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: Smash the slates!
The kaiser is ready to admit that some Yankee
Jlrmen are also present in France.
However, Cole Blease still is threatening in
South Carolina, and will not be easily sidetracked.
' Those boches are much more fleet of foot
froini backwards than they are going forewards.
What would Mr. Wilson do if he had a eon
tress to deal with such as Grover Cleveland had?
Lenine and Troliky know where they will be
life, If not welcome, and for that reason are head
Jog ior Berlin. ' " '
''Jim" Vardaman'a absence from the senate
frrffl be a relief to John Sharp Williams as well
M to the country. '
Nobody with "The Fatherland" endorsement
ll entitled to the endorsement of loyal patriotic
Americans at the polls.
An industrial census of Omaha should disclose
lot of Interesting ' information, whether it
brings any war orders or not.
' What President Wilson writes about Varda
man and Hardwick, he could write with equal
truth about Hitchcock, only more so.
If every German general who loses battle
to the Allies after this is cashiered, the kaiser
M have a fine list of "exs" on his hands soon,
, 1 Sunday's record of euto mishaps is impres
sive enough to convince any that safety-first has
not yet become a general rule among joyriders.
A U-boat captain earned a ton of Iron crosses
Sunday by 'sinking nine small fishing vessels in
American waters. This Is' the game the subsea
pirates love to play'.
One week from today the trial heat will be
' . ' i .1 1 - - -.4 uJ.. ,.. T ! ii n 4a
over ana uie icj ci humi p v
cans get by the primaries.
Old familiar names are reappearing in im
news as the tide of war sways backward across
the map. We will know part of our French
. . .. ...M .,.
gCOgrspny weit- in nine.
SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
Why is the ; Smitb-Howell-Dodge machine,
concealed behind the so-called ."committee of
500," directing its batteries particularly at Sheriff
Mike Clark, againjtwhom they have set up a
dummy candidate for the primaries?
' How did they come to pick the dummy, any
way? V What has' Sheriff Clark done that should pre
clude him from the renomination regularly ac
corded an efficient officer, who has made good on
his first term?
Why should Sheriff Clark, with his 'open
record of energetic and impartial enforcement of
the prohibition law, be suddenly singled out by
these camouflage reformers, who never made a
move against his predecessor, notoriously in
league with the bootleg brigade?
.Is the Smith-Howell-Dodge .machine doing
this to enlist the support of the Johnny Lynch
crowd, which is sore at Clark because he fought
Lynch to a finish, took the lid off the court house
"gymnasium" and put Lynch out of office?
Or is there some other hidden and less de
fensible motive back of the masked offensive?
: Vardaman, Hardwick, Hitchcock & Co.
President Wilson has practically ended the
aspirations of Senators Vardaman of Mississippi
and Hardwick of Georgia for re-election by ask
ing that the voters eliminate them because of
their opposition to his policies. In this he gives
timely testimony in support of the statement that
he has encountered the most persistent interfer
ence with his war plans from members of his own
party. Nothing could more effectually do away
with the cry, raised in desperation by democrats
throughout Nebraska, that only democrats can
be relied upon to stand by the president and fight
the war to victory.
Reviewing the records of Vardaman ' and
Hardwick and comparing them with the course
of our democratic senator from Nebraska, the
conclusion is forced that if the latter were seek
ing endorsement from the voters at present he
would encounter the same objection from the
president. Nothing done by either of the ex
communicated senators, before or after the war,
has embarrassed the administration to the de
gree of the bold attempts made by Hitchcock to
aid Germany and to obstruct our own movements.
