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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1917. m Wt V :tUi THE OMAHA DAILY. BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. , VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. THK beb publishing company, proprietor. L'nHtrptf at Omaha poatnmo. aa aeeond-claflB mattw. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier Br Mll Pally and Sunday Dally wllheat Sunday...... Evening and Sunday . Uvenlng without Sunday... nr mAtith. oer vesr. ..:... ;; 4M . ...4s.. 0 "..MO IM aunaay isee only ao '. Daily and Sunday Bea, thr yean In.adyanoa. fl Send notice of change of address or Irregularity in de livery to Oman Boo. Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit y draft express or postal ordor. Only I-oent stamps take. In payment of amall aooounta. Personal ebeene. aioept on Omaha and oaatorn oaehango. not aoceptea. OFFICES. Omaha Tfco Boo Building. South Omaha 1311 N street. , Council Bluffs 14 North Main street. Lincoln 524 Llttlo Building. Chicago 111 People's ana Building. V .Vow Tork Room lol. ! Plflh avenue. St. Louts 101 Now Bank of Commsree. Washington 7!fc Poortaanth atroot. . w. CORRESPONDENCE. addraaa eammnnlraMona relating to now and odltorial ' matter to Omaha Boo, Editorial Department. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION. 55,483 Daily Sunday 50,037. Dwlght Williams, circulation msnager of The Boo Publishing company, being duly aworn, aaya that tho average circulation for tho month aC Wavereber, IMS. waa i,4lt dally, and M.MT Sunday. ' DW1QHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my prooonoo and aworn to boforo ana thla Snd day of December, ltld. L. & W. CARLSON, Hotarr Psblle. r Subscribers leaving tbs cltjr temporarily "V should barn Tha Bow mailed to thora. Ad draaa will be changaal am oftsa as requlrxL Write it 1917. With little practice, it will . come naturally. :' Wait (or the May day water wagon "and we'll all take a ride." What of the New Year? As none of us can see ahead into time, each moat guess for himself, For the twentieth time Chicago's man-made juries uphold the right of wives to shoot up jheir husbands. . . - - v . Both sides claim victory on the Somme, That being the use, it is up to the survivors to shoot off the tie. ' ' V If the pen is mightier than the sword, as we used to be told, the note-writers' will eventually put on the finishing touches. . Arbitration gave the switchmen an eight-hour day and nine hours' pay. The 'big four rejected arbitration and gained a lawsuit. i '' Throw the search light or) the contingent fee game and , keep it there and the worst evils of ambulance chasing will cure themselves. ' - The speculative world hobbles leagues behind Tom Lawaon in pulling down a fine line of free publicity from both friends and enemies. All right, Mr, Lawmaker, you may have a part of the : stage, but remember, the curtain will be rung down without confession about the firs,t of April. ' 1 ' 'V ; ' ' :" ' - TheC free -and unlimited coinage of, bills by every member of the legislature is a constitutional right which no iconoclastic reformer can curtail or annul. . It is nowVoposed to effect a complete divorce of booze and pharmacy. Suppose a doctor pre scribes spirits frumenti, will the druggists forbid a reunion? "V !' , . ' 1 . N,! J, In the midst of. plenty Uncle Sam pleads pov erty as an excuse for issuing bonds to make ends meet, fublic bonds are certificate of party effi ciency in trimming a treasury. A paltry extra million dollars in state revenues for two years threatens to impair the speed of solons, in "bringing home the bacon," A million is scarcely small beer to champagne appetitie's. "Slackers" among the idle rich of England are given the alternative of going to work or going to the front. The former is impossible, the latter undesirable. ' Either way multiplies the horrors of war. , ' The chief significance of the London Spec tator's summary of the Entente Allies! .conditions of peace is the assurance it gives of self-restraint and modesty. Apparently they do not want the earth right .away. ' Biologists may tear theory t'o tatters and flout the virile pep of war, but they labor in vain. As long as history glorifies war as the supreme , force of national life theory smashing is as fruit less as "buying the moon." , t , The latest statement from .the railroad brotherhoods clearly shows that the closer they - get to the Adamson law the less hopeful it looks. I All of which proves the wisdom of buying and - paying for goods before actual delivery. 