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All aboard! New Year's the next stop!
Well, we truat your Christmas fully met all
expectations.
It is the wrong system, though, when the
only way to avoid the "trap-hanging habit Is to
foot It.
Owing to time and distance, Benor Huerta
probably made no effort to get a Christmas
present to President Wilson.
Prohibition might make Nebraska dry but it
could not take the effervesence out of a state
bo Interesting and resourceful.
Paraphrasing a Kurnslsm, let us be chari
table and constant enough to say that a friend's
a friend for a' that and a' that.
Mr. Bryan is opposed to dancing and yet he
baa kept a lot of hungry home folks pirouetting
on their toes for nearly two years. .
In attempting to say that "Shell fire plays
many pranks." the headline lost the initial "S"
and yet lost none of the real meaning.
Poultney Blgelow warns Americans to get
yeady for "a Oerman Invasion." Let's see, what
other similar warning was it that Poultney
one Bounded T
. "Are "we defenseless? cries- the esteemed
New York Commercial. No, brother, not with
7.4 Inches of snow covering the surfsce of the
wlater wheat belt.
Speaking of relief for European war victims
and a few peaceful mendicants in our homeland,
a St. Louis millionaire recently spent $20,000 on
his fair young daughter's debut party.
Tammaay la the backbone of the right the senate
la making ea President Wilton. Kanaka City Htar
It that be true, then some of our good demo
cratic senators have been misleading us.
The reinforced concrete manufacturers may
be depended on to work Into their next batch of
advertising the fact that their material is being
used to make the war trenches Impregnable.
Yet It was hardly necessary for Congressman
Vollmer to go to the extent of calling Washing
ton a brewer, Jefferson a distiller and Lincoln
a barkeeper to defeat the Hobaoa resolution.
On the showing made of Dundee's success In
tapping Omaha's treasury for public Improve
ments without contributing, our other suburbs
must cither wake up or admit their Inferiority.
The last time Nebraeka discontinued the
supreme court commissioner system we all
thought we had done it for good, and Joyfully
exclaimed. "Good riddance to bad rubbish."
Why try to revive it now?
In making up his list for state-wide federal
appointments, our democratic United States
senator does not give Omaha a smell. Evi
dently, the senator thinks that by holding his
own job, Omaha Is fully taken care of.
And yet back of all the reasons given In
the various blue, white, yellow and scarlet
papers and books why this nation and that
went to war, one may guess that each set about
it to knock the everlasting daylights out or the
other.
The cold wave aeeraa to be slightly aba tin. Com
plaint are made of tha condition of the street cars
with reference to other cltlea. whore the companies
have tntorprU. enough and are ltberai-hearted enough
to heat their care. Complaint ia aJen m.H. ne ,.
freezing of KM plpea, charged to tha fact that tha caa
a eo-cwiwa water gas.
J. B. FVI-oner, the popular dry foods man. was
remembered for Christmas by his employee with a
beautiful leather upholstered easy chair.
C W. llicdns 0f tha Nebraska National bank re
ports a number of counterfeit bills In circulation.
J B. Piper of this city and Id Us Emma Knapp of
Greenwich. Conn., were married at tha residence of
tha bride's alster. Mrs. Reynolds, on Twentieth and
Leavenworth streets.
Miss May Clark, who has been attending- school
at Detroit, la -ponding- tha holidays with her nuth,.
Irving B. Smith, a prominent mil road man from
iiKao, spent inruiniaa with nis slater, Mrs.
W estri
atlas IsaanU Lynch of Fremont. O., has ooroa La
uinana u reaiaa win ner sister, Mrs. Jacob
Clark street.
Not Forward, bat Backward.
The resolution of the local bar association
favoring a return to the supreme court commis
sion system strikes ua as a step backward, when
we should go forward.
