partisan com
ment on the European war, in view of neutral
ity of the United States. The same thing is en
Joined on all representatives of the government.
Even private citizens would do well to let dis
cretion be the better part of valor at a time
when hasty or Ul-concelved notions might have
a very harmful effect. Derived as are the ma
jority of our people from various European
stocks, we are bound to have divisions of opin
ions and a right to their rational expression, but
there Is a limit beyond which sensible folk will
not go. It would be very foolish for us, good
friends and neighbors, and even related by in
termarriage, to let our sympathies and desires
la the present situation carry us to extremes.
It Is time for calmness and consideration more
than anything else.
Toug-h But He Swallowed It
It's tough but he shut his eyes and swal
lowed It. We refer to the nomination of Paul
Warburg for director of the federal reserve
banfc, finally confirmed without a peep from our
defiant Senator Hitchcock. Yet it Is only four
weeks ago thjat his special spokesman through
his local personal newspaper organ, Justifying
the senator's balking, told why Warburg should
not be confirmed:
Why should Mr. Warburg be so quick to take of
fenssT Why should not tha aenats have a right to
know, at first hand, from his own Una. sstrvrnttf hi n r tf
hi own view. Interests, convictions and association
oerore young to confirm hlmT Why must he. only
three years a cltlaen of the United States. .n.ti
on faith T The Wall street firm of which Mr. Warburg
Is a member, according to tha Philadelphia North
American, figures In "the records of nearly every
Investigation into railroad wrecking. Insurance scan
dals and other operations of the New rork financial
combinations. Including Investigation of tha money
trust by the house of representative " And according
to the same progressive newspaper tha term "Inde
fensible financiering" waa used to cnaracterlse Ita
operation by tha Interstate Commerce commission
In Its report of tha looting of tha Alton railroad, a
report written by Franklin K. Lane, then a eommls
aloner. and now member of President Wilson' cabi
net. The report has long been current that Mr. War
burg I a much of an European aa an American
banker, and that he 1 the personal representative or
the Rothschilds la this country.
What became of these reports which our
amiable democratic contemporary so assiduously
gathered and spresd? Did Mr. Warburg give
satlaQactory answers under cover of secret ses
sions, or was there eorae other sort of assurance
offered when the valiant senator went over to
New York first to smooth the wsy for him?
It is certainly tough on the long-distance
editor, who could hardly tell whether the senator
was In earnest la fighting Warburg or merely
bluffing, or when he was to change his mind.
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There are quite a few bad eggs seeking pre
ferment from the several political parties about
to make primary nominations. The thing to do
Is to stop them and put them where the stench
will be Innocuous.
Peter Clark Macfarlane consumes several
pages In Collier's to answer the question, "Is
Roger Sullivan a boss?" when Mr. Bryan could
hate, told him In one word.
Inasmuch as with our honest election ma
chlnery it U absolutely Impossible to perpetrate
any false registration, why this holler except
tor gallery nlar urnnae
Brief eoatrlbwHoas ea timely
topics tented. Taa Bee assumes
ae responsibility for optaloas of
eorreepoadeate. AM letters sub
ject to eoadessatloa y editor.
We Wars Wheaj Wnnra Vote.
LT.VCOLN, Aug. . To the Editor of
Tha Bee: A suffragist leader of New
Tork rightly observes that the conflagra
tion now raging In Europe should forever
end the charge that women are more
hysterical than men. The men of Europe
are slashing and shooting each other In
a state of Infuriated madness which every
day and hour grows more terrible. Rea
son cannot reach them, and In their fren
sled fear and blindness they threaten to
destroy what little civilization we have.
And these same men In "governing'1 the
people have bonded Into economic slavery
children to be born fifty year hence,
and have laden cities and nations with
debt that never can be psld. Truly, a
Jack London says, "We are living In what
future age will call the dark ages, be
fore the rise of rational civilisation."
Thla la man rule, based upon authority
and class.
