TTTTC OMAHA STJTAY WEE: DECEMBER 12, 1915.
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NOYEMBKK BINDAV CIKCTLATION,
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Btata of Nebraska. County of Douglas. aa.T
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the averag Sunday circulation for the month ol
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Mbscrfbers leering the city temporarily
should hv The Iloe mailed to them. Ad
Ar will be chanced as often a requeated.
Wttch the City Budget.
At this time heads of department of the
rlty government are making up their estimates
for the cost of running the city during the com
ing year, and it is pretty certain that all of them
are pressing very close to the limit filed by law.
This tendency on part of the managers of a rap
Idly growing city Is natural, while It Is equally
natural that the taxpayers expect the increases
in cost will be held to the lowest possible figure.
Between the two views lies the mean that will
very likely be reached when the budget is com
pleted. If good judgment is used In Its final
make-up.
When Omaha expanded by the addition of
South Omaha and Dundee to its corporate limits
It Increased Its responsibilities, and to the full
extent of the valuation. Under normal condi
tions the growth of the city brought with it an
annual Increase In cost of conducting Its activi
ties. In the expansion the area to be governed
was Increased by nearly 80 per cent, and the
population by fully 20 per cent. This necessi
tates the extension of every activity of city gov
ernment to a corresponding degree, and neces
sarily means the additional funds to meet the
cost. But the cost should not be disproportion
ately advanced, and for this reason estimates
should be carefully ecrutlnlr-ed, not only by those
in authority, but by those who are Interested as
taxpayers.
The city commissioners can well afford to
invite scrutiny and criticism of the approprla
tlons they propose to make for the next year.
IS
Thought for the Day
wWW t Sapt. C. N. Kim Jail
Artkery, cricket, pun and fiihing rod, hortt
a4 frost, all art educator, liberalizer i; and
M evrs dmndng, dress, and (A street talk; and
provided ly th hoy hot ruourou, and it of
a Meets and ingtwucM strain, Hum Kill no
ttrvt him ( tan (A bookt. Kmtrton.
If you havent done your shopping yet, get
busy.
Those who want peaoa In Europe are wel
come to sue for It. The elder statesmen have
spoken.
Not so much. Is beard ot
year. St. Nick has outworn
.effort to sidetrack him.'
"spuggery" this
many another
Our xounicpally-owned Auditorium Is a good
thing, but why should It be necessary to employ
two managers to run ltT
Well, there's still plenty ot room for addi
tional names on the Nebraska presidential bal
lot, Wholl be the next!
Look, look who's herel The esteemed and
highly garrulous Congressional Record Is doing
business at the old stand.
Jayhawker scholarship yields to Nebraska
the honors ot brain and brawn. There is some
thing the matter with Kansas. ,
' ' It the Allies had advanced with the celerity
that marks their retirement In Serbia, a differ
est tale might have been told.
Europe's warring armies must be up and
doing all winter to successfully compete with
Congress for front page honors.
The cheapest grafter known to man is the
one who takes advantage of the holiday season
to swindle generous people with a hard luck
story
The Georgia minister who took a flier In
cotton and cleaned up $80,000 In a year lndl
cstes a paying side line for speculators In
fstures.
Wlnter'e first sprlngllng ot "the beautiful
Is an uncertain sign of the stock on hand. A
dressed window Is merely a quality sample ot
the quantity of goods Inside.
There was a hot time Is the boom town ot
Hopewell that night and several acres ot ashes
the morning after. Safety first Is hopelessly
hobbled where tlnderboxee abound.
Hawaii Is said to be making a forced march
on Washington, determined to capture the re
publican national convention. As a competitor
for convention honors Hawaii is a Honolulu.
Not "Pork," hut Buiinei..
While Nebraska's delegation in congress has
not as yet spoken on the topic, it will very likely
eventually line up with the members from Mis
souri, who are ardently championing the cause
of Missouri river improvement. Speaker Clark
and Senator Reed have publicly gone on record
as opposed to the Deakyne report that condemns
all projects for the expenditure of money on the
river, and this will probably take them along to
the point of opposing the McAdoo division ot
the rivers and harbors appropriations that ex
eludes the Missouri river above Kansas City. The
principal point raised by Speaker Clark is that
all public money expended west of the Alleghan
ies is not "pork," but Is mostly for good pur
poses. He defends the Improvements that have
been made, In the west, and insists that more be
made. Eastern opposition to western projects la
generally based on a misunderstanding, and the
case of the proposed river improvement will
doubtless be effectively presented at the present
congress.
y Yxeroxa Mnwiru,
Gasoline Melons and Others.
