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3 B HIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 21, 1917. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY . FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered t Omaha potoffiee aa second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Ky Carrier ...per week, IV 10c ISO OtllT ml Sunday IU1 without Hunday Evenins and Bandar........ Kntilnf wtUKXtt tiuiidij " c UnH.B Ml. ...... " ,V Bead aerie ot atiann of sddrras or Irregularity is dellrerj to Omafca Bee Ctrcuifttloo Deputmcot. It? Mill, rer year. tnM t.(0 a.wi 4. no 100 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asnciated Press.- of which Ths Bee li a member. eiclmdrflt entitled to the rue for republication of all n dllitchM credited U II or ml otberalM emitted In tnli pal and sluo the lorsl new, published taenia. All Mills of publication of our special dlspstchee are alto reserved. REMITTANCE Remit w draft, expreat or port"' order. Onlj J-eent itamre Ultra la parnent of email account. Personal check, eioti't oa Omaha and eastern exchsnf, not accepted. OFFICES - Omaha The Bee Bullditif. Chlcsro People"! Oat Bulldlnf. Santa Omaha 4837 8. 24th St New York 2.i fifth Ae. Council Bluffs-14 N. Main St. HI Ionia-New B'k of Commerce. Lincoln Little Building, Wuhliiiton 1311 0 St CORRESPONDENCE Address eemmunlcatloot witting to newe and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 59,022 Daily Sunday. 52,158 iwtn etrentarJnn for the month subscrlbod and sworn to bj Dwljtt William. Circulation llini.rr Subscriber Icavlnf the cltr ahould have The Be mailed tt them. Address chanted aa often aa requeued. Only 12 more days to 3-ccnt postage. Poor old Constantinel His troubles fol lowed him into exile. ' The real world series is still being fought out over on the western battle front. The sinking of the transport Antilles enlarges the score Americans will settle later on. Mere man planned the first Waterloo; a woman staged the second. For chief of police of Water loo, Miss Mary Mendenhal. Food control is to be enforced through pitiless publicity. .That's the fire which profiteers and slackers cannot withstand. State expenses mounting up to $4,298,000 for nine months gives taxpayers a moving picture of democratic economy in action. Fuel Administrator Garfield is the son of a fighting father. Unless all signs fail he is not one who can be bluffed or browbeaten. - In the revised lexicon of state house politics there is nov such word as "contractor." "Hired man" sounds better and delivers the goods just as well. Housekeepers who yield to idle rumors about scarcity n any food line, and load up, promote the very scarcity they fear. Besides they rarely miss getting stung. ' The second Liberty loan will be fully sub scribed, but its moral effect will be tremendously increased if it is largely oversubscribed. Let the kaiser know Uncle Sam, is in earnest. The saving clause of the Muny coal yard must be its operation without preference or favoritism. There are Already complaints on this score, All the city's customers must look alike. f I' More Liberty' bonds bought' from the balcony and the"ga11ery than from the orchestra floor in one of Omaha's playhouses. Patriotism does not necessarily occupy the reserved seats. The mysterious party who shipped a carload of booze through one dry state and into another exhibits t quality of nerve that renders tonic superfluous. Only his head needs repairs. Mr. Bryan used to have the standing ques tion, "Why is it the people don't get what they want?" The wet and dry situation in Iowa just now makes that question more of a puzzle than ever. . , ' ' Joyriding in Great,' Britain - is ended for the war, Scarcity of gasoline restricts the supply on hand to practical uses,V Business before pleasure is the controlling forc of British life 'these try ing days;- :.. f- . v.i'"-'Viv.- The figures irt that blackmail conspiracy case are no longer members' of the Omaha police de partmentsv Waft-n&&tjjr'', weakens its' chief claim to public interest except as a postscript 1o a eaci stirring episode.' Vi - ' M ? ' -v "7 ... It is encouraging in more ways than one that the grneluig canvass for Liberty tonds in the theaters nightly does not -keep people away from these plates, but, Jike'a -double billseems' really to add to .their -enjoyment i . . , The main 'item in' the bread situation is the irrefutable Jacfcthaf In London bread made from flour Jmpe4 from America is being sold for S cents a jwund loaf, 'while right here in Omaha the pric$."charged is 10 cents for 14 ounces'. , i Three 'million dollars of Red Cross funds were subscribed in London in one day. Ordinarily the outpouring 'would signify little, but at the end of 38 months of war, with its (train of men and treasure, the subscription attests the generosity and unfathomed resources of the British capital. , Hontinf for Bedrock on Prices. The naming of a committee to ascertain the cost of producing hogs is one of the most prac tical steps yet taken in connection with food price control It is not expected that the