TI1K HKK: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1915. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FDl'NDEIJ BY EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. The Bps Publishing Company, Proprietor. PEE BUILDING. FARNAM AND gEVENTKF.NTU? Entered t Omaha postofflce aa second-class matter. Py mall per year. 16 ) , 4 .n 4.00 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier per month. Pally anl Sunday so... lastly without Sunday. ... 4fio... Waning anil Sunday o.., Kvenlng without Sunday Ko... f . . J I A.. riiniia.T r.-w unij Send notice of chanre of address or complaints of iriTFunniy in univrrr 10 umuit um circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only two rent stamps received In payment of small ac count Terminal check, except on Omaha and eastern eschange, not accepted. OFFICER. Omaha The Bee Rtillrilng. South Omaha aig N street. Council Muffs 14 North Mala street. Lincoln ! Little Building. Chicago 01 Hraret HulMlng New York Room linn, 2 Fifth avenue. Ft. Louls-608 New Bank of Commerce. Washington 725 Fourteenth Ft, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address rnmmunlcatlona relating to newa and) edi torial matter to Omaha bee. Editorial Department. OCTOBKK CIRCULATION 54,744 State of Nebraska. County of Douglas, aa: Pwtght Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly iworn, aaya that the average circulation for the month of October, 19IJ, was &.744 DWIOHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In mv preacnce and aworn to before trie, thla M dav of November, 1S. ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public. Subscribers tearing the city temporarily should have The ltce mailed to them. Ad dress will te changed an often aa requested. sTorember Thought for the Day 5etre by Harriml Eddy We art not damned tor doing vrong, but for not dung right. Jtobwt L. bteventtn. To auto speeders once more: bo careful. Slow up and Taking the tariff out of politics has been the dream of real statesmen for forty years. MaHBajaaBBBMMBSSMBBjBBBBBaBiBBMSM If anyone anywhere has a right to observe Thanksgiving day this year, It Is the Nebraska furmer. Lincoln Is having something of a building l oom, tort. Wa congratulate Lincoln on keeping pace so close to Omaha's. Fears for the safety of parts of the state house must be set down as groundless. So far n:me of the inmates have been scared into resigning. A. little team work between the police, the police court and the rock-pile department, will make Omaha less conspicuous on the "hobo" map. Another governorship hat in the republican r ug! The belief that the next governor of Ne Iraska will be a republican is deep and growing l.iore widespread. My, how run down those churches which l:tve increased 40 and 60 per cent In numbers i.lnce the close of the "Billy" Sunday meetings must have been before "Billy" came here! Are the Instigators of that Hughes petition trying to put the Judge in or to keep htm outT All is not cold that glitters, nor do loudly pro claimed purposes always disclose hidden motives. There Is gloom at Bethlehem and Joy at the hsbitat of J. Leonard Repogle. In the race for Pennsylvania Steel control the experience and years of Charley Schwab were no match for youth with bulging pockets. - - BlBMBBBSMBHaBBBMBjaBJBB Allowance should be made for the havoe of war-weariness on the nerves of foreign critics. Lbullitlons of Ink at London, Paris and Berlin help to relieve the strain without disturbing the temper of the United States. It must be distinctly understood that civil 'strvlce as administered by democrats does not protect an assistant postmaster who thinks the president should have waited a little longer be fore contracting a second marriage. A bride of a few months seeks divorce on tie novel ground that her husband struck her with a loaf of the first bread she baked. It may be admitted thst the act constituted "cruel and unusual punishment," but the extent of the damage depends on the weight of the missile. A Judicial review of the Illinois sUte appro priations leaves stato finances in such a mess that an extra session of the legislature Is Im perative. The Illinois legislators thundered In the Index for reform and economy, last winter, giving more attention to partisan publicity schemes than to the essential business of the late. The cost of an extra session merely emphasizes the blunders of windy incompetents. Andrew Pa i ton. a field asent tor the Cltlaena" Was ue of Chicago, la trying to organise a