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OCTOnKU CJRCVLATIOJr
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sTrvember
Thought for tht Day
Se7cff by A. K. Borne
"Xel wjwwr ear robber nor murderer.
The ars dinner from etlJioul, p'ty danger.
Let u$ (tar ovritlvt. Prejudice ere t ra(
robber; trfoe or th reel murdtrtr. Tt
frtat dangrr lit within ourfo. What an al
ter fl teltat tart atfts wr need r eur pur
1M H UmJs cWy f that which tAreakn our
kmU."- Victor Huge
Come again, teacher! Omaha like your
company.
1 However, the automobile affords Increasing
relief from a railroad holdup.
If you "buy-it-ln-Omaha," you can return It
if It la not exactly a represented.
Chlneee voters are apt pupils. Early returns
on the monarchy Issue indicate a majority for
the administration and the pie counter.
Tea, but what about that Dodge Street via
. duet now which the United States supreme court
entered the Missouri Pacific to build months
ego?
Daring skill abides in the medical profession,
Where other masterful men failed, the doctors
succeeded In performing an operation on Banker
Morgan.
The old reliable motto, "Never send a boy
to the mill," in its latest interpretation means,
"Send a eripplod railroad to the courts and get
a rate Increase."
The Serbs are retreating before overwhelm
,lng numbers and superior arms, but the names
of Serb towns defy the gunners and prostrate
the proofreaders.
Deferring that big democratic dinner for two
months was a shrewd move. Sixty days Is none
,too long for complete recovery from Tuesday's
alarming knockdown.
) L
! After that stirring between-the-floors
' episode, William Dean Howells' "The Elevator"
should be at once placed on the current teach
ers' reading course list for Nebraska.
' While the spectacle lacks the magnetism of
a movie shew, the fact that packers in Wash
Ingtoa have something to kick about sends
thrills of comfort to Innocent consumers.
Nebraska "dry" will try to keep out of em-
barrasslsg entanglements with political parties
; in -lilr. coming campaign. The "drys" are
j learning by iperlanoe as well as the rest.
I Fewer bull moose votes are recorded In
.Massachusetts this year than in Nebraska last
,year. Under the circumstances the bull moosers
'here must have little Incentive to play a lone
,baaL-
Hesve a sigh of relief! It Is authoritatively
sated that the war will not shrink the supply
'of diamonds and other precious stones available
for the American market. ' Any woman who
'wants a diamond tiara may still have It if only
(th price Is forthcoming.
it-si infU -J--H
The swell event . of the season was the reception
Siren by Mr. and Mae. Frank Colpetser on Twenty-
, fifth and Douglas streets, to which over 400 Invita
tion war issued,
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cowtn entertained at the
Paxton In honor of Senator and Mrs. Manderaon. the
. other guests being: Mrs. Brown, Judge and Mrs.
Savage, Mrs. Dundy. Mr. and Mr. Herman Kountse,
Mr. and Mr. ITitchett. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Bennett.
Robert Patrick. Mrs. J. N. H. Patrick. Oeneral and
Mr. Dandy and Mr.' and Mrs, Henry Tetea.
Marshall Field, Chicago's great merchant, stopped
off la Omaha ia the Rock Island director's special
car. With him was bis brother, J. N. Field of
Eaglaad. who formerly resided la Bloux City. They
ware driven over the city, and entertained by their
old time friend. Eira Miliar
Jim Btepbengon reports that hi Omaha Cab com
Psy is a uocesful venture. Tty are chr1n; It
seats per passenger for twelve blocks or II per hour,
and ar running tea cab with three etiangee of horeee
each day.
Rev. J. B. Max welt, president of the Netiraaka
Ceetral college at Cvntral City, is visiting in Omaha
George P. Bends U home from a protracted western
and southern tiip.
' Tbe Misses" Martaret Boyd and B. S. Joslyn have
me te Gfelsevurs. UL, U visit eid friend at Kaoa
oUege.
Knocking- Out the Two-Cent Tare.'