Discounting by 60 per cent the prosperity
conceded by speculative interests to industries
turning out war supplies, a bumper crop of
melons" is as good as harvested. The cer
talnty of a juicy feast for shareholders In the
early days of the New Year pushes into the
limelight a large number of new captains ot in
dustry, who won promotion as easily as though'
they had fallen heir to the money. In the glow
of momentary tame they are as amateurs beside
the veterans ot the melon field. For In regu
larlty of crops and efficiency of reach the up
start captains Involuntarily salute as the vet
erans of the oil Industry march by.
During the first halt of the year vendors of
gasoline, not to mention other oil products, ob
tained a normal amount of nourishment from
low prices. They are not partial to-a lean
dietary. In the last five months the belt has
been cast aside and fatness taken on at as
amaxlng rate. The advance In the price of gas
oline ranges from 2 cents per gallon In St. Paul
to 5 cents in Omaha, 6 cents throughout New
England, 7 cents in New York and New Jersey
and 9 cents in Pittsburgh and Dallas, Tex.
Price lists for middle November show a general
average advance of 5 cents a gallon, over June
figures. The consumption ot gasoline in this
country last year amounted to 13,000,000 bar
rels, or about 400,000,000 gallons. Multiplied
by the price advance, the ultimate consumer can
visualise the extra crop of melons tagged for the
cutting.
To heighten the pleasure of auto owners,
while contributing the extra money the oil men
need, just reverse the melon picture. There is
much more juice than the melons hold. During
November the stock of the Standard OH group
Increased $148,000,000 In market value and
scored a 60-polnt gain since the first of the year.
In fact, every square inch of the gasoline giant
has taken on Its proportion of fat as merrily as
the consumer digs up at the pump.
WITH the removal of the Maul, or a It waa pre
vloualy called, the old Jacob house, to make
way for another moving- picture eetabllehmeni
on Don-la etreet, that thoroughfare will be cleared
of reeldence wwat of Sixteenth up to Nineteenth. I
lived for nearly twenty years on the block Jiist acroei
from the Jacob house, the taat remaining reminder
of the old neighborhood, which ueed to Include the
.home of many of the best known people In Omaha.
The topography of Douglas street In this stretch
of three block embraced) In Its time some interesting
landmark On the northwest corner of Sixteenth anl
Douglas was located Donaghue, the florist, with his
hothouses right there In what Is now one of the very
busiest spot In th city. West of the Donaghue hot
houses il the old German Catholic church, at first
n frame building, later supplanted by a brick edifice,
and attached to It a parochial school, well conducted
and numerously attended. Across the street from the
hothouse, on th outhwest corner of Sixteenth and
Douglaa, was a wooden cottage, whoso occupant, a I
remember, waa James O. Carpenter, for, many years
ward assessor, whose place made way for the beau
tiful stona front Young Men1 Christian association
building that waa torn down when the Brandele
building was erected. West ot this was a two-story
frame house, occupied by Allan Root, until It, too,
had to yield to the march of progress typified by a
group of three-story brick dwellings put up by Guy
C. Barton, In one of which he himself lived. Adjoin
ing on th west came a similar building erected by A.
R. Dufrane, while at the southeast corner, at Seven
teenth street, was the Horbach place, a roomy, square
brick structure, with a square cupola on top.
Douglas street In the block between Seventeenth
and Blghteenth streets hss experienced similar trans
formations On the north side the corner was the
site of n wooden dwelling occupied by the Sutphec,
on of the pioneer families of the city, snd after
ward by the family of Mr. Wells, baggage agent
at the transfer in Council Bluffs, and still later by
Dr. Paul Grossman. There waa another small housa
on the Jacobs lot with a succession of tenants, and
west of .that the home of Marsh Kennard, supple
mented afterward by a amall cottage alongsldo of It
built for his daughter after she married young Dr.
John Peabody. At the Eighteenth street corner stood
a three-story frame house over a high basement,
where the W. A. Sharps lived, and then others, and
till later the D. T. Mount family. On our side ot
that block wa had the Pundt on the corner to the
east of us In a house counted the finest In Omaha
a .one-story brick which the family had previously
occupied on the same spot having been torn down.
Wast of us there had been several amall cottages, In
which were the Raapkea, Lejeta, and the McCheanes,
and our own hour had ones belonged to A. B. Huber
man, though practically rebuilt when my father
bought It The whole block facing north la now sur
mounted with one big eight-story theater and office
building which surely one who lived there In thos
day never Imagined In wildest dreams.
