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nit: mm: umaha, Wednesday, august jli4 1 THE OMAHA bAILY BEE FOUNDED BT EDWARD RQ3E WATER. VICTOR ROSEVVATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing; Company. Proprietor. PEE BUILDING. FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Kntered at Omaha postofflc aa second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By rarrler By mail per year M 4 4.00 per month. jalty anil ."iindar I!It without Sunn'sr.... Kvenlng; ami Sunday Kvenlng; without Sunday. vc.... !.... "C.... Sunday He ofiiy. Send notice, of rhar.se of address or complslnts of ..... Irrrculartty In ocllyery to Umaha Wf, Circulation Department. RKMITTANCK. Remit by draft, expre.a or postal order. Only two cent ataTipa received In payment of am all ac counts 1'ersnnal cheeks, except on Umaha and eaatarn icbanra. not acccptad. OFFICES. Omaha-Th Bee Bnllf!lr.t fiouth Omaha 1I N afreet. Council Bluffs 14 North Main Street. l.lncoln-J Mttla Bulldlnf. Chicago 01 Hrarst Butltllnif. New York Hon m lint. X6 Ftfth avanua. Pt. Iula- MO New Rank of Commeroe. Waahlnrton 7a Fourteenth Pt., N. W. CORRESPONDKNCB. Address com mu nidation a relatlnir to newa and edi torial matter to Omaha bee, r.dltorlal Department. Jt'LY CIHCVXATION. 52,328 tat of Nebraska, County of Douglas, sa. Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of Tha Ba Publishing company. belna duly aworn. cava that tha avert dally circulation for tha month of July. 1114, was DWIOHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manaser. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to brfor Trim, thla 4th day of August. 1(14. ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public, Subscribers lea ring the city temporarily should hare The lit mailed to them. Ad drees will be changed aa often aa requested. Biennial elections are quite often enough. Who. knows but even the army worm may yet turn. Looks as If the Germans had put the Belgian capital on wheels. Those candidates who failed to make It will bow proceed to tell you why. Once more the broke are sitting on the stepa of the 8tock exchange whittling time away. Considering their newness In the business, those Japs write wonderfully polite diplomatic Botes.' ' Champagne, reports say, will go up-. Such, a reversing of the course should have a food effect- . After tha political skirmish conies the truce to permit of the removal of the killed and wounded. It Is a. 100 to 1 shot that as soon as the moke clears away y6u will see toe poeta trying to make Liege rhyme with siege. Our Idea of the Irony of fate would be for a belligerent to appropriate Andrew Carnegie's automobile under the terms of angaria. ' -The Jupiter was the first boat to carry 'a load through the Panama; 'although old Mara was doing double duty on wider waters. ; ' Namur figures as prominently In the present war as it did in the Napoleon-Wellington cam paign, when old Blucher had his headquarters there. As soon as Omaha's courteous ball team re alised what it had done in winning a game on St. Joseph's own grounds it promptly lost two In one day. The time-limit for withholding Judgment as to the responsibility for tho European war is not up, 'but it may, be for Japan unless it changes Its course. , My word, they have gone and requisttoned the polo ponies of .the prince of Wales, showing, as a contemporary remarks, that General Sher man waa entirely right in hla definition. : As be crossed the Hellespont old Xerxes wept to think he would never again see hla en tire army of 1,000,000 men intact, and the world atood aghast at the thought of such an array of soldiery. Yet here comes the kaiser with 9.000,000 and the ciar with 11,000,000. Our amiable democratic contemporary is highly incensed at an' article In Mr. Bryan's Com moner, In which the secretary of atate "covertly Impugns. the motive and seeks to brand with the Wall street brand without a word of evi dence" the senator-owner of that sheet. Yes, hut Mr. Bryan Is doubtless satisfied that he bat the convicting evidence. A special meeting of tha school board to arrant for reopenlns elected th Janitor for tha year aa follow Central, Patrick Qulnlan; laard, D. W.Lana; Ceaa. Samuel Durrall; Dodga. Mr. Thompaon; Jack- Mr Colman; Leavenworth, Julius Rudofaky; Pleaaant. J. .C. Chrlhtiatiion; Long. George EUoi; Hartman. Mr. Oraney; Paolftc, C. Bertleaen; Center. Michael Ford; Laic, fcllaabeth Kohl; tor