THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1917.
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Ye, Mr. Weather Man, you're doing tolerably
well but a little more rain, please.
Wheat is not the only food product of the
American farms, so why stop there?
Threat to abolish "moose's milk" disturbs the
Loyal Order, but it has been done by others.
The longer the food bill is held up the more
time the distillers have to get in their work.
Those who are eager to escape the draft stilt
have a chance to volunteer and many are tak
ing it.
Declining to lay water mains may be a good
way to cut off cost of pipe, but what about serv
ice to consumers?
Nebraska's new flag law requires the flying of
the flag on all "national holidays." What are our
"national holidays?"
Those Iowa folks surely have a towline on the
War department. Results count. Hats off to the
fellow who knocks the persimmon 1
Nebraska's state fair ccmes under the head of
national exhibits this year, a belated recognition
of the educational value of the institution.
Now that the county judgeship here is a bet
iter paying position than the district judgeship,
will the line of promotion be the other way?
Swedes and Danes report the loss since the
war started of over 300 vessels of various sizes;
one of the inconveniences of having quarrelsome
neighbors.
The State Council of Defense takes a much
milder tone with the Lutherans, now that it has
heard from the church itself. Its shot scattered
too much in the first place.
Issuing passes to army officers may be a good
war measure, but it is strictly forbidden in time
of peace, and both parties, are taking a long
chance in carrying out the deal.
A debate between the United States senators
from Nebraska as to what is for the farmers' best
interest would be entertaining at a time when the
country was not busy with matters of importance.
The smoke curtain is not dense enough to
keep us from getting glimpses of what is hap
pening in Russia. The curtain it sure to lift,
however, and soon, and open it up to full view.
An Omaha man's conscience has just been re
lieved.of a burden of $1,170, which he admits he
gained by unfair means. Wonder what would
happen if this tort of conscience became epidemic?
Nebraska's democratic farmer legislature res
oluted for one-dollar wheat, but our democratic
United States senator at Washington raises it to
two dollars. Just a little difference of one hun
dred per cent.
"Blood and iron" is an heroic prescription and
difficult to administer, even to a docile people;
therefore Premier Kerensky may have some trou
ble in getting the Russians to swallow the medi
cine with a good face.
Seventeen billions is Senator Smoot't estimate
of the cost of our first year in war. Fart of this
naturally is chargeable to our national habit of
procrastination. Maybe we will apply the lesson
we are paying so dearly to learn.
To transmit more than 10,000 draft numbers
with, only thirty-one variations from the official
master list is a real tribute to the skill of the
telegraphers who handled the big job. Nothing
in ordinary life is much nearer than 99.7 per
cent perfect
Industrial war is war just as much as any
other kind, but the leaders of the local labor
strike damage their unions as much as the em
ployers when they send out broadcast attacks de
' signed to run down Omaha and put the city "in
bad" abroad. They should realize that some
weapons do more execution at the breech than
at the muzzle.
Profits on War Contracts
Wall Straat Journal
A dispatch from Washington published in a
tnornmg paper that the government is doing all
its buying on a cost plus 10 per cent basis is not
in accord with information obtained here from
.-ompames which are supplying or negotiating or
lers for government supplies. Not long a?o the
overnment awarded contracts for 7,500,000
rounds of three-inch ammunition as well as some
200,000 rounds of larger shells, all on a comocti
five basis, and bids were submitted for a number
sf 4.7 shells on a competitive basis.
Other contracts, it is known, have been neeo
tiated without competitive bidding in the cases of
concerns specially equipped for the work required
and in tuch cases the government has simply
asked for prices which were accepted when sub
mitted, in most cases, except in a few instances
where the bids appeared extravagant, when a
compromise was usually agreed on.
Munition manufacturers here with government
contracts are practically unanimous in saying that
o far the attitude of the governmental authorities
has been entirely fair and that no manufacturer
who was ready to accept a reasonable profit had
had cause to complain. On the other hand, it has
been made plain that manufacturers who soueht
' to take advantage of the national emergency to
"stick" the government would be handled with
out 1
Still Hope for Russia.
