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THH JIHi;: OMAHA, Tl'HSDAV. FKBUUAKY 11)15. THE OMAHA DAILY DEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATKR. VICTOR KOSEWATEK, EDITOR. The Hee Publishing Company. Proprietor. JtER FIMLDIXQ. FARKAM AND FKVKSTEENTH. Kntered at Omaha poMofflee aa second-class matter. 7EPMS OF St'BSCFlPTION. By carrier Bjr mail nf month. ter year. M ' e 4N c s no 0 '4.00 ac 2 j.ailr and andav 1'nlly without Sunday... lenlng end Sundav V.venlng without Sunday, Sunday Hee only nly nail t wo Send notice of rhar.se of address or complaints or Irregularity In delivery to Omaha. Bee, Circulation Department. nF.MITTANCE. Remit v draft, express or postal order. Onl icni kiimm received in payment of ami count. I'ereonal rherka, except on Omaha and eastern exchsnge. not accented. i ii 1 1 i OFFICES. Omaha-The Wee Building. 8011th Omaha N street. Council Hluffs 14 North Main street Lincoln-: Little Building. Chicago ?1 Hearst Holloing. New York-Uonni UK 2S Fifth avenue. Ft lioule--MS New Hank of Commence. Washington 72S Fourteenth St.. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to newa and edU torlal matter to Omaha Hee, Tentorial Department. JANUAKY CIIlCX'IiATIOX. 53,714 Btate of Nebraska. County of Douglas, aa. Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The Hea Publishing company. bIng duly morn, aaya that tha average circulation for tha month of January, 1916. waa M.741. DWI1IIT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In mv presence and aworn to before nn, thla 2d day of February, 1S1R. KOHEKT HUNTER. Notary Public. Subscribers tearing the city temporarily ahould bare The Dee mailed to tbam. .Ad. dreaa will be changed aa often aa requested. February It c ' "rrr 1 - Thought for tha Day 5cf so? by Sigmund Londtbtrg Follow thj ttar throvgi Lift' dark thtdovtxd hollow Follow that yltam tho never to fahu or far With all iht might of thy soul linew foliate Thy liar! ICobtri Haven bchauffltr. With a pure measure lumber bill, a pure Janitors' bill, and a pure sports' bill on the way, only one essential Is lacking from Nebraska'! Ilagon of pure Joy a pure politicians' bill. . jrg It may be gathered from the reams of testi mony in the case that Minister Sullivan of San Domingo Is a fine type of the "deserving demo crat" Mr. Bryan sketched In his political love letter. Russia la the latest nation pushed Into the publicity spotlight as "a champion of liberty." Spectators at a safe distance are equally open minded on the claim that Turkey Is the real 'land of the free." Repealing the "Oregon plan' for electing United States senators Is not likely. to affect the main ifteue. The people are now charged with responsibility for. selecting ; members- of the United Slates senate. - Justification for longer hours of voting' is readily found in the long ballots.. But while catering to the convenience of th voter,, some consideration should be given the candidate Whose agony Is prolonged. - Cheer up! The country Is saved again. Xr torney General Gregory has forcibly evicted "Nolle Contendere" from the precincts of the mighty. Those who are best acquainted with N. C. vouch for his offensive partisanship, and his going feathers the wings of hope of soma "de serving democrat." Tbe Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne ex presses the belief that God Is on the side of the Teuton armies. The cardinal archbishops of Mallnes and Paris are equally certain that the Almighty is on the side or the allies. Pope Benedict has a more difficult task than Presi dent Wilson In maintaining neutrality among his subordinates. Pool's Mistaken Zeal. In an ecstasy of official energy, the newly Installed secretary of state, aided and abetted by the equally newly-installed, and therefore also excessively realous, attorney general of the state of Nebraska, has been whooping It up In tbe Interests of reform and economy ever since he took his office. His last broadside was di rected against the farmers' mutual insurance companies of tbe state when he declared "about seventy Insurance companies were doing business without being incorporated, and were therefore working In defiance of law, and liable to prose cution." , If Mr. Pool or Mr. Reed had troubled them selves to Inquire a little further, they would have discovered that the farmers' mutual Insurance companies, organized under the law of Nebraska, are not liable to prosecution because they fall to Incorporate as regular stork companies. These organizations being purely mutual, and not op erated for profit In any sense of the word, with limited territory and limited liabilities, are not subject to the provisions of the general Insur ance law. They all make reports on business done, and their transactions are always open to proper Inquiry. Their service Is undisputed, and their right to operate has never