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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917.
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ICBSCR1PTIOX FltlCBt SUM PEB TEAR Vf ABTANCH
OUR COUNTRY.
The fighting man can die for it;
The savins man can buy for it;
The aviator can fly. for it;
The thrifty cook can fry for it;
The thirsty can go dry for it
The daring man can spy for it;
The egotist can I for it;
The diplomat can lie for it;
The farmer can grow rye for it;
The working man can ply for it;
The very babies cry for it.
And all of us can try for it.
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Siles are good and useful.
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Apple buyers are in the country.
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Some Congressmen are prize kick
ers. :o :
Some people are suiTcring from
hay fever.
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The way to get things coming
your way is to go after them.
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No man gets so badly fooled as he
who is so positive he's right.
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They say money talks, but we
have not even heard it whimper.
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Wecp not for the days that are
gone be thankful that you're alive
today.
You are expected to hand out a
compliment occasionally, even if you
lie about it.
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There arc some people that are so
suspicious that they can't even trust
themselves.
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Boys who are just entering the
city schools are inking the first step
in preparedness.
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While it is no disgrace to be poor
it's anything but genuine pleasure
to live that way.
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There must be plenty of potatoes.
Grocers are beginning again to use
them to plug kerosene cans.
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tf people would only talk when
they have something to say, conver
sation would soon become a lost art.
The man who judges life by what
he gets out of it rather than by
what he puts into it, judges it
wrong.
One thing certain, when the Her
culiau task of reconstruction sets
in after the war, there will lie less
room than ever for the obstruction
of selfish politics.
Woman Suffrage lost out in
Maine at the election last Tuesday
Tiie boldness of the gang of women
in Washington, I). C, had as much
or more than anything to do with
this ilef eat.
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Congressman I)oo!ittlo of Kansas
may not succeed in exempting farm
hands as a class, but he thinks he
knows what his state and his conn
try need and is doing his best to give
it to them.
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Mr. Hoot denies that he was con
verted to woman suffrage by seeing
women fight in Russia. Unless" the
women in Russia fight better than
the men are fighting, this result is
not at all surprising.
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When Vallandigham was convict
ed of treason during the civil war
President Lincoln set aside a severer
punishment to send him into the
rebel lines, .upon the theory that he
belonged there. There is a hint in
the prcedent for the proper treat
ment of Mayor Thompson of Chicago
H6 would fit into German life ad
nurably.
If I get a little madder
At the Kaiser than I am,
I'll just grab a shellalah
And I'll give a mighty slam,
As to right and left I smash 'em
And with all my might I'll shout:
"If you make me any madder
i ll stop eating sauerkraut."
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The women clone well.
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riattnisuoth women are loyal.
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A little warmer thanks to Old
Sol.
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No form of government ever sat
isfies a failure.
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When some people can't use you,
they are always ready to abuse you.
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The woman register in Platts
mouth almost reached the 300 mark.
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lic is thrice armed who has a
sack of fluor, a bit of meat and a
back yard garden.
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It is rather a cold t that is
called forth by thought of those
enormous coal bills.
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Mind your own business and
eventually you will have a business
of your own to mind.
No, government control of the coal
mines does not. mean that you are
oing to get your coal for nothing.
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Merely a suggestion: Smoke one
less cigar a day and divide the diff
erence with the soldier boys who
go to the front.
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The kaiser is busy distributing
thanks. Iron has become too val
uable to be scattered about in the
shape of crosses.
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We wish those impetuous Rus
sians on the eastern front would
quit resting like a bunch of mili
tant Washington suffragettes.
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Now nine out of every ten men
who fail in business, have none but
themselves to blame. Their com
petitors have nothing to do with it.
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A young married man, after an
hour up town the other day mar
keting, remarked that the old-fash
ioned notion that two can live as
cheaply as one, needs considerable
alteration.
