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. AUGUST CIRCULATION.
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Subscribers leaving tlie ctty temporarily
should have The no mailed to tbem. Art
dress will be) changed aa often aa requested.
Strange how the supply of Imported beer
holds out.
Boundaries as well as names of capitals will
be radically changed before It Is over.
Keeping a loaded rerolver in your bureau
drawer does not always scare off the burglars.
If Jt tjoets IJ.6.0 00 to. kill a man In war,
we'll give the money to charity and let our man
lire.
''Japanese Troops Will Not Enter Europe,"
i says a dispatch. Probably not, but not for that
reason.
Tea, but is that federal patronage pie re-
i; served for Nebraska democrats never going to
be cutt '
Even 'those most outspoken against the
irjkslser are particular to disclaim sympathy with
if the Mar. " -
'. Signs are visible of improvement club mo
' blllxation for another attack on city hall en-trenchmenU.
I The peaceful monarch, Ak-Sar-Ben. Is busily
j marshalling his contented sublets for the tri
umphal entry.
A government for the Mexicans by the con
sent of the governed no longer seems to inter
est us so vitally.
Those Germans (display as much fondness
for the French left wing as the small boy does
for the "drumstick."
Fools oa the duration of the war are more
uncertain than pools right now on the sailing
time of steamship liners.
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That potttc bomb dropped from the heights
'by Iludyard Kipling does not .seem to have seri
ously damaged the enemy. -
"Civilisation is on trial," says the Balti
more Sun. Yes, and the jury's prolonged de
liberation makes us a bit uneasy. .
To make the late primary election look fa
' miliar, we will have to have at least a recount
op two. If not an election contest.
We are' coming to that season of the year
! -when it takea a' right, sharp guesser to pick out
1 the suitable sort of clothes each morning.
Woman suffrage is the avowed cause of a
'divorce Just granted in Omaha. Wonder how
: nany dtToroes maa suffrage h,as produced.
If the Germans succeed in their attempt to
, bottle up the French, tliey will doubtless shoot
a few corks when they celebrate tee victory in
' Paris.
I Why cannot the same human skill I and In
genuity that produced the mighty machinery of
war achieve an equal triumph lo securing the
' Instruments of peaceful abllraruent why, ex
cept that the will is not up to the way?
annum mam mt nc '
This is supposed to be the Informal opening of the
Stat fair. The chief activity at the fair grounds was
la getting the exhibits ready for the real opening next
'Week.
Renr. E. N. H. Potter haa addressed tetter to the
landing committee of the diocese, definitely and
finally declining to reconsider hla election as bishop
to succeed Dishop Ciarkaon.
Parnam etreet was aprlnkled today, much to the
lellght of business men and their patrona.
Mlaa Mattle Vlrkera appeared at Boyd's Opera
house in the play "Jacqulte."
Maa J. llaehr, one of Max Meyer A Broa.' travel,
ing aaleamen. who returned from Kurope a few daya
at-o, broua-ht back with htm an unique watch-
lemwlnder that keeia perfect time, but neat aa large
aa a nickel.
Mra. Bchroeder. the magnetic healer, la now locateJ
at UZl, Caaa atreet. v
N. aleriiara. Twenty-first and Burt, now raises the
anta to tie. W -h he will py ka reward for the
rturo of hla lost Jersey ouw, about which be was
rvlouly aeek'.ag inturmatloa. '".'"...
What the Long Ballot Does.
Remembering that each voter exercising his
full right of aurfrsge was called upon to make
fifty-eight crois marks at our recent primary,
the final footings of the official count in Doug
Ian county present some Interesting sidelights
on what the long ballot will do.
For the republican nomination for lieuten
ant governor f69 votes are recorded for A. J.
Van Alatlne one in twenty of the total vote
certainly caat In utter Ignorance or Indiffer
ence, because no one who knew him could
have voted wilfully for him.
For the republican nomination for county
surveyor the vote Htands 6,668 for Adams, as
against 8.511 for Black. Mr. Black endeav
ored to withdraw his candldscy, but his with
drawal was refutied by the election commis
sioner sb coming too lste, so his name re
mained on the printed ballot despite his public
announcement that he was out of the race and
was supporting Mr. Adams. Yet one out of
three who marked their ballots for this office
voted for a men who wss not a candidate.