Th other Douglas street block from Eighteenth
to Nineteenth has been bereft of residences for soma
time and will be wholly covered with business struc
ture when the only now remaining vacant spase Is
utilised for th already planned n wMaaonlo Temple.
On th north side of th street were never more than
two houses, the Eighteenth street comer comprising
the spacious grounds of O. F. Davis, the leading real
estate man of early Omaha, and adjoining him on tho
west those of A. J. Hanscom, on of the very earliest
aettlera and donor of the beautiful park that bears
hi name. On the south side at the Eighteenth street
comer waa the residence of George B. Prltchett, who
had married one of Mr. II an scorn's daughters, and
west of that a two-story brick veneer house, occupied
by the P. H. Sharps. Th other comer at Nine
teenth held a two-story frame dwelling. In which A,
Cruikshank, the principal dry good merchant, lived,
the place later passing to N. B. Falconer, who was
also the successor to the Cruikshank dry goods bust,
ness, of which today th Kllpatrlck store Is the lineal
descendant. The Douglas street west of Nineteenth,
strange to aay, looks today almost the same as it
did a quarter of a century ago, except that the etreet
has been graded and most of the houses lowered, but
th march of trade has not yet crossed the line. It Is
safe to say. however, that they will not be long un
molested, and that the transformation there, when
It comes, will be as complete a In the space to the
east down to Sixteenth.
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Trobably the
most cautious man in the world Is the
one who was concerted at a Michigan
revival. He la reported as sa)lng that
he was "willing to do anything the Ixrd
required, provided It wa honorable."
fiprlnsfleld Republican: The British
Methodists point with pride to the fact
that they have afO.OI men In the British
army "all as stoutly religious as they
ru patriotic." Ezekial Is only one of
the many good authorities for the con
sistency of the two virtues. The church
of England figures probably vary In the
same ratio as the total membership of
the church In Britain.
Boston Transcript: The Gifford Tln
chot commission on county churches re
ports a steady decline In their member
ship and strength. Its extensive survey,
made in Ohio only, confirms what has
long been surmised regarding most of
our states. Ahout 1 per cent of our
country churches have been abandoned,
and more than half of the remainder are
decreasing In membership, and even are
dying. The causes of this decline have
been so often set forth that they are
well known and generally accepted.
New Tork World: American publish
ers of Bibles report an Increase of about
SO per cent In business over the best
previous year. This dofs not mean that
war has multiplied readers of the Im
perishable book. For generations the
Bible has been an assured and secure
"best seller." Its sales amount to 40,009
copies a day, In the average. In the
course of the nineteenth century. 300,000
000 copies, coruplete and partial, were
sold. Among mere novels, a total sale of
25,000 copies Is considered very good. It
took "Ben Hur" twenty odd years to get
beyond the million mark, and "Vncle
Tom's Cahln" appears only to have
doubled. In its long career, the mark
made by General Wallace's book. In
spite of war, with Its disasters, disillu
sionment snd shifting of whole popula
tions, the Bible retains first place on the
selling lists. The "boom" news means
only that for the present, publishers In
other lands being handicapped by war
conditions, American printers and bind
ers reap the commercial advantage of
furnishing largely th world's supply of
th book.
People and Events
Country Life and the Church.
Facta reported by a recent survey of Ohio as
to the condition of the church In rural districts
afford opportunity for interesting comparisons
According to the report, one out of every nine
country churches in Ohio has died within recent
years; only one-third of the existing number are
growing, while the other two-thirds have ceased
to grow, and are stagnant If not actually dying.
At first, the figures would seem to support the
conclusion that the country people are turning
away from religion. This Is borne out by some
further analysis of the survey's statements, and
yet it is not fully Justified.
Conditions of life in the country have under
gone great change wlthlu a very few years, re
sponsive to modern methods. Automobiles and
good roads make it easy for the country folks to
attend church services in a city, and in Ohio,
more than any state in the union, cities are
close together, and within easy access of the
country folks. Maybe the sheep missing from
the country fold will be found within the city
sanctuary. If this Is not true, another reason
must be looked for. If the church is losing its
Influence over the country life of our people, it
must be accounted for on grounds for which the
church is responsible.
The remedy suggested by the survey's report
la that the church become a greater factor la the
affairs of the people. It should be made a com
munity center, w herefrom matters of general
social concern should be directed. Increased
activity along Hues that will hold the attention
of the people is to be the part of the church In
country life
Eaiy Money.
