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10 TTIE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, .TUNE 14, 1913. V "J Mr 8 j'flrlE OMAIIA DAILY BEE & l KOI NDBU 11T EDWAnU ROSKWATBR VICTOR ItOSftWATKlt, EOtTORT BBB'nuTL.DINU, FAKKA.M AN 17TH. Entered at Oraaha postofflco as second- class matter. TKRMS OK BITUSCRIPTION: Sunday Bee, one year J"J Saturday Bee, one year Dally Bee, without Sunday, one year. 4.OT TVniif n ami Sunday, one year nvt.ivwiiii'n nv rAHUIKIL Evening nnd Sunday, per month..... .jKte ' Evening, without Sunday, per month .3c Pally Bee, Including Sunday, per n- . S Dally Bee. without Sunday, per ,mo.o , ' Address all complainti of lrreirularlUes 4 In delivery to City Circulation Dept. TJ TPH.I ITT A Nf!E. Remit by dratt express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing company, t Only J-eent a tamps received In payment i ' of small accounts. Personal checKa, ex cept on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFicns: Omaha The Bee building. South Omaha-O18 N Street Council Bluffs 14 North Main street. Uncoln-M little building. Chicago Ml Hearst building. New Tork-Room 11M. 2S6 Fifth Are. fit. Louts-WJ New Bank of Commerce. Washington T2S Fourteenth St. N. W. r.-iTjTtwiVVTVKMrrFl. Communications relating to newsi and dltorlaI matter should be nddreased Omaha Bee. Editorial department MAT CmCUIATION. KH Oft! j BUte of Nebraska, County of Douglas, as! t Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, b'n duly sworn, says mat tne average wmy i circulation for the month of May, 1913, J E xtui 60,161. I) WIGHT WltiWAMS. 1" Circulation Manager. i ' H Subscribed In my presence and sworn i i,. to berore me this 7th day of June. 1. 5 j ROBERT HUNTER, (Beat) Notary PubllCk Sabscrtbex lea-rlusr the city temporarily should have The Bee malted to thrm. Address will be Changed as often as requested. These days of the dictagraph arc great for open-air concerts. 1 Memorial services are often just i t pollto way of flattering tlio dead. 2 The moanest knocker of all Is the man who hates to see his own hall team win. A man's most rcsourcoful mo rsonts come to him when ho prepares to muko a touch. And no Nobraakan has to go away r" from homo these days to find the garden spot of the world. "The Truth About Mexico." That B .might be easy to find, but what I about the truth "In" Mexico? If Mr. Bryan's grapejutco gives him lithe ono advantage, however, of not - , TBmtlrlnc n ilnrtor'n nrnacrlnUfln. Politics contlnues-to make strange 'ubedf allows. Colonel Rooeovelt is ; en a speaking tour for and with Governor Sulzer. "If war is a good thing," says Dr. t Jordan, "wo ought to have more of S, It," Does anyone want to take that filaldo of the,debato?v f One good way to improve street p. traffic is to glvo the officer in chargo sufficient authority to make tho other fellow respect it. t The University of Nebraska has r just turned out nearly 400 gradu 5 ates. No wonder it Is so fast out growing its old clothes. How much did those tiro undor ,1 wrltora say they wore going to cut off premiums on Omaha risks be- - cause of. Improvement In our water supply t . , The report that frozen meat from (the Argentine is Belling 1M( cents 3 . , . i . . a pouna enwper law nauvo uooi i looks like a cold deal for the ultl H'saate consumer. The New York dentists are deter mined to keep up the fight on fakers who project themselves into, their profession. They should fight them 'tooth and nail. Why should anyone think It neces- 4 sary to explain that Dr. David Starr vi Jordan " Jordan "waa once a dose assoclato of Dr. Harvey W, Wiley?" Dr. Jor dan's fame la secure upon Its own footing. West Farnam Car Strikes Automobile; Two Men Injured. Headline. Put on the brakes. Both trolley i cars and autos are here to stay, The thing needed is more science In their operation. Local assessing officials please take notice that Denver has success fully maintained its right to tax money and property of a foreign corporation within its territorial Jur isdiction. Another Union Pacific plan for unscrambling those eggs has been ' rejected by the government. Tho kl government is about the most per sistent rejecter any fond suitor ever tried to suit. The best and only way to vindi cate municipal ownership in Omaha la for the Water board to redeem its promises and give us better service and lower rates than did the old water company Nevertheless, it we were laying wagera, we would bet that Senator Norria puts the Coffee trust out of business before his colleague, Sena tor Hitchcock, wipes the Tobacco trust off the map. .' ... z, Advocates of the Henry George 6 single tax do not warm up 'to the' $j proposal for a graduated Internal . ' revenue, duty on tobacco production ?