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    TIIE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1916.
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Bubaorlbrre leaving tha city temporarily
should hare Tha Dee mailed to them. Ad
dress will be changed a often m requeated.
Though tha shortest of the year, February
it the month that save ui both Lincoln and
Washington.
Tba American people art dead aet against
tha fee-grabbing game"; alio against fee-grabbing
public officials. '
How much longer la that ugly "welcome
arch" to be permitted to disfigure the artistic
setting of our civic center?
Salvation Is free at the Industrial home, but
those seeking food must work for it. Exercise
la unequalled as an appetizer.
At this stage of tha railroad controversy It
Is clear there Is enough work ahead for the
magnates on both sides to earn their salaries.
Tha frequency of presidential somersaults
on public questions suggests the need of adding
stabilisers to the cation's stock of defensive
equipment.
Secretary Redfleld admits tha inaccuracy of
his department's figures. He might bare gone
further and conceded the folly of an official
booster transferring hot air to cold print.
. Delay of the Locust street 'viaduct Is blamed
on slow steel deliveries, which is a good an
, excuse, , o-ay.,. Oa whom is the delay Jo tha
overdue track-raising ,t , toe Dodge' street
'Tossing to be. blamed K
' Justice Hughes msy be "totally opposed"
to tba use of his nam in connection' with the
presidency, but nothing can stop the people
from seeing in htm th particular characteris
tics and qualifications they want la their next
president.
Tha mayor of Lincoln wants to help Omaha
set a municipal lighting plant, although there
is nothing whatever stopping Omaha from hav
ing such a plan whenever our own people vote
the needed money. Is there anything Lincoln
ants Omaha to help' her people get?
Still, public discussion of the merits and
demerits of Louis D. Brandels for the supreme
bench is what we would have as a regular
thing as to every aspirant If supreme court
justices were elective lnstesd of appointive
or if they were subject to popular recall.
- The cologne preacheress who won a nine
year sentence for giving too much emphasis to
the sixth commandment allowed enthusiasm to
overleap discretion. A preacher. Is away be
hind tha times who fails to realise that warring
nations cannot permit commandments to Inter
fere with the business on hand.
, Secretary Red field admits that his official
export figures are full of mistakes. Tha Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, however, haa no
monopoly on misleading figures; there are oth
ers for example, the built-to-booat municipal
statistics" and tha "water works , statistical
summary" thst emanate from our own city
hall.
Thirty Years Ago
This Day in Omaha
Ceaayllee front Bee rues.
Poshing tha Army Bill.
Promise is now publicly mad that the
house will act on the measure for the Increase
In the army within a fortnight. Chairman Hay
of the committee on military affairs suggests
the continental army plan will be abandoned,
and that the National Guard will be retained
upon such a basis for payment of serTlce as
will la a still greater degree federalise the
forces of the several ststes. This change was
to be expected from the democrats, who are
loath to approach any plan that may trench
upon the sacred party tenet of state sover
eignty. The effects of state righta on tha mili
tary have already been alluded to In The Bee.
However, If the measure Is carefully worked
out, it may lead to the establishment of the
state troops on a basis that will eventually pro
vide a properly drilled and disciplined force
for the service of the general government. The
main question Just now is to make arrange
ments for the support of a regular army ei-
tsbllshment of sufficient else to form the com
petent nucleus for the greater army that will
be needed should occasion for Its service ever
arise. With no party division on tba general
question, the bill ought not to be very long on
its way from the committee to the president.
The Need of a New State House.
The suggestion of The Bee that Nebraska
needs a new state house and that the time is
propitious for a definite project to secure it, is
tsken up by tba Kearney Hub for soma pointed
remarks, urging that the question of capital
location be settled first before considering a
new capitol building. Tha argument of Tba
Hub is, at least, entitled to a respectful hearing
when it says:
Tha beet Intereats of tha state wilt never be served
by making Lincoln tha permanent saat of government.
