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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918". The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING - SUNDAY i FOPyPKP BT EDWARD BOSKWATEB I, VICTOB ROSEWATER. EDITOR ' .THI BEB rCBUSHMO COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. 1 - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I'M ajseeialed mm. at wSnsb Ibt M U member. easiaaifei) entities: It Ui ai M ribliutloo at all erw i tvttrbm sradiM hmrM otaenrtw credited la thlt PP. and alio the loeeJ . BObUakeS aereia. AU Hatou of soUieatioe at oar special disaeVD tie ua mmi, ' OFFICES imana fss tfes WfWJB Boutk Omwlia ISII It f CoaneU Bluffs 1 H. Uaooia UlUe BalXtlaeV CUeefe ieorirs UU muidlae. Nnr tark-lM rtfth Am St Umle Hen H of Weehlniuo UU 0 St JUNE CIRCULATION Daily 69,02 1Sunday 59,572 lnrla stimUHoa for the oxmto. otaoritwd and twora to kf Omgb' Willi to. CironUaoa Manseer. x SukicrflMr leavta the city should hmrt The Bm mailed U them. Address chanf ed it a requested, s THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG. 111 J Yeaj you might call it a major action.' Watch the battle map closely, for it is chang ing every minute, and in our favor. ," Young Seacat of Benson having joined the navy, only one thing is left for the icadogs to do. . The Hitchcock-Mullen-Neville machine is not running much smoother' than the kaiser's these days. . . ' '.'. ' ' , Sugar has gone up again in price, affording the housewife another good reason to cuss the kaiser. I Heinie and Fritx move with; some celerity when they start for home with an Allied army after, them. . ! We may almost look for wbrd from Lens and Lille soon.' They still are on the map and not forgotten. Australians and Canadians are also new world fighters of approved mettle, and splendid com- ""panions for the Yankees. . ' V ' ' ' f" ' Those "unobserved withdrawals" are getting to be a habit with the Germans, whether the folks at home believe the tale or not. :-U Secretary Baker says the new draft law must be passed before September 5, but congress may have something to say about the date. German frugality and efficiency combined to get a lot of soldiers captured while harvesting French wheat fields without posting guards. '. If yon are in doubt as to whether we are win ning is the war, take a look at the market re ports, -wherein Liberty bonds are now quoted above par. . -Om -'V ' King Cora hat fairly recovered from the ef fect of th hot winds and the calamity howlers, and from now on all we will have to guard against it frost - y..:,-.-...-..-- .- , . " After reading the Omaha Hyphenated, one might almost be justified in concluding that its editor hat a favorite candidate for governor, and that hit name it not Bryan. The list of filings for the Nebraska legislature indicates that the "Hindenburg liners" still hav hopes of perpetuating themselves. Here is a good place for the democrats, as well as the re publicans, to distinguish themselves. ', American Spirit Tonic for World. . Two distinct notes, widely apart in character, but pointing to the same conclusion, are sounded in connection with American conduct in battle. , A French writer, highly praising the valor and dash of the Yankee boys who drove'across the Vesle, advises them to "practice the utmost econ omy of valor.",;! Against this a. correspondent of the Westminster: Gazette asks; "What will be the value of men or material if meanwhile the blunder is committed of giving the enemy breath ing space, and of treating the energy and fresh ness of the "American troops as of 410 account?" . Students of war quite naturally lean to the strat- WE GOT THERE IN TIME. When Hindenburg made his highest bid for victory in March, setting in motion the mighty force of the German military machine, the call from the defense to America rose above the bat tle din. "Htirry up!" was the word from French and British alike, as they stubbornly gave way before the rush of the Hun. In answer we have dispatched a million men to the fighting line. American divisions went into the melee, and by their presence aided in checking the invader; then it fell to their lot to take the initiative in what is developing into possibly the deciding contest of the war. An American division counter-attacked where it was supposed to retire, and by that simple action changed the current of battle. It may have been the moment Foch had awaited; the success that has followed shows he was prepared, but it was the act of an American general that set in motion the great movement which has so demoralized the German plans and has turned their forward into a backward move ment. The call to hurry was heard and heeded, and America arrived in time. From Rheims to Arras the foe is in peril; Paris is saved, the Channel ports are secure and Fritz is on his way back to Berlin because this great peace-loving democracy did