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4 B ITTE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SETTEirBER 6, 1914. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER, VICTOR ROSKWATER, EDITOR. Tho Be Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING. FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Enteredat Omaha postofflcs at second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Br cairn By mall par month. per year. Pally and Sunday ton. ft " Pally without Sunday....' o.... (N Fvenlng and Sunday o f 00 Kvenlng without Bunday Itto 4. no Sunday Br only lOo 1.0 Send pot Ira of change of addraes or complaints af irregularity in delivery to Omaha, Baa, Circulation Department REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, expreaa or postal order. Only two rent poet ait e atampa received In payment of amalt ac counts Personal checks, except on Omaha and eaatarn exchange, not accepted. OFFICES Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha 2318 N street. Council Hluifs-14 North Mala atreet. Lincoln 2 I.tttle Building. Chicago 901 Hearat Building. New York-Room IW, Kifth avenue. Pt. Ioula-6al New Bank of Commerce. Washington 7 Fourteenth Bt.. N. XV. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to nwa sad edi torial matter to Omaha Bea, Editorial Department. AUGUST SUNDAY CIRCULATION. 43,961 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, aa. Pwlght Williams, circulation manager of Ths Bea Publishing company, being duly aworn. aaya that the average Hunday circulation for the month of Auguet, 1K14. waa i.l. DW1CIHT WILLI A Ml. Circulation Manager. Bubaertlied In my presence and aworn to before en a, this Id day of Pentomher, I'M 4. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The He mallexl to thetm. Ad dress will be changed aa often aa requested. Mass ready for the army of scbool children. The best seller of them all now U the bomb proof cellar. These must be exciting days for the "idle rich" of Europe. What a snide excuse of & soldier the great Napoleon would be today. A Reno woman baa recently killed a big lion. Beware, gentlemen, beware! The month of September pats the festive oyster back on the bill of fare. The State fair should this week make Lin coln the Mecca for Nebraska travel. Quite a few well known rivers In Europe have suddenly become rivers of doubt. No lack of sermon texts for the preacher Just returned from bis summer vacation. Those visiting postal clerks will be found familiar with Omaha without much posting. In the language of the booking agent, all the great naval engagements have cancelled. When put to the supreme test, modem civ ilization turns out to be a pretty thin veneer. Paris might close all Its gates and yet find those Germans climbing over or under the fence. With everything being shot to pieces, no wonder the 8 o'clock lid rattles and tilts now and then. Somme valley has been eracuated. Yes and some other valley occupied, among them, the valley of death. Over In this country commandeering a neighbor's auto Is sUU calculated to get a per- son into trouble. , - .- Let us see to It that the grapejuice rules are rigidly enforced on wTerj foreign ship coming under our registry, " . The exchange of professors between the big American and continental universities will also be temporarily suspended. Exercising reasonable prudence, the School board will defer buying sew geographies until the next revised edition U out An old-fashioned basa ball reporter who re fers to the "pill," the "phere," "spheroid" or "pigskin" has been located trying to get a job on a country paper, ' "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee." said the Psalmist, bnt It tskes more than mor tal to find the praise In what is now going on In the wrath of war about us. The recent Nebraska primary brought out a larger number of voters than ever before par ticipated la a primary election in this state, but still less than half of those entitled to vote. uuipicxtt4 tit j& ut4.S0 4Mf Stg vZHf" The Douglas county democratic convention met In the etty bail, with R. W. Patrick, chairman, and K. P. Morearty, aecratary. AU the old war horaaa were commissioned aa delegate a to either atate. con gressional or Judicial oouventions. The monthly report 0 City Physician Lsisenring shows Ave fatal caaes of diphtheria and two of war let fever. X XX Her and Gottlieb Stors have bought the Baumana brewery from Mr a. Bauraann and will run it under the firm name of mors 4k Ber. Our worthy and popular city elerk. Colonel J. I C Jewett, has been enjoying a vlalt from hla old achool friend, C. B. Woioott. a dtteea of Chicago and prominent on the Board of Trade there. Haiti D. Prica. the electric girt, manlfegUd her peculiar powera to an audience of about tut people, three men sitting In single chair were lifted from tle floor by her almply placing her open hand on the back of the seat, and two strong in an ware Utterly unable to