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Till: OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 14, 1915.
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE
FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSKWATKR.
VICTOR RO S EWATER, EDITOR.
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m thla Id dv of November.
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Thought for the. Day
5Wcf af by Mary B. Maytr
Jntrt art many fttnds of lovt, at many kindt
of light.
And tviry Icind of lot maket a glory in tht
night.
Thtrt it lovt that ttirt tht heart, and lovt that
ffivtt it rttt,
But tht lovt that Uadt lift upward it tht nobltst
and tht bttt. Henry Van Dakc.
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Colonel Bryan persist! In Issuing "state
ments" with as much enthusiasm as a man sure
of an audience.
Still, If gobblers Insist on flying too high, a
hunk of prime beef will serve as a foundation
for Thanksgiving.
As an unfailing point of optimism the
trained suffrage orator has the male poltlclan
beaten Into the subcellar.
War Is the best excuse In sight for boosting
lumber prices in a land of peace. It rivals
board measure in accuracy.
Now that the vocal batteries of the warring
nations have reiterated their defies, It is up to
the fighters to produce the finish.
1 . .
The most argent need of the times, empha
sised by recent deadly fires, la not Investigation
ufter the tragedy, but building Inspection that
rsfeguarda life regardless of cost. '
Exercising the mailed fist on newspapers is
not a new or exclusively royal function. Uncle
Sam showed considerable efficiency in that line
when forced to it during the civil war.
This scheme to work the city prisoners on
the streets will not be popular with the sheriff
not if it keeps them out of his Jail-hotel and
cuts down the profits on feeding them.
The little boy's copybook says that every
lad born on American aoil may aspire to be
president of this great republic. The actual
number of White House occupants, however,
ran be easily added up on the fingers without
counting any finger more than three times.
Merely as a reminiscence It would be In
structive to secure a census of the Bryan volun
teers who pulled off the "home-coming" of
106, and determine how many would attend a
similar function today. By common consent
the chairmanship of the census committee goes
to Mayor "Jim."
According to our amiable democratic con
temporary, everybody is at work and there is a
shortage of labor. Still, we have had more
men and women applying to us for employment
daring the past month than for several months
preceding, and they all tell the same story of
inability to find the work they need. It must,
then, be only in the newspaper business that
there are more people than Jobs.
Building Reitrictioni and City Planning.
The first move Incident to the creation of a
tUy planning board has been to place restric
tions on the character of buildings to be erected
in one section of the city. Similar restrictions
I ave heretofore been made In other sections
through conditional deeds to property when land
lies been platted, and the results In obtaining a
measure of regularity, harmony of design and
exclusion of incongruous elements are manifest
to even the casual observer. If such restrictions
lave proved valuable where voluntarily under
taken, their extension to districts where- some
of the property owners are unwilling will In
time work wonders In creating a more beautiful
city.
Probably In no place in the world has public
supervision of buildings and other Incidents of
a city's growth been carried so far as In Buenos
Ayres, where advance official approval must be
iind on architectural plans of both residences
. end business structures. In American cities it
is not uncommon to see buildings really artistic
in themselves so discordantly grouped as to be
i rally grotesque, ir not ugly. In the Argentine
t.'ty nothing of this kind would be possible ex-
rpt through the gross incompetency of the
mithoritles. Architectural design there is not
confined to a flat uniformity, but must be bar
iiionlous, and as a result, travelers acclaim the
rgentlne capital the most beautiful of modern
cities. That the American public would submit
to as far-reaching and ironclad restrictions is
doubtful, but there Is so much room for im
provement In our city building that the genera
tions to come will hold us blameworthy if we
continue to neglect our opportunities.
Where Co-operation is Lacking.
One of the telling points made by former
Senator Burton in both of his addresses in
Omaha, and one which cannot be too often re
peated or too r nerRetlcally ured. Is the need
of greater Individual Interest and personal par
ticipation by the citizen In public affairs.
