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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1915)
40 TTTK 0MAIU SUNDAY BEE: NOVEfBER 21, 1915. ZWE OMAHA SUNDAY DEB ' . FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROBBWATER. VICTOR ROSKWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. IKTS BUILDING. TARNAM AND CTVENTEKNTH. Sntered at OntU poetofflce m seeoad-elaae matter. TERM OF UBBCRIPTTON. Fy carrier T met! par month. per year. l'y end IHnAT o. M I1t without RtinSar '. eto 4 M evening and Sunday . Sto........... -t evening without Sunday fo... 4 "0 iunday Bee only Oo 1.0 tend notlro of ehanre of s1 dress or complaint of irregularity la delivery to Omaha. Boa, Circulation )eparunent PrMITTANCB. emlt by draft, eipreea or postal order. Only two ent portage stamps received In -T-armeet of email eo ounta. Peraostal ehecka, except fa Omaha and eastern 'xcbange, not accepted. omrtt Omaha The Boo Bnlldlng. rVnuth Omaha U N street. Council Bluffo U North Mala Street Lincoln! Little Building. Chicago sol Hearst Bulldlnr. Naw Terk Room UN, M Fifth tnmia Pt- Louis 0S Naw Bank of Com marc. Washtigton 7 Fourteenth Bt, N. W. CORRESPOND INCH. : Id drees communications relatles to paw a aad edV orial matter to Oman a 80. ikOJtonai iM Department, OOTOBKH SUNDAY CIHCULATION, 48,385 ' 3tste of lfeheeafta, County of DmiiIm, 00.I ' Dwlaht Will lama, circulation mu(r, ssjns thai ha everaa Sunday circulation for tha month of October, 1 1 18, wee 41,115. ; DWTiHT WILLIAM. Ct reflation Minutr, flubecrlbed In my presence and rwom to before na thla Id day of KWKmlwr, 111 It HOBERT HUNTER. Notary Pvbllo. j fiobocrlbora fearing tha city temporarily I should bay Tha Be mailed to than. Ad ; drees will bo changed aa aftea aa requested. Thought for thm Day SWaoforf y Mro. Alio E. 2X Coet "80 many God, e maay creeds, So many pafA (Al H4 n4 wind WKIU wt thft0ftog kind Is U (Ad tad world n-d." Wonder if Mr. Turkey Gobbler realises that ho Thanksgiving react la only fly sunsets off? Getting Into the homo stretch of the foot all season t The famous American slogan of 1ST!, "Claim Aerythlng," looms large aa the guiding light of rar censors. You Just can't loae Johnnoyleeer while the olltical game continues to be played without n entrance fee. ; Rev. "Billy" ought to have birthdays oftener be could celebrate) one at each place where holds a re viral. ! War's havoc steadily Increases the world's loom. The famous rumor factory of Roma no onger brightens the corner. ! An means of extracting political persplra ion, devising new sources of national revenue sr exceeds the task of spending It ' ! Cherry county looms large not only la area. , ut In spuds. Hen la the honor of fluttering he potato pennant for Nebraska for a year. j Should the worst come In war revenue, the ,inpoBltlon of stamp taxes on application for ''flee would give the deficit a "fare-re-wall. . ? "City prisoners must take bath." We bought there was a constitutional prohibition omewhere against cruel and unusual punish- sent. Where, oa where, to that fund of $100,000 , vhich was to bo pledged to land the democratlo , latlonal convention for Omaha? Don't ail speak 1 1 once. ' I While the churches are pursuing their fol : ow-up campaign on the "trail hitters," is any . -s i 'tie beside the devil keeping track of the back s ltders? Henry Ford credits the newsBaBera with Sufficient power to and the world's war la two ;uonths time, "if they were united." There's he rub. j Not the least of the advantages of fine fall leather is Its fitness for preliminary vocal cam lalgnlng. Moderate temperature insures needed Exercise for a hot finish. tut- 1 to Comerriiig Flood Waters. Revival of the project to conserve the flood aUrs of Nebraska streams and make them of wrvlce Instead of agents of destruction brings .v anew the same question always raised In the )it Will the benefits be sufficient to pay for he expense of the undertaking T There can be 10 argument that the Immense amount of water which goea to waste at cerUln seasons of the ear could be profitably utilised at others, and t is equally apparent that the damage done by ;hese excessive flows of water Is great In car rying out the proposed projects, however, there ire some problems that might as well be faced it the Inception aa later, for faced and overcome '.hey must be If the plan Is to be successful. ; In the first place, aad most Important of all. i.f the Question whether tha benartta woni ed the cost, and second, an equitable method' 51 apportioning the coat to those benefited, for y scheme which contemplates taxing a con ilderablo number of people for benefits to oth irs will meet with opposition that will be fatal 1'iJeas It can be shown that the general good Is it the same time promoted. The topography and aoll composition of Tfe trtBka likewise offer some obstacles which must be considered. Nebraska