hold a hickory stick two feet loos after Miss Price, ha4 placed her handa upon the end The mayor baa appointed John Baumes o. P tuirht and William Dew to appraise damage for changing the grade of lxard street The War Tax. The country as a whole will, as In all such emergencies, sympathetically respond to the president's plea for a special tax to raise $100, 000,000 to cover the tressury shortage due to European war conditions, yet many clashes of selfish business snd political Interests may be expected before the legislative provision Is com pleted. Already the house and senate are said to be In disagreement ss to the framing of the bill, which, of course, must originate In the house, subject to amendment n the senate. Also at the outset southern tobacco growers are protesting against any tax on their prduct snd are receiving some comfort, naturally, from their representatives in congress. House and Renate leaders are said to be agreed that an extra levy on whisky might Impair present rev enues. However, according to most reliable advices, both whisky and tobacco ar likely to be In cluded In the list of taxables, together with beer, wines, gasoline, kodaks, proprietary soft drinks, patent medicine preparations, legal doc uments, deeds, mortgages, playing cards, rail road and steamship tickets. Manifestly the tax must come largely from our domestic revenues, as the war shuts off the heaviest Importations. Coffee, tea and perhaps sugsr may be Included in the list, even though contrary to the plan of making so-called luxuries bear the burden, for coffee, tea and sugsr are staples on the breakfast table, and taxes bit poor and rich alike. Gasoline, so extensively used by auto mobiles, is expected to yield large returns. These taxes we may be sure, will for the most part be shifted to the consumer no matter who pays them in the first instance. Regent George Coupland. The most regrettable feature of our recent primary Is the success of the stealthy conspir acy engineered by the Lincoln down-town cam pus promoters for the retirement of George Coupland from the Board of University Regents whose most useful member he hss proved to be. Mr. Coupland Is a practical farmer posses Ing pre-eminently the desirable qualifications of fine education, highest culture, keen Intelli gence, rare business ability and, above all, en thusiastic devotion to the cause of higher educa tion, and particularly agricultural education. While occupying this purely honorary position Mr. Coupland has given his time and! money gen erously and lavishly and has Insistently labored for loftier educational Ideals. Hla venial offense, however, seems to have been In standing by an unselfish conviction that the future of the uni versity, and of the people of Nebraska, would be best aubserved by consolidation on what is known as the farm site a conviction expressed unanimously by all six of the regents three years ago and In unflinchingly standing by the con viction as against pressure and threats of the combination financially Interested In keeping the university divided as It Is. Mr. Copeland Is, therefore, the victim of his own self-sacrificing devotion to the public service and the people of Nebraska, especially the young men and women finishing their education in the university and agricultural college, are the losers. So confident are we In the eventual triumph of right over wrong that we firmly believe the voters misled Into perpetrating this Injustice will at no distant day realize their mistake and attempt to correct It, for they will see that with holding the deserved reward from a conscien tious public servant like Mr. Coupland! cannot fall to have a blighting effect upon our civic standards. It the Soldier of Fortune Obsolete t That picturesque and fascinating figure parading as the "soldier of fortune" seems to have become suddenly obsolete. This dashing hero of the story booka plainly does not fit in with the modern rulne of so-called civilized) war fare, which depends upon large bodies of men and the latest mechanical slaughtering devices The soldier of fortune we used to read about was an adventurer who would rather fight than eat or sleep, who belonged to no country, who gathered around blm a company likewise eager for dashing exploits, and attached him self to some country at war with a neighbor whose cause he might make his own with at least a chance of booty and profit. The sol dier of fortune now, however, would have trouble were he to attempt to break into a military machine constantly maintained fully manned. New recruits are not put In charge of regiments or companies, for positions of command go to experienced otflcera trained for the work, and the obscure rank of high private does not tempt the adventurer. Bo we may ae well make up our minds to forego the sol dier of fortune's romantic experiences In the present world war. If not forever and anon, and to leave his fste for the future chiefly to the