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THE BEE! OMAHA. rTCTOAT. .TTJLT 12. 1918. The Omaha Bee DAtLX. '(MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY BOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR RQSEWATER, EDITOR ' THK BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rue litMUtad Press, ot bK The 9 ! msmbsr. t entitled lo lb bm for publication of tU new, dispatches eradiuo tu tt or aot otherwise credited la tsts paper, and also U loel ew ixibllabed herein. 411 rights of publics tioo of oui special dupaPDv tra also renrnw.' OFFICES ruiu-4'M am Bolldlns. ("hlcain-Pentiis's Botldln. 8autb Omaha S31S N. t Now York M fifth an. Council Bloffs-lt N. Itais a. BL Louts K w rV of Commute. Llaisolu Little Building. Wssblmton 1511 0 I MAY CIRCULATION Daily 69,841 Sunday 59,602 Irvtt stieoUtlen tot Ui moeta. subscribed ud ivon to tt Dwtgb' Ml 11101. Circulation Muaiier. Subscribers leaving ths city sheuld hava Tb Ba-mailed to them. Address chanfad at olua aa requested. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG. fir ! Willi I i lilMii i: When Nebraska voted "dry" it .did not bar gain for a perpetual drouth. Oh, yes, politics is adjourned, but not by the democratic gang in our court house. Gerrymanders usually prove boomerangs, as the democratic plotters may find out. The government ought to be able to take over 'Hie, wires if necessary without so much wire pullfnfi. ' The claim is set up for the Kansas City gas plant that it is worth $8,450,000. Conundrum: What 19 the Omaha gas plant worth? 'loo many Omaha autoists are defying the law requiring them to stop where a street car is loading or unloading passengers. Take no foolish chances. , Fifty more Belgian girls have been killed by Hun air raiders, who bombed an ambulance park. This will require an extra issue of the iron cross. Prince Lichnowski is to lose his place in the Prussian house of lords because he told the truth about the Potsdam plotters. If that is all they do to him he will be getting off lightly. Finlanden are not happy, but hungry, under the rule of the kaiser, and ask us to feed them. They should have looked ahead a little when they were carrying on their revolution. Candidates for the legislature will have to let it be known whether they are for of against the fee graft in the court house, and silence will nlean that they are with the fee grabbers. ijFoxyl What's foxy? Why, for the former partner and client of Mayor Smith to bring the suit to test the law under which the. city is pro ceeding for municipal ownership of the gas plant. Observe Senator Hitchcock again lining up with the wets, although Nebraska voted dry by a 29,443' majority Irr-the same election that gave the senator 11,723 majority. "Let the people rule!" The city commissioner who will come for ward with' a well-thought-out plan for disposal of the city's garbage and secure its adoption and enforcement will earn for himself the thanks of the householders, whether he collects any other reward or not. . . " General Pershing Rebukes Exaggeration. It is unpleasant to think that the general commanding our army in France Jias been called upon to deny stories set afloat by an un named soldier. - However, the incident will serve to emphasize one of the often-forgotten duties of the soldier. This is to keep within bounds of cold official facts at all times. Nothing in this can be taken as in any way minimizing the of fenses of the Hun against decency, morality and established usages ot nations, as wcu as me con tentions of warfare. From Liege down to the. latest exploit, the bombing of an ambulance park on Tuesday night, when fifty Belgian girls were killed the whole course of the war on part of the Germans has been one unbroken story of outrage, brutality "unspeakable, irpwhich helpless children, innocent babes, men and women, old and young alike, . have, suffered. Nowhere is there to' be found anything to extenuate, palliate or condone the ghastly, and at times unbelievable, Sets that have been done in the name and cause nf Lnllnr Rut this rloe tint rxruse a soldier for going beyond the bounds of truth. The general has supported the traditions of the American army by his act, and its final effect should be to steady our boys both at home and abroad, as well as to put greatertrength back of official state ments. Exaggeration will not be thus eliminated, but it will be discouraged, so far as soldiers are concerned. , HIGH TIME FOR A CHANGE. The eleventh-hour secret gerrymander of Douglas