committee will establish a standard,, but it will try to get at the bedrock facts, and when these are discovered .some letter understanding as to prices may be bad. The law of supply and demand is not yet abolished, notwithstanding governmental control in come, cases, where ' speculative abuses had reached an unjustifiable point This is proved by the plea of . th'e packers, ' who find themselves caught with an oversupply of eggs, facing a loss because the demand is lessened, and who are asking that' the' government take over their hold ings and save them from the result of their ven ture. Recent sharp declines in the selling prices on hogs have been in response; to that law, a natural sequence-of the sensational rise,, which was largely due to manipulation. The committee elected to make the inquiry, into the actual cost of bog production is made up of men who are thoroughly conversant " with the subject, and whose decision ought to be authoritative. Its findings should be. of assistance in settling some contentions that are "the more bitter because of lack of definite information, and should strengthen 'the trade by removing interference with its nat "ural flow ....... Taft's Message to the World. Former President Taft is carrying to his coun trymen, and through them to the world, a mes sage of paramount importance. He gives strong and cogent reasons why we must win this war, and must also do something to make future wars impossible. If the League to Enforce Peace can not bring about.the result hoped for, some other agency with a different and better plan may. The overthrow .of militarism is aimed at, for without that made certain we can not realize the full pur pose of the league, which is to enable human life to go ahead in all its manifold expansion without danger of interruption by conflict and destruc tion incident to war. The problem is not simple, nor is the result sought out of reach. A century of peace between the United States and Great Britain affords a fine example of what, may be done. Many difficult and sometimes embarrassing questions have come up between these great nations in that time, and all have been effectually adjusted, friendly relations being maintained, while the keenest of commercial and industrial rivalry and competition prevailed. Such relations are possible for all the world. They involve only a square deal for all, thesame decent regard for the rights of the small and weak nations as for the great and powerful, .with justice and equity and not ambition and force to determine international intercourse. The world can not be turned into an armed camp, or civilization will cease. Pride in strength and prowess must give way to enthusiasm for the right, and agreements between the powerful nations to give protection to all. Differences will arise, but may be adjusted without resort to arms when reason supplants arrogance. Ener gies now expended on defense may then be de voted to development, and competition in crea tion take the place of zeal for destruction. The whole program of the league is attractive, espe cially because it does not seek to change human nature, but to guide it along better lines. Our First Casualty List. Americans are now called on to contemplate a more stern phase of the war, that of a casualty list. Several lives have been sacrified since our entrance into the war, all in line of duty, but the news fell hardest upon the families and friends, because of the circumstances surrounding the deaths. For the same reason the present an nouncement will shock the public, because of the extent of the disaster, and the manner of its infliction. The loss of 67 lives is numerically insignificant alongside the toll taken in great battles. It is even fewer than have been recorded at times in connection with industrial accidents at home, and has been exceeded on several occasions by other victims of the subsea terror. It is important be cause it is the first considerable number of Amer icans who have actually lost their lives in service connected with the war. No matter if they did go down, sacrificed to chance that gave the U-boat an opportunity to fire unseen and strike its prey with no warning. All of our soldiers and sailors, nurses and doctors, who have so far lost their lives, have been taken by such form of destruc tion as defies preparation. The bomb dropped from the airplane on a base hospital and the tor pedo launched unseen in the night are equals, and must be accepted as hazards of the war. Those who went down with the Antilles died in the service, of their country and humanity, and will be recorded 'as such. The incident brings home more forcibly and directly the deadly char acter of the work we have undertaken. Disaster will make the nation the more resolute, and the final outcome the more certain. The Lincoln Statue for London. Official announcement of the British govern ment's acceptance of a proffered statue of Lin coln, from America for Parliament square adds fresh fuel to the controversy over the model to be selected which has raged on this side of the water for over a