Cltlaens' league here to promote order and repreae the liquor traffic. At a meeting at the opera bouse, which he addressed. Dr. P. 8. Lelsenring acted aa chairman, and seated on the platform with him were H. T. tiara. Dr. a F. Wlleon. Rev. I, B. Detweiler, General Howard and Rev. E. B. Oraham. Aa a flrat etep to free teat booka the school board has ordered the pupila to be fumlehed with penclla, lubber eraer and drawing materials. liciVgue Brothers have purchaaed the lot on the northwest corner of Fifteenth and Dodge streeta, where McShene's livery stable now stands, and wlli rrect thereon In the next two years a handsome bank structure, and would commence at once but for a year's lease on the property. V.I I. Mary A. Llvermore, the distinguished lectureaa, (a stopping In the city. The Pacific Tt-lvgraih company haa opened an of fl In Omaha, located at SIS Boulh Thirteenth street William Johnson, the well-known sprinter of Pitts luiKh, la here trying to arrange a race with local Nebraska Koadi. . A recent report of the federal department of rtads placed Nebraska among the lowest of the Kates in the number of miles of permanent sur faced roads, but this condition promises to be changed If plans matured in various sections of tbe state are carried to fruition, seedling miles having been completed In several places, to which additions are to be made as funds are available. One thing which outsiders do not appreciate, however, in reaching conclusions concerning tbe roads of the state, is the nstural soil drainage In most sections of Nebrsska, which renders permsnent surfacing less Imper ative than In most places. More significant by far of the prospective improvement of roads in general Is the way the smaller cities, villages and rural communities are taking up the matter cf scientific construction of dirt rosds. Outside of the funds created by taxation for road purposes hundreds of towns and rural com munities are raising money by subscription for road work, sandy stretches are being graded and clayed, muddy and waterlogged portions also Ktaded and drained, hills cut down and a general awakening manifest to the commercial value of better roads. It Is nothing uncommon to find small towns subscribing from $1,000 to $3,000 for aiding country communities to improve the loads leading to the towns and what Is more sig nificant still as bearing on the results this work when undertaken by private funds Is not done by the typical township road overseer and his wasteful methods and unsatisfactory results, but ly skilled road builders who make that their business and provide themselves with the facil ities for doing the work. Moreover, many coun ties In Nebraska will In ten years, at the present late of progress, have every trunk line road scientifically constructed. The automobile, espe cially since the farmers have become extensive users of the machine, has been the most potent factor in bringing the people who most needed good rosds to a realisation of their value and no longer is the position of road overseer looked upon as a Joke or a sinecure for some man who simply needed the money or was greedy enough to grab for it. The major portion of Nebraska is still too sparsely settled and the traffic vol ume too light to expect an extensive program of l ullding permanent surface roads Immediately, but with the character of the soil as it Is In most eectlons, It is possible to have a system of dirt reads that will be the pride and Joy of those vho travel them. How Many War Victimi ? The estimate of 6,000.000 men killed In the war put out by Colonel Heussler, the Swiss military statistician, exceeds every calculation of war losses hitherto published. General Creene, In a talk at Went Point in September, placed the year's dead at 2,000,000. Up to October 11 the Rotterdam Courant computed the total casualties of Germany, Austria and 'turkey at 5,000,000 men. British casualties for the same time, officially reported, totaled 493, 284. French and Russian losses are unknown, but probably not less than the Teutonic loss. Assuming the correctness of the later estimates, Colonel Heussler's computation comes pretty close to a truthful measure of war'a havoc to date. Booker T. Washington. In the death of Booker T. Washington a really towering figure haa disappeared from life's activities. He has stood not only for the best Ideals of hla race, but what Is of vastly more importance, he has worked along practical lines for the realisation of those Ideals, and his doath is not alone a distinctive