county commissioner districts perpe trated by the democratic majority of the county board is an outrage upon the voters that should quickly react as a boomerang. The three democratic commissioners, whose terms are about to expire, have attempted to re draw the district boundaries for their own per sonal advantage, in disregard of all fairness and decency. Perhaps it is hardly right to credit them with the handiwork of this piece of strategy, for it gives indubitable evidence of "Art"-istic skill and political farsightedness behind the scheme which was hatched way back chfring the last session of the legislature, whenthe pre liminaries were pulled off by changing the law for the election of commissioners by districts instead of by the whole county, as had been the custom for years. The discredited democratic bunch in control of the county board had a hunch at that time that they would be evicted if the voters ever had an opportunity to get them and that they could at best hold on only by trickery and subterfuge. They know, too, that the odious court house scandal, uncovered in the Lynch ouster trial, in which his associate commissioners were more or less involved, has not improved their prospects. And finally they cannot help but read the signs of the times in the spring election clean-out of the democrats from the city hall. Hence the present desperate resort to redistricting. Gerrymander or no gerrymander, it is high time for Douglas county to make a change in the contol of the county board. To Curtail Home Consumption. One of the purposes of the new revenue bill will be to restrict tfie purchase of luxuries and unnecessary articles by the A"1"'-'" people. The object is not to deprive anybody of what is needed, but to enforce economies that will per mit greater contributions to the financing of the war. In his letter to the house committee on ways and means, accompanying his estimates for the current year, Secretary McAdoo uses the following language: I doubt seriously if the Rovernmcnt can be financed with only $4,000,000,000 derived from taxation, because, with a tax no larger than this, sufficient economies will not be forced upon the people of America, and without such economies I see no way in which the great financial opera tions of the government can be safely con ducted. Accepting the yiew of the secretary of treas ury as justified, the ntare vital question presents itself: Are the people ready to submit to the restrictions hinted at? Will they give over their luxuries, their comforts, their little extravagances, without demur, that they may be able to provide larger sums for public needs? Such a tax will not fall on the rich alone, for their luxuries at the utmost will not produce the amounts needed. The burden must be borne chiefly by those who are only comfortably situated. Against this must be weighed the national need. Plainly, we are coming to the place where we will have to make some real sacrifices for the country. Germany's Domestic Politics. Final acceptance of the resignation of Foreign Minister von Kuehlmann and reported appoint ment of Admiral von Hintze teethe imperial cab inet has occasioned a slight flurry among German politicians.. Particularly are the. socialists flut tering about in an attempt to improve their posi tion in the Reichstag. Threatened refusal to vote for the imperial budget looks like a big at tempt to hold up the kaiser's program. It is a colossal bluff, however. Von Hintze will in good season announce to the Reichstag so much of his policy as the high military command deems essential to its purpose, and, whether or not the socialists vote for the budget, the war will go on. The far more interesting phase of the situa tion is that the selection of the new foreign min ister from among the innermost junker circle in dicates the. waning influence of Bavaria and the reascension of Prussia. When through the re markable coalition of the socialists and the Cath olics in the Reichstag, von Bethmann-Hollweg was forced from the chancellor's office, and finally von Hertling, a Bavarian, was called to the place,- a singular change in Germaf control seemed almost consummated. Hertling, how ever, has proved sufficiently reactionary to suit all purposes of the war element, which still fully dominates in Germany, and the socialists were balked of any triumph they might have antici pated. , With the new appointment the world may note the determination of the Prussians to re tain control of German destiny. The whole af