Loyal voters of Nebraska should not permit
present protestations of the democratic senator
who misrepresents his state to blind them to his
performances at Washington. They should not
take his advice, nor the advice of his hyphen
ated organ, as to what constitutes loyalty in any
candidate for public favor. They have a chance
not only to rebuke him, but to give the president
reliable backing in winning the war by electing
none but patriotic Americans to represent this
state in house and senate, and this opportunity
should not be neglected. '
"My dear Viereck" was a, busy little fellow
.while on the kaiser's payroll. He earned his
money whether the others . who shared in the
boodle distribution earned their's or not ,
' Mr. Hearst should worry. The United States
was neutral then, and itwas merely "a service
Ho humanity"! to do anything to help Germany
la. For further information, see the Omaha
. World-Herald of April 8, 1915. t
v D'Annunaio'a Remarkable Feat
Wben the final record of the war is made up
H9 single feat will outshine that of Gabrielte
D'Anntinulo and his seven associates, who flew
from Italy to Vienna and bombarded the1 Aus
trian capital As a mere exploit by airmen It
Las Hi fascination, for it entailed a flight over
he Alps, soaring at a height of three miles above
the nea is order to 'clear the peaks and escape
jthe wind currents. Going and coming this alone
would constitute an adventure of which any avla
kor might 1eel reasonably proud. But the real
iignlficance of the expedition was its character.
Instead of dropping high explosives, to blow
innocent women and children to atoms, to maim
and cripple the helpless, as the Germans have
Sfione is their flights over London and Paris,
P'Annunzio and his companions flooded the
Viennese with little pamphlets, telling them what
talght be. The Austrian police are now doing
Jtheir utmost to wrest these from the people, re
Hiring that they are far more dangerous than the
tevnloslvta thev might have expected. It was
Die fancy of a poet, carried out in admirable
fashion, and Vienna will yet bear testimony to
Its effectiveness.; :- - o:
Paul Warburg's Warning. (
Paul Warburg's final act on leaving the Fed
eral Reserve board at the conclusion of his four
year term as its head was to warn his country
men against the dangers of an inflated currency.
Especially did he emphasize the folly of under
taking to convert Liberty bonds or similar forms
of loans into money. The Federal Reserve bank
was constituted expressly for the purpose of
meeting fluctuating demand for currency through
the issuance of money based V on commercial
credits. By this means it has been found easy
to offset any emergency, either by issuing or
withdrawing circulating media, thus readily sta
bilizing the 'volume and satisfying' the needs of
business. It has almost perfectly solved the
quantitative theory of money. If, on the other
hand, the huge sums represented by the Liberty
loans were to be transmuted into money, the
volume would swamp the country and bring such
disruption of business as would be calamitous,
The moderate increase in the amount of money
in use has followed on the upward tendency in
prices, but so gently as to encourage and stimu
late rather than to retard or irritate the course
of trade. Our monetary system yet presents im
perfections, but ft would not be improved a,ny by
dumping unlimited billions of fiat currency into
the hopper.
The Bee's Free Milk and Ice Fund for relief
of hot weather babies has met with exceptionally
generous response this year. We already have
money in hand to meet all probable demands
but that only emphasizes our obligation to those
who have helped to make this unique and most
worthy charity a complete success.
No mere male elevator conductor ever could
approach the combined elan, nonchalance and
sangfroid characterising his privileged successor
in skirts as she "passes up" a waiting person in
the middle distance of a tall building.
Closing the recruiting stations in anticipation
of a stampede may be effective in preventing dis
turbance of business, but it does have a queer
color when the proposed change in the draft jaws
is considered. -
Another citizen who well may be spared to
the war is the fellow who drives late at night
his car at top speed down the village street with
the muffler cut out
Era of Cheap Food is Over
Factors Which Point to After War Prosperity of Farmers
Clarance Poe in Review of Reviews.
The food problem is serious now during
war times, but it must not be forgotten that
ir was becoming serious before war began.
Moreover, it will be serious after the war is
over.
It is highly important, therefore, for the
nation to get a clear understanding of the
agricultural situation. And the first big fact
it should recognize is that the real problem
is not to get cheaper food, but to get enough
food, even at present prices. The era of
cheap food is over.
