T11K OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: SErTEMliEIt 25, 1913,
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Thought for the Day
SiUcttJ by Minnlm P. Baker
'Old Father Time to hit children dolh any;
'Go an with your dutits, my dean.
On the right hmnd i work,
On ih left hand it play.
See that yaw tarry ilh neither 2i day,
But faithfully build up th year.' "
Work of Belgian Relief Commission.
, Other matters bave claimed the passing
I notice of the American public to the exclusion
tr such topics as the relief work that la being
, done for the helpless in the war cone, but the
! organization carrying forward that philanthropic
' t.-.sk has not slackened Its efforts, even If It Is
not so prominently mentioned as It was during
i Hie earlier weeks of the war. A voluminous de
I tall reports of the operation of the Belgian Re
lief commission has Just been made public, and
some of Its figures are amazing. For example, It
2.01) j i., .tj that ii n tn .Tun 90. last, this rommls-
aridres or complaints of . .
circulation ; sion naa sent inrougn tne lines into m- uova
! tated region of Belgium and France 630,000 tons
of food supplies. This has been divided Be
tween the Belgians and the 2,600,000 French In
the region back of the German llneij, who hare
no other source of relief. It has been popularly
supposed that most of the Belgians fled their
country to England and Holland, but the com
mission reports that only about 800,000 are
refugees from home, while about 7,000,000 re
main to be fed. The situation has undergone a
marked Improvement since the work became ef
fectively organized, but the activity of the com
mission must be unremittingly continued.
One -of the peculiar effects of the work as
managed has been to put the Belgian paper
money on a gold baBls; this was brought about
through control of Belgian finances by the com
mission and its exchange agreements, many and
complicated, but sufficient to effect the estab
lishment of the parity that has placed the sev
eral communes of Belgium In a position to real
ize the full benefit of their savings. The Ger
mans have co-operated with the work to the ex
tent of relaxing arbitrary military rule In many
rases, so as to facilitate movement and delivery
of goods.
The work of this commission will be one of
the bright spots In the history of the war, and
will Interest the future Investigators when study
ing America's part In the tremendous upheaval.
Far side this timet
No politics like church politics.
A Methodist conference In Omaha without
rain would be altogether too unnatural.
The human factor In train operation sets at
raught all mechanical safety appliances.
Before the war is over the neutral country
In Europe Is apt to become a rare species.
In the matter of telephone rates, the South
Side seems to be a unit against the uplift movement.
Explorer Stefansson'g new
cesses one distinct advantage,
fighting for.
found land pos
it Is not worth
When the Balkan countries become ablate
there will be no dearth of "atrocities" for both
sides to play up.
Whatever his next diplomatic assignment,
bo sure Dr. Dumba will be more careful about
writing tell-tale letters.
Human Fallibility Again Exemplified.
The entire crew of a passenger train seems
to have mistaken its orders, and in the crash
that followed three lives were lost and many
others were placed In dire jeopardy. It Is little
less than a miracle that the accident on the Mis
souri Pacific was not attended by a greater loss
of life, but the calamity is sufficient to sober
the contemplative mind. 8o far as seems pos
sible, the train orders were made to guard com
pletely against what happened, but an inexplica
ble coincidence of blunder turned awry the or
dinary precautions, and the disaster followed.
No new lesson ran be drawn from this event,
for we have continually before us proof that man
falls at moments when his faculties should be
most alive. And human life and limb continu
ally depend on human accuracy of function. If
anything is to be gained from this latest exam
ple of man's imperfection, it must be to empha
sise the need of still greater caution in applying
the principles of "safety first."
All the Balkan states are "mobilizing for
peace." In that quarter safety first lies In get
ting the drop on the other fellow.
Even In the number of trail hitters, as com
pared with other cities v. here he has held forth,
Omaha is doing tolerably well by "Billy."
The coroner's verdict finds the wrecked pas
senger train proceeded in violation of orders.