U seems to be aa hard for tbe railroad man
airers to acquire common sense as for the
proverbial camel to crawl through the eye of
the nee31e. The railroad have had their
tioublcs from time to time, but most of them
they have brought on themselves by their short-
sighted and granplcg dealings with the public.
end their reckless disregard and defiance of all
attempts to regulate their operations. The rail
roads of Nebraska refuaed to pay their taxes,
suuttlng up schools and clogging the wheels of
government until compelled to pay up by order
cf the United States supreme court. It was
given out that they had turned over a new leaf
and had adopted a policy of cultivating public
favor, but the present onslaught on the 2-cent-fare
law after that law has been unchallenged
tn the statute books for eight years, looks like a
new Invitation to raise tbe railroad issue again
True, tbe hole now punched in the law is
ortcnnlbly for the sole benefit of the Missouri
Pacific as the weskest line of them all. But the
ruRplclon lurks that the breach is sought as a
means of eventually undermining the law as a
vhole and bringing passenger fares In Nebraska
back to the 3-cent scale, for it goes without
rsylng that no road can charge more than an
chor between competitive points and hold Its
share of the business. So far as concerns the
reimbursement bond against overcharge should
the t-cent law be later upheld, that, of course,
smounts to nothing, because not half the pas
sengers compelled to pay a 60 per cent increase
will be here to put In their claims after tbe
final adjudication. The officials who represent
the common people who foot all the bills will do
well to be on tbe alert.
Wilton on National Preparedness.
President Wilson has taken the occasion of
the Manhattan club's semi-centennial to develop
Ms ideas on national preparedness. Tbe
president and democrats In general are urging
the new policy with all the proverbial seal of
fresh converts and are advocating plans more
ambitious and extensive than have ever been
seriously urged upon congress In the past. It
does not require a long memory, however, to
recall the charges which democrats made, par
ticularly following the Spanish-American war,
denouncing the republican administration and
congress as Imperialists and asserting that the
only use this country had for an army or navy
was one of aggression or oppression either
e gainst our own people or others. The votes of
democratic congressmen have alwsys held down
the appropriations for both the army and navy
and has been tbe accepted democratic policy
to within a few months, tbe last exhibition being
In the session of congress which adjourned last
aprlng when the naval building program was
cut to the minimum.
Nothing has really transpired since congress
adjourned to render an extensive naval building
program more urgent or politic now than it was
then. Tbe threatening complications with for
eign nations are no more acute and the probabil
ity of this nation being Involved In the great war
Is negligible. With these facts so plain, the
r resident's sudden teal for placing the United
Slates in a state of preparedness is a confession
that all these, years the democratic party has
been wrong and that the republicans have been
right tn standing for tn adequate navy and an
army at least sufficient for a nucleus of the
needs of war times. It Is not to be presumed,
however, that thinking and observing democrats
In congress have not known and realized this all
the time any other conclusion would be an
insult to their intelligence yet they have post
poned again and 'again the act of preparation
until conditions have brought the situation home
to the people so forcibly that sophistry and
buncombe will no longer deceive, The chief
ttouble the president will meet will be to undo
vlthln his own party the damage the democrats
finve already committed by their chronlo opposi
tion to every preparedness measure.
Rural Education.
It is an encouraging sign that tbe leading
educators of the country are beginning to devote
attention to the problems of the rural school.
The general educational board of the National
Teachers' association has taken up the problem
and at Its outset has discovered that as a rule all
the schools for the education of teachers In
their calling have devoted their energies to fit
ting teachers to meet the conditions that will
confront them In city and village schools and
tuere has been little training for the rural school
teacher and tbe problems Involved have been
tieated as a negligible quantity In the field of
educational effort.