been seriously challenged. Secretary Pool may be able to find plenty of places for the application of his capacity as a reformer, but he should be warned in advance that proceedings against the farmers' mutual in surance companies may render him liable to sus picion of being concerned la the welfare of the old-line companies, that are already so well en trenched in the state house. It The President and the Partisans. A complaint is heard from Washington that the president's shipping bill has been defeated through partisan activity. It Is Insinuated that the failure of this measure to go through the senate as smoothly as It did through the house is to be charged to the active opposition of the republicans in the senate to the program laid own by Mr. Wilson and bis advisers. Let us examine the facts a little more closely, will be admitted that partisanship did enter to a very large extent into the coilderatlon of the shipping bill. At the very outset It was In troduced as a partisan measure; the partisan support of the president was so thoroughly de veloped that he positively refuted to permit even the consideration of an amendment to his pet project. It was made a party measure by tbe democratic caucus, which organisation adopted the president's suggestion and positively declined to allow any change to be made In tbe bill for any purpose whatever. This record ought to fairly establish the partisan nature of the ship ping bill. When It finally failed in the senate, It was because seven democrats broke away from the party organization, and refused to give their votes to the measure. The most severe criti cisms of the administration's course In this con nection uttered on the floor of the senate, dur ing the prolonged debate on this bill, were ut tered by democrats. If the shipping bill was de feated by reason of partisan activity, that ac tivity must be plainly charged to the democrats themselves, and the president must take his full hare of the responsibility. Under the stress of a depressed cotton mar ket the legislature of South Carolina last fall passed a law prohibiting farmers from planting more than one-third as much cotton this year as ne punted tbe year before. One branch of the present legislature voted, four to one, to repeal the law. The Incident turns a spotlight on tne absurdities of freak legislation. No general election Is contemplated in Great Britain this year, although the life ot the present parliament expires by limitation. Aa emergency amendment to the parliament act probably will bridge the political situation. British strength and energy are so thoroughly occupied by army and navy campaigns that a political campaign In ar iime is regarded as a waste of precious time and talent. SCO Regulation, Not Embargo, Needed. Again requests are be'ng mad for an em bargo on the shipment of wheat and other food stuffs from the United States. The question ot the price of food is becoming serious, and is ot more importance at this juncture than the pro posed embargo on arms.' While the rise in the price of wheat and other breadstuffs is in some measure due to the unusual demand from Europe, a great deal more of It must be charged to the operations of American gamblers In grain. The people of Europe need our surplus grain. They must be fed, even If we are compelled to provide for other nations as we have provided for the starving people of Belgium. This condi tion we cannot escape. An embargo on wheat would not solve tbe question, nor Is it likely that one will ba laid. What might be done would be the application of some proper means for con trol of speculation In food supplies. Anarchy in Mexico at High Tide. Carransa's demand to the nationa that he be recognized as the one supreme head in Mexican affairs marks the swelling tide of anarchy In that nnhappy country, and will serve to bring conditions a little more clearly before the world. The announcement from Mexico that the minis ters of such countries as are still represented there have been given Instruction by their home governments to be guided by their own Judg ment, means that very shortly Mexico will be .Without official standing anywhere. The Span ish note, reported from London, which asks that tha powers take some action to eatab- nsn responsible government in Mexico, was anticipated. This matter will sooner or later ba brought to th attention of the United States, and the policy of "watchful watting" will then be subjected to a wy severe strain. Prevailing conditions tn Mexico cannot be tolerated much longer by the civilized world. The day Is coming closer when some well-established government will be forced to assist the Mexicans In working out their destiny. Pointers on State Politics Oakland Independent: The present leglelatu.