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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 15, 1917.
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The way of the joyrider ii rocky, but he him
elf pick the route.
"Meatless" and "wheatless" to avoid "eatless"
day. Still we must all eat
Democracy leavens autocracy's dough. Ger
many progresses toward freedom while fighting
against it , "- ' '
The smooth, noiseless hand of Colonel House
is not risible to the naked eye, but Texas gets the
training camps just the same.
It is a nice little row, anyway, the Nebraska
State Council of Defense has stirred up, which,
at worst, may do good by making some folks
how their colors.
Chicago .women have invited a preacher to
"put up or shut up" on his criticism and the rev
erend gentleman backed down. r Another case of
"tamed too much."
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Should the State Council of Defense desire to
extend its critical operations much working ma
terial in congress offers a tempting target (or
its typewriter batteries. t
The government credits the Black Hills mines
with $7,460,489 gold production for 1916, showing
that the record established forty years ago is be
ing steadily maintained. . 5
Some of the information our democratic
brethren are now imparting concerning one an
other is strangely at variance with utterances of
1 year ago. But it was different then. ; "
v "Nobody travels first class nowadays except
officers," is a war item from over the water.
That's because there are now no money-spilling
rich American tourists traveling about in Europe.
A gathering of alienists and neurologists at
Chicago solemnly lifted the lid on various hor
rors of war and the havoc looked for as the shoot
ing proceeds. The gathering easily won the kill
joy blue tibbon. y
For one whole day women orators held the
stage of the National Educational association
meeting and talked war from start to finish. Mere
man lingered within earshot, but didn't raise a
whisper. Wise boyt V . '
To the Boy About to Be Drafted.
Young man, you are about to be called on
for the greatest possible service, that you devote
all your faculties of body and mind to the good
of others. You will be required to give over
whatever plans you have made for your own ad
vancemeni to abandon for the time any dream
of conquest in peaceful pursuits and take your
place in the great army of the United States. You
may be set down in the forefront of battle or
you may be given some less dangerous duty in
another field of military activity. Wherever you
go you will be t unit in a mighty organization,
formed for the accomplishment of a stupendous
task, the purpose of which is to secure lasting
peace not only for the United States, but for all
the world.
The right of the nation thus to interfere with
your individual and private plans is unquestioned,
but you are entitled to know, if you do not, on
-what that right rests. Fundamentally it is in
accordance with what is termed the "social con
tract," ha unwritten pledge between society and
each member, the obligations of which are mu
tual ,In return for the advantages and oppor
tunities society as such offers to you, you are
required to give such service as is needed
to maintain that society in security, to insure not
alone its perpetuity, but its steady advancement
along all right lines.
Two great principles are now contending for
mastery of the world. One is that of autocracy
or absolutism, under which the wilt of a despot
guides the destiny of the state; the other is de
mocracy, or government by the people. If free
institutions are to live, despotism must be put
down. No compromise between the two is pos
sible or desirable, because they are eternally an
tagonistic The United States, greatest of all republics,
has entered the war in self-defense, to make sure
of the continuance of all our liberties and the
rights of our citizens everywhere. At the same
time we are assisting other peoples to secure
similar liberties and rights. No cause could be
holier than the defense of human liberty against
despotism. And this is the cause you are asked
to fight for.
Our army could have been filled up without
resort to the selective draft, but such ;. course
would have resulted in inequalities in service that
might have been dangerous. Under the draft the
service falls equatiy on all and no taint of com
pulsion attaches to it it is honorable because. the
calling is high. You will go forth with the bless
ing and the hopes of all your countrymen and you
need have no doubts as to the support of the peo
ple at home. You bear the destiny of humanity;
acquit yourself as a man.
Quite severt is Mr. Metcalfe's indictment of
Congressman Lobeckl Yet he could readily sub
stitute the name of Senator Hitchcock in nearly
every reference to the congressman and his
charges would stick equally well.
The council has been investigating the police
department, yet it is the whole city government
that is on the grill. If the present commissioners
cannot straighten out the police the voters will
be tempted to find some commissioners who will.
As a starter the army training camps may
muddle along without some conveniences, hut they
must have cooks and plenty of them. Seventeen
hundred jobs await as many men capable of tick
ling huaky appetites. Call early and get the pick
of the kitchens..
Truly these be trying days for the fat man.