year. The British-American Peace Centenary com mittee, early in 1914, originated the plan of plac ing a statue of the martyr president in London. It was agreed at the time that a replica of St. Gauden's superb Lincoln would be presented and placed on a site facing Westminster Abbey. More recently the committee was offered in behalf of Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, a duplicate of the Lincoln statue designed by George Gray Barn ard., In 'a statement in the' London Times the committee recently; announced that "while we did not decline the gift, we did not accept it in substitution , of the St Gauden's statue." Pres sure in behalf of hewer work of Barnard, how ever, appears strong, and is responsible for a vigorous protest from admirers of St Gauden's, led by Robert T. Lincoln, son of the president Barnard's Lincotn is the result of five years labor and study) the head modeled from a life mask, the body, arms and limbs fashioned after a live Kentuckian of similar height and angularity, and the clothes of the style of 1865. Robert Lincoln denounces the result, as "a monstrous figure, which is, grotesque as a likeness of Pres ident Lincoln and defamatory as an effigy." Rival schools of art in this country and in Lon don are swinging critical cudgels for and against the Barnard production. The New York Art World and the New York Sun support the criti cisms of the president's son, while Sculptor Mc Monnies and Miss Ida Tarbell, a Lincoln bi ographer, on tins side, and Gordon Edwards and W. Roberts in London, champion Barnard's work as "a masterpiece." ' The donors with whom rest the choice wisely deferred action until after the war. One war at a time is sufficient. Besides the canons of art will not suffer while the cannons of battle aim for a settlement of larger questions. Sheriff Clark has won out in court on his bill for feeding county prisoners at the price stipu lated by statute. So long as the law remains as it is the sheriff is entitled to a fixed amount per person per day regardless of the varying costs. The Bee repeats that the law should be changed so that county jail inmates be fed at county expense without profit the same as inmates of the detention home or county hospital. The wish must be father to the thought of the Bulgar preacher who regaled the Ministe rial union with assertions of unconquerable kai serism. In a drawn war lies the sole hope of the Bulgars getting away with the territorial loot garnered through the slaughter of neighbors. The moral tone of that brand of preaching is in keep ing with the source. :On September 1 last retail prices of bread in twenty-five different American cities of this coun try varied from 6 cents a pound in Boston to 10 cents a pound in San Francisco and IS cents a pound in Columbus, O. a difference of only ISO per cent What's the answer? By Victor Rosewater- JT IS NOT OFTEN that a city is privileged. as Omaha has been this week, to entertain a former president of the United States and a for mer vice president of the United States, on two successive days. It is interesting to note, too, that both Mr. Taft and Mr. Fairbanks were here as volunteers in the campaign to arouse the American people to a better realization of the task devolving upon us as a consequence of the war, and to urge wholehearted response to the demands for the support of the needful war ac tivities. Here we had two distinguished leaders of the political party representing policies and principles diametrically opposed to those cham pioned by the political party of which President Wilson is the recognized chief, yet giving him every possible aid and encouragement for the successful prosecution of a war which, as Mr. Taft said, during the last campaign was said to be "ours," but which after election soon became "theirs." This is significant of the solidarity of the country regardless of past and present politi cal differences and the ready subordination of partisanship to patriotism whenever the national emergency requires. I I O DAY I One Year Ago Today In the War. Count Karl St'uorgkh, Austrian premier, assassinated by Friedrich Adler. British advanced on a front of near ly three miles in Somme district In speech at Shadow Lawn Presi-. dent Wilson declared he did not ex pect United States to get into the war. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The youngr people's association of Kountze Memorial church gave an en tertainment for the benefit of St Mat thew's mission at the church. The program consisted of vocal and in strumental music intermingled with elocutionary selections. C. H. Broderick's colleagues ten dered him a surprise party on the oc casion of his birthday and he was pre- Mr. Taft was in a particularly jovial humor all the time he was in Omaha. The famous Taft smile was continuously in evidence and every now and then transformed itself into the Taft chuckle, a sort of audible smile asserting itself as the ad vance agent of a joke or witticism still revolving in his mind on the point of being launched upon his hearers. Notwithstanding this warning, how ever, his