True, there Is a severe congestion of cases
on the supreme docket, but our experience with
a supreme court commission on two former oc
casions was not such aa to encourage ua to re
sort to the same makeshift again. The first
commln-lon. as we recall It, was made up by
appointment of the governor, and the appoint
ments were naturally prompted by political con
siderations, while the second commission, with
membership rhotien by the supreme court, re
sulted in a dlxtributlon of the places so that
each judge named one commissioner in rotation
by the same plan that they would have selected
three spoclal masters or referees. The composi
tion of the commission, however, was open to
lens objection than the character of their work,
nothing they did being accepted as final, and
nearly every case of importance going to a re
hearing, either before another branch of the
commission or before the Judges themselves.
The hodgepodge of reversals, contradictions and
un reconcilable opinions that put the Nebraska
supreme court reports further below par than
ever, covers the supreme court commission.
The law's delays, due to accumulation of
supreme court cases, is a serious and intoler
able evil that calls for remedy. Dut we cannot
persuade ourselves that the re-establish merit of
the supreme court commission Is the onlr rem
edy, or the best remedy, or that It would be a
permanent remedy, especially when there are
other ways to deal with this situation ways
that have proved eminently successful In other
states that have no larger supreme court than
ours.
Consistent in One Place.
President Wilson may not act consistently
with all that Woodrow Wilson, the author, or
Dr. Wilson, the university executive, taught con
cerning government, but in the matter of the
president's power of appointment there seems
to be perfect harmony. Said Mr. Wilson In
"The State," written in 1889:
The constitution vesta in the president tha power
of appointment, subject to no limitation except tho
possible advice and consent of the senate. Any act
which assumea to prescribe tha manner in which the
president shall make his choice of public servants
must, therefore, be merely advisory; tha president
may accept Its directions or not as he pleases, Tho
only force that can hold htm to tha observance of Its
principle ia the force of public opinion.
Certain senators, among them Reed and
8tone of Missouri, O'Oorman of New York, even
Martlne of New Jersey, if not our own demo
cratic senator from Nebraska, are doubtless
ready to agree that here is one place in which
President Wilson Is keeping the faith of Author
Wilson to the rery dot. It may be one of the
fortuitous circumstances In the course of demo
cratic administrations for the president to fall
out with the senate over patronage, but even so,
the fsct remains that President Wilson Is con
sistent on this point, at least, with the stern
literalism of a good Scotch-Irish Presbyterian.
A Vanishing Bribe.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe railroad
has. forbidden employes of his road receiving
Christmas presents from equipment supply
houses, issuing the ultimatum in the following
letter:
Most Individ uala and companies dealing in railroad
supplies have given up tha practice of sending Christ
mas presents to railroad employes and officials.
However, to a certain extent the practice was in
evidence last year. I have always been opposed to
this practice, have discouraged It, and am alad that
It la decreasing. I want Santa Fe men to take such
action as seems proper to eliminate It entirely. I
appreciate that many of the presents given are tokens
of friendship extending over many years; nevertheless,
the practice Is bad, and certainly so where the presents
have any value. The high atandlng enjoyed by Santa
Fe men makea it all the more desirable that the
practice cease.
As President Ripley says, this graft-breed
ing custom Is gradually disappearing. It is
one of the many vanishing forms of polite brib
ery that once figured largely in the "old order"
of railroad management. Of course, It seems
quite harmless for a friend who happens to bo
the purchasing agent of a railroad to receive
and accept a nice Christmas present from a
friend who is connected with an equipment sup
ply house. It la just a friendly token, and yet
how natural Its pressure on the purchasing
agent to stretch a point In favor of this present'
giving friend when the time come to reciprocate.
President Ripley puts It very tactfully when
be says that the high-standing of the railroad
men makes It all the more desirable that the
questionable practice cease. Surely, the old
order changeth, and as our humorist friend puts
It, "Tenipus does fugit."
JTepotiim.