-e wanta to make a record for economy, which la vciy commendable. But the danger Ilea In being- niggardly where a small expense might bring good returns. The Item of printing, for Inntance. Tha dally r-epeTS have correspondents on the ground and they send their papera the titles of bill Introduced. In Borne esses they go Into some little detail and explanation. Tho public knows practically nothing of the hundreds of bills Introduced and will know nothing more until they are enacted Into laws. Then If the lawa are half- baked, aa they so often are. .nothing can be done until another aaaembly undoes the work of the prevloua one. It would look like good sne to have enough copies printed to send to all who are vitally Interested. Fremont Tribune: The new commlsMoiier of labor appointed by Governor Morehead la not unknown In Fremont. He at one time had charge of a strike here, In whlt:h he resorted to disreputable tactics that prac tically ostracised him. The governor waa evidently hard preaaed for material. The appointment ot chief Justice, which has been bo vigorously criticised, waa an Inspiration compared to-, this one. Plattamouth Journal: The crltlca don't seem to bother Governor Morehead In the least In the perform ance of hla duties. And every day denotes more fully that no mistake waa made by hla friends tn re-electing him. Oovernor Morehead has proven an executive of great ability, and by the time hla preaent term expires there will be a universal call for the noble governor 'to go op higher," for he Is deserving. Ho la todny the most popular democrat In Nebraska, and when the proper time arrives his frienda will not he alow In demanding hla promotion to a higher position, and in such a tone of voice that means auccess. Orand Inland Independent: Steps are being taken to keep Railway Commlaatoner Hall off the floor of the house and senate. This erratic commissioner haa a few Ideas which he wanta enacted tnto law. One of them ia that he should have a co-guardlanahlp over municipal ownership and should not permit com munities otherwise Inclined to do so, to put In plants If private capital already has a plant established, re gardless of the character of th service that may be rendered. Ordinarily the cltlsena of each community are amply able to govern themsclvee and all attempts at legislation of thla kind ought to go Into the furnace without ceremony. Columbus Journal: Four of the saloons In Colum bus closed their doors laat Tueaday and put up elgna, "Closed, Election Day." The saloons keeping open probably benefited by the timidity of their competitors. The fact waa that Tuesday was not an election day according to law, and the saloona that did bualneaa violated no law. If It were poaalble to done the saloons by one man declaring an election on a certain date, prohibition and liquor laws would be useless. Those desiring to close saloons could arrange for an "election" of some kind every day, as any citizen has an equal right to call an election. If they can find suffi cient excuse for so doing. Fremont Herald: B. E. Marty waa chosen for the Columbus poetmastershlp at an election held lout Tuesday.. It is asserted that Mr. Marty waa never enough affiliated with democracy to permit of his neighbors recognizing him as belonging to that party, and the fear expressed previous to the election that the republican vote would land him In the place has been fully verified. Mr. Marty Is a native of Switzer land, and baa been running a meat market at Colum bus for a number of years. Silver Creek Rand: Representative Osterman has Introduced a bill In the legislature to levy one-fourth mill on the taxable value of the property In the state to pay hall losses. Band thinks that Osterman haa got In wrong. While he was at It he should have Included losses by lightning, hog cholera and for expenses of candidates defeated for office. Edgar Howard In Columbua Telegram: And now I have had a chance to study Tan Stephens' postofflce primary at close range. It did in Columbua one of the acts it has performed In every other place where It has been tried. It selected for postmaster an ex cellent man, but one who haa never been known aa a working democrat All the other candidates had al ways been active In party affairs. Mr. Marty, the suo eessful candidate, had never participated In the party oounolts, although his friends claim that he has been a consistent democrat for many years. It was a clean victory for Mr. Varty, "and "T congratulate him heartily, although my own vote waa cast for another candidate. X ah all be hoping that his career aa post master may ba mutually pleasant to himself and the patrons of the office. He Is qualified by education and by oharaoter to give the public good service, and I predict that he will do so. But as to the Stephens postofflce election plan, I Insist now, as I did in the beginning, that the plan places a penalty upon por ltUoal activity, and premium upon political aloth. As