When I say prices of farm products are
to stay "high, if present prices are so con
sidered, I do not mean that the farmer is to
be a profiteer or reap unearned profits at the
expense of other classes. By no means. The
'prices of farm products must stay high as
compared with former prices for these prod
ucts, simply because the consumer has here
tofore paid the farmer less than a living
wage. As Alva Agee puts it, our city con
sumers have been "objects of charity" in that
they have received the benefit of the unre
warded labor of women and children on the
farms.
Of course, some men have all along made
money at farming. No one denies that But
when one reads that this farmer or that has
made a profit of 10 cents a pound on cotton,
of 50 cents a bushel on corn, it by no means
follows that the man making the economist's
"last considerable quantity required to sup
ply the world's need" is even breaking even.
To begin with, let the interested reader as
certain just how much corn or cotton the
farmer with a family of five finds it physically
possible to produce, and hence what is the
total profit per family under the most favor
able of the widely varying conditions.
Widely varying conditions, I say, because
while our manufacturers of any line of goods
have rather uniform machines and expect a
rather uniform product per worker, an indus
trious famer may get 100 bushels of con per
acre from his rich Iowa soil, only 10 bushels
from a Vermont rockridge, ana find total
failure in a drouth-cursed area in Kansas;
just as two-bale-per-acre land in the Missis
sippi Delta may yield $5 per day for the labor
expended in coton-growing, while thousands
of cotton farmers on sandy wastes or gullied
hillsides yielding one-fifth of a bale per acre
may not receive returns equal to 25 cents a
day in wages.
It is impossible longer to grow food
enough under such conditions as have pre
vailed in the past. And instead of resting
under the wholly unfounded charge that they
are profiteers, our farmers and those familiar
with farming conditions desire to present
certain fundamental facts to the considerate
judgment of their fellow citizens. These
facts have heretofore been too largely ig
nored, and national leaders intent upon re
ducing the cost of living to consumers re
gardless of the effect upon producers may
continue to ignore them for a time. But in
the long run we can evade neither these facts
nor their logical consequences.
Perhaps the biggest unrecognized element
in increased crop prices is the passing forever
of cheap new lands in the great west the
end of an economic as well as of an historic
era. Never in any other half-century since
Adam has any such empire been brought un
der the plow as in this western country of
ours from 150 to 1900. In these SO years,
as Mr. Hill pointed out in his famous speech
already noted, America's improved acreage
was increased nearly 300 per cent, while the
total agricultural acreage increased nearly
200 per cent, or by 547,640,932 acres an area
equal to more than 10 Minnesotas.
And this vast area, be it noted, rich with
the stored fertility of forgotten seas and a
later aeon of fruitful summers, on coming
finally into cultivation was farmed by "soil
miners," as Henry Wallace termed them.
Men rushed in and used up this stored fer
tility as rapidly as possible, the fierce com
petition among new settlers reducing crop
prices to ruinous levels, insomuch that Mr.
Hoover himself, the exponent of present-day
food conservation, has doubtless seen Kan
sans, as I have, who have used corn for fuel.
That the benefit of this soil-exploitation went
o consumers in the form of lowered prices
and not to producers in the form of in
creased profits finds historic proof in the
grange, alliance and populist movements of
western agricultural distress from the early
70's to the later '90's, ip the mortgage and
tenancy records of that period, and in such
poignantly vivid stories and autobiographies
as those of Hamlin Garland.
Barely getting laborers' wages for them
selves and selling food without any reckon
ing of the soil fertility or soil exhaustion it
represented somewhat as if one man should
present another with a bank check on the
basis of the check's value as paper without
regarding its depletion of his bank reserve
the western farmers not only brought dis
aster to their own section, but forced prices
to a ruinous point for the rest of America,
almost putting agricultural New England
out of business, distressingly depressing the
south and seriously injuring farm profits all
over Europe. Only a few months a-go Mr.
George W. Russell, the Irish rural leader,
pointed to the definite removal of the former
cut-throat competition of these undervalued
and marvelously fertile western lands as one
of the chief reasons for believing that farm
products would remain permanently hifiher.