th board rooms. KaU Welsh. Aa attempt to choose a principal (or tba Hartman school allowed a deadlock between Mlaa Low and Miss McCarthy. Th council laat night decided to buy new apparatus (or J loon and Ladder company No. ,1. . , . ' Th new organ fur th ' rJhf llsh ' Iuthrrn church has arrived. I will be aet up under th auperintend- no of Ita buildtr.' : ' Mr. and Mra. W. W. Rhode are a new acquisition to 9mha, coming from Lincoln. A. Traynor, general baggag agent .of' th Vnlon Fanflc, returned from aa extended trip orer th Una. Mr. and Mra Albert Cahn are back from tha east ! Mr. W. t. Apdr, i rident of tha Western News', paper Vnlon, who has been In Omaha for aevergl weaJis, ,returt.td to hla horn in Dts iiutac. Senator ('harks H. Van Wyck la In th city. M. Barnabas veitrr haa adopted memorial reaoU tloba for J. Plnkney lUmraond. at ton time re trr of th parish, mho died rtntly. Th name attached are John WiUlania. tor; Cirg Though C. W, Mead, wardtna. 8. K. Kheem, Milton H. Uoble,' W. R. Bowea, li. W. Woodmaa, JL.WuMasa. fUibart. Ka. awa ana tl. I ewara, veitry. ISggk eft fiDLyta CmJAu No Prew Ceniorahip in Free America. Every person may freely apeak, writ and piitl!h on all ubje ta, being reaponiilbl f.-r th thuM f that llbi-rty; and in all trial for llhel, both rlvl! and criminal, th truth, hen published for good motives and for Juntlflabl end, ahall b viffldent defenee Article I, Fectlon 6, Conatltutlon of Nehraaka. This Is the palladium of free speech and free press In this country by w hich Individual liberty is safeguarded against tyranny and oppression. Po long as the constitutions! guaranties remain unsuspnded we can have no censorship of peerh and press, and these guaranties hold good against invasion from whatever source, In cluding the police, the military or the courts. If a candidate for office could by Injunction prevent newspapers from publishing records or documents exposing unfitness or unreliability, he could likewise gsg all opposing criticism and comment. If Tweed could have Invoked one of his Judi cial tools to enjoin the New York Times from tsklng off the Hd he would have remained in definitely in undisputed possession of New York as bis personal province. If by aid of a restraining order Lorlmer could have closed the columns of the Chicago Tribune, and other newspapers, turning the searchlight upon his bought election, he would still be holding his seat in the United States senate. If Bartley could have stopped The Bee, and other unpurchasable newspapers, by a friendly court order from uncovering hla thievery he would have gotten away without being called to account for his misdeeds. The latest effort of a desperate candidate for office to create a press censorship by injunc tion cannot succeed, for if It held against The Bee the door would be opened for truth-stifling by similar censorship over all newspapers, and the constitution would be nullified. Foreign War Loans. It Is to be expected that the foreign nations Involved In war will bid for financial help from the United States, so there is nothing surprising in the rumored effort to float a French war loan in this country. While' as a rule ware are fi nanced by appeal to the patriotic support of the people at home, there is nothing unusual In the practice of inviting foreign capital to come to the rescue. It Is, moreover, entirely legitimate for citizens of neutral countries, If they see fit, to loan thlr money to belligerent governments on such terms as aro mutually satisfactory. Our government could not properly promote such a loan, but individuals may on their own account. It is the excessive risk Involved In such invest ments that makes it difficult to raise money Jin that way, and the risk, therefore, has to be off set by high interest rates and discount sales. If we had surplus money hunting more profita ble fields foreign war loans would not disturb us. The undesirable feature Is that money sent abroad is withdrawn from domestic channels, and the competitive demand is likely to make borrowers here also pay more. A Tribute to Statesmanship. The wide-spread demand for the re-election of Senator Root notwithstanding his announced determination to retire Is both a tribute to his greatness and to the fact that the American people have not lost the power of appreciating real statesmanship. And when we stop to re flect upon the caliber of many men crowding public life today, this Is no