- "They would abellsb Internal revenue - duties altogether. Again the Franking Abuse. Disclosures in tho lobby Investiga tion at Washington again acccntuato tho abuse of the franking privilege) by members of congress, and re inforce the -oft-mado demand for Its curtallmont. The Insertion into tho Congressional Record of arguments and exhibits for or against the pro posed tariff schedules has for Its purposo their circulation, postage free, as government documents tho sugar people admit that on one pub lication they have saved $28,000 In postago but this Is only ono of the schomes resorted to to make Undo Sam foot Mils that ought to be paid by those personally interested. Hundreds of tons of so-called lit erature are bolng constantly trans mttted in tho mails, postage free, to bolster up all sorts of propaganda, to say nothing of documents used by all parties in political campaigns. Henry George's bookv "Progress and Poverty," has been printed and cir culated at government expense, and so have Bpooches made by William Jennings Dry an as a private citizen. Tho offenders are not confined to any ono political party or class, and the self-styled reformers havo worked tho game stronger oven than those fighting their various pro posals. And yet every time the curtail ment of this abuse has been urgod it has met unsuporable obstacles be causo tho franking privllogo Is a graft of which tho senators and con gressmen aro, themselves, tho chief beneficiaries. If the law-makers would vote themselves, and each of the government departments, a lib eral postago allowanco, and cut off the freedom of the mails absolutely. they would save trouble and avoid scandal, and soon make a surplus in tho Postofflco department that would bo swell its receipts as to givo us 1-cent postago in tho very noar future Eugenics and the Law. EugonlcB is not provoking auite tho mirth it did when first presented as a BUbject of popular education. Such cases as that of tho eccentric young man with some eccentric an cestors, who foully does away with his eccentric wiro, help to impress tho Borlous import of It and suggest tho wisdom of official censorship of matrimony that really means some thing. This young husband is shown to havo boon subjoct since childhood to fits of derangomont; ono undo was a paranoiac, a grandmother dlod of alcoholism, his mother was a vic tim of It. But when this youth, half tho age of his wife,' got roady to marry her ho did It without so much as an In direct inquiry as to their fitness to wod. Indeed, as subsequent facts Bhow, tho marriage was secret. When crime comes as tho result of such unions, sealed by tho approval or law, then the law steps In to pun ish what it should havo preventod. Already wd aro losing tho falso mod esty that first appeared whon tho matter of ougonlcs began to suggost itself, It will not bo long, let us hopo, till tho law roqulros what com mon Bonso dictates In such promises. A World-Citizenship Movement. What is to be known as tho Wo-ld's Christian Citizenship con ference will be held in Portland, Ore., from Juno 20 to July 6, whon distinguished leadors of thought and action from varlouB nations of Asia as well as America and Europe will corao together for an oxchango of Ideas. Such subjects will be dls- ciissod as peace and war, Intemper ance, socialism, capital and labor. immigration, prison reform, social service, social consclonco and por- ponal character, child labor, the claims of delinquents and depend' ents upon society, political corrupJ lion, tho weekly rest day, laws af fecting marriage and divorce and tho relation of public education to n-orallty and religion, Reports of tho attitudes of the different na Hons toward these questions will bo bod. whether anything moro than academic discussion will bo accora pushed cannot now be said, but whatever of criticism may suggest Imelf,. the high idealistic nature of th enterprise commends it. Surely 11 is a favorable comment upon the dnuntlegs ago .in. which wo live that a task of such magnitude could even he approached. And of all nations, America is the one In which such a world-gathering should be most be- fittingly held. For It ia here that the lines of immigration are coriverg ing and world problems co mingling, as one writer nas re . It A . . cently phrased It. America is God's laboratory, in which ho is com pounding his world citizens. This as Feet of the subject may prompt the euestlpn why such a convention limits Kb membership to "Christian citizens." But before passing Judg ment on that, perhaps