loss to the col ored race but to the white aa well, for the prob lems of the colored people are also the problems of the white In a large measure under our po litical and industrial system. Sinca the ending of slavery, two really strong men of the negro Hood stand out. Not that the race has produced but two men of marked ability, but those who have places fixed in history are Frederick Doug lass and Booker T. Washington. The former Performed a great service for hla people In tattling their political and civil status In the formative period following emancipation. His talents commanded the respect and attention of tbe white man at a time when It was absolutely ebsential if the problems following the changed conditions were to be solved, and in this respect the people of his race owe him a debt of per petual gratitude. Fully as commanding a figure Is Booker Washington, though he addressed hlm iclf to a different problem the economic and social uplift of hla race. The great Institution at Tuskegee standa as the most conspicuous monument to hla genius, and from that Institu tion and the teaching of Washington haa (mi Lated an influence sure to be permanent. Industry, thrift, education and character building have been the keynotes of Booker Washington's preachments. It was a herculean (ask which he set for himself, but, with the help of those whom he inspired, wonders have been accomplished. That the work Is finished his most enthusiastic admirer would not assert, for that there yet remain too many, both of his own people and of the white race, who either do not understand or live up to the Ideals which ha tsught, is too patent Yet he accomplished won ders and it will need be a large man who can step in and take up the work where be laid it down. Ain't It a Joke? The new principal of the High 8chool of Commerce lets it be known that In writing recommendations for boys going out of thai school, he will include on the information card whether or not the boy smokes flgarettes. The High School of Commerce principal Is a late comer here and Is doubtless ignorant of the fact that we have on the statute books of this state a Ibw which prohibits and penalises the sale of cigarettes, not to boys alone, but to one and all. That law, however, as every one is aware, is as much of a dead letter aa the wholly disregarded "no-treat" law, and as a consequence cigarettes are aold aa freely to minors as to adults,. because !t Is no more of an offense. Yet the law-makers who pretend to take themselves seriously have repeatedly refused to modify our anti-cigarette law, and make it enforceable againat the sale to school-boys, where alone such sale might be I armful. It certainly is a huge Joke for a high' s-hool principal to put a cigarette smoking item on a recommendation card in a atate where (itarctte selling without exception Is illegal. i . . . -. One credit mark may be given tbe Bulgars. King Ferdlnsnd does not attempt to hide or pal liate tbe national appetite for territorial lout. Aimed at Omaha Nebraska City Press: The Lincoln Journal In de ploring the fact that without an election this fall It will be necessary, on account of ballot congestion next year, either to revert to the annual election plan or make the ballot shorter, hits only half the nail. Just aa The Omaha Bee says. It la not necessary to revert to the annual election plan to correct the evil of congestion and bewilderment of the votes which surely will be the case nest year. We have too many elective offices In Nebraska, The Omana Bee 'a a pioneer In thla much-needed reform and the Press la not far behind, having advocated thla thing for several yeara. The ehnrt ballot la as necessary as any other reform we can think of at thla particular moment. The less elective officials the lesa politics In public office holding; the more appointive officials. under proper civil service regulations, the more ef ficiency and the more service for the money ex pended. Let that glad day come. Norfolk Press: "Billy" Sunday s wholesale con signment of Omaha citizens to the lower regions haa at least had the effect of arousing the Interest of citizens of the metropolis In that place of future abode, If one may Judge from the columna of learned dissertations now appearing In the letter bos col umna of the newspapers of the city. Blue Springs Sentinel: That must be a virions atmosphere they have In Omaha that would cause Richard K Metcalfe to turn against hts bosom friend, W. J. Bryan, on account of the fact that Bryan would