The "soil mining" on virtually free lands
in this vast agricultural empire has been per
haiH the chief agency in forcing food prices
beiow the cost of production in recent years
and this factor has now fortunately disap
peared forever.
Spring Famine In Men's Wear
An investigation of the market for men's
wear and of conditions in the industry re
veals in strong light , just one thing that
nobody has anything to offer for the spring
of 1919 at the present .time, and that offer
ings which may come later will be extremely
few and far between.
Analysis of causes and effects, however,
The Kaiser's Proclamation
The greatest condemnation of Kaiser Wil
helrp is to be found in the evidence that he
is the arch-hypocrite "of his time. It is pos
sible for men to sin deeply and yet have
such a profound reverence for God that their
feeling is nearer love for Him than is that
of such as vaunt Him loudly in the midst of
crimes. It is not surprising to find, in Wil
helm's proclamation, addressed to the Ger
man people at the beginning of the fifth year
of war, repeated expressions of reliance on
Divine assistance, concluding with the pre
sumptuous boast that 'God is with us." But
the damning evidence to convict such pro
testations of being hypocritical is to be found
in that short, curt letter sent to Frau Meter,
the German woman, who has lost nine sons
in the war. In writing to such a bereaved
woman, a man of religious inclinations, yes,
even a man of good heart and taste without
such inclinations, would have found occasion
to commend the sorrowing to that only
source of hope and consolation the bereaved
may have. Instead, the kaiser, expressing
his "gratification" at her loyal sacrifice, "is
pleased to send her his picture, framed, and
with autograph signature." There was no
remotest reference to Deity in the kaiser's
letter to Frau Meter.
With the German kaiser the name of God
is only a war cry. He is not the first his
torical hypocrite of his kind, but the signs
are multiplying which lead us to a hope that
he may be the last. Even as he fulminated
this Pharisaic proclamatipn, his armies in
France were letreating before the allied
might of men leagued against oppression
ana for the natural rights of man, believing
that, in the sight of that God whose name
he, so' often profanes, any one of his crea
tures is as any other, and that "divine right
of birth" is a devil's fiction: Presumotuous
boasting cannot now change the current of
events or turn back the tides of circum
stance. Neither by the strength- of might
nor the wiles of diplomacy can autocracy
win.
Presumptuous vanity and hypocrisy must
be always linked. "If, in this struggle," the
kaiser writes, "our nation was given leaders
capable of the highest achievements, it has
been daily proved by fidelity that it has de
served to have such leaders." The German
people should have had far better and nobler
leaders than thev have had in this war. Such
leaders would have saved them from the war
itself, and the defeat which .now ktows more
and more certain. St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
Philadelphia Public Ledger. j
just as strongly indicates that the actual
famine of goods will be temporary, and that
probably there will be considerable allevia
tion of the situation for the fall of 1919. In
the meantime, the big buyers of fabrics, the
large clothing manufacturers and others
seem to be fairly well covered for the fall
of this year. In short, for just one season,
the spring of 1919, the civilian is going to
be "up against it" for new clothes.
Thirty-two manufacturers' representatives
have the same story to tell. They have no
samples to show, nor do they give any en
couragement that they will have samples for
the spring of 1919. Here and there are to
be found limited assortments in the hands
of jobbers, but this is all; and the main hope
of the big buyers lies in a certain few mills,
which today are trying to work in advance
of their schedule of deliveries to the govern
ment, and which may, as a consequence, have
limited periods between now and January in
which they may throw their looms to pro
duction of civilian goods. Just how long
these periods will be is problematical, de
pendent on labor and the absence of hitches
m following out the government orders.
The situation, of course, traces back to
the exceptionally heavy demands of the gov
ernment, as a result of which the mills gen
erally are devoting about 80 per cent of their
equipment to army and navy orders. When
it is considered that in many cases efficiency
falls as low as 65 per cent of normal, the 20
per cent surplus available for civilian demand
is more than likely to be eaten up.