Thla la mada without tha leaat prejudice toward tha
preaent slate capital and without bias or Interest In
any poafllbla schema for capital relocation. A tenter
of Influence, political and otherwise, within the old
aoutheaat Nebraska circle not only ramatna, but will
probably alwaya remain, to tha exclusion and dis
advantage of tha greater portion of the state. Lin
coln, Beatrice, Nebraska City, Omaha, Fremont, and
possibly Columbus, are within that original circle of
Influence, which cot oaly prepondarataa politically
and commercially, but which arrogatee to thorn within
tha "charmed circle" th( divine light to treat tha out
lying sections as mere provincial
lying auctions aa mere provincial political aectlons ef
tha state. Neither tha people of Lincoln today nor
tha people of aoutheaat Nebraska are to blame for
tha "Job" that removedthe capital from Omaha to
Lincoln before the time was ripe for a change, and
before any man knew wher tha future center of pop
ulation would be. Tha question now la whether tha
people who cam after and changed tha center of pop
ulation, and who ware tha ones wronged, are dlapoeed
to wipe the old slate clean, go In for a new state
house, and make tha most of the geographical handi
cap that tha preaent location plaeea upon them.
What The Hub particularly complains
about is "the failure to permit tha location
question to be voted upon," but we maintain
that this point is not well taken, inasmuch as
there Is nothing whatever to prevent the sub
mission of a relocation measure by initiative, at
any time, without waiting for tha aid or con
sent of any legislature on earth. If the re
tnovahsts have not enough interest to set the
machinery in motion, then the legislature will
be apt to take tha existing location as an ac
cepted fact and proceed as conditions warrant.
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Mistakes in Export rignrei.
Secretary Redfleld of the. Department of
Commerce has startled the country by admit
ting the inaccuracy of the statistics for export
trade, sent out from his office. Tha matter is
serious only as it indicates inefficiency in tha
governmental accounting machinery. It Is dis
turbing, because for' definite information we
the people have come to rely generally on the
statements made by the departments at Wash
ington, although they have been amazed at
times by the widely varying statements made,
purporting to be based upon and supported by
governmentsl statlatics. Figures on exports of
recent months have been useful mostly to up
hold the vainglory of the administration in Its
claim for credit in tha restoration of prosper
ity. The real question is, how far can reports
from other departments of tha government be
relied upon? The Department of Commerce
offers as excuse that it has been operating
under a law passed in 18J0. It is time this
law waa amended, and that other inquiry were
made, to see what is needed to mako the gov
ernment reports dependable.
Boyd's opera bouaa as not large enough to con
tain the great throng who rushed to wltncea tha
presentation by Buflalo Bill and hta company In (lie
eenaatlonal drama, "Tha Prairie Waif." At Umea It
seemed as If the galleries had gone wild when But.
falo Bill appeared In the direst emergencies and res
cued tha wsjf from her Impending late.
Dr. P. A. Homlg of Michigan, who was once a real
dent of Omaha, relates eome Interesting reminiscent, a
of thla city thirty years ago, when, as a young roan
na came lo umane ror a location to open a, diua
store. Ha aaya there were only eight houaee la town
when bo arrived, and they were almost aunk out of
eight In tha mud. He purchased lt acres, now In tha
heart of tha city, and then after a failed arop sold out
and returned at. tevUltlng Omaha sow, ha aaya:
"What a fool I waa not to suck to a good thing wheu
I had it"
Superintendent Evers of the totter carrtere la en
deavoring to give tha boya a few houre' rest on Satur
day by rearranging their trips.
Danish Brotherhood No. IS waa preeented with a
beautiful banner by tha Ianlah ladiea of tha city,
the ipnob being made by Mrs. Ilohn and reapoase
being ty Mrs. V. H. Johnson.
A literary and mimical entertainment waa given at
Kour,ue Memorial church, the principal item on the
program being a torture by J. g. Ieteller on
-a subject. "Two Better Than One."
What is Behind ths Quarrel 1 ,
Omaha has been regaled to some extent by
the partial airing of a personal difference be
tween a sporting promoter and the city council.
This was brought about by an astonishing act
of the council, which determined thst the pro
moter would be permitted to rent the Auditor
ium, conditioned on his making public apology
to a city commissioner and the Auditorium
manager for certain of his expressions that
had given offense. This concession doesn't ap
peal to party at interest, nor Is it likely to gain
public approval. What would be interesting to
know is to what extent the use or the Auditor
ium Is to depend on the personal attitude of
any of the city commissioners In relation to
prospective exhibitors. At a casual glance. It
seems something of a hardship that the premier
w restler of his tlme is debarred from showing
In Omsha because ho la being presented by a
msn who hss satd something unpleasant about
a commissioner. What is really behind the
quarrel?