If. may be but fair to ask whether tho answer lies In the fact that, these have, happened to hit upon the Idea first. It the pro gram Is reduced to concrete results though, it will preaent itself to the co-operation of all Interested hi'man betterment, 'regardless ruce or creed. Now that It has been asserted by ,an expert, in the science of social re form that only IS per cent of fallen iwpmen lay .their -decline, to low wages, It would seem necessary to recast this whole plan of working out the problem of the social evil. Looking BackwW uhis Dm? itt Qmalia COMPILED FROM DfcE, TILES 000 c JUNK 14. ooa Thirty Years Ago The Woman's Home Missionary society of the Presbyterian church listened to Mrs. C. E. Walker of the Woman's executive committee of home missions of New York City. J. T, Clark, formerly of the firm of Clark & Warden, liverymen, Fifteenth and Fornnm streets, died at Lincoln, the body being brought back to Omaha. The school board let the contract for two new buildings on Seventeenth and Leavenworth and on King and Delaware streets, to F. B, Potwtn at Slt.000 each, and for the addition to the South school to Bally ft Olson, for the brick workj H. Kosters, for the painting, nnd A. W. Phelps, for the carpenter work. It Is reported that the elk at Hans- com park died of (starvation. The Nebraska Sportsmen's association has elected the following officers from Omaha: Vice president J. W. Petty; member of executive committee, George P. Mitts. J. N. H. Patrick has returned from Europe. Tom Orr and wife are back from the east Mrs. Annie Durnal left for a visit to her old home In Wilmington, Del. Mrs. E. Halnoy has. gone to Illinois to visit friends. W. F. Bechel, auditor of the Pacific Express company, left for Chicago. N. B. Falconer, of the firm of A. Crulckshank ft Co., has gone on a three weeks' tour of the east. Twenty Years A go James J. Corbett was seen In his dress ing room at the Fnrnam Street theater and said: "I don't think I'll lose the fight with Charley Mitchell," and the champion put the emphasis on "think" and winked at the Interviewer. "Oh, yes, ho'll fight. He's got $10,000 up and 1 don't see how he can pull it down." Hon. James North, the new collec tor of Internal revenue, was being over whelmed with applications for deputy- ships. Democrats from the four comers of the state were coming In to get their feet under the pie table. They were also besieging Governor Boyd for Jobs. Senator Peffcr of Kansas arrived In the city and was mot nt the depot by Senators Roach and Washburn, tho three being a committee from the federal con' gress to Investigate the live stock and commission Industry. Trinity cathedral was the scene of a beautiful Juno wedding when Miss Mary Maxwell Lemlst daughter of Mr. and Mrs. II. T. Lemlst was Joined in holy matrimony with Arthur Henry Charles Herbert of Now York City, eldest son of tho late Captain Charles James Herbert of her majesty's grenadier guards, Muckross Abbey, Lake of Klllarney, Ire land, a name fnmous In tho social and military life of the United Kingdom since James was king. Dean Gardner per formed the ceremony. Miss Woolner was rQfdd of honor, nnd Russoll Lemlst best man. Thomas J. Kelly was at the organ and many of society's prominent mem bers were present. The couple left in the evening for New York. Miss Ella Heller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Heller, and Arthur Laev of Milwaukee were married at Metropoli tan club by the Bev. Dr. Franklin, tt was a very prominent Jewish wedding, largely attended. Tho brlilul party con sisted of two little flower girls, Louise and May HMIer; the bride's father, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Heller, Mrs. Bergman ond daughter,. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Grotte, Mr. Marks, Miss Rose Ginsberg ana Mrs. Slnar of Milwaukee, tho bride and groom. After the wedding there was a fine ball nt which Mr. Julius Meyer actca as master qt ceremonies. Ten Years Aro Mrs. Carrlo Nation, tno naicnei ennra plon, arrived In Omaha from Cherryvllle. Kan., spent a few hours as the guest oi Mrs. Reynolds, 1K South Twenty-ninth avenue, and left for Eagle Grove, la., without exhibiting her ' penchant- lor things alcoholic. She attended services at the First Christian church, the donpm lnatlon to which she belonged. Friends of Itev. J. Ahearn, paBtor of St. Peter's Cathollo church, received word that be would bo back during the week from Ireland, where he had been on a visit. Prof. F. H. Wright, L. L. C. M., organ ist and choir director at Trinity Episcopal cathedral, was confined to. his bed with congestion of the lungs. He was being relieved