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T1IK HKK: OMAHA, TUESDAY. MARCH !. 1!15. THE OMAHA DAILY DEE FOUNDED BY KDWARD ROSEWATKR. VICTOR ROSEVTATER. EDITOR. I Taa Re Publishing Company. Proprietor. PKK BL'ILDINO. FARXAM AND REVKNTEENTH. Entered at Omaha postofflce a second-class matter. TEKM3 OK SUBSCRIPTION. Br carrier per mnnth. Wlc.... .... r Ry mall per vear. W w 4 W .! 4.00 2.0) iiatlv and ?imdsv Telly without Sunday.... livening h r1 undv F.venlng without Sunday o, Huniiav Rea only 2c, 8end notice of rhnr.au of address fr complaints of Irregularity In delivery to Omaha Ree, Circulation department. REMITTANCE. Remit hv draft epreee or postal order. f'nly two rent stamps received In payment of email ae rounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern eichangc. not accepted. OFFICIOS. Omaha-Trie Ruildlns. South Omaha 3l8 N street, t'ouncll Uluffs 14 North Main street. Lincoln Little Building. Chicago Wl Hearst Hulldlng. New York Room ll. tx Fifth avenue. Pt. Ixnile-KB New Bank of Commerce. Washington 736 Fourteenth Bt., N. W. CORRESPONDEXCB. Address communications relating to news and edU torlal matter to Omaha Bee, r.dltortal Department. FEIllU AllV ClKCt'LATIOX, 51,700 State of Xehraska. County of Pouglss. en. I'wlght Williams, circulation manager of The lice Publishing coinpuny, being duly sworn, ssys that the average circulation for tlm month of February. 19 1 A. II M.iliO. PWKHIT W1I.I.UM.'!, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my pi 'earner and eworn ti before m. this Id dav of March. l!ir. UOHEHT Hl'NTKR, NoUry Tubllc. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily ahonld have The) lire) mailed to them. Ad dreaa will be changed as often requester. March Thought for the Day SmUelmJ by Sophia CUvland PoliUnee it like an air cushion. There may be nothing $olid in it, bvt it tatee the joltt of Ihie world wonderfully. Anon. Women on the Pubic Welfare fcoarc why notT Economy and parsimony never do team work. General prosperity is playing two prime fav orites abroad powder mills and hospitals. Diplomacy's typewriting machines furnish the only visible keys to the international situation. The jitneys found the name ready made; they certainly would not have gotten It through a prize contest. A market week In a market town Is reciproc ity with the bark on. It profits the visitor and the market man. The legislature is always chuck full of future governors, congressmen and Judges during the closing weeks before adjournment. The general health of the armies is pro nounced splendid. The better the material the greater will be the execution of the guns. Still, if our lawmakers were relieved of everything In the nature of tinkering with the Omaha charter, what would they find to put their time in on? Why, of course, when the Commercial club is with us, it Is Omaha's most representative body of business men, but when it's against us, It's a bunch of reactionaries. With 300 prisoners in the county Jail, what a fat rakeoff the sheriff would have had if his 60-cent day feeding graft had not been knocked in the head as a result of the fight made by The Bee. ' Bread riots and poverty are gripping the Spanish people. At the same time Italy has con fiscated 15,000 tons of provisions shipped from a, Spanish port to one of the warring nation. Evidently the premium price of contraband goods blinds the Spanish merchant to home needs. Philadelphia papers are ventilating what la dubbed "the scandalous conduct" of lawyer leg islators acting at the same time as attorneys for corporations. Quaker City scribes have under gone such a regeneration that they are unable to differentiate between the lawyer and the law-giver. Mount Stover, a Sierra neighbor of Mount Lassen, Is blowing oft steam and smoke and giv ing other signs of a desire to break into the tour ist belt. The woudrous resources of this coun try are no more remarkable than their readi ngs to supply in an off year all the thrills globe trotters dote on. Lrt-ir a7rr.j- a XT 1 hi ell ((j The Missouri river U reported aa steadily break ln up. a seneral thaw having art In all over the line. At this point the water began shorn ing Itaetr today, about a quarter of the river being free of Ice. and fears of an overflow being much allayed. The board of directors of the Congregational Home Missionary society nut at the Paxton. The board consists of Reva. tjherill and Srott of Omaha, Uregory of Lincoln, Broas of Norfolk. President Perry of Doane college and Messrs. Burnham of Omaha and West ot Lincoln. C. 8. Ktebblns, general ticket agent of the I'nlon Pacific went to Bt. Paul for a conference with the offklala of lb Northern Pacific and the Oregon Ral! way and Navigation company. Honorable Jamee E. Boyd la back from Washing ton, where lie bad the pleasure of witnessing the Inauguration of the first democratic president In twenty-four years. City Clerk Jewett has recovered fion hie recent Illness. Articles ef incorporation have two filed by the West bide Building association, with these officer President. J. A. Wakefield; secretary. Walter B. Will kins; general superintendent. Kidney Hnuth; other di rectors. 