As the culpable engineer is dead, no one will
dispute It.
Those southern banks which charge from II
to 120 per cent interest might be Induced to
"buy a bale" Juat to show the serene unselfish
Less of prosperity.
Safety in the Mailt.
The passage of a package of dynamite
through the malls across the continent affords
a most Impressive Illustration of the care with
which articles entrusted to Uncle Sam's men are
handled. It must be especially of interest to
the man who has received a parcel plainly
marked "fragile," but crushed and bent out of
all semblance to its original form. This man
has thought of the mail service as something
destined to destroy, and has looked upon the
legend, "received In bad order," neatly rubber
stainpod across the wrapper of the damaged
package, as a bit of official irony to which' he
could frame no adequate reply. But the dyna
mite, traveling Incog., went through In safety,
and might now be well on its way across the
ocean had It not been that some lynx-eyed guar
dian of the public's Interest discovered that the
postage was not fully prepaid. This just goes
to show that you can't always be sure of your
ground, when you are raving against the rail
way mall clerk for being a heavy-handed wretch,
bent entirely on destruction. ;
A witness testifies that he purchased votes
In Indianapolis last fall at 10 cents each. Here
tofore the Ohio scale of two blta Wat considered
the "irreducible minimum." By cutting the
rate the Hooslers tag themselves as the cheapest
floaters afloat.
Water Transportation and the West
Speaker Champ Clark says that the traffle
on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers must
come soon or never, and suggests that the way
to accomplish this Is to build the steamboats and
put them to work. From New Orleans comes a
most earnest appeal for the assistance of the
middle west In bringing some form of life to
the American merchant marine. This appeal
has been echoed from 8eattle, and other now
languishing seaports. Finally, Mr. Clark says
the propaganda against the Improvement of the
western waterways Is well financed.
The Bee has on many occasions presented
the matter of utilizing the inland waters of the
United States, and especially the great rivers of
the Mississippi drainage basin, as commerce
carriers, but It has done so with, full apprecia
tion of conditions that exist, and which must
be materially altered before any real success
can be achieved by restored river navigation.
The steamboat vanished before the railroad
train; it is the presence of the railroad that
keeps the steamboat off the river. The ques
tion Is economic, and not political or senti
mental. At present the great flow of commerce
in this country is east and west. This flow is
dominated by the big trunk line railroads. It
may be possible that In time the stream of traf
fie can be diverted and made to follow the river
by way of St Louis and New Orleans, but not
under existing conditions. Long before this has
toma to paas, the steamboat ahould be brought
into earvlce as a coadjutor of the railroad, for
Ike handling of the alow-moving freight, but
ven this will not be until further development
of the west has established a consumptive mar
ket for goods that are not moved with greater
facility and safety by the railroads..
Before the steamboats will become fully
tervlceable, the traffic must be developed, and
that is the point to consider in connection with
river natlgatlon.
Coming Achievements of Invention.
A recent magazine gives an account of what
might be called either a water automobile or
lsnd motorboat, being a combination self-pro
pelled conveyance built to travel equally well in
the water and on land. Announcement of the
rucceasful production of a hydro-automobile.
the mention of which not so many years ago
would have been scouted aa about on a par
with Alladln's lamp or Ponce de Leon's foun
tain of perpetual youth, will today be accepted
as a matter of course with curiosity, but not
with astonishment. And if a machine can be
perfected to travel on both land and water, no
one will be surprised if it Is still further per
fected in due course of time to navigate the air
aa well, and to dive under the surface of the
water, too. Such an auto vehicle that could
corry passengers anywhere that any at "present
available means of transportation can carry
them does not seem particularly preposterous at
all. Of course, we do not expect to meet up
with a submarine-aero-auto boat today or to
morrow, but if one of them comes railing along
some of these fine days. It will be at once recog
nized, and need not present a card of introduc
tion.
up tic ob aonwAT-m.