shake off its sloth and translate its energy into action. Germans Write Germany's Doom. "They that take the sword must perish with the sword." This might have been spoken of Ger many, whose doom has been written by Germans. Not in the monstrous acts of inhumanity that have eursed the path whereon the Hun has passed; these cry aloud to heaven, it is true, but contem plation of them has not moved the American heart, awakened its compassion and aroused its temper as have the countless little acts of subli mated meanness and incarnate 1 cruelty noticed wherever the kaiser's army has marched. A doll house and dolls, crushed under the hob nailed heel of a Prussian brute, has stirred in one American something that no oratory could inspire. His righteous wrath boiled over at this proof of the callousness of th$ Blonde Beast, that wars on babyhood with the same unsparing pur pose that moves it to destroy churches, hospitals, homes everything that lies in its way as it goes about to set up kultur throughout the world. Dese crated and devastated homes appeal to our boys more directly and more potently than abstrac tions of politics or economics. They are fighting for the babies of France just as they would fight for the babies of the homeland. And the kaiser well may dread men animated by that spirit. Germany's death warrant was signed by the Ger man militarists. v keenest critics find at last utmost economy in , seeming extravagance. It is this the Westmin ster Gazette writer has in mind. To allow- the German time to reorganize and renew his attack, or even to adjust his forces so as better to bear the shock of assault, would be a blunder far more costly in .Ihe end than the expenditure of valor at the present in the way of pushing the offensive to a definite conclusion;, .Word from the battle front justifies the belief that the freshness and energy of 4 the American soldiers, their mental alertness and bodily fitness, has had a tonic ef fect on the Allies, and the new phase of the battle , is proof that we have furnished the world just about the restorative that was needed Austrian Intrigue and America. Noting a tendency on part of some of our leaders to console themselves with the, thought that Austria is at least partial to a world league of nations, Colonel George Harvey adds what he calls "a footnote to Austrian history" that isv un commonly interesting. He recounts in some de tail the elaborate intrigue of the Hapsburg ele ment to involve England and Germany in a war that would relieve Austria of its vassalage to Ger many and restore it to eminence, if not domi nance, in the world. Edward VII was made the victim of a confidence game in this regard, and nearly led into a trap that would have destroyed him, This was averted by the activity of a Ser bian prince, who succeeded in getting the' details of a terrible plot before the kaiser in such way fit to convince him and secure his intervention. Austrian diplomats boldly played England, Germany and Russia against one another, looking always to the advantage of the Hapsburg. All the time they were conniving with Catholic Bav aria for the re-establishment of the Holy Roman empire, with Austria as its head. How effective this latter move became was shown when the ultramontane leader, Mathias Erzberger, formed his remarkable coalition -with the socialists in the Reichstag and was able to unhorse von Beth-mann-IIollweg and Michaelis in succession, and to set up von Hertling, Bavarian reactionary, as chancellor of the German empire. America's concern in this may be found in the insidious approach of von Seydler, in his pre tense at anxiety for an accommodation of differ ences. The wily premier comes not as a Greek bearing gifts, but with the pretense of an hon orable foeman, desirious of peace. His purpose must be judged by his record, and close examina tion of Austria's recent history provides an am ple warning for Americans. Victims of Haps- KlirtT f4iirt1irr at mrrtrU ox.. ... -. ! a egy that economize, valor, but many of the! . The chairman (by right' of seniority) of the senate committee on foreign relations sees the United States taking a leading place in weltpoli tik. This is since he failed in his effort to keep us in line as an assistant 'advocate to the German exponents of that delightful "science," in which deception, double-dealing and downright rascal ity are' the upstanding qualifications. Judge Wilbur F. Bryant asks The Bee to state that he is in favor of all Americans standing to gether against Germans and pro-Germans alike. In this attitude the judge will have plenty of com pany. ; " Summer Days at the Front Straight Play and By-Plays Enliven Things If You ; t Stick Around On the front fact is living up to its repu tation and outstripping fiction. Take the word of the Stars and Stripes for it. Pub lished on the spot the official organ of lie American forces in France