small matter. It 1 evident that. Ellhu Root is recognized by all fair Judges as the brainiest man In our public. service and it seems too bad if his service must be lost. Voicing the sentiment of a large number of the best papers from many states representing different politics, the New York Times, a great democratic newspaper, pleads for the retention of Ellhu Root In the senate, where the country needs him for "guidance and conservation," ad ding: For that service Ellhu Root Is qualified above any other living American Hla extraordinary abilities, tha clearnraa of hi mind, hla power of Insight, hla broad experience, hi learning as a constitutional lawyer and as a man of affairs qulp him as no other statesman of our time la equipped to take part In th filial organisation and shaping of th new order. When have wo had another such public man called for by the people of other states and various parties? Th experience stands out In as bold relief from the ordinary ru.t of affairs as does Senator Root from the average politician of the day. ' ' Kindred Question. A most Interesting phase of this Japanese question is to be found In the immigration de mands Japan is today making, not only upon tha Untted States, but upon Australia and Can ada aa well. Suppose Japan gained her point with us, would she not press it all the harder on the other two governments? ' For obvious reasons England is iu no posi tion to afford comfort to Japan in her land con troversy with us. Whatever her alliance with the little brown men may amount to, It is not going to carry it to the extremities of this question. England wants nothing more than peace and harmony with Australia and Canada. She knows perfectly well that, If anything, opposition to Japan's Immigration demands is stronger in her own provinces, especially Canada, than in the United States. Jingoes seeking a scarecrow on which to hang their fears of a war with Japan might think about this. ! Where the Colonel Overlooked a Point Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Is generally ac claimed the shrewdest politician of them all, but he evidently is still tgnorast of the fine points of the jame. Had he only been duly advised be would have applied to a distinguished Judge of our district court for a restraining order pro hibiting any newspaper or campaign orator pub lishing or referring to his statement 1n which he assured the publlo he would not again be a candidate for president. The most charitable view to take of the wind-up ravings and antics of our Water board boss Is that he is not responsible. He has been for nearly a month alternating between autoing and orating, night and day, with, little rest and at fearsome tension, so that physically and men tally he is not his normal self. Uncle Bam, the advance agent of peace, knocks on the door of Europe tor admission and the privilege of showing his samples, and Is po litely told to have a seat and wait till the bouaea are more disengaged. When War Was Really Hell Graphio Recollections of Experi ences of Fifty Years Ago in August. y cx.xjrr Jaxcmtr8T, SHxteeath Xowa Infantry. On August 8 1 read an article In an Omaha pamr eonrernlna- the confedi rate stockade at Andemonv11. The writer waa correct. In the main, but put afloat aome grlevoua error I cannot allow to pass unnotlcc.1. Mention la made frequently of aurKeons, and of the continual difficulty they had In caring for our sick, by reason of a acarctty of medical auppliea. Tlila will make a survivor of Andersonvllle smile. I was a prisoner there and In ether euch hells for nearly elKht months. During that whole time I never aaw a phy sician or surgeon on duty In any place of captivity. I never aaw a prisoner receive a dose of medicine or a remedy of any kind.. I never heard of such an In stance. I never aaw or heard of a wounded man re ceiving treatment of any kind except from hla com panlona In misery. The alck In Anderaonvill lay on the bara ground undei a pitiless sun till death ended their anguish. There waa no shelter of any kind for any one aave that Improvised with rags and tattered piece of blanket. Many prisoners dug holes In the ground and lived and slept in them. Toward the cloaa of summer 1WH), when thousands of Inmatea had been aent away, aom open eheds were built at the north end of the prison pen, and Into these tha elrk and dying were crammed till the eheds would contain no more. There waa a hoepltal" eomewhere