IT IS "with great reluctance that I have had to sent
regrets to an urgent personal Invitation to attend
the annual reunion In New Tork next month of
the Society of tha United States Telegraph Corpa.
being Ita flfty-years-after-the-war meeting. David
Homer Hates, the secretary, who la alao the historian
of the telegraph corps in tha civil war, writes ma that
the laat time the reunion waa held In New York was
in liHG, when a picture of a number of tha mora
prominent military telegraphers. Including my father,
waa taken, "which I have before me," adding that
"tha name of Roaewater la eo closely Interwoven with
our military telegraph, particularly In our war de
partment orflra." that ha wanta It represented again.
Quoting further from tha letter, what la, I am aura, ot
mora than personal Interest:
"Our reunion thle year Is going to be of great
and special moment. I will ahow on the acreen
after the dinner some very rare documents. Includ
ing Postmaster General Kendall's appointment of
James D. Reld aa tha first superintendent of tele
grsphs. This la dated 1?4. Alao a reproduction of
Annla Ellsworth's snd Prof. Motse's message, 'What
God hath wrought,' sent over the Baltimore-Washington
wire In 1M4; also of General Plx'e eelehratel
telegram of Mil, 'If any men attempts to haul down
tha American flag, ahoot him on the spot.' Ed war 1
I,lnd Morse, Prof. Morse's only surviving son, Is ex
pected to be present."
I ought to add that I am taken Into this society
merely as tha son of an original member In the same
manner that the Loyal legion takes In the sons of
civil war officers.
Heading about General Obregon. who has fought
with considerably success on all sides of the Mexican
Insurrection, and who ha been mentioned aa a possi
ble compromise for president of Mexico, If only ao-
ceptabla to both Carransa and Villa, I have seen a
piece of secret inside Information to the effect that
the general la not a Mexican at all, but a soldier ot
fortune, and that his name la not "Obregon" at al,
except aa corrupted from tha good old standard
cognomen of "O'Brien." AU of which may b true
or untrue, but recall a a story which William Jennings
Bryan used to take pleasure In telling on himself.
"In my first campaign for president," said Air.
Bryan, as I heard him tell It, "ail aorta of embarrass
ing talea wera Invented and sprung to antagonise dif
ferent classes of voters against me. Ona of these waa
thst my name waa not "Bryan, but 'O'Brien,' that 1
was Irish, but had changed my name because ashamed
of It, and this story 1b circumstantial detail went the
rounds far and wide.
"One day I received a letter from California en
closing two cuttings from a newspaper, ona the hack
neyed charge about my real name being 'O'Brien,' and
my despicable sailing under false colors, and the other
letter whloh tha writer had composed, and had
printed In tha same paper entering a vigorous denial,
and branding the story as a falsehood from beginnm
to end. He assured the readers of the paper that
lie used to live In Salem, III., In the same town wttn
the Bryona, that he waa personally acquainted with
tha whole family, and had gone to school with we,
and that the name had alwaya been 'Bryan' and had
never been 'CBrlen,' and that any and every state
ment to tha contrary waa made ot the whole cloth.
Then In hla letter of encloaure he addSd, Of course,
Mr. Bryan, you don't know me, and I don't know
you; I never lived In Illinois, and never met any it
your family. But what'a a friend that won't He for
another friend.' "
Omaha admirers of General Crowder, now Judge
advocate general of tha United States army, who usod
to know him when he waa still a captain stationed
here studying harfl to fit himself for hla assignment
to judge advocate'a duty, have alwaya taken a
great Interest In hla exceptional military career. In
tha current World'a Work a critical article on tha
War Chlefa of tha Army paya him this unusual
tribute:
"Tha Judge advocate general, Enoch H. Crowder,
la regarded as tha beat adviser In legal matters ot a
military character tha army haa ever had."
That la aaylng a whole lot, becauaa General Crow
ded haa had aoma Illustrious predecessors In his posi
tion, yet, though not qualified to pass, such a Judg
ment myself, I am quite ready to believe It Is fully
deserved.