sees or hears much of the doings and tells as much as the censor permits. Here are a few: A certain infantry captain was in command of a headquarters companywhich had gone tor ward in support. He stationed his men behind a point where it was thought there might be need for them, and went forward with a lieutenant to reconnoiter. A few hundred yards ahead they came upon a formidable German machine gun nest in a ravine. They had approached so quietly that they were not discovered by the enemy. The captain sent the lieutenant back to bring the company forward. ; The men deployed and advanced, silently mounted machine guns, and, at a signal from the captain, opened fire. For 15 minutes the Americans deluged the Germans. When they stopped 70 enemy soldiers, all that were left 01 a company, arose and held up their hands in token of surrender. Not so a German lieutenant in command. He mounted a big rock and brandished a grenade, ready to throw it at the first of his men who started toward the Americans. The American captain, unseen by the lieu tenant, crept around the boulder and came up facing him, his revolver pointed at the German's head. The lieutenant paused and remained rigid until the Top, who had fol lowed the captain knocked the grenade from the German's hand. The lieutenant and his men were then made prisoners. The captain was recounting the adventure later. v j 7 "I had him covered with this little gat," he explained, exhibiting the revolver, "and if he had stirred I'd have plug " The captain did not finish. In the middle ot the sentence he abstractedly "broke" the revolver and twirled the chamber. There wasn't an unfired cartridge in it. He had emptied the weapon in the first firing and never reloaded it We may talk of the French and the Amer icans and William Jennings Bryan, but your true democrat is the cootie. He is the great est ignorer of class distinction and Jeveler of mankind the world has ever known. Two soldiers were sitting on the firing step of the first Une. One was a lieutenant, the other a private. "I wishj' said the lieutenant, "I had a franc for every cootie on my shirt." "So do I," said the private. The conversation lagged for a minute. "I guess," resumed the private, "everybody wishes that even the colonel. You know, he's got 'em, too. He won't admit it, but I saw one on his neck." One American unit is holding a stretch of line which runs through what used to be a village. Fritz has the remnants of the- rail road station and we have what is left of the Hotel de la Gare, just across the street. Up to the time the Chef de Gare departed sud denly one day, he nurtured a strawberry bed in front of the depot. He has been gone a long time, but the vines are doing fine. One of the duties of the first line sentries for weeks was to report on the condition of the berries. Finally, they were officially re ported ripe. That night the Americans or ganized a strawberry picking party and it was so successful that they have repeated it at intervals. If the reddening berries started any flow of sentiment or gastric juice in Fritz, he never showed it. Whether the fact that it's stolen fruit or that monkey meat, as a steady diet, is bore some, has anything to do with it or not, the Americans assert the berries are the sweet est they have ever tasted. "No Man's Land!" they exclaim. "Say, we own it." The front line is an example of extremes. It is usually either an extremely busy or an extremely quiet place. Frequently, during the day, there won't be a man oftener than every SO yards or so, and sometimes not that often. An ambitious movie operator arrived in a certain sector a few days ago. He was after "action stuff in the first line." "All right," said the major and pointed to the communicating trench that led ahead. The camera man gained the first trench. There was no noise, no movement, not a human being in sight. He might have been on Main street in a blue law town on a Sun day morning.. Finally he came upon a soli tary lookout, peering through the parapet. "There's not much doing now," said the sentry, "but you never can tell. Lemme see your helmet a minute." The sentry put the helmet on a stick and held it just over the top. "P-r-r-r-r-r-r-upl" said a machine gun. "Pingl" went the helmet and fell to the ground. "That's the way it is here," explained the Sentry. "Quiet but something likely to start any minute. Stick around." Did you ever go looking up your sins in an English-French dictionary? Take it from Private Edward Dolan of the engineers, it's a tough job. Private Dolan had wanted to go to con fession for a long while. He finally found a priest who was stationed near the particular part of the front which was his habitat at the time. The priest couldn't talk English and Dolan couldn't talk French, but he con fessed just the same. Here's how. The priest had a little English-French dictionary. He lent it