streams for the' most part have low banks and floods which cause them to overflow would not be serious In many other sections, and the impounding of water must, therefore, be on a more extensive scale than In many sections of the United B tales. Boll to in position In most parts of Nebraska also rea ders the construction of Urge dams both expen sive and difficult If the element of safety and permanence be Ukea Into consideration, as It toust These are problems which must be sat isfactorily solved before any such work Is un dertakes or it will result In a waste of effort Ptd money. It Is not ODDosltlon to tha nnru.. i.lch The Bee would voice, but simply that It t i-outa be approacbed la a practical way and not vfthcut fair assurance of success. As to a Federal Inheritance Tax. The Chicago Tribune is agitating sys tematically for a federal tax on inheritances and bequests, using all the well known arguments in favor of this form of taxation, which argu rr.ents cannot be suoceeefully com batted. The inheritance tax baa proved itself In this country as well aa in other countries, and vhllo It does not produce the colossal revenues sometimes promised. It Is unquestionably a tax tbat can be Justly assessed, easily borne, and Vth difficulty evaded. Conceding the deslrablflty and validity of the Inheritance tax still does not settle the ques tion whether. In this country, It should be levied as a state tax, or a federal tax, or both. Up to the present time the federal government has en deavored to draw upon separate and distinct sources of revenue from those tapped by the states, and In the division of the field the taxa tion of inheritances has been taken over for state purposes. States which now Impose In heritance taxes will, we believe, be reluctant to yield their right to the federal government, and tf congress merely adds a supplemental tax, with high exemptions, it will operate unevenly and be disappointing In Its yield. Since the federal government has taken over the Income tax. It Is at least debatable whether the taxation of Inheritances should not bo left to the states In consideration of the states leaving the taxation of Incomes to congress. We know there are difficulties arising from the distribution of tha property constituting an estate through differ ent states, and even through different countries, which would be met better by having the tax levied and collected by the federal government Perhaps the solution may be found In a federal Inheritance tax, a specified part of whose pro ceeds are turned back to the state In which they are collected, reserving exclusively to the federal treasury that portion only taxed against property located in federal Jurisdictions or In foreign countries. Woman and the Theater. No man except a confirmed woman hater with more than the average amount of courage would dare say what a noted actress is quoted as declaring here In Omaha, that woman is di rectly responsible for the presentation of Im moral plays; in fact It would be a sad shattering of ideals to even accept the truth of the asser tion. Her citation of box office receipts, while convincing in a way, la not conclusive. That women constitute the majority of theater at tendants and that a large portion of the men bo attend are there merely as escorts of the women Is doubtless true. That these women could put such plays out of business by refusing them their patronage Is obvious, but the fact they have not is hardly proof that these same women would not really prefer something else in the way of the drama. There is also another factor Involved which the charge does not take Into consideration, and that is the class of plays cited are Immoral largely. If at all, form the point of view only. They are gross, or a sermon, if you will, Just as the author's ideas and the player's Interpreta tions are conveyed and received. The utility of this method of teaching morality is another de batable question which opens up a rather fine distinction as to what constitutes Immorality In a play. The fact that playhouses and produc tions of a clearly Immoral character are not ex tensively patronised by women Is the best an swer to the broad charge that women are re sponsible for and really relish Immoral plays. Yalno of Bird life. Efforts to compute the .money value of bird life to the farmer and the fruit raiser are largely guesswork, but the fact they have a large mon etary value Is beyond question. In this respect public sentiment has undergone a great change In recent years, as it Is not so long ago that kill ing of birds was common because they ate fruit uad grain, no account being taken of the insect l'fe harmful to crops they also destroyed, or the seeds of weeds which constituted so large a por tion of their dally food. No longer does the thoughtful farmer be grudge the small amount of grain eaten