Everyone cannot have his voice heard In the
determination of national Issues, and perhaps
not in the discussion of state matters, but
everyone can manifest a concern In subjects of
Immediate local and municipal moment. A
niectiiiK was held last week at the Instance of
the Commercial club to debate a question that
pees to the foundation of our relations to pub
lic service' corporations, but scarcely fifty peo
ple were present In addition to the members of
the committee, and not a single representative
of the improvement clubs and civic associations,
whirh had been specially Invited. We recall
that when the charter convention was In ses
sion and citizens generally were urged to ex
press their views and make suggestions, very
few paid any attention to the invitation, not
even the Commercial club Itself. It is this con
dition of indifference and apathy, which seems
to be chronic, that Is the cause of so much
"after-the-fact" complaint about things done by
public servants In a way that does not suit the
critics. Our public officers, and particularly
those charged with our municipal government,
have a right to have more co-operation from the
II liens for whom they are working
Exports of Pure-Bred Stock.
American stockmen are now reaping a
reward In an entirely unexpected way for their
tfforts to build up the quality of their live
stock. Up to recently the United States has
i-tver been looked to by breeders In other lands
for anything except horses in the driving and
hurness racing classes, In which latter fields it
has for many years been pre-eminent. For the
best In cattle and draft horses the sewer coun
tries of the world have always looked to Europe,
the United States among the rest. So persist
tntly has this country followed the practice of
Importing the best In this line from Europe
that Its horses and cattle have been bred up to
a high standard, and as a result, now that the
war Interferes with European exportatlons, the
roople in other countries have turned to the
United States and find here Just what they
vunt.
No country In the world is better adapted
to raising such stock than the United States
and with the long years of building up the
quality of breeding 'animals it is not unreason
able to believe that when conditions which
compelled outsiders to seek this market have
passed away this most profitable business
cennot only be retained, but increased. The ad
vantages which accrue from such a business are
manifold. Not only is there profit in it, but It
Is an incentive to still further improve the live
stock and gives the farmer a direct and added
Interest In the foreign trade of the nation.
There Is no good reason why the United
Ftates should not be the world's leader In
quality as well as quantity in live stock pro
duction and noth'ng is lacking now except a
more general attention to scientific methods.
The complaint In. Europe for years has been
that the United States was robbing, through
purchase, thefold countries of the best of their
live stock, and certainly this has laid the
groundwork for a great exporting industry, ,
Liberty Bell Enroute Home.
After being exhibited at the San Francisco
exposition, the historic Liberty bell Is now
enroute to its home In Independence hall in
Philadelphia. The peoples of the world have
always been devotees of symbolism and, as a
general proposition, the more thoroughly ideal
lstlo a people the greater the Influence of sym
bols. Communities and individuals therefore
which adhere most closely to the ideals which
this historic bell symbolises havo shown the
greatest interest in it during its travels. With
out a knowledge and appreciation of its sym
bolism, the old bell would scarcely be an at
traction to any but the Junk man, yet in the
estimation of patriotic cltisens of the United
States it Is the roost valuable piece of metal In
the world, for it stands as the emblem of the
charter of our liberties. That transporting it
from place to place is taking a risk cannot be
questioned, but to many who have witnessed
the influence upon the millions who have thus
been given an opportunity to 'see it, its influ
ence in quickening patriotic sentiment la
deemed smple recompense for the risk. To
those of our cltlsenshlp whose, ancestry and
traditions lead back to the days when the bell
first pealed its notes of liberty it probably has
a more Intimate personality, but from the man
ner ' of its reception it can well be doubted
whether it carried to those any deeper meaning
than to the great mass of more recent arrivals
on our shores. While everyone who reveres the
reUc will feci easier when it has reached its
permanent home, thoughtful observers see that
its travels have carried home a valuable lesson.
Motion Pictures and Crime.
The motion picture has entered a new field
of usefulness for the detection of criminals,
lor years identification has been accomplished
mainly by photographs, measurements and
thumb prints, but it often happens that when
the identity of the perpetrator of a crime is
known, or good descriptions of him are availa
ble, no photographs can be obtained serviceable
for familiarising police officers all over the
country with his appearanoe. The Chicago
I'Oiire have sought to fill this gap by the motion
Iicture and every day the flotsam and jetsam
that passes through the police court is being
paraded before the motion picture camera and
tlie films preserved. From the very nature of
things the major portion of these pictures will
pever be utilized, but a study of them from day
to day and the recurrence of the same people
v-ill familiarize the police with the faces of
those who come often to the police court mill,
rud Just when a face that is wanted can be
picked from the mass no man can tell. Per
a.rtence In the plan will in time produce a gal
lery of police character faces impracticable to
obtain In the ordinary way. As yet the scheme
has not been tried except in Chicago, but If the
I opes of its sponsors materialise every metro
politan police department will eventually have
its motion picture operator.