Disorder Along the Border.
The Mexican problem is being seriously com
plicated by unruly bandits, whose forays across
the border are becoming more than a mere an
noyance. It Is difficult to tell just what motive
la behind this manifestation of deviltry, but the
ausplclon is justified that It is part of a plan to
involve the United States in conflict with the
Mexicans. To follow these raiders into their
own country is to commit an hostile act, against
which the American soldiers especially are being
restrained. Until the raldera can be actually
and definitely connected with one or the other
of the Mexican factions, only general complalut
ran be lodged, and this Is far from satisfactory
Tbese demonstrations, however, show plainly
the general attitude ot the Mexicans towards
the United Slates, and, therefore, are the more
exasperating. If General Carransa sincerely
seeks the recognition of this country he can
earn that boon in no better way than by taking
some ateps to restrain his Inipetuoua country
men. who have nearly reached the limit
Uncle Sam's forbearance.
Twice Told Tales
Was II av Good Second t
A literary club waa recently organized by women
In a suburban town. For a while everything wenx
along beautifully.
One evening, while tha Browns were having amner
Mr. Brown asked:
"Well, Ines, did you have a pleasant meeting "t
your club this afternoon ?"
"Oh. yea. dear." teullad Mrs. urown wan great
enthusiasm. "It waa really a aplendld meeting.
About the bast we have had. I think."
"Indeed," said the husband, who waa not a firm
believer In women'e cluba, "what waa the toplo under
dlsousaloD todayT"
Mra. Brown couldn't seam to remember at first.
Finally, however, ah exclaimed triumphantly:
"Oh, yea, I remember! W discussed that bra sen-
looking woman with red hair that' a Juat moved In
across tha a tract, and Sbakeepeare." Philadelphia
Ledger.
' Co-lda't Kxprot It.
Ona of the wittiest clergyman, advocating the habit
of preaching sermons Instead f reading written onea,
aald he bad heard of a Scottish minister who always
relied upon hla manuscript. At laat hla sorrowful
congregation sent a deputation to complain that he
did not apeak, but alwaya read, his sermons.
"Ah, my good friends." said be, "I hav a bad
memory. I ahouia forget what naa to aay-
"Weel. minlater." waa tha scathing answer, "It
y canna remember your am aiaoooraea, ya -canna
blama ua If w forget them." London Tlt-Blts.
Tfa Partner's Apology.
During a civil stilt In a western court the Judca
decided a contested point against a youag lawyer,
whereupon tha latter lost his head.
"Tour honor," said ha, in a palpitating vole,
facing tha court, "I am'amaaed."
Instantly the young lawyer' a partner, who hap
paned ta b Id the court room, aprang t hla feet
"Tour honor," Interposed be. "1 want to apologia
for tha hasty remark of my young partner. By the
tlm ha la aa old aa I ara ha will not be amased at
anything your honor does.' Philadelphia Telegraph.
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
Indianapolis News: Converting the
baaement of a church Into a moving
picture ahow for tha purpoa of raising
funds for tha church Is an experiment tha
Puritans never resorted to, but then, of
course, suitable filma were very hard to
get a few hundred years ago.
ffprlngfleld Republican : Hope Is confi
dently expressed thst there will be no
split In historic Plymouth church.
Brooklyn, as a result of Rev. Dr. mills'
personal financial affairs. The church
made famoua by Henry Ward Beecher
haa weathered storms before now and It
would ba Indeed a pity for It to bo
wrecked on such a rock a a now threatens
tha ahlp.
Chicago Herald: Dr. Hnila haa preached
a bigger sermon In that confession than
he seems to have perceived. Great, In
deed, would be the service if the uncon-
scloua part of It should impress those who
need tha lesson of the bitter end of spec
ulation as directly and forcibly aa hla bit
ter regret for compromised Ideals seems
to have Impressed the congregation of
Plymouth church last Sunday.