The human tragedy now being enacted in Rus
sia surpasses in immediate interest even our own
preparations for war. The spectacle of a great
mass of people, struggling for a firm foothold
on its new path, threatened with destruction
from within and from without, is pathetically im
pressive. It is impossible to exaggerate the diffi
culties in the way of Kerensky, on whom has
fallen the hope of all friends of order. His great
personality, unswerving fidelity and devoted cour
age may be potent to restore reason to the terri
fied multitude and overcome the effects of the
extremists' propaganda. Socialism is being put
to the acid test in Russia now. Its advocates are
in full, control of the government, whatever it
amounts to, and are charged with all responsi
bility. Every possible aid will be given by or
ganized democracy that the aspiration of the Rus
sian people may be realized in the final establish
ment of an orderly government which will em
body and preserve their ideals of liberty. No
one will underestimate the magnitude or impor
tance of the task, but for the present hope rests
on the probability that the shock of threatened
defeat will arouse even the stupidist of mujiks to
realization of the danger and the necessity for
action. The tide of retreat must be stemmed or
Russian liberty disappears again under the domi
nation of a restored autocracy.
Our Readers Entitled to the Truth.
The Bee acknowledges receipt of a letter find
ing fault with our' display "in such prominent
type" of the unfavorable war news from Russia,
declaring that it "discourages our American read
ers" and by so doing "gives aid to our country's
enemies."
Every patriotic American is distressed by the
Russian fall-down, but no good would come out
of self-deception by ignoring it. It is not "giving
aid and comfort to the enemy" to tell the truth
about war developments and to tell tbem in a
way forceful enough to rouse our people to a
sense of the danger in the situation. If The Bee,
or any other paper, deliberately suppressed bad
news from the war arena in order to print only
good news it would soon lose, and deserve to
lose, the confidence of its readers, and, worse than
that, when the facts were disclosed, as they
surely would be, the reaction would be disastrous.
The Bee will continue to give the war news
promptly and accurately as it is available, rejoic
ing when it is good news and grieving when it
is bad news, but not flinching from performing
its duty as a newspaper.
Confusion Over the Food Bill.
The situation developed at Washington over
the food administration bill resembles in some
ways conditions prevailing in Russia. Diversity
of opinion rather than harmony of action pre
vails and with the divergence of views is cropping
out an acrimony of feeling that presage, little
good. At first it seemed simple enough to enact
a law that would provide for the reasonable con
trol of food distribution. The embargo measure had
gone through in such form as seemed to cle:.r the
way for its companion bill. Selfish and sinister in
terests could not permit this, however. T!ic bill
was framed finally so that only products of north
ern farms would come under its provisions, the
southern staples being particularly exempted.
Then the prohibitionists tacked on their pet meas
ure and finally tn the senate a minimum price for
wheat and a committee to direct the war policy
of the country were added. All of these things
are foreign to the original purpose of the meas
ure, but they serve its opponents well. A pa
triotic majority in congress is again split into
partisan groups, the cost of living is steadily ad
vancing and the country waits in vain for prom
ised relief. The present delfy may not be fatal,
but it is exasperating as an exhibition of how prone
some statesmen are to put personal views above
public duty.
Smothering the Shipping Board Squabble.
President Wilson took an extreme course to
smother the shipping board squabble and one
that may well be discussed critically. In the first
place, the president is largely responsible for the
unfortunate mess, because of overlapping instruc
tions he issued. In appointing General Goethals
to be head of the ship-building corporation the
president plainly stated that the general was to
be in sole charge of construction. This naturally
implied that his views would determine whatever
was done. At the same time the president gave
to Chairman Denman of the shipping board com
plete authority over the expenditure of all moneys
in connection with the government's ship-building
program. Mr. Denman promptly assumed the
right of review over General Goethals, vetoed his
plant and the deadlock resulted.
Choice between the two would have seemed
easy. Goethals is an army officer, a trained and
experienced builder and proposed workable plans
that promised1 results. Denman was wholly un
known until the upheaval in California last fall
brought him to the surface. He is a lawyer,
whose experience with ships consisted in the con
duct of a few cases in the admiralty court. More
over, the wooden ship plan so strenuously advo
cated by Denman was not proposed by practical
ship builders, but by two engineers, who also
quarreled with the chairman of the board and
were dismissed by him. Shipping men are all
in line with Goethals and it is generally believed
his plans will be adopted eventually.
The point is that an obstinate politician is per
mitted to oust from public service an experienced
and disinterested man of high character and un
questioned ability. Chairman Denman may go
back to his California law practice full of what
ever satisfaction he can get 'from this knowledge.
The ship-building program will go on, but the
president will do well to settle any question of
authority with his new hoard before it gets under
headway.
Are Women Farmers?