Only a few weeks ago a meeting was held In
Chicago, called by the state superintendent of
Illinois, to take up this question, and plans for
mulated for a better means of preparation for
the rural teacher. The complaint is that the
urban normal schools Instils urban Ideas Into
the prospective teacher and if, perchance, a
qualified teacher Is employed In the country, it
is but a makeshift until a position can be ob
tained in the city or village. The general board
Is urging consolidated rural schools to provide
better facilities and pay which will attract capa
ble teachers, snd that the normal schools de
vote more time and energy to fitting teachers for
Instructors Jn suS schools. Even where this
has been attempted. It Is pointed oat. the In
struction in household economics, agriculture
and subjects pertinent to the farm, have too
cftcn been along lines adaptable only to the city
home or the so-called agriculturist as distin
guished from the farmer.
When the rural school problem is solved one
of the biggest propositions involved in the drift
of population, from the fwra to the city win
)o be solved, It Is confidently believed, and it
U encouraging that the beat minds In the educa
tional field have turned attention to its solution.
jjddoj pui 11
It Is a matter of common knowledge that tht
war is creating an abnormal demand for cop
per, hut few realise its extent A trade paper, re
cently started an investigation, which developed
that those beat able to judge art of the opinion
that from 750.000.000 lo 1.000,000,000 pounds
per year of American copper are being devoted
to European war purpose and that practically
half of tbe world's production of the metal is
being used In war material of one kind or an
other. It is such figures as thee that give on
a clearer conception of the magnitude of this
great struggle and the extent to which tbe
vorld's material resources are being diverted to
the uses of destruction and what tremendous
readjustment ia industrial affairs must com
with the end of the war.
The Story of Fire
TO APPRiXrlATR the true value of fire to the
world. Is is neceeeary to Imagine aa existence
without fire, and light and heat. Us accompany
ing features, as well as the Industries, arts, and
srlenera dependent thereon. We would at once drop
hack to the stone age In our dally occupations and
aorial life; our houses would be unlit at nlgtit, ear
food uncooked, our communication with the rest of
the world would be broken, and only by foot or on
the back of domesticated animals could we Journey
abroad. Not only thla, but we would be unaWe to
renew our existing stock of tools, apparatus, (upplles.
and everything made or fosuloned by the assistance
of heat, and thus we would bs carried back to the
early days of the world by the loss of fire alone.
No one really knows Just how primitive man came
to diecowr fire, and utilise it: but at some far dis
tant period, he certainly fouad that fire existed In
nature, derived from the volcano, lightning, or Mo
tion, though he seem to hare, made no use of it for
a long time. He may have come to know that It
could be transported or transferred through having
seen red hot volcanic rock Ignite dry grass, leaves,
or wood, or poealbly by having seen the lightning
strike snd snt fire to a tree. He may even have
secured a light, a It were, from one of these sources.
snd carefully preeerved It for years, by keeping some
thing constantly burning. It became Invaluable to
him, slnoo It cooked his food, and kept him warm, as
well aa gave Mm I1"ht at night. But It was at least
a long time before lie realised that he could himself
create or make fire by rubbing two dry sticks to
gether. Once discovered, this process atone was used
for centuries, before It was found that by knocking
flint snd pyrites together, sparks capable of igniting
tinder might be struck. Somewhat later. In the Iron
age, flint and sleet were substituted, a common method
employed In fire making until late la the seventeenth
century. A little later there came chemical Invention
which eventually gave way to matches.
The use of fire also marks the beginning Of arti
ficial Illumination, developed successively through the
bonfire, torch, lamps and candles, to the gas and
slectric lights of today. To fire as well, the begin
nings of metallurgy, ceramics, and other arts which
have attained a high degree of perfection In thl cen
tury, owe their origin.
The specimen exhibited at the Panama exposition
by the I'nlted H tales Notional Museum show the Im
plements used In mnking fire by the friction of wood,
percussion of minerals, compression of air, focusing
the sun's rays, and through chemistry, and terminate
with the elootrlo lighter. The series Itself I preceded
by three drawings: the first Illustrating volcanic action,
the hot lava setting fire to a forest l the second shows
a forest fire Ignited by the lightning; while the third
Illustrates the primitive camp-fire and the method
of conveying fire from one camp to another, the
first two being presumptive natnral sources from
which man may have obtained) fire before be knew a
manner for kindling it himself.