St I,oula Republic: Rev. Dr. William
3. Williamson of St. Louis ta now In a
position to discrsa feelingly the com
parative difficult lea of directing a big
city church as against the hardships of
the athlete In training. Finding himself
approaching the Taftlan weight clas,
tha minister took a markedly unmlnls
terial vacation thls summer. in the
training camp made famous by Chauncey
Depew, mint.il middleweight, and T.
Roosevelt, Intellectual light heavyweight.
Dr. Williamson s'led seventeen pounds of
avoirdupois and, for a brief period, hla
ministerial cares.
i-liirtL "V lii ssi ! in ii LTjCTaaaa- a
WHITTLED TO A POINT.
The last word Is tha favorite with all
women.
Adversity is an egg from which ex
perience la hatched.
Hunger Is sure to come to those who
sit around and wait.
A gossip Is a person who thinks too
little and talks too much.
Many a man's worth la not discovered
until his will is road.
Ignorance being bliss, the fools In the
world have the lest of It.
The average men Is an economist when
he haa to buy thinga for hla wife.
Lots of people actually believe that
their troubles are Interesting to othera.
An air of abstraction Isn't breesy enough
to fan a siark of genius into a flame.
When a man's education is finished ha
helps to swell tha undertaker' fortune.
When you want a woman to do what
you want her to do ask her to do some
thing else.
The man whoso only claim to sanctity
Is a loni? foce should dlppose of some of
hla cheek.
What a change a wrf can make In a
man-end what a lot of change she re
quires while making ltl
A man Isn't known so well by the com
pany he keeps as by the Una of talk he
hands to his next door neighbors.
Not until about alx months after his
marriage does a man begin to realize that
courtahip may be a preface to hardship.
Chicago Newa.
' TABLOIDS OP SCIENCE.
Among tha wonders of the Pan-Paclflo
exposition ia a block ot coal welgUmg
4U0 pounda. ,It meaaurea alx and one
half by five by thre feet and came from
Montana.
There are about organisation of
scientists in tha world for atudying X
raya and a Dutch, leader in the science
la trying to combine thm in cge lntana
tlonal body.
Vanillin is the active principle which
makea vanilla ice cream so popular. It
occurs In tha roots of oat a and tha leavea
and roots of a number of plants. It has
been found to bo poisonous to clover,
wheat, cowpeaa and other plants.
Physlciana who hav been atudying al
falfa aa a medicine report that It stimu
lates th bodily functions, cures mental
depression, Increases the appetite and
cauaea an Improvement In weight. A
tincture of the plant la ugsd Internally.
The French have a process of making
a sweet flour from dried sugar beeta. The
substance when complete contains M per
cent of pure nutriment, and should make
It easy to follow Marie Antoinette sug
gestion In case of a bread shortage.
Dr. Jamaa Hogan of San Franolaoo, as
sart that a solution of gelatin in water
lnjeoted Into th circulatory system, will
restore th blood pressure In eases where
excessive losses of blood hav exhausted
tha patient Injeotlona of this solution.
he says, are quit aa effective and suc
cessful as the transfusion of blood from
the veins of a strong healthy parson. He
has gone to Europe, where be will use
hla discovery la the war hospitals.
Asa rmujm
Tha Commercial National bank people let It be
known that they are negotiating for a alta for a new
bank building. Tha First National Is preparing to
erect a handsome struotur In th spring to cost not
less than Sl60.Vo, and tha Merchants National and
the United Statea National are else eatd to be con
templating new buildings.
Tha has ball gam proved a walloping of the horn
team by Bt Joaeph with a acor of S to 11.
Tha Douglas county damocratio committee met to
arrange for th fall ejections, with whartea H. Brown
acting as chairman of the meeting, and Jacob Houok
as secretary.
J, M. Metaaif and wife have gone oa a visit tv
friends Id Hamburg, I a.