British Daughters of Martha
By Frederic J. Haskin
Further Complications for the Future.
Siam's declaration of war on Germany may
not mean a great deal as affecting the actual
fighting, but it has some reference to the future.
When peace is finally made the interests of all
the world will be considered and while only the
belligerents will be seated at the council table
all nations wilt be present to present views and
claims. Thus Siam will get a vote where it
would have had only a voice, if anything, in the
deliberations of the nations over final adjust
ment Its declaration of war was accompanied by
seizure of German property, which gives an un
pleasant quality of piracy to the transaction, for
Siam had little occasion for quarrel with Ger
many, and resorts to "defense of human rights'
in order to justify its grab of German ships. This
sounds good enough, but it will add another item
J to the bill that must eventually be set before the
peace council for audit and more or less scaling
down.
Washington, July 23. In Great Britain the
teaching of agriculture to women has been
adopted as a war measure. Classes in milking,
cheese-making, poultry-feeding and light farm
work are a big feature of every village, town and
estate. Farmers, as a matter of patriotic duty,
have loaned their cows and horses for such in
struction; the agricultural colleges are boarding
women farm students in dormitories and numer
ous counties throughout England. Scotland and
Ireland have organized courses of farm instruc
tion for women.
The agricultural situation in Great Britain is
extremely serious.' Evidently the German U-boat
maneuvers were not anticipated in the early part
of the war, for England let its food, production
diminish to a distressingly small output before
it realized its danger. The soil, much of which
had lain idle, had to be treated and many reme
dial measures had to be instituted before food
production could be restored to a normal basis.
The training of women farmers was one of the
first measures to be undertaken, inasmuch as the
country had sent nearly all its farm hands to the
trenches. House-to-house canvasses were made
by war committees to induce young girls to attend
classes in farming and to induce farmers to em
ploy them. Some counties instituted a public
registration of women who were willing to under
take "war labor" on farms and of farmers who
were willing to employ such labor. When these
measures did not prove successful the county gov
ernment appealed to the national government,
which then took a hand. ' .
The agricultural subcommittee of the county
co-operated with the war agricultural committee
of the whole nation in preparing a schepie which
has helped to solve the problem. Naturally the
farmers were dubious about hiring girls who had
never seen a cow, who did not kpow roots from
vegetables and who could not handle horses. So
the government overcame this difficulty by train
ing the girls. They were sent to approved farms
throughout the country, where.they had to agree
to remain eight weeks. The first four weeks
were regarded as a period of instruction. While
the girl was getting acquainted with the nature
of the cow and intricate dairying processes the
government paid her a wage of 10 shillings a
week. For the next period of four weeks, how
ever, the farmer had to pay the wage, since it
was assumed that by that time the girl would
begin to be really useful.
Then there are so-called patriotic gangs, made
up of a leader and several girls, who travel about
the country from one farm to another helping with
various harvests. Sometimes they pick strawber
ries on one farm; milk cows on another; work in
the fields of yet another, and then end the sea
son by harvesting hops. Many of the women in
these gangs are of the ldisure -class in peace
times. They have never done anything more
strenuous than to knit stockings and caps for
soldiers. For them theexperience is nothing less
than revolutionary. When your life has been a
comfortable routine of chocolate in bed at 10 in
the morning, shopping at 12, luncheon at 1, knit
ting and a drive through the park in the afternoon,
with dinner and bridge in the evening, it is a
considerable change to rise at 3 o'clock in the
morning, pick strawberries until noon, eat a small
"snack" and spend your afternoon cleaning stables
and churning butter; then milk the cows and go
to bed immediately after supper. Fliysically, it
does not seem to hurt the women, and it seems
to improve their mental attitude
Even before the war agriculture was urged
as a profession frr women by many people in
Great Britain. Women themselves suddenly
seemed to develop an ambition in that direction.
Various agricultural schools for women were
started by one person and another, one very good
one in particular by the countess of Warwick. In
other parts of Europe farming has always been
one of the principal -if ' not, indeed, the principal
occupation for women. Russian women for
centuries have tilled the soil by the slde3 of their
husbands; in some cases have tilled it alone, while
their husbands went to the cities and became cab
drivers or porters. In France, too, agricultural
work is shared equally by the Women, who tome
times do the housework, too. In Germany the
same is true, while Mongolian women are veritable
farm drudges, bearing the greater portion of phy
sical burdens. You will find Japanese women
carrying burdens on their backs under which they
are almost invisible. In all these countries, how
ever, farm work is confined to the peasant class.