an engine of d em oc ratio harmony It Jumpa the track at every telegraph pole. A a producer of republican smiles, It Is a combination of Ice cream and cherry plo. Aimed at Omaha A special school board meeting decided to So aheail with construction of a school building at Twenty ngtitn and ernani at a cost of fcO, and made in iu errvi aunuar outming at a eoat nut to rxc-e-d lll.ous al the corner of Urbteenth end Cas teller. Max J. Baebr aad.Mlaa Maria A. gemlaek ere ui.itetl tn tnarrtage by Judge Wtla. ine a. m is repairing and enlarging ita in. Iia&Miiger dupot. A new watting room and accommo dation for tnunigranU have beaa adde and new weals placed la every room. At tbe . curtier of Ntntb, and Leavenworth the Kchllts brewtrry depot nd warehouse are fast nearlng completion which will be a distribution point for this renter of the weal. W. It bulllns. formerly of Omaha, now of CulUi rulhe. Mo., la In the city. Marshal Kills Uirbower. bringing his reappoint nifiit conuiitiMluD, naa returned from Washington, looking hale and hearty. Aanidtant Ovnera! Manager Holdrege and Aaalstant ritljtht Aftrnt .-Mill 1 h are in IJnooln on some mys trrlDiia irluiun. Mr. Mrs. Ltaolei gullivea of 1IU "hiceg trerl are distressed over the daalk of llielr son. -vt- J. Kulllran, a pronilaiag young men uf it rra Bantam siTappera supply a diverting side show from the tussle ot the heavyweights In the main tent. Portugal follows Afghanistan Into the ring, leaving the honors of a neutral Euro pean audience to Spain on the west, Holland on the north. Bulgaria on the east and Italy and Greece on the south. With tha exception of Spain and Bulgaria,' these neutrals are dressed for the killing tournament and only await the cue. Douglas eoanty farm land at $176 an acre Is a moderate price, considering tha selling price of farm products. While the latter will not con tinue 'at the war level when peace eomea, there la no doubt that tha returns from Intelligent cultivation of tha soil will eontlnae enhancing the valua of productive farm land and hold it aa the safest of Investments. Japan's demands upon China, as outlined In preae dispatches, leaves so little for President Tuan ghlh Kai to do that be might aa well take a pension and vote for annexation. The situa tion suggeets an attempted reversal of the scrip tural miracle a Jonsb swallowing a whale. ' Albion News: Mayor Dablman la a candidate for re-election, and Uislcts on making prohibition the Issue. It's needless to say on which aide he cast bis lot in Omaha. Hastings Tribune: That Omaha man who enteral school at the age of 28 because be could not find work to do is moving along the right road to aucceas. And one thing la certain, when he doea get a Job there won't be any question about his making good. Kearney Hub: Tbe Omaha Bee makes a telling point against the hoary folly of having the Nebraska legislature engaged at every session In the making and unmaking of charters for the city of Oma.hu. especially since the adoption of the constitutional amendment which enables the people of Omaha to frame their own charter. Beatrice Express: Hilly Sunday has sent word to Omaha that he is going to get Jim Duhlman tnto the fold when he cornea to Omaha. Now it la up to Jim te attand the Sunday meetings and give Billy a chance, or atay away and tacitly admit that the baae ball evangelist has htm on the run and that If he stops long enough to listen to the still, small voice, he wUI fall a vtottm to Sunday's eloquence. Wonder what would happen to Omaha If Jim tied up with Bill? Dlalr Tribune: Two girls. IS and 14 years, respec tively, were allow to attend a public dance In Omaha, The children were unescorted and when the morning dawned the loving (?) parents reported to the police that the children were missing. After a search of sev eral days the tots were found la the home of an elderly degenerate, who waa placed under arreat What the Omaha police ahould do is to arrest the parents of thesa unfortunate girls and have "his honor" hand them a Jolt of Justice that will make other careleea parents sit up and take notice. We are not "buttln In" on the Omaha police affairs, but It appears that tn the Instance we have mentioned policewoman would have been a handy thing to have around the house and would have saved two young girls from the mortification and disgrace thet will follow them to their graves. Ord Journal: Billy Sunday la coming to Omah !n May to hold a series of meetings ana the town Is divided against Itself In anticipation of his arrival. Moat of the preacher are attempting to pave the wny for a tremendous revival, but aoine of thutn. and there are conservatives In religion aa well aa In business. are opposed to clap-trap conversions. Rev. Mr. Sunday will prove almost as strong aa attraction to people out In the state as does the annaej Ak-8r-Bea festival, The newspapers