"Easy money" conveys a deeper significance
at the present time than the common acceptance
of the term implies. Money is essy because of
an unusual abundance and somewhat restricted
demand. Grain-exporting states show notable
gains in bank deposits and a more equal dlstrl
butlon ot the increased wealth, and are able, for
the first time In years, to finance the crop move
ment. If borrowing becomes necessary, money
can be had on unusually favorable terms. New
York banks are congested with deposits, largely
due to piling up war credits. Many banks have
doubled their deposits in a year and have ap
proximately an excess of a billion dollars seek
ing investment In short-time securities. To this
condition Is due the rare experience of money
salesmen combing the country for high clasa
short-time borrowers and offering terms far
below the Bankers' union scale.
Muiio in the Publio Schools.
The Bee's music editor makes a suggestion
that is worthy of serious consideration by the
school authorities. It Is that high school stu
dents be given credit for rausio study pursued
outside the school room. A plan to this end has
been adopted by the Lincoln schools, and in
other cities, and is found to work well. Rea
sons for the study of music are too obvious to re
quire statement, as are the reasons for the work
being done under a special teacher of the pupil's
own selection. Music might readily be substi
tuted for one of the elective studies now Hated
in the high school curriculum, and the student
be given an opportunity and encouragement in
its pursuit. Work along the line of muata study
Is being done at a disadvantage by the high
school students now, but its recognition by the
authorities would place it on a footing worthy of
its Imports nee.
Twice Told Tales
- Inconsiderate of the Baby.
The Rev. Alfred Noon, patriarch of the Sona of
Temperance, was talking- in Boston about the war.
"Russia gave up her vodka," he said, "and Franc
gave up her absinthe, but when they began to talk1
about England giving up her beer and English beer
Is almost aa strong as vodka and absinthe mixed to
getherthe English people In their Indignation wrecked
the government, and a coalition had to be formed.
'Beer uber alle.' say the Knullsh. They remind
ma of th stevedore who looked upset.
" 'Tou look upset. George,' said a friend. 'What's
th matter with your
" 'Matter enough 1' th stevedore growled. "The
baby's Just went and set himself afire, and blamed
if the old woman didn't put htm out htm out with
my SToler of beer! And m dead broke, tool' "New
Tork Times.
II Knew.
A Scottish minister waa once busy catechising nis
young parishioners before the congregation, when he
put the usual first question to a girl whose father kept
a public house:
"What la your naraeT"
No reply.
The question having been repeated, the girt replied:
"Nane o' your fun, sir; y ken my name weel
enough. D'ye no' aay when ye come tae oor hoose at
nlcht, 'Betty, bring ma some toddy r "
Th congregation, forgetting the sacred ness of the
rlace, broke Into a loud laugh, and the parson looked
daggers. London Tlt-Blts.
"XT"
About 200 people assembled at Cunningham's hall
to form a branch of th Irish Natlona) leaguo. It was
expected that Hon. Patrick. Egan and John Fltxger-
aid of Lincoln would b present, but both were unable
to attend. After addressee by John Rush and T. B.
Mmahan, th following officer were elected: Presi
dent,, John A. McShane; vice president, John Rush, T.
B. Mlnahan, Edward Brennan; secretary. Dr. Joh
O'Rourke; treasurer, Peter O'Malley.
Em nut Nevada' special car cam In on th Union
Parlfto and waa transferred to the Milwaukee, on Its
way to St Paul. The "Songbird of the Sierraa" waa
In good humor and dwelt rapturously on her great
reception In California. Sh will return to sing In
Omaha Christmas Dva.
Artlclea of Incorporation of the Omaha Loan and
Trust company have been filed, with these name
attached. Eira Millard. William A. Paxton, RobeH
Garllha, W. Q. Maul and It. T. Clark.
Mrs. C. T. Brunner returned from a week' visit
to hrr husband In Chapman, Neb.
J. R. Sunderland, formerly connected with the
Vnlon I'ttilfio baggage service, ha bh appointed
baggaKe master at Grand Island.
The Uemen an getting ready to reap their yearly-
harvest.
J. Prank Allen is th father of a healthy, lively
boy, who put la an appearance at hi houa last night.
For his service In connection with th ball of th
Eagles' Benevolent society, I. Oberfelder waa pre
sented wuh a gold-headed can
Quick and forceful action with a suit
able pump In the husky hands of the
landlady saved the life of a boarder who
attempted suicide In Philadelphia. Jump
ing a board bill In Philadelphia Is no
snap.