In his work by Christopher Thornton. F. S. 8. C, of London. Prof. E. G. Lund, LL. D. of the Luth eran university of Minneapolis, Minn., preached at Kountae Memorial church In the morning. The 8undny school at Temple Israel, on Harney street near Twenty-fourth, closed for the summer. Dr. Simon, rabbi of the congregation, made a brief address at the closing exercises, on'd diplomas wero awarded to the pupils who nud earnca them by their work. People Talked About John Hava Hammond says that money. in itself Is not wrong. Then why does It fear the assessor Talk about your steady boarder! Nlch Roemer. a printer, of Manitowoc, Wis.. swipes all the prises In stght-wlth a rec ord of forty years at ono boarding house. Finding children more interesting than dogs. Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, ior- merlv Miss Jennie Crocker, or Ban tfTan- clfco, has disposed of her famous kennel and will devote her life to ner iwo smau stepchildren. Mrs. Anna Powless, who will have the unique distinction of being graduated from the University ,ot .Colorado on the twenty-fifth anniversary of her wedding. Miss A. L. Cabot, whose engagement to J. R. Coolldge. third, has Just been an- nounced. will be the fourth Boston so clety girl who has served a nursing and missionary apprenticeship In 'Northern Labrador to be married. Mrs. Rebecca Karp of Brooklyn, N. Y has sold newspapers for a score of years within the shadow of Brooklyn bridge. She owns a comfortable three-story, In which she lives, and is completing ar rangements for buying an adjoining house from the pennies she- has received from the sale of papers. A Philadelphia Judge who approved a ..tn.mnt whioi, L., iih.rt tn n m.f1 bezzler of J1.400.COO at the same time sent a woman to Jail for keeping a diamond ring obtained on memorandum from a Jeweler. Realizing a few hours later the absurdity of that brand of Justice, the Judge released the woman. In Other Lands The Knlser'a Jubilee. Twenty-five years ago, on June 15, 18S8, Wllhelm II became emperor of Germany. He was then a man under 30, self-reliant aggressive and an extreme militarist. All three characteristics, somewhat subdued by the passing years, are markedly con spicuous in the record of his reign. As commander and chief of the German army, he has enlarged and developed the most perfect fighting machine In Europe, surpassed by Russia In numbers only. Thej German navy Is almos wholly the cre ation of the kaiser, and Its development Is a marvp'- no less amaxlng than the in dustrlal uplift of the empire. For the greater part of his reign the kaiser has been icrltlclzed. cartooned and Jeered at as a war lord, a "mailed fist" warrior, an Imperialist constantly parading with a chip on his shoulder. Many Impulsive acts and vainglorious speeches gave war rant for sharp criticism at home and abroad, and spurred the venom of envious pens. But back of the criticisms and scoffs of rivals, rose the unequalled and uuchecked expansion of German Industry and commerce at home and abroad. In thnt business growth lay the moving cause of caricature and misrepresenta tion. Astonishing as the prosperity of Germany has been, It has a counterpart today In the fact that men of national breadth and Influence In the United States and Great Britain acclaim the kaiser a the mightiest force for peace In the world. In the plaudits and congratulations his Jubilee will call forth, none will-carry mors gratification than the tribute of Impartial minds to the unbroken peaco of his rclgn. Homr Rnlr ProKrrsa. "Who fears to speak of '98?" Last cen tury's famous slogan of Irish national ism acquires fresh significance by its as sociation with the second heat of the home rule bill. By a majority of ninety eight the bill passed second reading In the House of Commons Wednesday morning. This Is tho second ' of the three rounds necessary to nullity the vetoes of the House of Lords. Present action Is per functory, no amendments are permissible, but amendments may be suggested for action by the peers. Third reading will follow as soon as the opponents relieve their systems of a few more speeches. It Is likely the measure will reach the lVusc of Lords for the second time before the end of June. If all goes well, the third and final passage can be had within a year. Will the liberal majority hold to gether for another year? That's the vital question. At present the ministry is serl ously embarrassed by the Marconi Investi gation, by two recent defeats In by-elec-tlons and harassed by the compact, ag gressive tactics of the opposition. The bo called Marconi scandal Is wildly exagger ated for political ends. The