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Ihillcr is at home now and should
either resign or make some state
ment that would be satifsactory to
the people who are clamoring for
him to "step down and out" as
President of the Board of Regents.
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It is very amusing to hear some
people tell what they would do if
they were actively engaged in the
war. We always put that kind of
a fellow down as one who would
dodge behind a petticoat and try to
be exempted.
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The daily press have been full
of dope, telling of spies and unde
sirables being placed under arrest
the past week. It's getting to be a
pretty dangerous proposition for a
person to open up on this govern
ment.
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Scnator Norris is now endeavor
ing to crawl back into the good
graces of his constituency, whose
interest he has so bitterly opposed
in the past. But it is entirely too
late for amends. Ho. ought to have
thought of the consequences, when
he was playing into the hands of
the enemy, when his services were
so much needed in behalf of his
country.
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AIRCRAFT PROSPECT.
The raids on English towns on
three successive nights by German
airplanes, causing heavy loss of life
and considerable destruction of prop
erty, were followed by the query in
tho British press, "Has the enemy
beaten us to the contemplated great
offensive in the air?" No doubt II.
G. Wells, who has so long and so
urgently besought the authorities to
develop the flying service is revolv
ing in his mind the same query.
Further significance is given to the
fact and the query by the retire
ment of the enemy planes with no es
tablished loss.
These events, as well as the in
creasing use and growing effective
ness of airplane warfare, confirm the
predictions of experts, and may fore
shadow the truth of the prophecy
that the war will be finally decided
in tho air. Italy, it is understood,
has recently been building airplanes
larger than those used by other
belligerents and has found them effi
cient and mechanically practicable.
This may explain the tremendous
damage that Italian flying squad
rons have been able to inflict on the
Austrian naral base of Pola. In
Italy, too, the other day was estab
lished a new record for long dis
tance flight, an aviator having flown
nine hundred miles without a stop.
This accomplishment suggests that
Berlin will before long be quite as
liable to aerial attack as London or
Paris.
The evidence that this great con
flict is going more and more into the
realm of the air justifies the prepara
tions that are being made by the
United States for aerial service.
Americans will be glad that the gov
ernment authorities so quickly and
so fully realized what an import
ant, if not decisive, factor the fly
ing squadrons were destined to be !n
the war. Our first contingent of
military aviators is now in France,
in number unrevealed, trained.
equipped and supplied with aircraft
of American manufacture. At first
the construction of only 3,500 air
planes and the trailing of 0,000
aviators was contemplated, but now
we have appropriated $000,000,000
for airplanes and men to manage
them by the tens of thousands.
We are sending our planes across
the ocean on ship board. Will they
soon be flying across, with the avia
tors, of course, in them? Major
Perfeti, now in this country as head
of the Italian aeronautic mission,
suggests that we. will be sending our
larger planes that way, for he ad-
vses our government to devote a
part of its resources to the con
struction cf iarplanes capable of
carrying as many as twenty-five
fighting men and a full equipment of
machine guns and bombs. He says
that these planes will have no diffi
culty in crossing the ocean on their
own wings. This seems fantastical.
but what are now commonplaces in
air service Mere fantastical even so
short a time ago as the beginning of
this war. Major Perfeti claims to
;pcak from experience, and in doing
so perhaps he is hinting at the new-
things being accomplished by the
Italians in developing the airplano
with respect both to speed and size.
We are all done with assertions
expressing limitations of the. possi
bilities of aircraft. The aircraft has
been sailing away from all such
foolish assertions constantly in the
last three years. World Herald.
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PART OF EVERY GOVERNMENT.
A United States district judge in
Texan has decided in a case brought
before him thaj. the selective draft
law is constitutional. The supreme
court will decide the same way. The
person who thinks, otherwise, and
imagines that the government is not
strong enough to protect itself, has
several more guesses coming.
Kearney Hub.
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ATTENTI0N, FARMERS.