Although it failed of enactment, a bill sug
gested by The Dee, and sponsored by Represen
tative Smith, in the last session of our Nebraska
legislature, aiming to do away with nepotism in
public office, struck a popular chord by striking
a flagrant abuse. Because a tnin Is elected to
office, it does not follow that the people com
missioned him to saddle upon the payroll his
brother, sister, wife, son or daughter, although
that seems to be the way many publio officers
have construed it. The fact that a man or
woman has a relationship connection with some
one la the public service, should not be a bar to
competitive positions awarded for merit, but
neither should It be an assurance of special
favor In preferment and promotion. For obvious
reasons, "public office is a family snap" is Just
as odious as "public office Is a private snap."
The anti-nepotism bill ahould be brought out
again In the coming legislature, and written on
the atatute books.
Assuming control of the Fifth district pa
tronage as congressman-elect, ex-Governor
Shallenberger finds himself in the awkward
predicament of having endorsed certain post
office applications still pending. Writing letters
asking some one else to appoint a man. however,
la decidedly different from taking the responal
blllty of appointing him yourself.
While It takes tha severest tests of the ele
ments to produce the old oak, king of the for
ests, it also requires a continuation of vigorous
winds and storms to maintain its monarchy.
Strong characters are kept strong very often
only by the severest trials and tents of life.
The Mysterious Dumdum
The national arsenals do not make dumdum bul
lets. They do not have to. Any soldier can 'dum
dum" his own bullets, and many of them do so. Hence
very largely, the r harcps and counted haisrrs that "r
have heard during the preannt war. This statement
la quoted by the Utetary Olircat from sn article con
tributed to the Technical World Magazine by a writer
sinning hlmeelf "A. V.," who hides behind these
Inltlnlx. we are told In an editorial note, the per
sonality of "an American who has devoted many
years to the study of ballistics and military organi
zation." Ills conclusions are that mapy wounds At
tributed to dumdums are due to ordinary bullets
striking stdewlM) or "keyhollng." and that such real
dumdums as there are are made by the combatants
themselves, on both sides.
"Every jacketed rifle-bullet," he writes, "ever de
signed Is potentially a dumdum bullet Every Jacketed
bullet may become one of the dumdum variety either
by reason of nature's forces working on It or by
the delKn of the man who dispatched It.
"And this much more Is true: There never has been
any army Oerman, French, Belgian, English, Aus
trian, Russian. Servian. Japanese, Boer or American
that has not used Jacketed bullets that deliberately
were made to dumdum.
"Permit me to make a momentary digression. I
want to speak of the arrant nonsense so often printed
In newspapers and msgazine about 'steel-Jacketed'
bullets. There Is no such thing. The modern small
arms bullet consists of a core of lead and tin compo
sition, surrounded by a Jacket of cupronlckel or cupro
alno alloy. Were pure ateel Jacketing to be uscl
they would rip the lands right out of a rifle barrel.
"The cupronlckel or cuproilno alloy jacket Is Just
soft enough to take the rining. And yet it Is so hard
It haa to be made so for almost obvloiui reasons that
after a hundred or so rounds have been fired there !s
barrel erosion not attributable only to the high-pressure,
slow-burning powder used. This erosion Increases
In battle, because on tho firing line a soldier haa few
opportunities to clean his rlflo often enough.
"The modern Jacketed bullet, whether it Is of the
round-nose or pointed-nose type, swings beautifully
true through Ita trajectory up to a certain (perhaps,
I should say uncertain) point After that It begins
to keyhole.
"Instead of continuing on Ita long axis alone
through rotary motion given it by rifling It la this
rotation which keep the bullet on Ita course the base
of the bullet swings In a circle larger than Its own
circumference. When it does this the missile goes
through the air with much the movement of a
spinning top after It has been free a minute or two
of the rotation-giving cord. This exaggerated rota
tion of the base Is called keyhollng.