in the woods outside the pen, but It wa only a cluster of rotten tents where a few hundred men at a time laid on the ground till they died without medicine, without care, almost without food, and often without food entirely. Proof of what Andersonvllle was Is shown by nearly 14,000 graves In the National cemetery there. The greatest mortality occurred In" August, when the death rat rose to lion men a day. The naked bodies of the dead were thrown Into wagons, one on top of another, like slaughtered hogs, and hauled oft to the graveyard. The vermin Infested clothing stripped from the dead waa, by the prisoners, divided among- needy aurvlvora. On twenty-six acrea of ground, no man had "forty square feet to occupy." There waa scarcely room enough for the men to sleep at night, for one-third of th camp whs a black, Blinking swamp. The rebel sergeants, who calle.l the roll every morning, told us that there were 36,00r men In the pen. For feeding purposes thy had divided ua Into drovea of 1.000 men each, each drove having a number. Thus we could usually guess very closely concerning our total num ber, although men were dying fast, and new prison era frequently arrived. We aro told that Captain Henry Wlrs did what ever he could to lessen the horrors of th pta.ee, and bewailed his Inability to do more for ua. An effort la made to have him appear aa a sort of scapegoat and martyr to th raging passions of war. I deny auch a atatement point blank. Wlrx waa a monster of cruelty. I aaw him a hundred tlmea, and' often, by compulsion, heard hla . obscene abuse of prisoners. Even the rebel guards cowered In his presence. He waa hanged at Washington, City, not for being Jailor at Andersonvllle. Ilo was hanged for murder. Ho waa thoroughly convicted of having murdered a prla oner with his own hand. Two other cases of murder could have been proven against him. lie waa a for eign mercenary, who deserted from theunkm army after th battle of Bull Run, and who received a com mission In the confederate service, and was placed In charge of tho military prisoner, first at Richmond and afterwards at Andersonvllle. Hla nam and memory deserve execration. Nor were w moved from Andersonvllle from mo tive of humanity, but because th enemy feared Sherman would capture ua. Andersonvllle only ap peared wore than other aouthern stockades because of the great number of men confined there. During th winter that followed, many half naked prisoner frore to death. I saw deafl bodies of such men at tha Mlllen stocked and at tha Florence (3. C), atockade. I waa a captive at Andersonvllle, Mlllen, Blackshear, Savannah, Charleston. Florence, Wilmington and Goldsboro, N. C. The treatment Of prisoners wa everywhere th aunt-brutality and tarvatlon, To thla atatement I make theae exceptions: At Savannah a band of ladles cam out to our camp with delivery wagons and servants and gave us hot coffee and loavea of bread. Coffee was then a costly rarity In the aouth, the whole coastline bolng blockaded. A similar Instance occurred at Charleston, although the city wa under the tlr of the union fleet. At dolds boro, N. C, the guards attempted to drive off a party of ladle who came out to relieve us, but they refused to leave, and tossed loave of bread across th dead line to ua till their aupply wa exhausted. When Wilson' cavalry captured Andersonvllle, only about 2,600 emaciated wretches were found thcrs, and to escap their vtngeanc Wlrs fled to General Wilson and Implored protection. At prison hoadquar Urs wa found an official order from General Winder, Issued at th time Ptoneman led an unsuccessful cav alry raid on Andersonvllle. It read: "If you learn that the Yanke cavalry are within fifty mllea of Andersonvllle, "open fire on th prison ers with grapa and canister." At last accounts that order was "on. file In th archives of the War department at Washington City. Opportune death from dlseas ' saved " Wlpder from death on the acaffold, for th government had evral matters to settle with him. ... It Is true that Grant opposed exchange' f prison er on th ground that most of them were deserters.. HI assumption waj false. Nine-tenth of u became prisoner aa a mer cholc between captivity and Im mediate death. Aa ait instance, my own regiment waa taken In desperate combat, after capturing what 'waa left of two region nts and three companies of the enemy, on th tid of July, before Atlanta. Grant's real reeaon waa that he