When the women get Into power let us
hope they will act on this wise principle,
to-wit: Find out what the men would do,
then do differently. r. J. IRWIN.
The Socialist's Care for War.
OMAHA, Aug. i.-To the Editor of The
Bee: Nearly twenty centuries have come
and gone alnce the prince of peace was
born. The race has traveled far since
then, but notwithstanding al) the progress
made, blood-lust (till linger In the hearts
of untold thousands. Even In the twen
tieth century we witness the sad spectacle
of civilised. Christian nations flying at
each other's throats. Few Injunctions are
more persistently Ignored than "love thy
neighbors a thyself."
War 1 concentrated crime; It embrace
every specie of human depravity. It
spare neither sex nor race; It haa no
mercy on age or Innocence. It swallow
up life and property and lays upon pres
ent and future generation a heavy bur
den of physical and financial handicap.
Lip that can speak or hands that can
writ a single ayllable In It behalf must
be lnfamou In the sight of Ood.
A saner, better social order la In tore
for all the world; a fairer distribution of
wealth I sure to be. But shot and shell
and dying men will never usher In the
new era. The realisation of perfect lib
ertyIndustrial democracy socialism. If
you please rests solely on the world
wide spread of reason and enlightenment
and love of man for man.
EDMUND R, BRUMBAUGH.
1701 Camden avenue.
Who Pays the. Freight?
OMAHA, Aug. 8. To the Editor of The
Bee: It I the homeowner who haa to foot
the bill. When the old Omaha Water
company supplied us with water we were
not taxed with 2S for a flfty-foo: lot to
have the privilege of connecting with the
water main.
You, Mr. Homeowner, who have con
nected with water main laid under the
ownership of the Metroplltan Water dis
trict of Omaha, have got the worst of It.
Your $35 Is gone and there's no come
back on the Water board.
Over In Council Bluffs, Where the mu
nicipality purchased the water plant, no
charge whatever I made to the consumer
to defray the coat of extension. The
Water board of Council Bluff saw the
Injustice of compelling property ownere
to pay for the cost of laying mains, and
everybody now 1 satisfied and happy.
What 1 the matter with our Water
board? ' J. L BCHROEDER,
601 Hamilton street.
The Cawse of Ireland.
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. I.-To the Editor
of the Bee: During the last week a pub
lication haa appeared In the columns of
your paper which haa caused consider
able comment. To anyone whom the mat
ter may concern I merely state that I do
not profess to be one of those who ap
plaud In theory, what they do not advo
cate in practice, neither do I wish to
deteriorate anything from the prestige
John E. Redmond enjoy among the Irish,
who wish to place Implicit confidence In
him. And far be It from me to even con
template being In any way an accessory
to factionalism. But I do hold the mo
ment an Irishman caters to Great Britain
that he 1 lacking the guiding principle
which directed the patriotic operations
of so many of our countrymen, so emi
nently worthy of remembrance.
All of us know when we view every
thing with reason and reflection, of all
connections, none Is more weighty, none
I more dear than that between every in
dividual and hi native country. Our par
ent are dear to us, our children, our
relatives, our friends are dear to us, but
our country alone comprehends all the
endearment of u all. Experience has
taught us that English Jurisdiction in Ire
land haa been only one regular seeaaw
of exultation and despair, for the Irish
people. Oo down along the pates of Irish
history from the Invasion of the English
to this very moment; what do w read?
I need not repeat. The atrocities contem
plated and executed by English tyranny
are but too well known to moat of my
readers. Suffice It to aay that were we
to permit our Imagination to dwell per
sistently on this terrific truth reason
Itself would totter on lta throne.
