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HIE BEE: OMAHA, SAT t R DAY, MARCH 2H, 1914.
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Wondorful aro tho technicalities of tho law.
At the risk of being ruled out of ordor, wo
rlso to Inquire what has becorna of old Doo
Cook?
It Is worth noting that tho half rato to tho
San Francisco exposition la considerably less
than a 2-cont fare.
Tho lawyer who objects to a clean-up of the
crooks In his profession must be afraid of
somothlng himself. 1
As tho St. IjOuIb Republic says, launching a
battleship with a prayer for pcaco is one of tho
funny things of Hfo.
Sometimes it roally sooms as If President
Wilson Ignored Mr. Hearst merely to see how
perfectly ongry ho can make him.
Some folks havo undertaken to reduce the
tango to a psychological principle, which Is
itself enough to mako thorn dance.
"The Responsibility of Silonce'Ms tho sub
ject of a discussion by the Detroit Free PreBs,
dedicated, no doubt, to John Llnd.
Ambassador Pago's spooch was poricctly
proper: in fact, it does not make any-difference
"what an "ambassador flays, anyway,.
; ,"V
A self-constitutod commlttco of eighteen
strong is to peddle out bull moose nominations
in this county. Lot tho people rule.
Still, the heavy burden of public business
pressing down upon our senator te not so heavy
no io press mm 10 resigning tno job,
If every good cltUen must be in politics
then every good cttlren will be a politician, and.
tho word "politician" will no longer carry op
probrlum with It.
Tho test of bull moose dovotlon certainly
uocomes severo when it consists of acquiescing
in a araii to mane a forlorn hope run for con
gresa in this district.
Why should those omlnont roform nowana..
pers rush so zealously to tho dofenso of nil h
crooked lawyers, blackmailers and shako-down
gentry exposed by The Beo?
Thoro may bo real method in it. If the
freo tolls clause In the Baltimore nlalform
means nothing, why, of course, the ono-terra
presidency clauso llkowlso means nothing.
Congressman Dan Stephens has a competi
tor ror tne democratic nomination already in
tho field. It Was an unlucky dav fnr '?;, i
Dan" when tho deal changod and put patronago
cams in his hands.
Kansas City is in the thrown of p,mni.n
to inaugurate the commission nlan of rntlnlHnnt
government. Here's hoping Kansas City will
cot do disappointed.
The cost of tho recent special election In
wu.oun ,s bi(ou jjj rouna figures as 94,000
which looks small enough. It does not Inci.idn
however, any of the expense of registration, nor
was tno usual corps of spoclal policemen em
ployed this time. It will not bo safe. thArarnr
to quote these figures as tho normal election
cost
Giving the Caso Away.
Our local democratic contemporary, which
is tho personal organ of our United States sen
ator, discusses-the Panama tolls question in
such an orudlte ruanncr that St gives tho whole
case awny. As o whether oxemptlon of Amer
ican coastwise vessels from Pannma canal tolls
violates the HayPaUncofoto treaty, equally de
pendable authorities, It tells us, aro divided,
President Wilson, Secretary Bryan and former
Sccrotary Root taking ono vlow, and Mr. Taft.
Mr. Roosevelt and formor Secretary Knox the
other, so that "If you aro going to determine
your position by tho proper Interpretation of
the treaty you can take cither side and bu in
good company."
What excuse, then, doos this democratic
oraclo havo to offer for repudiating tho demo
cratic platform promise of free tolls? Not na
tional honor, not doing tho square thing by
Great Britain, not simplifying our rotations
with Japan and othor powers, on which scoro
alono tho president is demanding repeal. No, It
urges compliance with Great Britain's demands,
on tho soctlonul plea that freo tolls for coasl
tvIbo shipping would benefit the coast' states
more than it would tho peoplo of Nebraska,
Iowa and othor Interior states that have no
shipping Interests. Surely, some people mannge
to crawl through a mighty small knothole.
roMMieo rnot ants rn.cS"
l.T?yvUt't:UV'n.mnl'lK" 0f mha PWtlwf took
l ?0im ln0x c"y Otto Belndorf and
ellI Kelthley. both for a number of years em.