by birds or the fruit raiser the few cherries, apples or other fruits the feathered friends take. The flycatcher at one dart as he picks out of the air a moth. has destroyed more of destructive value to the fruit raiser than his own toll of the or chard: the woodpecker or the creeper as he sounds the trunks of trees and searches qut the borers and bugs where they are hidden from the agencies of man Is a workman who well earns hs keep, and the same Is true of practically all ef the bird life. No resident of the farm or or chard performs so much service for so little psy, not even the overworked hired man. The move for the preservation of bird life, which had its birth in sentiment, is sentimental no longer, It Is a business proposition. The farmer who thinks laws for the protection of birds and feathered game are for the benefit of the sportsman, the Idler and pleasure seeker only, needs to wake up and learn a few things. Land Title Eepiitration. Reform In lead title registration is making progress. In the twenty years since the pioneer law was passed In Illllnols twelve statea have onacted laws baaed on the Torrens system. At the recent election the voters of Pennsylvania adopted a constitution amendment .embodying the Torrens principle. Similar legislation la being pressed upon the lawmakers of Virginia, Maryland and Louisiana, with prospects of ulti mate success. 1 . Legislation involving property titles Is neces sarily slow, and wisely so. Every step must be measured, every right safeguarded, lest the law be overturned In the courts. In most statea the to-called Torrens laws are permissive, giving yroperty owners the choice of continuing the old or adopting the new system. A few states make the change obligatory In cases of administration when title passes to heirs. But so firmly rooted is the present cumbersome methods, re inforced by financial considerations, that the results In actual changes from the old to the new do not Justify the promises of reform ad- oca tea. The fault Is not with the law, but with property owners who are averse to changes. In order to keep history straight Chairman Kruttschnltt of the Southern Pacific contra dicts the statement of Secretary Redfield that the Pacific Mall steamship line was abandoned because It waa unprofitable. The contradic tion Is handicapped at the start, however. It lacks the reach and speed qualities of a polit ical self-starter. y ttotob souwirra THE FLAT of battledore and shuttlocock with thane numerous petitions for nominating candi dates for preaident on tha signatures of lens than two aoore aalf-conatltuted conscription officers la drawing attention to our presidential primnry law that la being ao easily mlauned. I helped to write tha original direct primary law placed on the NehranKa atatutee, but that law has bnen changed by nearly every aucceedlng lrglnlature and would acarcaly recog nise Itself today. 'With tha exception of tha return t" tha cloned primary after the dlanatroua experiment with tha open primary, mot of theao changes have bean of doubtful value ao far aa being rated aa lm provemente goes, aad hero wa are after eight yeara' trial with almost as much dlsaatiafactlon with IMi machinery of the primary as there waa before with old-time conventions. , Wo wtM aovar go back to the free-and-eay un regulated nominating methoda that prevetlod before the enactment of the primary law, but other elates have primary lawa that are east on lines of common sense and effeotlve results which wa In Nebraska could wall emulate. But how will we ever secure a rational dtroot primary law In Nebraska when our law-makers, thus nominated and elected, and owing their positions to that process, hedtate, and hesitate rightly, to kiek down tha ladder by which they them selves climbed up? There Is one way, and I think It Is tha only way, so far aa I know, by which tha obje-t may be achieved that will give us a "let-the-peoplo-nd" primary law Instead of the present "let-a-few-autoaTaph-oollectori-rul" primary law. If the repuo lloan and democratlo state oommltteea would appoint a Joint committee In the same way that tha twi houees of the legislature appoint Joint committees, and charged it with the formulation of a workable, direct primary and party government law, and .the Joint oommtttee suoceeded in drafting a meaaure command ing tha ondorooment of tha two party organisations. It could than be proposed aa an Initiative act an1 submitted to tha people for popular ratification at the nt election. Being divested of any partlnaa Issue, and without any advantage to one party over an other. It ougbt to meet little ey no opposition, and Its sdoptloa would take us out ef the political wilderness in which ws seem now to be aimlessly wandering. In loalng the Tom Kellys, who have so long figured In the front ranks of Omaha's musical circles, Omaha sustains the