I will sell at public auction a
good 1,000 pound horse, on Fifth
street near Wescotts store, at four
o'clock Saturday afternoon, Septem
ber 15 th. O. A. Newton.
WARNING TO FARMERS.
. The government is constantly
looking after the farmers' interest,
and that is one reason why a warn
ing lias been sounded cautioning
American farmres not to be misled,
in their zeal for increased wheat
productions, into planting abnorm
ally high-priced seed for which ex
travagant" claims are made.
The department of agriculture has
sent out a statement to the effect
that at the present time wheat is at
tracting greater attention than ever
before, owing to its comparative
scarcity and high price and the
necessity of sowing a large acreage
this fall. As might be expected,
therefore, various persons are offer
ing to the public, varieties that they
describe as far superior to the'kinds
now being grown. These varieties
are usually given some catchy name
and extravagant claims are made for
them. An example of this kind is
the Alaska, or seven-headed wheat
that was exploited a few years ago.
The backers of this wheat did not
get very far with it, however, as
the postoffice department issued a
fraud order and their business came
to a standstill. This type of wheat
having a large branched head has
been offered at high prices to the
people of this country many times
under one name or another. Rec
ords concerning it go back more
than a hundred years. Just now
another exploitation is threatened
under the name "Titantic". This
type of wheat with branched heads
should be left strictly alone by the
farmers of the country.
It is pointed out that a favorite
scheme employed by those having
wheat for sale for which they wish
to obtain exorbitant prices is to
claim that their variety requires
but a small amount of seed per acre.
A peck of seed, twenty pounds and
a half bushel per acre, are amounts
frequently mentioned. Of course the
claims of maximum yields from these
small seedings are not srbsrantiated
by fact. Only on dry lands or under
very special conditions Is the seed
ing of as little as forty-five pounds
per acre of wheat advisable. On
nearly all of the wheat lands of the
country it is more profitable to sow
from a bushel to two bushels of
seed per acre than to sow less than
a bushel.
The United States department of
agriculture has shown in previous
publications that the claims of max
imum yields obtained from sowing
one or two pecks to the acre of the
wheat known as Stouer, Miracle,
or Marvelous are not substantiated
by experiments. Safe rules to fol
low in the case of all wheats for
which such claims are made are first
to sow as much as has been found
profitable with other varieties in the
neighborhood, and second, not to pay
high prices for the seed.
Radical claims of high yields are
made for some varieties of wheat. It
is not uncommon in advertising a
new variety for an unscrupulous or
uninformed promoter to claim yields
four or five times that of the average
yield of the country. Claims as high
as fifteen or more times the average
yield have been made in special cas
es. Such claims are absurd and no
one need be misled by them. A
well-bred variety in the scctio'n to
which it is adapted may yield a few
bushels more than the varieties be
ing commonly grown. Very seldom,
indeed, can a doubling of the yield
be expected.
It is further emphasized that buy
ing tieed grown at. a great distance
from home is another thing that
wheat grows should be on their
guard against. No wheat grown,
and bred for California conditions,
for instance, no matter how good
for California, baa been found
adapted to the country cast of the
Rockies. California adapted wheat
do not succeed east of that t;tate.
Neither would t the wheats adapted
to the Atlantic coast or the Mis
sissippi Valley succeed in California.
In' short, homo grown seed should
be used when possible. Hastings
Tribiiiui.
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RETURN FROM VISIT IN WEST.
From Saturday's Daily.
Albert A. Wetencarnp and brother
Will Wetencarnp, returned yesterday
from a trip extending over the wes
tern portion of the state, which com
prised most of the week.', They de
parted last Sunday with a crew of
men who accompanied W. E. Rosen
crans, and at Omaha they had to
wait for their train, and visited the
Gaiety until train time, arriving
at Imperial, they visited the many
fine farms in that vicinity, and were
greatly pleased with the fine land
and good prospects which they found
there. Land is selling from twenty
dollars per acre to seventy and
eighty, owing to the circumstances
which surrounds it. Its proximity
to town, and the improvements
which has been placed upon it, and
the real natural condition. From
Imperial they went to Grant, in
Perkins county, which is some twenty-four
miles north. Here they found
good lands, but not so thickly set
tled but rapidly filling up. Here
they visited the country and saw
what it had to offer in shape of
good homes and opportunities for
the home seeker.