to Pri vate Dolan, who looked through it until he found some of his sins listed. Then he would point them out to the chaplain. It took Private Dolan about two hours to make his confession, and he's not a particularly sinful member of the A. E. F. at that. The Hunger Stone at Tetschen- Its Bared Head In 1918 Lends Force to Its Prophecy s Julius Chambers in Brooklyn Eagle. The Elbe .is one of the great rivers of Europe. It rises among the fastness of Bo hemia and flows entirely across the German empire into the North sea, where it becomes the port of Hamburg. Mountain-born, it is rarely lacking in water, and, until it reaches the plains of Prussia, is inclined to be noisy and uncontrollable. Those of us who have watched the tender manner in which the cit izens of Dresden handle the Elbe have men tally contrasted it with the Tiber at Rome. There is no actual' similarity between the crystal stream we see in Saxony: and the muddy flood in Italy, but the stout walls that restrain the turgid impulses of the two rivers are very suggestive of sudden floods. At Madgeburg, the Elbe, having received sev eral affluents, sweeps along with entire con fidence in itself. Now, let us assume we are at the quaint little Bohemian town of Tetschen, 84 miles northeast of Prague, and snugly placed at the junction of the Polzen with the Elbe. We have stopped off on our way from Dres den to Vienna, let us say, to see .the finest old castellated chateau in all Bohetfiia, which played a large part in the seven years' war. As Bohemia is a crownland of Austria and the Dual empire is an ally of detested Germany, of course our visit will have to be mental rather than physical. We are at war with Germany, dead sure, but nobody knows whether we are or are not a belligerent of Austria. Two bridges cross the Elbe from Tetschen to Hodenbach the river is about the width of the Passaic at Passaic Bridge, but ont so mild and,, when the water is low, the chain bridge is crowded all day with superstitious people, mostly women, gazing into the stream below to detect, if possible, a flat, white boulder in midstream. They seek what . they don't want to behold, for upon this rock, during the terrible famine of 185, when half the population of the town died of starvation, an illiterate stone mason carved, in a mixture of Polish and Bohemian, the legend: "When my head is bared, you'll shed Aears in plenty." Although the big, flat-top rock is visible nearly every August, during the season of drouth, the good women of Tetschei) are al ways able to find something to grieve over. They take satisfaction in ascribing their mis fortunes to the exposed tablet. From generation to generation, an "Old Mortality" like he of the Scotch church yard described in Scott's novel recuts the inscription during low water, while a throng of muttering, superstitious women, watch him from the Elbe-Quai, or, of later years, from the railway bridge. , Belief . that dire famine or pestilence threatens whenever the boulder is exposed, has caused the rock to be regarded as an evil omen throughout Bohemia and the adjacent German kingdom of Saxony. It is univer sally spoken of as "The Hunger Stone." Curiously, the Elbe ran flood during the en tire summer of 1814, and there has not been low water in any season since the war began until now. This renders the Bohemians more sure of impending calamity. The proprietor of the Hotel Ulrich will shake his head when asked about! "the hun ger stone" and assure you that the omen, never fails. - Tetschen is only 38 miles southeast of Dresden, and a little steamboat makes the trip up river and down every day, when water is plenty. The distance by fast train is about 50 minutes.- AH hotel managers in Dresden recommend visitors to go up by rail and come back by boat.' The towrt had 9,600 inhabitants in 1901; a good band played every evening in a kiosk on the river parklet. Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary would do a clever thing if he had a dam built somewhere in the mountains, from which he could feed water in very dry seasons and always keep hidden the "hunger rock" at Tetschen. Causes in plenty exist for com plaint in Bohemia and through southerff'Gef many; the removal of any one of them would be wise. Still Kicking the Houn' Dog Where are the good old days when the speaker of the house loomed up as a power ful chieftain whose word was mighty and prevailed? Representative Slaydcn, whom a brief telegram signed "Woodrow Wilson" eliminated from the recent congressional pri maries in Texas, had previously received an endorsement from Speaker Clark. Mr. Slay den did not so much as allude to it in his statement of withdrawal. Nor was he the only representative to have the approval of the speaker in vain. The representative from Denver, Colo., who, like Slayden, had voted for the McLemore resolution, found dissatisfaction among his constituents