fair is important rather because of its relation to the home politics of the empire than for its bearing on the war. Railroads are making quite a high score for disastrous wrecks under government manage ment. HeaJ-on, collisions in broad daylight be tween first class trains bespeak lost motion some where, v "Doc" Garfield will do more than congress to oust King Alcohol if he carries Out his threat to deprive the breweries of fuel. In the Woods of France Nature In Summer Garb In Sight of the Fighting Line London Times Letter. Large woods form in the north of France; European affinity is more marked than among a preserve of the wild life which to English eyes is tiencietu in tne neicis ana villages. Here are the Turds and flowers which recall our countryside with its sheltering hedges, and the "wet, bird-haunted English lawn." And here, a few miles back from the line, the stimnier life of nature proceeds untroubled by the rumble of the guns and the drone of the aeroplanes overhead, in a kind of inviola ble fairyland. From the cast side of one such wood one looks over miles of undulating upland, first colored with summer crops, and gradually growing higher and whiter till it merges in an opaline haze on a thirsty and famous ridec. All day and all night the guns pant on the ridge, breaking our. at irregular and j to us inconsequent intervals into spells ot "druni-fire," lastiiigT20 minutes, an hour, three hours. Then we may see in the coolness of gathering night the horizon ringed with the serried line of German lights, ascending like stalked lilies of fire, blooming brightly and steadily against the darkness, and descending and fading on the ridge. By day these out bursts of the guns seem to intensify the misty gtrfre on the distant chalk, and to send the dry east wind flurrying in a tenser rest lessness into the boughs of the beeches. Their quiet aisles and happy summer life seem an anachronism, an existence half un real; and yet theirs is the real and stable life, and their orioles and orchids will continue when the guns are stilled and children roam again on the ridge. The woods combine familiar English features with others which belong more definitely to continental Europe. Primroses cease between the mouths of the Seine and th' Somme: they are replaced by the true oxlip, a primula which strangely ousts the primrose in the same way from a certain tract in Essex and the neighboring counties. Wide spaces in the wood are now clothed with its cowsliplike leaves,' mingled with anemone leaves and the green heads of seed ing bluebells. In more shady places the lily of the valley has been flowering in broad beds, excluding almost all other vegetation, as it does in certain woods on the Cotswold hills. Herb paris, Solomon's seal and blue columbine recall choice corners of English copses; and other shade and moisture-loving plants, such as yellow nettle, pink valerian, ragged robin and wood sanicle are as abund ant here as there. But in no small patch of English wood would one be likely to find seven kinds of orchis blooming together tWayblade, purple, fly orchis, butterfly, bird's nest, large burnt orchis and white helle borne though all are rare or common Eng lish species. Among tfie birds of the wood the central lts nowers. song-mrusucs, iuuuu, ,i.v wrens and blackcaps are not only much scarcer than they are in England, but sing more feebly. This is a marked characteristic of the less abundant song-birds in France. It seems to be due to the comparative lack of the incentive of rivalry. One singing thrush or robin impels another of its kind to more eager song; and the more numerous the singers, the better the performaace of all, or almost all. Whitethroats, which are abundant in this part of France, sing at least as spiritedly as in England. The scarcity of song-thrushes is very marked? and they sing for so many months, and so admirably, that no other bird can quite take their place. The pair of great grey shrikes which haunt the oaks still standing in a wide clear ing are to English eyes larger and paler butcher-birds; but we have no bird in Eng land at all like the golden oriole. It is true that orioles visit England, have nested re peatedly in one small district and would probably colonize a wider southern tract if they were not persistently shot. But very few people have seen them in England; and they are equally delightful to ear and eye. Figure a bird of graceful form and brightest golden yellow, as large as a missel-thrush, and looking larger from