PLATTSMOUTIT SUM I-WEEKLY JOURNAC.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1913.
PACE 4.
0)e plattsmoutb journal
Published Semi-Weekly at Plattmouth, N e b r.
Entered at the Postoffice at riattsmouth. Nebraska, as second-class mall matter.
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The gras3 is getting green, and
soon we will have greens for dinner.
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4- THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
If thou canst not give picas-
ure to all by thy deeds anil thy
knowledge, give it then to the v
-l- few; many to please is but vain, y
Schiller.
THE DEAD BANDIT.
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The roads are in a terrible condition
and it still rains.
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What does a loafer do when he
feels he needs a rest?
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Senators are still standing cn the
burning deck of the 5;hip bill.
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Most women are in favor of peace
until after they get a man.
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There seems to be much opposition
to an extra session of congress.
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Man is a reasonable being, except
wlien his prejudices are involved.
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We move that the county eommis
sinners buy a new flag for the court
house.
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The organisation of ''bachelor girls'
clubs" is such a cunning device that
it is odd that it is not more general
ly used.
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The man in the White house is
'rawing wood," while criticisms of
his administration flash through the
country.
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If corn, rye and other coarse foods
cot as much as white wheat flour,
they would no doubt be as equally
popular.
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It is realy a pity that the Nebraska
K-islaturc will not be ready to ad
journ by the time congress is
March 4.
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Now what do you suppose he is af
ter? John M. Thurston is going to
return to Nebraska and open i. law
:TiC2 in Omaha.
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A Philadelphia woman claims that
her husband "hypnotized her into
marrying him." Oh, both! That's the
way all men do.
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The old saying is, that "wheat is
worth its weight in gold," but if it
gc-j much higher it will be worth
more than that.
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There are many experts, but it oc
curs to us that a typewriter agent
kmxrking some other make is the real
star at swinging the hammer.
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Under the Underwood tariff, cat
tle are on the free list, arid yet the
pi ice of meat and cattle are going
up. This does not look very much
like legislation against the faimers,
i.s so many republican papers would
have us believe.
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Rt preventative Stevens of Snyder
county has a bill before the house ex
tending the terms of all county of
ficers to four years. Unless it has
an easy recall provision, or making
the occupant ineligible to the second
term, it would be a serious mistake to
enact such a bill.
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How this country has responded to
the call for aid for the starving peo
ple of the belligerent nations is shown
ir. the statement that the relief com
mission has now a fleet of thirty-five
steamships all in action. This is a
squadron of which not only this coun
try, but all the world, also, can be
proud, and whose victories mem de
feat for no one, but hope for success
for all.
Congress will have a race against
time on their big appropriation bills.
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Swatting the fly is comparatively
easy, liut what John liuil wants is
something to swat the flyers.
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For the "present the great American
eagle retires gracefully in favor of
the stork as the national bird. .
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Trouble in the Omaha postoffice is
brewing. The clerks and employees
threaten to unite with the American
Federation of Labor for protection
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Congressman b'arton fires a final
broadside at the democrats, knowing
full well that he will never have an
other opportunity in the halls of con
gress.
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The legislators who are not guilty
cf introducing any bills can teturn
home with a clear conscience of doing
no harm, if nothing else but voting
right.
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In view of the threatening war
situation, it is believed that the army
should get out promptly and lepair
the lawn mower which will soon be
needed.
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There is a growing tendency in
Washington to judge a bill less by
its merits than by the size and char
acter of the lobby supporting or op
posing it.
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A scientist claims that butter can
be made directly from grass, without
the intervention of the cow. The
question is, why don't he go ahead
and make it?
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A college professor proves Ly his
tory that the best work of the world
has been done by men of sixty years
or over, w ell, a man ought to nave
much of the foolishness out of his
head by the time he reaches sixty.
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The legislature is doing mighty
well considering the cranks who try
lo make life miserable for those mem
lers who are sincere in their efforts
THE STATE UNIVERSITY ISSUE.
If any man had said more than
thirty-five years ago that Frank
James would die any other way than
in his boots, he would have excited a
horse-laugh. Nobody then would
have imagined that the famous out
law would ever live to reach the age
cf 74. For years it would have been
both lawful and profitable if an
avenger of the law should have shot
him down on sight. Yet he was
finally permitted to die in peace in
the midest of his family, with some
thing like honor from his neighbors
and without quarrel with society,
The James boys and their friends
long sought to excuse their career
as outlaws by urging hatreds engen
dercd during the civil war, and be
cause of indignities offered them and
their families while the boys were
connected with the Quantrell gueril
las. It was their depredations as
eruerillas that first excited the
hostility of society for them, and af
ter that they remained outlaws
through a desperate determination to
avoid punishment.