We'll What is slopping brothers Hitchcock
and Bryan from dazzling the spectators by
pulling oft a harmony "stunt" In the democratic
ring?
ur noTom aonwiTia.
NK.AKL.Y twelve years" aervlce on the Public
Library board, created an Intereat In the growth
and usefulness of that Institution, which haa not
fin It Red since I severed official connection with It, and
1 have kept more or less In touch with the library,
and with library people. For the first time In It
history the library will next year hava sufficient re
sources to branch out and expand Its activities, ant
make Itsrlf more of factor In the Intellectual life
of the community than it ever has been.
Talking to Miss Tobltt, the librarian, not Ion
aso, I made a suirireatlon which aoemed to strike her
favorably, which 1 hope may be carried out. the Idea
having come to me from the unique Installation of
the Juvenile books In the new Matthews book store,
devised by Mrs. Matthews, who planned everything- 'n
thla department specially to appeal to the little ones
and make them feel at home. If a commercial estab
lishment find It to advantage to cater to the children
by making a coy alcove of books for them, why
should not our Public library, whose chief function
Is to Instill In young; folks an appreciation of good
literature and a love of books? My advice to Miss
Tobltt. therefore, was for a complete revolution oi
the children's room In the PuNIo Library. Why
should not tha youngsters patronising the library
hava a room not only their own, but equipped and
furnished with a view to making It comfortable for
them and making them want to stay In It? True, the
children's room now there la. and haa been for some
time, fitted up with child's else tables and chalra, and
the walls are embellished with pictures of subjects
within tha child's conception but that Is about as fnr
as the differentiation has gone. Why not, I asked,
make It Into a real living room with some easy chairs,
and comfortable aetteea. If not upholstered rockera.
Instead of tha hard-bottomed, straight-back chairs,
ranged round table stiffly aet In rows? Who ever
sits at a table now-a-dys, anyway, unless he uses
the table to make notes? People uaed to read at
tables because tha tables held the lampaj and now hero
else was there light enough to read by. Uncomforta
ble chairs and desks may be all right for a school
room where uniformity and discipline Is neoessary. but
they are not necessary In a reading room.
Tha furniture la not tha only thing, either, that
makes attractiveness In a room, for rugs, carpets,
pleasing pictures and ornaments and hangings, con
tribute to a well-appointed living room or library In
tha home, and would also help mightily In tha juvenile
part of a public library. And If comfort should prove
a stimulus to tha uaa of tha library by tha children,
perhaps It could later be extended to tha reading and
reference rooms reserved for tha adults. Mora than
this. If such an Innovation should work out wail here
In Omaha, It would be taken up by libraries In other
cities, and start something worth while.
Another suggestion I have made would make avail
able for library uaa a lot of valuable space In tha
basement it ought not to be called a basement, for
It la entirely out of grounA now required for tha
heating plant With tha completion of tha new Grain
Exchange building on tha oppoalta aide of Nineteenth
street It would pay tha city to enter Into a contract
for the heating of tha library building front the
ataam boilers In the offloa building. Though speak
ing wholly without authority In tha matter, I have
not the slightest doubt that the Drain Exchange peo
ple can supply the heat for the library at a profit
for leas than tt is costing the library to heat Its ewn
building now aqd eliminate all the bother of coal
and ashes and boiler risk and repairs, Inasmuoh as
the library haa no elevator service, X am not sure but
wnat i ravor putting the children's room, with the
new furnishings I have outlined. In thla basement
space, and thus do away with having tha younntara
run up and downstairs constantly as they do now.
Twice Told Tales
BMhE.rire.
TJie head of the family, with his beloved briar
root pipe and bis favorite magastne, had settled back
In tha rocker for a quiet, comfortable evening.