Inquiry Is very much like the hunt for an "Insidi ous lobby" In Washington. Every turn of tho political pump brings out rumors and gossip colored to suit the tastes of political organs. Occasionally a grain of wheat Is gathered from the chaff, but ac tual turpitude has not been revealed. The Ulster end of the tory machine' Is working overtime. Home rule and Ulster's fate are but cogs In the wheel; the Tories and the privileged classes, united as never be fore, are moving with all their might and power, hoping to overthrow the ministry beforo Lloyd George springs his land re form measures and challenges the elector ate for a vdte of confidence on that Issue, Co nf Militarism. Unlooked for opposition against the throe-year military service law Is de veloping In France. Soldiers who enlist for two years object to another year with tho colors at some garrison town away from their homes. Recently a number of them at tho Important military station of Toul, near the German frontier, or ganlsed a demonstration so serious as to be regarded by the war office as ap proaching treason itself. While the mutiny, if it may be termed one, waa promptly quelled, it goes to show ths existence of a dangerous feeling In the French army. Nor Is discontent .with the law confined to military circles. The tax payer objects, and in France the tax payer is a power to be reckoned with. It Is estimated that a sum of $70,000,000 extra will have to bo provided for new barracks, for the enlargement of exist lng ones, for the purchase of horses and for equipment of the troops. Then the KW.000 additional soldiers will havo to be paid and fed, so that the yearly bill which the taxpayer will have to pay will bo a heavy one. Tut-VUli I,c"1f .r-iNtiiuted. Mahmoud Srcfkct Pasha, assassinated In Constantinople last Tuesday,' was one of the ablest men In Turkey nnd leader of the young Turks' movement which resulted in the overthqw of Sultan Abdul Hamld, four years ago. "When I first saw him in Macedonia," wrote a cor respondent of tho Chicago News, in 1909. 'Schefket Pasha's very appearance in spired confidence. Standing with a group of military men he towered above them In height, and he was greater than all In distinction. His long beard is tlnced with gray and a pair of fiery eyes light up a very careworn face. In his presence you feel that he is looking you through nnd through. His heart Is always over flowing with sympathy and his manner Is amiable and gentle. Despite these traits one Is Immediately confronted with tho Indomitable will of the man, his coolness and his quickness In action.' Mahmoud Schefket Pasha was a llnquest. speaking fluently. Arabic, Persian. Gcr- man and French, and some English. He was an orator, and a writer of ability, having written a number of books on military subjects. Italy's Trouhlrj l Africa The farther the Italian forces get from J of Trlpo ,he mQft dUfJcuU and hazardous becomes the attempts to subdue the warring natives. Late re ports indicate that Ahmid el Scerif, head of the Senusst brotherhood, and Asia Bey, the Egyptian officer In command of th Bedouins, are united In opposing the Italian advance into Cyrenaica, The Italians count on superior artillery to route the enemy. In Rome fear is ex pressed that the Italian force may be drawn Into a trap and their lines of com munlcatlon destroyed. Reinforcements of cavalry and artillery are being sent to Cyrenaica and an expeditionary force of over 35.000 men will shortly be con cenlrated at Derna. The struggle U ifl.etn, the. na,Un Rnd Juln will be a nara ana long one. ana it is feared that it will take at least another year to: the Italians to occupy the Inland portion of Cyrenaica and come to terms with the powerful Senussl. ILBeesUleriy Taxpayer Take Notice. OMAHA, June IS. To the Editor of The Bee: Please print the following state ment made to me by one of the old em ployes of the Omaha water department, which Is run by Howell This employe states he and some more have been cut from $60 per month to 2S cents per hour, while a man councilman and resident of Council Bluffs, la. Is drawing 32 cents per hour for tho very same work. Now this 32-cents-per-honr man lives In Coun cil Bluffs, mind you, and Is employed by the Omaha water department In the meter shop. Is this Justice to the Omaha people? Also, a statement made by a man the department fired; he states that they take out 'new meters where they don't run and replace them with old ones. Now I think It Is about time the Omaha people were waking up. Tax payers should get busy and sift this mat- j ter to the very roots. Also, the people' should get together In regard to this