Denied the privilege of active service, hearing the
call yet forbidden to heed, he turns to the home
guard only to find meatless days and perspiring
weather mocking his patriotic impulses. v What
next? Oh, cheer up and work the fan.
Critical Situation of Neutrals.
Federal control of food exports, effective from
' now on, is bound to increase the difficulties of
neutrals bordering on the war field. Holland,
Denmark and Switzerland, directly in touch with
the wall of steel around the central powers, have
made strong appeals for considerate treatment
in food shipments. Norway and Sweden are less
severely p'nehed, having a larger variety of re
sources to tide over the threatened embargo
A squeeze. AH depend on food exports from this
country. The problem is not what tfiey need and
are getting of it, but to make sure food supplied
by the allied nations does tiot arrive at enemy
destinations. Solving that problem to I'.e wel
fare of both sides is a task calling for business
, wisdom, broad vision and humane consideration.
' The case of Holland is typical of the neutrals
' in the first group. Hendrik Willcm Van Loon,
Netherlands . correspondent of the Asrociated
Press, emphatically denies the charge that his
country trades on the good will of the Allies, for
the benefit of the enemy. In a recent statement
he asserta that barely 3 per cent of the people de
rive profit from smuggling food into Germany.
The remaining 97 per cent suffer in body and
, pocket almost as severely as if involved in war.
An army of half a million men, maintained at
great national cost, patrols the border. Taxation
grows aa rapidly as commerce Vanishes. To get
necessary fuel for winter coal must be it iborred
from Germany and the latter dictates the price
in food terms or other vital articles. Inabi'ity to
meet Germany's coal trade terms last winter
forced suspension of various industries in Hcllani
cvt electric light and gas production one-half
and caused a general early-to-bed movement for
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The promise of a big American harvest sim
plifies 1 satisfactory distribution of the surplus
over home and allied needs. What the neutrals
share may be depends on neutral' good faith.'' Ly
ing "between the devil and the deep blue sea" in
itself constitutes a moving appeal to friendship
and fav
In the Matter of Getting Married.
Hetty Green's son, who is somewhere at sea
on hit honeymoon tour, took advantage of his
wedding event to emit many maxims dealii.g with
matrimony, only one of which is entitled to much
consideration. With reference to perpetual celi
bacy he said no man should remain always a
bachelor. In this regard he differed both with
and from St. Paul, who regarded single-blessedness
as the proper state. To get the right angle
from which to reach conclusion the situation of
the two must be considered: Saul of Tarsus was
an educated young man, a barrister by profession,
and prior to his conversion to Christianity and
his change of name he might have had opportu
nity such as came to Mr. Green. It is quite a
reasonable conjecture, however,' that had Saul
been the object of such a persistent quest from
the fair sex as was Bridegroom Green he,' too,
might have fallen before Cupid's dart and the
world would have lost a rare preacher. Nine thou
sand proposals complete the sum of Mr. Green's
experience and he turned an unresponsive back
on all of them, but wedded eventually to close a
courtship of fifteen years' duration. It is not likely
that many men will have a similar experence and
it is equally true that most of them will gather
from experience aome of the sweetness of love's
young dream entirely overlooked by both St. Paul
and the lately married railroad magnate. i
- V A Soldier Called to Duty.
: Throughout Nebraska today a brigade of in
fantry will be mobilized, two regiments of the
National Guard being called to the colors to unite
with the one already in the federal service, and
very soon these will march away for a period of
intensive training before going to the front in
Europe. One of the comforting reflections in
connection with the affair is that these boys, who
are going out from the homes of the people, are
going under direction of officers like themselves,
citizens of Nebraska. And at the head of the bri
gade has been set another citizen of the state.
It was fortunate that a man so experienced in big
things as well as in matters of detail as Major
General George H. Harries was available for ap
pointment as brigadier general. His career is such
as gives utmost confidence in his qualifications for
the responsible place he has assumed. In civil
life he has shown marked ability as executive
head of extensive business enterprises, while as
a soldier he has served with distinction. Gtneral
Harries is familiar with both camp and field,
knows how to deal with men and from the ripe
ness of his knowledge will bring to the Ne raska
brigade the leadership it needs to assure its high
est efficiency as a unit of a great army. A real
soldier was called to duty when General "arr
was taken from private life and again assigned to
active service with the military forces of the nation.