1. P. EngUaU. Alvin Finch anad W. 11. Alex, afidrr. The association will develop a residence dlj. trlcl la Hauatoni I'lace. Time for Greater Omaha. Greater Omaha by consolidation with South Omaha and the other suburban towns seems nearer to consummation right now than ever before. Everybody, even those opposing, on fede that consolidation Is Inevitable, althoug'i the opponenls for one reason or another want to fight it off a while longer. If. however, those who favor (Jreater Omaha now, rather than in the Indefinite future, would make themselves known and heard free from pressure and coer cion, they would undoubtedly be found to constl tute a decided majority, not only in Omaha, but in South Omaha, Dundee, Benson and Florence as well. The legislature should be made to realiz? that there Is only one community here in the whole Greater Omaha territory, and that ths boundary lines which separate the areas under different city governments are purely artificial, u'ndlstingulshable, except when drawn by a sur veyor. There is not another community in the United States that occupies the anomalous po sition of being subject to half a do7.en different nnd Independent local governments, and If ex isting in any other state, this situation would be promptly, and without hesitation, relieved by the necessary legislation. Greece and the World War. Surface Indications point to Greece a beini? the next country to enter the world war now under way, and It Is morally certain the arms ot the Hellenes wyi be ranged on the side of the Anglo-Russo-Franco alliance. This decision is but the Indirect result ot the conflict between the Germans and the Allies; under normal con ditions Greece would remain neutral, but with Turkey In the war, Greece can hardly keep out. The deep rooted hatred of the Turk, fed by five centuries of never ceasing strife, Is Ingrained in Grecian politics, and no ruler or cabinet may hope to withstand its Influence. Racial and re ligious antipathy, fierce and Implacable, has kept alive this conflict, and still urges on the Chris tians of Greece to war against the Moslem. The task before the king and his cabinet Is most dif ficult and delicate, unless It be, as is hinted at, that the crisis is but a subterfuge and that war has already been agreed upon, the formal de claration to be shortly made. Greece is apparently determined to have a part In the impending dismemberment of the Ottoman empire, but the presence of the Hel lenic forces will not seriously affect the progress of the struggle In Europe. Amending the Amending Clauie. The legislature at Lincoln Is again wrestling with proposals to amend the amending clause of our state constitution, presumably to make It easier to change our fundamental law. We now have three ways of amending the constitution one by constitutional convention, one by the In itiative, and one by propositions submitted to the legislature. In the last election amendments were submitted by both of the last two methods, but failed of ratification because they lacked tho necessary majority, despite the fact that tho three amendments submitted by the legislature had all the party circle votes counted for them, regardless ot the desire of the voter. Now, we see no good reason why the process of amending the constitution should be any dif ferent in the matter of vote requirement, whether by initiative or by submission. A ma jority of votes oast on the proposition equal to 35 per cent of the total vote as required for In itiative amendments should also suffice for sub mitted amendments, hut only on condition that the party circle fiction Is abolished. To count a vote "Yes" or "No' on a constitutional amend ment because a cross Is put in a circle at tho top of the ballot Is a far-fetched and dangerous subterfuge, and the only wonder is that it has not gotten us Into serious trouble. Business Prospects Improving. Spring normally portends renewed activity In the business world, and the present notes no exception. News of steel mills resuming work with full forces Is niost encouraging, while the railroads announce the early employment of an army of men In the work of repairs and pro jected extension. Ten thousand of these are to be engaged at Omaha within the next few weeks. Commercial agencies report fewer business sus pensions, and the first week In March shows a greatly Improved condition with