The quiet and orderly course of
Frank James later years has indi
cated rather that criminality was not
ingrained, and that the desperate
crimes in which he and his brother
participated were rather chance hap
penings than the results of tempera
ment or character. Some men are so
constituted that, having been led by
untoward circumstances into the com
mission of a serious offense against
society and its laws, they will resort
to other criminal acts to avoid de
tection, capture and punishment. Few
of us know just how far we might
o, once we had been outlawed, to
avoid restraint and penalty.
The long years of peaceful and or-
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derly life that closed the career of w u" l,,eir "
Frank James is some proof that the taxpayers of the state in general.
criminality wa3 not inherent, and that
his early training as a son of p min- The man that wants the trade
ister aroused a sense of responsibility does not hesitate to tell the people
bat snrvivori von tho travnila nf tbo I 1 he buyer as a rule expects to
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condemned desperado. It is an in- trade- with the man who invites hi
dication that the world is cettine trade. This is an age of intelligence
better that the death of a bandit once and the systematic advertiser who
o noted, not to say lionized, excites studies his subject is the man who
but passing mention, and that time win in the long run
enabled him to rtass awav without re-I "O
awakening in the mind of a once sev- There has been a decided fallin
erely condemnatory public memories I eff in the 'diamond trade owing to
of the blood upon his hands. Lincoln circumstances beyond the control of
Star. the diamond merchants. But the
o : Dread, and meat trade remains more
Every indication points to an early active than ever. Teople having got
spring. But we never forget "there I into the habit of eating are indisposed
is many a slip between the cup and I to give it up if they can help it.
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That time flics is proven by the day says about dancing: "I d3
fact that 'the Panama-Pacific exposi- nounce the dance as the most hellish
tion opened in San Francisco last I institution that ever wriggled from
Saturday. The president and board the depths of perdition. Six saloon
of directors announced a few davs I do not do as much to rot. tbo moral
previous that everything was in of girls as one dancing school." Now,
readiness. We do not look for much what do you think of Billy Sunday?
of an exodus from this section of the! :o
country. There is a frrrHf. Aonl hmnn- s-iirl nn
:o: Mhe death of Frank James. We knew
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The interstate commerce commis-lthe dead bandit, nprsnnnllv nml hnv
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sion has cranted transcontinental! met him nuite frnnn
uwuau3 inibbiuii iu compete ran- conscientiously say that we never
ama canal rates. That means that met a more clover or irantlemanlv fpl-
roads can ship from New York to San low in our life. In fact, to know him,
Francisco nt a cheaper rate than they was to respect him in the latter days
could ship the same car for from New of his life.
iorK 10 umana. as tne iciiow said, :o:
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1.11,3 BouiK borne. The Wise Man who rnnsnlt the.
:o: stars and bets on the gooscbone and
The anti-tippmg bill in the legis- the garter-snake says this is to be i
lature is no doubt the production of year of abundant moisture; that wc
some "tight-wad" who thinks it are going to have a lot of rain and
awful to pay a bell-boy or a waiter that drainage and not irrigation will
at the hotel table 25 cents to do some- concern us. The Wise Man has the
thing he is too proud to do himself, whip handle at present, but he is re
Give the bell-boys and waiters a minded that prophecy is a long-dis-
chance for their white alley. Maybe tance business and that whoever ex
you don't come half as near earning cel3 in that should not issue any pre-
$10 a day as the boy does 25 cents dictions short of a hundred years in 'plan provided for the fiscal manage-
for running an errand for you. the future
The lower house of the Nebraska
legislature deserves hearty congratu
lations on its manifest indisposition
to follow Representative Taylor of
Custer county in his slambang cru
sade against the state university.
Mr. Taylor is a perfectly honest
man and in deadly earnest. lie hasn't
the slightest notion he is crusading
against the university. He accounts
himself, indeed, a friend of the uni
versity within certain narrow limits.
But the whole animus of his fight is
hostile to the university's higher in
terests and in his speeches he sho.vs
himself, at heart, hostile to the trend
and effect of higher education. He is
resentful because the university
plants inspirations and aspirations in
the hearts of the young folks of Ne
braska. He doesn't want their
horizons made too broad. He has the
notion they would be better off if
they were willing, unanimously, to
tread the paths their fathers trod. It
may be that Mr. Taylor realizes, in
some hazy and indefinite way, that it
is the higher education that lifts the
world upward and onward, and that it
must have scholars, scientists, artists,
philosophers, engineers, poets, dream
ers, and broadly and liberally educat
ed men and women if it is to continue
to go forward. But it seems to hu.'t
Mr. Taylor's inmost feelings that this
contribution to the progress of the
world should be made in any con
siderable part at the expense of the
taxpayers of Nebraska, and that from
mong the boys and girls of Nebraska
should be chosen a fair part of the
material on which and by which it
works. Mr. Taylor does not say as
much, but from his utterances it is
not unreasonable conclusion In;
would be much better satisfied if tht
Uniersity of Nebraska were a sort
of glorified county academy, and if
his own children and those of his
neighbors could be kept far and ficr
from its disturbing influences.