make the democracy of the state a practical political factor In Its support of the prohibitory amendment. Humphrey temocrat: The political ring of Omaha Is again putting Itself on the map by trying to hold up Gene Melady. promoter of the Hussane-Stecher match, for the use of the Auditorium In which to hold the match. Farmer Burns, Handy Orlswold and a number of the other aports of Omaha have loat quite a bunch of money betting against Htecher and ever since that they have been trying to make out that "Honest Joe" Is a faker and a mediocre wrestler. The Omaha bunch may be able to keep Htecher from ap pearing In Omaha, but In doing so they will only hurt themselves, for Joe Is too popular throughout the state to have anything the "Omaha knockers" may say about him, reduce his standing for honesty. Newman Orove Reporter: The editor of The Omaha Bee feels relieved because the war Is not to Increase the price of diamonds. Nebraska City Press: Newly weds In Omaha who have been deprived of their educational privileges before marriage need not be embarrassed or humili ated. The Board of Education haa made It possible for young married people to attend night school to gether and make up for what they missed In the grade schools. It Is a unique pln and a good one. Lincoln Star: A woman writes to say that If Omaha would give as much money to a bunch of good workera and let them hire a nurse to care for the sick and feed the poor, "they would fcive more church members at the end of a year than they will have after the meetings are over." Undoubtedly this woman la correct, but what of that? Omaha people wouldn't do such a thing. It takes Sunday and his religious ragtime to dynamite the coin from the Omaha pocket. Twice Told Tales The Wrwaaj Hoaae. Hard luck had struck Johnson a fearful blow. Ia desperation he took on a Job to sell books from door to door. All down one street he went without making a single sale. Then, turning the comer, he determined to try a new method. The first house h came to was large and shabby, and a frowsy female answered hla knock. "Have you a Charles Dickens In your house?" he asked politely. "No" snapped the female. "Or a Robert Louis Stevenson?" "No!" "Or Walter Scott?" asked Johnson, hope dancing momentarily In hla eyes. "No, we aln'tl" said the woman sharply. "And, what's more, this ain't a boarding house. If you're looking for them fellers, you might try next door; they take lodgers!" New York Times. No Qeeatloa of It. A gentleman who was In France during the early stagca of the war tells an amusing atory of one of the fashionable ladles who were among the nurses In the hospitals there. She saw a wounded man being carried Into camp. "Is that an officer or only a man?" she asked, pointing to the figure on the stretcher. One of the bearers answered: "Well, mum, he certainly ain't an officer, but 'e' been 'It twice In the innards and we've dropped 'in three times and 'e ain't squeaked yet, and If 'e ain't a man I don't know what "e Is." London Tlt-Blts. Klasee for Charity. Nearly all the youth of the neighborhood attended the charity basaar. and one by one they drifted to a atall where a tiny, shapely, scented gray kid glove re posed on a satin cushion Attached to the cushion waa a notice, written in a delicate feminine hand which ran: "The owner of this glove will, at 7:S0 thla even ing, be pleased to kiss any person who purchases ticket beforehand," , Tickets were purchased by the score, and at 7:90 a long row of young men aaaembled outside the stall. Then, punctual to the moment, old Tom Porson the local butcher, who weighs 200 pounds and Is al most as beautiful as a side of bacon, stepped to the front of the atall. "Now. young gents." he aald. "thla re glove be longs to me. I bought It this morning. Now I'm ready for you. Come onl Don't be bashful! One at at time' Philadelphia Ledger. People and Events flair J In one way or another genius rises to minor human necesalUea. Bd Foley of Kalamaaoo, Mich., has In vented a left-handed watch for left-handed people. The mechanism reverses the route of the hands. Time goes on Just the same. A detached husband proves quite a convenience for Anna Held In theee parlous times. Born in Wir aaw, reared In Parta and married to an American, whom ahe later divorced, her citisenshlp, aa officially determined, descends from the ex-husband and makes her an American. Federal authorities are trailing a bunch of wire tappers whose operations In Pes Moines and Chicago are believed to have netted a roil of easy money, estimated at SVM. Complaints Indicate that an unnamed Xes Moines man Invested heavily on a auie thing and got stung. , General Sir Sam Hughes, head push of Canadian recruiting, exuecta to go to the war front. When he gets there something will be doing all the time. Speaking publicly t Toronto he says It is his plain to lead his troops In person on "the march to Berlin." No date has been set for Genera! Earn s departure. i . 