"Keyholtng may be due to one of many causes; It
may result from an Imperfection In the bullet itsolf
(I. ., In shape, balance, weight in ratio to the pow
der charge, etc.), from erosion or rust in the rlflo
barrel, from atmospheric conditions, from decreasing
velocity, etc. There Is no way to gauge It But tha
very fact that it la keyhollng makea a bullet a splendid
Instrument to stop, abruptly and permanently, any
living thing It hits.
"And If a pointed bullet Is not keyhollng from the
causes enumerated above It Is very likely to keyhole
the minute it hits anything that provides real resist
ance to Its easy penetration and continued flight
such as a belt buckle or a bone. There are Instances,
even, where the bullet commenced to keyhole when
It entered the soft flesh, but In the main such In
stances occurred after the bullet had lost much of its
velocity.
"This keyhollng of a bullet upon contact occurs
because the point Is checked, albeit for only an In
finitesimal fraction of a second, before the base of
the bullet la checked. For, with the point engaged and
checked the base starts to catch up with the point
"What happens next dependa upon how fast the
bullet was traveling when It hit. If It still retains con
siderable velocity (or rather, energy), the bullet will
spiral Its way tn fairly clean fashion through the
object hit But If It is moving with greatly Impaired
velocity due to head wind or long flight or soma
similar cause the keyhollng bullet is very likely to
Imbed ita point tn a bone and then, unable cleanly to
penetrate the bone, use Ita remaining energy to puah
the whole bone ahead of it
"In other words, enough energy haa been lost to
prevent clean penetration, but sufficient haa been
retained to puah Impedimenta to its continued flight
out of Ua path. The sharper the point of the bullet,
tho more likely It ia to keyhole upon Impact. This la
'stopping power' with a vengeance. The Oerman bul
let la sharp pointed. The United States bullet is tho
aharpest pointed of all.
"This keyhollng naturally causes terrible wounds,
which, in turn, bring forth the charge that dumdum
(or explosive) bullets have been used."
That much of the talk about dumdum bullets is
the result of thla "keyhollng" action of the ordinary
projectile la the wrlter'a belief. There is, however, he
tells us. another aide of the picture: the deliberate
dumdumtng of the bullets by the men In the ranks.
The arsenals, ha assures us, do not have to turn out
dumdum bullets. Any soldier desiring to accomplish
the result can make the most "civilised" bullet a
dumdum by using his knife or bayonet to cut the
jacket at the point, so that when the missile strikes
the lead core will pour through. And Americana who
are horrified at tha reports of such "uncivilised"
doings In Europe may pause when they read that our
own army has not been entirely stainless in this par
ticular. Says this military expert:
''Aa a matter of fact thla was done so often la
tha Philippines that tha commanding officer of every
company examined every individual cartridge on
every Individual soldier at morning Inspection, to see
that none had been tampered with. And a few hours
later you could aee many an enlisted man patiently
'sandpapering his cartridges so that the jacket point
would be worn to aurh thinnesa as would effect
'mushroomlas upon Impact.
"Prof. Moltendorf, a Geimaa who haa not lost nla
head and who thinks that tha soldiers of tha coun
tries at war with his own are ethically the equals of
his .countrymen, said: 'The enforcement In war ef
International law or Hague covenants depends. In
the last resort, upon tba moral sense of the Individual
soldier.' "
When we have reached this point in the exposition,
observes the Uterary Digest. It Is not difficult to
see that a soldier In the trenches who sees an enemy
rushing at him and who knows from experience .hat
a clean bullet hole will not stop him. Is very apt to
attach more Importance to saving his own skin than
to obeying the behests of The Hague convention.
People and Events
An order from abroad for J.M aleda puts an
Indiana factory la the double-shift class. From slay
ing to sleighing is a matter of a few letters.
Measured by the money making possibilities of
fortune telling aa revealed in Chicago, Barnum's
birthrate percentage ef easy marks Is entitled to
a raise.