all over the country are giving whole columns to Sunday's campaign and he le doubtless the moat advertised man In this oountry. Net even the strongest Omaha crltlca dans t say that hla visit there will result In failure. They know from the experi ence of many other dues that are larger and wickeder than Omaha that he wul snatch many brands from the burning and that many sentimental persona will fall to his methods of appeal. The fact that the municipal campaign Is coming on In the metropolis complies. tee matt era. Hume who claim to know aa positively that Bund ay's campaign of six wke iu Denver had largely to do with the stats of Colorado voting for prohibition at Tne fall election. It ia aen erally understood that the prohibition question will be submitted under the referendum at the next gen eral election tn Nebraska. Billy ISundey will have an influence and the result of his Msv meetings In omaha will be observed with kea Interest by pell, ticlsns ss eU as religionists. rs ev riaa for Taxation. KIXJRBNCE. Neb.. Ken. 12. To the Kdltor of The tlee: 1 see by the editorial columns that our senator, L J. yulnby, nl O. Vando C'owlcs t,f No -d .1- V . Ing quite a discussion on the single tax question. I was at one time quite en thused over single tax, but now take my ftand for a graduated tax, to be assessed on all property and discriminate against none, except to exempt a man who is worth l-es than TiflO, allowing him to give One day's labor on the road In payment for his tax. Mr. Qulriby assorts In his argument that this unearned Increment is what he Is after, and why Is not the purchaser of land entitled to this mutual Increment which In made by a supply and demand market, the same rs any other article should he sold for? Kor Instance, the war raised the price of wheat, which wasj in reality a larger demand for wheat, and consequently the price went up, and It la tho same way with everything, excepting where a monopoly controls the price on certain articles. But did our friend ever consider the fact that single tax would depreciate the price of land on account of taking away the speculator's demand. Now, say that It depreciates one-halt In value, which would be my estimate under the single tax system'. Then how are we going to get enough money In taxea to run the county, state and government If land values depreciate one-half In value? And why this tax discrimination when tho graduated tax system covers all mu tual Increment of every nature and kind without discrimination on the assessment of property, namely, assess all property. Find out what each Individual la worth. Have sales or offers recorded at actual value If neceasory. Bank books open for the aseessor and so forth. Commence ac tion upon the man worth $10,000 and scale It up each tr,000 more with a larger mill or per cent levy, by the county or stato under the graduated syttem. In this way society gets back rart of that mutual Increment without discrimination upon any certain kind of property, and It shoul ders the tax upon the man who can af ford to pay It. And on the man, with a few Instances excepted, who earned hi $10,0(10 without the help of others. Just Hnothcr word with regard to that (valuable lot that Mr. Qulnby speaks of under single tax. It depreciates In value. Mr. Qulnby may hesitate to acknowledge this, but the aum and aubotance of all single taxers Is cheaper land, so the peo ple con get more homes. Now, under the graduated system, if a man offera 1230,000 foi said lot. tha owner would he aasessod on that value, but It would not take away any value from the lot or no one should advocate a tax law to take value away from property that a supply and demand market has created. And T assert and believe under the ..-n, ite.1 svatem more tax can be levied and less chance of property decreasing In value and no Investor to do nisiuroea, as under the single tax, as he pays his tax upon what ho Is worth and not upon any particular property. No one la to blame on account of land going up, in fact, that IS nothing unusual. Just what we want so that graduated tax I speak of can clip their wings when tney are worth more than 110,000. The tenant class can still get cheap land in the west anu should not bo discouraged on the single tax law so their land will not advance as Mr. Qulnby thinks. The rural credit hill that we expect to hecome a law nt thla aesslon of our national congress wi 1 .... formula Question mi soive wits ivi.oov .- - - , more than single tat. Am 1 correct . The New South. HAWKINSVILLB. Ga., Keb, 8.