his brilliant color. Splash his wings and tail with black, to set off the yellow more alluringly; set him at home among the branches of tall shade trees and bid him hang his nest; like a goldfinch's, among their outmost forks. Give him a voire of exotic sweetness, and more than the black bird's careless ease, and animate him with a mixture of activity and shyness which keeps him perpetually flashing half-seen among his high boughs and. screening foliage some times a golden gleam and sometimes only a fugitive liquid voice. So you will have made your oriole; and for his own part, to show he, too. is earthly, he will change his note at times, and squall and screech in the tree-tops in a voice you will not realize, is his own. His hen is a duller greenish bird, distantly resembling him, but only distantly. Making a game of his shy ness, he will sometimes whistle to rouse you in the grey of mornin-g, and then be no more heard about your dwelling all day. He has not many notes-seven is a lengthy strain but they have a rich, fresh sweetness like that of no other bird. And why, having made him, did you call him the oriole? From "oriolus," bad Latin for a little golden thing, in this case a bird, you will say. But his name in French is "loriot," and he tells you it as he sings. "Li, li, li, loriot," he calls from the beech-crown, above the steady undert6ne of the guns on the ridge; and nothing for them cares he. Boost for Municipal Bonds Big Investors Scramble for Tax Exempt Securities New- York Financial World. The extraordinary activity now obtaining in the municipal bond market is the result of a combination of circumstances, any single one of which would have been potent enough to create a demand in normal times. The combined action of these several factors has succeeded in producing a situation the like of which,never existed before in the memory of the Street. At the time that the priority board was created it became at once apparent that the new production in municipal securi ties would be greatly limited and higher prices were freely foretold as a result of the creation of this federal board. It was be lieved that the government's demand for funds would in a measure largely offset the appetite created by the limited supply, and this result proved to be the case for somei months after our entrance into the war. The demand during this period was undoubtedly keen, but until the close of the third Liberty loan municipal prices gently sagged to a level very close to a 5 per cent basis for the highest type of tax exempt municipal securities. Following the successful close of the third Liberty loan a more complete knowledge of the force of the war and excess profit taxes began to make itself felt both among corpo rations and investors, and there ensued a buy ing movement in tax exempts and a shifting of taxable investments that has culminated in a veritable scramble. The. enormously restricted supply of new issues and the stead ily growing demand for tax free bonds is daily making for lower yields, stimulated by the fact that there exists practically no old stocks on hand after the last 12 months of quiet distribution and housecleaning on the part of the municipal dealers. The first decided change in the public appetite was apparent in the success of the federal farm loan S's. The syndicate orig inally hoped to distribute $25,000,000 bonds, but $60,000,000 were taken almost without effort on a 4& per cent basis within the first 10 days of the operation and the bonds quickly rose to a premium of 1 per cent, their yield consequently dropping to a per cent basis, or lower. High-grade eastern cities, whose bonds were retailing from a 4)i to a 5 per cent basis 30 or 60 days ago are rapidly approaching a 4 per cent return. The appreciation in New York City bonds alone has run up into the millions, the longer term issues making a gain of nearly 10 points in almost as many weeks. An extraordinary feature of the demand has been its diversity geographically. Scarcely any of the Califor nia productions are marketed any more in the east, the supply for the home market being far below the demand. Kansas issues, even of the smallest municipalities, are of fered only at a yield below 4j4 per cent, and Illinois and Iowa loans are quoted from a 4H to 4.60 per cent basis. The greatest ac tivity has been in the New York market, where there are more millionaires than in any other given area of its size, and it is this type of buyer who has shown the greatest desire to convert