the railroad?. A call from the comptroller of the currency, put out on Monday morning, Is answered by the Omaha banks with a showing ot greatly in creased deposits and a considerable Increase in loans and discounts. Indicating that money is not hiding, but is really at work In the business world. No season ever promised better at this time for crops, and all around the outlook is most encouraging. Business is plainly picking up. Nebraska's Happy Family. The democrats of Nebraska evidently placo much dependence on the truth of the remark at tributed to Henry Watterson, "The More Quar rels the more deraocrata." At any rate they con tinue their internecine strife with such apparent gusto as would convince an outsider that they enjoy fighting. Just now "Brother Charley" Bryan and Berge, the ever hopeful, are being ac cused of Interfering with and directing the course of legislation, to the end that tf e follow ers of the secretary of state In the president's cabinet may have some advantage. Just where ic comes in Is not so readily discerned, but If a rival democrat can aee it, or thinks he ean, it is much the same as it it really did exist. This is only a single phase of the much-mixed situation, in which la Involved the hopes and fears of an army of aspirants for high office, who are now casting about for an opening In the line through which to rush and grab a prise. The dead lock in which the big federal offices of the state have been tied up for so long a time shows no signs of loosening, thus adding to the complexity of the problem from a democratic point of view. In the meantime, the high and low leaders of the party, with no regard for responsibility of office or otherwise, are mingled ln one grand scramble for the big political prises that are to be hung tu next year. The only regrettable part of the flare-up U that business of the state is affected by reason of the rivalry between the factions. Otherwise, the people of Nebraska could heartily enjoy the exhibition. Care of the Wounded in the Great World War T Bl. miCW.AD DZBBT" American Hospital la Paris, At the outbreak of the war the Americans rceldent In Paris conceived the Idea of Martina a hoepital tor the car of the wounded In Parle, and at that time :i larae school building there sua given to thm by the French government to be used as a hoepital. I went over to Parle the first week In October. At that time there were about V or ITS patient In the hospital. The first two or three weeks of October we didn't get a ftreat many wounded, and that In spite of the fact that pretty spirited fluhtlng waa going on BlonK the lines. In the middle of October the president and the military governor of Paris came to the hoepital and approved of what we were doing, and a very little while after that the French governor made a promli of sending lis ten patients a day. That promise was strictly adhered to. and from that time on patients came In, ten every day. Peril of Shrapnel Woemda. Just a few words about the nature of the wounds. The wounds were of three, varieties, the shrapnel wounds, wounds from rifle bullets and wounds from bayonets. On my division, which had about 10 beds. I had elurhty-two cases of shrapnel wounds, there were twenty cases of rifle bullet wounds and only one bayonet wound. Now, of those shrspnel wounds, every one of the, cases waa an Infected wounft. Of the rifle bullet wounds, four of them were clean. And wllti the others thst were Irferted. the Infection waa milder, not of aa serious a nature as it waa In the case of the shrapnel wounds. Now, of course, It la easy to see why the shrapnel wounds are an tremendously In fected, large pleoea of shrapnel, carrying with them plecea of clothing, with whatever dirt la on the clothes or In the clothes, mean that when the wound of entry is a large one and the wound of exit is a still larger one, the tissues between the two points are tremendously contaminated by dirt. The result s that those tissues are all Infected. And it waa often possible to recognise In these wounds, and pick out, the materials of red and blue of the Frnch soldier's uniform. We even found pieces of wood and straw In the wounds and other foreign bodies of that sort. Now, It Is significant that there was only one bayonet wound. I don't know exactly how to explain that, for we read In the papers of bayonet charges, t can only say that probably most of the fight Ins- at that time waa f I gluing In the trenches, and there were not very many bayonet charges made. Tkeae Whs THe oa the Field. It was Interesting to note that out of these cas, whloh numbered in all about ISO, there were five patients with abdominal wounds, I mean by that pene trated wounds of the abdomen. That Is very signifi cant. I thlnk.lt fairly