and sent up a signal of distress to the speaker. Always ready to oblige, Champ Clark wrote a letter to the democratic county committee, affirming Mr. Hilliard's patriotism and de claring that he deserved well of his constit uents. Both statements were doubtless true, but they did not save Mr. Hilljard. "Be cause of his record during the present ses sion of congress," ran in part the resolution adopted by the Denver county committee, "we do not feel that, any official democratie assembly should fail to repudiate the record of the representative in congress from this district. Therefore, be it resolved, . . . that the record of Benjamin C. Hilliard . . . is heartily disapproved and de nounced." New York Post. I IQDAV One Tear Ago Tp&Aj In the War. British captured the village ot Weatheek la Flanders. President Wilson signed the food control bill and appointed Herbert C. Hoover as food administrator. , . The Day We Celebrate. ; Fred L. Nesblt ot the Standard Fur nace and Supply company ot Omaha f bom 1162.- - - ..,. Joel E. Goodrich, president of the Goodrich Drug company, born 18(1. R. Barlow Harris, police surgeon In Omaha department, born 1814. R.C C. Hoyt, clerk -of the United States district court at Omaha, born ; 165. . . . v f- Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, U. 8. N- retired, who commanded the Oregon oa ' her famous trip around the Horn, bora at Bradford, Vt', 76 years ago. Rear Admiral Georre C Renter, U, 8. N., retired, bora at Burlington, la., ' 11 rears aaro. -: v 1 Herbert a Hoover, United States food administrator, born at West Branch, Is.. 44 years ago. This Day la History. ; , V -1790 Captain Robert Gray, la the Columbia, returned to Boston after having made the first trip around the world in an American snip. , 1849-Hungarians tinder 1 Gorgey were defeated by the Austro-Rueslans Just 30 Years Ago Today The commercial travelers of Omaha are to have a large tent at the fair grounds in which they will receive their acquaintances and customers from all over the western country. - Mingled witn the rainfall today Hp' there was a generous sprinkle of very fine snow. - A Guy C. Barton has purchased 100 lota on the Iowa side of the river near the motor line house and intends to erect houses on them in the fall. A coach load of Omahans left for Spirit Lake. H. ' W. Gilbert and N. H. McCarter of New Tork City, who are interested in the Lombard Investment company. lert ror tne east alter several xlays' visit to Omaha. .The work ot erecting the Omaha & Council Bluffs bridge is progressing quite rapidly since the water in the Nebraska Politics Western Laborer: . Last week The Bee printed Items from three German papers boosting; Senator Hitchcock. The articles were printed in 1918. Only one of the three papers is alive today. Scottabluft Republican: The repub lican convention at Lincoln was har monious and for the first time in 10 years personalities were laid aside and every delegate present Indicated that he was going to do his best to see that the republican ticket nominated by the peopltf this month will be elected this fall. In fact all person alities have been relegated to the rear and a united party will face the democratie party this fall, and it is firmly believed that Nebraska will elect lis entire congressional delega tion fcm this state. Falls' City Journal: ' The demo cratic state, convention failed to en dorse Senator Hitchcock and his war record. The disclosures in the Vier eck's Fatherland deal In New York and the German propaganda program as outlined in recent exposures may have made the democrats timid about standing behind the only statesman In the democratic party in Nebraska with a positive strength Aounded on opposition to prohibition tmi woman suffrage and to shipping ammunition to the allies before the declaration of war. why should the democrats be getting timid on such matters when their only chance of success Is to stand with both feet on the record they made within the state luct be. Whittled to a Point Washington Post: If Bill Hohen sollern had not been so ornery, he might be sharing now in the big steel melon. v Cleveland Plain Dealer": Germany asks Its people to go barefooted now. They may not realise it yet but they are already as a nation on mighty slim tooting. New York World: Bharks are re ported to have menaced American aviators fallen into the sea, but they have not been accused of attacking hospital ships. Baltimore American: The Rhine cities are getting anxious about a pos sible invasion. Once the war Is car ried to German soil the whole popu lation will be holding up Us hands and yelling kamerad! ! Louisville Courier-Journal: "Amer ican armles-'and numerical superior ity do not frighten us." protests the kaiser in his proclamation of August 1. Something of a change from the old scoff that there were no American armies. - Philadelphia Ledger: According to