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JANUARY aRClXATIOX.
53,714
State of Nebraska, County of Pouglaa, ea.
I-tiiht Williams, circulation mnnir of The Bee
Publishing company, being duly eworn, says that the
vera circulation tor the month, ot January, 1114,
Was U )fl.
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Subscribed In my prreenca and sworn to before
me, thla 2d day of February, 1P15.
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eubacribers tearing the city temporarily
should have Th Br mailed to them, Ad
dress will be changed as often aa requested,
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Thought for the Day
Selmcttd cy Mr. Howard Kennedy
W mtiil et'r atWve after the Highest, and
wr weary became others havt earlier obtain
ed the good to uhich we aspire.
, Mendelssohn.
For the rest of the year Colonel Come-On
will be at home In San Francisco. '
Hon. Henry Clay Richmond of Douglas county
is said to be the pivot on which annexation turns.
Borne pivot! . , .
With German submarines prowling about the
Jrlsh Sea the long way to Tlpperary is consider
ably shortened.
Government efficiency boards will not fully
Justify their cost until they show congress the
wastefulness of Its ways. i
Hastings ! said to be looking for a mayor.
If permitted, we would like to Inquire what has
become of Colonel Clarence J. Miles T '
The groundhog is doing his level best to fill
that order for six weeks more of winter. The
statute of limitation will soon be out on him.
Now is it, accepted time for all members of
Omaha's family to come Into the mala tent and
push ahead. Children who stand back and pout
get nowhere.
Compliments to the Norfolk police are well
deserved. When' Omaha's police force is en
larged the authorities will know where to go for
thoroughbred recruits.
An Indignation meeting of neutral nations
would be useful in relieving the pressure
of words that cannot be conveyed to headquar
ters oa diplomatic paper. x
Inasmuch aa John D. Rockefeller Is said to
have an Income of a dollar every time the clock
ticks, the 411.8S he gives away every minute
isn't likely to land him In the poor house,
i ' . .
The fact that a bond issue may be needed to
Piece out the cah account isn't going to inter
fere with the expenditure of ninety or more mil
liona a dsy by the "economical" democrats.
The couatry can spare for export, according
to official estimates, 1.000.000 buRhels of wheat
per day until the next harvest without emptying
all the bins. Now will the breadmaxers sit up
and look pleasant?
The receding price of wheat suggests to the
city commissioners as well as the bakers the
wisdom of leaving well enough alone. Reduc
ing the weight of loaves while the raw material
is declining la not warranted by any live busi
ness rule.
If Senste File No. is amended as suggested
by The Bee It will be fairly well calculated to
serve the interests of the people, just now it
lacks In those essential points the qualification
needed for a really equitable law. If we ar to
have reduction in lighting charges, lot it be real,
and not the humbug practiced on tfte water rates.
ton
Of
Th city couti II revUed th ordinance conveying
th tiuteenth and Karnam lot to the Board of Tralo
for Ita new building, ao aa to requite a e5.J0 bonj
guaranteeing In vrw t.on In lao year.
A mrrii liocnne aa leeued to Herman Wauirf
aed. Margaret Spring.
Mr. C. t$. Raymond, the Fifteenth street Jeeler,
la confined tu hi houae by Ulneaa.
lion. John P. Irun of bn rrancteco mi1
through Omaha eatard bound.
ilra. A. U rolloc-k and family left for Washington.
Mla Klla ii Ynn hat returned from week'a
vltit with friend in Cedar Raplda.
The program la out for the Nebraska btale Taaeh-aaaui-Jatlon
meeting at Unocln neat month, with
juias aiary t. tiarna the only Omaha apeakar on It
Minium m. buchman aUried for New Torh to bo
abeent about three weeka urrhtng gjola for the
liing iraue.
The piiiiiit.'r aka people having mall addreaaed
io urM in nave ne elate plainly written becau
tUto re i.'srve. oliier Otuahaa. one la Illtnol on
Alirruurl arid one in Alabama.
The Weet k.'nd LlUiery club held one of Ita I
tetli.g meetm&a t the residency or Mra. p.
tu on T fiiiy-!i fill atreeC '
Home Should Make Inquiry.