1 1 ... . i - a. . k. . ,. . . of New Tork peeled K4.tt,((k off the Mid vale Steel deal and a bellhop turned a tip on Schwaba Into t8.0JO. About the same time Frank K. Jackson, cashier of the Northwestern university. Chicago, played the same game with university funds and dropped 121, OTU. A Princeton Investigator, addreaalng the conven tion of the American Association for Study and Pre vention of Infant Mortality at Philadelphia, announced that the flni old Quaker atock and the descendants of New Knsland pttgrlma are steadily disappearing. Funeral notices of members. It waa stated, too often carry thu melancholy epitaph. "Last of the family." The fault la theirs. Aln nf Fnrelaa l.aajataaare Papers. OMAHA, Nov. 15.-TO the fidltor of The Eee: As chairman and secretary of a meeting of foreign language newspaper publishers of Omaha, held at the Com mercial club Friday, we alsh to correct the Item under the caption "Editors For eign Language papers Want Patronage." In the article, which purports to be a report of the meeting, the statement ap pears that these editors "organised Frl dsy noon, tilth the Idea of making proper representations to business men of the city In the form of a plea for what they term their share of the advertising." The following resolution, unanimously adopted, clearly Indicates the action taken, and cannot In any. manner be construed to mean the above: Resolved, That It Is the sense of this meeting to orgnnlze a foreign language press association of Nebraska at a meet ing to be held at the Lincoln hotel Tues day, November 16. 1MB. at 10 a. m., and to hereby Invite all publishers of torelen language newspapers In the state to join us on that occasion In order to complete such an organization and to foster our interests before the state meeting of the Nebraska Manufacturers' association. Next Tuesday at the Lincoln meeting some such statewide organisation will undoubtedly be formed, and If It is it will be with the purpose In view of tell ing the manufacturing and mercantile concerns of the state the truth about for eigners and foreign language papers by the only people capable of telling them, the foreign language editors and publish ers themselves, and not "In the form of a plea." The foreign language newspapers of the state need-no "pleading." all they ask for Is "fair play," and when once adver tisers are told the truth about these pub lications In the proper way they will be accorded the moral support as wen ad vertising patronage which they merit. Truatlng that you will do us the Justice of correcting your erroS, we remain, VAL J. PETER, Chairman. . WALTER ROSICKT, Secretary. Ho to It. Yon Common People I CHICAOO, Nov. 14. To the Editor of The Bee: President Wilson quotes six passages of scripture from Ezekial to prove that God, through the 'Bible, sanc tions war. Billy Bryan quotes gent life and Jesus as against war. Now comes V. A. Bradshaw of North Platte Justifying "Billy" Sunday as against some antl-Sundayltes. Setting aside the fact that there are reported to be 800 contending schism In the Christian religion, these three con tentions of present specific knowledge are sufficient to prompt the Inqul y aa to what the Christian religion Is. Sure! The Christian religion is like other religions It Is a Jack-pot organisa tion by the crafty few to control the minds of the many. This applies not only to religion and priests, but to political parties and politicians as well, and for what purposes of control, authority, government, and the pecuniary interests connected with It. As a political mountebank, Billy Bryan takes the lead in this country (Roose velt having subsided, but his photograph we still have with us). Contemplate a preacher as president of the United States, setting apart a day of universal prayer by the preachers of the same beseeching God to stop the war In Europe, and In the next breath quoting six passages of scripture to show that we should prepare to go Into war ourselves. Most emphatically this does ahow that religion is the basis of political action by arbitrary power to control the