It was a couple of women in Thatcham who
introduced the first intensive farming into Eng
land. One woman in traveling through rural
France had come upon a Frenchman and his
wife who were making about $2,500 a year out of
one acre of land. She returned to England and
explained her discovery to several friends, who
agreed to go in with her on a similar project.
1 hey leased five acres of land. They would have
bought it had they been able, but land is rarely
for sale in England, and when it is the price is
usually prohibitive. Next, they bought a horse
and cart and carted load after load of manure
from a nearby stable which they mixed in the
soil. There was a clause in the lease which pro
vided that on its expiration the lessees were to be
permitted to dig up the soil and remove it to a
depth of eighteen inches, a provision that was only
fair since they had practically furnished that much
new soil. Here they started their plants under
bell-shaped glasses known as clochers in France
and later transferred them to glass-covered
frames, or, rather, film-covered frames. The
young women could not afford to buy glass, so
they bought old films from a photographic estab
lishment which, after cleaning, served the same
purpose. Around the field they built a fence of
zinc plate, sunk for some distance into the
ground, so as to keep the nutriment of the soil
concentrated in that one held.
This farm is now yielding an amazing income.
although it is only two acres. The women let
three acres go, since they found they were not
necessary. The secret of the success is that the
crops are cultivated ahead of the usual time, so
that they are always in the market ahead of the
season.
At Heathfield. in the county of Sussex, there
is a farm colony of women known as the Women's
Co-operative farmers, Ltd., which owns many
acres. The central farm is a school where pupils
are received at $30 a month for board, lodging and
farm tuition. Some former pupils rent holdings.
They are perfectly independent of the school, but
they have the privilege of seeking advice and
help from the instructors: and they buy provi
sions and market their produce through the
school, thus avoiding many pitfalls that await the
inexperienced.
People and Events
Another turn of legal wheels in Illinois bring
closer to the squeeze stockholders of Smiling Billy
Lorimers string of broken private banks. The
circuit court holds that stockholders are liable
for double the amount of their holdings and
ordered payments made on or before August 25,
The case will probably go to the state supreme
court. Meanwhile Smiling Billy is nursing a
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oroieen leg aue to an accident in a Wisconsin
sawmill where he was working.
The world war develops strange family di
visions and mixups. The case of Guardsman
Vyzralek of Lincoln has a partial counterpart in
that of Paul Schortenberg of Minneapolis. Vyzra
lek's father is in the Austrian army, a brother in
the Russian and another in the Italian army,
Schortenberg was a Minnesota guardsman on
the Mexican border, where his German sympa
thies got the better of his discretion and won a
prison term. Max Schortenberg, serving in the
famous foreign legion of France, has written to
the Minnesota guards inquiring if Paul is his long
lost brother.
TODAY 1
Proverb for the Day.
Hunger is a good sauce.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
British completed tne capture 01
Pozieres.
United States made strong protest
against British blacklist.
Russians threatened Austrian noia
on Brody, taking 4,000 more prisoners.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
Julius Treitschke, 501 South Thir
teenth, wishes information in regard
to an old lady dressed in a dark skirt
and light calico vest, wearing carpet
slippers, bareheaded, who had wan
dered away.
A swarm of bees settled down on
the mail box attached to the lamp
post at the corner of Tenth and Far-
nam. Julius -Meyer procurea a dox
and making the proper openings there
in placed it under tne swarm ana in
a short while had the honied colony
safely hived.
A petition is being circulated Dy tne
grocery clerks of the city to have the
emmrv mores close every evening ex
cept Uaturday at 8 o'clock.
J. B. Sheldon, manager or tne
Union Pacific telegraph office, was
married to Miss Mollie Wilbur, an
Omaha girl. They will reside at 601
North Seventeenth.
Clinton Butler, head of the mailing:
rtennrtmpnt of The Bee. was married
to Miss Mary Fagan, the ceremony be
ing performed Dy itev. rainar Mc
Carthy of St. Philomena cathedral,
the groomsman being J. L, Kelly and
the bride's attendant Miss Lida Peter-
n.
Th result of the recent meetings of
the police and fire commissioners was
announced in tne appointment or, tne
following officers: Frank Johnson,
Patrick Havey, Antoine Banouns,
iirVi9Pi KissAnp. W. E. Clark. G. B.
Curry, A. C. McCracken, John H. Sav
age, A. F. Ward, G. F. Mayhood, Wil
liam Collins, B. r . walker, u. w.