the latest Information, the Germans are finding it hard to make the Turks love them. It has been said that only a German can understand a German. Is it equally true that only a German can love a Get-man? Kansas City Star: Sending 300,000 troops to France In July is a fairly good record, and probably will even be considered remarkable by the Ger man people who had been told by the offlrlal Jlars at Potsdam that we had ! Twice Told Tales A Green Snort. ' "Those society leaders who go about administering snubs and insults," the late Barton Willing once said at the Philadelphia club, "remind me of Greens. "Greens ran a little grocery In South Eleventh street. Ha was tremendous ly proud of it, though it was In real ity a wretched hole. He used to stride up and down in front of it all day with his nose in the air and his chest puffed out. "A humble hodcarrler passing Greens one morning said affably: 'How are you, Mr. Greens? It looks as if we'd have some rain, don't tV i ".'we'd?' snorted Greens.' 'We'd? since when, young man, have you and I been partners?' " Philadelphia Bulletin. ... Safety in Science. Commenting on the many and va ried excuses offered for evading the draft Provost Marshal General Crow der remarked that moat of the would be slackers come to grief through talking too much. 'They remind me of the young fel low who, on the spur of the moment, asked a girl to marry him. "Yea," replied the girl. "After waiting: for five minutes for him to say something more, she said: "'Well, what have you got to say? " 'Nothing.' replied the voun man. I've said too much already.' " Wash wesi j,;4SV 7 JTv A Jefferis For Congress. Omaha, Aug. 8. To the Editor of The Bee: , Jefferis, congressman, speaks volumes for our state and na tion. It means service and devotion to our ideals and institutions. It breathes simple justice to all people and loyalty to the flag. I have been intimately acquainted with him for more than 18 years and his life is free from dishonor, maHce, deceit and hypocrisy. He walks erect among his fellow men, a mental and physical giant, re spected and loved by all who know him, Irrespective of class, creed, color or station. His daily life Is his religion; his family, his love and care; his fellow men, his brothers; his country, his faith and hope; and world democracy, his dream. He is typical of our statesmen of the long ago who shaped and molded our great constitution and made this nation the Inspiration of free peoples everywhere. The great task confronting this na tion is .to preserve bur republican form of government from assault from within as well as from without It will profit little for us to defeat and destroy the enemy from without if we permit the enemy from within to ac complish deiay and destruction. Jefferis in congress will truly rep resent the people of this district and he will also truly represent the people of this nation for the time has now arrived when we must adopt a na tional view or perish as a great re public. Jefferis In congress will always champion the cause of the weak and the oppressed. He knows their tears and fears and heart beats. He came from the common people and he is one of them now. He has fought his own way and has never lost the com m&n touch of life. He Is so strong and tender, so clean and competent that his mere pres ence In congress will bring pride to our people and add security to the nation. Yours truly, ABEL V. 8HOTWELL. Why, Indeed, Asks Jerry. Omaha, Aug. 8. To the Editor of The Bee: I desire space for a few pertinent questions. Are my fellow citizens lacking in intelligence and patriotism wherein they stand idly by without a whimper and permit the rings and cliques to pick the candi dates? . , To any sane citizen It is a conun drum why the selection of the serv ants of all the people should be left to any coterie of self constituted "pa triots." The people as a whole ought to be the dictators as to who should be the candidates. There are 87,000 voters In the city and 3,500 in the country precincts; there ought not to be a slacker amongst these voters, they should do their duty at the polls like the 7,000 boys who have left the city and coun ty to Join the colors. Civic patriot ism is as essential as the patriotism of the men in the army and navy. Consequently the man who fails to vote is a slacker, and he ought to be classified as a traitor. This is an important election, there fore it behooves every citizen to de liberate earefully and not be deceived by the political bushwhackers. There are two essential qualifications re quired to fill an office honesty and competency. JERRY HOWARD. Mob Rule to Go. Omaha, Aug. 4. To the Editor of The Bee: In full accord with the spirit of world-rebellion against des potism is the practical, concrete-based movement just being originated in the southwest to -uproot mob rule. The San Antonio Express announces: "The, establishment