?' Mor' J01" their fortunes, and at
..-,..., ,y. j. wnuenouse. the popular drug
SUt. was married to Miss Bessie Jphnson at ttv
residence of the bride's parents.
mLk"!..0'.. convnUon ""'"y thresh
j. a consisting Of William -Whits
......v. , AJtitittn. una jtoi, tJCOlt.
Tho Postoffica deoartmnf v... i - ...
I2f J. 1"1Vn1 ne WW. employes
iroin mis cuy: w. F. Furay. Fred
Thompson. C. A nunh.w, t t . . VT ' '
- - - -ivuiiwra, , u, C&lin-
tZ 3r,KlZMZJ- " Ut.d. nenrr
. ' " . a. mungwood. F.
Stewart and W. F. Crowflj.
Roland Reed delighted an enthuslasUo aUdlanc
i '"t,De comeay entitled "Cheek." Miss
'," nn wos nia leading lady,
i...D; 5" 'V formerly -foreman for Samuel Rees
nas taxen a position in the countv
ahP!. ma?e asa,n,t 0,8 mud-splashing
- ww n&gon. who go over cross
walk, peilmeii. ,pittrlng all pedestrians within
That, Boys' Court.
Every time tho need of a boys' fcourt Is
spoken of, a feeling of self-incrimination must
come to tho heart of tho thoughtful and serl-ous-mlnded
father and mother. For why hucIi a
public ngency but that the home is falling short
of Its full responsibility? Commenting on this
uvenile Judiciary, tho Chicago Tribune .ob
serves:
I.tttle, Indeed, Is the attention which most parents
give their boys nowadays. When the fathor leaves
the house at d:M In tho morning ,to. go to the factory,
his son is sleeping. Why should ho not? School
does not begin till 0 o'clock. When the parent re
turns home in the evening he is cither too tired or
else too dull to exert much of a,n Influence over his
child. The child, experiencing so little parental au
thority, Is pretty likely to get Into trouble.
Our modern life Iras cost dearly if it de
stroys tho compact family circle. Under former
conditions, when each member of tho household,
of necessity had his and her chore to do in
the early morning and late evening in ordor to
keep the home running smoothly, father and
mother and son and daughter saw more of
each other, rubbed elbows moro frequetly, lived
together on moro intlmato terms of relationship
than they do today. Then no ono clamored for
boys' courts or schools of correction for tho
girls. The "big brother" movements were, un
known, for natural kinship was -coming nearer
to answering all demands.
But changing external conditions aro not
alono to blamo. Wo must adjust ourselves to all
these natural ovolutlons. No one will prosumo
to say that tho boys' court is doing tho Job of the
homo better than tho homo could do it. The
boys' court meanp merely that parents nro
shirking their duty.
A Fine Sclcotion.
Wo bellovo ovcryono interested in tho move
ment will heartily approve tho noloctlbn 'of 'Geri
cral Frodorlck A. Bmlth to head Omaha'o city
planning commlttoe. Having retired from a
long and honored service in tho army and es
tablished a permanent residence hero, General
Smith will bring to tho work the varind olo
tiiontfl' of strength required for tho part as
signed to him. Perhaps hotter than anyone else
who nllght have been chosen, he will typify tho
spirit 'of disinterested zoal and effectiveness es
sential to tho task. For this is a work that
calls for united effort of tho community. There
foro, to make General Smith's appointment a
complete success, all of those with tho welfare
of Omaha at heart, dotormlned on advancing
its growth and development, will promptly lend
their moral and material support.
3$ HI
Nepotism Under Madera.
Nepotism is a deadly canker in the body
politic of any government indulging it. It was
visualized In the grimmest senso In the Madero
administration of Mexico. That may bo put
down as one of the salient reasons for Its col
lapse, though there wero doubtless enough
othor reasons to Insure failure. Even though
generally understood at tho time that this prac
tice was carried on by tho Madoros, It Is- ox-
tromoly doubtful If the extent of this nepotism
has ever boon widely known.
Major CaBsiun 10. GUlotte, formerly of the
United States engineering corps, purports to ro-
veal It in his pamphlet, "Moxlco and tho Unltod
States," a reprint of an articlo in tho Fobru.try
issue of the Trend Magazine. He gives names of
twenty-two of tho leading members of Madoro'B
administration who were his brothers, uncles,
brothers-in-law or cousins. Tho most .distant
relatlvo was an undo of his wife's brother, and
only one camo in that category. Four wero his
own brothers, one his brother-in-law, fourteen
bis cousins.