For the republican nomination -for commis
sioner of the wster district 623 votes are re
corded for A. C. Arend, who had likewise done
all be could to advise everybody that he had
reconsiflercd his candidacy and was no longer
standing for the nomination. Despite this fact
one out of fifteen republicans voting for water
commissioner marked their ballots for a candi
date who hnd ssked them not to vote for him.
For the democratic nomination for county
commissioner In the Second commissioner dis
trict, out of 1,245 votes 188 are recorded for
Frank J. Fixa, who, unfortunately, had died
previous to the primary and could not have
qualified even If unanimously elected. A com
missioner district Is a comparatively small area,
in which the knowledge of Mr. Flxa's death
was of general neighborhood Information, yet
one out of seven democrats in that district
marking a ballot for county commissioner
voted for a men who wss dead and buried.
It must be obvious that nothing but a short
ballot will give us intelligent voting and ef
fective popular government.
Free Legal Aid.
Conservative old St,.' Louts Is about to es
tablish a free municipal legal aid bureau, au
thorized, though not required, by Its new char
ter. While the plan is still In its experimental
stage, It Is not wholly new, and will soon, we
hope, commend Itself to every wide-awake
American ctyy.
Like other sensible reforms, this one has its
critics, and, as might be expected, some of them
are lawyers, who profesg to find in it simply
an encouragement to pauperism. True, mis
placed charity often has such an effect, but
where a city maintains a public, legal adviser
for the benefit of all taxpayers alike, there Is
no classifying it as a charity. Naturally, it will
accommodate poor men and not rich men, for
the latter will prefer to employ their own law
yers. But Instead of encouraging pauperism, a
free legal aid bureau, properly i conducted,
would . tend to prevent It by protecting the poor
from oppression.
The very conception of a free legal aid bu
reau' is a vtBiiSlIzed protest against the abuses
of ' contlngont-fee law practice, both at the ex
pense of the poor litigant and of Justice itself.
These abuses call for correction and if the lime
light of publicity, together with free legal aid
bureaus, will not overcome them, then we must
go further and find the additional remedy that
will.
Through the Panama Gateway.
Paralysis of soa transportation as a result
of the war, ehuttlng . off the 'importation of
necessities, has, according to reports, precipi
tated "conditions worse than anything known
in many years" along the west coast of South
America. Food and other supplies heretofore
obtained from the warring countries are want
ing, with stagnation to business as far down as
southern f hlle.
Such conditions must rebuke Americans for
their past Indifference or failure properly to
cultivate the rich commercial markets of South
America. Business is business and Europe has
been getting the bulk of this west coast trade,
not because of greater proximity so much as
that they have gone after it. They have made
friends and therefore customers of these people
and given them better bargains than we-cared
to offer.
But with the Panama canal in operation
several dlroct connections may be developed be
tween American ports and this west coast
country. And as business Is buslress and
American commerce and industry have their
eyes open at laat, they are not apt to allow their
European competitors to monopolise this field
again.
War and Politics.
What will be the effect of the European
war upon politics In the United States is an
other question which is being quite generally
propounded. Even ardent democrats will now
admit that six weeks ago all portents headed
for a republican landslide in 'November to reg
ister the general dissatisfaction with democratic
policies. If this outlook has been changed, the
change Is due solely to the Intervention of the
war conflict. We' quote an opinion from the
current Review of Reviews:
The tntenatlonid crisis haa probably strengthened
the democrats position In the elections this falL
Many people" who meant to vote adversely to the
administration may feel that It will be better to
strengthen 'the president's handa. Ktor the time be
ing the larger public haa forgotten all about our ap
proaching elect'ons. although the politicians have
been aa busy aa uaual.
Premature predictions In the field of poli
tics are always rash. The only certain thing is
ttat predictions made on the basis of public
sentiment before the outbreak of the war Will
have to be revised.
Kansas republicans declare against life
tenure for federal judges excepting supreme
court Justices. Mr. Bryan beat them to It, for
this same declaration was incorporated into the
original Chicago platform on which be made his
irat race for the presidency.
Dundee folks are considering the advisabil
ity of taking, ctps for annexation with Omaha
without waJUng for the aid or consent of any
legislature on earth. Here's a tip for other
suburban neighbors at well. 1 .
I Surgical Statistics of War
Army and Vary Journal.