fic tion writers. Job of Church Management. On opposite) pagee of a religious weekly ap pear two articles on different subjects, though a similar theme, by two prominent church offi cials, one a layman, the other a clergyman. Both contend that one of the serloua draw backs of the church today la Its poor business management. "Four-fifths or nine-tenths of Its energies are lost by poor management, while not more than 10 to 10 per cent of the members really do anything to distinguish them," says the lay man, while the minister makes this even mdre aertoua criticism: ' "Of our twentieth century church members about 10 per cent are a decided help; S4 per cent are neutral, while the remain ing 10 per oent are damaging to the welfare of the church, Their spiteful, domineering spirit; their narrow Jealousy, or their unfavorable re putation to the community discourages other member and retards outsiders from entering the choron," Evidently there are a few traitors, ss well aa merely laggards in camp. These strictures might not I worthy of consideration If made by noncharchmen, but coming as they do from authorities within, mutt challenge the gravest eoncern of the ehurch, while arresting the at tention of the world. As we have said before. It 1 hard, If not Impossible, to get and hold the Interest of men In any enterprise that Is not making good. The chief thing the church has to do to raUy the world more nearly to lta banners, Is te get waoUy on the outside of Its Job and make good In a conspicuous manner. What seems to be needed In church manage ment Is a better combination of science and sanctity. Evidently church members do not put enough serious attention on the real busi ness of the church. This Includes the spirit ual side, of course, yet It is chiefly the outside administration that Is under consideration. While ao business concern would expect to succeed with only 10 per cent of Its managers and em ploye "a decjded help," it happens that the same business men when put to the task of run ning the church seem to lose much of their sys tem and acumen. Is It a case of what is everybody's business is nobody's business? Well, there Is the psstor. But In this day of highly complicated church organizations, one within the other, no pastor is going to make a success of his Job who attempts to do the preach ing, the pastoral work and attend to the busi ness management of the church. In future, the lay writer auggests, there should be three men trained and skilled as preacher, pastor and business manager for every church. One hopeful sign appears, namely, the church's awakening to the situation. The Aerophor. From a current periodical we learn of the successful Invention of what Is called an "aerophor," which makes It possible for the player of a wind Instrument to sustain any tone of which his Instrument Is capable for as long aa he may desire. The aerophor Is described as a small bellows-like affair with a thin rubber tube, and a reed mouthpiece, through which a supply of air Is forced by foot pressure. The air so supplied goes into the mouth cavity, and is used to supply the Instru ment, with the ordinary lip position lust the same as If It were human breath. So the aerophor Is not, we are assured, in any sense a mechanical player, but simply an auxiliary breath supply. All glory to the Inventor of the aerophorl But still more glory awaits the inventor who will adapt It to the use of oratorical performers as well as to wind Instrument players. What has deprived the world of many a magic spell binder hae not been lack of talent, but short ness of breath. Only give our young Demos theneses, sprouting In every farm, hamlet, vil lage and city In the country, an auxiliary breath supply that can be turned on by foot pressure, and they will one and all talk themselves to fame and fortune. War Forces Simpler Fashions. That even war has its compensations may be gathered from the fashion decree that prom ises to make bleached and unbleached white stockings the correct style for the next ensuing season. Making a virtue of necessity, the manu facturer have decided that this is the easiest way to worry along without the dyes and other raw materials heretofore brought from Ger many, but whose supply is now cut off. If We can have simplified fashions for stockings, it goes without saying that we can also have sim plified fashions for' other varieties of wearing apparel. Perhaps the war will force u to get back to something more akin to the simple life, not because of the agitation, but because no other course la open. The Telephone Wonder. The wonders of the world are many, but none more wonderful than the Invention by which widely separated people converse freely with one another Just as If they were in the same room. Figures compiled to the first of the present year give the number of tele phonea in use throughout the world as 13,700, 000, of which 9,000,000, or 66 per cent of the aggregate, belong