There are not a few citizen.-? good
and respectable people, too, who fee!
much as Mr. Taylor seems to fee!
But they do not voi:e, we feel safe in
saying, the dominant view of the state
of Nebraska on this subject. Most
Nebraska people, we believ, do not
desire that the university should be
put in a strait-jacket, that it should
be deprived of its freedom, thnt it
should be divided into parts, that
those parts should be put :nder the
necessity of fighting each other for
the legislative favor and support, and
that a legislative committee, hurried
ly, in a few hours or a few days
should attempt to determine how its
resources and activities and growth
should be apportioned among its
various departments.
Anyone conversant with such an
institution as the great University of
Nebraska knows that the hard-and
fast program proposed oy Mr. Tay
lor would be wholly .liul ludicrously
impractical. The resents, who arc
nominated and elected by ihe people,
and who give, through long yars,
much time and study to the needs and
activities and growth of the uni
versity, are competent to say far
more nearly competent, anyhow, than
is the legislatures what disposition
and distribution shall be made of uni-
versity funds, and how the service of
instructors may best be utilized, it
is preposterous to say that a com
mittee of legislators, with only a
scant and surface knowledge of uni
versity activities, should be able to do
this more intelligently, more ef
ficiently, more economically than the
regents. And we think no one will
contend they would do it more henest-
y or more public-spiritedly.
The government of such an institu
tion as the state university presents
a very difficult and complicated prob-
em. It is one calling for the highest
degree of skill, for the utmost pos
sible familiarity with the situation as
a whole and in all its parts, ard for
the best ability the state can furnish.
t is not a thing to be determined,;
from year to year, in the hurly-burly
of a legislative session. No univer
sity can be successfully managed ac
cording to the same hard-and-fait
wise thing for this legislature to do
is to follow the example set by all
preceding legislatures. Repose a
reasonable confidence in the regents.
I They are honorable and competent
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and high-minded -men. I hey were
elected by the people for the par
ticular purpose of managing the uni
versity. They are applying them
selves whole-heartedly to the job.
They know a great deal more about
It than the legislature knows or can
know. They are accountable to the
people in the same degree that any
legislator is. And we say this with
out intending the slightest offense
we believe they have the confidence I
ana respect or the people nuite as
fully as has the legislature itself. -World-Herald.
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uermany and Oreat JJritain are
both pronounced standpatters.
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The robin, the jaybird and even the
icubhd are here, and still there is
demand for coal.
Children Cry for Fletcher's
i few ii Va
-fAf
Tlio Kind Voa Have Always Botight, and "u-lilch lias been
in use for over SO years, lias bornothe signature of
and lias been matte turner jus per-
rfJz sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you In this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-jrood " are but
Experiments that trifles with anel endanger the health of
lufants and Children Experience against Experiment
I is CASTOR I A
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A comic valentine never broke u;
a happy home, although it might have
furnished the excuse.
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Saokcloth is the proper thing to
wear in Lent, but it hiz to be cut ac
cording to the 1915 spring style.
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Secretary Garrison is one member
of the cabinet who seems to consider
facts more important than his own
suppositions.
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Casforia. is a harmless snbstituto for Castor OH, Paro
porie, Drops antl Soothing1 Syrups. It is pleasant. It
' contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other iNarcotio
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms
and allays Fcv ;rishness. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething- Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Iiowels,
assimilates the Food, giving be'althy and natural fclcep.
The Children's Fanacca The 3Iotber's Friend
GENUINE CASTOR I A ALVAYS
iBears the Signature of
The Kind Yoa Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years
m k c e
-The agitation in favor of making Speaking of the manufacturing op-
statcs of the .large cities of America portunities of the United States, it
r. fiords mental exercise, but is other- may be interesting to know that we
wise without value. produce fully HO per cent of the
. 1 IV a i , . 1 n r 'a
;o' worm s cotton, senu tne duik oi it
Conan Doyle need not blame him- abroad in its raw state at pnywhere
se!f for submarine depredations. Both from 9 to 12 cents a pound and buy while Bouibon county went dry.
More watchful waiting and, if it
please the powers that be, a bit more
of neutral neutralizing.
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What's in a name, anyhow? Chris
tian county, Kentucky, went wet,
Re.bert
rhowed
he did.
Fullerton and Jules
the possibilities long
Verno
Lefore
tack the product therefrom at sev
oral dollars a pound, in some in
stances. As international
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There r has been considerable sick-
cotton ress this vicinity, occasioned, per-
manufacturers we are but in our in- haP8' by lhc c-nSeaMe weather.