paroled 37,000 men at Vlcka burg. and every man of them waa forced to take up arms as soon a he camped within the -wnemy'a llnea. Father Hamilton (I am not a Catholic), wa th only rpreentaUv of Christian ciericala that waa ever known to enter our prison pena He told th authorities at Andersonvllle: "If you cannot exchange those men and cannot feed them, parole them and Bend them to Sherman. Tou have no right to starve them." Colonel Chandler, a confederate Inspecting officer who vtBited ua, gave the Richmond government some what aimllar advice. Throughout the war th con federal oldler were poorly fed. There wss not only a frequent scarcity f ratkna in their camps. . but there waa alo a glaring lack of adminltratlv ability In their department Of aupplle. It Is for th welfare of the country that the civil war and Its Ula be aptedlly forgotten, When attempt la made, homever. to glosa over the horror of Ander aonvlll. or find light apologWa for them, it rouses deep reentmnt and rekindle emotion that houU Bleep forever. Andronvllle waa a disgrae to mod ern clvlliatlon-n utter ahagie to th human roc. In spit of th atrocltle of war. Ua brutality and repulalv aspects. I am not among those who believe our nation ahoulddlsarm and remain helpless whn ell the rt of the world U armed to th teeth. I be llv with Washington: "In tlm of pc prepar for war." for war will certainly come. Lf ua disarm when other natkma do, and not a moment aooncr. They who get up war do not do th fighting. They ar usually brainleaa fanatlca. Ilk o many of th persona who compos our'rresent peac party. The United State nd a rerular army twice th present site, and a splendid navy, one-third larger. Arm for defense, but not for lnolent aggraaalon. Oat Away fra Laa Slo. Representative Andrew i; IVters of Boston, sitting for the Eleventh Massachusetts district, haa solved the question of bow to get away from th long session. He resigned. Hut n resigned on Saturday, and on Monday waa sworn In aa assistant secretary of the trsaaury. Brtaf ostarifentioae oa tiasly topto lsrlted. Th Be assnma no responsibility fat opinion off correspondent. AJX letter qd Jct to condensation ay rts The Cermnn of It. OMAHA, Aug. 17. To the Editor of The Re: How can enlightened peopfe stay by and see how things are going in Europe since treacherous England got Into the fray. That cowardly nation has never done any good for the world at large, a country that throttled part of Its own people for generations, and kept them down like slave In the south until very lately. A people who always were afraid to tackle In war anything that waa ita equal In atrength, and only fight little countries for aggression, Ilk the poor Boers, a country jealous of Germany for Its progress In everything to uplift mankind. Now it trlea to crush this en lightened and progressive nation with the help of tho Cossacks, another nation whose history Is dark as night, and on whoso pages are marked th darkest deeds acalnst mankind of any country on earth. Even with all this help, and France and Belgium thrown In, It la still trembling In It boots, and as a climax of the entente, It invites Japan to come In and take a hand against Germany, for It la still afraid Germany may come out on top and will give it a thrashing later on. Emperor William Is Mamed by narrow minded people for this bloody war, but history will tell the truth. William could no more stop this conflict than he could top the river Ithlne from flowing to the North sea if he wanted to. for his people would not let him, for they know it had to come. Russia, France and Eng land, Its neighbors, have been looking with hungry Jealoua eyes across the bor der for many years, and they got so In sulting the people would not stand It any longer, and they die willingly for their fatherland and their emperor, who 1 one of the noblwt and clean-handed monarch on earth a man who knows no deceit and hate a liar like poison. If there is a Lord In heaven and I know there la he will not allow such a man, and his peo ple, to be crushed by a treacherous, de ceitful combination. MATT PrADER, 617 North Twenty-fifth Street. The ftlnrulnr Amenities of Poll Ilea. OMAHA, Aug. 18. To the Editor of The Bee: I am not at all -certain whether the matter I am about to wrlto of should be entitled: "The Amenities of Politics," or "The Amenities or Religion." But let your readers decide. I know there Is mighty little religion about tho matter. Mr. Matthew Gerlng of Plnttsm'outh Is on of the republican candidates for congress in the First district. One of th thing started against hia fitness for th office is that he is a Roman Catholic He Is not. He and his family have been long connected with the Episcopal church In Hattsmouth. .Ills sister, Ml&s Gerlng, Is one of our most prominent women in tho diocese.