Better Care for the Babies. " ,
In both New York and Chicago organizations
of doctors, nurses and philanthropic workers have
been formed to give attention to the babies.
Steady mounting of mortality among the infants
has engaged such attention as may result in adop
tion of means to check the rate of death. Pri
marily, doctors say, much of the fatality among
babies is due to , ignorance on part of parents,
while some of it is chargeable to neglect First
of steps to be taken will be to instruct the par
ents, especially the younger, as to what to do when
the baby comes. Next efforts will be made to
arouse parents to the danger of neglecting any
form of infantile illness. These nain planks of
the program might well be adopted in any com
munity of considerable size. Spread of knowledge
as to what is proper for the baby will do no harm
anywhere and may result in saving many lives
now sacrificed through lack of understanding.
Saving the babies is good work for any community
to engage in.
Heroes of the garden patch chortle merrily
as the sporty spud takes the chutes for the re
turn trip. Pretty soon the aristocrat of yester
month, blear-eyed and weary, wiil murmur to
unsympathetic crowds: "I have seen better days."
But a little more vigorous action a few weeks
ago would have saved our Lutheran friends the
necessity of doing their explaining now,
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By Victor SUwawatcr
THAT NEBRASKA is acquiring a history, is
again emphasized by the reminder, carried
in The Bee this last week, that, July 12 was
down on the calendar as the one hundredth anni
versary of the birth of Alvin Saunders, the state's
war governor and afterwards United States sena
tor. It is a really remarkable coincidence that
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should come at the same time as the centennial
of the governor whose retirement for his succes
sor marked the transition from territorial vassa
lage to full membership in the union of the
states. Governor Saunders' public service has
been recognized, as we all know, in a permanent
way by attaching his name to one ot our most
important counties, Saunders county. At one
time we had a Saunders street here 'in Omaha
since, for uniformity's sake, put down as North
Twenty-fourth street, and we also have a Saun
ders school. The present occasion recalls a con
versation I had with Governor Saunders once
while riding home with him from Lincoln, when
he narrated some of his experiences in the early
days and told of the establishment of the county
named after him, explaining the way the jog in
the boundary came to be made to take in the
town of Ashland, thus cut off from the adjoining
county. We talked at random for an hour or
more and I afterwards wrote out the substance
of it as an interview for publication in The Bee.
sending him an advance proof to safeguard against
possible mistakes. He returned the proof with
a characteristic note all in his own hand, which
I still have and which reads as follows:
"Dear Victor: You have a remarkably good
memory and have quoted our conversation more
accurately than anyone I ever knew who did
not use his pencil at the time. But one thing
was wrong and that was that it was "General"
James D. Henry and not "Colonel " However,
that doesn't make much difference. But in the
case of the four children I would like that to
be changed, for they were not all boys, and as
one, if not two, of them are regular readers of
The Bee they would doubtless like to see it
changed about as I have indicated. Respect
fully, . A. SAUNDERS.
Governor Saunders lived to the ripe old age of
82, although once or twice he was brought so
near the brink by severe illness that I remember
we had his obituary all set up in type, only to
"kill" it until the summons finally came In the
fall of 1899. When the historian refers o Ne
braska's war governor he means Governor Saun
ders, or at least he has so far, and it is doubtful
whether any other governor, though he serve
through a war, will ever take that distinction
away from him.
Mention has been made by me in this column
of the war flavor that is permeating the British
newspapers that we are receiving and how thor
oughly they reflect war conditions. Their news
of the military operations is largely identical with
what we get over the wires, although in greater
detail, but they also give many little sidelights on
war activities and war consequences that are pe
culiarly interesting. Here are a few items from
a single issue of the London Chronicle:
"For Alexandra day (special collection for the
hospitals) preparations have been made in Lon
don for selling 10,000,000 flowers, while another
20,000,000 have been ordered for the rest of
the country. Over 12,000 women workers will
be selling the flowers in London and it is hoped
to raise a record sum. Last year the total
amount was over 100,000." .
"In view of the great scarcity of glass bot
' ties and jars the Board of Trade asks the pub
lic to return them to the trade through bottle
dealers, or otherwise, for use again."
"The great auction sale at Smithfield market
on behalf of the Red Cross began at 7 o'clock
yesterday morning and before the chairman of
the committee retired for a well-earned break
fast he had disposed of lots which realized 25,
000. Among the live stock was a bullock which
realized 1,260." '
( " 'Why is Paris immune from aerial attacks
while London is constantly subjected to them?'
inquired a member in the Commons yesterday.