Wrath Is boiling and bubbling under
the lid In Chicago. Mayor Thompson an
nounces that the 1 o'clock closing order
meana Just what It says and will be en
forced even on New Tear's morning. That
la going some for Chicago, but It Is prob
able the average Chicago tank can take
on a load before 1 a. m.
Even with the restraining Influence of
the government on the spot th national
capital has not been able to avert th
crime wave felt In roost sections of th
country. The annual report of the police
superintendent for the year ending July
1 shows talc a many murders, a the
preceding year. Despite th growth of
the city the police force 1 Ies than It
was ten years ago and eighteen members
less than It was three years ago.
Doctors and sanitary engineers have for
some time past discussed the dangers of
kissing and warned people against getting
the habit. Now comes confirmation of
th peril. Th young and pretty wife of
an elderly New Tork lawyer testified In
her divorc proceeding that after the first
bridal kissing seance "he couldn't think
straight," and would not let her come
nearer to him than five feet It may be
inferred from the sample Instance that
youthful osculation is mighty risky, espe
cially for elders. The practice turns many
a head that shuns the spotlight
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Well, the merry Tuletlde Is approach-
lnf " w
Tep. Don't you remember grand
others kitchen, with saaA thyme, anl
eavorv herbs hsnrtns from the ratters?
" Ton bet. The only trim" nnpnt
fmm our rafters tare beer pullers ana
ran opener. "-Louisville Courier-Journal.
"What became of that theological stu
dent you used to chnm with?"
"(Ion to the bd."
"Tou don't tell me!" .
Tee; he's doing mlfsion work n
tough nelchborhood in New York.
Boston Transcript.
KABIBBLE
KABARET
m ottwej couple ha pry?
Hr? WMO AMD RUNS
AytttWU. LIVE TO R$Y
TUB UVaOMfrDrt!
He (savagely) o I suppose you nave
determined pat argument to take a rial.
She (sweetly) Oh. no. That question
was settled for me when I married you.
Baltimore American .
"Do you think that society belle will
make much noise when sh goes on the
stage.
"fche ought to; she'll have i
clappers." Baltimore American.
CROSS PURPOSES.
lot of
TABLOIDS OF SCIENCE.
Potatoes are more wholesome baked
than In any other form.
Flower will turn to the light of the
electric lamp Just as they do to the sun.
The male heart weighs from ten to
welve ounces. I'.i average size Is about
five Inches long, three and one-half Inches
wide snd two Inches In greatest depth.
Using box kites to lift an aerial, ex
perts of the United States army have In
creased the efficiency of field wireless
equipment from to 16 times.
Ants have the faculty of crossing
water by meana of the surface tension
of the liquid, but they resort to it only
under great pressure.
An Ice breaking steamer built In
Sweden for the Russian government has
cut Its way through Ice fields thirty feet
thick when using only half its power.
The tower of a tall church In Switser-
land has been equipped to receive the
time signals sent out by wireless tele
graphy from the Eiffel tower in Paris.
'An extensive plant ha been built In
Venesuela for the manufacture of wrap
ping paper and strawboard from an
aquatlo plant growing profusely tn that
country.
With delicate apparatus scientists have
measured the internal temperature or
rlne needles In winter and have found It
to be several degrees above that of the
surrounding air.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
The owner of some limestone caves In
Virginia ha piped the air from them Into
hi house to provide an even temperature
the year around.
In neither China nor Japan Is there any
production of milk worth mentioning. It
Is foreign to their diet and only Imported
condensed milk Is obtained except at a
few places.
Next Easter will fall on April 23. Only
once again In this century win n o u
late, l!i3, when the date will be April 25,
the latest that Is possible.
A Californian is the owner of what Is
said to be the only watch ot the kind In
the world In which a lever oscllates and
winds the spring with every step that he
takes.
What Is believed th smallest fresh
water fish In the world has been carried
to New York from Haiti. When full
grown It Is less than an Inch and a half
leng. This species swarms In many trop
ical rivers and I of great value as a de
stroyer of mosquito larvae.
Russia boasts of the world's greatest
choir. It Is In the cathedral of Alexander
Nevskl, in Petrograd. and la attached to
a convent erected In honor of the patron
saint of Russia. Its members, of which
there are about thirty, are all monks, and
ar chosen from th best voices in ail the
Russian monasteries.
WHITTLED TO A POINT.
The man In the honeymoon Is not a
myth, t 1
Th undertaker may be slow, but he I
sure.
Tipping a waiter does not make him lose
his balance.