California sends out a warning that nobody should
go to the coast looking for work. There Isn't enough
work to go around. But If you bring a bunch of
money glad hands will welcome you at every station.
After a Joy ride and a dinner, three Boston
women. "Just for fun," went on a shoplifting ex
pedition and wound up in Jail with IM worth of
atolen goods in their possession. There was precious
little fua at the finish.
George V. Laneressen of Reading. Pa., won the
highest scholarship standing ever made by any stu
dent la the Pcnasylvanla State college. He ia a mem
ber of the class of KU and holds the exceptional
record at obtaining an average of M.I for his three
years' work.
A divorced wife tn Brooklyn, whose avoirdupois
haa Increased to 22 pounds, has good reasons for
asking for an Increase In her alimony allowance.
The strain on ahociealaer alone deserve an extra tip.
One thousand and ton Harvard students working
their way through college took In I117.JC In the last
college year. In the most effective way these stu
dents axe learning the real value of money,
fierman-tCater Mere.
OMAHA. Iec. 2l-To the Kdltor of The
I'te: In answer to the Frttlsh sym
pathiser and Oerman-oater J. F. Wey.
bright from Scott's Muff, I must say he
Is very reasonable, for asking only llnft.
.() from the t'nlted States for the re
lief of the Itelgiana. If the gentleman
would look he rptild see who brought
them Into that mesa and for that reason
he should ask our secretary, Mr. W. 3.
llryan, for the loan of the I'nited States
army and nav to help poor Kngland tf
crush Germany, because Its Hindus. Japs,
Sikh and negroe will not help It very
much. They are like the proud cruiser
Crey, that says: "Ich ftesse sic"
sber nlcht. F. C. H.
4 Chapter oa the War.
BEATRICE. Neb.. Dec. 24. To the Kd
ltor of The Bee: To write of a subject
where the scene Is laid thousands of
miles away requires one to use his Imag
inative powers aa resources to draw from.
The actual results of the War picture as
portrayed In the daily papers furnish the
text about the war In the far east and
Its magnitude.
That the results In awful destruction
and destitution left In Its wake has
struck a rerponslve chord In the hearts
of "our own free Amertoa" Is also evident
All over tho land do we find shipments
of tons of food, breadstuffs and clothing
for those whoso homes have been devas
tated by the cold and cruel hand of a
"causeless war" by what was once rec
ognised as civilised nations.
Commendable Indeed Is this spirit of
our folks to thus remember the poor and
needy ones In darkest hours. The Christ
mas ship waa Indeed a happy thought.
But let us stop and consider what we are
contributing to. One of the requirements
of war la that the best young men must
be sent to the front In battle array with
Instructions to die for the country, If
need be. Today the odor of tha beat
blood of the land of foreign countries
stlnka to heaven, and why? In the
United States we find hearts bleeding In
sympathy for conditions set forth above.
Whore social conditions and sharp com
petition Ls imposing a new tax oa the
people. There la an array of unemployed
men with families that need assistance.
We have our giants of finance with mul
tiplied millions, while others with less
power In earning capacity In a struggle
for existence tn a reasonable degree.
Are not we as a nation contributing to
the delinquencies of nations whose spirit
Is out of harmony with the teachings of
Him who once came Into the world and
said, "Peace on earth and good will
toward men?" Let ua ever remember and
never forget charity should begin at
home, and let warring nations wash their
hands of their o-vn blood and beat their
awords Into plowshares and learn to war
no more. T. J. HILDEBRAND.
cut off arms and limbs, hands and fin-
geri because the poor natives failed to
produce the required amount of rtihber to
aatlsfy their Belgium masters. "lie who
Uvea by the sword shall die by the
sword." And while we are helping the
i starving Btlgitirns we must remcniler
that tn help Belgium Is to help Kngland.