heavier loss, for Mr. and Mrs. Kelly will keep at the head of tha procession wherever they may he. We of The Bee regard Mr. Kelly as In part a Bee product for he has a reputation and standing as a critic and writer oa musical subjects almost equal to that as a conductor, recltallst and musla teacher, and his Uterary aids was developed by his connection with this paper aa our ranalcal eritle. When Kelly was "doing" tha muslo column for Tns Bee, ha kept it full of ginger all the time, and I be lieve had a personal controversy on .most 'of the time, because he has opinions snd never fears- to express them regardless of how they hit On more than one oeoaalon I entertained delegations demanding Kelly's musical orltlo scalp, hut as none of them ever chanred htm with dishonest criticism or discrimination In scor ing artists who did not fulfill their promises, or failed to measure up to standard, I never hesitated to uphold his freedom of opinion, although mora than once "staadla by Kelly" brought reprisals on 'Tha Bee. I oame to the conclusion than, from which eon. clualon I have not since been shaken, that It Is abso lutely Impossible to maintain harmony among profes sional musicians the artlirtlo temperament simply will not allow It aad the only thing for a newspapot to do Is to engage a oomptent critlo on whose Judg ment It can rely, and back the orltlo up to the limit. X was walking down the street the other day with "Jake" Reiner, and as we were admiring tha beauti ful new drain Exchange building now approaching Its completion, he reminded me that my uncle, Andrew Rosewater, was once the owner of the lots upon which that building is being erected. , "Tour unole bought that corner lot from old Tom Campbell, a negro, who lived In a little rickety shanty down In the bole there. I remember It distinctly be cause I was feeding a press for Qtbson, Miller de Richardson, and Campbell used to da work foe h.m He made the sals Just before election and came In and announced it to Mr. Richardson In these words: . 'I jes- soia my lot ror I4.000, Mr. Richardson, and I guesa I can vote as Z please this time.' " t looked p the record to verify the transfer and find that Campbell In 1874 bourht the tnt en. whloh he sold In 18SS for ItOOO. So evidently there was arood money made In Omaha real estate in thois days, too.- Twice -Told Tales Ctreaasslaaeea Altar tun. Pat Cassldy purchased a new automobile, and while still Inexperienced In tha handling of It he drove down one of the crowded thoroughfares of tha -city. Coming to a crossing where traffio was held up, he lost control of tha car and ran squarely Into a handsome limousine. The crowd which gathered found the situation amua log, snd to add to Pat'a discomfiture, the crossing policeman, a big Irishman, commenced to berate him, "Binoe when did you learn to drolve a carr' de manded the officer? "What's yar namer" "Cassldy," answered Pat "80 r said tha policeman. Interestedly. "And where are you fromr' I "County Clare," said Pat "Say." said tha cop, "how the dlvU did that fellow back Into your'-Chlcago Journal, .A Loa Day. John was grieving because he had no gift for hi mother's birthday. "Do not quarrel with little sister all day," sug gested grandmother. "That would be tha beat gift she could have," John agreed. "Can't you aee how much mother enjoyed yout gift. JohnT" asked grandmother at night. "Why don't you do this every dayf" John drew a breath that oame from his very boots. "I'd rather die. grandma, than live like this every day!" he said fervently. Philadelphia Ledger. The sensation of the hour Is the killing of Mrs John W. Lauer, formerly Mlas Sallla Goetschlus. by her husband, whose explanation was that ha had' ac oideatly mistaken her for a burglar. William Wecker and Miss Kmella Herrmann were married at tha residence of the brlde'a parents, m Leavenworth street, followed by a banquet and ball la the evening. Mr. Wecker la foreman of Krug brewery. J. P. Coots, corner Plxth and Jones. Is aaktng for blda for hauling t,ax brick at once from tha Jones street tracks to tha Union Pacific headquarters. Coooanuts are selling on the Omaha market at 14 a hundred. C. V. Moore A Co., tha grocers, at 1515 Dodje street, would like to exchange a span of horses for a good active spaa of mules. he agent for tha Chicago Northwestern road In Omaha la Yf, N. Babcoek. and the office, lux Farnara street. Captain I. B. Jones has gone oa a visit to Kaasaa City. A. U Fitch. Twelfth street, between Farnara and Douglas, In his advertisement Insists you ran. buy furnituie cheaper there than any other place In the city. WHITTIED TO A POIHT Every man must catch a cold far himself. The man who feathers his own nest must be a bird. A lot of people are dlsarpolnfed in lve after marriage. Those who dodse work don't have to dodire the reward. Kissing may be unhealthy, but nothing