of, a fund totaling 8100,000 to be maintained for live years for the purpose of combating and punishing lynching and mob vio lence within the bounds of the con. tinental United States; $100 to each 1 -"WHY NOT s OILS' f'tTusinew if (fowMBuok YoV person dfl-ectl responsible for arrest and subsequent conviction of any per son or persons instrumental in arous ing a mob to commit lynching, or par ticipating in the lynching itself, when the victim is white; $1,000 when he is a negro." Glory to old Texas! ' -. H. MELL. J 01 7 Leavenworth street , CHEERY CHAFF. ''X man can't put on the leaat bit o peed nowaday. I'v been paying tinea at least' once a week lately." "So have I. And there ia the war-tax on the theater and the moving picture howe every evening or ao." "It certainly doea cost poor people a lot to live Just now." Baltimore American. "What did you aay you call your wife for a nick-name? "U-boat." , "Why?" "Because whenever I come' home late she blows me up wtthout warning." Florida Ttmea-Unlon. "I see one real estate man Saa traded another apartment house and a lake (or a brickyard and two farms." "What of It?" "Who gets the best of such a deal? For excitement the real estate game has got horse trading skinned 40 ways." Loulavllla Courier-Journal. , , . Willis How do you like army life? Quite a number of new turns for a fellow to get used to, I suppose. , Olllls You bet. At night you turr in, and Just aa you are about to turn over eoem. bedy turns up and aayi, "Turn out Life. "How's things at Hamfat Parlt la tbe mountains?" 1 "All right, 1 hear. Plenty of outdoor sports." "The proprietor doesn't exactly claim as much, but from his prospectus I should In fer that horseshoeing is the thing just now. Louisville Courier-Journal. THE LAY OF THE U. S. A. , (Note Icecream soda is a decoction popular In the United States of America. I , t, Tou may talk of vin and biere When you're quartered "over there" In New Tork or Abilene or Sleepy Hollow, But when belts are growing tauter. It is ice cream soda water That you'd give a dollar-ninety Just -. te swallow. In the well-known U. S. A., Where we used to work and play, Attending to our pleasures and our bis. Of all the liquid crew . The finest drink I knew , . Was our brimming glass ot Ice cream soa flM. It was fitz! fizz! flu! Tou foam In' glass o' chocolate soda fizz) Orlmme strawberry, vanilla. Coffee, peach or aarsapaiilla Gimme any kind o' ice cream soda flizl The Stars and Stripes. Hospe's Special August Player Sale Our stock of Player Pianos for August is larger than wa calcu lated it would be. M .: Therefore ws make a special drive on the selling terms to Tf dues the number.- This applies to the nationally advertised and most , celebrated Gulbransen Player Piano. The player that is guaranteed for ten years. . v The player that requires no in structions to operate. - ; The reliable, easy pumping, always ready player. $425 No discount for cash;, one price to all. No other player has its sta ble price so thoroughly impressed upon the public, as the "Gulbran sen Player Piano," a'nd with this is its absolute reliability, its wonderful tone and beautiful touch for hand playing. . You make no mistake to own one on the Easy August Terms. 1513-15 Farnam St. Bargains in Drug and Toilet Sundries For Saturday at Beaton's 50c;Hays' Hair Health.29tf 50c Lantz Red Kidney Pills 29tf Hinkle Pills, bottle of 100 for 25d .$1.00 Bingo Nerve Tonic Pills 690 25c Nature's Remedy. 17t 50c Pebecco Tooth Paste 39 25c Wright Silver Cream.. 170 35c Castoria 24t 50c Hind's Honey and Almond Cream t. 3-tt $1.00 Nuxated Iron ..... 89 25c Opal Shampoo 160 25c Beaton's Cold Cream, in tubes 16 50c Soul Kiss Cold Cream 39t 50c Orazin Tooth Paste... 340 A free cake of Palm Olive Soap with each 50c package of Palm Olive Face Powder or Shampoo. 25c Harfina Complexion Soap .110 PHOTO DEPT. We develop your films free when prints are ordered. 2x3K, aeh ...,".3? 2Hx4, each 4t Postal Card size ..j.60 PERFUMES $1.25 Azurea Extract, per oz .890 $1.75 Djer Kiss Extract, 50c Thslma Extract, per oz. : . , . . 2Tc 85c Palmer's Toilet Water, assorted odors, ea. .21 $1 William's Toilet Water, assorted odors, ea..69 Talcum Powders, Armour's, Ricksecker's, ) Painter's, Wilbert, in assorted' od ors, all 25c talcums Sat urday 14tf $1.75 Gaby Deslys, special - beautifier $1.08 SUNDRIES 1 50c Stationery, box. . . . . .190 25c Nicols' Shading Cream. 17' 15c Wash Cloths 70 10c Wash Cloths.......... 5c 35c Tooth Brushes . .210 Durham Duplex Demonstrators' Razors .,... 10 $1 Penn Safety Razors. . . .690 Mark Cross Safety Razors 19 $1 Punch Oil Mops....... 670 ' 50c Shaving Brushes. ... .270 MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE OUR PROMPT ATTENTION BEATON DRUG CO. 15th and Farnam. Omaha, Neb. V before Temesvar, rly PM subsided, fore and. after the declarjuon of wart neither the ships nor the me , Ingtoi ?M t