1 Traction and Progress 1 Maw York World. I The .entrance of the United States into a league to enforce peace would be a step demand ing the gravest consideration, but it would not necessarily be an "entangling alliance." -- Washington's warning, which has become a kind of religion with us, and properly so when correctly interpreted, was not directed againat tmch a combination as today is discussed. Then as now we were inclined to place our European sympathies ahead of our Americanism, and the entanglements that he had in mind contemplated war and not peace. No one was more conscious than the first president of the fact that American independence was-eained by an alliance. Fully aware of the benefits thuchieved for ourselves and for mankind, he never could have regarded with dis favor national co-operation having the same ends in view and on a much larger scale. If we are sure that the purpose of a league to enforce peace is sincere, holding; aloof from it might result in the greatest of mischiefs. The suggestion that such a league would im pair the Monroe doctrine seems- to be baseless. That policy has resulted in a formidable league against conquest in the western hemisphere. As it is better understood it gains in strength. The proposed league to enforce peace would be an ex tension of the tame principle to the old world. Entered upon in good faith by other important natoins, our refusal to participate in it, instead of safeguarding the Monroe doctrine, would more likely be accepted as the abandonment of that noble inspiration. . In their lives Washington and Monroe did not undertake to rule the United States against right itid reason. We musr be careful not to let the narrow and the timid use their dead bands to bar the way to progress and safety. Allies' Answer and the Future. , Shorn of its rhetorical language, the formal answer of the allies to the German proposal conveys only the statement that peace cannot be made on such tearras as England, France, Russia and Italy conceive Germany is ready to offer. But aside fro insisting that Belgium be restored and recompensed nothing is explicitly set forth at to what will be considered a basis on which peace can be established. This does not dispose of the peace proposal, hjOwever, for the notes sent by the neutral gov ernments to the belligerents are still to be con sidered. Through the way thus opened approach may be had to a dis discussion that will even tually lead to definite terms. It is all very well for the warriors to talk of one side crushing the other, but , the finish is more likely to come through the operation of other agencies than the troops in the field. t - According to Bernhardi, who figured so prom inently as Germany's highest military authority previous to the war, resort to armed force it merely a continued effort to attain ends which diplomacy has failed to accomplish, and it is plainly a corollary that when force'fails to achieve the end, resort again to diplomacy may become necessary. The answer of the Allies declares that they do not think the time arrived to sus pend the conflict of arms on, the conditions, or lack of conditions, proposed by their enemies but the contents of the note and its general tenor show appreciation of the necessity of holding a sympathetic public sentiment among the neutrals for which both sides are now so strenuously playing. The peace talk" will not arrive anywhere for the immediate present, but it has to an extent already introduced an element of instability into the situation which will remain now until peace negotiations actually begin, no matter how long deferred. ' The Wild Horse Game. Those who followed the details of the wild horse confidence game as it developed in the federal court no doubt indulged in satirical smiles or chortled wonderingty at the simplicity of the victims. The stories told on the witness stand by investors show a degree of confidence and cupidity rivaling the trimmed betters on fake horse races or bogus wrestling matches. They placed boundless faith in the mellow words of promoters. They loved horses, tame and wild, and, knowing the profits ahead and a ready market, the deal bulked large as a sure thing and they took the plunge.. There is nothing surprising in the game or the outcome. , It is new only in commodity dealt in. The range of visibility of wild horses is no greater than the golden vista of imaginary, wealth which it the common stock in trade of shady promoters. During the mad days of the South Sea bubble two centuries ago the progenitor of the wild horse game appeared in scheme for "importing Spanish jackattet into England for the purpose of propagating a large mule." When investors sought a glimpse of the animals history intimates that friends silently led them to a looking glass. The modern promoter showed greater consideration in providing a distant; view of the range and glimpses of skittish bronchos. The trial and the outcome serve to emphasize the increasing risk of working a shady game. Without the use ot the mails crooked schemes must be localized and that fact operates against wild-catting on the nation-wide scale of twenty years ago. Then, as now, state