his taxables and invest his fresh income in lax exempt securities. The new Buffalo 4 J- found a ready market on a 4.45 per cent basis. The future trend is apt to be influenced by the decision on many of the important matters now pending in Washington. The form of security to be issued by the war finance corporation has not yet been deter mined, nor is the extent of the exemption that will be granted to the October Liberty loan yet been any more than indefinitely tirptrhpd. On the other hand, it is certain that the income tax will be doubled and thati the excess profit taxes will be yet made to bear further increases, so that it seems fair to assume that the present buying movement will be gradually carried to a point where the actual market yield on obtainable municipals becomes so low that the cxcle will swing to taxable bonds on which the yield is suffi ciently large to return a living income after the payment of such taxes as the present congress may see fit to impose. People and Events A great volume of "holler" broke loose when New York's noise banishers attempted to muzzle the "hollers" of peddlers. Instead of hollering their wares they are "hollering their heads off" against the tyranny of the times. A steady run of fines promises an early reduction of the volume. The esteemed Charles H. Venner, bond broker and perennial knocker, continues swinging his hammer back in New York. His latest effort was directed at the Amer ican Telephone and Telegraph company, which plans an issue of $50,000,000 of bonds. Venner swung his hammer 'on the plan but his reach fell short. A peace telegram to President Wilson a few clays before war was declared rises up in Missouri to harass Senator Wilfley in his campaign, now in full blast. Wilfley stepped into the senatorial brogans of the late W. J. Stone by appointment, and now seeks elec tion. Joseph Folk, his chief opponent, waves the peace telegram on the stump and has Wilfley busy explaining and defending. The joykiller is always around, swinging his stuffed club. Just as the country ac cepted as a settled fact that the 20th century witnessed the first lady mayor in recorded i history, up pops the Orientalist of Oxford ... , T T . . I. . III J - ' witn a denial, ne says me iaay mayor whs a real live person, and charming, too, 5,000 years ago, when the Hittite family ranked as the 400 of ruling society. This may be history as it was carved in ancient times, but who will vouch for the accuracy of the transla tion? Ruthlcssness is delivering knockout blows in unexpected quarters. The Illinois Staatz Zeitung, after an existence of 70 years, has been sunk by the Potsdam torpedo. Th St. Louis Times seeks a divorce from the West liche Post, and Jacob Frohwerk, former edi torial writer on the Misouri Staatz Zeitung, tried in Kansas City last week, won convic tion in three minutes on 12 of the 13 counts of the indictment charging violation of the espionage act. Divided allegiance, is a risky hobby these times. Thanks from the Dundee Women. Omaha, July 10. To the Ed itor of The Bee: We realize that you have been very generous with space whenever the Dundee Woman's Patriotic club has pivn a benefit, and especially so at the time of our carnival. June 13. 14 and 15. but we would like to thank, throuph your column.", all those who so pen erously assisted us in that undertak inr. We ftre very grateful to the newFpupers. daily and weekly; to thp city commissioners, to the Nebraska Po wer com puny ami the Nebraska Telephone company, to Mr. Byrne and the attaches of the Orpheum theater, to Mr. Franke of the Auditorium, to Mr. Mogy Ber.stein and his little vau deville troupe, to Mr. Renze and members uf the working crew of Ak-Sar-Bon, to the Updike I .umber com pany, to Mr. E. E. See of tlje "(la!,' service." to the Nebraska Tent and Awning company, to Mrs. Jane Me Manus, to Mr. Louis Sommer, to our merchants, both wholesale and retail; to the printing companies and manu facturers. No rciiiest of ours, whether for time, labor, donations or money, hut was promptly and liberally granted. We know that our ..success must be very gratifying to all those who, in any way, however small, contributed to "it, and it is to those we wish to ex tend our most sincere thanks. MAY X,. GRKENLEAF, Secretary of the Dundee 'Woman's Patriotic Club. Reasons for Sunday Opening. Omaha, July 8--To the Editor of The Pee: At the meeting held Mon day, July 1, by the Retail Grocers' association and the city council the following statement was made and