Charges are openly made that a large sum of
money has been raised in South Omaha to be
used in connection with the fight on the annexe
tlon bill, now. before the committee oa cities and
towns of the house at Lincoln.
Nothing has been said as to the disposition
of this money.
Tt may be used for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of the visiting delegations thit
have gone down to Lincoln at different times
to take part In the hearings on the bill.
It msy be used In other ways to further the
interest of those who are opposing the passage
of the law.
No matter what the disposition of the bill,
the house here has a chance to determine if any
of this money is being used in ways that are
without the law. A committee of inquiry
would seem to be in order.
In the Case tf the Evelyn.
Americans generally will admire and follow
the example of the owners of the ship Evelyn,
sunk by contact with a mine ia the North Sea.'
He says he does 'not care for an international
inquiry, that the ship was lont while under the
natural risk of war, and that he does not look
for compensation. The nanlty of this view .will
commend the owners of the lost "hip and cargo
as men of common sense.
If an inquiry is ordered, as has been sug
gested, just where it will begin can scarcely be
told, although where it will end seems plain
enough. The Evelyn was in a portion of the
sea which both England and Germany have ex
cluded from the war zone. Therefore. It must
have been a vagrant mine that did the damage.'
The chance for determining what nation set the
mine afloat is extremely slender, and, even it
the nationality of the destroyer were determined,
it would be immaterial, because no deliberate in
tention to destroy that vessel Is chargeable. The
risk of encountering vagrant floating mines Is
taken by any vessel approaching the war tone.
The affair is unfortunate, In coming at a time
when the public is wrought up by the conditions
growing out of the English and German govern
ments in connection with the movement of neu
tral ships through the waters of the war lone.
Happily, the government at Washington is sot
inclined to be hysterical over the situation, and
It is not apparent that any effort will be mad
to magnify the importance of the occurrence.
The attitude of the owners of the lost ship Is
likely to be assumed by most of their fellow
countrymen.
The Trade Commission.
President Wilson's choice of members for
the newly instituted Trade commission is made
along party Hoes as nearly as possible, that is
to say, three of the five members are democrats,
one a progressive and one a "progressive" repub
lican. If the president still holds to his In
dianapolis allegation that the republican party
has not had a progressive idea ia thirty years,
some wonder will be felt as to the nature of the
politics of Mr. Tarry of Seattle, who Is listed
a progressive republican. . , .
However, Interest will turn on what the
board is expected to do, and not on how it is
composed. The purpose of the board is of doubt
ful utility, Its function being to prevent oppres
sion In business, or something to that effect. It
will try to hold "big" business la check, so that
little" business may sot suffer because it is
small. Whether such monitorial control of
commerce Is feasible, ,or desirable, Is open to
question. The regulation of business by law,
teyond the laying down of certain fundamentals,
has been at no time such a glittering success as
to warrant much faith in the new expedient that
provides for further interference on part of the
government. t
Success in business depends oa factors that
are personal, and are therefore beyond the law.
Oppression or monopoly may be broken up, but
to maintain absolute equality In 'relations be
tween the business enterprises tof the country
seems to be outside the power of anything short
of government ownership. The Trade commia-
alon msy be of Inestimable service, but Just now
it looks like a step towards danger. .
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The Executive and the Legislative.
Governor Fort's complaint that the legis
lative has come to be the weaker of the three
co-ordinate branches ot government Is well
founded. The Judiciary long ago usurped the
most important function of the legislative, by
assuming to determine the fate of laws through
the course of declaring them valid or .invalid
The executive has not ao far made any en
croachment on the domain of the legislative,
beyond the exerclae of a natural function of
leadership. Inherent In the executive. The gov
ernor or the president Is better qualified than a
member of the legislature or of congress to de
termine what is needed la the way of new laws
or extension ot old, and his advice and direction
is, or should be, of great assistance to the legis
lative body. The change In the relationship be
tween the branches of the government has
been brought about by evolutionary, processes
and is not likely to be turned backward.
la the old days when corporal punishment
was the most impressive feature of school life,
a fatherly teacher invariably prefaced the switch
with words of loving tenderness and good will,
raising in the minds of youngsters " confident
hopes of escaping. The postoffice efficiency
board marked the system ot the ancient school
master before applying the switch, and thus ag
gravated the punishment promised.