"The speaker: 'Ask the kaiser' (loud laugh
ter)." " 'As a result of gun fire sixty kinds of mi
gratory birds have ceased to visit Britain,' says
the Duchess of Somerset, 'and consequently
thousands of insects and maggots are endan
gering the harvest.' " '
"Yesterday the premises of three leading Ger
man banks in the city pessed into English hands,
the purchase money being retained by the pub
lic trustee for the benefit of the creditors of
German banks. The famous George and Vul
ture Tavern, which , had been bought by the
Deutsche bank for extension purposes, was1
withdrawn from the auction. In offering it the
auctioneer said 'it was the first house in Lon
don where coffee was publicly sold' and men
tioned Swift and John Wilkes as visitors. Un
accountably he omitted to state that Mr. Pick
wick, after the Goswell Rjad calamity, r.ide it
his headquarters in London." '
The invitation issued through The Bee by
way of editorial comment on an article in the
Outlook by Theordore H. Price, urging him to
come out to Nebraska and see the tractor show,
started a correspondence which I hope may bring
this well-known writer and financial authority
out here for that event In the letter from Mr.
Price he writes:
"In my Outlook article I emphasized the need
' of a permanent competitive tractor exhibtion
because it is so difficult for the farmers inter
ested to attend these competitive tractor meets.
They are, I know, held allthe way from Texas
to Wisconsin, but they continue only for a day
or two, they are generally in the harvest sea
son and it is almost impossible for the average
farmer to synchronize his other engagements
with the date upon which such meets are held.
' "If a permanent exhibition could be held so
that a farmer who is in need oi a tractor could
go to it and pick one out, I think that the life
of the tractor would be very much more rapidly
extended.
"There are, moreover, no tractor meets in
the east and the cheap, simple and efficient trac
tor is, if anything, more badly, needed in the
east than it is in the west. These were my
reasons for expressing myself as I did."
Mr. Price says he has attended many of the
tractor meets held in his part of the country
each summer and realizes the progress made in
developing tractors for big and level farm and1
naturally does not like to rest under any in
ference of having written, on the subject in ig
norance. In a reply I endeavored to tell why a
permanent competitive tractor demonstration was
almost an impossibility for lack of sufficient
ground to operate on if for no other reason. And
in further acknowledgment have a note from Mr.
Price saying that he .will try to come out for the
Fremont demonstration if he possibly can arrange
his time. !
People and Events
The tailors of Chicago, eight in number, highly
resolve never more to rattle the jackpot during
the solemn midnight hours. It cost them "$10
and" each to learn that a cop copped the sport
from a convenient fire escape.
r For good military reason, the authorities or
dered Hoboken saloons along the water front
to moderate their reach and close up at 10 p. m.
Some obeyed orders, others scoffed at it and are
getting the experience of the fellow whj mon
keyed with a buzz saw. .
In spite of the encouragement offered by the
mayor, not one Chicago dog bearing the name
"Kaiser" has been registered and licenced so far
this year. One patriotic dog owner proudly told
the license clerk, "By golly, my dog, 'Kaiser,'
liked that name, but he bites me if I call him by
it now. So 1 call him 'Woodrow' and put a flag
on my house also." - .
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Proverb For the Day.
Facts are stubborn things.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
British army gained mile on four
mile front along the Somme.
Italian destroyer Impetuoso sunk by
Austrian submarine in Adriatic.
London reported that 10,000 German
prisoners had been taken in Somme
offensive.
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In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. 1
Postmaster Gallagher had bis coat
stolen from his private office,
Hereafter the leading barber shops
will close their places of business at
AROUND THE CITIES.
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8 p. m., except on Saturday, when they
will be open until 10 p. m., and on
Sundays from 7 a. m. until 12 noon.
The resfdenta In the vicinity of
Hanscom park are planning: to peti
tion the city council against the erec
tion of a brickyard near Georgia ave
nue by M. J. Greevey.
The Junior Order of Ancient Me
chanics have secured the third story
of the Hornberger block. Fourteenth
and Douglas streets, and have fitted It
up into an attractive lodge room.