represents the very, very small proportion of cases of those who receive abdominal wounds who recover. Twice I had an opportunity to go out behind the lines, onoe behind the French, and once behind the Bngllsh. I waa particularly Interested in the question of abdominal wounds, and I came to the conclusion, as have many before me, that the pa tients with abdominal wounds never come off the battlefield, or out of the trenches. There were three cases of fractured skull. That la also significant A majority of these patients die on the battlefield. I had four cases of gaaeous gangrene tn the VA cases, which Is 24 per cent. As a matter of fact, al most all of the wounds contained gas. One could feel the crepitation of gas under the akin. That was. In the majority of cases, oaused by colon bacilli, or some mich organism, forming gas. Variety of Kaltosmllty. Most of the patients, the great majority of them, were French. We had la the betrlnntng. In October and September, a great many Rngllsh. We had a few Turcos. The German wounded that came to Paris were sent to some military hospital where they could be kept in confinement. The Turcos were very appre ciative of the care they recetrad and the food they got. We discharged one day six of them who were friends, discharged them to some convalescent hos pital. They went there, and after spending a day or two there they drew invidious com pari sons between the food they received there nd ours. In one of my wards 1 had a Russian count who was serving aa an orderly, and he did extremely well. His work was very efficient. He waa. a person ot means, and In many cases he would try to bribe pa tients who had poor appetites to eat. We hsd one Turoo whose appetite waa poor and the count would bring him a plate of soup and he wouldn't want It; then the eount would give him a pleoe or silver and perhaps he would take the aoup, or perhaps ho wouldn't eat It, and then the count would give him a piece of gold and then perhaps he would eat the soup. The count said to me, "I give him silver and I glvi him gold, but he always tries It with his teeth to sec it It Is real." Loral a Hla Fnr WItm. There waa an Arab in the ward who had had some Injury to hla arm, and two weeks after hla Injury everything had been going all right. Suddenly one day he refused to eat. A day went by and another day went by, and he ate nothing. Finally we got an In terpreter to talk to this Arab, and he said, aVIth tears In his eyes, that he waa a family man and had (our wives In Tunis. He showed a letter from one of nls wives saying that they Ited no food and they were starving there, and the Arab said be could not eat our good food while hla wtves were starving In Tunis. Then a collection was. taken and sent to his wives, and from that time on the Arab waa happy again. The patients on their arrival at the hospital were In a condition of tremendous exhaustion. 1 don't think I have ever seen men so exhausted. Very often, for the first twenty-four er forty-eight hours, they would sleep practically the whole time. They were entirely all In, they were Just dead to the world. But from that time on. after, they had gotten over their first exhaustion, they came around, and It seemed to me that they showed basically pretty good, stamina and very good physical condition, because or the way in mhlch they handled some of those terrific Infections. a boat tha Ambilksr Service. 1 Just want to speak of the ambulances of th- hospital. The work began with only a few ambulances, but, since the beginning of the war, the ambulances have grown In number. I think they havd now up wards of seventy running from the hospital, gome of them are running to the station, ot which I have spoken, to bring the wounded back. Othera are con nected with various parts of the English or French lines. The duties of those ambulances connected wlia the army directly are to bring the wounded 'from tho field dressing stations and field hospitals, which are ordinarily situated a short distance back from the trenches, to base hospitals or evacuation hospitals as they call them, which are Usually situated at the near est railroad. From that point the wounded are brought by rail down the line. This war has brought out the tremendous Impor tance of ambulances. They are of great use, because of the length of the time before the wounded can be removed from the trenches. It cannot be done In the day time, only at night, and that means that tho men's physical condition is poor. PrroeBtaae ef Deaths la Hospitals. On perember S8 there had been StSD admissions to that hospital In Parts, and alxty-flve deaths. That means a death rate of 4.7 per cent, which Is Very high. I think the lowest death rate tn any war Was In the Bpenlsh-Araerlcan. The Russian-Japanese war waa a little bit lower than thla. 