-T0 the Kdltor of Tho Bee: Jt Btrlkes me that - 1. mivhi y Interested some 01 your rw i - lr knowing something or the conaiuou. In the cotton country as seen by a "northerner." For the last four months the writer has been in the "cotton coun try" and has come in contact in a Busi ness way with the cotton growers, both land owners and "croppers" (renters). If you will take a too at the map of Georgia you will note that the state has a network of railroads, as well as many good towns and large cities. As you cross and recross the Btate you begin to wonder what on earth Bupporta so many rail roads, and who bullda the cltlea. Outside of the city or village you seldom see a painted house; all you see along the track are little shacks. What Uttlo stock you see Is of very poor quality aa compared with our Nebraska and Iowa stock. But after you get down to the grass roots snd rub up against the tiller of the soli the mystery unravels. To commence with, Georgia was a pine forest, and, In fact, It Is still a pine forest with the good pines cut down and the poor "crop pers'" and "niggers" struggling for an existence among the stumps and stones. A "cropper" and a mule can "tend" about twenty acres of cotton, which on the average will produce about ten bales, of which the owner of the land gets one third. The "croppers" aa a rule are a year behind In money matters and mort gage their crops, either to the land own ers, the banks or the merchants for the necessities of life. They grow nothing but cotton hence have, to buy everything they eat and wear, and even feed for the mule. In addition to the above the "cropper" haa to buy expenatve fertllixer la order to grow a crop. Under normal conditions he can eke out a pretty fair existence. "Croppers" are about fifty fifty, white and black. On the lmger plantations where the "cropper" system la not used, they de pend on the negro for their help. A negro Is paid from 110 to 0 per month and furnished a shack, called cabin, to live In. After buying clothing and the necessities of life for himself and family the mtgro can apend the balance of bia salary (?) for "Kenesaw" (home distilled whisky). iOven with. the low price of cotton the land is paying the land ownera big re turns on their Investment, but Instead of adding to the comfort of their "croppers" snd to the beauty of the oountry by dot ting the fields with white houses and red barns, the money Is spent building cities. That there are better days In store fbr the south there can he no question. The whites are now slaves as well aa the blacks. Tbe one-crop (cotton) system la much to blame for the present condition. Ths war and low price of cotton la going to bring about a change, and any change will be fur the better. Land owner are beginning to realise that other crops will have te be grown, and that the atock ? the country will have to ba improved and added to. The press of the stale U doing splendid work la biasing the trail. The effects of the rural route and better schools are being felt, and ths younger generation will demand better things. There ia a something sbout the south (hat you cannot help but admire. Whether I'. Is most their courteous manners, their mild climate, their beautiful women or their slighting Hk "It." I cannot sav. hut there Is a something, "tha sho Is." A. K. KVIAi. molar's sermon Methods. OMAHA, Feb. l.-To the Editor of The Hee: A number of your readers would he gratified If you would reprint the ar ticle In the New York Times of January .11. showing one of the methods by which the 'so-calkd "e sncellst." Sunday, pro vide himself with material for his so called "sermons." Mr. Sunday's defense of his predatory practice Is simple hut enlightening. He explained to the interviewer that "nearly all of his sermons were written from material sent him from persons, many of whom he did not know." "1 get hun dreds of clippings during every campaign, and whenever 1 see anything that looks good I tuck' It away for reference. Kvery speaker does that. . Why, I've had a whole bunch cf fine sermon material and Illustrations come to me since we've been In Philadelphia." How easy! What a lesson In resource for his clericsl admirers, especially those w hose mental supply la not equal to the weekly demand! And so convincing, too. when you compare the text of, say hia Beaver Falls address fthe one cribbed from Ingersoll), with the usual profane rubbish of hi every-dny harranguea as different as light from darkness and In gersoll an atheist at that! Trobably the clever Mr. Sunday failed to realize how well known was the Irreligious gentle man's graceful writing, or he would not have "tucked awny" such a wholesale lot of It. The hulk of his address and that of Ingersoll were printed In columns, side by side, and were practically word for word identical. The wonder Is that such glaring Instances as this one are not more promptly and generally ex posed; they would be If Sunday's Im mense audiences should but contrsst hia natural outbreaks with his polished ut terances of special occasions. The New York writer who shows him up. Inquires "whether a man who steals the products of another man's brain Is any lees a thief than