If this was the Madero idea of a Belf-govorn
log democracy, and we havo no altornatlvo for
concluding otherwise, then it is idle to lament
what he might have accomplished toward re
storing orderly government and national con
tentment to Moxlco. History has not as yet
passed Ha Judgmont on Madero, and it will not
until time lends a better perspective. Major
Gillette, who claims tho right of speaking with
moro than common accuracy of Mexico and Its
.politics, utters this shuddorlng sentence upon
him:
When real history Is written, he will appear as
the most colossal criminal or the most colossal foul
of modem times.
It is, perhaps, enough for those less .intimately-
acquainted with the actual facts not to
pass Judgment, nevertheless, realizing that with
'the best that can be said for Madero, ho did
nothing of lasting benefit In the year and a half
of his stewardship of Mexico: nothing by which
now, In the crisis of its existence, the best o!
its people can help tho country. Whatever in
fluence ho left has gone merely to swell the
rising tide of anarchy and war.
IcMr I.itml it Single Tnx Arnnment.
OMAHA, March . To tho Editor of
Th6 Bee: The artU'lo appearing In Wun
ilay'a Beo In reference to vacant lots In
Omaha Is certainly a severe indictment
against the system of private ownership
of land. Eight thousand acres of valu
blc, unproductive land within the city
Ilmltfl of Omaha Is surely a tremendous
burden for the community to bear. Next
to an Idle man an unproductive piece of
land Is the greatest menace confronting
soolcty today.
The followers of the single tax theory
may believe that the shifting of all
taxes to the land will be a solution of
this problem, but, beneficial as such a
change may be, the fact remains that,
after taxes have tbeen thus collected wo
would ntlll have tlia tnterest, prollt and
rent question to deal with and therein
lies the greatest source of evil, and It all
grows out of the private ownership of
land and machinery.
Our water works system has cost many
hundreds of thousands of dollars moro
than It should have cost, because of the
miles and mllos of expensive pile laid
past thousands of vacant lots, from which
the plant derives no Income on tho In
vestment, and a remedy for this would
be a special, annua, water tax levied
against every vacant lot on the city
where the water supply Is available but
not used.
The same principle Is Involved In
every other public service corporation.
Valuable and productive . corn fields are
converted Into suburban lots and after a
few have been Induced to build homes the
street railway company Is induced,
through Improvement clubs and various
other means, to extend Its lines. New
school houses arA made necessary by thin
Isolated community, and so on down the
line.
This evil should be taxed out of exist
ence but Instead of Belling the property
to private Individuals at a tax sale, tho
title should pass to tho state on nil prop
erty sold for delinquent taxes and leased
back to any citizen desiring to tiso It
upon the payment of a nominal rental
equivalent to the amount of taxes paid
on other similar property.
Tho term "idle man" not only Includes
the man who will not work, but embraces
also that largo number of men who ren
der no service at all, but llvo in various
ways off the profits of others' labor, as
well as the man who, though busy from
day to day, does not, through force of
circumstances, follow what may be called
useful or necessary labor. Put tho Idle
man as well ns the Idle acres to work
and you will not hear very much moro
about the high cost of living. J.
Mowing Down to hr IlrltUh.
SOUTH OMAHA, March 2.-To the
Editor of The Bee: In tho early days of
this republto had any president proposed
that we submit to England or any other
country on any proposition that concerned
ourselves alone, there would have been a
vehement demand for his resignation or
Impeachment from all over the country.
Had such a proposition been submitted
to Andrew Jackson by England as has
been submitted to President Wilson and
b'y him submitted to botM houses of con
gress with the demand that they follow
his advice, his anger and Indignation
would havej known ho .bound" and he
would -have told them In plain and un
diplomatic language they they could go
straight to hades with their demand
that they have a say about a canal that
wo havo paid more than 100,000,COO for.
Wero Andrew Jackson alive today ho
would demand the resignation or Im
peachment of Wilson for even thinking of
submitting to the demands of England,
let alone trying to coerce the representa
tives of the people in congress Into vot
ing against the wishes of tho nation and
ofralnnt their own sentiments.