minds and bodies of an unsuspecting people. Politicians who have been sitting on an office for the last fifteen or twenty years, like old hens on similar nests, should get off the perch or be boosted off. The country demands a change to the living from the dead that change of which Jefferson and Lincoln spoke. These things can be secured only by the com mon people through direct action and a well defined purpose. Go to It, you common people! LUCIEN STEBBINS. Editorial Sittings Boston Transcript: The Spanish budget lor 19W shows a deficit of U..J. When did Spain go democratic? Cleveland Plain Dealer: The president's quotation of scripture as a basis for national defense is perhaps considered by Bryan as a blow at him below the belt Philadelphia Ledger: It is said that the president tried to get Mr. Bryan and Senator Hitchcock to divide Nebraska's share of the spoils between them. The only difficulty In believing the assertion Is the fact that in a truly good reform administration there cannot be any spoils. Indianapolis News: "The board of in ventors," declares Prof. Taft, "la as Im practical as a board of opera singers." And perhaps It Is; but war would have been a very different thing today If It had not been for the work of the In ventors, however Impractical It may ap pear. Springfield Republican: A moving picture company and a number of its actors have been fined $2S apiece at Keesevllle, N. Y., under the statute for bidding cruelty to animals. The par ticular offense was making a horse Jump from a forty-five-foot cliff Into the water. The sentence ought to be effec tive. A limit mlht aa well be put to the thrill business before !t gets any more deadly. Our civilisation Is not yet as Jaded aa Rome's wss. Philadelphia Record: The prosreas of democracy In Japan Is Indicated by the fact that for the first time the veil of secrecy about the enthronement of the Mllkado has been dropped and the peo ple have been present on the mcmcntoua occasion. A couple of yeara ago Count Okvima conducted a canvuss for re election and for the premiership, very much as an American candidate for president, or a British prime minister, would. He addressed the general public, not onty In halls, but even from the rear platform of a train. Tabloids of Science A method has been Invented by a Rus sian artist for painting several theatrical scenes on th same canvas, the p'ctures changing as the light thrown on them Is changed. An Italian scientist has figured that a square mile of the surface of the earth In sis hours of sunshine receives heat equiv alent to the combuslon of more than I.COv tons of coaL Sizing the Harvest Springfield Republican: This year's corn crop. lr. exceeding S.Ono.nno.nnO bushels, shows what a self-made crop can do against a world of trouble. Pittsburgh Dispatch: Thanks to the ex ceptional October weather, which re versed the pessimists, this year's com crop is the most valuable the United States ever grew, practically a 2.000.0000) crop. Only once has It been exceeded in slse. three ere ago. but it Is 16 per cent larger than last year's and 44 per cent larger than the five-year average. New York World: The November crop report ad'ls the mere trifle of fit.OrO.OOO bushels to the great corn crop aa Indi cated a month ago. It also adds only about r,io,0O0 to the value of the prin cipal crops this year over what wss last year the record-breaking total of 15.100, OOO.OCO. This may help explain why the country has been able to take up a for eign loan of SnflO.OOO.ooo without any ap preciable effort, Washington Tost: No longer Is the United States depending upon war orders from Europe for national prosperity. The purchasing of arms and ammunition, which undoubtedly gave the first Impulse to prosperity, resulted In the expenditure of enormous sums of money in other In dustries, and with a record-breaking crop In sight the railroads, barometers of pros perity, sre st last working their way out of the financial desert Crops rather than munitions of war are now the chief bnsis for American prosperity. The prin cipal farm crops this year are worth $5..rpO0,OO0,(JO, exceeding by more than 1500, Ono.000 tholr value In 1314, the previous banner value year In the country's crop history. Nebraska Editors Frank P. Shields, editor of the Orleans Isser. has been asked by many of his friends to make the race for superintend ent of Harlan county schools. The Nemaha Beacon Is the name of a new paper at Nemaha. II. Morgan,, who has been operating a Job printing plant at Nemaha, la