Belgium Is England's goat. It a,-a Its
alliance with Kngland that forcd it to
stand up nd be annihillated and as long
as there is a hnf of bread or a dollar
t- buy one with In Knclnnd, Belgium is
entitled to eat.
In view of these facta I am at a loss to
understand how Mr Woybright figures
that Dei many should be forced to later
reimburse any nation bow helping the
Belgiums. In fact, he doesn't seem to
realitre that the prcs-nt outrageous
slaughter 'n Knrope Is England's own
making- tnwtcad of Germany, and that Its
anil Hlon to become mlNtress of the seas
and to ally Itself with Japs. Hindus, etc.,
ti accomplish this end and thus make It
nuihter of the wholo world should prove
Its own downfall. OKOltGE OOWIX.
Kapertlna the Impossible.
KANSAS CITT. Dec. 24-To the Editor
of The Bee: Why, how could any one
expect the democratic party to run this
great government when it was all the
grand old republican party could do to
run It? C. S. HAMMOND.
' nounce just who thev expect the t'nlted
Slat's will I ave to whip snd how big an
armv will be needed to do the Job?
Dells
To Help. PI It pi wo Jvvealle
qsjents.
MANILA. P. I., Nov. li. To the Edl
tor of Tho Bee: The Juvenile Protective
association' of the Philippine ialanda waa
organised recently in the city of Manila
for the purpose of bettering the human
conditions of Filipino Juvenile delinquenta
and establishing a model, up-to-date
reformatory along the lines of the cottage-system.
Many distinguished and representative
American and Filipino residents In the
Islands have Joined the movement Gov
ernor General Francis Burton Harrison
and Vice-Governor Henderson E. Martin
are in sympathy with the movement
The Juvenile Protective association
stands for the following activities la child
welfare:
J- Visiting nurses to the home of Juve
nile delinquents.
1 Children's libraries.
3. A juvenile court
4. Probation officers.
5. Medical inspection and medical aid
for juveniles.
. An Insular reformatory,
7. Vocational training of Juveniles.
a The placing out aystem for Juveniles.
The association la now In need of funds
to carry out this constructive program.
Funds are needed Immediately for the
following activities:
1. For supplies, equipment and for
building for children's library, IS.0O0.
2. For building and equipment of Insu
lar juvenile reformatory. fl"D.000.
I might say that there ia no juvenile
court. Insular reformatory or children's
library In the Philippine Islands.
All these activities are new features 1n
Filipino life.
All persona desiring to help along such
a worthy cause, ahould send their sub
scriptions to the undersigned.
W. F. LA POINTS,
President of the Juvenile Protect fre as
sociation of the Philippine Islands. Ma
nila, P. X.
Bl1sa. Ges-saawy aad the V. S.
LITCHFIELD. Neb., Dec M.-T the
Editor of The Bee: Will you kindly let
me answer Mr. Weybrlght'a question,
that instead of the Belgium relief fund
why not ask Germany to feed the people
that they have robbed? Tho sympathies
of the American people are gradually
turning to the German cause.
Why Americans should feel friendly
toward England Is beyond my compre
hension. The menace to American In
terests Ilea In England'a alliance with
Japan and now that Japan demands to
be taken hi to the "triple entente" the
menace assumea gigantic proportions.
Would Eaglard hesitate to join with
Japan to crush us should we build up a
competitive merchant marine? Does Sag
land atop at anything to gain Ita greed
desires? Haa England not allied Itself
with Japa, Hindus, Indiana and the scum
of the earth In order to destroy cos of
tha most wonderful nations In the world.
Germany? England's policy Is one of
oppression. Remember the winter of
Valley Forge If you wilL Recall tha
Boer struggle for freedom. Recall Eng
land'a atrocities la Peru. Recall ita his- 1
tory in Ondia. England's cry to beware
of Germau "militarism" ia like the purs
anatcher'a cry of "atop thief" la ordor
to detract attention from himself. Eng
land's navyism Is the real menace to
liberty and must be destroyed before we
can have universal peace. What baa
America to fear from Oerman militarism.