CO- cent water rate. Make a test case and see If you have to pay for something you don't get. It Is only a hold-up, and the people stand for it Why should Howell uphold a Council Bluffs man simply be cause he belonged to the same regiment at one time? If Howell wants to start in cutting, why don't he begin on him self or some of the officeholders or office force, who are drawing fat salaries? Not begin on the working men In the meter shop, who at the best moke barely living wages. If they want to cut wages In the water meter department, why not make It general among all other city em ployes? Not let Howell run things to suit himself. I hopo the people will wake up before it Is too late, and if proof Is needed I can get It at any time. J. EL D. Forty-clght-year resident of Omaha, also a taxpayer. Protect Them by Law. CENTRAL- CITT, Neb., June II. To the Editor of The Bee'.' Will you please let one whose soul is heavy and whose heart Is sad have a little space In your paper? I suggest that Governor More head should call a special session of the legislature Immediately to pass a "blue sky law." If not, we "Bull moosers" (having no reference to yourself) should Insist upon putting such a -plank In our ntxt platform. Have not our choicest lambs been shorn by the ruthless Mc Brlen? To think that Governor Aldrlch should pay 1250 to get an opportunity to talk more than he has In the past and then be denied that privilege. "Alas, the day to have seen what we have seen and see what we sec." Can Nebraska maintain its proud repu tation as "a place tit -io live in" with such doings? And there Is Love and Carson and Gettys and Williams. It seems that MoBrlen took fiendish delight In herding our whole bull moose crowd into a pen and shearing them like tender lambs. Why should this sad affliction fall upon our party, and the heathen democrats and republicans be spared? And to think that, the good city of Lincoln furnished the shearer. And that It all occurred within two miles of a state educational Institution. I Insist that something must be done; that if we cannot have a special session of tho legislature we Invoke the recall and Initiative and referendum. Let us banish McBrlcn to Council Bluffs before any more of us Innocents are misled. A SORROWING BULL MOOSER. The Parks nnd the People. OMAHA, June 12. To the Editor of The Bee: Commissioner Hummel Is to be commended, I think, for trying to put a stop to the public nuisance of loafers monopolizing Jefferson Square, but If he does it at the expense of taxpayers en- oylng the city's parks, It strikes me as of very doubtful wisdom and Justice. Why punish the great mass of taxpayers In the exercise of their rights In order to keep a comparatively few men with out visible means of support from abus lnc their privileges? I think the city commission should show itself resource ful enough to solve this problem ration ally. It Is folly to tell us to buy and maintain property for parks and then forbid us to loll on the grass, for In stance. Mr. Hummel's Intentions, I have no doubt, are better than his method of ptocedure. A TAXPAYER. Twice Told Tales Imagination and Medicine. Dr. Edward Sanger, who has aban doned his post as assistant to a cele brated Chicago specialist because he dis likes the tatter's methods, sold in New York: "Wo should not announce cures unless they are real cures. Imagination plays too great a part In a patient's feelings, "Imagination must always be recokened with In medicine sometimes as a friend, sometimes as a foe. I know a doctor who treated an old woman for typhoid, and on each visit he took her tempera- ' ture by holding a thermometer under , her tongue. One day, when she had i nearly recovered, the doctor did not bother to take, her temperature, and he had hardly got 100 yards from the housa when her son called him' back. '"Mother Is worse,' said the man. Come back at once.' The doctor returned. On his entry Into the sickroom the old woman looked up at him with angry and reproachful eyes. ' 'Doctor," she said., 'why didn't you give me the Jigger under me tongue to day? That always done me more good than all the rest of your trash.' " One On Jones. Senator Staples Martin of Virginia de clared at a recent banquet that It Is the easiest thing on earth to hand out vine gar when you are doing your level best to peddle sugar. In explanation he cited a story. At a social affair some time since, the senator said, a certain pretty woman was numbered among the happy guests. During the evening she met one of the masculine guests for the first time, and while conversing with him chanced to notice a decidedly homely man on the opposite side of the room. "Mr. Jones," she sweetly remarked, 'can you tell me the name of the roan who Is speaking to Mr. Brown? In all my life I don't think I ever saw a man quite so homely." "I thought you had met him," smiled Mr. Jones. "He Is my brother." I "Your brother?" exclaimed the embar rassed wpman- "You must pardon me, Mr Jone I really hadn't noticed the resemblance.' Washington Star. SUNNY OEMS. Mantell I had no idea that Banks was worth more than $10,030,000. Dunlop He wasn't until the govern ment dissolved his trust. Lite. 