'But that Is just one hospital, and It Isn't fair to say that the mortality throughout France Is aa high as that. It seems to me that the treatment has grown very conservative, more so than ever before. In war sur gery. It appears that the tendency la to leave the wounds alone, to combat the Infection and depend upon the powers of nature for looking after the pa tient Perhaps the only point In which aurgery has gotten a little bit more radical Is in the matter of amputation, it seemed to me. from what I saw over there, that H was better te take off a leg than to subject those ma to chronic bone disease which mlfclit s on for years and years, and I rather think that la the feeling of other men there whs have seen the work. It la believed that aa excellent substitute for sUk has been produced la Panama by aroaatiuj the biooroe f certain wild fiber plants with a species of coa st plum. The result Is a staple of texture finer than cocoon silk, but with a tensile strength about five times greater. t nmparlenn that Compares. FMPTH OMA MA. Mnrch. . To the Kditor of the Flee: In 19"f the city of South Omaha w .redlted with n.K'l population. In 1110 it slewed up with :'S,:tf.l, a larae increase of 11 In t n nrs. I:i the year ll tli expenses of the rlty government an-omited to llOu.'XKi. In 1!14 the city expenses were $.W.'"X. What have we to show for it? Why should tie not lie for nnnexalion. Why Increase city expenses finl.OOn when there wiiii such a small gall. In population? Wooster Wants Bryan tn Realga. SILVER t-RKKK, Neb.. March R. To th lxlltcr of The Pet: Mr. Pryan In Washington cuts a most pitiable figure, and ought to have enough manly pride about him to resign his position as secre tary of state. Three times a candidate for president, lai ded by his admirers and I was one of th'-m-a long time ago) as one of the. greatest Ftalesmen of the age; and now nominally at the head of the great le partment of Btate, he sits there In his cfflce (when he is not out lecturing! at tending to merely routine work. If sny thlng at all except quarreling over ap pointments, while the schoolmaster that lie msile president nnd the indi'.Hing.s tienea'h him, attend to the great affairs of state. For, whoever hears Mr. Bryan's name mentioned in connection with any foreign affair of Importance excent in a per functory, or Incidental way? It Is always President Wilson thst speaks unless sometlmcn, perhaps. Mr. Lansing, chief law officer of the department, as when of late he explained that our foreign relations were in a very eritlcal condition. In tlms past some of our secretaries of state have been the authors of great state papers that will live In history, for Instance, as 1 recall it, that of William H. Seward in the French, affair during the civil war. But where, during these troublous times, are the great "state 1-o.pera" of Mr. Bryan? The only one I can think of Is his late letter to Senator Stone on neutrality. That letter is per haps his greatest "diplomatic" triumph during tho. first two years of the Wilson administration, unless we except his signing 'ip treaties with England. France and Russia since the beginning of the present war In Europe wherein he (meaning, of coursj. President Wilson) bound the United States not to go to war Against anyone of them until we had taken a year to mediate, on our alleged grievances. That was very smooth work on the part of those allied powers. Be fore the war no one of them would make such a treaty with us, but after the war began and they Jtnaw they cortd not at tack us, they were shrewd enough to sign up and thus put It out of our power to attack them until after the probable end of tho war. And that Is where they "put one over" on our schoolmaster grape juice diplomats. While wc might not wish to fight, our "protests" and "strict accounts" and lofty airs would make more Impression tf it were known that wo were In a position to back up our demands with our whole naval power. At one time In our disgraceful, wretched work with Mexico Mr. Bryan had a chance to Immortalize, himself. I ferer to that little. Inalgnlflcant Tampici affair. If when President Wlleon deter mined to send our fleet to attack Vera Crus Mr. Bryan has said to him. "No. Mr. President. I will not consent that for so trivial an affair as the arrest ot a few marines we shall give the lie to all out pretensions of peace by making war on a defenseless people and wantonly shedding the blood of hundreds , and perhaps thousands of human being a Mr. Presi dent, my resignation Is at your disposal," he would have made himself the idol of peace advocates throughout the world and for himself an enviable place In his tory. But Mr. Bryan, to whom we fool demo-, crats used to