Certain of the larger mills, however, have
been able to plan ahead sufficiently to split
their capacities 80 to 20 on the basis of
time, rather than machinery, and by this
means to fill their allotments of government
work ahead of schedule, and then throw
their full force for limited periods onto civil
ian production, always providing there is no
hitch in the plans. It is on these mills that
the civilian market must rely for the frac
tional part of its demand that can be filled.
The wool situation, as affecting the pro
duction for spring of 1919, makes it virtually
certain that a large proportion of what civil
ian output does materialize wi be in the
nature of manipulated fabrics, with a large
percentage of cotton. With this the public
will have to be content.
The wool situation in turn traces back,
not so much to a scarcity of the world sup
ply, though this is a partial factor, as to the
scarcity of bottoms to bring the wool to this
country.
For the future, that is, after spring of
1919, there are to be observed two principal
factors of alleviation. One of these is the
likelihood that bottoms will be thrown tem
porarily from the Atlantic transport service
tor bringing in wool. The other is fore
casted in the evidence that the government
is about to go back to the old plan of buying
army cloth on the basis of competitive bids,
indicating that its needs for the future are
fairly well covered.
TMbS
I TODAY I
One- Tear Ago Today In the War.
Allies retused passport' for dele
ts to Stockholm peace conference.
War department ordered the mob
Cls&tlon ot the new national army In
four increments, the first to entrain
pa September S, .
tbe Day We Celebrate.
Walter A. SUllman, attorney at law,
fenrn 188S.
Leslie O. Hicks, civil engineer, horn
Mary R. - Macarthur, secretary of
the British National Federation of
Women Worker born H yeara ago.
Hugh Guthrie, solicitor general ot
Canada, born at uueipn, one, sz
William C. Adamson. former Oeor-
tfa congressman, now a member of
the court of cuetoms appeala in New
ft: or It City, born' in Bowdon county.
Pa 9 years ago.
this pay in History,
. 1818 Lucy Stone, uiorteer advocate
fcf woman suffrage, born at West
ferookneld. Masa. - Died at Dorches
ter, Mass., October 18, 1898. ,
1868 Admiral Farrairut and th'
bffleers of bis ship wi;re received in
audience by the sultan jf Turkey.
- 189 3 Fire in Minneapolis de
StroVed $2,000,000 in property and
fciade 1,609 persons homeleM.
141 Beldam charged the Ger-
paaa with atrocltlea
Just SO Years Ago Today
The Democratio club ot the First
ward has elected Charles Ccnoyer
president It proposes to. establish a
flambeau club and bold a mass meet
ing in Mets hall on Thursday next. '
The Murray hotel is to be opened
MURRAY wro! 4 rvf
Wilt OPEN 43r Hj. '
simim first ;;
the hrst of September.
The county teachers" Institute
opened for the arrangement of a pro
gram and the announcement ot the
same to the instructors present The
forenoon was taken up by Professor
Bruner and his assistant or tee ar
raneement for the work..
The Bohemian turners of this city,
accomoanied by delegations from all
over the state, held a very enjoyable
picnic at Wilber, Neb. There were
enr 1,000 people present - -il.
party of New York Central offl.
cials passed through the city in the
Wriciier company a oawVM car, ,
State Press Comment
Hartlngton Herald: For a year
when politics is supposed to be "ad
journed," this campaign is not at all
bad.
Fremont Tribune: The self-styled
German supermen know how to beat
it when they ve got to, Just like com
mon mortals.
Wayne Herald: If we were invited
to edit and rearrange the months of
the year, we would ba tempted to
limlnate August We might also, on
reflection, use the ?lue pencil on February.
Norfolk Press: Next to the Hun
the profiteer comes in tor more abuse
than any other mortal these days.
But as he has both hands in the peo
ple s pockets clear up to his elbows
he manages to bear up pretty well
under the affliction.