- I have been asked to vouch for this In the absence of Bishop Wil liam. I do; but, of course, too late now to have any effect one way or the other. But suppose he were a Roman Catholic, what effect should that have, either for or against Mr. Qering a fitness to represent his district In congress, a a republican? If I were a voter in th First district I would mot certainly vote against Mr. Gerlng In November, should he receive the republican nomination on Tuesday; In spite of hia being an Episco palian. My judgment would be, that while he is right In his religion, to the extent that he lives it; yet he Is wrong 1n his politics! I would vote for Mr. Magulre Instead, who 1 a sure enough Roman Catholic, simply because he is a democrat, as I am in politic. I cannot ee for the life of me what a man's peculiar religious confession ha to do wit his fitness to represent any district in congress or anywhere else In political llf. His personal character should hav much to do with his being chosen a representative of certain politi cal convictions, but hla rollgious convic tion nothing at all! I write this, too lute ftideed to have any possible result on Mr. Gerlng' political fortunes in th primary;, but not too . late. I hope, to rebuke that narrow Intolerance that la seeking to make head once more among us. Writer and speakers all over our generous west are seeking ugain 'to arouse the Intolerant spirit of a narrow Protestantism against .the Roman Catho lic church and Its people by the most, manifestly transparent falsehoods, nearly all of which were exploded twenty year ago, during the A. P. A., propaganda. Locally you, air, took a very honorable part or your father did In breaking up .the wretched intolerance of that move ment. Such narrow Intolerance should find no place In our ' generous American life, in which a man Is Judged for, what h Is, rather than for the peculiar type of religious confession he proposes. JOHN WILLIAMS. Womae In History.' SOUTH OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 18. -To the Editor of The Bee: The suffragists have been accused of not being informed on history by th Hon. Ant I Agnew, who says, "SemlramlB was an ancient queen of Assyria, who conquered all the civil ized nation of her time." Semiramls la treated as purely a legendary figure, daughter of a fish goddess, miraculously preserved and fed by a dove. She haa had a legendary existence from ao B. C. to U10, A. D. Prof. Lehmann Haupt of Berlin In lt10 proclaimed he had restored her to her rightful place in Babylonian Assyrian history. How utterly absurd to attribute th conquest of all civilised nations to this mythological or uncertain character. Our antl friend said that the Hebrew queen "Jexebel wa on of the wickedest women who ever ' lived. ' Jezebel was never a reigning queen; her husband, Ahab, was' king of Israel twenty-two years: It was he who reared an altar and established worship to Baal. "Ahab did mor to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him." I Kings, xvl 33. It la not aa unnatural conseqilenre that -his wife should become a murderess under the Influence of awicked and idolatrous king, for so long a period. The aU calls at-' tentlon to the dismemberment of Poland by Catherine of Russia aa "one of th greatest crime of history." Th un perverted truth Is. the partition of Poland was made by her three neighbors, Austria, Germany (formally Prussia) and Russia It should be rule!, however, that a larg part of the territory that Russia ac quired had been once Russian territory. Another distortion. The antl writer stated that Catharine de Medici ordered the St. Bartholomew massacre simply to appease hr "cruel instincts." Tb St. Bartholomew massacre wa the LINES crimination of a long and bitter quarrel between the Catholics end the Huganots as the Catvlntets were called). Cath arine dl Medici did not plan the maseacre alone, she had men consorts who par tlcipated with her In planning the deed. The grand and noble Queen Victoria did not escape the venom of the antl. Any hlsh achool pupil knows