From there overland they went
to Ogalalla, where Albert Weten
carnp, "returned to Omaha over the
Union Pacific, and Will went tc
Chappel where he visited and look
ed over the country. Here he found
the country all settled with noth
ing for sale within nearly twenty
miles of the town. Chappel is a
town of about twelve hundred popu
lation, and the county seat of Duel
county. Here, Will met W. W.
Hamilton, formerly of Murray,
where he is working at his trade,
being a contractor and carpenter.
Many people were living in tents,
on account of not being able to get
a house to live in and the carpent
ers as hucy as they ca nbe.
He also met p.nci visit with G. P.
Eastwood, and Bert Knorr, both of
whom are employed with the Ste
phens Hardware, Lumber and Imple
ment Co. They were enthusiastic
over the times in and around Chap
pel. Will who is on the draft, says
as soon as the war is settled so that
he will know whether he !ins to go
to the service or not, and if not he
will go out there to mike his home.
ENTERTAINS PAST CHIEFS.
From Satiirdav's Pall v.
The Past Chiefs of tho Degree of
Honor were entertained yesterday
afternoon, in a most charming man
ner, at the pretty home of Mrs. Em
mons Ptak on West Pearl St. Tho
early hours of the afrernoon were
devoted to a very interesting busi
ness session, at which time consid
erable business matters were trans
acted. After the business session
the ladies indulged in various
amusements, which made this af
ternoon's entertainment most de
lightful to all. A number of the
ladies indulged in knitting and cro
cheting as they engaged in pleas
ant conversation. Mrs. Harold
Thomsen of Omaha, one of the for
mer members, was in attendance and
her presence was very much ap
preciated and enjoyed by her former
associates and friends. At an ap
pointed time an elegant two course
luncheon was provided by the host
ess, to which all did ample justice.
The hostess was assisted by Mrs.
John Bajeck. The cozy rooms of the
Ptak home were made very attrac
tive with aster decorations for tho
occasion. It was late in the after
noon when the Past Chiefs dispers
ed, declaring Mrs. Ptak to be a
splendid entertainer.
VISIT PARENTS.
From Saturda v's Dailv.
George Albert of Sidney, Mont.,
who has been visiting at Chicago
for the past few days, arrived in
this city la.st night on the late
Missouri Pacifis train, for a visit
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Albert. Mr. Albert states that his
section of the country was rather
dry. While crops do not amount to
much, cattle liuve done remarkably
well considering the long hard
winter and dry summer. He states
that he delivered two cars oT cattle
to the market mid that. his four
year old Hteers averucgd 122" lbs.
and brought, $10.15 per hundred,
which ho thought was a very satis
factory price. Mr. Albert expects
to lav in n few days for his home
in Moiiliinn.
BUYS A FARM IN WEST.
From Saturday's Pally.
.George Kreagcr, who has a farm
southwest of Mynard, and who was
out in the western portion of the
state recently, while there purchas
ed another farm for which he paid
$35.00 per acre, and considers that
he has a splendid bargain in it at
that. The place is in Perkins coun
ts', and not far from Grant.
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NEBRASKA
m ARE MOVING
SOUTHWARD NOW
With Nebraska's Miljtia Army
Er.ront e to Comp Only, Domini;, X.
M.. Sept. i 1. Nebraska mobilized
todiiy. From every corner of her
vat domain she save of her best,
ol tho line.-t of her youth, repre
sentatives of her strength, in con
crete testimony fo her abundant
patriotism, to the bicrgert mobiliza
tion of the country's civilian sold
ier army that the nation has, ever
known. Today those men, many of
whom have Kone, perhaps never to
return, bade gcoclbye to their homes,
their families. sweethearts and
friends, sacrificed their jobs, their
professions, their all to the defense
of those iv ho remain behind.