On the other side of aa Intervening table was tha
miniature counterpart of himself, the wrinkling of
whose s-year-old forehead Indicated that ha was men
tally wrestling with soma perplexing problem. After a
while he looked toward his comfort-loving parent, aad
with a hopeless Inflection asked:
"Pa."
"Tea, my son.'
"Can tha Lord make everything?" .
"Tea. zny boy."
"Everything V
"There la nothing, my son, that Ha cannot do."
"Papa, could Ha make a clock that would strike
less than one?"
"Now, Johnny, go right upstairs to your ma and
don't stop down here to annoy ma when I'm reading."
Johnny went and wondered atllU-Chloago Ledger.
Hie Bear Day.
Major George W, Teldeman of Savannah, Ga., talis
the following about tha old-time Georgia editor who
was usually mayor, justice of the peace, real estate
agent, as well.
Upon one occasion one of these editors waa busy
writing an editorial on tha tariff, when a Georgia
couple came in to be married. Without looking up,
without once slacking his pen. the editor aald:
"Time's money want her?"
"Yea." said tha youth.
"Want him?" the editor nodded toward the girl.
"Yes," she replied.
"Man and wife," pronounced tha editor, his pen still
writing rapidly. "On dollar. Bring a load of wood
for It One-third jane; balance oak." Everybody's
Magailne.
Settla Hlaa lMkt.
During the concert a man who realty appreciated
music for Its own sake was greatly annoyed by a
young fop In front of htm who kept talking to the
girl at hla side. "What a nulaanee:" finally exolaimed
the appreciative man. "Do you refer to me. alrr
threateningly demanded the fop. '"Oh, no, I meant
tha musicians. They keep up such a note with their
instruments that I can't hear half your brilliant con
veraatlon." Argonaut.
S. .cT-iZ W
si '
Hon. J. V. Farwell of Chicago waa tha guest at a
dinner tendered him on behalf of tha Young Men's
ChrUtian association at the Omaha club, tha purpoae
being to Intereat htm In the project of a Young Men's
Christian association building here. O. F. Davla read
dispatches he had received from Mr. Black, owner of
the lot at the southwest corner of Sixteenth and
Douglas, indicating that ha would sell for $26,000, of
which all but tl0.ouO could be on deferred payment.
Newa haa just been received that Clarence Whistler,
who made bis debut aa a wreatier while In Omaha,
employed at tha smelting works, had defeated Walter
Miller of Australia, for H.0O0 a side and the champion
ship of tha world.
MrShan Bchroeder have shipped lt,0 pounds of
butter to Liverpool during the last month.
John B. Finch, prohibition advocate, paaaed through
Omaha on his way to Ban Franclece, where be will
open a prohibition campaign In California.
Judge D. G. HuU and family have taken the home
formerly occupied by F. A. Schneider, at the south
west comer of Twentieth and Opttot avenue.
Marshal Cummings, accompanied by John McDon
ald and William Bracy, have gone up In the vicinity
of Da Soto on a four-days' hunting expedition.
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
Cleveland Plnln Dealer: A Connecticut
church has Introduced female ushers, is
I. wise? A timid man may fear that the
lady might make a mistake and lead him
to the altar.
Houston Post: It Is true, as a fJalves
ton brother told his congregation Sunday,
I hot covetousnesa Is the greatest modern
sin. cr rather the most prevalent sin. Ap
parently, the first great object of the
time Is to locate a man with money, and
the next Is to move heaven and earth If
posdble to take It away from him.
Philadelphia ledger: Some churches
expect the minister to be ut the beck and
call of every member in unrpcompensed
rervlces of a secular nature similar to
these wherein none would think of ask
ing doctor or lawyer to otflclnt without
a fee. In many churches It la not nov
elty, but "low-doan. ordinary" meanness
that sets the pastor's salary at a figure
Immorally small. The Massachusetts
Paptlsta in convention find that 1M of
their 3?S pastors are paid leaa than 11.000.
It cannot be that In every case the con
gregation is unable to pay mora.
Baltimore American: With the mls
slonarlea shut out from some of their
widest fields of labor, and many of them
returning to their homes aged and ago
nised by the acenes they have witnessed,
the field for the exposition of tha ethics
and efficiency of Christianity Is being
amplified elsewhere. In Japan is being
observed tha Inauguration of an emperor
with all the ancient pagan ceremonies.