Edgar Allen, af th grocery firm of Allen Brothers,
returned from th st with his brid whom h had
wedded In OlaolanatL
Miss Jennie New of Chicago Is visiting at tha home
of Mr. and Mra Ike New, 104 South Sixteenth street
A plessant social party waa held at No. 4 Engine
house, corner of Nineteenth and Uorraa, under th
auspUcs o( the Soutl Side Serial club.
People and Events
Adsm Is dead. He did not II v In Kden,
but tried to live In Philadelphia. No use.
He had no handle to hla name, so far 1
as known, and the fatherly brevity of It
wort him a front page obituary.
A Chicago genius hss perfected a novel
musical Instrument, resembling the har
monica, which may be attached to the
china of snoring persons and is war
ranted to transform ghostly snorts Into
a Jumble of sweet sounds. Mother neces
sity Is still on the Job.
Financial speculation wrecked a private
bank at Wlnslow, 111., Involved the
cashier In a 170,000 defalcation, and Im
poverished friends and neighbors In the
town. Those who are dead sure of bett
ing tha speculative game usually anl.o
at this destination.
In hla haste to get rich quick, CharYs
C. Crone, a booster of Bt. Louis real
estate, forged a number of trust deeds,
pocketed the money and landed In Jail.
A slmlllar operation performed by A. 11.
Fredericks last spring, won him ten years
In the Missouri penitentiary.
The business end of the dancing pro
fession show a high degree of efficiency
in simplifying modern danoas, placing on
of them within reach of wall-flowera and
dispensing with the risk of Wiussing the
floor. Pedal dexterity and nimble-knee
action gave way to a genteel, sedate
one-step, which . will restore the glow
of youth to foxy grandpas and fatten tha
box offlc of the balL
The commission form of government
has the taxpayers of Leavenworth by
the eara. The third city In the United
Statea to embrace the system, the out
come is disappointing and mighty ex
pensive. In four years the annual tax
budget has been boosted from $130,000
to 31S,000, besides an occupation tax just
put Into effect Petitions abolishing the
commission form are now being signed
and an early return to the simple Ufa
la promised the tax-eaters.
DOMESTIC PIXASAirrWES.
'Women arc .-i"to as eouraffeous si
i men. ' srlil .vies lotm of!;
More, replies ,i i x vrmir,
man would have the nerve to keep oi
t-ittlng olf a street nr hvkward the
nv Fot.ie of us do." Washington Star.
boy.
"I rnn't Slav f .lit late tenlsht.
It's hrenclnifiking nirM at home.
"Ion't tell n you l-ave to maka the
bread. Henpeck?"
"It's not that, hvt the tilllng-pln !.-
too handy." Baltimore American.
He At last we are alone. I'ts been
hoping for this chance.
Mie So have I.
He (pleased Ah. you know, then, thai
I wanted to ask yoii to be my wlfeT
She Yes; and I wanted to say "No"
emphatically and get It over with. SI.
Paul Dispatch.
CYNICAL REMARKS.
Life la monotonous only to the man
who has no bad habits.
Many a man takes tha rest cure by
aendlng hla wife to tha country.
The race Is not always to the swift,
but don't let that Influence you to be
alow.
Some of us ran even get pleasure out
of our troubles by telling them to other
people.
Gold comes In quartz, but some peo
ple are not satisfied unless it comes in
gallons.
The man who goes to extremes may
be either his own worst enemy or his
own best friend.
Go to an egotist If you want an I for
an I, but unfortunately the dentist won't
give you a tooth for a tooth. New Tork
Tlmea,
(""SI KAB1B3LE
KABARET o
KAR Mfl.KABiBBte,
I'M EN4VrO TO A f IW. WORKIAar
IN WANNAMACy'S. Do YOU THINK;
SHE KlU. AWKg A joa WlfE?
Rr I THINK: YOU CW HAwc
IONS AS WELL Ik) MAHSiWlCOOfWi
Mothet Are yoj sure you can rive ni
daughter all the luxvries and privllop.M
enjoyed by the married women f her
ret?