editor and proprietor . William Pest last week sold the Winne bago Chieftain to Homer L. Glover. The new proprietor announces that he will make several Improvements in the plant A number of the editors of Nebraska papers last week wrote paragraphs com miserating Will Maupln, the new pro prietor of the York Democrat on moving to a dry town. Editor Burt Krosen of the Dakota Rec ord at .South Sioux City began Issuing his paper as a semi-weekly last week. The Tuesday Issue is called the Recorder and the Friday Issue the Record. The members of the Nebraska Press association are to decide by a referendum vote whether the next annual meeting will consist of a trip to the northwestern part of the state on a special train, with the sessions at various stopping places or at one of the larger cities, aa Is Jhe usual custom. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "(Jueer how some women manage to cet husbands. look at that frump over there with a face that could stop a clock. What boob do you suppose ever fell for a frontispiece like that?" "I did. That's my wife. Baltimore American. Church I see Trofcfsor Soddy of Eng land says It will soon be potsib.s to turn lead Into gold. . . Gotham In that case little Belgium ought some day to be a gold mine. Yonkers Statesman. "Did those party leaders refer to me aa presidential timber?" asked Senator Sorghum. ' In a way," replied the busy worker. "They said you would have about as much chance as a wooden Indian." Washington Star. Husband I wish you'd stop this ever lasting cackling about my expenditures. Wife No. I shan't Cackling saved the capital of Rome and I'm going to st If I can't save your capital that way. Boston Transcript. Ertvthe-Dld the duke say he loved you? Kate He said he loved the ground I walked on. , . ,. Edythe Where were you when he said II Kate Out visiting papa's gold mine. Tall Mall Gazette. Phe Why did you start so? He (anxiously) Did I understand you to say your father was failing? She rhyslcally. I mean. He (Immeasurably relieved) Oh. all rlcht. I wss afraid It was something serious. Boston Transcript "Flubdub has made his pile as a manu facturer of axle grease and la going to retire." "And what will he do for an occupation now?" . "Discuss ethical questions snd gtvs mil itary advice to the president, I pre sume." Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Frontseat Will I have tlma to go out and get a drink, usher? Usher (referring to curtain) It won't stay down a minute, sir. Frontseat (sharply) That's my busi ness. Galveston News. A RHYME OF LITTLE GIRLS Meredith Nicholson. Prithee tell me, don't you think Little girls are dearest With their cheeks of tempting pink. And their eyes the clearest? Don't you know that they are best And of all the lovelleet? Of all the girls with roguish ways They are surely truest; Sunshine gleams through all their days. They eee skies the bluest And they wear a diadem Summer has bestowed on them. Lydia doesn't care a cent For the newest dances; She is not on flirting bent Has no killing glances, But without the slightest art She has captured many a heart. Older slaters cut you dead. Little sisters never; They don't giggle when they've aald Something very clever They Just get behind a chair, Frowning, smiling at you there. Florence, Lydia, Margaret Or a gentle Mary. They form friendships that, once set. Never more can very Staunch young friends they are and true. Always clinging close to yoo. Buds must Into blossoms blow, (Morn so early leaves us!) Maids must Into women grow, (There's the thing that grieves ust) Psyche knots of flying curls. That's good-by to little girls! AbsoIufelyPiira Insures the most delicious and healthful food HO ALUM -HO PHOSPHATE For Our Little Busy Bees Free Dolls I ' " ' 1 This Beautiful Doll will be given Free to the little girl, under 10 years of age, that brings or mails us the largest number of doll's pictures cut out of the Daily and Sunday Bee be fore 4 p. m. Saturday, No vember 20. This AsU's nam is Alloa, he Is twenty-flTe iaehea high, has light browa hair and browa eyes, aaa Is beew ttfally dressed. ITer picture will be in The Bee every day this week. Cut them all out and a&k your friends to save the pictures in their paper for you, too. See how many pictures of Alice you can get, and be sure to turn them in to The Bee office, before 4 p. m. Saturday, November 20. If you don't win this Dollia. perhaps you ran get one next week. Only ene doll will be given to any one person. You Can See Alice at The Bee Office