Take a glance, horn-ever superficial, ever
Irish history prior to leA Compare the
Ireland of that period with the Ireland
of subsequent history. Will you not agree
that the dread metamorphosis where an
guish has driven her plough Is only too
much tn evidence. Yes, the red rose of
pala haa taken the place of the whlta rose
or freedom, and time, tha healer, ia throw,
tng further back day by day the memo
ries of trials surmounted, anguish sub
dued In It bitterness to the sweetness
of resignation. But yet we are an un
considered race. We are the people whom
the Romana never tried to conquer, and
on whose escutcheon nslther Saxon nor
IDane ever dared to write the word
"slave." Then why do we wrangle over
who I to be leader, or who 1 not to be
leader. The present moment I too mo
mentous, too auspicious to even dwell
upon such matters, which are really too
Insignificant to be worthy of considera
tion. Let us rather loin hand In hand, aa
one strong Indivisible unit, pledging our
moral, physical and Intellectual support
to the cause which haa been the dream
of Ireland for generations. At the present
moment Ireland requires, not words, but
effective deeds, and If we do not all cor
respond very faithfully to the call of Erin
tn thla her hqur of need, we will, in all
probability, be forced to cry out with
Cicero, "O a pern vanlsslmam."
JOHN A. MCHRTSTAU
ieatlflatlea Wasted.
Note: If tha writer signing himself
"Robert J. Fitapatrick" will kindly
identify himself, his communication will
Where Germany Excels
City OoYernment Over There Strikes an
Omahan as Close Approach to Perfection.
It does not take an observer long to learn the
reason for the phenomenal growth and prosperity of
Germany. It Is the thrift of the people. It Is the fash
Ion among poor and rich alike to save, and the well-to-do
practice economy publicly and above board In
a manner that none of ua at home would have the
courage to do, even If we had the Inclination. It Is
this national characteristic that accounts for the fact
that German rlliee are the best governed, or rather
managed, In the world. While the growth of German
cltle ha been quite as rank as with us they don't
seem over here to see the desirability ur necessity of
having civic government grow rank tn proportion.
Consequently they have not, aa with ue, various civic
reform bodle. It would be Interesting to speculate
what would become of our Woman's Clubs, North
and Routh Side Improvement clubs, our Civic Reform
leagues, eta, etc., yes and woman'a suffrage Itself.
If we had efficient, honest city government by paid
municipal expert as they have In Germany.
I asked the second burgermelster of Prankfort-on-the-Maln
how they did -It. Frankfort 1 a typical
modern German city of approximately half a million
Inhabitant, paved with asphalt that ha not a rotted
hole or a crack In It surface anywhere, tn a climate
the same a Omaha, that ha electric atreet washing
machine with a revolving roller of rubber band
like a huge window washing machine that keep'
the street clean enough to eat off, where they have
municipal bathing houses In the river, a magnificent
municipal opera house, a park system to meet the
requirement of every quarter of the city and where
you may walk from one end of the town to the
other In the shade of trees, where they have art
galleries and museum and municipal hospitals,
where the military and municipal band play free In
the park, a city without a slum district and all a
a mu'ter of course. A man must be 26 years old be
fore he can vote and he must have a yearly Income
of 1,200, marks (1300), When a man vote a tax In
Germany It 1 one on him a well a on the other
fellow. They have a city election every two year
at which time they elect one-third of their city coun
cil. They are elected for six year without pay.