Had such a proposition been made to a
republican president at any time and had
he demonded of congress that It pass a
bill repealing the toll exemptions, there
would have been one mighty howl from
New York to San Francisco on the weak
ness shown by a president of tho United
States. Had President Taft submitted
such a proposition to congress the pooplo
who call themselves progressives would
have made such a roar about It that they
could have been heard clear across the
ocean to England. William J. Bryan
would have denounced Taft as a traitor
to his country from Halifax to San
Diego and would have howled his head
off about It. But what does ho do now?
Nothing at all. Ho does not want to lose
thit Job of acting sesretary of state and
submits to all the demands of Wilson
as meekly ns a little lamb.
Had the United States minister to Eng
land under Taft made the silly speech at
a banquet that Wilson's minister made
recently, he would havo been denounced
bitterly by all the enemies of Taft and
his resignation would have been de
mnnded. drapo Juice seemed to haTe a
bad effect on him.
It Is time the old-fashioned patriotism
of tho tlmea of Andrew Jackson, of Daniel
Webster, of Abraham Lincoln, and even
of the time of Grover Cleveland, was
awakened throughout this land to show
tho nations of the earth that we have not
so far fallen from the stalwart days of
old that we approve of submitting to the
demands of other nations on questions
that concern ourselves alone and that we
are not so pusillanimous that we are
afraid to assert ourselves In the face of
evon the half-breed Mexicans, for fear
we might offend England or some other
country.
The people of the United States should
arise- In their might and old-timo stalwart
patriotism and domanduhat wo BBtert our
rights even in the face of England and
Japan and Mexico.
The president of the United States
should bo shown that he is not tho king
and that the peoplo through their rep
resentatives are the rulers.
F. A. AQNEW.
In Other Lands
The Ulster Shindy
Tho really cruel feature of Senator Craw
ford's defeat by a regular is that he bad the
benefit of the personal presence of Glfford
Plncbot with bis official blast of the colonel's
war-note. The way the G, O, P. refuses to go
out of business In South Dakota is perfectly
unbearable.
Every one of those Panama exposition ex
cursion tickets ought to carry the privilege of
stopover at Omaha. What are our Commercial
club and Retailers' association going o do
about it?
The Ulster Muss.
Political events aro moving swiftly In the Brit
ish Isles these days. Almost every hour marks a
shifting of scenes. For a time the orange colors
fluttered merrily above the union Jack, while In the
distance the sunburst of Erin flapped Idly around
Its staff, as If outside the path of tho big wind.
Making proper allowance for political exaggerations
and party claims the Ulster muss reveals a danger
ous lack of concerted aggrcsslvo action in the min
istry. It is evident from the blunders admitted and
tho misunderstanding of army orders that responsi
ble ministers, In their eagerness for peaceful com
promise, allowed matters to drift m a careless,
slipshod way, narrowly escaping destruction. Above
the tumult and the shouting of party opponents
there is shown In clear outline the far-reaching
lnfluenco and power of the tory aristocracy, and
Its readiness to disrupt the army to accomplish the
overthrow of the Asqulti ministry. Home rule Is
uui iiiu usro wejr picture lv. it nappens to do me
most effective means of harassing the government
In the hopo of driving It from power before tho
five-year term of Parliament expires. Back of homo
rulo are Welsh disestablishment, the one-man, one
voto -measure, and the haunting specter of Lloyd
George's land reform (scheme. Each of these meas
ures cut Into the tap-roots of aristocracy and privi
lege and their passage Into law would complete tho
downfall of tho nobility as the ruling power of
Great Britain. The hazard is too great for the
aristocracy to overlook any means which might
suspend or reverse the sentence. Ulster's defl serves
as a rallying cry for all the forcea opposed to
progress. It looks now ns if the very desperation
of the tory fight has stiffened tho spinal column
of the Asqulth ministry, and tho blunder of pla
cating tory army officers will bo wiped ort the
slate by the stern command: "Obey orders or leave
tho service." Tho battlo as It proceeds will supply
an abundanco of thrills, besides furnishing mas
terly v specimens of political strategy, dramatic
posing and vocal whirlwinds In and out of Par
liament. (iniiililliisr Mania.