The Rev. Mr. Savidge, by request of
the Omaha Clothing Salesmen's asso
ciation, delivered' a lecture at his
church, Twenty-second and Seward
streets, on the subject of "Sunday
Closing."
William B. Ten Eyck of Albany, N.
Y., has been admitted to the Omaha
bar, and intends to open up an office
in the Paxton block.
T. W. Eck, the Canadian bicylist
and Miss Jennie Carlisle, were mar
ried at the horn4 of John S. Prince,
North Sixteenth street by the Rev. Dr.
Maxwell.
This Day In History.
1815 Napoleon I, sought refuge on
the British warship Bellerophon. after
abdicating the throne of France.
1817 Dr. Thomas Bowman, bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
born near - Berwick, Pa. Died at
Orange, N. J., March 3. 1914.
1840 Convention signed in London
between Great Britain, Austria, Prus
sia and RuBsla, for pacification of
Levant.
1854 Ten thousand French troops
embarked at Calais in English ships of
war on an expedition against Rucsla.
1862 The confederate ram Arkan
sas ran through a part of the federal
flotilla at the mouth of the Yazoo
river, and ascended the Mississippi
to Vlcksburg.
1870 Act of congress reducing the
United States army to a peace footing.
1907 Ten persons killed by an ex
plosion in a turret of the battleship
Georgia.
1911 Lord Kitchener was appoint
ed British agent in Egypt to succeed
Sir Eldon Gorst.
1915 Germany formally admitted
that United States merchantsh'.p Ne
braskan was damaged by a German
submarine.
The Day We Celebrate.
Roy Andrew Dodge was born in
Harrlsburg, Pa July 15, 1877. He is
a charter member of the Carter Lake
club and his summer residence,
"Dodge Inn," is one of the most at
tractive cottages at this club.
C. W. Da Lamatre Is celebrating his
fifty-seventh birthday today. He was
born in Kimball county, Ohio, and
educated in the Ohio state university
and the Cincinnati law school. He
came to Omaha in 1886, where he has
teen practicing continuously since.
Luclen Stephens, selling meh's furn
ishings on Nineteenth and Farnam
streets, was born July 15, 1861. at
Rock port. Mo., and was educated in
the Omaha public schols and Du Pauw
university.
Lord NorthcllfTe, now acting as
head of the British war mission in
the United States, born near Dublin,
fifty-two years ago today.
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the
Interior in President Wilson's cabinet
born in Prince Edward Island, fifty
three years ago today.
Lord Cawdray, known as one of
England's greatest business organizers,
now director of the British aerial war
fare, born sixty-one years ago today.
Bishop Leo Hatd, abbot of the cele
brated Benedictine abbey at Belmont,
N. C, born at Latrobe, Pa., sixty-eight
years ago today.
Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, presi
dent of the University of California,
born at Randolph, Mass., sixty-three
years ago today.
Marie Tempest, for many years a
leading actress of the English-speaking
stage, born in London, fifty-one
years ago today. -
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is St. Swithin's day. If it
rains, there will be forty days of rain;
if fair, ''for forty days 'twill rain nae
mair." So rans the old adage.
San Francisco barber shops have
fixed today for putting into effect an
advanced price schedule. Henceforth
haircuts are to cost 50 cents and
shaves 20 cents.
With the brass and pipe bands of
the regiment, a detachment of 10O men
of the Forty-eighth Highlanders will
leave Toronto today for a week s trip
to the United States to aid the British
recruiting mission. New York and Chi
cago will be the principal points
visited. '
Storyette of the Day.
"That boy will be the death of me
some day," declared the head of the
family.
' I am sure I don t know where he
gets all his Impudence and pelf-assurance;
surely not from me. He re
turned home from school the other
day and, entering my office, he
threw his hat on the floor, selected an
easy chair, put his feet on my desk,
lit a cigarette, inhaled a few puffs,
and then, turning languidly to me. he
drawled:
" 'I say. dad. do you remember the
time you were expelled from school?'
"I did. There was no use denying
it for one day, in a burst of confi
dence, I had told him of my esca
pades as a boy, and lived to regret
that 1 had been so indiscreet.
" 'What do you mean, you young
rascal?' I roared.
" 'Oh.' said he, easily. JI've been
expelled too. Astonishing, isn't it
dad, how such things will run in a
family?' " Chicago Daily News.
APARTMENTS FAVORED.