published in one of the daily papers: "If these 50 grocers who are asking for the passage of this ordinance can't make a living six days in the week, they should be given their pass ports and allowed to return to the countries from whence they came." You must agree that every retail grocer In Omaha, whether a member of the Retail Grocers' association or other associations are true Americans. We wish to state that insofar as pa tiotism is concerned this Sunday clos ing law has nothing to do with saving food or relieving man power for other work, as the average retail -grocer Is complying with every regulation is sued by the United States food admin istration. We all arl doing our best to help win this war, and the small retail grocer is doing proportionately just as much as any grocer in the United States. Our ability to buy large amounts of Liberty loan bonds, war savings stamps, as well as dona tions to the Red Cross, etc., Is to the utmost capacity of our means. There forew we wish to set right In the minds of the people why we conduct our business seven days a week. Being limited as to capital, and compelled to turn our stock many times over for a given profit, we must take care of the working class at the time they ara free to call at our stores, as any busines man knows his busi ness is conducted and regulated main ly by his customers. Therefore, we suggest that before such laws are en acted the class of people most affected should be consulted the working class. It is our desire to conform to all business rules as well as govern ment rules, and such laws should be enacted for all classes as well aa all bodies. I would like to know the difference between the keeping open on Sundays of groceries, and small delicatessens, drog stores, amusement parks, etc., that serve and sell canned, package and bulk foods. I feel this Sunday closing law should be general and should not apply only to the retail grocers. If it is deemed legal to close the retail grocers, this ruling should apply to every mercantile business selling any and til food products on Sunday. If conservation of foo is the main object of Sunday closing, and by so doing food is conserved to the extent of favoring the minority, the bill is wrong. The so-called small irocer is probably working in closer lines with the food administration ideas in the way Of ser ice and deliveries than any other class, for the customers of the small retail grocers have limited means, and, with the present high cost of food products, they are com pelled to buy often and in smaller quantities to give them their necessary living on small incomes. That is the reason the so-ca..- small retail gro cer is compelled to work longer hours and more days per week. A RETAIL GROCER. LAUGHING GAS. Mr- Justwed If your husband's Judgment hould differ from yours, what would you dJfr. Longwed I never had a chance to find out. He never dares to differ. Boston Globe. boln a shrimp cf a husband. Only e caslonally do, one et a chan J ( nomething worthy of her whip. Chlca Fust Llttl Edna (seetrf mother's new vcnh drss, Just arrived) Oh. mamma, now lovely! Will you wear tt ton gMT Mother No. dear, not tonight. Tola la for when ladles and gentlemen coma ! d'i:d"e Oh. mamma, let's rretend Just for one. that paras a gentleroan.-Boaton Transcript. "There Is no end to that fellow's pre tensions." , "Wliat is he doing now. "Tryinir to per.uade everybody he meis by Ins talk that he paid an Income tax. "altimore American. Tt's terrible to be poor and struggling." "Maybe there's I"" "'' "truK Some-limes T think opportunities ere 1 Ke libit. You're liable to scare them away with U much slruggUng."-l.oulsvllle Courier Journal. . IN HIS FATHER'S PLACE. A touching recent incident was the receipt by a Cambridge father of the following poem from his son in the Tank Corps ("I had no idea my boy was a poet," the father writes) m which the soldier boy eloquently puts himself in his father's place: Bicause Iam his father, they Kxpect mo to put grief away: Jiocause I am a man. and rough And sometimes short of speech an grufl The women folks at home believe . His absence doesn't make me grieve; I'.ut how I felt, they little know The day I smiled and let lilm go. They little know the dreams I had Long cherished for my sturdy lad; They little guess the wrench It meant That dav when off to war he went: They little know the tears I checked While standing smiling and erect: They never heard my smothered sigh When it was time to say goodby. "What does his