The progressive step of man' acquaintance with
fir are three i The knowledge of fire, th mean of
utilising It, and the mean of preserving It. The last
step, which is one of the most Important In the history
of man's development, is fully Illustrated by the serlea
of different apparatus and material. Many Improve
ment have followed the first step In man' progress,
and each method ha been subject to various modi
fications by different peoples. What was probably the
first method, that of rubbing two sticks together with
the hands, wss improved by reciprocating motion ef
fects; the twirling of one stick held vertically between
the palm and resting on a second lying horlsontally
en the ground, then by the addition of a bow and
socket, followod by the weighted stick a in the pump
drill, snd finally the machine with eog wheel and
crank a employed in Soudan. The Indian of the two
America, Alno. Somalia, Kaffir Veddah and Aus
tralians, were generally exponents of the simple two
stick method. The four-piece apparatus was used by
the Eskimo, Hindoos, Dyaks, and soma Athapascan
tribes, and the weighted drill was employed by th
Iroquois and the Ohukchl.
The cond method I that of sewing, and th ap
paratus comprised a thin strip of bamboo which waa
drawn edgewise serosa a section of the same wood la
which a corresponding groove had been cut across the
grain, the sparks created falling through th groove
upon soma Inflammable substano lying beneath the
large section. This was also accomplished by drawing
a thong of rattan across a stick In which a longi
tudinal dot had been out partway through, th perk
Igniting some tinder placed In the slot. Thee method
were used by the Malays and Burmese, as well gs
some other raoes.
Fire was also made by plowing, that l. a thla
piece of wood was forced along a narrow slot Out
lengthwise In a larger piece until the Motion Ignited
th tinder. This system wss evolved by the Polynes
ians, the Australians, and the Fsjniana.
Another, and more advanced system, of striking
fire was by percussion, first employed through th
us of flint and iron pyrites, or stoa containing Iron,
by th Eskimo and northern Indiana, and later super
seded by flint and steel, a custom which became quite
general.' and remained popular for many year.
Twice Told Tales
A Mare Detail.
Th man had been haled before the' ma (is brat on
some trivial Charge.
"Iet me eee," enld th Judge. "I know you. Are
not you the man who was married in a oag of man
eating lions?"
"Te. your honor," replied the culprit. Tm th
man."
"Exciting, wasn't It t ' continued the Justice.
"Weil," said the roan Judicially, "it was then; It
wouldn't be now." Indies' Home Journal.
Tke Oaly TklaaT Left.
A British army examiner had before him a atupld
candidate. Th man proving, apparently, unable to
answer the most simple questions, the examiner finally
grew Impatient, and In a burst of sarcasm demanded:
"Now, let us suppose, sir, that you were a cap
tain In command of Infantry; that In your rear was
an lmpaaeabl abyss; that on both aide of you there
rose perpendicular rocks of tremendous height; that la
front of you lay the enemy, outnumbering you ten te
one. What, sir, in such an emergency would you dot
"Well, sir, replied the applicant for military dis
tinction. "I should resign, sir." New Tork Times.
People and Events
A third eup of coffee Is a mere starter for Mrs.
A. N. Pag of Seattle. During a recent coffee drink
ing contest Mrs. Page drank twenty -one cups, equal
to a gallon and a quarter of the beverage, and waa
able to walk away with the prise, a three-pound oan of
coffee beans.
A woodsa leg shewed Its Inefficiency as a war
club at Hellwood, Ind. The owner swung It oa a
deputy sheriff, and won the first round easily. In
th second round the legless one, unsteady on a single
pin, failed In getting the range and lost consciousness
and the battle.
Mrs. James Reeve of Meriden, Miss., contribute
a speed record to th novelties of th times. She
presented her husband with triplets last month, mak
ing as even dosen children, nine of whom were born
singly. Mr. Reeve wa married at 14. She is mow
M, and has five grandchildren.