The submarine blockade came at a very op
portune moment for the manufacturers of guns
and armor plate and the like, and the raid on
the vanishing treasury of the United States In
behalf of more ships and guns is rorrenpond
Ingly confident.
' The bill making supreme court Judge elec
tive by districts Instead ot at Urge, is not aa
effective dUgulae for legal ambition rooted to a
local pull. Lawyers big enough for the highest
bench ought lo have the courage of a stat wide
rnn.
The Political Caldron
WHILE waiting lor the political enow to open up
here within a few weeks. It may not be amlva
to take note of the psychology of politic. uat aa we
study the psychology of the crowd. It la almost as
Interesting aa an ante-mortem examination. It may
sound rather uncouth to apeak of political death or
to aaaoclate politic with moribund matter, but the
political analyat must not be hampered by sentiment
or sympathy.
Man Is a gregarious animal. He has been auch
ever since he dwelt In eavea and threw rocka at hie
unfriendly nelghbora. It haa been hie wont to mass
In tribes, bands, clans, or In other formations. He
haa realised that there la security In numbers, that
In union there Is strength.
Society today la more organized than ever before
In the history of the world. There Is an organisation
for every line of thinking, for mutual asaletance of a
thousand and one klnda and for every -lam under the
aun. Home are beginning to believe society Is too
much organised, that there Is a lot of misdirected
energy and' wasted wealth which might be turned
Into more profitable channels. So much for that
In politics man haa shown that his gregarious
nature crops to the surface. Now and then a man
says he will make his political race alone, but he la
the exception to the rule.
On the eve of another municipal campaign We have
evidence of this political grctrerlousness. This state
of political association Is referred to aa "alatee," or
co raw nee. One observer of men and affaire here re
marked the other day that he expecta no less than
four distinct slates to bo up at the forttioomlna; city
primary. The candidates believe that by . massing
their atrength they can better appeal for votea.
And then when a whole slate Is defeated death
dOeS not aeem an hurrf fne mnv nn. Individual T w
. .v. v..,, w.w .M... . 4 1 1 b,n
natural world man muat die alone, but In the political
world It Is possible. In thla Instance, for him to die
with six other men. The aotdler on the battlefield
doea not fear death so much when his comrades are'
t his aide.
Thera tnav he nn Imnmvrm.nt rluh .i.i. Um.
city commission primary on April . Tho idea has
been Suggested and It seems oult nmVuvhla, h. it
will be carried through. The plan la to call a mass
meeting of all membe'ra of aU Improvement cluba
a.ll hi- . t. - . . . ... .
".V...H urn ii- i i wo weens, tnis meeting to be held
at a downtown location, possibly In tho city council
chamber, ,
An effort will he m.rt t t.,n.
- " " " ...i, iuniiiiri mo iiicrrr-
bers of the two fednmtlnna. Th. nmn.ni.... n.1.
proposition belong to clubs affiliated with the old
ji-rinra oi improvement club and they feel that
members of the new United Federation can well af
ford on this ocean Inn ta .Ink .n iirr..n.. . ,i..
general good of Omaha, as "they express It
,ome or the Improvement clubs are opposed to
being parties to "political" m.ttur. mrA .v.
wl" view this suggestion with political upectaclea. Is
" uncertainty. An attempt, however will
be. made to bring; all of the Improver together.' The
united Improvement cluh mrtri r-tt-rsl sm nni,.4
--' - luuncu u jun
a insurgents by the old federation. Both federations
mummy meeting and at .this time an entente
cordiale between the two la not obtruding Itself upon
the atmosphere to any degree. .
Nathan nernsteln umiika.. v.' i- t
rao. and Intends to stay In the race, com what may.
.L IT. ' " circulates, no has 10 ready for
the filing fee. haa haA . -i... . .
- " v""WKrm.im taaan ror
a cut for his campaign ' card and declares he hag
I Was born and in rw.t.. ..... .
, v.ii.iia, wk. graauatea
from the Omaha High school and have lived with tho
rank and file all of my life, i believe I know the
needs of the neoDta nf thla . ... .. .