The statement of Huntington Wil
.'oii that Great Britain and Tranc?
r re angry at America i.s not surpris
ing. It is simply one of the penaltio.i
of neutrality.
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A proposed amendment to the Cal!
fornia constitution would extend th
fancy. We produce upwards of CO
per cent cf the world's copper, yet do j
comparatively little in giving it ad-
'ed value before exporting it. We
leave Germany and other progressive
nations to grow rich through the I
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The new armory building, recently
dedicated at Glenwood, is a building
that any city should be proud of.
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Every one in a while Roosevelt says
manufacture of appliances calling for something in order to let the Amcri-
copper. We produce 40 per cent of can PeoP'e know that he is yet among
fuffrage to all persons over 18 years J the world's iron ore, but only one
of age. Voting seems to be the chief American steel company has done
pleasure of California life.
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the livin;
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much in conquering foreign markets If the Lord loves a long face some
Now two women are to be prosecut
ed for "transporting . themselves"
across the state line. The department
cf justice may finally make the Mann
act so odious that it will be repealed.
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Messrs. Rockefeller and Carnegie
for iron and steel products.
also tremendous growth is
possibility.
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Here people who pose as saints on earth
within might get by with the gloomy stuff
they inflict on their friends.
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The A good many of the jrirls will have
wear their winter styles all
- The Fremont Tribune says
new commissioner of labor appoint- to
ed by Governor Morehead is not un- through Lent, and yet some people
known in Fremont. He at one time say they don't mortify the flesh
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,;,-r.,I t-?f)( rrrorflv rnP tiiaiKB ui j tuine litis, m niuui ;o :
testifying before the federal in- "c '""'"--a " uiiqjuiaun: lcilliub social economists say women should
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uustrial commission. It would cer- ",M' "" us""utcu weign meat ana ice, so that the fam-
tainly have been a shame to compel governor was evidently hard pressed hy is not cheated. But how can they
those men to ro to all that trouble at for matGriaL The appointment of without spoiling their afternoon tea
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chief justice, which has been solo-owns? . '
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vigorously criticised, was an inspira- ;o;
tion compared to this one." The warrintr powers, beintr all al-
O: I lies of Clctd. fpo) it thfir jJntv in sink
their own expense.
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The present legislature is not over
ly supplied with statesmen, yet there
arc a few members who would like to
be termed so. If the gift of "gab"
was one of the chief qualifications to
statesmanship they would undoubted
ly be "right in it," but the trcr.ble is
the level-headed members of that
body have no confidence in their ef-
those hellish neutral vessels that are
wickedly venturing to sail the ecas
Hides Taken.
forts.
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While a national child labor law
might entail a great increase of fed
eral expenses, it would assure a de
sirable uniformity in thj various
states. The freedom of interstate
commerce, when there is no such uni
formity, punishes the spates which
ake high grounds, and also fails to
protect the children, who may be
taken to states with loose laws.
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My specialty is removing the hides
from dead animals, horses and cattle,
allowing a small fee for the hides re
moved. Arthur Jacobi,
Mynard, Neb.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor "What's
His Name," and that plug hat was no
doubt missed at the opening of the wRh the foodstuffs
Panama exposition. By the way,
what's become of the surplus that
was subscribed for that junketing trip
to San Francisco? Was there any
thing left?
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The report that Germany i.s boy
cotting American goods is bosh. As
that country does not receive any
American goods, the report shows a
disturbing clement yet at work to in
crease more sentiment in his country
against the Germans.
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This has been a pretty hard winter
on old citizens, and many have passed
away in consequence.
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DM,
AUCTIONEER
-Weeping Water, Neb.-
jment of a state penitentiary. The
When a man from Omaha gets in '
the legislature he forgets that there
s any other place" or section in Ne-
raska outside of the metropolis. But
he finds out before he has gone very
far that .there are other places and
sections just as important as Omaha,
and that there are just as smart rep
resentatives come from the interior
and westesn part of the state. That's
the reason Omaha is looked upon with
suspicion and never gets what is com
ing to her. See!
Evidently there will be no time lost
on liquor legislation at this session of
the legislature.
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the
Sell your property
Journal Want Ads.
through
will take charge of your public
sale business. Farm sales a
specialty. Owners' interests
are always guarded with the
best ability, and satisfaction
guaranteed. For open dates
telephone at my expense to
Weeping Water.
WM.DUNN.
Mo Honey Till Cured
.uJa SnH A ' ufa with-
! cur guaranteed.
Writ fr Fraa Illustrated baok n Rectal
Dlseasee and tostlmenlale ef hundreds ef
cured patients In Nebraska and Iowa. "
DR. E. R. TARRY 240 Bee Bldg.f Omaha. Neb.