It Is the duty of this body to hire the Burgermelster
and In large cltle aa Frankfort a second burger
melster. In Frankfort they have eleven paid head of de
partments and thirteen membera of the council body
who serve without pay and thirteen members of the
council body known a director who are paid. These
twenty-six commissioners meet with the first and
second burgermelster twice a week to administer the
business of the city. The first burgermelster cor
responds to our mayor a the clvto head. He wel
comes the emperor whenever he visit Frankfort and
does the honor of the city. Both he t.,iu "ie second
burgermelster are elected for twelve years, the first
burgermelster receiving a salary of S0,0"0 marks
(17,600) and an allowance of $1,600 a year for enter
tainments. The second burgermelster receives 20,000
mark ($6,000) a year. Give a competent man a
tenure of office of twelve year to begin with, to
carry out a plan of civic Improvement and see what
you get In comparison with our method of electing
amateur every two year and turning them loose on
a helpless community. The paid director get from
$2,000 to $3,750 a year and the chiefs or heads of de
partments from $2,000 to $3,750. Inspectors and chiefs
of departments are chosen by civil service rules upon
approved merit and have life jobs. Their official
position carry with them social distinction. A pav
ng contractor for instance, trying to Influence an
Inspector who has a life job and Is somebody In a
community, would meet with but poor encourage
ment. Speaking of paving, the property owner pay only
once for paving and ha nothing whatever to say
about the material. After he haa once paid, however,
the city for ever, after keepe the pavement In repair
and replace It when necessary. They have an up-to-date
fire department with automobhe apparatus. A
fire ia an almost unheard of occurrence due to build
ing laws strictly enforced together with Inspection
and first aid fire discouragers. The fireman 1 on
duty thirty-six hour and off duty for twenty-four
hour. When off duty he 1 a member of the mu
nicipal band which, together with the military bands,
furnish free muelo to the populace, an example of
municipal thrift In contrast with the two shift a
day at home. The city owns all the public utilities
such aa water, gas, electricity, atreet railway,
ferries, etc. This city of half a million has six mu.
nlclpal automobile. The poor are helped, with mu.
nlclpal funds, In their own home. The sick or In
sane are housed In municipal hospitals, no begging
Is allowed, the unemployed workman la fed and,
where necessary, furnished with new clothes, 1
registered and if work 1 not found for him, Is sent
to the next city and report to tha municipal au
thorities. The healthy man who will not work Is sent
to the municipal rock pile or sawa wood a the case
may be. The social evil la segregated w.th trl-weekly
medical examination. Antt-aegregatlon haa been tried,
but abandoned on account of the Increase In disease,
but they are waking up all over Europe to the neces
sity of concerted effort along the line of educational
prevention.
The chief of police 1 appointed by the Imperial
government at Berlin and the entire department I
under government control In criminal and political
matters. The olty has police Jurisdiction In civil
actions and pays two-fifths of the expense 'of the
department This removes the police department
from the field of Its most pernicious activity In
American cities. There Is no such thing over here
a the election of a mayor and city coansellor for tha
sole purpose of violating law through the control of
the police department a with us. ne police are
all ex-soldiers, used to discipline, and are an in
telligent, courteous and efficient body of men. This
Is the country where you tell your troubles to tha
policeman. If your morning rolls are baked too hard,
tell the policeman, he will see to It. If you are sold
old eggs for strictly fresh, teU the policeman and the
party who aoid them to you gets Into trouble. If
you find twenty peaches In the basket Instead of
twenty-four, tell the policeman and the four missing
peachea will be restored to you. He is .ncorruptable
and smoothes out the unpleasant petty trouble of
the neighborhood.
The burgermelster of a city I either a man who
haa worked hla way up from the rank and haa
occupied all of the intermediate offices under the
position of burgermelster and finally become bur
germelster through hla tried and proved fltneas for
the position or, aa Is more often the case, he la
taken from some city where he haa demonstrated
hi ability and become burgermelster In a larger
city at an Increased salary. The first burgermelster
of Frankfort, for Instance, began aa nead of a de.
partment In one city, then waa elected second bur
germeister of Dantslg, then became first burger
melster of Regsdorf, then first burgermelster at
Barmen and now first burgermelster of Fan a fort,
which Is going some for a burgeremleter. The second
burgermelster Is a native of Frankfort. Dr. Lutte,
who haa successively occupied most of the positions
below that of burgermelster and although not yet
60 year of age, has become second burgermelster
through his Intimate knowledge of the various de
partments of the city. It waa an old hack driver In
Frankfort driving a knock-kneed apology for a horse
who gave me the best recommendation of the Oer
man city government when he aald: "It's a good
government for the little man."