Monto Carlo commands a larger variety of pub
licity than any temple of the fickle goddess, and
thus gives strength to tho current impression that
It monopolizes tho gambling business In Kuropo.
The fact la that Monto Carlo la the more fashlon
ablo resort of the sports of all nations and does
moro business than any one of the thousands of
public and prlvato gambling resorts In Europe. The
gambling mania Is widespread. It is a licensed busi
ness In France, tho government taking a percentage
of tho profits. One hundred and thirty-three casinos
were licensed by tho state for operation at various
resorts last season. Tho city of Nlco conducts a
municipal casino. Enehlln. the nearby holiday re
sort of Paris, Is literally a rendezvous for amateur
and professional players and does ono-tltth of the
gambling business of France. Besides the seasonal
casinoH there are 4,600 licensed clubs, besides tho
various wayil of playing the ponies at race tracks.
M present the state takes IS per cent ot tne gross
receipts, which have Increased four-fold In soven
years. The vastnesa of the business in France may
be guosaed from the one statement that the Paris
mutuols machines at race tracks last season took
bets totaling Sn.000,0O). Gambling is carried on
extensively In Germany, particularly In Berlin, but
Is less obtrusive, and obtains llttie publicity. In
Austria a gambling concession granted by a clique
of politicians developod into a huge- graft scandal
which so affected the Integrity of the ministerial
party that Premier Count Tisza refunded tISO.OOO out
of his own pocket to placate investors roped Into the
deal. Only last month a case revealing tho preva
lence of gambling among men and women of the
West End of London came beforo a local court.
The woman Involved In a gambling debt admitted
having a,n average yearly Income of 115,000 from
games played at her home.
Iloohotle, Swindler.
The fact that wealth is moro equitably distributed
amonE the uaoplo of France than any other nation
. . w.. . . I I.
serves 10 expittin wny iiromouun nwucwuo
ng large returns draws family savings out of count
less stockings. Tho traglo death of tho editor of
the Paris Figaro, shot to death by the wife of
Finance Minister Calllaux, is directly due to the
escape from Justice of Henri Rochette, a promo
tion swindler .of magnificent proportions. Rochette
was a waiter In a country hotel, and having in
herited 11,000, moved to Paris and started on an
amazing career of high finance. Within a space
of ten years he rose to the head of sixty banks In
France, with branches in Spain and South America.
Such a wizard of finance could not exist, much
less resist, establishing close relations with gov
ernment politicians, consequently his operations were
linked with the prosperity of political favorites. By
promoting a successive series of banking companies,
each paying large dividends out ot Inflated capital.
It Is calculated that $30,000,000, much of it from small
Investors, was drawn Into Rochotte's schemes. Even
when the crash In 1910 was but a few hours away,
the political Insiders, on advance Information, rigged
up a deal on the stock market and skinned the
crowd for 13,000,000. With ample means at his com
mand and political influence, Rochette got off with
a two-year sentence and a nominal fine, and that
was held up by appeals. A second trial on other
charges was delayed by tho Influences which pro
voked the newspaper charges. Not until President
Poncalre took office a year ao did Rochette realize
that the game was up, and fled the country. Ac
cording to pollco advices In Paris his whereabouts
Is not known.
Suffrage In Austria.
The militants of Great "Britain are obsessed with
the Idea that outlawry, ruffianism and wanton de
struction ot property are the only effective means
of convincing the nation of the Justice of their
cause. The farther they go on that road the
farther are they removed from the goal. Aa far as
present signs can be Interpreted the militants have
not only lost ground, hut have turned countless
friends Into determined foes, rar uiuirenv wra
correspondingly effective Is the campaign of repre
untatlvo women of Austria. Up to last spring
Austrian women were prohibited by law from taking
an active part in politics. Systematic agitation on
nrderlv lines resulted In repeal or tne promuuion,
and they are now free to participate In political
affairs, though not yet eligible to vote. They are
taking an active part in economic affairs, and as
housekeepers have effected reductions In the prices
of noma necessaries In Vienna ana run,n. ueaaers
of the movement havo been elected to municipal
committees and for tho ftrst time a woman has been
put on the housing committee of a town council.