lawt lacked reach and tpeed to be effective. The greater reach of federal laws, the persistence of pursuit and ability to stand the expense of prosecution, constitute a judicial buzz saw that few sane promoters will trifle with. Moreover, a federal summons over comes the victim's dislike to "giving himself away" irnpublic and pulls down the main prop of crooked promotion. . The forces working under federal auspices steadily reduce the range of easy money and dimmish the wool clip of easy marks. Scandinavians snd Peace. One of the most interesting expressions of willingness to aid in restoring peace comes from the Scandinavian countries. None, save, perhaps Holland, has felt the pressure of -the war more definitely than Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and none have withstood ft with more of na tional dignity, or firmer insistence on neutral rights. Sweden has been forced to an open break, almost, with England over the mail situation. Norway has incurred the deep displeasure of Ger many by declining to permit Norwegian waters to be used as a place of rendezvous and opera tion by the submarines, while Denmark has un dergone much of privation by reason of restric tions put on trade between neutrals. All these nations have been "put on rations', that they might not trade with Germany. " These conditions have made the maintenance of neutrality a continual strain on national pa tience) and therefore add weight to the identical notes sent to belligerents, as the joint representa tion of the Scandinavian governments, signifying their "sympathy with all efforts which could con tribute to put an end to the ever-increasing suf fering and moral and material losses" incident to the war. In all that b,as arisen to concern the neutrals isnce the war commenced, none have met emergencies with more of composure than have the Scandinavians, and none will be more entitled to a scat at the council table when the difficulties of Europe ultimately are composed. The noted French seeress, Mine, de Thebes, passed away at the height of her fame. She guessed that this war would come and traced in advance some of its results. Like ,a somewhat noted weather prophet of Missouri, who guessed right occasionally, the thrifty Frenchwoman utilized keen knowledge of old world affairs and scored an occasional hit. The thoughtless won dered and imagined superhuman powers. Like the Missourian, the madame "sawed wood" and scooped in the profits. v . The second assistant postmaster general holds the railroads responsible for the blockade in Christmas mail. Somebody had to be blamed. The failure of the railroads to provide the post offices with sufficient help to distribute and deliver a 25 per cent increase in postoffice business ploin fy points to gross neglect of patroitic oppor tunities. "The Omaha Bee," observes the Xlinneapolis Journal paragrapher, "is calling excitedly for the construction of a grape juice factory. This shows something of, what actually hit Nebraska at the late election." It sure does. The blow makes more imperative the duty of providing "something just as good" for 'hospitality in greeting Minne apolis visitors. ; i : ' Hmv Wars End York Sua.- There is no parallel in modern Wars for Ger many's action an undefeated belligerent asking its adversaries to meet it and discuss unformu lated terms of peace. The impression, however, that nations desiring to end a war generally avail themselves of the offer of some friendly neutral to act as mediator is utterly unfounded, though a great deal of the talk about the possible action of the United States in such a way has proceeded as if that were the almost invariable rule. When England desired to end the war with the colonies it began by sending separate nego tiators to the French government and to the American commissioners in Paris. The latter, though positively commanded by congress to negotiate rio peace without the participation of their French allies, did sign a separate treaty, though with the reservation that.it should not go into effect until France had made peace. They then informed the French government, which accepted the terms. The Napoleonic peace treaties usually began with an armistice. The most famous, the treaty of Tilsit, was brought about by a personal meet ing between Napoleon and Alexander I on a raft in the middle of the river Niemen to agree upoi an armistice which the czar had already sought. An armistice was also agreed upon after the bat tle of Lutzen, but Napoleon would not agree to the allies' terms and resumed hostilities. His fall in 1814 was accompanied by no negotiations; the allies were actually in Paris. Napoleon's generals persuaded him to sign an act of abdica tion, and the French Senate dethroned him. The way to the peace of Ghent, which ended the war of 1812, was paved by an offer of the czar to act as mediator, though it was