- ..vm vuiiununwnilQ. ' as
dared Mr. Bernstein yesterday morning.
He asseverates that he Is making a personal cam.
palgn. and doea not intend to Indulge In any fanfare,
or vehement verbiage; just a quiet. Intellectual -cam-
...... 'i . .
"I Stand for the wlii.r .e n ..vi,. i ....
and for an extension of such publlo -pleasures aa nlav.
itiirnng iq nis platform.
' Peo'pfe'and Rrente J
r
J. R. Pnvder Of nnlllmnr. ia .m..
. .. . iwr uivorco on
the. ground that hi wife habitually kiaae the family
doctor. Bnyder prefer change of wlve to a change
9f doctor. ,
A Missouri court with first hand knowledge of
the Missouri thirst rules that a prescription calling
for a gallon of booze a day 1 excessive a well a un
lawful, and aoaked the doctor who wrote. It JS0.
One branch of the Kansaa legislature passed a bill
providing for the publication monthly ot th names
.of people receiving ehlpmenta of boose.- Social calls
aro now hampered by lack of definite Information.
Senator Ellhu Itoot of New York passed hi seven
tieth milestone on Monday last He retire from the
United States senate on March ,. and shortly after
will assist In. framing- a new constitution tor the
Empire state.
Thomas A. Edison at! 68 ia making plana for six
teen mora yeara . of work. He doea not expect to
speed up aa the year wheels go around, but will keep
too busy to bother about the lengthening' ahadow.
Work la tho wine of life! . .
The '-Irlh of a daughter to Joseph and Ethel Coke
ley or Kansaa City, Ma, completed a Una of flv
generatlone of daughter. Thla make the third time
in th lost ten years that In thta family flv genera
tions of daughters have been living.
Although Max Ernat Hebert Is a German who can
speak no Engllah, and Mis llessle Lawson of Chloago
can speak no German, they met courted, became en
gaged and were married. Hev. T. M. Hunter, who
performed th ceremony, uaed the sign language.
Frank Fuller, war governor of Utah territory,
lawyer, dentist, physician and friend of President
Lincoln. I dead at hi New York home, age SS. Mr.
Fuller was governor of Utah when Edward frrelghton
completed tha Paclflo telegraph Una to 8alt Lake City
and sent the first telegram eastward to President
Lincoln.
For the benefit of the loolted-for tourist crop next
summer. California decorates the coaat scenery with
three, full-fledged exhibition. Besides the San Fran
c.laco and Ban lXego ahowa, Lo Angeles springs a
third. "Th Los Angeles display of billboards," says
th Examiner, "la unsurpassed la alt, number and
ugllnea anywhere In the world." ' .
An Effingham. 111., dispatch ata tee that Mrs. Ada
It. Kepley, minister, editor and farmer, haa announced
her candidacy for th mayoralty of that municipality
on a platform. "Boom and advertise Kfflngham." A
woman . mayor ot so many profusions ought to be,
able to make effective her platform. What doea Mr.
Kepley. do for, board and todgtngT
Twice Told Tales
Caught.
'.'What a pretty hat Mra Plnkey wore thla even.
Ing."
"Ptd you like It dearf' '
"Vea. It was very becoming. Why don't ou get
lists like thai?" .
, "You mustn't blame m If 1 laugh. John. The
hat you like la my hat Mra. Jin key borrowed It thta
evening. It's the S3) hat you called a fright." Cleve
land 1'Utn lraler.
' a " ,
At a Diaadvantag .
"There goes another button' aald the man who
waa standing w ith hi thumb hitched Inside his waist-
bai.d.
"Didn't you kaow It waa loose?"
"Of courne. I knew it waa loosa. I knew It was
loose Just aa well aa I knew that my hosiery needs a
darning, and that 1 ought to have lot of needle hd
thread Work done."
"Why don't you tell your wife about Itr
"I haven't the heart to worry her. You know,
she's so sympathetic, she Isn't happy unless she's
knitting something to send ever to Kurope. Honestly
aoinetUnea I almost wish I waa on ot trvse unhapvy
belglans." Mhlagioa atan. ...