The scheme of 4.000 lives has this
day been upset. For them the world
has pone topsy-turvy. John Jone.s
is no longer John Jones. From this
day forth lie is Private Jones, U. 3.
NT. G. His old life, is cast behind
him. arid with u firm set face, but
aching heart he begins the new.
This morning, almost, he was a
grocer, a banker or baker, a farm
er, a mechanic, at least a man with
an individuality. Now lie is but
an atom in the great organization,
the militia army, lost to all intents
ami purposes in a maze of new
things, that have always lain dorm
ant in the bulk of the sleeping
giant we call Uncle Sam.
Making Men Over.
In a great city of wooden homes
and ofiices, a soldier factory that he
has never seen, John Jones will be
gin the serious life of preparing him
self for the .supreme test of the
trenches in France. Sharp and in
tensive is the training that has been
outlined for him, and that over,
he will be ready for the front and
active service.
The special car from Omaha,
carrying the Fifth regiment ma
Low SisBYinrsor Fares
Withdrawn September 30th
TO EASTERN CITIES AND RESORTS: The entire scheme of Eastern sum
mer fares will be available during September, with return limits good
until October Cist; this is the last opportunity of the year to visit
the Fast at reduced rates.
TO THE FACIFIC COAST: The low-rates circuit tours are also availably
prior to September SOth; these are much lower than the winter fares.
Our Scenic Colorado California route is especially attractive durins
the Autumn.
TO VESTERN RESORTS: You can go to Colorado and Estes Park at very
cheap fares during this month. Estes Park in September is an ideal
place lor a "rapid-health-come-back."
The big National Parks will be open until September 15th. The
Clack Hills are available throughout the'month.
The ranches about Sheridan, Ranchester and Cody will all be open
and can take excellent care of you after the departure of the mid
summer crowds.
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no one to deceive you in this.
chine gun company, v-as attached
to the second section of the "Fifth
regiment train at Union, when the
section arrived from Lincoln aboir
2 o'clock. The whole train the:,
proceeded out of the state to the
south, picking up companies in that
section at concentration points.
Six Trains Required.
Six trains, three for the Fifth
regiment and three for the Sixth,
started almost simultaneously from
as many different points in the slato
this morning and threading their
way toward the Kansas line were
boarded by the national guardsmen
who had been concentrated at cer
tain designated stations along their
routes. The schedules of those
trans are so timed that gradually
drawing together as their common
destination, Camp Cody, at Dcmiug.
N. M., is approached, at some divi
sion point far in the south, they
will meet and from there proceed
as one train the Nebraska train
with Nebraska's offering to a just
cause.
Arriving at Deming, the concen
tration point for the Thirty-fourth
division, U. S. N. C?., of which the
Nebraska National Guard has been
designated as a part, the troops will
at once enter upon the active train
infr that has ben outlined for them.
They will no longer be the Nebraska
National Guard Brigade but the Fifty-ninth
Depot brigade, according to
the present designation.
Ride In Comfort.
The men are riding in perfect
ease and comfort in standard and
tourist sleepers. They are eating
good and substantial food, not ex
travagant nor suniptious but suffi
cient. They are apparently happy.
They dangle their legs and bodies
out of car windows in a most reck
less fashion, raising a tremendous
uproar when they pass a crowded
station platform or a lonely coun
try house, alike. They flirt with
the girls along the way, and the
girls never to be daunted, flirt in
return. All are agreed, there are
worse things in life than riding on
a troop train with the Nebraska
National Guard.
Send for publications descriptive of any trip
you may have in mind and let us help you.
W. R. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent.
L. W. WAKELY, General Passenger Agent,
1004 Farnam Street '- - Omaha, Kebr.
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