mirth is irresistibly cbntagious,yet does not prevent taking seriously whatever is seriously meant. Mr. Taft has long been recognized as a jurist aid a statesman and now he is proving himself also a philosopher by his philosophical acceptance of the peculiar limitation! that go with the unique distinction ot being an ex-prestdent, and which must be almost as trying as those that rest upon a president. It is Violating no confidence to di vulge Mr. Taft's belief that the war is due to last at least another year and that no one is in position to torecast just when it will end. He also does not hesitate to say that in his opinion the problems the nation will have to deal with after the close of the war will be as difficult and perplexing as those with which we are now confronted. Former Vice President Fairbanks was also in a mirthful mood during the few hours of his visit to our city and the little speech that I heard him make at the Boyd was a gem of pointed pleas- ... I ' I ".I . . .7 . p r aniry comDinea wun patriotic iervor. Mr, Fair banks has been here so often that he feels quite at home in Omaha and he makes everyone feel perfectly at home with him. He was cast for a strenuous schedule of speaking before the aud iences in a half a dozen playhouses, one after the other, and the cheerful way he accommodated himself to this exacting effort and carried out his part of the program evoked the admiration of all. An attempt was made to persuade him to stay over for the reception for Mr. Taft the next day, but he had been booked 1 for a regular itinerary as Liberty loan spokesman, and had to make his train, although with evident regret at having to forego the, opportunity. Another event of the week charged with more than usual significance was the dedication out on the medical college campus of the new clinic hos pital to be operated as an adjunct of the state university. All the speakers stressed the diffi culty experienced in impressing the lawmakers with the need of a hospital to care for the state's indigent sick and the obstacles put in the way, chief among them the assertion that the people throughout Nebraska would derive no benefit be cause Omaha would "hog it all" to the exclusion of outside patients. . The rules adopted for the conduct of the hospital safeguard thoroughly against the possibility of such abuse, and if its work is carried on efficiently as it surely will be, it can not lack in popular favor. The reason is obvious, for even at the start the hospital can supply 120 beds. Assuming that they are only in part occupied and that each patient on the average remains a whole month, it will still be sending out approximately 1,000 people every year woo have enjoyed its benefits, and the grati tude of each patient should be shared by at least two or three other folks from whom burdens will have been lifted. The rapid accumulation of these direct beneficiaries in every county in Nebraska should bring the advantages of the state hospital home to every community and no state institu tion should have a more solid foundation or less precarious position. Prince and Patriot Boston Transcript- Cardinal Tames Gibbons, archbishoo of Balti more and primate of the Catholic church in Amer ica, is not merely a prince of the church he is a prince among American citizens as well, and by reason of his thorough Americanism, as well as by the graces of his soul and mind, he is dear to the oeoole of our citv and state ' of everv com munion and every inheritance. 'Never has Cardi nal Gibbons failed in any' service or in any thought connected with , his obligations as an American; never. has his example to his fellow citizens been otherwise than excellent and never has he descended to an attitude of mischievous antagonism to fellow citizens of any faith who are doing their honest best to perform thejr pri vate and public duty. Cardinal GibbonY ready acceptance of the honorary chairmanship of the patriotic League for National Unity was quite in the line of his record of American citizenship and it is cheering to see that it is accepted by the president as a distinguished service to the nation. Accepting this honor, Cardinal Gibbons has writ ten to the president a letter in which, after de claring that for a Christian no other course is open but that of obedience and devotion to coun try, says: We nave been exerting our every enort, and will continue to do so, to persuade all Americans that they can do the greatest good to themselves and their country by a cheerful and generous performance of their duty as it is pointed out to them by lawfully constituted authority." It will, be seen that the cardinal s loyalty is qualified by no thought outside of the thought of God. and country and by no notion of the su premacy, in such a time as the present, of a pri vate opinion or predilection which is superior to the cause upon which the whole nation has put the Seal of its approval and devotion. All may rejoice in his words and none should take them more, thoughtfully to heart than those inheritors of the Puritan name who in this emergency may