Just About Women
Maude Adams, It is said has declined
to poee for any moving-picture plays.
Nasimova 1 to appear under the di
rection of the IJeber company in lbeen
and KcMndlrr jlays, also In a new play
by the author of The New S.n.
The Woman who Is In business simply
for the sake of earning "pin money'' was
criticised by Miss Belle Pacoata Greene,
librarian for the late J. Pierpont Morgan.
Miss Eleanor Baterlee, granddaughter
of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, is re
covering from appendicitis at the Lylng-ln
hospital, which was built by Mr. Mor
gan. Mra. John Jacob Astor took part in a
tennis match at Bar Harbor, Me. !he
won her set and will take part In the
finals for the womcn'a championship of
the resort.
Mrs. McCoy, mother of Bessie and
Nellie McCoy, has returned to the stage
after a retirement of nearly a doxen
years. In her act she gives an imitation
of her daughters.
Since the death of Mrs. Mary Stockwell
of Evansvtlle, Ind., it has been discovered
that at least 100 young men owe their
college education to her. That was a
fine contribution to citizenship.
The heroism of her eon has placed Mra.
John F. Dempeey of Newark on the road
to recovery. Her life was despaired of
and her son underwent three operations
for glood transfusion And saved her life.
For the first time In the history of
Colorado a woman called a political State
convention to order. Mrs. Gertrude A.
Lee. chairman of the State central com
mblttee, welcomed tho democratic dele
gate last week, and :rcs'ded until the
election of a temporary chairman.
Mrs. Oliver H&zara Perry Belmont!
faced a culinary crisis when her French
chef- marched out In a fit of temper,
leaving uncooked the farewell dinner to
the duchess of Marlborough. But Mra
B. took charge of the kitchen herself,
borrowed a chef from a Newport neigh
bor and the dinner was served on time.
Here and There
an English expert will rure car.cer In its
early state.
Paris has made vaccination aealnet
typhoid fever cbllpatory for all members
of Its hospital tsftst
A chain of wireless stations entenda
around the entire coast of Australia, o
that a vessel nvcr is out of touch with
the shore.
The coast of Great Brlla'n will be sur
rounded with towers on which will be
mounted guns designed for rapid firing
at air craft.
There Is a plant growing on mountain
in central Europe that develops enough
heat to push Its flower stalks through
pnow and produce blossoms.
Farmers in one region of Queenland
leed their horsrs on chopped banana
Malks taken just after the fruit hag been
harvested. v
Told in Figures
Madrid has 2,000 registered autos.
India ha 272 cotton mill with M.138
loom.
There are 1,600 registered auto In Bar
celona. Barcelona last year Imported 89,118 ton
of raw cotton.
Guam's 1M3 Import were valued at
$10,219; exports, $37,373.
Riga last year exported to the United
States goods valued at $16,849,000.
Chile In 1912 produced mineral valued
at $136,021,902.
France yearly exports over 2,100 tons of
candled fruits, worth over $900,000.
Russia now ha 17,356 manufacturing
establishments, employing 2,151,191 opera
tive. French annual consumption of wheat
snd wheat flour la 63.0 pounds per In
habitant. Rusala has 2,124,200 acres planted to
ugar beet.
Costa Rica last year exported 14,260
ton of coffee.
Wealth of France 1 estimated at
$50,000,000,000.
The wealth of Britain is estimated at
$86,000,000,000.
London has a school for servants.
Cuba In 1913 exported $22,121 bales of
U af tobacoo.
Chile In 1913 bought 800,000 tons of Brit
ish coal.
Coins are In circulation on an average
of twenty-seven year.
Argentina It. 1918 exported 7,047,677
pound of butter.
Bits of Knowledge
Hone sleep but three or four hours
In each twenty-four.
The United State mine five ton of
coal a year for every Inhabitant.
Christians' present telephone system
I to be transformed Into an automatic
one.