rejected. In rejecting it Lord Castlereagh let it be known that he was willing to negotiate directly with the United States. The United States gladly ac cepted and sent commissioners, but England neg lected to appoint envoys until long afterward, when its troubles had become so great that it was desirous of peace. In the Mexican war President Polk was al ways anxious for peace, but his envoys were not accepted. At last he went so far as to send an envoy, Nicholas P. Trist, along with Scott's army, authorized to treat with Mexico the moment that country was willing to do so. Scott quarreled with Trist and refused to transmit his letter to the Mexican government and Trist had to get the British minister to forward it. After repeated failures and rebuffs he finally got in touch with commissioners appointed by a new government which had succeeded Santa Anna, but not until Polk had ordered his recall. He disregarded this order and negotiated the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. On the death of Czar Nicholas. I, his suc cessor, Alexander II, announced to the courts of Europe his desire that the Crimean war should end, and this is the nearest approach to a parallel with Germany's action today. A peace confer ence was held in Vienna, but in three months it was broken off and the war resumed. The war went on until Austria, a neutral power, threat ened to join the allies unless the czar accepted its ultimatum. He at first refused, but a personal letter from the neutral king of Prussia induced him to reconsider, and the final peace conference was held. , The war of Italy, France and Austria in 1859 was terminated in a 1 surprising fashion by an armistice agreed on personally between Napoleon III and Franz Josef, just as the French and Ital ian armies were in the full tide of success. Vic tor Emmanuel was forced tp agree, and the terms of the armistice were embodied in a oeace treatv. The war between Prussia and Denmark in 1864 came abruptly to an end when the Danes learned that neither England nor France would help them. They dismissed their war ministry from office and sent proposals for a truce di rectly to Berlin and Vienna. . The terms of peace between the United States and the confederacy were arranged by generals in the field. In the war between Austria, Prussia and- Italy in 1866, Franz Josef, after bis defeats at Konig gratz and elsewhere, informed Napoleon III of his willingness to cede Venetia to Italy and his desire that Napoleon be mediator. Napoleon accepted and Bismarck drafted the terms and sent them to Napoleon, who, as mediator, accepted them, An armistice followed. In 1870 the French government which suc ceeded Napoleon III asked first for an armistice, then for peace, but the requests were declined and the siege of Paris' began. After the sur render of Paris the Germans consented to sn armistice to permit the election of a national assembly which it could recognize. The pre liminaries of peace were agreed on between Bis marck and Thiers at Versailles, and the treaty followed at Frankfort. The Russo-Turlcish war was cut short by Eng land's threat to enter it. Russia arranged an armistice immediately and negotiated the treaty of San Stefano directly with Turkey. England, backed by France and Austria, refused to recog nize it, and the congress of Berlin was summoned, but before it met the czar had negotiated a secret treaty with England embodying most of the agreements subsequently made there. ' China made two approaches to Japan while the war of 1894 was going on, but through en voys who had no proper credentials, and Japan refused to treat with them. When China was wholly defeated and the Japanese armies about to march on Peking, the empire sent Li yiung Chang with proper credentials to Shimonoseki and the treaty was at once drawn up. The Spanish-American war of 1898 closed when Spain, on July 26. made overtures to the United States through Camhon, the French am bassador at Washington. Seventeen days later the protocol was signed. , The Boer war ended in an unprecedented way. The members of the Transvaal government rode into Middleburg and requested to be sent to Lord Kitchener to arrange peace terms with him. He met them.'but held that because of the peculiar character of the Boer army the men in the field would have to be consulted if any assurance of peace was to be given. Steyn, De Wet and. De larey went to the commandos, explained the sit uation to them, and each body in the field chose two delegates to meet at Vereeniging and decide the matter by vote. ' President Roosevelt brought the Russo-Japanese war to an end by sending, on June 8, 1905, identic dispatches to both governments urging that they enter into peace negotiations.. Both accepted. An armistice in the first Balkan war was ended by a breaking off of negotiations. The powers then agreed upon terms and offered medi