to this country as against 4,000,000, or 2 7 per cent, belonging to Europe. In this connection we are reminded the popula tion of the United States is but 6 per cent of the world's population, and less than 25 per cent cent of that of Europe. We are further re minded that New York City alone has more telephones than Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Neth erlands, Norway and Switzerland put together; Chicago has more than France, and Philadelphia more than all of Austria. It Is no secret, either, that Omaha, for Its population, has a telephone development exceeded by mighty few cities. An Historic Emergency Capital. The place Bordeaux, the temporary French capital, holds In history Is distinctly that of an emergency seat of government. As Burdlgala In ancient times. It was the capital of the Bltu rlges Vlvlsct, then under Emperor Hadrian be came the capital of Aqultanla Secunda, and next of the Duchy of Guienne. It was the seat of the splendid court of Edward the Black Prince and during the French revolution the principal headr quarters of the Girondists. It retained lta offi cial prominence until after the Franco-Prussian war, when, In 1S71, It entertained the first sit ting of the National Assembly. Bordeaux's claim to distinction, therefore, rests exclusively upon neither its wines nor ite culture, for both of which It Is famous. For It Is the source of the choicest French viands and the center of great art galleries, libraries, cathe drals and schools and yet In addition to these and its emergency capital fame, it Is one of the Important industrial cities of the country, be cause of its extensive and varied manufacturing Interests. The Washington Post finds the only sur cease from the spirit of war on the sporting page of the dally paper, where the prince of peace rules supreme. But If the writer could peep within the troubled souls of some of the magnates paying princely salaries against the constantly diminishing gate receipts he might get another Idea of the dominant thought In the base ball mind. The modern notion of a solemn treaty obli gation la about the same as the ancient notion of It. 80 long as the operation of the treaty Is advantageous, live up to It scrupulously, but wheel Its observance becomes burdensome find a flaw In it or repudiate It altogether. One democratic editor Is afraid state Issues will be overlooked In this year's campaign In Nebraska. When the time comes It will be the democrats eagerly trying to get away from atate Issues and appealing for votes in endorsement of the national admlnlstratlon- BRITISH EMPIRE. I.ondon haa 20,0") chauffeurs. Ulster heavily exports grass teed. Jamaica sells many oranses in England Vancouver, B. C, now hss 807,381 peo ple. There are 1,229,565 farm workers la Eng land. India will try rrowlns cotton on a large arale. F.nsland has 1,392,43 domestic Indoor ser vants. Australia ia to have atate Insurance of workmen. Brltlnh Columbia Is successfully grow- Ina; prunes. Sheffield, Rnaland, bricklayers make IS centa an hour. There are 1S.218 factories In Canada. 1.000 or tnem in Ontario. Kangaroo farming Is a very Important industry or Australia. There Is a llshthouse every fourteen miles along the Ena-llsh coast Canada's 191 S exports to the United Biatea were valued at l7,110,Mt In twenty-five years S43.KU persons have been Killed In India by anakeblte. Canada haa twenty-four chartered banks wnn aggregate capital of llltSSl.4. EnglUh cotton manufacturing Induatrlee empioy 6-J,-0 persona, to per cent women. Ireland In 1SU Imparted bicycles valued ai ife,wg and motorcyclea valued at 1286. POO. Britain's postoffloe annually tinAta over 1,296,000,000 letters and nearly 1.000,000 poaicaras. Forty thouaand dollara war an in England on the production of a single moving- picture mm. Ireland haa I4.S69 landholders having plote not exceeding an afire, 0,730 who hold over one acre and not more than five acres; lM,t90 under fifteen acres and JSfl.owl not exceeding thirty acres. FACTS ON FOREIGNERS. Tunis has m miles of railway. Portugal contains 117, S91 eowa. There are 1.4JS dairies In Sweden. Ceylon has 00,000,000 cocoanut tree. Copenhagen domestics have a Union. Italy'a annual revenue Is 512,800,000. Natural gaa haa been discovered Hungary. Spain has a heavy percentage of blind persona. Tasmania's 191J Imports were valued at 119,000,000 Sweden ia extracting fuel oil from ehale ana slate. Denmark haa 7,323 acres planted to sugar beeta. Cuba'a 1914 suffer crop la eatlmated at 2.576.000 tone. Sweden last year produced 1,533,870,352 pounds of milk. Cotton growing- Is being developed ex tensively In Turkey. Hong Kofr laat year Imported S9(30.790 gallons of kerosene. ' Bolivia's pavilion at San Francisco ex position will cost 122,000. Korea last year produced 70,151 pounda of ginseng, valued at $136,309. Federated Malay atatea in June ex ported 2,808 tone of plantation rubber. Turkey last year aent 181,226 worth of attar of