risked, nothlns; gained. The more fickle a woman Is the more It always hurts when told of It. A man who Is continually harping on his virtue hue at least one vice. The child l wiser In its simplicity than the pliilos pher In his viadom. And many a man has lost money throue-h the hole at the top of his pockets. Two men tryln to entertain one woman constitute a fair example of a silent majority. A woman dressed aa a nun at a masquerade ball naturally makes a good appearance. It's easy for a young man to paddle his own canoe If his father will provide the canoe and the paddle. All man are more or less prejudiced not because they want to be. but because they can't help It Policemen, like rainbows, are tokens ef peace and both have a habit of showing up after the storm.. At the age of sixteen a girt Imagines the average man la all soul, but at the age of thirty she thinks he Is mostly Stomach. Chicago News. TABLOIDS OF SCIENCE. Peas found In mummy cases have been planted quite recently and found to grow. The aahos from Luion's occasionally active volcanoes fertilise the soli and en able the Philippines to produce the world's finest hemp. Many tropical plants possess light-giving qualities, their blossoms and stems being luminous and their Juices also be ing phosphorescent. The largest two direct current dynamos ever built have been completed in Ger many, each with a capacity of about 60, 00 slxteen-candle power lamps. In a Texas city fuel briquettes of much heating value are being made by a com pany which collects garbage and combines It with crude tar. For many yeara thrown Into the sea as worthless, a low grade Cuban molasses Is being exported to the United States In Inoreaalng quantities for use In road building, distilling and other purposes. The use of sulphate of oxide on alumi num wire In order to produce Insulation for electrical purposes is being adopted, and the process Is now being applied 'to copper wire. An up-to-date North Carolina dairy farm puts Its milk on the market mainly In the form of Ice ore&m. Four men milk the sixty-five cows with electric milkers run by power produced on the farm. Arti ficial ice Is also made on the place for transforming tha milk into ice cream. WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES. Mrs. Philip Snowdon of London, whose husband la a member of the British Par liament la In this country speaking In the Interests ot suffrage. The young girls taking the short course IK the home economics department of the Missouri State university learn how to can fruit and vegetable, and also to preserve fruit and make pickles. The amount of fruit put up by them In the classes would stock an ordinary fruit closet with enough to last quite a while. With Oerman women digging Berlin's hew subway, and 600,000 Oerman women at work making munltlona, Mrs. Pank hurst has good cause for her Indictment ef the British cabinet which so far has employed only about 60,000 women in making munitions or engaged In ether work In aid of the war. , flew Tork parents are objecting to the extension of the Gary plan In the schools of that city. They say they are con vinced that it doee not offer richer edu cational opportunities, and are suspicious of the plea that It will reduce the cost of the schools. Teachers are also said to have reported unfavorably In regard to the plan. Mlas Mabel Boardman, secretary of the National Red Cross, said the other day at a meeting In Washington In the Inter, esta of the organization, that a fund of tl.COO.OOO la pecessary. She said that Japan- has several million dollars for its Red Cross work, and that -Russia had nearly I30.000.ono, but the United States has iei than 11.000.000. Mrs. Allen H. Strong of New Tork presented the old stone Manor House on the Hudson river, opposite Albany, to the Daughters of the American Revolution. The house, which was built in 1M0, Is said to be the oldest In the state of New York. The Daughters of the American Revolution will probably convert the house Into a museum. ABOUND THE CT1TE3L New Tork's market regularly Vats twenty-one grades of eggs, from "nearby hennery whltea" to "refrigerator dir ties." New Orleans proposes to get Its share of the business of the Panama canal and la developing Its port facilities on a scale Involving a total expenditure of $50,000,000. Ploux City's milk drinkers are offi cially told that they are paying more money for the fluid than other residents of Iowa. And the quality is Just so-so, Peterson and Montclair, N. J, two cltlea Imbued with the social uplift report pmgrvaa. Tha former la hustllnaj for perfect babies and the latter insists on hygienic housemaids. St. Loula newspapers are prodding the city council for favorable action on an ordinance requiring sanitary wrappers on bread. The ordinance has been gathering pigeonhole dust for months past Three bureaus of Bt. Joseph's municipal