This will probably be the last time tha
antique rites will be employed without
modifications that will rob them of all
religious Import and leave them but elab
orate ceremonials. China and India are
opening their highways to the march of
the cross.
WHITTLED TO A POINT.
Ambition never haa time to take a day
off.
Don't use youy best friend for a crutch.
Oo it alone.
The one-armed man haa a offhand way
of doing things.
Charity gives itself rich and covetous
ness boards Itself poor.
H who talks of the unalterable laws
of man Is a hopeless fool.
Thar are times when loquacity tells
nothing and silence tells much.
Most men get marriedi before they are
old enough to know better.
Wisdom is tha art of being out when
people call who want to borrow.
The tongue haa more to do with honor
than the conscience usually haa.
The man with " but a single Idea al
ways has an exalted opinion of himself.
Ambition has prevented many a man
from making a success la small things.
When a man asks for a woman's sym
pathy ha raaily doesn't care vary much
about Ik
Borne men perform a duty aa If they
were paid for doing it and were doubtful
about the pay.'
man may become great by accident,
but he never haa genuine wisdom and
goodness thrust upon him.
The society leader in a small village
imagines she has a grievance when her
name doesn't show In the local paper.
Chioago News.
QUAINT BITS OF LIFE.
An applicant for a teacher's certificate
in Kentucky answered an examination
question by defining "blunderbuss" as
"klaatng the wrong glrL"
Policemen of Berkeley, CeL, are to be
required to attend the University of Cali
fornia. This will be the first college-bred
police department In the country.
While a fire was hi progress In a tene
ment house In Paris, a poodle dashed up
stairs, and In a few minutes returned
with a doll In Its mouth. The doll was
joyfully seised by an S-year-old daughter,
of the tenant.
Naturalists have determined that a
beaver dam on Eighth lake In the Fulton
chain. New York state, la at least 150
years old. There are IB distinguishable
rings of annual construction and a great
thickness that haa already decayed. It is
said certainly to date back to 1766.
Chlneae take the oath In court by kneel
ing down and breaking a saucer. The
officer of the court then saya: "You ahall
tell the truth and tha whole truth; the
saucer is cracked, and it you do not tell
the truth your soul will be cracked like
the saucer."
It will neved do to talk about the "new"
weat Dr. Charles D. Waloott aays that
near Helena, Mont, are found tha oldest
animal remains now known, and also the
oldest authentic vegetable remains. Some
yaara ago ha discovered the remalna of
crablike animals, suggesting In form
fresh water crabs found the world over.
A wealthy and somewhat eccentric ex
deputy, M. Carre t, who retired from po
litical Ufa in Franca many years ago to
live In an Alpine grotto In Savoy, haa
left his fortune to hla native town on
condition that each year a prise of JI.OOO
be awarded to tha moat perfect girl, both
physically and morally, in Savoy.'
People and Events
ABOUND THE CITIES.
St. Louis organisations are hustling for
the wherewith to compete with all com
ers for the national party Conventions.
The mayor of Bellefontatne. O., will
serve his two-year term without pay. and
use the money In sprinkling the dust
settled In that section of the dry belt.
Newark. N. J., will celebrate its ICOth
anniversary next year with a variety of
festivities extending from May to Oc
tober. Ogden stands first and Salt Lake City
fourth In a list of twelve Rocky Mountain
cities ahowlng the' fewest number of idle
workmen.
Cincinnati school children last summer
cultivated 2.80U gardens and harvested
bushels of vegetables, flowers, etc., aa
well aa barrela of fun.
Owing to the presence of a grand jury
In Minneapolis, a large number of games
which enlivened the social life of the
city auspended operation Indefinitely
and padlocked the lids.
Sioux City Indiana are already aalutlng
the Thanksgiving aeaaon with magnums
of Joy. Burglary Insurance baa been re
duced and a public golf course la planned
by the city park department.
Minneapolis' Housewives' league de
mands that egg be sold by weight The
demand la coupled with the assertion that
farmers keep large egga for home con
sumption and send the small ones to
market.