New Orleans Water and Omaha's.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. IS. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: You should send your
old friend and plsymate, Howell, down
here to leara something about water.
Here it la clear as spring water and ab
solutely tasteless. Na alum, no chloride
of lime, no aqua fortls, auch as you have.
Also, send along your chief of police, to
learn how to handle 10.000 maaker o that
women and children are safe from insult
even when without a prptector. No. con
fetti, no rowdyism. But. maybe you have
een it yourself. OBSERVER.
tin this connection It might be stated
that In New Orleans water Is sold by the
city to consumers at a flat rate per T.toO
gallons, and at a figure much lower than
Omaha consumer pay. The only differ
ential then is the charge for meter
ervire, which 1 graduated according to
th aize of the meter, the bigger paying
more than the little. . Here the plan is
reveraed. the small consumer paying the
hlgher price.)
Prohlbltlom or Self-Restraint.
OMAHA, Feb. 2t.-To the Editor of The
Bee: Your Porsey and Tlattsmouth
(Neb.) contributors on the .subjects of
"The Liquor Traffic" and "The Demon
Rum" have evidently Imbibed of late a
lot of the prohibition doctrine which I
ao diligently distributed through the of
ficial Antt-Saloon league press bureau,
an organisation of wide extent and splen
did system, with thousand of corre
spondent and obedient servant.
One ot them would like to be told how
tho liquor traffic, which he calls "the
most damnable and abominable curs
that ever 'crept out of hell." can be
regulated. Tho answer depends much
upon where the regulation ia to take
place. If In Russia, with people of the
lowest possible state of Intelligence, peo
ple who but a few years ago were op
pressed erf. I would say prohibition is
the only hop until the Intelligence of
these people en be advanced.
Th 200,000,000 people In Germany,
France. Belgium. Italy, etc.. with their
higher state of intelligence, get along
very well with a minimum of regulation.
Beer or wine la part of their daily bill
ot fare, yet there Ha practically no
drunkenness, and people live longer there
than we do. If it were true that even
the moderate use of such stimulants
made degenerates, or that It led to the
excessive use, these people would all be
degenerates now. Recent events tell us
that thl Is not the case. Solution of the
Problem In thl country has been a dif
ficult ono by the irrational attempts at
prohibition. Approaching the aubject
from tho standpoint of the professional
prohibitionist, the self-appointed re.
iformer. or the fanatical preacher, cer
tainly will not aolve the problem. The
experience in all prohibition states' ha
spelled absolute failure.
It la, of course, not. at all Impossible
rhat the wave, propelled by fanaticism
and misrepresentation, could create a
tide whtch would throw many communi
ties or states off their feet. But If so, it
la merely because people are more In
clined to believe a misrepresentation
when presented under tho guise of moral
ity and religion, than accept the truth
traveling In the plain garb of reason.
The prohibitionists have a wonderful
organisation and able leaders, who pro
ceed on the doctrine of Barnum and the
belief that few people really think. They
know that if people ir told often enough
that black I white, a great many will,
believe it. If a man is told often enough
that liquors, even moderately used, act
a a poison or will lead to the Intem
perate use. . It will so work on his
imagination that the affect will be as
predicted. One contributor says that the
government ha for a few- year pro
hibited the traffic In liquor on Indian
reservations and at military posts. Doe
he mean to Insinuate that" an Intelligent
white man cannot control his appetite
and must wear, like the Indian, the
etralght Jacket prohibition- to keep him
from the excessive use? And a to
military posts, officers who know beat
condemn tho abolition of the canteen. It
1 only recently that Colonel Gocthel
has recommended It re-establishment.
- Emperor William ' spoke only against
excessive drinking and recommended self
discipline, which I positively th only
solution.. Your Plattsmouth correspond
ent la mistaken about proposed com
J remises or band wagons. The Issue la
not between th liquor Interests and the
prohibitionists: th Issue ia entirely be
tween the people who demand the right
to purchase, and who are able to, and
do control their appetites, and those who
would deny, them such right and per
sonal liberty on th pretext that men are
too Weak, and that all temptation must
be removed from them. They do not
realise that th temptation to drink beer
or wine to excess Involves but tho small
est fraction of the evil and vice to
which humanity 1 heir.