A fact about military surgery that may hare
melancholy and early demonstration In the present
sreat European conflict Is emphasized by Dr. Octave
Laurent, euraeon of the ft. Johns hoepltal, Brussels,
who followed the troops In the Balkans for eleven
months, and who haa Just Issued a volume dealing
with the fatality of modern flrearma and the problem
of care for the wounded In modern battles, entirely
from the viewpoint of the trained surgeon. Thle fact
Is that military surgeons cannot be Improvised out of
the ordinary surgeona of Jclvll life and that to be
rally life saving In their efforta they must havo
seen special service and had pej-tleular eperlence
with gunshot wounda and military conditions. All
thie may be aald without In any way deprecating
the splendid work of many civilian surgeons who
have come to the front and nobly seconded the work
of military aurgnons during and after battles In many
wars, notably In our own civil war, where the limited
resources of the medical department of the army,
owing to lack of development In time of peace, made
It necessary to fall back largely upon the assistance
of volunteer surgeons who went to the front with a
very beautiful devotion of spirit and aacrlflce of per
sonal advancement In civil life and of peraonal comfort.
At the beginning of the Balkan war Bulgaria had
a population of about 4.SOO,'0 and put Into the field
more than 600,000 soldiers. In the first, year 30,009
were killed, according in the statistics of Dr. Laurent,
and wounded. In the second war 16,000 were
killed and 62,000 wounded. Thua one-third of the
effective force of the entire army, or t per cent of
the population of the country, were either killed" or
wounded. The deatha reached one In twelve of the
whole army, one In four of the wounded, and one In
a hundred of the entire population. In spite of the
training of the soldiers and the years of aervlce to
which many had been subjected, the old proverb that
It takea much more than hla own weight In lead to
kill a man In battle held true during the Balkan war.
Altogether Bulgaria In the laat war used 83,000,000
rifle bullets and 27,000,000 shrapnel balls, so that
scarcely more than one In 200 bullets found Its human
billet. Owing to their high velocity, bullets from the
modern rifle often make wounda with surprisingly
few serious consoquences. Laurent reports cases In
which a ball traversed the brain, pierced the chest
or penetrated the abdomon with comparatively mild
reaults. In some of these apparently dangerous casea
the wounds healed without any disturbing conse
quences or symptoms., flometlmea bones were per
forated with only Insignificant traces of the passage
of the bullet. On the other hand, fracturea of the
large bones were numerous and complicated and de
serve special atudy.
The mortality waa thua distributed: Fifty-five per
cent due to wounda of the head, from 86 to 40 per
cent to wounds of the trunk and 6 per cent to. wounda
.of the limbs. The Journal' of the American Medical
Association considers It quite contrary to the general
supposition that there were extremely few aerious
wounda of the abdomen which called for laparotomy
In the hospitals. There waa a much larger proportion
than might have been eipected of aneurysms 'and
especially of nerve-leslona of various kinds. ' Direct
rifle bullet wounda 'were often almoat wrholly',;harm
less and wounda of the head aa a striking- feature
were followed with extreme' rarity by serious de
formities of the face. Amputations were rare, lees
than 1 per cent of all the caaea treated in the hos
pitals requiring It, while trephining waa relatively
much more frequent The reaulta of a second opera
tion under chloroform of wounded soldiers whose
wounds had become Infected were always discouraging.
Bringing hla figures to totals. Dr. Laurent estimates
that during the single month of July, 1913, 1W.O0O men
were killed and wounded on both aides, and of these
mere than half, at leaat 80.000 fell on the banks Of
the Bregalnltss In the ale days from June 30 to July 8.
The reniarka of a commentator on these figures whom
Dr. Laurent quotes may be' commended to those who
care to Indulge In gruesome prophecies of the casualties
In the present war. This commentator aaya: "If you
put a sero behind' each of theaa numbers you will
have aome Idea of the effective strength of the armlc
and the losses that must be presumed to take place
in any . war which would tomorrow set the armed
forces of any two first-class powers' of Europe on'
the fighting line before each other. There would be
not lesa than l.tOO.OOO dead and wounded In the course
of the first month," or about two-thirds of 1 per
cent of the population of the four principal countries
engaged In war, Germany, Russia, Prance and Aus
tria. Any such estimate does pot take Into account
the losses In the Russo-Japanese war. In which the
weapons In use were practically what are used now,
excepting the Improvement that the ten years have
given. No atich ratio of killed and wounded waa
noted In the Manchurtan campaign, although there,
were frequent lnstancea as In the assaults on Port
Arthur, where the Japanese fmight with all the reck
lessness associated with oriental fatalism. If any
auch proportion of dead and Wounded should mark a
campaign between two great powers, there Is little
doubt that the prediction that the very deadllneaa of
modern weapons would make ware Impossible would
come true.