It haa been estimated that every square
mile of the ocean Is Inhabited by 120,
000,000 living being.
A layer of sawdust spread on a floor
before oilcloth I laid will Increase the
latter' lasting quality and provide a soft
tread.
When not In use In warm weather rub
ber hot water bottles should be filled and
tightly capped to prevent their sides ad
hering. Brief and repeated treatment with air
superheated to 120 degreea, according to
Pennsylvania has 112.4C0 licensed auto
mobile. Annual fire loss In the United States
is $4ao,ooo.ooo.
British Import in May aggregated $287,
62fl.4" In value.
United Statts Osteopathic association
has 4,000 members.
Turkey's 1912 exports were valued at
nearly $109,000,000.
Belgium In 1913 exported $n,425,454 worth
of autos and parts.
British India's wheat crop Is estimated
this year at 8,5.-i,ono tons.
Washington state Is this year spending
$8,000,000 on road construction.
Hong Kong last year Imported 1 487.7DO
tons of coal, mostly from Japan.
United States In 191.1 Imported from
Belgium goods valued at $41,38,42(5.
American consumption of alcoholic
drinks In 1913 totaled $1.724,(i07,r,19.
Kentucky distillers will this year cut
whisky output by 20,000.00 gallons.
Dalren Leased Territory, China, ha an
area of 1,221 square mile and a popula
tion of 617,147.
More than one-third of the 673 mile of
state roads built and contracted for dur
ing the last seven years In the state of
Ohio has been of brick or concrete con
struction. The latest figures showing the tonnage
of the merchant fleet of the principal
maritime powf rs. prove that Great Britain
still hold Its commanding lead, with a
tonnage nearly one-third greater than of
al lthe other maritime power combined.
Thu Great Britain possesses 20,275,971
tons; Germany, 4.998,746 tons; United
States, 8.4S9,7: tons, the greater part of
which I domestic shipping:. Norway,
2,476.523 tons; France, 2,24V504 tons; Japan,
1,700,062 tons, and Italy, 1,571,761 tons.
SMILE PROVOKERS.
Hear you bought a bit of land near
Wayback; how does the land lie?"
' Not nearly so well as the real estate
agent who sold It." Philadelphia Ledger.
"Where," said the land agent, address
ing an aud'enc of possible purchasers,
"where eise on the face of the globe will
you find !n one place copper, tin, Iron,
cotton, hemp, grain, game"
A voice replied:
"In the pocket of my young son." New
York Globe.
"I suppose you think that candidate
you've picked out 1 honest because he'
poor." said Farmer Corntossel.
"That's likely to be Inferred," replied
the practical manager. T
"Well, the Inference Is liable to go
wrong. The reason he Isn't well fixed It
that he went broke trying to get rich
quick buyln' green goods." Washington
Star.
"Jim" errand boy.
"James" offire boy.
"Hrow n" clerk.
"Mr. Brown" head clerk.
"Brown" Junior member of the firp-.
"James" son-in-law of the head of
firm.
"Jim" head of the firm and power on
the street. St. 1ouih Mirror.
A WISP OF WISDOM.
I once had a madness
To buy me some land,
A lot or an a".
Not a farm, understand
To fence it, to till It
To set out some trees
And perhaps build a cabin
And live there at ease.
But that madness is over.
The attuck was not vital,
I was cured when a lawyer
looked Into the title
Ah the creams that have flown
May return oft to me,
hut never, ah never
That ten dollar fee.
And my lot on the hill
Where the breeres are blowing,
Where the view is superb
There's a lot that's worth knowing
Put my view's still unclouded
By taxes or title
7 he madness has parsed,
he attack was not vital.
There was Miss Lucy I.arcom
Who owned not an inch
Of soil in creation
Shu was wise, that's a cinch
Like Miss Lucy's, my wealth
Fuch year greater waxes;
I absorb all the vlewe
Let who will, pay tho taxes.
Omaha. -BAVOLL NE TRELE.
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