machine are stung for money. They are speedier spenders, and are hitting their asaoc'ates for enough funda to maintain their station In life until January 1. Baltimore experts figure that the mini mum wave 011 which a single woman could live decently In that city la to.50 a week. Eighty-one per cent of the women employed In Baltimore's depart ment stores get leas than that. Sioux City plana to place on the local counter, be-lnnlng January 1, tW.OOJ in bonds bearing 41 per cent It tha local aale proves satisfactory, future issues will be marketed in the aame way. Greater New Tork has a public school teaching force of S'.Ml. Iiurlnar the last school year 4.14 teachers had leaves of abs nee averaging sixteen days each. Thirty-five per cent of the alck leaves were due to throat and lung troubles, which the investigators -'tribute to de fective vrntilal on of school buildings. People and Events Frank p. Walsh, chairman of the late Industrial Relations commission, haa pur chased the Kansas City Post and will hereafter battle for the oppressed through a personally-conducted organ. The plaintiff did not hall from Mis souri, but he managed to show the rail roads through the federal supreme court that a mileage book Is good for the transportation of others when presented by the purchaser. Senator Theodore Burton lost whatever chance he had ot coralllng the Iowa re publican delegation to the national con vention. In a moment of thoughtless en thusiasm he slipped a tip to a servitor while within the bounds of the state and fractured the law forbidding the aame. Next to a beer souse or a bourbon high ball, tipping Is most abhorred among Hawkeyes. Most elective office-holders elude their due In one way or another, but Ahab Babbitt Is not one of them. Ahab Is selectman of Tyringham, R. I. Just what kind of a political hen waa on Is not revealed, but It waa sufficient to pro voke the wrath of a gigantic red cockerel. The vicious rooster knocked Ahab Into a ditch, pounded his ohest and spurred him Into Insensibility. He took the count as the winner crowed. . Making allowance for years and distance covered, Charles B. Stewart of Phila delphia claims the pedestrian champion ship. Stewart Is a veteran of the Mexi can and civil wars. Is 90 years of age and walks ten miles a day Just for the exercise. "Our young Americans," he says, "are not walkers, and the result Is they lark the physical endurance of their fathers." Kldn. do you get that? A few years ago people along the Mississippi from Keokuk to 9t Louis dreamed large dreams of prosperity flow ing from the cheap power generated at the Keokuk dam and sent by wire for a trifle. By means of subsidiary companies the cheap power reached St Louis and hooked up the United Street Railway company. An Investigation by experts shows that the company could save 1570,000 a year by making Its own power. But the company has the hot end of the wire and can't. let go. EDITORIAL SIFTINGS. Pittsburgh Dispatch: Virtue Is Its own reward. By magnanimously nominating Wilson, Champ Clark can get sweet re venge on Bryan. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Carranxa wants base ball in Mexico, .but until he says something about Importing a few Amer ican barbers one will not be altogether sure of his up-to-dateness. Washington Post: The aversge cttlxen anywhere can congratulate himself on the fact that his Is the same old sun thak shone with such good omen on the mikado. Boston Transcript: The controversy over Detroit Free Press. The president for the first time. Is carrying a cane, ac cording to the reporters. Love alters a man in many ways. Ezeklel will not be without value If It stimulates the resdlng of the Scriptures by our modern statesmen, whose educa tion In this respect Is not up to the stand ard of half a century ago. Louisville Courier-Journal: "I knew htm as a boy. His life was exemplary up to the time of his fall," says a Chl cagoan who signs a petition for the par don of a forger. Aren't most lives ex emplary until they are no longer exem plary? New Tork World: The attempt of Ne braska republicans to draft Justice Hughes as a presidential candidate might be classed as sheer Impudence In view of his known views, tf it were not a clear case of political desperation that may be excused as ridiculous. Louisville Cburier-Journal: "Are wo men really wearing ankle watches T" asks a New Tork paper. Mark Twain could not say what the women wore te the din ner party because he was too bashful to look under the table. How d'ye expect anyone to find out about ankle watchesT Springfield Republican: Edward Shear son, a New Tork banker Just back from Europe, estimates the cost of the Eu. rope an war by the time It la ended, eight een months ahead (a British calculation) aa S4R,000,nor,onO. Few of us can read these figures and get from them anything like the truth that Is