Though tho advance la comparatively slight, a
i,nh has been made in the walls of law and cus
tom, and progress toward complete equality is a
matter of time.
Nebraska Editors
Dr. J. Ray Shlke has purchased a half in
terest in the Nemaha County Republloan.
J. H. Dundas, editor of the Auburn
Granger, celebrated the thirtieth anni
versary of his ownership ot the paper
last week.
The Beemer Time has bend sold by O.
X, Mayfleld to H. H. Pease, who waa
unlll recently editor of the Stromsburr
News. Mr. Mayfleld will take a position
on the staff of the Norfolk News.
The Wlsner Free Press, conducted for
many years by S. E. Kelly, has been sold
to H. A. Craney the former foreman of
that paper, and will be published, as
heretofore, as a republican newspaper.
Judge Johnathan D. Heywood, who has
been owner of the Crawford Courier for
the last seven years, sold ths paper last
week to W L. Klswlck, who has heen
onnee ted with the caper for soma time.
People and Events
Qovernor Dunne names April 18 as gnod roads day,
and exhorts the people of Illinois to get busy and
"pull themselves out of the mud."
A wave of' moral reform Is gathering strength,
with police assistance. In Parts, Hereafter no lady
will be allowed to ahoot an editor without a ponce
permit.
Curragh camp, the chief center of the mutiny ot
British army officers friendly to the Ulsterites, Is
the largest military station In Ireland, and Is com
monly known as "Curragh ot Klldare." being located
In Klldare county. It Is on the main line of railroad
west from Dublin and very close to the gooRTaphlcat
center of the Island,
A oertlflcate ot proficiency In the domestle arts
should be given away with each and every bride,
aeeordlna- to H. U Jones, a wealthy farmer of Geneva,
111., and that Is why he threw In a certificate for
good measure when he gave his daughter, Miss
Mllltcent Jones, In marriage to Merton Armagast,
member of the sohool board of Jollet.
According- to Dp, A. K. Fisher of the biological
survey of the Department at Agriculture, more than
tCCOOo prairie dogs, irophers, ground squirrels ana
mice have hsan ulltsd In the government's eampaJrn
t of destruction. The forage these rodents feed on
I would be sufficient for about U.MD sheep or about
l.bOO to J.800 head of cattle, wortn at least 1M,.
New York World: The Ulster men In
their enthusiasm "shot up" Belfast with
their revolvers. In the old days our cow
boys did that In Dodge City and other
frontier towns without any menace of
civil war.
Chicago Record-Herald; Apparently As
qulth has no alternative but to press tho
home rule bill and abide by tho conse
quences. Will Ulster fight when It has
a chance to vote Itself out of tho home
rule scheme for six years?
Sioux City Journal: Opposed to fur
ther concession, however, Is the fact that
It must mean the knuckling down of a
large majority to a small minority. The
Incentive to further compromise by the
nationalists also is discounted by the un
derstanding that, however brave a fight
Iho Ulster minority might put up It must
prove hopeless against tho full military
strength of the United Kingdom.
Philadelphia Ledger: Both the na
tionalists and liberals have gono to the
limit of reasonable concession to the
fears of the'Uistermen. Every guarantee
haa been offered them against religious
oppression, and now they have been given
the option of voting on tho question
whether they shall Immediately come un
der the operation of the home rule bill
or retain for a six-year period their po
litical connection with the imperial Par
liament All these overtures have been
rejected. The Ulstermen will have every
thing or nothing, and tho curious anom
aly develops of loyalists willing to go to
War aaglnst the government, toward
which they profess such unshaken loyalty.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: It looks as if the
matter had gone too far to be ended with
out an attempt to raise an' insurrection!
but there are very strong Indications
that It will be short-lived. In the first
plRce Belfast and Londonderry them
selves do not expect it. A correspnodent
of the Westminster Gazette who has been
investigating the matter says that no Bel
fast business man Is preparing for It, and
ho has heard In that city more talk of
foot ball In one afternoon, when a match
was played, than ho would hear of civil
war In a week. Then, too, the fight be
ing mado to arouse conservative enmity
throughout the kingdom has failed. Many
of that party believe that a grave mis
take was made in rejecting Mr. Asqulth's
compromise. It Is quite plain that while
there may be sympathy for the Ulster
rebels outside of Ulster, it will not be
shown In overt acta.