Queen Victoria bs loved and esteemed as one of the meet humane and tolerant sovereigns th world ever knew. It was a thousand Colorado women ho marched to the governor's palaoe, as voters, and demanded of Governor Am nions to call for federal assistance In stopping the bloodshed at Ludlow mines. It wa there in the cold they waited for an answer from President Wilson, which was favorably given before the women disbanded. We shall ask Mr. Agnew 1o brush the cobwebs out of hi own slum bering memory and ceaae perverting divine, ancient and modern history. We ask for an expression of facta and not unlimited, unfounded conceit. MRS. R. MAYE KING. blackened his eyes and stabbed him with a hatptn." , - "Well, a girl has to put up a little maidenly resistance." Kansas City Jour nai. . , The Friend They tell me your son Isi attracting a coed desl of attention Tho F.nthtislHFtlo Father I should ssr he is. .Have you seen him?. There nothing lacking He's ot m all linen suit. cane, wrist watch and white socks Cleveland Plain Dealer. .Madam-LWith this goose I have been awfully cheated. It Is old an1 tough and still I looks n young and tender. t ook (who likes to flatter her mistress) les. madam. One can never tell br ap pearances. Ton. too. look much voiinger lh.tn..'ou l"ellJr arc-Munich Fhegende Rlactter. BESIDE STJIL WATERS. Paul Scott Mowrer In Cotller'e. For hour en hour I have lain here along the wall. . . Bathed In vague fleeting breaths of wind and sun. And heard the poplars lisping by the mill dnm. And heard the poplars lisping by the mill Acroes the moolv pond. And I have peered Into the water long Still ind deep, still and deep below the wall 1 And seen t!ie minnows drifting, shy as thoughts. And seen the current. Ilk a miiplng girl, Combin jtn umber hair. The little birds alight nd trill and pas: And now the seeking swallows dip and pass, And scents of sweet syrlnga, cross th wall. ... O sweetheart Farth, my own, my beau- teous earth. So calm, so pure., yet so fantastical, Vhy must be untrue, who love you so? Why enn you not be all in all to me? Whence comes thl tickle yearning In my heart So that I love a woman more than you. And love a child and love a. founded 'friend. And still ko hunsorlng for ether love. And see the ttky and love I know not what? TO LAUGHTER. "Is your wife so very economical then?" "Oh, yes; very. Why, my wife can take an old wornout $10 hat, spend J15 on It, and make it look almost as good as new." Puck. Pentry Flag of truce, excellency. General What do the revolutionists want now? fcentry They would like to exchange a ccupln of generals for a case of cigarettes and a pack of cards Life. Bacon I see the first producing oil well In Venesuela recently was bored. Egbert Can It be possible that Bryan has been lecturing out there? Yonkers Statesman. "That booby made a bluff at kissing me last night and quit." "But he saya you scratched his face. Food Sense V ' f Hers 1 a savory, cooling dish for hot weather. It can be prepared in a vary short time yoa don't I hav to worry yourself aver a hot stove. i FAHIST W if SPAGHETTI I is strengthening It is rich in gluten but (na- "ifjr fl like mesO it is not beating. Try Fauat ' J '... J I. Spaghetti cooked in tamatoea aerv f 'i"m V with grated cheese. Recipe book free. ft TTTTcSf 31 X Stand tOcpkgt. But today. jf ZsA 1 ftftlli Mall Bros St. Leuh. M. JjjA j J I f " 1 YOUR CM KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE All ; gasoline Is npt alike in cleanness, quality, and mfles-per-gallon. - RED CROWN GASOLINE Is mad from selected erodes, by improved refinery processes using ' elaborate and coatly equipment. It is an absolutely clean, homogeneous prodoct, uniform - whatever you buy It. Buying; in quantity saves tronbte and coats lea. Where we have tank wagon ser vice w deliver dicect into storage. Standard Oil Company (Nebraska) Apartment Choosing Time is Coming' Faster than you may realize. Few new houses are going up, so it is , important to make an early choice among the vacancies in the market. The Omaha Bee's "For Rent" Columns will give first and best aid to satis factory selection. Note that the most desirable places are listed exclusively in The Bee. There are several hundred vacan ' cies in houses, flats and all forms of business property, city and suburban, list of renting agents, 'etc. in these columns. Telephone Tyler 1000. THE OMAHA BEE "EviyboJy raadt rent adm" . V ... if:?! . Eli ; : i