ation. A second armistice was signed, but Mon tenegro would not join it and went on with the war. It captured Scutari, but Austria took it away from it, and the second peace conference, which was successful, met at London. People and Events Multitudes of urban celebrators blew into Boston and joined in the wet victory ooastfest on Christmas eve. Previously the railroads an nounced they would not transport passengers with jags on the same train. Consequently the bibulous crowd stayed in town until sober. The standard test of sobriety at the Hub is pronounc ing without a vocal tremor, "the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Last May Georgia put in operation a dry law warranted to put booze out of business. For the sake of southern hospitality the law permitted two cases of beer and a couple of gallons of hard stuff to each person per month. Imports of booze began with 7,000 packages in May for Atlanta alone, gradually, increasing to 40.000 shipments in October, about the same number in Novem ber, and the December holiday rush promises a record well over 50,000 separate consignments iionAvi Health Hint for the Day. If your home has a hot air furnace, see to It that the evaporating pans contain a sufficient amount of water; otherwise the very dry air is harmful to the mucuous membrane of the nose and predisposes to catarrh. One Year Ago Today In the War. Huge Russian force hurled sledge hammer blows from Prlpet to Rou manian boundary. - Berlin reported Germans had made a successful surprise attack on a wide front and destroyed British trenches near La Bassee. . Vienna report declared sixty-seven vessels. Including eight troopships and thirty-four merchantment, were sunk by Austrian and German submarines in the Mediterranean In six wsaJO. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Bishop Worthington, being confined to his room with a serious cold, was unable to be present at the opening ot Brownell hail. Auditor Eraatus Young of the Union Pacific has Isued a circular announo the creation of a new office In his department. - It Isthat of auditor of. disbursements and J. W. Griffith has been appointed to fill it ' A man named Yerga, employed in the packing house of Harris & Fisher, was dangerously injured by becoming suspended from a meat hook, which caught him under the left Jaw. He suffered intensely until relieved by Dr. Galbralth. Frederlcka Hansen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hansen of 822 South Sixteenth, was married to William Stleff, manager of the Chicago Lum ber company's yards at Humphrey, Neb. The groom was attended by his brother, John etleff andiA. Hansen, and the bride by Miss Emma Alstadt and M. Hansen. Mrs. Elizabeth Reeves of this city sent to President Cleveland and his wife a beautiful crazy quilt made by a herself, which was acknowledged by a personal letter from the president, together with photographs of himself and wife. Gus Williams, who has been in the employ of Faxton & Gallagher for the last seven years, has received the appointment of driver for engine house. No. 4. This will be a great help to the present force, which has heretofore consisted of only two men, who had more than they could do. This Day In History. 1781 Benedict Arnold Invaded Vir ginia. 1868 The Sepoy rebels were de feated at Futtehghur by a British force under Sir Colin Campbell. i I 1861 North Carolina took formal possession of Fort Macon, the works at Wilmington and Fayetteville. 183 End of the battle of Mur freesboro or Stone River, one of the severest battles of the civil war. 1872 Brigham Young returned to Salt Lake City and surrended.to an Indictment charging him with the murder of Richard Yates. 1880 Charles Stewart Parnell and John Dillon, the Irish leaders, arrived In New York. x 1890 More than 125 lives lost'when the steamer Persia went ashore on the Island of Corsica, ' 1892 Montgomery C. Meigs, quar termaster general of the United States army during and after the civil war, died in Washington, D. C, Born at Augusta, Ga., May 13, 1815. 1904 James Longstreet, celebrated general of the confederacy, died near Gainesville, Ga. Born in South Caro lina, January 8, 1821. 1905 Port Arthur capitulated to the Japanese. 