A. L. MEYER."
Daaa ss4 Omaha.
OMAHA. Feb. tt. To th Editor of The
Bee: Having been a resident of Omaha
and Dundee for the last twenty-aix yeara,
the time about evenly divided east and
west of Forty-eighth street naturally I
am Interested In th argument for and
agatnat consolidation.
I have lived In Dundee continuously
since 1901. Dundee exist aa it la today,
and as it will be In th future, solely be
cause of It proximity to Omaha. Were
It suddenly deprived of th protection and
benefit gratuitously furnished by It big
neighbor, Dundee would be in a lament
ably Isolated position. .
Scarcely a score of It residents earn
their living In the village. Its two gro-
-eery stores cannot feed It. - It haa two
drug stores, one barber and a amall
delicatessen shop. Its greatest needs,
such as clothing, fuel, building material
and the various other necessities and
comfort of life come from Omaha.
Without Omaha it would have neither
gas nor elet'trlc light: no water for do
mestic ua or tire fighting: ne adequate
transportation facilities: no telephone
aervlce: no theaters; no hotels, no res
taurants; no banks; no postoffice; no
library; no parka; In Xact none of th
publlo and aemt-publio Institution that
urban lit suggest as neceasary or de
sirable. All the things Dundee citizen
claim from Omaha as their right and
their big, good-natured neighbor gladly
and ungrudgingly bestows them. -
But don't think Dundee haa nothing.
It ha the niftiest little bunch of real
estate artists that ever breezed Into a
village. And they have fattened off
Dundee's proximity to Omaha, and tain
would wax fatter. .
, It haa a tight litlti i-liuue vf gum
ahoe viUag" manager who wollj ha
linked If they were called Hilithlna,
but who tan put it all over the best boys
who eer bowed the Third wsrd when It
route to taking tare of themselves and
their satellites.
Tak It front me, whea Dundee's
bonded debt has reached the Jlmit, to
day's exporters in the antl spotlsxht will
le strong for annexation.
Give Omaha Ita due and that' not
paraphrasing, either. VERITAS.
Editorial Shrapnel
Boston Transcript: Gunner Ruf, the
Texaa aailor who ha broken the 'world's
record with a fourteen-lnch gun, might
be referred to s a pretty smooth article.
et. Ixuls Globe-Democrat: During
Washington's administration Great Brit
ain and France vied with each other In
trying to drag this nation Into war. But
the Father of His Country set all ages
an example of absolute neutrality.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The Rus
slsns have been completely crushed by
the Germans eight times, have captured
all ' the Germans but the kaiser nine
times, according to the stories of the
Berlin and Petrograd correspondents.
Houston Post: "W don't hate the
men; we love them," Is the amartest
thing any of the suffs have aald yet, and
if the young, pretty ones begin to reel
off that sort ot stuff we older idiots are
liable to lose the trenches we have been
holding so gallantly.
Philadelphia Ledger: American war
news continues satisfactory. The firing
of !,3u& ovens In the Fayette county re
gion since the first ot the present month
sounds much better than the firing going
on in Europe, and General II. C. Frlck
ia doing hi part in putting old General
Depression on the run. .
Baltimore American: Speculators in
foodstuff In time like these ought, in
all nations, be mobilised and set to work
digging trenches, building roads and other
work which would make them useful and
deprive them, at the same time, of the
opportunity of trading for their own
profit in their fellow-creatures' distresses.
SMILING LINES.
' "It seems a pity, my dear Miss Gotham,
that you New York society women don't
give up mure of your time to raising
money for the war sufferers."
"My dear Marjorle, how can you say
such a thing? Haven't I sat up until 2
o'clock for three night now playing
charity bridge?" Life. , .
' "What did vou think of my dancing
girl costume?"
"It would have been all rlfi-ht," replied
Mr. Growched, "if you hadn't insisted on
dancing on that slippery floor. The next
time I'd advise you to disguise yourself
as a motor car and wear chain to keep
irom skidding." Washington Btar. .
He Miss "PrettyfB.ee. I have been con
verted, and I want to make restitution
of any wrong I have done, i stole some
kisses from you, anl I would like to
give them back.