Is spite of the activities of Mars along th line,
romance stick to th Job tn EX Paso. , A Cora-Cobb
wedding stretch a broad grta around th social cir
cle and the participants are smiling soma. Mis Mar
garet Cora became Mr. Stanley Duncan Cobb, al
though th Ucaa clerk, tea ring a practical Joke, held
up tbe permit until Xba shelled out for a round of
juice,
Tke Cat ta tbe Arch Calprit.
OMAHA, Hot. 1 To th Editor of The
Pee: Now that people are condemning
the friendly little squirrel, let's call at
tention to the action of that a rah -conspirator
against song birds, th common
house oat.
Before going any further, X wish to
say that I hold no brief for the squirrel.
If he is guilty, as some say. of whole
slaughter of harmless song birds.
However, rry bird authority in the
country (many of them cat lover) admit
that th common house cat Is th birds'
worst enemy. The eat Is a meat eater
by nature, and 1 equipped with the
necessary skill and cunning to catoh
great numbers of song birds. It Is im
possible to teach a eat not to kill bird,
and I hare never seen a cat, or ven a
little kitten, which would not stalk birds
whenever it had a chance.
On numerous occasion I have seen
cats eating young robbins. thrushee and
other highly prised song birds. In the
day time, and no one has any Idea how
many of these ong bird are slaughtered,
defenseless, at night, which Is the cat's
chief hunting time. One authority
claims, that, aocordlng to his observa
tion, a number of cat on which he kept
ae close track as possible, averaged
about five old and young bird per
month during th spring and summer
season of th year. H had no way of
knowing how many bird were caught at
night, nor bow many eggs were de
stroyed, or were left unhatched on no
count of the death of the parent, nor
how many little birds starved to death
for the earns reason. His figure were
based on what he actually saw th
cats do.
There I no excuse for th ownership
of eats. With rar exception th cat la
a highly selfish creature, a comfort
lover at someone's else coat, a rowdy,
a surreptltlou and coward'y thief, a
Carrier of contagion, a blood-thirsty
carnivorous creature, with more of the
primordial wild instinct than any other
animal I know of.
I don't know what the other fellow's
remedy I against eats, but mine la a
.89-30 bullet between th eyes, or Just
back of th ear. One need fell no hesi
tation about deetroying cats, because a
eat, as far as birds are concerned is an
evil creature, and dead eat catch no
song birds.
Tours for a city-wide anti-cat cam
paign, using fair means or fonl to get rid
of this peat. DRAKE COLE.
Cripples' Welfare Society,
NEJW TORK CITY, Nov. S.-To the
Editor of The Bee: We are sure you will
appreciate the magnitude of this work.
The society, chartered in 191J, thua far
has had but little desirable publicity. I
think you will admit that of all the
eleemosynary and philanthropic move
ment of thla country, there is none more
deserving and more neglected. Thus far,
we have been able to obtain but little
financial response, by our constant ap
peals. Zt Is hoped in time through the
efforts ef this society, to obtain appro
priate national and state legislation for
cripples unable. In a measure, to care
for themselves, of which there are 600,000
In America,
. Aa matters now stand, they are per
haps th meat neglected unfortunate in
th world, and, eurioua aa It may seem,
up te the foundation of this society, there ,
has been none other In existence to make
known their wants. There are societies
for crippled children, for the Infirm, aged
and helpless, but th cripple who can
sometime work and who can be pulled
eut ef the mire Is perhaps the most neg
lected Individual In th world.
It Is hoped through thl mother society
that branches will spring In your and
ortfer cities, all ever the world and coun
try, Just a ha been th case with the
Society for th Prevention of Cruelty to
Children. Thl Is the Inltlatlv work, so
you will appreciate th Importance of
publicity, and It 1 through ueh broad-
minded paper of SUOh fin policy
yours that we oan obtain the doe I red
publicity. OSORGD W. RTDER,
secretary.
Editorial Sittings
Cleveland Plain Dealer! Ours Is still
th land of golden promts. Anna Held
I here and Oaby Des Ly I coming.