father thtnjt and say?" The neighbors ask from day to day. "Oh! he's a man," they answer then, "And you know how it is with men." Hut little do they ever say They do not feel the selfsame wayi "Ho seems indifferent and grim, And yet he's very proud of him." TnUtfferent and grim! Oh. heart, He brave enough to play the part, Let not your real grief be shown; Koep all your loneliness unknown. To you the women folk must turn For comfort when their sorrows burB! You must not at this time reveal The pain and anguish that you feel. Oh, tongue, be silent through the years, And eyes keep always back the tears, And let them never see or know My hidden weight of grief and wot. Though every golden dream I had Was cherished In my dear young lad; Alone my sorrow I must bear; They must not know how much I cart. Though women folks may talk and weep, A man, unseen, his grief must keep. And hide behind his smile and pride The loneliness that dwells Inside. And so, from day to day I go, . Playing the part of man, although 1 Beneath the rough outsldo and grlna, I think and pray to Ood, for him. Boston Transcript. One Year Ago Today In the War. Cen. Sibert arrived In Pars on his way to American training camp. Russian reported capture of Ka liisz, . headquarters of the Austrian . army In Galicla. The Day we Celebrate. h. A. Ellis, with the Lee-Glass-An-dreesen Hardware company, born no. John F. Stout, attorney-at-law, born 1861. ' ' Rt. Rev. Philip It. McDevitt. Catho lic bishop of Harrlsburg. bora In Philadelphia, 60 years ago. Georg Eastman, inrentor of the "snap-shot" camera, born at Water - ville, N. T., 64 years ago. Sir Frederick K. Smith, the British attorney-general, born at Birken head, England, 46 years ago. This Day in History. ' 17 62 James Ross, Pennsylvana senator and personal counsel of George Washington, born In York County. Pa. Died at Allegheny, Pa., November 27, 1847. 1807 Andrew H. Roeder, first gov ernor of Kansas territory, born at Eastori, Pa. Died there, July f, 1864. 1862 Congress provided .2,000 "medals of honor" for distribution to non-commissioned officers and privates for gallant service. - 187 1 Many persons injured and killed in'Vrange riots la New York aiy. . .. J ust 80 Years Ago Today he State National bank has con cluded to go out of business and the office used by the bank has been rented by the Omaha. Bank association who will move into It immediately. The Omaha Fair and Exposition as sociation is sending out its fourth an- nual premium list for the fair which is to be held commencing September I, and continues to the 8th, inclusive. The Equalization board lowered the assessment of the Paxton hotel from 865.000 to tGl.OOO. . Edgar C. Snyder of the Excelsior will leave Saturday for an extended eastern trip. He will make a long stay in and around New York City. The Carter White Iad company deeded some lots on Twentieth street near their works to George I'hiller for a consideration of f 7,00 Round Aout the State P.aek of the lines political prophets of all colors predict a "general thrash ing" on August 20, and intimate that hospital reservations may be made in advance. The Sun of Beatrice would shine more genially if some Ungologist would explain "What do the flies and bugs which feast on picnickers live on from one Fourth of July to another?" Leaving Omaha and Lincoln out f consideration, the closest race for, bootleggers' money is between Kear ney and Kimball, the latter having the edge With a record of $700 In one week. Besides the money both towns show a fine line of conliscate autos. It Is a"fare day In July or any other old month that does not record an auto accident in the newspapers of the state. Most of the accidents call or hospital treatment; occasionally an undertaker gets the S. O. S. Ne braska roads are fairly good as roads go, but were not built for clipping oft 40 miles an hour and some over. Speeding up shortens the distance to the cemetery. So far the mofk reserves of Grand Island banks In the aggregate have been decreased only $412,000 by Liber ty bond drives and subscriptions to various war . activities. This is oft set thrice over by $1,500,000 invest ed in Liberty bonds and Thrift stamps In Hall county. "We have, therefore, not even invested our gains as yet," comments the Grand Island Inde pendent, and if the entire country's financial conditions is as good, Dirr peror William should wor ? '" Right to the Point Minneapolis Journal: The Russian printer now refuses to set up any article with which he disagrees. This probably includes the vodka. Wall Street Journal: Trotsky, fa voring German to Japanese interven tion in Russia, looks to the nearest ready money and tho least chance of hanging. Minneapolis Tribune: Ttie people of the United States will have a chance to reciprocate by helping Fiance celebrate the fall of the Bastile on July 14. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: There are two concealed pretzels and a dachshund in the Turkish tnrma for settling the war, as given out at Con stantinople. New York World: Even the black in the German flag is splotched by the blacker infamy of such a deed as the sinking ot tho hospital ship Llandovery Castle. New York World: During the inii in Khlnrmllrllnsr records, tha onm- hpletlon of the first of the 1,415 loco motives oraerea ov me ranroaa ad ministration in May may profitably engage the attention. Here again Is a speeding up performance greatly to the credit of American industry. f Baltimore American: Sweden has sent a protest to Berlin' against the scefel planting of German mine en dangering Swedish navigation. The neutral nations seem to have been hypnotized, ii. to a belief that. Berlin will pay attention to protests, de sylU the whole experience of the war. Twice Told Tales Right Over tho Counter. Some time since a woman went into a butcher shop and asked for two pounds of a certain kind of meat. Immediately the butcher started to oblige, and closely the customer watched him as he cut, sawed and chopped. "just a moment." finally Interposed the customer as the meat was being placed on the scales. "You are " "What's the trouble?" quickly In terjected the butcher. "This is the kind you wanted, isn't it?" "Yes," answered the woman, "but you are giving me too much bone." "Oh; no, I'm not," returned the butcher, denying what he thought was a charge of generosity. "Vou're paying for it." x Go To It. Recently a man who fancied he had six or seven different diseases was staying at a coast resort for his health. One morning the Invalid met the doctor that he was accustomed to call upon every time he thought he needed a new brand of pills. "Good morning. Mr. Jones." said the doctor, cheerily. "How are you feeling this morning?" "Rather good for me, doctor," weakly answered the patient. "While bathing yesterday 1 swallowed about a tablespoonful of salt water, which seemed to benefit me. Do you think I might take a little more?" "Why, yes," answered the physi cian, with an inward smile. "I don't think that another tablespoonful or two will be missed." Chicago Past. Worth Small Bet. Jf, as seems Possible, the Draft age Is raised To forty-flTS, x Mayba eoms at These chesty Old earthworms Who have Been annoying Tou to death About their Deep regret At being Too old To get in The army Will shut up. Macon Telegraph. madam"asked the jj Panging from pi- j , atiiuimo ineffably tweet to tkuiultrr j j 11 ing fortissimo, the I tonal veratilityy j jf tru MawnfHaralin, I is musically ideal 1! I -"and is rvot op- i i I Wracked by any j j lLotier piano iJm !Mke world Jzp i xJunvywWHY, 1513-15 Douglas St 4 l 'What Is your age, .'udge of a witness. "Your honor." answered the lady diplo matically, "that is something I will leave to your kind' Indulgence.' Boston Transcript. "What do you Intend to do after you leave college?" '..,. "Well. I haven't decided on anything def initely for the first year, except to come baxtt to the class reunion." Brooklyn Citi zens "Must be a terrible job" "What?" "That of a lady lion-tamer. .... .nmon la hnin llnn.tamer. iuw; e' ..w....... - i only most of them have to take It out In ( Hotel Dyckman Minneapolis FIREPROOF Opened 1910 Location Most Central 300 Rooms with 300 Private Baths Rates $1.75 to $3.50 Per Day H. J. TREMAIN, Pre, and Manager Reduced Railroad Fares To COLORADO The United States Government has authorized the fol lowing low Reduced Fare to DENVER and COLORADO common points from Omaha. (Similar .Reductions from other localities.) $24 00 Round Trip From OMAHA Plus 8 pet. war tax Tickets Now on Sale. Good Returning until Oct 31 Stopzvcrt Allowed at Denver and Alt Western Points on All Round Trip Tickets We have established a Rate Bureau and will advise you concerning the Reduced Fare from any point in the United States to Colorado or to other Sections of the West, y Denver Tourist Bureau, 658 1 TflT St., Denver Or call or address any of the following branches: rur AfiO KANSAS CITY ST. LOUIS COLORADO SPRINGS isfwf Madison. 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