. Twice Told Tales .' .
i Jcka Bar ws im I altorws.
John Burna la something of a man, -When he ac
cepted cabinet office, being then the labor leader In
Parliament, It waa wondered whether he would wear
the necessary court dress. In hla turn, aa minister at
tendant upon the king. The late King Edward waa a
man of the world, and John Burna la no lesa a gentle
man. The matter waa arranged with English common
sense.
King Edward aald to hla new minister, "You flatter
me by wearing my uniform, Ur. Burna." "Oh!" said
John Burna, "that waa easy. I have worn your maj-.
esty's uniform before." "I did not know that" aaid
the king. "Where T" "In Pentonvllle Jail." said John
Bums, with perfect good temper and good breeding.
Not) av Billet. . , t '
The repeal of the m itch-argued -about Panama
eanal tolls brings to mind an excellent atory of
Colonel Ooethala, the moving spirit In the ounatruo
tlon of the great canal, - . .
One morning a rather fidgety subordinate came
In to the colonel's office.
"I got your letter, colonel," be began, "and I came
Be got no further, for the Colonel, wltk uplifted
eyebrows, cut In: .'
"Letter? Letter? There must fee some mistake,
I have written you no letter!"
'Oh, yea, colonel." repeated the man. 'Tve got
It here. It's about the work down at afiiafliaae
Now, you see
Again the cohmel rut la.
"Oh, I aeel But you misled me. Tou spoke eg any
latter. Tou meant, of course, my orders!"
The eokittel's blue eyes stared coldly at the ar
gumentatlve man. who. suddenly feeling that the eoo-
versatton waa at and end. "faded away.
Her HI1M NssiWr Waa 4s.
Bena waa much excited over the prospects of a
camp meeting that waa about to take place In her
neighborhood. For weeka ahe had been preparing gay
and gaudy feathera for the array, and now her outfit
waa complete aave a pair of much desired patent
leather slippers. Che approached her mtetreasi
"Mia Ford," ahe aald. "I aho' waata to git a pair
o," slippers to' do meetln' commences, an' I ain't got a
Single cent lef,"
"What siie do you wear, Bena?" asked her rale-
ti
"Men right numbah la fo" aha replied, ."but I haa
to weab aebana, 'cause fo'a huxta roe dat bad I a
aatcherly oaa't hardly walk." iloroe Companion..
Brief eontrlfewtloM em timely
toptoe tavtSed. Tke Bee Maaaee
Be rerpoaaiWltty tot opaaloa e
eerrevpoadente. Alt letters sub
Jeot Ve oaaea.eatloa by edlto.
Irish and Tier ran ne.
OMAHA. rpt 4 To the Editor of The
Re: Regarding the meeting held at
Boyd theater by the Nebraska branch of
the Irish volunteers, let me state that I
waa an Irishman attending and Instead
of a meeting to aid the Irish In Ireland,
It waa rnore of a German meeting than
anything else. The principal speaker was
Val Peter, president ef the German
American Alliance of Nebraska, who re
ceived three and four times the applause
given T. J. Leary and T. B. Murray, the
Irish speakers. Never before have I
been ashamed to call myself an Irishman.
I know at least ten or more Irishmen
who were likewise disgusted with the
way things went There was no occa
alon for Val Peter to be there at all.
Unleaa the Nebraska branch of thla
aoclety can ' bald a meeting In a.d of
Ireland without turning aatrra Into Isv.ch
a flisle It should disband. '
The Irish and Germana have iiothlng In
common and nothing would Please Ger
many better than to whip England and
make aome colonies of Germany. Aa a
colony of Germany Ireland would be
many times worse off than aa a part of
Great Britain. All Iriahmen then would
have to serve three years In the kaiser's
military machine, the most colosaal en
gine of destruction ever Invented and
which Great Britain, with the help of Its
Irish clttiene, I. doing lta best to smash
and when It la smashed mankind all over
the world will be better off.
I think when this war la over and the
alllea are victorious England will grant
Ireland about anything it wanta. I
think all Iriahmen think so, too, aa they
are flocking to the colore by the thou
sands. All honor to them for doing so.