IAS and living in New York City rant
trongljr to apartmenti. Tea yean ago pri
vate reiideneea were the rule among- the
rich. Now they are considered behind the
time. The present limit of apartment lux
ury comprising suites of twenty rooms and
from six to ten bath rooms calls for rental
of $S0,00 a year. Elevators and service
match the rental. From that figure prices
toboggan downward to tl.SOS for suites of
three rooms in the latest swell apartment
buildings. As things are going in Gotham
enthusiast expect to reach before many
years the munieinoent altitude of 150,000 s
yeat for high class one-family accommodation'
St Paul claims to be the first city In the
world to have a club house and recreation
center for the deaf.
Greater New York has upwards of 100,000
flat houses, which contain 980.000 apart
ments, houses a population of 8,430,000 and
has over 2,000 miles of streets. Some town,
Jhat .
Chieagoans hesitate about classing coal
dealers as real patriots. The promised cut in
prices has not shown up, and the "gouge
sign" will not be turned to the wail until
the consumer feels the cut
Salt Lake City makes a hot bid for the
laurels of Yuma as a resort of summer. Last
Sunday the mercury climbed up to 103 and
camped there long enough to defy the briny
laden aephyrs of the lake and the cooling
ripples of the Jordan. -'
Sioux City has launched a heme guard to
combat the activities of the Industrial
Workers of the World or any other internal
troubles arising during the war. Secrecy
envelopes the organization, but local gossips
have it the guard will number 600 men on
a war footing.
Bakers of St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Kan
sas City and Topeka cheerily fall for the
bread conservation movement to the extent
of cutting out return loaves. Economy
profits range from 8 to 9 per cent in bakers'
estimate, but no mention is made of a split
with the consumer.
San Francisco claims to have prosperity
nailed down on both sides of the bay. Build
ing operations, according to the Chronicle,
are. limited only to the ability to get ma
terial and -labor. Fat wages prevail, jobs
are seeking more hands and general business
keeps step to the industrial music.
John E. Baker of York, Pa., and cousin,
Daniel Baker of Baltimore, have offered the
government s plantation of BOO acres free
of charge along the Potomac river as a site
for a training camp or a mobilization point
The property is located twenty-four miles
south of Washington. It is one of the oldest
homesteads in America.
All is not joy in Louisville over the loca
tion of an army cantonment in the suburbs.
The law draws a two-mile line from the
camp within which liquor selling is for
bidden. The line limit reaches into a large
slice of the city and virtually closes 120
saloons. Noted summer gardens, road houses
and .other suburban drouth-killers are hang
ing crepe on the doors as visions of war
wealth vanish. ,
In Kansas City, Mo., where in bygone days
natural gas sold for m song, or about 28
cents, the fluid drawn out of the ground and
piped in has climbed toward the dollar mark.
Hints dropped among the litigants in the
federal court foreshadows a judicial order to
the producer to deliver gas at the city's
boundary, leaving the distributors to mark up
the price. Local papers interpret the hint
as meaning dollar natural gas.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Doctor,' my husband Is troubled with
bussing noise In his ears."
"Better have him go to the seashore foi
a month."
"But he can't get away."
"Then you go." Boston Tfranscript
Operator Number, please ?
Subscriber There is a nice young mar
here who has spilled green Ink on hl
white shirt What can he do to get II
out I Puck.
He The minister' says we must reston
stolen goods. Now I stole a kiss from you
the other day , .
Phe I suppose you ought to do what the
minister tells you. Baltimore American.
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HERE AND THERE.
Paper shrouds are now used for the dead
in Germany.
It takes the constant labor of 60,000 peo
ple to make matches for the world.
A third of the entire Norwegian mercan
tile fleet has been sunk during the war.
New York City Is to have a new hotel
containing between 3,000 and 4,000 rooms.
Scotland Yard is said to have made 113.000
Identifications by finger-print without mis
take.
President Wilson's daily mail is said to be
th largest received by any individual in th
world.
in captivity ewpnant always ttand up
when they deep, but when la the jungle
they lie down.
Simon B. Luley, 85, Is preparing to be
come a candidate for his nineteenth term as
mayor of Miltonsburg, O.
Venexuela has s bird .called the yak-a-mllk
which the natives train to perform the same
duties as a shepherd dog.
The largest bore recorded is a gun of
twenty-eight-inch caliber, made at Beeja
poor, India, during the seventeenth century.