Lowry, G. V. Rayworth, Simpson V.
Osborne. D. J. Rvan. E. M. Scanlon,
W. II. Shoup and Jesse Newman.
This Day in History.
1775 Continental congress estab
lished the postofnee service and placed
Benjamin Franklin in charge.
1784 Charles Morris, a famous
American naval officer of the war of
1812, born at Woodstock, Conn. Died
In Washington, D. C, January 27,
1856.
1842 The famous sloop-of-war
Saratoga was launched at Portsmouth,
N. H.
1845 Sir John Franklln'a expedi
tion last seen by a whaler.
1863 General Sam Houston, the
father of the state of Texas, died at
Huntsville, Tex. Born in Virginia
March 2, 1793.
1864 Stoneman's raid to capture
Macon, Ga., commenced.
1867 Dr. Peters of Hamilton col
lege discovered the ninety-second
planet, which was named "Undlna."
1876 Allen T. Caperton, confeder
ate states senator from Virginia and
United States senator from West Vir
ginia, died in Washington, D C. Born
In Monroe county, Virginia, Novem
ber 21, 1810.
1892 Rev. Charles R. Hale was
consecrated bishop coadjutor of the
Episcopal diocese of Springfield, 111.
The Day We Celebrate.
J. C. Eugene Duval, better known
as "Gene," general agent of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee St Paul railway,
Is celebrating his fifty-fifth birthday.
He was born in Toronto, coming to
this country as an Infant. '
William R. Merriam, former gover
nor of Minnesota, born in Essex
county. New York, sixty-eight years
ago today.
Emmet D. Boyle, the present gov
ernor of Nevada, born at Virginia City,
Nev., thirty-eight years ago today.
James K. Vardaman, United States
senator from Mississippi, born in
Jackson county, Texas, fifty-six years
ago today.
Stephen O'Meara, former well
known newspaper publisher, now po
lice commissioner of Boston, born at
Charlottetown, P. E. I., sixty-three
years ago today.
Edward H. House, who has been
called "the western Warwick" be
cause of his position of intimate friend
and adviser to President Wilson, born
at Houston, Tex., fifty-eight years ago
today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The Feast of St. Anne will be tb-
served today by Roman Catholic
churches throughout the world.
The annual convention of the Michi
gan League of Municipalities meets at
Grand Rapids today and will continue
over tomorrow.
In railroad and financial circles con
siderable interest is manifested in to
day's meeting of the directors of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail
way, owing to rumors of a possible
dividend reduction and the reports
that A. J. EafUng may retire from
the presidency.
A plan is to be submitted in court
at Pittsburgh today whereby policy
holders of the defunct Pittsburgh Life
and Trust company will be protected
by the Metropolitan Insurance com
pany. The affairs of the Pittsburgh
company become involved as a result
of the alleged looting of the com
pany's funds by Clarence F. Blrdseye
of New York and several associates.
Storyette of the Day.
In the bureau of the census, at
Washington, acts against the law are
recorded under a few general heads,
such as murder, burglary, etc.
An officer of the bureau tells of a
woman clerk who was puzzted by an
entry she encountered in one of her
slips. The crime as set down was
"Running a blind tiger." After due
reflection the woman placed it under
the head of "Cruelty to Animals."
Irish World.
Nebraska Editors.
The Grina; Courier U one of the few
Nebraska weeklies that succeeded in get
ting the names of the men drafted in its
regular edition.
The Clay County Sun, which has been
under the efficient direction of Fred B. How
ard for the last few years, was 84 years
old last week.
The Butler County Press and several
other papers issued extra leaflets giving the
names and addresses of men selected to
serve their country.
Editor Charles D. Blauvelt of the John
son County Journal last week celebrated
the installment of his linotype by getting
cut twenty-four-page edition.
Editor F. A. Cox of the Burchsrd Times
has sold his paper to Mrs. Weaver Borden,
an experienced newspaper woman, and is
doing his bit as member of the Nebraska
National Guard.
The Fremont Tribune of last Thursday
contained a four-page advertisement telling
of many bargains offered by one of the
city's largest department stores. Contribu
tions of this kind are always welcome dur
ing this period of high price of print paper.
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Magazines for the Soldiers.