If there be such a thing. The few Eas
llsh sympathisers in America are mostly
British subject. They tire you out talk
ing about "Hold Hlngland" and apeing
the mooocled lords. They would rather
be a British subject than a cttiaen of
America, "where every maa la a sov
ereign, but where no on dare to wear a
crown." On os an Englishman, always
an Englishmen. The German. Russian.
Swede. Austrian and Dane beoom good
American ettlsena. The Stars and Btrlpee
are good enough for them to fight for and
they are ready to dia for the country of
their adoption aa proved at Vera Crua.
Poor bleeding aad starving Belgluaa.
Ita poopl bumelcaa, rent with strife and
drenched la blood. And yet It la but fair
to remember how Belgium maimed Co ago.
Iaforaaatloa Wanted.
St Louis Republic.
In order to give the public a fair start
hi thinking about the propaganda for a
big army, will the big army men an-
ARITHMETIC
Irip Alexander in Plltsourgh Dispatch.
The ashman worked away with vlni.
Ills terms are far from small.
Before a man can talk to lilm
lies got to hire a haul.
Said I, "Well, here a a great to-do!
I've ashes fine to sell,
And I must she them all to you
And give you cash as well!"
H shnw-ed me all his teeth and laughed
A laugh to raise the roof:
And flashed an answer free from craft:
"Iat sholy am de truf!"
""At fifteen cents a barrel flat
Ten barrels to the load.
Each nlifht tls mighty riches that
lou tote to your abode."
Said he, "Well' sah. It's dish jere way!
All business am a risk.
Ah mos'ly makes one load a dav
Excusln' when trade's brisk.
"Ah pays a quartah at de dump.
An' dat don' make me holler;
But when dem prices takes a Jump
It done cost half a dollar.
"An dat oi' ornery hosa o' mine
Is needin' onta an' ha)-.
Ah guess his I'vln- aln' too fine
At sixty cents a day."
"Dump charges, stabling, feed." I said,
"Will eat up cash like sin.
And wear and tear! Say. I'nrle Ned,
Just where do you come In?"
The look he flashed was bright and quick;
His voice was soft, rsressln':
"Ah's right smart at arithmetic.
But dat sho has me guessln'!''
Everybody
From Every Point of View
It is sound housekeeping judgment to ua
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EVAPORAT ED
kiiieldk:
Sterilized Unsrweetened
It u economical-It it conrenient It is tanitary It ;s rich
It is economical because you can use every drop
and have every drop carry proper food value. It
keeps' sweet for days after opening.
It is convenient because you can always have a
fresh supply on hand ready for any emergency. You
can use it for every purpose for which you have
been using bottle milk.
It i sanitary because it's perfectly sterilized with no danger of con
tamination as in the bottling, handling and delivering of bottle milk.
It U rich because it is tha richest milk from the best dairying
regions wkh only most of tha water taken out and with nothing
added. Cottage Milk never varies from its rich creamy quality.
Cottage) Milk is delivered direct from our Condenseriei to your
grocer, so it reaches you always fresh.
At all good dealers In two tiztt, 5 and 10c,
Or puone Culleu Brokerage Company, Douglas 4113.
M5 Brandeis Theater Building, Omaha.
AMERICAN MILK COMPANY, CHICAGO
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Fast trains on convenient schedules
arrive Englewood Union Station
(63rd St.) and La Salle Station most
convenient locations in Chicago
connecting with limited trains for
all Eastern territory. The
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Leaves 6:08 p. m. dairy. Hare dinner on the train arrive
La Salle Station, Chicago in the heart of the business district
ready for the day no time lost
. ,eP'n cir for Tri-Cities may be occupied untfl
7:00 a.m.
Other Solid Through Trains Daily
"Why MoemUfaa Linked" . . 1:SA a. an'
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