'T never knnw whut In nnlnr I get tired of staring at the bill of fare re da ay oiicr aay. "I have a system. I started at tho top on Monday, and on Saturday I nave worked through the bill." Boston Ad vertiser. "I hear, you've been offered a foreign post by the president" "I've been offered a dinky place In that hole of a Honduras." "That so? kirt of a poslhole, chr' Chloago Inter-Ocean. Manager My dear madam, your com plaint Is a foolish one. The stage direc tor did not slander you because he gave your role to another actress. Actress Of courso he slandered me. Didn't he take away my character? Bal timore American. Actor Awfully good of you to send me a pass for that matlneo. Do you mind If I bring my wife? Manager My dear boy, what a ques tlonl You must know that any wife of yours Is always welcome. Life. She But don't you think that every body should learn to swim? He Certainly notl What would you think of a fish that Insisted on trying to learn to walk on dry land? Boston Transcript. This Store drawB trade from all classes and all sections. Why? Because there is no clothing store, or any other kind of a store, sell ing clothing In this great middle weat that gives its patrons tho large measure of value that wo do. And the men we dress, whether they aro 18 years, 30 years, 50 years or over, they know for a certainty that our clothes are right" and that our responsibility for the good behavior of the garments does not 'end until they have earned your com plete satisfaction. ( Wo call special attention today to our new models at $15, $18, $20, $222&; You will find these values much better -than you can" find elsewhere at the same figures. " , Graduation Suits Our graduation suits will meet the approval of tho boys and youths, because they aro all the new English and Norfolk models, In finished blue worsted and serge.. Boys' Models, Knickerbocker Stylo. . . .$5.00 to SlS.OO Youths and Young Men's Models S15.00 to S25.00 Men's Straw Hats 1kThls a5' va",ety ?4 stylos this season In rough braids and smooth. But the best way to buy a straw hat is to try on several ehapes and get the one that really becomes you. There Is a long lino of prices from. -S2.00 to $10.00 CHILDREN'S WASH SUITS Most complete line in town, from 81.00 to S10.00 Men's Furnishings 91.00 Athletic Nainsook Unions lyer 1.50 Athletic Nainsook Unions . . 2r?hmes 25J' 350, 50 from patterns and 8rades of Manhattan Shirts, up SI. 50 Browning, King & Co. Geo. T. Wilson, Manager Earliest St. Paul and Minneapolis Take the Great Western 8:10 p. m. train from Omaha, arrive in St. Paul 7:30 a. m., Minneapolis 8:05 a. m. "GET THERE FIRST. Day train leaves Oraaba 7:44 a. m. and arrives St. Paul 7:20 p. m., Minneapolis 7:50 p. m.fastest day service. P. P. BONORDEN, C. P. & T. A., 1523 Farnam Street, Omaha. Phone Douglas 200. p mm BBiiiiiistiHiasn i minm i wm w 'LIFT YE A BANlTEr. Wilbur D. Nesbt. Lift ye i banner; and bare the head and Joy In each ourvlng fold. Watching tho blue and the white nnd red all honest nnd brave and buUlr Knowlng the faith of the noble dead who gave us this flag to liold; It Is a pillar of cloud by day and pillar of flro by night; Catching the gleam of the sun's first ray glorious In the light; Guiding the nation along Its way the red and tho blue and white. Knowing the blessings of hope nnd peace for aye In Its strands are stored Minding the way that U gave release to war guns that blared and roared; Knowing the bugles will never cease to sing with the ringing sword; Knowing there never may be a spot on stripe or on blazlnz star Lest from the throat there will chorus hot tho shout that will sweep afar Knowing It Is but the living thought of all that we were and are. Honor the white and the blue and red the white Is the purpose pure, The red Is the blood that was freely shed that ever we might endure, The blue is tho heaven which overhead smiles down on the conscience sure. Lift ye a banner and wavo It high, and give it the homage duel Hold It a bcnlson In the sky a blessing for me and you. Lift ye a banner that will not die tli red and tho white and bluel in