She Well, Mr. Smith, of course I don't
want to put any obstacle In the e.
of your doing what you think Is right.
t'hicsgo Post.
"Curious thing about humaa vanity,"
Said the t-ostiiini'r.
"To what do you refer?"
"The more knock-kneed a man is. the
more he wnnte to appear at a mask hall
as a Scottish Highlander." Washington
ttar.
"f had a dreadful fall last night."
"Tell me of It Kgbert."
"My wife ws talking; I hung on every
word, and then, and then''
"Yes yes. and then?"
"Her voice broke!" Harvard Lampoon.
AFTER THE BATTLE.
Austin Iobeon English Tost Laureate.
Here. In this leafy place
Unlet he lies:
Cold, with his elehtlesS face
Turned to the skies.
'TIs but another dead.
All you ran say Is said;
Csrry his body hence.
Kings must have slaves.
Kings climb to eminence
Over men's graves.
Po this man' eye Is dim.
Throw the earth over him.
Whst was that white you touched
There, by his aide?
Paper his hand hnd clutched
Tight, ere he died.
Message or wish may be.
Smooth out the folds and see.
Hardly the worst of its
Here could have smiled.
Only the tremulous . ' ,
Words of a child.
Prattle that had for atone
Just a few ruddy drops.
Look. She is sad to miss
Morning and night,
His her dead father's kiss;
Tries to be bright,
Oooil to mamma and sweet.
That is all. "Marguerite."
Ah. if beside the dead
Slumbered the pain!
Ah. if the hearta that bled
Slept with the slain!
If the grief died but no:
Death will not have It ma. '
Don't switch a germ-scat
tering duster. Put 3-in-One
on cheese cloth and have a
dustless duster.
ausuesa ausier. j "-
Keeps home bright, ffT J
clean, sanitary. rJJ f
4)
Gives a fresh look
to everything. Try it. j
A Dictionary of a i
hundred other uses with
every bottle. 10c, 25c, 50c all stores
Three-In-One Oil Co.
42 tt. Broadway, N. Y.
r
Rheumatism
Lumbkg'o
Sciatica
Stopped
. "Just a line- ia praise of Sloan's
; Liniment. I have been ill nearly
1 fourteen weeks with rheumatism,
have been trested by doctors who
did their best. ; had not slept for
the terrible pain for several nights,
when my wile got me a small bottle
ot the Liniment and three applica
tions (tsve me relief so that I could
sleep. Jtitfh Tmmblyn, 613 Cen
vint Strut, McKtmpert, Pa,
MiMMl&illl
KILLS PAIN (GUARANTEED)
DR. EARL S. SLOAN, Inc. Philadelphia, Pa. St. Louis, Mo,
' Price. 25c.; 50c and f 1.00
Busy Bee Boys and Girls
It's only a few day now until
one of you will win this famous
WORLD MOTOR BIKE
It has a 20-inch Frame
with Coaster Brake. Motor
Bike Handle Bars, Eagle
Diamond Saddle, Motor Bike
Pedals, Motor Bike Grip,
Luggage Carrier Holder,
Folding Stand, Front and
Rear Wheel Ouard3, Truss
Frame and Front Fork.
This picture of the bicycle
will be In The Uee every day.
Cut them all out and ak
your friends to save the pic
tures in their paper for you,
too. See how many picture
you can get and bring them
lo The Bee office, Saturday.
March OLh.
The bicycle will be gdven
;Free to the boy or girl that
send us the most picture be
fore 4 p. m., Saturday, March
6th.
Subscribers can help the
children in the contest by
asking for picture certifi
cates when they pay their
subscription. Ve give a cer
tificate good for 100 pictures
for every dollar paid.
Payments should be made
to our authorized carrier or
gt?nt, or cent direct to us
by mail.
r i i ..I v
Editor of Th Bee: I al
ways wanted a bicycle and now
I have a chanc to try and get
on a. I have gone around to
my relatives and friends to gat
them to save tne iiicturr fur
in. ! woubl be kUJ if anvona
would be no kind as to save
them and en,l them to ill. I
would lpta Lte it very much.
V-iiiis ie-.ni . Irene Tiinme,
tJ: Maple 6. Omaha. Ken.
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