Pittsburgh Dispatch l Th president Is
aid to be weary of all thl talk about
th wedding. But wasn't h always
trong for pitiless publicity?
Washington Posti AU doubts ef Porter
Chariton's present sanity are removed
by his expressed Intention of starting
promptly for th United ' State.
St. Louis Republic: A Bt Louis lawyer
arranged things so nicely that he got
a decree of divorce for himself in fif
teen minutes. Couldn't th lawyers man.
age te extend this celerity outside of the
profession T
Brooklyn Eagist "The Blind Bom'' of
Rhode Island. Oeneral Brayton. got $10,000
of New Haven's money, but that was
pure philanthropy. Being sightless, he
cannot have been wanted to "see" th
members of th legislature.
Nw Tork World: It would be an
easier Job te warm up th west to the
Angle-French loan if that section had
not already disposed of most of its old
and sprained horse to th allies at tM)
apiece and got spot cash for them.
Chicago Herald i Th decision to use
the former frontier forts tor training
camp for volunteer merely Illustrates
the fact that there is a use for every
thing if you keep It long enough even
for a frontier fort which has survived
the frontier.
Indiana polls News: Returning pros
perity has evidently found anolhsr open
ing. Th net Income of the steel trust
for the third quarter of Uli was !,04CTt
a compared with 30,tiUU4 for the pre
ceding quarter. It seems as if the profit
taking business will hare te spread
sooner or later.
Republican Ledgeri It is said of th
Tungua, a people In the Arctlo regions
of Siberia recently vlalted by Inquiring
anthropologists, that they have little
knowledge of the outside world and no
desire to gala any. Considering tbe con
dition la which a more advanoed d va
luation now find Itself, this attitude 1
perfectly Intelligible.
Baltimore Amerlcaat Just aa hrhan
ated dtisena have declared war upon
Preadent Wilson for his neutrality
policy, citizens of foreign parentage and
dtrtk are organising e campaign against
the hyphen In Its object of treasonable
dual nationality. Evidently the attempt
to force this country Into being prac
tically a colony of any European power
has dlaguated all with a real appreciation
of American atttsenahip, and Is awlng
ta start a reectloa ta favor ef tbe latter.
Here and There
Topeka women have inaugurated a cam
paign to shoo away the door bell peat.
As a preliminary warning, doors are dee
orated with card reading: "I want ab
solutely nothing every wish supplied by
a loving husband." If th card doesn't
do th business. It is up te th husband
to make good.
A tlO.V banquet at $ a plate was
stewed away under the vests of members
of the American Meat Paokers associa
tion assembled at St Louis last week.
While some Irritation was manifested
over British greed In the matter of
cargoes, the trifling tieup of ttf.000.000 did
not disturb th appetite of tb feaater.
Metuohen, N. J., must b a center not
only of educational activity, but of pers
picacious cltlsenshlp, Som of th latter
constitute th Board of Education. Blng
somewhat pressed for a music teacher
the board turned away from tiresome ex
amination papers, picked up the photo
of a young woman applicant and err the
witchery of the picture faded h was
elected at an Increased salary. "Is she
competent to teach music r Inquired a
hesitant member. "Bur," responded the
board' Interpreter of faces; "observe the
ripple ef song on th lip and the
witchery of melody In th ye." That
settled It The vote waa unanimous.
A St. Louis maid of Immature years
and more churchly seal than discretion
listened to the advice ef a distinguished
theologian on the choosing of a pastor
for a vacant pulpit Sh waa charmed
by hi dignity, learning and pleasing man
ner ef speech, and concluded he wa the
right man for th place. At th close
of the address the enthusiastic maid
Jumped to br feet, exolalming: "Just
nam your prlo. doetor, nam your
price. Whatever It la w will pay it for
you to com to our church to stay."
Deacon of that church ar seriously
thinking ef framing th aatl-suff words
of St Paul and hanging It on th wall.
AUTUMN.