roses to the United Statee. w1 tier land apends more on relief of the poor than does any other country. Holland herring catch for five months of 1914 la eatlmated at 2,709.080 pounds. Egypt in the first three months of 1914 Imported 1630,000 worth of agricultural machinery, " Bombay now haa about 1.000,000 popu lation, 7 per cent living in one-room tene menta and hovels. in IN OTHER CITIES. New Tork has 100,000 cloakmakers. Philadelphia has one suicide dally. Philadelphia haa 800,000 school children. St. Louis thieves stole 600 motor ears last year. Los Angeles hopes to soon secure a big cotton factory. New York muat pay 8228,129,121 for all Its existing and planned subwsys. New York's munlcloat debt limit ia !,985,991.30; net debt. 1764,533,787.14. Philadelphia vacant lot cultivators last year reaped crops valued at 138,000. St. Louis business firms claim lam Increases In trade In the laat fiscal year. Chicago In 1910 contained 3.03S Prennh S.5M Greeks, 63,966 Irish and 10.SOS Scotch. Cleveland has a Play a-rounda ln.tltnt to train teachers to teach children to plsy. Cleveland contains Isnd sold at 40 an acre In 1792. now valued at 170 a square foot Philadelphia Postal savtnss bank de posits total KJl.OOO. New Tork haa 14.400.. 000 on deposit. Stonlngton. Conn., haa relahr.to4 tk- lmth anniversary of the battle of Stnnina-. ton In the Revolution. Chlcaao In 1910 contained lins Am. triana, 182,29 German a, 28,aj Huns, 13,784 Russians and 45.169 Italians. New York may be oomoelled to deatmv 200 tons of old police records for want of a rlaee In which to store them. The International Electrical exposition which Spain planned to hold at Bmrcalona neit year haa been postponed to 1917 and will be broadened in its soope. UNCENSORED OPINION. Philadelphia Preaa It la evliUnt ty.t the President feela he cannot isaue a neutrality proclamation ajiy too often. Washington Star: Austria's efforte discipline Servla la not the first reform movement to get away beyond its original intentions. Detroit Pre Preaa: The war demon. strates that eouratr Is not a matter of race, creed or nationality. All human belnaa have It In a crista Kanaaa City Ttmee: German ma acquire eome territory as the result of toe present war, but It would be cheaper to Pay tx.000 aa acre for it New York World; There la comnanm. tlon for friendship and, commerce la that the war which pushes Euroue fur a tim. further awsy from us la to bring South, America nearer. St. Paul Dispatch: Feonla wha hii. that monarchy and militarism are at atake In the great war may wonder how thta can be, whan either Germany or Kuaale muat win out. Boston Transcript: If it war r. the fact that we don't want t km cold water on Baltimore's celebration we would remind her that the words at the Star Spangled Banner were written to the tune of a Genua a drinking aong. HAMMER TAPS. A woman's reputation and her com plexion are usually what she makes them. What has become of the old-fsshioned preacher who wore a coat as long aa his sermon? Many a fine blacksmith has been epoiled bee a nee. a fond mother Imagined he bad musical talent. Half the world owes money It can't pay. And the other half has money owed it that It can't collect. Nowadays the quirk are the speedy pedestrians and the dead are those who are too slow to dodge automobiles. It doesn't take long to tell a men what you think of him, but It often takes sev eral weeks to recover from the effects. A man Imagines that he Is as brave as a woman. But did you ever hear of a man who married a woman to reform berT Old Castor Oil and Old Smallpox are not very popular. But they do not stsnd around ssloons and srgue religion and politics. Any married man can tell you that there len t anything very gentle about "women'a gentle touch" when she wants a wad of change. When a woman has sense enough to make her husband Imagine that he la having hla own way, they are not going to do much fighting. The mutt that complains that his wife can't cook like his mother used to cook never thinks of marrying an old women with his mother's experience. Some bluffers are a nuisance. But there Is always room for the bluffer who ia always bragging how prosperous he Is and how well the world Is using him. Our Idea of a 50-50 break Is when mother and father both get their com plexions out of a bottle, and one applies It externally and the other internally. I haven't seen it done yet. but some of these days a smooth-faced man In going to get up in a street car and give his seat to a woman who haa a mustache. The old-fashioned man who would ah are hla last crust with his wife now haa a son who balks at sharing his last cigar ette with the partner of his Joys and sor rows. Of course no husband and no wife would admit it. But If husbands and wives were absolutely frank with each other that they would not live together very long-. You are always envying other men and Imagining that they get all the breaks, But the fact is that there