1912 Dr. Sun Yat Sen was installed as provisional president of the repub lic of China.' The Day We Celebrate. Dr. John E. Summers has reached the age of 58. He is a native Ne kraskan, born January 2, 1858, at old Fort Kearney where his father was stationed as an army surgeon. Richard Murphy was born in Omaha Just twenty-seven years ago today. He is one of the head men of the Hughy Murphy company, paving contractors. - i William H. Gould, Jr., was born forty-seven years ago and came to Omaha as a lad of 6. He lived at one time at 1(13 Farnam, just west of the United States National bank. Educated in the Omaha schools, he engaged In the live stock commission and loan business. August Benzlger, New York artist who is considered one of the world's great portrait painters, born In Swit zerland, fifty years ago today. William Lyon Phelps," professor ot English literature at Yale university, born at New Haven, fifty-two years ago today. George Gilbert Murray, Oxford uni versity who lectured at the Columbia university summer school last' year, born at Sidney, N. S. W., flfty-one years ago today. Miss M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr college, born in Baltimore, sixty years ago today. Right Rev. Wililam F. Adams, Episcopal bishop of Easton, Md., born at Ennisklllen, Ireland, eighty-four years ago today. George L. (Tex) Rlckard, promoter of sporting events, born in Kansas City, forty-five years ago today. Timely Jotting and Reminders. The senate Interstate commerce committee today will begin public hearings on President Wilson's rec ommendations for railroad legislation. Rev. Sidney J. Catts, the first man to be elected governor of Florida on other than the straight democratic ticket since reconstruction days, will be inaugurated today. Treasury department officials at Washington expect to put the new silver half dollar coins into circula tion today and the new silver quarters about two weeks hence. A conference of superintendents, conservationists and others interested In the preservation and development of our national parks is to meet In Washington today. State legislatures are to assemble for their regular sessions today in Delaware, Idaho, Michigan, Minne sota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsyl vania, North Dakota and South Da kota. Storiette of the Day. As the result of lectures adminis tered to him by both hi father and the young woman of his choice, a cer tain young man decided to turn over a leaf and show some interest in busi ness, "Well, Molly," said he to the girl one evening. "I am really going into business in earnest. Made a beginning already today." "Good!" exclaimed Molly. "And what was the nature of your start?" "I ordered my tailor to make me a husiness suit" New York Times. f lawyers by making the. requirements for admission to the bar more strin gent. From the language he used I am constrained to wager that he owes some lawyer a fee that he does not want to pay. There Is no class of men who are beaten out of more money Good RnroMtJnn-1iiHh It Alnnr. that thev earn than lawvers. It Is Omaha. Jan. 1: To the Editor of i time the hue and cry about dishonest The Bee: I have been seventy-one years in this country and still what I do not know about the business of the Postoffice department would make a large book, but In the Interest of economy I will give you my observa tions. I sit in a bay window where I can see the-mall carrier from Bur dette street to. Willlt avenue (one block). He crosses the street five times each trip and makes two trips a day, thus making ten crossings per day. It Is about 120 feet from house to house, making all the crossings In this block per day 1,200 feet; multi plied by twenty-six makes 75,200 feet, which, multiplied by twelve, the num ber of months in a year, makes 902, 400 feet, or 80,800 steps at three feet to the step in one block in one year. This crossing of streets could be avoided by merging two adjoining routes Int one, giving the odd num bers to one carrier and the even num bers to the other and letting them both go over the territory together. If the above is noticed by the post master of Omaha and he thinks It of any benefit to the carriers I should be pleased to think I have done some one a service. M. C. LAWLESS. lawyers was hushed up until those who are constantly attacking them show a little of common every-day honesty themselves. I would like for some of these peo pleo who are always attacking law yers to show wherein there Is any , wrong In lawyers asking for business. If It is going to be made a criminal offense for lawyers to ask for business, why not pass laws prohibiting stock men, bankers, printers, farm hands. Insurance men, retail merchants real estate men and all other lines of busi ness from soliciting business of work from the public. Such a law would be nonsehsical In the exereme. Let the ones who are always attacking lawyers lean off their own spots be fore trying to clean the sprts from others. F.RANK A. AGNEW. It's sV Paper Package KM a Bottle. New York, Dec. 29. To the Editor of The Bee: I want to call your at tention to an article in your valuable paper which started off "Omaha is to have the largest vacuum bottle plant in the United States." I want to correct your impression that this is a vacuum bottle proposition. The O'Brien-Hicks Iceless Container com pany are going to manufacture an ar ticle that will deliver Ice cream or any other commodity that Is packed with ice and salt, without the use of same. This is a paper package, while vacuum bottles