Not long ago a poet wrote,
"The melancholy daya have com;"
HI message strikes a mournful note
And puts the glad heart on the bum.
To m hi message is a fare,
Not giving nature a square deal;
I turn my eyes toward field and gorss,
And I'm reminded, "Lit I real"'
You did not hear the reaper's song.
As homeward bound hi path he
wended ?
Vjpon the ground by arms strong
Th hay Ilea stacked tbe labor ended.
October with her chilly nights
Gives us a taste ef Winter's seal
The cricket lies with shattered lights.
And, dying, murmurs, "Ausgsspleltl"
O, gracious month of hasy skies
And amber sunsets, fair and sear;
You give us gold and crimson dyes
This Is the best time of th year.
The fruits of honest toll are stored.
And with your hand you gently beckon
The worker to his Just reward,
But vou'll pass up we poets, I reckon!
Omaha. c. H.
LINES TO A LAUGH.
"What did de white folks put Bniddct
Pmtie-e In 1a'l for. eah?"
"Trigonometry. h. He dine naJ
three wives." Judge. ,
"Why did Nero fiddle while Rome wa-.
burning?"
"I guess he thought ft was a good
time to do It while the critics' mind
were on something else." Baltimore
American.
"I told my girl the other n'rht that
if she dldn t marry me I'd hang my
self In front of ths house."
"What did she aay?"
"She said: 'Oh. don't do It You
know that father doesn't want you
hanrlng around here.' " Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Look here!" said an excited man to a
druggist. "Ycu gave m morphine for
q:u!no this morning!"
"Is that so?" replied the drupgist.
"Then you owe me 25 cents." Chr.stian
Register.
"It appears to be your record, Mary
Moeelle, said the magistrate, "that
you have been thirty-five times con
victed of teallng."
"I guess, your honor," replied Mary,
"that ia right. No woman is perfect"
Ladles' Home Journal.
"Are you sure you thoroughly under
stand that question you attempted to
decider-
"No,"' replied Senator Sorghum; "biit
I fancy I expressed myself in terras
sufficiently obscure to prevent anybody
also from taking enough Interest to call
me down." Washington Star.
They had lust come in from Ni Wot
to eee the old-fashioned show.
"Gracious, Hlraml" said the old lsdv.
"Them awful society women dress like
they wss goln' swlmmln'!"
"O course, Jerusha. Hain't you heard
that In the social swim ths women try
to outstrip each other?" Field and Farm.
Little Edna Why wouldn't It do to pra
for our bread once a week or once a
month? Why must we ask very day for
our dally bread?
Older 8ister So as to have it fresh,
goosey. Boston Transcript
"I suppose you have made up your
mind what to do about woman suffrage,"
suggested one of Congressman Hamm
fatt's retainers.
"Yes, indeed." replied the eminent
statesman suavely; "I have made up my
mind to leave that Issue severely alone."
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
SatfeTnUfc
Infants and Invalids
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THE ORIGINAL
MALTED MILK
Th Food-Drink for all
rucn mux, malted grain, in powder torm.
For infants, invalids si growing children.
Pure nutrition, upbuilding lot whole body.
invigorates nursing mothers tad the aged.
Mot healthful than tea or coffee.
Unlet you may "HORLIOICS"
you ntmy not t muhatltutom
SHORTEST LINE
TO
Follow the Flag.
ST. LOUIS
Chango of Tlmo
Effective Sunday, November 7th: Train No. 14 will leave Omaha at
0:15 P. M., Instead of at 6:S0 P. M.; Arrive St. Louis, 7:49 A. M
as at present
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE
Leave Omaha, :15 P. M. and 7:02 A. M.j Arrive St. LouIsl 7:49
A. M. and. 10:60 P. M.
Electric-lighted, Standard Sleeping-cars, Cafe Club Car and high
back coaches on night trains. Modern Day Coaches on Day Trains.
City Ticket'Office, 311 South 14th St., W. 0. W. Bldg.
H. 0. SHIELDS, General Agent, Passenger Dept.
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ly to be really succcessful.