Tje inclined to put esoteric conceit above patriotic duty. .And President Wilson very gratefully ac cepted the great cardinal's message as one not only of personal, but of national "cheer and reas surance.' The counsel of the head of the Catho lic chur... in America in regard to the obligations of his countrymen in this crisis is worthy of all men to be received, who have a right to the name American. But what a rebuke they are to that miserable minority in the nation who oscillate between seditious silence and slanderous speech! People and Events The patriotism . of Philadelphia frequently manifests itself in bulging chests. It differs little from the article visible elsewhere and would not be particularly noticeable except for the proud claim of being the "great American city of the union." Still the city harbors a goodly precent age of patriots glued to the policy of looking out for No. 1. As an example of prevailing thrift the Ledger reports that cigar dealers slap the war tax of one-twentieth of a cent on a nickel ci gar and charge nineteen-twentieths of the cent for the labor of putting the tax over on the consumer. Could vou beat It? sented with a number of presents, the most valuable of which was a bottle of mucilage. Popcorn, a pound of hay and small fruits made up the balance. The Emmet Monument association will give a ball at exposition hall for the benefit of the Irish National league. George A. Hagland, with a party of gentlemen, is hunting black tail deer in the mountains of Montana, Charles Murray of London, Canada, who has located in this city, owns a pair of Llewellyn setters worth $1,000. The democrats of the Second ward held a mass meeting in the old Bo hemian hall on Thirteenth street. Daniel O'Connell called the meeting to order and Max Kuhn addressed the audience, other speakers being George Shields, Gustav Beneke, George H. Guy and John Drexel. The chess players of Omaha held a meeting last night and it was agreed to take steps looking to the organiza tion of a permanent club. John Thompson, Grant Parmelee, Dick Metz, Dr. G. W. Boerstler, Tom Cotter and S. G. W. Grlswold are at Waubuncy Lake, Ida. The pastor of the North Presby terian church of this city has started a little folio sheet called "The Mon itor," which will be devoted to the publication of the news appertaining to that church. AROUND THE CITIES. This Day In History. 1774 John Jay's "Address to the People of Great Britain" approved by congress. 1707 The famous frigate Constitu tion ("Old Ironsides") was launched at Boston. 1837 General James A. Beaver, civil war commander and governor of Pennsylvania, born at Millerstown, Pa. Died January 31, 1914. 1842 Horace, W. Robbing, who at tained high rank among American landscape painters, born at Mobile, Ala. Died in 1904. 1861 Confederates defeated the federals at battle of Ball's Bluff, Vir ginia. 1870 Chartres, 48 miles southwest of Paris, was taken by the Germans. 1892 Formal dedication of the World's Columbian exposition at Chi cago. 1913 Colonel Roosevelt welcomed at Rio Janeiro on his trip to South America. 1914 French reported progress on the right bank of the Meuse. 1916 French stopped German as saults on a five-mile front in Cham-, pagae. The Day We Celebrate. r- John Burns, celebrated English la bor leader and statesman, bom tn London, 59 years ago today, Louis N. Parker, one of the most successful of English playwrights, born in France, 65 years ago today. George E. Drummond, who estab lished the iron Industry in Canada, born in Ireland, 69 .years ago today. Ralph H. Cameron. Arizona capital ist and political leader, born at South port, Me., 64 years ago today. Jay N. Darling ("Ding"), noted car toonist born at Norwood, Mich., 51 years ago tday. My Soldier. "A boy," said the kindly old doctor, as he felt his way down the r'air-rail. He put his arm around the shoulder of the man he met at the bottom, and they stood there listening. A small cry carried down to them, so that tears glistened in the man's eyes as he bade the old doctor good night. "A smart' boy," said the teacher, when he got his lessons well. "A wonderful boy," said the maiden, who worshipped him from afar. "My boy," said his country, when the call came To War! "Our boy," said his mother and father, as they proudly watched him march away to take his part in the great struggle for freedom and hu manity. -Curtis Flyleaf. Storyette of the Day. On the western plains the sheep man goes out wtih several thousand head and one human companion. The natural result is that the pair, forced on one another when they least want it, form the habit of hating each other. An ex-sheepman while in a narra tive mood one evening was telling a party of friends of a fellow he once rode with. "Not a word had passed between us for more than a week and that night when we rolled up in our blankets he suddenly asked: ' 'Hear that cow bell?' " 'Sounds to me like a bull, I re plied. "No. answer, nut , tne following morning 1 noticed mm packing up. " 'Going to leave?' I questioned. " 'Yes,' he replied. '"What for?' "'Too much argument.'" Milwau kee