Kearney Hub: With all the bait
ing of the press that we have had in
these latter times by men delegated
to act in publio affairs, it was sup
posed that we had about reached the
limit but it remains for an exemption
board at Waterloo, la., to play the
high trump. This board has notified
IS employes of a Waterloo newspaper,
according to telegraphic advices, that
they must engage in a productive era
ployment or be transferred to Cla&s 1
of tbe draft It is fair to assume that
this action is taken entirely without
orders or authority from the provtsi
general, and it so it Is a rough Joke
that will be pretty difficult to appre
ciate
- Center Shots
Minneapolis Journal: Many a pa
triotic girl who won't wash the family
dishes thinks she can nurse 500
wounded soldiers in France.
Brooklyn-Eagle: Harvester stock
went up 4 points on the news of
dissolution." "You can t keep a good
trust down" is the latest American
modification of a time-honored aph
orism. ,
Louisville Courier-Journal: "We
all want peace," says the resuscitated
Hindenburg, 'but it must be peace
with honor." Which may help to ex
plain why the Germans find it so diffi
cult to secure the sort of peace they
want
New York World: Captain Boy-Ed
is "unable to think that the war is
popular in the United States." The
spy paymaster while here was unable
to think many thoughts that might
have heightened his value to Berlin.
Stupid misinformation from other
lands costs Germany dear.
Brooklyn Eagle: Hun chemicals,
drugs and banks are thriving here as
the nnn year or the war is entered.
Incidental to killing Germans, why
not kill their opportunity to make for
tunes with our facilities? It is the
sure way of teaching them to take
hold or their royal families.
Minneapolis Journal: There is noth
Ing remarkable in the story that a
Cheyenne woman "rode the rjids" of
a freight train with a baby in her
arms. Every day there is! evidence
that a woman can carry, not only her
I baby, but a dozen bundles, and knit
I a sweater at the same time.
Twice Told Tales
Passed the Limit
The late Bishop Dudley ot Ken
tucky used to relate with much relish
an amusing experience that he once
had in connection with waffles. At
a fine old Virginia homestead, where
he was a frequent guest the waffles
were always remarkably good. One
morning, as breakfast drew near an
end, the tidy little linen-coated black
boy who served at table approached
the bishop and asked in a low voice:
"Bishop, won't y have "n'er waffle?"
"Yes," said tha genial bishop, "I be
lieve I will."
"Dey ain' no fnoy mid the boy.
"Well," exclaimed the surprised
gentleman, "if there aren't any mora
waffles, what made you ask me it I
wanted another one?"
"Bishop," exclaimed the boy, "you'a
done et 10 already, and I fought yeh
wouldn't want no mo'!" Youth's
Companion.
Mercenary Medico.
Secretary McAdoo, apropos ot the
free anti-typhoid treatment, said at a
Washington luncheon:
"I once heard of a fashionable but
mercenary surgeou who was asked by
a friend:
"What did you operate on old
Laydup for?'
"For $2,500.' the surgeon an
swered. " 'No, no," said his friend. 'I don't
mean that T mean what did he
have?'
"He had 12.500," said the eur-teon."-Detroit
Free Presa.
Men for. the Army.
Omaha, Aug. 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: I wish to express my ap
preciation of an editorial in today's
paper entitled "Military Training and
Peace."
It is brief, terse and strong, and I
heartily approve of It
. In the editorial items, also, there is
one which asks "where Grant got his
army?" I wonder how many of the
people who object to calling men of
18 into the army, know that nine
tenths of the army of the union were
under 21 years of age at their first
enlistment I say men advisedly in
regard to soldiering, and there were
over 1,000,000 of those men ot 18, and
nobody complained that they were
too young. I was one of them, and
I was not oft duty one day during my
entire service, while the few men of
40 in my company were frequently
laid off, for one thing or another. 1
would make the draft limits 18 to 40.