are mighty few men who are not disappointed at least once an hour. Cincinnati Enquirer. SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. Pctrolt Frre Tre?: A rhlladplrhlt roctor Mames tlie late J. P. Morgan fot the war In Europe. Nfraan should have lived longer and prevented It, we pre sume. Kansas City Journal: Thrre Is a good deal of uncertainty yet as to whether God and the Germans mill win. or whether God and the British, God and the French, God and the Belgians, etc.. will be too strong for them. Washington Herald: t'p to date the clergy have done their full share toward fomenting bitter feeling over the war. Rev. Dr. Parkhurst particularly. If the president's appeal for a strict observance of neutrality is to be dlsresarded in the pulpits, where may we expect It to be observed 7 New York World: Two Massachusetts preachers who went on "the road" aa tramps to get the hobo's point of view received their best treatment, contrary to their expectation, from well-to-do persons rather than from working people. Men who have to work for their dally bread may he supposed to have scsnt sympathy for those who shirk that duty. Houston Post: A Houston' minister says: "God and Satan head two great armies operating in the world." We are on the Lord's side every time, but are bound to admit the Intrepidity, skill and determination of the enemy. Every branch of hla army seems to be pushing- hostlli tlea effectively, with the exception of the republican party, which we have suc ceeded in throwing into the greatest disorder. OUR DEAR ONES. NEW WRINKLES. A Michigan woman haa patented a churn that la operated by one foot with little effort. A new bracket to hold a broom clear of a floor Is provided with a lock to prevent theft A lantern that projects magnified by a microscope upon an easily examined screen haa been Invented In London. Bird boxes of concrete are said to be Just as Inviting to the birds as those of wood, and easier and cheaper to make. Shears with their handles extended to one side have been Invented to enable a person to follow a pattern more closely. An English patent covers a process for rolling hollow steel bars from ingots that are drilled and their cavities filled with heat resisting sand. Falae bottoms for swimming- tanks, raised by motor operated windlasses, have been patened for the quick rescue of per sons Injured while swimming. In Bohemia there has been Invented a process to mature beer and make it ready for use In from eight to twelve days. In stead of the usual three months. The rim of a new bath tub la tubular and so connected with the hot water pipe aa to be warmed almost to the same tem perature as the water It contains. Fireproof shingles have been produced through the Instrumentality of R. E. Prince of the United States forestry pro ducts laboratory, at Madison, Wis. By suspending a pneumatio tire between a larger solid rubber tire and the hub of a wheel, a Wisconsin Inventor haa devel oped a tire that cannot be punctured. Experiment are under way ia England with a compound rail for street railways, the worn portions of which can be re placed without disturbing the roadbed. A German scientist has Invented a pro cess using superheated steam for treat ing sewage sludge to remove lta fatty acids and increase Us value as fertiliser. As a substltue for red in danger signals, which Is the color less eaatly distinguished by the color blind, experts have advo cated Clue Circles mm wiue youuw run. A shipping tag that Is expected to re main on the packasw to Which it Is at tached is provided with four eyelets through which the wrapping twine is Interlaced. RAISING THE WIND. Indianapolis News: Tax on soft drinks, ehT That'll be an awful Wow to the near beer camps. Boston Tranaoript: As a shock absorber this war certainly has proven a godsend to the Underwood tariff. Baltimore American: Congress would rather war-tax people than practice economy In the expenditure or pumic moneys. Washington Star: The failure of the income tax to provide expected revenues emphasises the proverbial unreliability of statistics. Wall Street Journal: Stamp tax on stocks and bonds, with congress doing all It can to prevent their Issue, will hardly bring In much revenue. Pittsburgh Dispatch: A war tax on soft drinks is talked about. The govern ment experts who have been defining whisky and wlnea will now have a chance to define what Is a soft drink. Philadelphia Press: From no official quarter, however, comes any suggestion that one way to meet the deficiency in revenues would be to pare down super fluous sppropriatlons or make any move whatsoever toward the practice of that economy in administration, so solemnly promised In the latest democratic na-! tlonal platform. Houston Post: Consreaemaa Martin Dtea announces that he favors a gradu ated Inheritance tax and an Increase In the Income tax rather than an advance In the tariff. In order to relieve the pres ent financial condition of the govern ment. That view aa to methods of rais ing taxes for the support of the govern ment is steadily gaining In Bopularttv In thia oountry. though we deem it hardly prooaoie uat lb a reseat cens-reaa win adopt It, beautiful gown you '.'