Sentinel. . , Pittsburgh's anti-moke campaign is cred ited with effecting 75 per cent savins in damages, equal to $7,500,000 a year. Con servation pays. The largest skyscraper hotel in the world is going up near the Grand Central station in New York. It is a gigantic affair, will cost $12,000,000 and will be completed next year. Sioux City's truancy officer, Miss Anna Fobes, accounts for much ot the absences from schools by the statement that children are kept at home by mothers who spend forenoons chasing bargains down town. For the moment the halo of St Joe lacks the luster of other days. County Judge William Bub has been indicted and arraigned for trial on charges of forgery. The judge is not disturbed by the afTair and holds down his job as though nothing happened. New York taxpayers face another lively shakedown, about $26,840,000 more in 1918 than in 1917. The aggregate for city and state purposes is $237,954,549.57. The frac tion of the dollar suggests a bargain figure, but the people who pay are not likely to see it in that light. Revised insurance schedules filed with the state superintendent at Topeka call for a boost of from 20 to SO per cent on all classi fications except dwellings, in Kansas. In surance men expect to put the new rates into effect this month, but the state super intendent has not said the word. Salt Lake's Maaonie community has fin ished harvesting a potato patch of ten acres planted last spring. Quality and quantity surpassed expectations. The tubers are be ing sold at $1.60 per sack of 100 pounds,' and only one sack to each purchaser. Poor and dependent are given preference. Minneapolis sits up and takes notice of an official search which revealed 175 blind pigs actively rooting into the coin hitherto pouring into the coffers of licensed saloons. One unfeeling alderman suggests as a rem edy that the police should be persuaded to remove the dimmers from their lamps. Down by the Kaw's mossless banks a Lib erty bond hustler bumped into a blunt, in discreet knocker. He did not own a bond, did not want one and would not tray one. The case was reported to the hustling com mittee of Kansas City, Mo., and comment was too hot to print. As the firm to which the knocker belongs holds a government contract, the committee expects to stage a jolt in due time. SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. A cereal cooker has been invented that can be inserted in the top af tea kettle so that both are heated over the same opening in gaa range. A process has been invented in Europe for converting water into hydrogen peroxide with chemicals that afterward are recovered for further use. The introduction ot electrical processes has made it profitable to reopen lead and silver mines in Norway that have been closed more than 40 years. A new type of gasoline gauge for automo biles, in which a float causes a hand to reg ister on a dial, can be substituted for the regular tank cap. ' For removing hair from hides to he tanned English chemists have developed h process using lime, sulphur and soda instead of more expensive chemicals. When the ground is covered with snow in at least one city in Norway a trackless trol ley car hauls as a trailer a passenger car mounted on runners. - Two endless friction belts, revolved dose together and in the same direction, but at different speeds, feature a new machine for hulling small grains. A tiny electric lamp and mounting have been designed to be attached to almost any electrical device to give warning that the current is turned on. A new book carrier made' of flexible ma terial has pockets in its inner sides, into which the covers of a book may be inserted and extension handles. A New York man has patented a spring clothes, pin that grips a line with on end and a garment with, the other so that they ire ot broiight into contact '. .;j,-:! ' .' i r T-Z- . v BUY A BOND! ' ! DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Flubdub had one of these egg romances. "Egg romances?" "He wrote his name on an egg and got a wife." "I'm. Is the mi-rriage a- success?' "I dunno. But I do notice f. at he noir has a pronounced aversion for eggs." Louis ville Courier-Journal. Mae Are you knitting for the soldiers? Fae O, yes. the loveliest light blue sweater, which none of them can fail to ad mire when they see me with it on. Phila delphia Bulletin. "When Jacob bought Esau's birthright for his pottage he did what no other buslnesa man ever succeeded in doing." "What is that?" "He made a success of his Investment by getting tt in a mess." Baltimore American. Little Helen looked out of the window at the autumn leaves falling and asked: 'Mamma, did God make the trees?" "Yt-s. dear,' was the reply: "of coursa he did." "Then they shouldn't be all coming to pieces so soon," said the child soberly. Boston Transcript. Wife What do you find so Interesting in the paper, dear? Husband I waa just looking at the money market. Wife Oh, do they have a money market? Are there ever any bargains? Boston Transcript "Here, waiter, this plate is damp" said a traveler, who was dining In a cheap