Denver records the death of four per.
sons at a dangerous grade eroaslng, last
Monday. At the average Ufa value
tu.eoo. the intereat on the railroad losa
would pay first claaa wagea to a crossing
watchman, which the company neglected
to employ.
The orlKinnl Omar of I sedftd wns es
teemed the fleetest Persian of his div
Chicago Omar showed even greater
speed In dodging his enemies, outsprlnt
Ing two bailiffs, two spinsters and a flock
of lively school children -nit for a frolic.
The transplanted Omar Is a Perslnn cnl
x alued at r,.0 0. but altogether too nimble
to be held for hln owner's back rent.
Oeorgla's lawmakers are sreddinR eray
hairs In an effort to d'scovor the golden
mean between a piiroxypm of thirst nn.i
the limitation of the thirsty. At last ac
counts the lawmiikcrs Inclined to a limit
of a pint a week for ea- h Importer cf
booze whose thirst defied a schooner of
near-beer. Ecsldcs thst quantity adjusts
Itself to the opacity nf the avetagc
pocket.
Surprising confirmation of the f-il'iue
of the ministry to attract a large num
ber of students comes from the high
School of Mlllville, N. J. A canvass of
2.V) student to what vocation they
Intended to follow for their life work
did not develop one !n favor of the
ministry. The surprise springs from the
fact that Mlllville prides Itself on being
"a city of churches."
John Flnlayson of Seattle. 103 years old,
a pioneer gold hunter of California and
Oregon, Joined the first rush to the
Klondike and brought back from tha
Yukon a stake ho deemed sufficient for
his want for life. But Father Time Jol
lied the golddigger along far beyond cal
culations and mortuary tables, and do
cllned to Issue a ticket, even when John's
pile vanished. Now he la hobbling to the
finish on a pioneer's pension.
The Knickerbocker Press of Albany
puts out a highly Informing booster edi
tion. Illustrating and describing the de
velopment of waterways In New York
state and their relation to the transpor
tation problem of the country. The Em
pire state Is spending well over $100,000.
000 In widening and deepening the Erie
canal. To utilise to the full the value of
the Inveatment Hudson river must be
deepened and made navigable for ships
of ocean-going draft The booster edition
trains its guns on this object and its ar
tillery carry literary and pictorial power
to Induce the surrender of an appropriation.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"You told me thst If I would murry you
1 I sluxiiil neer want for anything."
i "cll""
I "I you relme that wo ve teen mar
I rird e Kht years. n..d you sio no r-vvr.
rnrs hihI ten mnnu.s ccn.nd on orders.'"
LHrtitdt l ieu l l.
"Now some expert claiirs U at you cs i
turn dirk hnlr UM ly simp y sitting
still nnu iiiln- t. e thoughts o.i tie de
railed end. Think there is hnyi ng .n ll?"
"Mayie so. I've OiUn he:iid it at sl
j lence la golden." Louisville lourler
I journal.
j "Wife, can't wo get rid of some of this
la j'lunner .'
"Everything may conic in handy some
time." . .
"Mill. I think we run no risk In dis
posing of thla old cMlcndar for ISM."
l.oulfcvllie t"ou rler-.lou i iml.
t'nrle Jack aked little felie if she
cl. n't w.mt him to play w ith her.
"oh. no," sue sal i, "wi re playing In
dian, anu you re no. use, Vause you're
scalieu already." Chicago Tribune.
"I rro tl ey d.lejted woman suffrage
in yoi.r state.."
"Woman nulfrage," replied Mrs. Vote
w,li, vttnuoi lie dofeateu. They suc
ceeded only In postponing it." Washing
ton Mar. - - -
i "1 hear thnt Irene answered Oenrgu very
all rou.a? ii. sly when ne tola ner nu .
wdl.ng 10 die tor her. ' ' '
' Y-; toiu him tine preferred a (cllow
willing to mane a iiwnts lor her."--tialti-muit
American.
THE KIVER OF TEARS.
F. K. MacKay-Coutts.
There is a river, orunined to roam
here never the Mow Klne feed,
Wheru never tne waiider bunds her home,
iij vine, or forest, or mead.
Barren and sullen, and black It creeps,
.(ai.riK nor uout nor barge;
NotiunK Is fashioned within Ita deeps,
Nothing along Its marge.