a man who steals his pocketbook?" This is a very apt ques tion, which should be referred to the clergymen who have arranged to turn the city over to Mr. Sunday'e elevating ministrations about as elevating and much tho same In after effect aa tho "voodoo" hysteria, once so prevalent in the south. I thing you would be doing the public a service If you would consent to reprint the Instructive article above quoted from the New . York Times. A. stock in my American. declaration." Baltimore THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. Bet fey Ross In New York Post. Adapted for British use and respectfully dedicated to the British admiralty.) Oht sav. can you see br the dawn's early light What so proudly we spurned at the twi light's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight We have always regarded aa gauche and Ill-seeming; But the submarine scsre, snd the bombs In the air Have made us content thst our flag is not there. Oh, my, doea that stsr-spangled banner now wave To Insure that no Briton can e'er bs a slave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep. Where the ksiser's grim host In dread silence reposes, "What la that?" he exclaims, "do I wake or t sleep? What flag now the breexe half conceals, half discloses?" Now It .catchea the gleam of the morn ing's first beam. And Old Glory reflected now shines on the stream. ' 'TIs the Mar-spsngled bsnner. Intended to wave O'er the land of the frte and the home of the brave." Oh, thi;s he 1t ever when Frenchmen shall stand , Between our loved homes and the loss we might suffer. . Blest w ith victory and peace by our allies firm stand. And bv brave little Belgium, which served as a buffer. Then conquer we must, for the Yankees we trust To kindly forget we are ever unjust: And the star-apangled lianner we earn estly crave May enable Britannia to still rule ths wave. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "Whnt's th matter with your friend th re?'' "Oh, he's a politician In hard luck. Got a confession that no magazine seems to care to buy." Puck. "I hinted to Miss Gladvs that I was In the matrimonial market." "lli she take the hint?" "In a way. She said I would have to go to par before she could take any Overnight Relief For Constipation When the bowels become clogged with a mass of poisonous stomach waste, sick headache with all Its at tendant misery, belching of sour stom ach gases, bloat and general discom fort sre sure to follow. A mild, pleasant laxative-tonic that will carry off the congested mass without upsetting the stomach r grip ing the bowels, is the combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin sold in drug stores under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Pyrup Pepsin. A dose taken Just be tore retiring will afford grate ful relief next morning, without un pleasantness or discomfort Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Is the ideal family remedy, especially for the women and children and old folks. A free trial bottle can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 4c Washington St., Montlcello, IU. , An Open Letter (About Bronchitis.) TO THE PUBLIC: August 2, 1114. In March, 1SU. I became afflicted with an attack of Bronchitis which forced me to remain in bed for two months. The doctor in attendance changed the medicine several times, and Instead of improvement, I aeeraed to grow worse. For a while I was despondent, until my wife read a little pamphlet advertising the "Essence Mentho-Iaaene." Diacouraged with what 1 had been using without effect, I waa willing to try almost anything that Bounded like a cure. The Mentho-Laxene waa bought, the syrup pre pared according to direction, and before half of the quantity waa consumed the cough had abated and I waa at work four days after, and have never felt any symptoms of the dread disease since. All who are acquainted with Bronchitis will understand how hard it is tn subdue the cough, but today I am willing to take oath, or make an affidavit to the effect, that my rase of Bronchltia was aa severe as ever afflicted man. and that I was positively cured of It in leaa than four days, all due to the wonderful curative powers of the "Essence Mentho-Laxene." Since then I have recom mended It to all sufferers ss I was. or to those who were subject to colds of any kind. In each caae the medicine sustained the reputation I had given It. and all were loud In their pralaes of this truly valuable pre scription. All who may be skeptical In Its use can write me. and I will cheerfully give them all the Information they desire above my personal signature. Very respectfully, A. CAMPBELL. 3447 Lafayette 6t, Denver. Cole. For the benefit of readers: Esaence Mentho-Laxene can bs obtained of druggists. A 2H, ox- bottle makes a full pint of cold and cough syrup. 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