restaurant. "Ah," said the waiter, "that's your soup. We serve only Bmall portions In wartime." American Boy. "This high cost of living is something fearful." "What can we doT As the ancient Greeks used to say, matters are on the knees of the gods." "We'll see patches there, too. It this keeps up." Louisville Courier-Journal. Mrs. Russell What la your husband's average Income, Mrs. Harper? Mrs. Harper Oh, about midnight. Life. Do you believe that scientist who sayi that there Is something invented which can invariably tell when a man is lying?." "H'm! Believe It? I know It." "Ah, perhaps you have seen oaa of the Instruments?" "Yes. I married one." Sunday Maga- "Come, come. Triggers," snapped the In structor as the recruit shot wide of the mark; "1 don't believe you could hit a furniture van." "Weil, you needn't say anything," re torted Triggers; "you missed a train yester day." Boston Transcript 5t3r HEALTH idllliSl1 1 ; - . . j- . i w Would you help' your eountry'a cause? ; i Buy a bond! Help uphold our land an i laws, Buy a boM' Help our brave boys win the fray, Hasten then, make no delay; Co not wait a single day Buy a bond! II L,et loyal souls all quickly act, Buy a bond! Make freedom's cause a settled fact. Buy a bond! Help put down the Turk and Hun, Their place was never In the sun. Let freedom's cause b- quickly won Buy a bond! Ill Only Huns and slackers croak, Buy a bond! They will soon be but a joke, Buy a bond! Be a patriot grand and true. The Issue, friend, is up to you. Be an American through and through Buy a bond! Chicago. W. H. DIXON. THE ROAD To Nerve Efficiency EVERYBODY knew that sound made vibrations, but it was Edison who dis covered that vibration could be registered In wax, thus endlessly multiplying the world's supply of music. Everybody knew that there' was not a movement or a function of the body without nerve power, but it was D. D. Palmer who discovered that disease was caused by inter ference with, or pressure upon nerves at the spine. He found the twenty-four movab'e vertebrae of the spina column were frequent ly out of alignment, causing' spinal nerve pressure, which weakened, or diseased the body. In five years of uniformly successful practice I have found that the health cannot be right while the spine Is wrong. If you want health, ' writs to me for information or call for free examination.' DR.J0SEPH C.LAWRENCE Established as a CHIROPRACTOR SinceM I Bard Bio?. NW. Cor. l7i&Mlas Str. orncs HOUHS tclcphoncs O-lt K-tr. MPM, OWm-OOUWAS 4l (XCtrr SUNDAY KJ-VALNUT 04 A comparison of our services and the bills we render prove our consistency. . A modern under taking business to be successful must be conducted along the lines of "so much for so much." Thus do we plan and carry out a burial. N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor. (Established ISM) 17th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Doug 1060 HERE AND THERE. More than two-thirds of the entire area of Australia has an annual rainfall of less than 20 inches. As a result of its extensive sugar and tobacco production Cuba is reported to be the most prosperous of ail Latin-American republics. At Kambove, in the heart of Africa, there is a modern missionary printing establish ment, with a book store, which supplies books in 12 native languages. Many of the homes of Chinese in Nadoa, Hainan, China, use simply constructed stoves modeled after one invented by the mission aries for use in the hospital kitchen. One of New York's newest laws in the in terest of pure foods insists that every egg placed in cold, storage shall be dated. This date must be stamped upon the shell in clear figures. About 70,000 church bells, destined for the smelter and ultimately for conversion into munitions of war, have been received by a big bell foundry at Apoldo, in the Prus sian province of Hanover. In all English counties births in the 10 intercensal year outnumbered deaths, yet in six London, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Cardigan, Radnor and Montgomery the population decreased, showing the losses by migration. A law has just been passed by the Par liament and approved by the president of the French republic setting aside (50,000,000 for the purchase of raw material and ma chinery for the Invaded and liberated dis tricts of northern France, with a view to their Industrial rehabilitation i 1 y a 1 I y Our Boys In France Without Food and Equipment Are Helpless. A LIBERTY BOND Will Deliver Their Punch. Widow and Children Without Insurance Are Handicapped. A Certificate In The i Woodmen of the World Will Help Them Face the New Life. We Heartily Recommend Both. W. A. FRASER, J. T. YATES, Sovereign Commander. Sovereign Clerk. ssTrasjassTaJ WINTER TOURIST FARES TO NEW ORLEANS Via Illinois Central Tickets to all points cn sale October 1st, good re turning until June 1st, 1918. SOLID STEEL EQUIPMENT. Rates and information at City Ticket Office, 407 South 16th street . S. NORTH, District Passenger Agent. THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU Washington, D. 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