Peru, Neb., July 22. To the Editor
of The Bee: I have seen in The Bee
that our soldier boys in France are
wanting books,, magazines, newspa
pers, etc. Can you give me an ad
dress where I can send some, and also
the rate? ,
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
Answer If you will simply place a
1-cent stamp on the upper right hand
corner of the cover of any magazine
you want to send to the soldiers, and
hand it to your mail carrier or deposit
it in the postofnee. it will be for
warded without cost. No special ad
dress is required. Editor of The Bee.
Who Has a Job for Her?,
Omaha, July 24. To the Editor of
The Bee: They say that because our
young men are going to war, there
will be many fine positions open to
girls, yet I find it is not so in my case.
Of course, I frankly confess I've had
no business experience for I've studied
music most of my life and am an ac
companist by vocation. As the
times are now, my services have not
been needed, which has led me to seek
something else, and as 1 am onfy 23
years old, full of life and energy, it
seems impossible for me to do nothing.
I have visited most of the doctors'
offices asking them if they need help,
but they either have some one or do
not need a girl. I've inquired for of
fice work, but because of my inexperi
ence they do not seem to want me,
although I am willing to take a small
salary while I am learning.
Naturally, I want to do something
which I would like to do, something
in which there is a future, and as I
know of no one who can "get me in"
I've relied entirely upon myself. Per
haps I do not understand how to go
about it, but I Just wish some one
would give me a chance.
Praise for Swimming Pools.
Omaha, July 23. To the Editor of
The Bee: A recent issue of a local
newspaper made a statement concern
ing the lack of order and accommoda
tions at Municipal beach, Carter lake.
Now. it is hardly fair to let such a
statement go unchallenged when I, as a
dally swimmer, know the contrary. I
have been a resident of Chicago for
twenty years. I have frequented the
many municipal resorts there and to
say that the management and help at
the Omaha beach deserved the highest
praise and commendation for the fine
order and discipline among the bathers
and spectators would be giving little
for the untiring efforts of the man and
woman in charge.
Omaha can well be proud of this
pleasure resort and the man who is
responsible for its existence, and in
stead of giving credit to the commis
sioner whose department has nothing
to do with it, let praise go where it is
due. I am told that this beach has
claimed two or thiee lives each year,
and so far there has been no accidents
of any consequence and the office and
management that keeps such good
order and efficiency, I praise again.
In closing let me say to the taxpay
ers, give your money and moral sup
port to this summer pleasure, where
rich and poor can meet on 'equal
plane and share the pleasure and com
fort derived from partaking of this
privilege. And you, parents, be mind
ful of what it means to you that your
boy is safeguarded and watched that
no harm will come to him while in
dulging in this most necessary of all
recreation. Give credit where credit
is due and I for one take this means
of paying my regards ani highest
esteem to him whose department
governs this sumn.e:- pleasure and to
the management and efficiency of
those in charge.
EDWARD MORRIS.
Reply to Mr. Atkins.
. Omaha. Julv 24. To the Editor of
The Bee: In regard to A. M. Atkins,
about wanting a remedy or law possi
ble to keep little children from cry
ing. I will say A. M. Atkins should
be asking God to let him lose his
hearing or maybe he could ask God
to turn him into a cannibal and maybe
he could eat em. Or else he should
go to a doctor to see what is wrong
with his heart. A .MOTHER.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
First Village Bum Labor s mighty scarce
about here. '
Second Village Bum Terrluul! 1 had '
help my wife with the potatoes this morn
ing. Life.
Sixty miles an hour. . u eaid the Judge.
"You must have been on urgent business.
Where were you going in such a hurry?"
"Nowhere, your honor. I'm a man of
leisure. I have no place In particular to
go."
"Urn. I'll give you a place to go. Siity
days." Louisville Courier-Journal.
He started to take a nap In the barber
chair, but awoke with a terrible start.
"Have a bad dream, sir?" asked the sym
pathetic barber.
"You bet I did. I dreamed the boy waa
blacking my white shoes." Louisville Courier-Journal.
give
"Do you think your townspeople will
you any banquets .
"Not If I can head 'em off," replied Sen
ator Sorghum. "I don't want to get with
a crowd and sit right down in front of
reminder of the htgh-cost-of -living prob
lem." Washington Star.
Resinol
healed that
Skin trouble
When you think what a source of
annoyance and sufferingthat eciemahas
been to me in the past three years, do you
wonder I am thankful that the doctor
. prescribed Resinol? The very first time
I used it, the itching stopped for good,
and the eruption began to disappear.
Resinol Sop should usually be
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