If the men at the had of thla Ne
braska branch are true Irishmen and
really want to help the Irishmen in Ire
land let them call another meeting for
Irishmen onry. They then may accom
plish something. H. MURPHY.
The "Foe of Democracy" Cry.
OMAHA, Bept J.-To the Editor of' The
Bee: I do not remember when I have been
ao shocked oa when I read a two and a
half column editorial In the Coruler-Jour-nal
on "The Oerman in America." It la
almost inconceivable how the editor of
such a great paper could ao far forget
hlmaelf aa to offer such a monetroue
Insult and record auch a stupendous out
rage on fairness and Justice by saying,
"We wish auccoaa to the alllea and defeat
to the kaiser's arms and armies." Our
president addresses a solemn word of
warning against that "deepest, most
aubtle. moat essential breach of neutral
ity which may spring out of partisanship,
out of paaalonately taking aldea, but the
Courier-Journal spurns auch wis coun
sel. . I .j .
The German-American alliance aska the
people to reserve Judgment until the real
causes of the war will be more apparent,
but the Courier-Journal cannot wait. To
It the fact that Germany haa been suc
cessful In actence, commerce and In
duatrlea and that lta government, from
aneer necessity haa built a atrong mili
tary power to protect lta interests. Is
prima facia evidence that' the kaiser haa
drawn his aword for a war of aggression.
Intending to annex Belgium and France,
and who knowa what elae, to the German
empire. He Jumps at the conclusion that
the German form of government la a
menace to the democracy of America and
of the world, and therefore" must be sub
dued . at any cost and no -doubt would
recommend sending the ' United States
army over there to help In doing It; and
alnce when, I pray, haa the Courier-Journal
arrived at lta opinion?
At the atart the majority of American
newapapera were looking at the war
through English glasses, proclaiming their
biased vlewa through English mega
phones, simply because they believed
Germany would be crushed In a few
weeks' time, aa they did forty-four years
ago. ... Now, alnce the fortunes of war
have turned, they must find an excuse
for the Dartlalltv dlsnlavad. and. In anrt
behold, that excuse Is Germany's alleged
hostility to democracy. Let them prove
where there Is a oeonlai more content.
with lesa pauperism and with the burden
of government more equally distributed
than lti Germany, where the social dem.
ocrats control over 100 seata In parlia
ment It la only alnce the euocesa of the
German armies on the continent that this
bugaboo of "foe of democracy" waa
sprung on the 'gullible American public.
A. U. MEYER."
The Kaiser .3 War Lord.
COZAR Neb., Sept. .-To the Editor
of The Bee: Allow me to answer the
letter of 8. P. Weybrtght. The writer
topee that the Kalaer. - whom he calls
the European war god, and Germany aa
a nation be crushed out of existence. If
we atudy the history of the world alnce
1871, the beginning of the German empire,
aa It now exists, we find that this la her
flrat war and also the first for the kalaer.
while history records the foil wing wars
alnce 1871:
1877, Russo-Turkish war.
1882, English occupation of Egypt.
1884, China-Japan war.
1894, French occupation of Madagascar.
1897. Turkey and Greece.
1W. Engllsh-Boer war.
1914-5, Ruaao-Japan war. .
1912. Turkish-Italian war, and last the
Balkan war. .
The United States and Spain 1898, and
It would be In war now with Mexico, If
li was not for the waiting and watching
policy of President Wilson.
Now In face of these fact, who la the
war god? If the kaiser la so fiendish
for war, why did be bold back the Ger
mans in 18SU, when they clamored for
war agalnat Ruaalan arrogance, or why
did be hold back In 19U&, when be could
have wiped Russia off the map? No,
air, the kaiser always was for peace, and
so the Oermaa people except ' they are
forced to war, aa now by unbearable
oondttlona. Implacable hatred of France,
because Germany In 1871 took back what
Franc stole from her 2C0 years ago, the
Insatiable greed of expansion of Russia
and the Jealously of England. Now la
.disarmament m Europe possible with
Germany crushed, aa claimed? Russia
ever alnos Peter the Great waa a nation
of aggrealon and after (lrmany !a wiped
off the map. It surely would attack Nor
way and Sweden aa for many a year It
haa cast a covetous eye at those coun
tries: then It needs her army to quell
her Internal disturbances and especially
It needs the Coaaacka to rid down the
defenseless Jewish women and children.