.V. you ,ve money to your wife?" No, sir. I have no bad habits what ever. -Minneapolis Journal." "Then your wife didn't enjoy her trip t Ninsara. No; the minute she saw that rushing water she began to wonder if ahe hadn't come away from home and left a faucet running." Pittsburgh Post. Mrs. Bacon-Thls paper says that China has no forests. Mrs. Earbert Well, where In the world t.he""or """ iro I" house-cleaning time?-Yonkers Statesman. Mr. Crisscross Pass ma the butter, pi esse. Miss Keatherbone-Wlth all my heart -Puck CrMnly th8 butter' P'ease. Mrs. Flatte-DId you see the doctor about your Indigestion today? Mr. Flatte Yes. 'vld h.e. .?slL yo," to lve un anything?" "les; $2."-Yonkers Statesman. Marie That'a a have on Mollyr you know that lace is forty years old? TlM-BltsThat 7 Mk U JrourBelf7- "And where did William go after the battle of Hastings, Mary?" "He took the first train to London." "W hy, Mary, you know those people didn't have trains in those dava." "It save so in the history hook. Miss Brown It says he marched upon Ixindon with hla train" I Tnfi ti,t v ',,.-..,- spondent. "Wife, whst does the doctor say about your case?" "He thinks there Is nothing rad'c-ullv wrong. Still, complications may arise, so I guess I'll spend month at the sea Hhore to be on the safe side." Louisville Courier-Journal. The Customer These arand ooera phonograph records are no good. I can't get anything out of half of them. The Malesman They are our finest schlevement. You ran never tell when thsse records will sing. They're so tem peramental. London Opinion. The Young Bride I didn't accept Jim the first time he proposed. Miss Rvvsl (sltehtlv envious T know you didn't, dear. The Young Bride How do you know? Miss Ryvsl You Weren't there. London Sketch. UNDER ONE CE0SS. .Tub nnl.Ma fh. v411-va f Island there was a large common grave, in which French and German soldiers were burled together In their uniforms. A large mound marked thia site. Here Dull. t V, A vIIIdm.. k.J ..I . . ,1 hewn crosses. From "A Story of the vr nr. Under one cross and In one srave They sleep, the valiant and the brave, No line of race nor mark of creed, Nor of what country or what breed For thus the battle gives us back The debris and the human rack. Commingling in one common dust Under one cross of love and trust Now sing the rivers where they died. A requiem of wave and tide As sweet for German as for French No hate, no strife no way to tell v nai country claimed this hero s birtA Or for what land this brave boy fell Under one cross in God's green earth. The Teuton eagle here entwines The triple color of the land That pours its blood again like wines Red bubbling through the ruddy sand: And Gaul no longer leers with hate At Union they have passed the gat Of conflict and division here. And life lets fall one common tear 1 mler one cross to see them lie With voiceless lips, with sightless eye. Under one cross the legions rest In one green grave, above them prest The turf that knows not each from other, Hut holds them ail in tnst great bond That blnda the brother unto brother In rent eternal and the dream Beyond the battle'a roar and gleam- Old foemen death hath turned so fond. The hills lift heads of blue above This common grave; the soft winds love To whlspor to tne grass their lay Of beauty all the live-long day; And here the footstep or tne years Shall paaa and all the ampler spheres Of action tremble, while they sleep Under one cross oh, piteous heap! The Baltimore Sun. THE LADS OF LIEGE. "Horum omnium fortlsstmt sunt Bel gae." Caesar's Commentaries. The lade of IJege. beyond our eyes They lie where beauty'a laurels be With lada of old Thermopylae Who stayed the atormlng Persians. The lads of Liege, on glory's field They clasp the hands of Roland's men. Who lonely faced the Saracen Meeting the dark Invasion. The lada the deathless lads of Liege, They blason through the living world Their land the little land that hurled Olympian defiance. "Now make ua room, now let us pass; Our monarch suffers no delay. To stand in mighty Caesar's way Beseems not Lilliputians." "We make no room you shall not paaa, For freedom aaya your monarch nayl And we have stood in Caesar's way Through freedom's generatlona. "And here we stsnd till freedom fall And Caesar cry, ere we succumb, Once more his horum omnium Fortissiml sunt Belgae." The monarch roara an Iron laugh And cries on God to man hla guns; But Belgian mothers bore them sons Who man the souls within them: They bar his path, they hold their pass, They blaze in glory of the Gaul Till Caesar crit-s again "of all The bravest are the Belgians! O lads of Llcge, brave lads of Uega, Your aoula through glad Elysium Oo ohanting: horum omnium CortuMiml sunt Bebxael