JONATHAN EDWARDS.
Tribute to Watterson.
Plattsmouth, Neb., Aug. 10. To the
Editor of The Bee: With the retire
ment from the field of active newspa
per work of Colonel Henry Watterson
there passes from the stage one of
the few remaining exponents of per
sons! Journalism.
He had been editor of the Louis
ville Courler-JourrtW since it was
founded. But he was more than ed
itor he was the soul of the Courier
Journal: he was the Courier-Journal
itself.
"Marse Henry" is as much of an
American institution as was Mark
Twain, whom he closely resembled.
He is probably the best known citizen
in the United States, with the excep.
tion of President Wilson, ex-President
Taf t, William Jennings Bryan , or i
Theodore Roosevelt.
Colonel Watterson was a traveler
In many lands and a keen observer of
conditions in foreign countrtes. ' He
had been the guest ot every press
club in the United States. But if he
has indeed said his last word, it is
this: "Now and ever, to hell with
autocracy! Now and ever, to hell
with Hohenrollern and the Haps
burg!" He was & mighty , strong and able
writer, as was your able and honora
ble father, the late Hon. Edward
Rosewater, whom we loved.
A. W. ATWOOD.
Water Power In Nebraska,
Omaha, Aug. 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: I note with considerable
interest the remarks of Henry Ford,
relative to developing the natural re
sources of our state, and dwelling on
the possibilities of the latent powers
going to waste, and the indifference
of our citlsens to harness and utilize
our streams. The writer has for the
past 30 years been agitating this very
thing: and in fact has been elosely'aU
lied with promoters that have per
mitted their franchises to lapse after
renewing them two or three times.
It was thought at a time that the Fre
mont proposition was a foregone con
clusion, their proposition being pro
nounced a feasible one, and backed
by the best civil engineers in this
country but it was permittees xo e
dormant so long that people lost all
interest In same, and the matter
simply died a slow death. Personally
speaking, I was not so enthusiastic
over the Fremont proposition from
the fact that it was to derive its power
from the Platte river, tapping same
near Llnwood or Morse Bluffs, head
ing for Elm Creek on the old Thomp
son farm, directly south of Fremont.
Any old resident that knows the pe
culiarity of the old Platte knows full
well that at certain periods of a year
that one can cross it dry shod and it
could hardly be dependable, and the
enormous expense connected with
building a reserve reservoir would
more than offset the results that could
be obtained by the project
But I am not oblivious to the fact
that there are places in Nebraska
where there is plenty of energy, if
conserved, to furnish power enough
to drive all the interurban trains in
the state and all the factories that
nnn tie hrnn pht to the state and only
a mater of time that some Henry Ford
will see and develop same, i maintain
similar views to your correspondent
a faur AavH am regarding the de
veloping the Missouri near Omaha,
or in fact anywhere tnis siae or en
trance of the Niobrara, as the fall is
so slight that it would back flood the
whole country. Now I am not de
pending on the editor from Columbus
to be sent to the United States senate
or considering it from any political
standpoint to bring about these de
velopments of water power. It is
only a matter of a short time they
are bound to come and furthermore,
if I may predict, the power will come
from the Niobrara and Keya Paha
rivers, which are nature's natural
production, of sufficient current to
drive any and all power needed In Ne.
braska. The Niobrara river at
Carnes offers one of the finest loca
tions for a development ot a plant of
this nature of any in the northwest
Not this alone anywhere 15 miles
either side, east or west on the Nio
brara can be utilized for this purpose
and I further predict when this cruel
war Is ended that this portion ot Ne
braska is coming into her own.
JAMES HALE
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"W must rtfulat th btthlng iutt."
"Well, bow abort fhall w allow tb
klrtir"
"Hum! I don't think wo ouabt to Intor
tero with any younf ladjr who wears any
kind of a alclrt,' IulBvllla Courier-Journal.
A thing of boauty If a Joy tower."
quoted tho Parlor Phlloaophor.
or at leait till ah U old." added
th Mer Man. Town Topic.