Never the cltv It leaps to lave.
Never o'erbrlnis its aide
To moisten the meadows; across Its
wave
Never the swallows glide.
Flowerless glimmers Ita pallid edge,
Treeless shimmers its sheen;
Nowhere its shallows are set with sedee.
Nowhere with rushes green.
Salt from Its birth in the marsh of
wrong. '
Bitter with tribute rills,
Ita home Is not In the sear. Its song
ts not of the blue hills.
Shrouded In mist, It makes Ita moan
Of the burden of. mortal years,
Like the cry of a child, in the night
alone;
And men have called It Tears.
PREPAREDNESS
WELL, I SHOULD SAY.
SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND
Woodmen O1 World
PKE1ARE1 TO WRITE YOUR APPLICATION.
We ate Prepared and Are Faying Old Age Disability Benefits Sally.
Hundreds of Death Claims Paid Within 94 Honrs After Beoeipt of Proofs.
W Are Prepared for Any emergency.
SURPLUS 26,000,000 DOLLARS.
DOtTT SB m&OW. TOXiXTHTXES.
RECRUITING OFFICE W. O. W. BUILDING.
.1. T. YATES,
Adjutant.
PHONE D. 1117
V. A. FRASEK,
Commanding. '
Loftis Bros. & Ce- The National Credit Jewelers
II..- ..III I I I1 ll'H ,11 llll j "
11
$1 pw)(mi fw
, m aim iiMr , wwr. gs jwaL.-MBttji-igi-
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Thousands of people In this city and all over America, are WIAEIHO DIJU
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took advantage of our famous CRKDIT PLAN and have the benefit, prestige
and pleasure derived from wearing th moat coveted of ail the earth's trean
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everything strictly confidential.
Diamond
La Valliere
X-60 La
LVatllere.
fine anIK ipIi). 4 tin
Diamonds. IR-ln. etMln.
p r I n ( rlnc CCA
et. h. galaoiir. "
1.00 a Week
mi4
BO Diamond
8tu4 mild sold.
BalRhar mounting,
brilliant Kal
Diamond.
$1 a weak
Most Popular
ENGAGEMENT RING
87 Ladles' Dia
mond Rlna, 14k aolld cold.
Ixifila 'Parfao- A(
lion" mountlnr A4w
1 a Week
769 Men's Ring,
Flat Balcbn-. half sncrav
4. 14k aolld (old. CiC
Hoa Diamond V'
$1 a Week
BRACELET WATCH, SOLID COLD
51 a Week
$42.50
17 Jewel
Solid Gold
loea Rrarolet Watch, 14k aWd gold, very
mall, thin nodal: 11 Una ruby jawala. S a a A
Waiiham Jel aariea; narrow adjuat- S4Z 5 Q
abla brelet.
TEBM3! 91.00 a Week.
69S Scarf
Pin. aolld gold,
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..$10
1 a Month.
Open Daily Till 8 P. M. Saturday Till 9:30. ..
Call or wrlie tor Catalog No. 903. Phone D. 1444 and salesman wi;i call.
RATIONAL CREDIT JEWELERS. '
MAnr rxoos. crrr itatiowai. baitk blocs.
Opposite Bagesa-JaTash Oo. Department attor.
nOFTIS
VIA
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD
Rout of the SEMINOLE LIMITED THE ALL
STEEL TRAIN.
Round Trip Winter Tourist Tickets on sale daily,
limited to return June 1st, 1916.
Rate9 to Principal Points aa follows.
Jacksonville $50.63
Tampa $62.28
Miami ...$72.78
St. Augustine $52.98
St Petersburg $62.28
Palm Beach ...$69.18
St Cloud $60.18
Fort Myers $67.38
Key West $83.78
HAVANA, CUBA. . .$87.18
Tickets to all other points at same proportional rates.
Tickets via Washinrton. D. C. in one direction, returning via
any direct lin. at slightly higher rate.
KOME9EEKER8' tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays of
each month.
For detailed information and descriptive literature, rail at
CITT TICKET OFFICE, or write 8. North. Watrlet Passenger aVgetut.
4 07 South 16th St., Omaha, Nebraska. Phone Douglas JS4.
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