Oreat Britain needa an army to keep in
check the natives in' bar foreign posees-
slons and France Is In the same boat.
With Germany crushed and Prussia In
the aaddle civilisation in Europe would
go back at leaat fifty years.
But here la hoping for a near end of
this bloody conflict and a aatlsfactory
adjustment to all nations concerned, be
fore our United Stetee Is drawn Into It
A foreigner Is excusable to take aides
with hla native land, but for an Ameri
can born cltlaen to condemn Germany It
ahowa bad taate. to aay the leaat
HANS E. ZIMMERMANN.
Rural Route No. (.
On the Firing Line
Milwaukee Sentinel: Others were ready,
but the kalaer waa best ready; no disput
ing that.
Baltimore American: There do not
aeem to be any cogs missing on .the
kaiser's wsr machine.
Philadelphia. Press: The "balano of
power" la still fairly well maintained by
the different accounts of the struggle.
Waahlngton Herald: The Kaiser Wil
liam der Grosae waa a big veaael, but It
left no hole In the sea when ,lt went
down.
Karieas City Btar: Somehow the allies
would feel more comfortable If there
wasn't ao many grand dukes prominent
in the Russian campaign.
Waahlngton Poat: Since it's the fash
ion among monarchs, the new uler of
Haiti ahould decorate Carreosa with th
order of the gold safety rasor.
Washington Btar: Investigation aa to
who really began the war may perhaps
be held up with propriety until a way to
terminate It haa been ascertained.
Baltimore American: Th Germans
seem to be maintaining their reputation
for thrift even in th midst of war's
alarms, by taking up a collection all
along th line of march.
Bt Louis Republic: The difference be
tween the German claims of victory on
the one hand and those of th alllea on
the other la that the allte eventually
confirm the German reports.
LOOTED LEVITT.
Farmer Clspole Has thet city feller
who bought Stone farm learnt anythln'
ylt?
Farmer Sanda Wall, he's learnt It dem t
do no good ter try ter make apple butter
In a churn. Judge.
: "Tou come from th kingdom of An
orra. you aay?"
"Tea.
"That's the smallest kingdom on earth.
Isn't It?"
"Not ao loud, please. Somebody may
think we're big enough to hold an ulti
matum." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Here you are." scolded the robin, "put.
ting your egg In my nest and expecting
my wife and me to hatch It. Tou have
a mlxhtv bad reputation for your irregu
lar habits."
"Oh, I don't know," saucily replied the
cuckoo. "I never heard of any clocks
being named after you." Chicago Poet.
"What's your timer aaked the old
farmer of the brisk salesman.
Twenty minutes after I. Whst csn I
do for you?" '
"I want them pants," said the eld
farmer, leading th way to th window
and pointing to a ticket marked "Given
away at s:20." Kansas City.
TODAY.
If you have a gift to gtv.
Give it now!
Juat a simple little flower,
Given In soma darkaome hour
Haa a wondrous maglo power
To cheer the heart
If you have a smlla to give,
Give It now!
Tt may banish every trao .
Of worry from a tired face.
And bring contentment In th place
Of discontent.
If you're loving words to speak,
Bay them now!
While the ears are quirk to hear;
Worda of comfort; worda of cheer.
Bpeak them loudly! Never fear
The consequence.
If there's a kindly deed to do.
Do It now!
While a friend can understand -And
rejoice. Don't stay the band
Until the laat grains of life's sands
Are running low.
Each haa but on life to live.
Live It now!
Pcatter love along the way,
Right and left and day by day,
That blessings In th future may
Bloom for you.
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Backbone and Muscle
Haven't tou often wondered at the
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Italian race. Their chief food at home
is spaghetti a food that is rich in
gluten the element that goes to make
muscle and flesh. We can follow this
example with benefit. A 10c package of
contains more nutriment than one
pound of the finest tenderloin steak.
Easier digested, too also easier pre-
Eared. And what good eating Faust
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St LouU. Mo,
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Contractors or Builders
are nearest headquarters
when located in
THE BEE BUILDING
"Th hutUimg Ikmt ss Vaty "
Leases, deeds, abstracts, lot lines, mortgages, liens
and n hundred other things are matters of record at
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All ti. little details of the elty'g ordinance, regulations and
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Wfires adjacent to these two buildings will, there
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ft
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