sound paeons of praise, con tinues to remain a mere figurehead In Wilson's cabinet, and at the expense of self-consistency and of self-respect, if he has any. and hold his Job while he fights for other Jobs for his friend a "How are the mighty fallen." CHARLES WOOSTER. Ilnmmel's) Free Ad. OMAHA, March a. To the Editor, of The Bee: As I see other People recom mended for commissioner. I would like to boost for Joseph B. Hummel for re election, as I think he has given entire satisfaction to the public In Improving all the city parks and making playgrounds for our children and amusement for the older ones, too. auch as our public bath ing beach and ball grounds, golf grounds tennis courts 'and our beautiful green house In Hanscom park. RAT SHOOREEN, iV Franklin Street. If There la to lie a Chinese Wall. OMAHA, March .-To the Editor of The Bee. The latest event of the war abroad, and one which will have a far reaching and disastrous effect cpon com mercial and Industrial conditions in the Pnlted ftstes. Is England's action in the Mocsane and contraband Issue, stopping not only our exports to Germany, but also exports from Germany to the I nited States. No one can foresee the serious, ness of that measure, but It goes without saying that it will Injure trade and man. ufacturtnaT In the Tnltad States fully as much as it will injure the Interests of German exporters. It would seem to me, however, that on the other hand it might prove a blessing ia uiaguise: 1. By giving an impetus to the develop ment of industries In the I nited States, and an Incentive to produce ourselves that which under England's uksse we cannot import. 1 By bringing horn to the purchasing publle in the I'nlted States the unnatural and shameful preference given to hn. ported goods. The toadyism ot many Americans to foreign customs, and the giving preference to Imported goods merely because they arc imported, has been a disgrace for many years. These new conditions should arouse the patriotism of the American public to such a degree as to practically bar any and all imported goods which can be produced la thin country. Why cannot we adopt the "Made in America" policy, even though we have to copy after Oermany? There Is a long list of articles which have been axteasively Imported which are pro duced In better quality and at a lower price at home, but merely because they do mot bear tbe Imported mark they are tabooed by many Americans, who believe that caJUng for Imported roods Is smart, shows better taste and requires a larger bank account than the common peopie P " If they only knew how manv real good domestic goods are palmed off on the unsuspecting as Imported and sold for Imported goods prices. There la no necessity whatever for im porting from abroad such goods as for eign soaps, or preserves, or certain cloths and other fabrics, or whiskies and gins, cr cutlery, or ales and wines, etc., because most of the domestic products In those lines lire fully equal to the Imported, and often superior, and ilwae cheaper. It doe" not matter In what country sm h oods originate. If the bcliiccrcnts can not come to terms and attempt the folly of complete embargo, and to Interfere aith ImiHirts nnd exports, the people ot the 1'nltcd Pt.ites should get together .is the Chlnexc did In boycotting Japanese goods nd make It plain to these govern ments abroad that we do not ne d their good?: thnt it is good policy and good patriotism to develop and pat.-onlxc home Industry, if there N to he a Chinese wall, let us do some of the building of It our selves. A U MEYER. SAID IN FUN- Mrs, Sllmson Look here, lioMile, you haven't fed your chickens now for three days. Bobhle (proudly) My nr mother, how enn 1 atav at home and feed chickens when I have been elected prcMdcnt of our chautau(iia circus? IJfe. Shortlv nrter the war began a woman received a letter addressed to her hy her husband. She opened the envelope, which had already been opened once bv the censor, and InnteHd of the expected letter she fo-ind u slip of paper bearing these word: "Your husband is well, but too com municative." Everybody's Magazine, THE HOME POETS. lirsisi, An old man waked with a in and blink. And saw a star through the window i hlnk. Ill brain grew clnr and began to think; His thirsty pen begun to drink From a neutral bottle of writing Ink! In the chain of genius, each a link. Then the world looked up In fear and dread. At the wonderful things that it had read: Words that the bottle of Ink had said, ln traclr.g the path the pen h-ul led. Oulded by hand that was guided hy head Of a sleepy old man as he lay In bed. PAV1H. street tar Booster. A thing worth discussing. Which has caused ult a f iss, is our street car service And the new "Jitney Bus." Why crab about service This