: Through electric illumination the dome of
Missouri's new state capitol at Jefferson City
is made visible for a distance of twenty
miles. ' .
The tallest man in the United State navy
Is Ensign Joseph W. Paige. 6 feet 4 inches,
who was honor man of the "1917 class at
Annapolis.
The famous Hill End nugget, found by a
penniless prospector in New South Wales
in 1872, weighed over 600 pounds and was
worth $160,000. ,
Thirty thousand phonograph records of
speeches made ' by eminent statesmen, ap
pealing for support of the war loan, are to
be distributed in Russia.
The largest submarine telephone cable in
the world with eighty-six pairs of wires
has been laid across Raritan bay between
Staten Island and New Jersey.
Th green vaults of Constantinople, where
th treasures of the sultan of Turkey are
kept, are said to contain gold and jewels to
the amount of $3,000,000,000.
The elimination of the Russian double
eagle, national emblem of the Romanoffs,
has left five national eagles the two-headed
birds of Austria and Serbia and the single
eagles of the United States, Mexico and
Germany., ' j
"Sweets to the sweet, eh?" said the girl
at the candy counter. "Nothing to It"
"What do you mean?"
They're often Just as fussy at th candy
counter as they are anywher el." Louis
ville Courier-Journal.'
"Hiss Roxley Ethel I cannot llv with
out you."
"Nonsense!"
"At least not in the style to which I hav
been accustomed." Boston Transcript
Johnny, when I tell your father what a
naughty boy you've been today, he will
punish you severely."
"Have you rot to tell him, ma?"
"Tea. and I shall tell him immediately
after dinner."
"Well, ma; give him a better dinner than
usual, won't youT Ton might do that much
tor me." New York Post
THE MAN OF HABIT.
Margaret A. Wilson, In the Atlantic
What is so wonderful as dying
The man that's lying here
Has year by placid year
Slept, eaten, worked and taken ease,
On habit, use, and clocks relying,
Until each act outrode volition.
And only In accurate repetition
Could ha find peace.
He carped at draughts.
Hating even a wayward brees about him;
Avoided argument;
Let new movement go on without him.
Loving the grooves that had worn so dsep.
He could rise and work and eat and sleep.
Could love and hat and laugh and wsep,
Only by habits' prompting.
Well, he, the habit-bound.
The roan ot dull meticulous round.
Has risked the great adventure now.
I almost think his narrow brow .
Has taken on more breadth since dying.
What do his eyes see, the white lid under,.
That the Up should be curved with such
fugitive wonder,
Lip . that In life were pinched and
shrunken? i
Do they see, perhaps, the spirit drunken
With shoreless night?
With un-houred light?
Ah, by the one vast chartless road
Small souls, like great go home to God!
SIS
Our conduct of well arranged, properly
equipped and courteously earned out
funeral services arc a distinct achieve
ment. We have achieved success be
cause we have combined with our knowl
edge of the undertaking business a de
sire to treat our clientele squarely.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor. (Established 1888)
17th and Cuming Sts. TL Doug. 1060
I Feel Safe
in trading vith one of the
5 GOOD DRUGSTORES"
That statement was made by a
lady last week. She know the vital
matter of filling prescription re
ceives our careful attentions she
knows she can get any item in the
drug line from any of our five stores,
that the stocks are complete and
fresh, the service quick and that there
"is a store at her elbow."
Sherman & McConnell
Drug Co.
BEAUTIFUL BUILDING
LOTS ON
SOUTH SIDE
Between 6th and 8th and Dorcas and Martha Streets
surrounded with new modern homes. A few lots left to be
sold at a low price and on easy terms. All specials paid.
. Salesman at 8th and Dorcas Sts., Saturday and Sunday
from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Take Farnam or Harney car and get
off at 10th" and Dorcas. Go 2 blocks east.
Call Douglas 5013 during 'of fice hours or Colfax 2450
after 6 p. m.
E. I. MORROW
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is just as efficient as in peace times.
S MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
have been paid to Beneficiaries.
,
x Convertible assets, $33,000,000 820,000 Members.
A Valuable Prize given to every member securing one application
Mail a post card for full particulars to Col. C. L. Mather, City
Manager, 803 W. O. W. Building.
JOHN T. YATES,
Sovereign Cerk. ,
W. A. FRASER,
Sovereign Commander.
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