Sunshine eventually punctures the
thickest cloud.
' Talk isn't cheap when you hire a law
yer to do It for yoti.
A man who has mad good doesn't have
to blow his own horn.
When a girl marries sh merely ex
changes a lover for a husband.
What people don't know about religion
causes the fool arguments.
Th room in a house do not Interest
the burglar as much as a good haul.
A small tumbler Is responsible for many
of the slips attributed to the cup.
A lazy man Is always on the wrong side
of the human profit and loss account.
The average man thinks that If the devil
Is ever caught he'll turn out to be a
woman in disguise. Chicago News.
Buffalo Express.
What sorrow we should beckon unawares.
What stinging nettles In our patch
would grow.
If God should answer all our thoughtless
Or
prayers,
bring to harvest the poor seed we
The storm for which you prayed, whose
kindly shock
Revived your fields and blessed the
fainting air
iDrove a stron ship upon the cruel rock
And one I love went down In shipwreck
there.
I ask for sunshine on my gTapea today:
Tou plead for rain to kiss your eTroop-
Ing flowers;
And thus within God's patient hand w
lay
Theee Intricate cross-purposes of ours.
I greeted with cold grace and doubting
tears . . ,
The guest who proved an angel at my
side;
And I have shed more bitter burning
tears
Because of hopes fulfilled than pray?r
denied. (
Then be not clamorous, O restful soul.
But hold my trust In God s eternal
plun!
He views our life's dull weaving as a
whole;
Only its tangled threads are seen by
man!
Dear Lord, vain repetitions are not meet
When we would bring our messages
to Thee,
Help us to lay them at Thy dear feet.
In acquiescence, not garrulity!
. You can honor the departed in a more fitting manner
bj being careful with the disbursement of the funds set
aside for the last rites. You oannot'do better than to con
sult us, because we will serre in a manner that will win your
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AROUND THE CITIES.
Salt Lake City notes with glee, as a
result of penalizing tax delinquencies, a
marked Increase in tax1 collections for
the year, the total for the county amount
ing to $3,181,000.
Sioux City is playing up Ita Imports noe
as "the grain center of the northwest.'
Th Board of Trade reports the receipt
of 4, BOO cars of grain and 1,'00 cars of
hay during the year.
Emporia. Kan., through William Allen
White a Gasette, sob out loud for a
town hall, one large enough to accommo
date the overflow ot the forces of right
eousness, which cannot get into th
churches on Sundays.
vNewark. N. J., meana to have th com
ing celebration ot Ita quarter mlllenlum
an event to be remembered, and will
put up a memorial building coating 11.600,
000, In honor of th anniversary. Th
sit at the corner -of Broad and Camp
streets, cost 2S5,J00.
Minneapolis crooks are systematltlng
the holdup business and giving It a mili
tary touch. On a recent occasion three
holdup lined up a crowd In a saloon
and made them do the goosestep Into
th cellar, while tho plaua was stripped
of money and valuable.
Slbux City anticipate marked re
duction la this winter's hobo army, as
a result of th drouth which starts on
th first of the year. Wherefore the
Journal naively remarks: "Perhaps
Omaha will shoulder the burden for this
section. Omaha will have saloons."
Portland, Ore., plans an Imposing au
tomobile hor for next June, when the
"Columbia Highway" will be opened.
Th btghwky or boulevard follows th
shore of Columbia river from the Dalle
to th ocean and represent an outlay
of several million of public money. It
I expected 4.0U0 or t.OO automobile will
participate in th dedication.
Why Not a Certificate for $2,000.00
IN THE
VVoodmen 0'u World
The Cost is Reasonable and
WIFK, MOTHER, SISTEIt OR FATHER
Would appreciate this more than any gift which may perish or tar
nish nor wear out.
The WOOliMKN OF THE WOULD is durable. It won't tarnish
or perish nor wear out.
DO SOMETHING WORTH WHILE. "We help ourselves only
v hen ve help others."
Telephone Doug. 1117.
Let I's Help You.
j. t. YATES, Secretary. W. A. rSASZS. President.
FL LtDPa
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STEEL TRAIN.
Round Trip Winter Tourist Tickets on sale daily,
limited to return June 1st, 1916.
Rates to Principal Points as follows:
Jacksonville $50.68
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.
Ticket via Washington. D. C. In one direction, returning via
any direct line, at slightly higher rates.
HOMESEEKERS' tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays ot
each month.
For detailed information and descriptive literature call at
CITY TICKET OFFICE, or write 8. North, District Passenger Agent.
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