company gives us, And pass up a stand-by For a new "Jitney Uus'."' Oolng downtown this morning While the streets were a muss. IMd you look for a street car Or a new "Jitney Uus?" Our mothers have tacght us That we should not cuss. So stick to a street car. Not a new "Jitney Bus." -BOOSTER. V. J I i'M '.'Si't' '" 0 "Ml HliARIAlXI COLE FISHER A National Authority on tho Subject of PURE FOODS and the ART OF COOKING. , In a recent interview on baking pow o'er stted as follows: "I find many, in fact, very many, women woefully uninformed on the sub ject of baking powdev. Evidently the housewife does not appreciate the value of baking powder In her kitchen and ln her baking, or she would have Informed herself. This is a subject that is quite Important. "A great many of the housewives today have followed their mothers or grandmothers In the use of baking pow er, which ln some Instances is a mis take. There has been just as much im provement ln baking powder as in other commodities. I am glad to find that baking powder has kept up with the times. Some housewives have been led to be lieve that the cream of tartar powders are the best goods to use. This ln a mtntske, resulting no doubt from the constant efforts of the Twenty Million Iol)ar Baking Powder Trust to create a prejudice against all goods save their own. Their goods should be least de sirable on account of the large quan tities of Rochelle Salts remaining in the food. T"h other extreme is the cheap and "BlK Can" baking powders, which Hell all the way from ten cents a pouad to a tent an ounce. These are even less de sirable than the high-priced goods. I can say not li lug in their favor. They are never economical: frequently leaving the baking bleached and acid: sometimes yel low and alkaline, and often unpalatable. They are not dependable and represent false economy at any price. The most simple way for the house wife to class baking powder la by price The trust goods that retail for 4bc ot 60c a pound are usually the cream of tartar powders, and are of the old school; and the ciieap and "Big Can kind that sell all the Way from 10c a pound up to a cent an ounce should ala be avoided. The last word in baking powder Is th happy medium, a combination powder that sells at a moderate price and when properly prepared gives the consumer full value for the money. The result In baking Is pure, wholesome food, without any harmful residue. There is no reason why any housewife should pay 4 Be or 60c per pound. The best baking pow der made can be manufactured so aa to retail at about H this price. On being asked what baking powdef she used In her work, Marian Col Fisher frankly stated that for mora than seven years she had used Calumet Baking Powder with the most satisfac tory results in every particular. Now is the time to look at offices If you ure thinking of moving this spring, now is the time to make your selection. We have only the following offices to show you and we may have nothing at all in a couple of months. Just now, we have no small offices, but applications will be received nnd if changes occur, applicants will be given first choice. The offices linted below include some of the most desir able in the building, if the sizo and arrangement pleaso you. Suite 222: ThI l very choice office on the second ifloor. facing the corridor around the court. It is par titioned for a very comfortable waiting room ' and two private offices. It has north light. Price, per month 845.00 Room 420: TuIa ,a on ' the corner offices which is con- sidered so very desirable. It is 20x30 feet, and has two windows facing north and two west . . The large vanlt is particularly desirable for some clauses of business. The door of this office Is directly at the end of the hall, so that the sign may be seen by everyone walking dowu the corridor. Price, jmt month Suite 426: Ground S40.00 This suite offers exceptional space and desir ability lor the price. It Is divided Into a wait ing room and two private rooms. It has north, lleht and its occupants receive all the service and comfort of a weU kept office building. Price, per month $27.50 Especially adapted for printing office. This has been occupied by a printer for many years and on account of Its location in an office building snd in tbe heart of the office building district, the location itself is an asset ln this business or any similar business. It has an entrance from the court on the ground floor and also from the alley. There is very satisfactory light and ven tilation. It likewise has the advantage, from the standpoint of Insurance and safety, of being in a fireproof building. The floor space Is 1.2 3 J feet. lYice, per Month 8100.00 Apply to Building Superintendent. Room 103 THE BEE BUILDING COMPANY Floor Boom: i s f 1