Abraham Lincoln
Kecollcctions
B. S. sTadal la The Outlook,
II. LINCOLN AND FRANKLIN.
IT IS STRANoe that Lincoln, with his thoughtful
neaa, should not have In some degree foreseen the
approach of secession and war. He had been In con
gress and must hare known tha southern people fairly
wsIL Ha waa undoubtedly a foreseeing kind of man.
No one saw more clearly than be did that the country
could not continue to exist "half free and half atave."
It seems strange, therefore, that be had not some
notion of what waa coming. But who doea foresee
what la ahoad? Benjamin Franklin was a foreseeing
kind of man, one would suppose. He spent a number
of years in France before tha revolution, knew tha
country well, and waa on Intimate terms with tha
leading people of France. Ha remained there till 17W.
la eight years from that time tha king's head waa off
end yet the wise, obaervant, thoughtful, and pre
aumabty far-sighted Franklin never seems In the leaat
ta have auapected what waa coming. The French
revolution would. Indeed, have been very difficult to
foresee, aa perhaps our civil war was in a less degree.
But there are other things not so difficult to know
beforehand which are not foreseen. I wss In tbo
Houea of Commons one night during the Franco
Prussian war when Vernon Harcourt, who waa at
that time unconnected with the government, accused
tha government of shortsightedness In not foreseeing
tha war, Implying that ha had foreseen It. Robert
Lowe, en extremely clever man, got "P to answer 'or
tha government, and aald: "Because the gentleman
foresaw this war, be thinks that everybody elae ahould
have been aa clever aa be waa. I am free to say.
however, that the whole thing waa a complete aur
prise to me."- Men are always too busy with present
matters to bother with what la problematical. Take the
case of tha preaent war. Half a dosen European na
tlona have each been holding for forty years a loaded
pistol with the finger on a hair-trigger, and yet how
surprised wa were when. In the lapse of time, one ot
the pistols went off. ViUeh had been aald about "the
next war," but have we not put the propheciea re
garding It in much the same category as that of tbu
destruction of the world by firs? Tha ancients. In
their deep, attentive knowledge of human nature, said
that tha god bestowed upon Cassandra the girt ot
prophecy, but they coupled the gift with tha condition
that her propheciea ahould not be believed. Ia that
not ao of all prophets? They are always regarded as
bores or cranks,
t
There were, however, soma prescient aoula who did
foresee our great struggle. Webster, no doubt, had
soma provision of that conflict In which hie only aon
waa to die "When my ayes shall bo turned to behold
for the last time the aun In heaven," eta Mr. S. J. Til
den aald to John Blgelow eome years before the war:
"If Mr. Bryant and those who think aa he does aucceed
In what they ara about, the streets ot this city will
run red with blood," They did run red during the
draft riots, much redder than la commonly under
stood. Mr. Loyall Farragut tells me that his father.
Admiral Farragut (then Captain Farragut), and na
were on tha balcony of the old Metropolitan hotel tn
Brofdway one night In 1&&S and were looking at a ta
publican torchlight procession, when his father said:
"I don't Uka these marching men. It looks to me Ilka
war."
My father had a friend, John Heart, who waa a
federal officeholder at Washington under Buchanan.
Ha waa from Boutb Carolina and had been the editor
of the Charleston Mercury. He eame to pay us
visit In Brooklyn la tha summer ot U60. Ha had Just
been In Charleston, and, from what he told us, wa
could have no doubt thav South Carolina would secede
tf Lincoln were elected. I had been lately jnuch In the
south, and, although only 17 yeara old, knew enough
of tha temper and characteristics of the southern peo
ple to be aware that, secession once started. It would
be very difficult to prevent the spread, of It: B'lt
youth is sanguine and precipitate. I wanted to aee
the power of alavary curtailed, and waa willing to
take tha chances; and ether boys and young men felt
asl did. . : ; . v .