Suitor I can give her town and countrv
houses, motor cars, a string of polo
ponies and dancing lessons nt once, an I
a divorce and alimony within two years.
-Life.
Sherlock That stenographer is at the
telephone describing her new hat to her
chum. From that I deduce that her em
ployer in out.
Watson You're wrong, Sherlock. Her
boss is right at hand. He gave her the
hat. Judge.
ONE SMALL YEAR OLD.
Judd M. Iwls In Houston Post.
One small year old; with locks of gold
And eyes which seem to catch Hnd hold
The glint of stars across the nlgnt.
The gladness of the morning light,
The sweetness of the evenffill.
And all the mischief more than ell
That ever shono from two glad eyes.
Defying nighttime lullabies.
Feet one year old and Just ns pink
As the rose petals, where a drink
(H dew wslts for the morning sun.
But growing strong to dance and run
From morn till night, a to-and-fro
To keep your mother on the g
To watch and guard your errant wars.
And keep you safe through all your days.
Hands can It be that one short year
Marks the time of your 'being h"re?
Hands reaching out for everything!
Wee, dimpled hands, which catch and
cling
To everything within their reach!
Hands capable of loving speech
Which any mother understands.
Against her lips glad baby hands!
Csn one year mean so much aa you?
Such gladness aa earth never knew?
Such happiness as ne'er waa dreamed?
Such brightness as has never gleamed
On sea or sky? God keep you strong!
Ood make you good, and put a song
Into your heart for all life's needs!
A song to blossom Into deeds.
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AROUND THE CITIES.
St Joe's publlo school enrollment totals
10,180, of whom 1,094 are la the Central
high.
Pea Moines has added a health In
spector, Imported from Boston, to It
publlo achool staff.
New Tork la a witching back to plain
American words tor busineaa signs.
"Tonsortai parlors' hav given plaoa to
"barber shop, modiste. t drssmJr
era" and "cafe" to plain "bars." More
straight goods and lea hot air sty I.
Bloux City picks October aa fir pre
vention day. AU klnda of Inflammable
rubbish will be aahcanned or Incinerated
on or before that data, or th honk of
th fir chief will smite the delinquent
Th Colorado tax commission ordered
th city commission to Increase th
assessed valuation of certain claasaa of
Denver property by $55,000,000, Th latter
refused. Both sides are going to the
legal mat
new achool federation organised by
parents haa been launched in CMcago for
tha avowed purpose of cutting out school
frills and restoring th "Uttl red achool
house" to lta ancient almpllolty. Th or
ganisation haa been Incorporated and la
aald to have a membership of lX.OOu,
Several hundred thousand dollars ara
Involved in tha proposed widening of
Sixth at ret and th atreet leading to
Union station in Kansas City. Owing to
th difficulty of getting ail Interested
1 lands on tha money th aldermen man
age to keep th proposition "sp la th
air.
Clous City kickers oa th commission
system of govammant hav given up th
Job for th present form of government
cannot b changed until the spring of ISIS.
Th Audubon society ot New Tork
wanta accurate Information oa th blrd
klllink proclivities of cats befor Indicting
pussy aa a aneaklng murderer. It la aald
cats destroy ,O0t.0UO birds annually, but
th Auduboner want facta, not atl
mate, befor throwing th brick.
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SAY, MR. MAN:-
I don't Import my employes or my material. I spend my money here and
through my amployea, I'm handing It to you.
wsuna am tou sinrr o Totrm lira minuiici) coxb
CUtAJT STOW" give am a "IQWSJ DSAL."
I'm the
W oim 0f the World
Two Hundred families are directly supported by members exchanging
their ability for my dollars. Three-fourths of a million dollars are exqendd
annually with local merchants of all trades. If you ara not reciprocating
"Come across." I'll give you 101 cents value for every dollar
Ring Dougla 1117.
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