"My daughter, young- Smith called today
to aek m If I would glv blra your band."
"Well, father, did h tell you if h bad
anythlDf to put la It t" Balttmor AmoS
can. "Am t th only girt you vr iovd?"
"Darling, do you auppo I could sTlr
to you If I were in th amateur las?"
Cblcago Pot
"What'a th Meat"
"Th idea emj to be to grab all tht
food for th rich and to give the poor i
permit to eat anything they can get.'"-
Louisville Courier-Journal. ,
THE COWBOY.
I'm anre one crippled b ombre, buhlleve me
that's no it; .
Tv a busted'leg and shoulder, a spllntei
in my eye.
Tv been gassed and bombed and shrap.
nelled, I'm riddled like a sieve.
Tuh'd think in uch condition no mar
would care In Hv
But su'thln gripped and held me when 1
onrea must casn in.
When I Just lay down an' reckoned I didn't
earo to win
An I changed opinions pronto, J ain't so
ma 10 neea no nearse,
A chap's a lot to ltv for when he's got
Red Cross nurse.
So htr I am In hospital, my bed all white
and clean,
With an angel sitting by me, th first 1
ever seen;
I ustr boast poor simp of what I knew
about th sex.
For I'd mixed up some with wlmmen In
San Antonio, Tex.
But I'd never been to heaven, and I hadn'l
no idear,
They ever turned 'em loos up there, an'
let 'em stray down here.
Oe whix. th pain's a-eomln' back I 1 O
Lord, don't let me eurre.
An' scar her back to Paradise my little
Bad Cross nurse.
There's a long, long trail a-wlndln' toward
the golden West;
Tb grass is green beside It it leads to
peace and rest.
Far from the din of battle, out on a sunlit
plain,
Where broken limbs ar mended and men
forget their pain.
It's calling, calling, calling, Its voices bid
m come,
Far from th bell of warfare, safely and
stralghtly horn.
My feet are almost on It; Its silences Im
merse My soul; but something holds me my little
Bed Cross nurse.
Iv alius been a waster, a reckless cursing
cuss,
Whose spechulty Is stirring up hell to make
a fuss;
And I haven't got religion by a long shot
no such thing,
But I been so near to heaven I heard th
angels sing.
An' hereafter In my dealing I'm golnter.
It I can,
Be neither saint nor devil, but just a
regler Man.
For no matter what may happen, 1 gotter
reimburse
Somebody 'cause I'm living my littl
Red Cross nurse.
Helen Combes in N. T. Herald.
LIFT OFF CORNS
Doesn't hurt a bit! Sore com
lift right off with fingers.
Magic!
It 6
Costs few cents! Drop a little
Freezone on that touchy corn, in
stantly that corn stops hurting, then
you lift it right out with the fingers.
Why wait? Your druggist sells a
tiny bottle of Freezone for a few
-cents, sufficient to rid your feet of
every hard corn, soft corn, or corn
between the toes, and calluses, with
out soreness or irritation. Freezone
is the much talked of discovery of
the Cincinnati genius. Adv.
Any Part of
8,500 Shares of
Abe Lincoln
Copper Co.
(GEO. W. PLATNER, Pres.)
at
40c a Share
A most exceptional offer, and
this stock will go fast Writ
or wire better wire.
A. L JAMISON,
43S Security Building,
Log Angel, Cel.
quickly
Res
moi
healed that ugly skin eruption!
R!nnl Ointment heals skin Irrita.
tions that if neglected become serioos.
One small pimple or slight blotch
mars the most beautiful face. A patch
of itching eczema or other skin ail
ment causes great discomfort and
much misery. '
Resinol heals ikin sicknesses be
cause it contains harmless antidotes
for such conditions. ;
Resinol Ointment was originated by
a doctor for the treatment of eczema
and other skin affections, so yon need
not hesitate to use h. At all dealen.