CHEERY CHAFF.
"I say. old chap, you're an extravagant
BArnnn. TVhal VOU got mere-a onrw-
themum?" .
"Chrysanthemum: "ear mc
a lavenner wig ior mo .......
Cleveland I'lain ueaier.
i. linimunllv conducive to the
control of ones temper.
"How so? . , . ..
dred feet up in the air for one to get
put out, would it?" Baltimore American.
f t11 vnu ' said PaL "the outd frlnda
are the best nfther all. and, what's more
i can provo it. ,..
"How are ye goln' to prove It?
txu. .m tA m tiAW frlna that
nas stnua Dy ye as long aa inn uum uv.
liaver inicago jtecora-Jieraiu.
i)-And in
her. Lord
Ml.. Unrohnnm (nt Chlca&O)-
Hamercy?
Lord Hamercy O when Algernon;
leaves Oxford university, don t ytra
know, I fancy he will take orders.
Miss Hogaboom (surprised) Yes?
Well, there aro some real nice gentle
men traveling for papa. Puck.
"Why is It that a man generally saves
more money after ho is married than he
did before?" ...
"He doesn't. He merely thinks he does
because he Is getting along without so
many things that he formerly had.
Chicago Record-Herald.
"Wombat Is an old grump. Now he's
kicking against lighting the streets of
PlnnkvlllB "
"What's his argument?"
"Says our streets aro so bum that they
look better In the dark."-Loulsvllle
Courier-Journal.
TWENTY' YEAR AND ONE.
at. Louis Globe-Democrat
When we were ono and twenty oh, those
wero happy days!
How sweet the merle and mavis sang
along the woodland ways;
How gayly robin piped his lay across tha
dewy lawn.
A Joyous. Jocund greeting to the scarlet
streaming dawn;
How brightly flamed the crimson morn
above tho verdant hills,
How lightly laughed among the reeds the
little, lilting rills.
With what blithe hearts then did we greet
the upward mounting sun,
And girded us with strength and Joy tha
day's swift course to run.
How silver bright the moonlight ahona
upon the gliding stream,
In those dear days of long ago when we
did little dream
That youth would swiftly glide away upon
the stream of life.
And bear us on to sterner years, replete
with storm and strife.
Until our locks were white as snow, and-
basking In the sun,
We'd fondly dream of long ago, when wa
were twenty-one.
A car on the road is worth
any number in the garage.
A big reas'on for Ford pop u
larity is Ford dependability.
The Ford is "Johnnie-on-the
spot' three hundred
sixty-five dayB a year. It
gives unequaled service to its
owner.
Five hundred dollars Is the price ot ths
Ford runabout; the touring car Is five
fifty; the town car seven fifty f. o. b.
Detroit, complete with equipment. Get
catalog and particulars from Ford Motor
Company, 1916 Harney Street.
A lawyer I
a real estate man
an abstracter
a real estate loan company
a trust company
will find a groat saving of time by Having an
office close by tho court house and city halL
. The Bee Building
"The Building that is always new"
is the newest building in Omaha on the
inside; the oldest, tho most substantial
and tho handsomest on the outside.
"We can offer you an offico home now; perhaps in
a few weeks wo cannot. Better look at these now.
- The finest location In tho city for men having business
, or patrons In or around the city and county buildings
Is at Room 406. Farnam street exposure, with three
windows overlooking court house plaza. Room has
water, vault and large private office. Easily access
lbl 850.00
Another very desirable office with vault, water and
large outside windows, east exposure. Is at Room 338
- Close to elevators and opening on the wide open hall
surrounding the beautiful court of the building. The
ease with which this room can be reached makes It
a great time saver. Space can be arranged tor IS ft
by 33 ft, at , 850.00
Or 36 ft by 32 ft. at $100.00
The lawyer or abstracter who gets Room 550, with its
large Farnam street windows facing directly on the
court house, is sure of one of the best located of
flees In Omaha. 14 'ft, by 20 ft, with water Included
, Partitions for two private offices and reception room'
Also close to elevators. Now at 83.o6
Por offices apply to the Superintendent, Eoom 103
The Bee Building Co.