are made of Simplicity and Safety for Swimming. Omaha, Jan. 1. To the Editor of The Bee: Much has been written lately on the formerly much-neglected subject of swimming, with Its advan tages and Its dangers the dangers of infected pools with their risk of In fecting the patrons under apparently sanitary and safe conditions being emphasized by instances in which nasal and eye and ear diseases have been contracted, some ot them with fatal effect. For the coming season an idea presents itself to me which would partially eliminate some of these objections. Construction a boat of sufficient length and breadth, say 60x50 feet, the middle twenty feet open to the sky, the remaining parts of the sides divided Into dressing rooms with landing and plunging spaces in front of them; each end of the open space at the ends protected by strong wire netting, allowing the water free en trance, the bottom to slope gradually from seven to three feet, the current aoc. mnnlnv tha ria.n tn Ik. ahullAn I know that It is not your intention , nH h " ," to misquote, but your reporter cer. talnly must have been misinformed. I did not give any Information to any of the papers, preferring to wait until my return to Omaha, about the middle of January. Wish to thank you for past cour tesies extended, and take this oppor tunity of wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year. d. j. o:brien. "Why Reprehensible," He Asks. Omaha. Dec. 30. To the Editor of Te Bee: For the last few years there hmoMtora nas neen a constant hue and cry by some people about the manner In which lawyers should secure business. When men in all other lines of busi ness advertise in their various lines and send out letters and circulars and hire men to secure business for them and ask for trade and business from the general public, I do not see where it Is in the least wrong for lawyers to do the same thing. If anybody can tell me what Is wrong In a lawyer asking for business and asking his friends to recommende him, I am "ready to be shown." In my experi ence of more than thirty years, I have found that lawyers as a class are above the average In dealings with others. Of course, there are some dishonest lawyers, but their are dis honest grocerymen, dry goods men, meat market men and men in every line of business. I suppose one reason that lawyers are singled out for virulent attacks is that few of them take the pains to resent the attacks upon them. They take it as a matter of fact that law yers have always been attacked by those outside the profession and they stand for it passively and the attacks are only Increased in violence. Some In their zeal against lawyers are now proposing that laws be passed nro- phibiting lawyers from asking for bust ness eitner directly or indirectly. I suppose the next move will b to prohibit lawyers from having any signs to show where they do business. I noticed 'in a paper a few days ago a letter from some fellow at Platts mouth who attacked lawyers because they want to cut down the number of end of the pool, favoring the efforts of poor swimmers who may be in trouble to reach shallow water. This would give a clear pool 60x20 feet, with fresh water supplied continually. MEDICUS. SUNNY GEMS. "Do you dare to aeeuaa ma at ftrlBC you abort weight on that trout?" "Oh. no. I merely remarked to my friend here that there waa aomethtng flehy about your scales. "Baltimore American. Politician Who's back of youK Officerseeker Ten generatlona of glorious Politician Urn I might get you a lob classifying fossils In the Smithsonian Insti tute! Puck. Brlggs That famous soprano you had at your dinner party last night aang like a bird. Griggs Like a bird Is right! I was con-, sclous of her bill the entire evening. Bos ton Transcript. HEN) MR.KAEUBME, I KM NDWNtj IPtti X HW J5 IM IhE 8AHK AHb WE BECAME ENCASED. SHE CiU3 ft OFF A RV( MINUTEi uVl-VWCrtoVWJU5rear!' MQwwaws YOU tOJMtf $m HER A tjoco Y1M6 CM 1HE IMTERESf! FtatbUBtl I Just hate those paper aap klna they put out at some feeds. ' Bensonhurst Why so? "Because when 1 try to tuck em in over my collar they tear so easily." Tonkers Statesman, Willis What system do these military aeroplanes work on? Olllls One person runs tha machine and the other is just an observer, but both of them fight. Willis I see; Just like being married. Philadelphia Ledger, History Teacher We learn this morning . that Caesar defeated Pompey, Reddy Backrow All right, but believe me, 1 don't' do any crowing till he re turns from the outlying districts are In In. Puck. ' ti - Buy Shares in Alfalfa Butter Company - , $100.00 Each Pays 7 Per Cent Net. .See us now regarding investment ALFALFA BUTTER CO. Cor. 11th St and Capitol Ave. Omaha, Neb. Persistence is the cardinal vir tue in advertising; no matter how good advertising maybe in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant ly to be really successful. o