In them. Say tha cost of war is beyond human compre hension. v That la what the figures mean. Chicago Herald: In the last sixteen years Oermany has built a war fleet su perior m material to ours at a eost 1319,000,000 less. Some of this greater cost for an Inferior fleet was unavoidable. We pay higher wares. But a lot ot It was sheer waste. It didn't so to upbuilding the navy. It was devoted to "fence mending" for congressmen in whose states are the useless "yards" and "stations." NEEDED INVENTIONS. ' An auto that will run without fuel. A furnace fire that will not make an sshes. A woman's hat that will never go out of style. A pair of shoes that will not run ovei at the heel. A calendar that will not tell a woman how old she la gettlmt. A dollar's worth of street car tickets that will (net a month. A neighbor's lawn mower that will not run before 8 o'clock In the morning. A dishpan under tho Icebox that will not run over, no matter how full It gets. A dinher that will do for seven when three of these have "dropped In unex pectedly." An alarm clock that will not go off at I o'clock on Sunday morning when one has Inadvertently wound It Saturday night An auto tire that will not persist in blowing out when the driver has a party ot friends out and Is wearing his best clothes. A door bell that will Indicate to the housewife when the caller Is an agent who will try to sell her something the does not wish. A device that will reconcile a working man's wages and the tastes of a million aire. Indianapolis Newa DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Just at what I thought the psycho logical moment the heiress wanted a hus band. I turned up." "What happened?" "Phe turned me down." -Baltimore American. ''1 want to write a description of a pack of wolves. But where can I find a pack of wolves V "You might make some satisfactory studies around my boarding house," Spokesman Review. "Nejwedd is on the water wagon. His bride md him sign the pledge." "I always heard that mnrrlage affected a man's spirits." Boston Transcript "I think I can explain it to you. Now, I ask you for a kiss. That's the initiative." KABIBSLE KABARET bEARMR.KABIBBlF, MY HUSBAND (5 A fAfWlCT.L POWT KNOW WHrWEK70 jWORCE HIM OR H0rTSmiltO T0S5 a com "Tommy, your master's report of your work Is very bad. Do you know that when George Washington was your agj he was head of the school?" "Yes, pal and when he was your age he was president of the United States." Chics " Journal. "And I refer you to mother." "I'm. That's the referendum." Louis ville Courier-Journal. "If a man haa the price he can get any thing he wants and ti e way he wants it." "Don't know about that. There's the medium toft-bolled egg." lirownlng's Magazine. - Kvsnrellne T-tnw An vou Ilka mv new t arrllne I think It is charming. I had one Just like it last year. Philadelphia Evening Ledger. MA AND HER CHECK BOOK. ' B. A. Guest In' Detroit Free Press. Ma has a dandy little book that'a full of narrow allps An' when she wants to pay a bill a page from it she rips: She Just writes in the dollar and the cents and signs her name An' that's as good ss money, though It doesn't look the same. When she wants another bonnet or some feathers for her neck She promptly goes an' gets 'em, an aha writes another check.. I don't Just understand it, but I know she sputters when Pa says to her at supper; "Weill Tou're overdrawn agalnl" Ma's not a business woman, she fa much too Kina 01 nearx To squabble over pennies or to play a selfish part An' when some one asks tot money, she's not one to stop an think Of a little piece of paper ao' tha cost ot pen and Ink. She just tells him very sweetly tf he'll only wait a bit An' bo seated In the parlor, .she will write a check for It She can write one out for twenty, Just as easilv as ten, An' forgets that pa may grumble: "Well, you're overdrawn agalnl" Pa says It looks as though hell have te start In workin' nights To gather in the money for the checks that mother writes. He ssys that every morning when he's summoned to the phone He's afraid the bank is calling to make mother's shortage known. He tells his friends If ever anything our fortune wrecks They can trace It to the moment mother started writing checks. Ha s sot so that he trembles when he sees her fountain pen w h mutters: 'Do be careful! Tou'H overdrawn again!" "THANKSGIVING" This Has Been the Most Prosperous Year the ' . Woodmen O'me World Haa Ever Enjoyed. We Have Distributed Nearly EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS INTO 1 THOUSANDS OF HOMES. a To each Individual who has contributed in any manner to our saccee We Are Sincerely Thankful J. T. YATES, Secretary. W. A. ERASER, Preaident. Persistence is the cardinal vir tue in advertising; no matter how -good advertising may be in other respects,-it must be run frequently and constant ly to be really succcessful.