Calhoun, perhaps ths moat prasoient of American
statesmen, foresaw the atruggla and wanted to brln
oa the war before tha strength of the rapidly growing
.north ahould prove too great to be wlthetood by the
south. The achame of tba north ahould have beet
to put off tha strugsle as long aa poeaible for the
same reason. If Calhoun saw what waa for the in
terest ot the south. It should not have required super
human Intelligence on the part ef tha north to
wnere us interests lay, no one, however, at tne
north seamed to sea this point quite aa sharply defined
aa Calhoun did. But there were those In tha north
who saw that great danger, perhaps disunion and war,
would follow anti-slavery agitation, and who wished
to adhere to tha atatua quo, preferring postponement
and tha ehancea of tha future to tha preaent prob-
ablittlee ot secession and war.
But would It have bean possible, after tha repeal
ot the Missouri compromise, to put off tha war? It
Douglas, tba marplot, or demagogue, or egottat, or
whatever he waa, could have bean suppressed, it
might have been possible to postpone tha war for four
or eight yeara, or even longer. But with the repeal
once passed, and Pandora'a box open, and the news
papers and all the poets and orators hounding the
country on to war. waa It poeaible to do it? Tou van
not teach tact and discretion to twenty millions of
people. One night in Plymouth church In Brooklyn,
a few weeka before John Brown'a execution ao a
friend told me who waa there Wendell Phillips, a
Maaaachuaetta man, aald: "Tha state proclamations
of Massachusetts conclude with tha words, 'God save
the commonwealth of Massachusetts;' but It Masse
chusetts allows John Brown to be hanged, I say, 'Qod
damn tha commonwealth of Massachusetts.' " The
affect of thla apoken to a vaat, crowded and sympa
thetic audience wrlth tha utmost pasaton by a per
fectly honest fanatic, who waa at the same time' an
Incomparable orator, may be easily conceived. When
such Incidents were possible, war could not be far off.
If tha war waa to come, Lincoln waa the perfect and
apparently heaven-appointed leader, and It was per
haps fortunate that be was no wiser tn advance than
ha waa
(Ooaaladed Tomorrow.)
The Washington preacher is not alone in
foreseeing tough times ahead. Ordinary vision
can spot primary candidates striving to en
lighten the dear people, a task which makes
the Judicious grieve. Weather conditions, is
this case, necessitates hiring of halls, thus
mltlgstlng much of the pain. The real tough
times come when the open air Is attacked, soma
six months hence. Adequate defensive meaa-
urea ought to be perfected ia that time.
All raclfto coast cities are backed off (ha
sews map by San Francisco. The anow blaaka
ot Seattle and Portland, the floods of Los An
geles and Ssn Dlei.o, are as momentary news
thrills beside the conspiracy sensation un
earthed at the Golden Gate. When the 8aa
Francisco courts get busy with the trials rival
coast cltlea will be lucky If they break Into the
back pages.
Twice Told Tales
Soaaetklaa; Lacklaar
A certain drill eergeant, whose eevertty had mada
hlra unpopular with Ms troops, waa putting a party of
recrulta through the funeral service. Opening tha
ranks ao aa to admit tha passage of tha auppoacd
cortege between them, the Instructor, by way of prac
tical explanation, walked alowly down tha Una formed
by tha two ranks, saying, aa hs did ao:
"Now, I'm tha corpse. Pay attention."
Having reached tha end of the path, he turned
round, regarded them steadily with a acrutlntslng
eye for a moment or two, hen exclaimed:
"Tour 'ende la right, and your 'eads Is right, but
you 'aven't got that look ot regret you ought to 'ave."
-London Tld-BUs.
Oat Eves,
A young man who had been snubbed at tha theatv
door decided to get even with bla girl friends.
Tha girls oocuptod tha first four eaeta In tha alxth
row and the young man had tha fifth. They paid no
attention to hlra. On the program waa a monologlst
who began to talk of love to get a few laughs, aa
those artists often do. Ha aald: "All the girls who
ara In love, plaaaa stand up."
Turning to the gtrt neat to hint, the young ma a
who had been anubbed, aald:
"Ftaasa let roe out."
Naturally, tha entire four had to rise. When they
ware oa their feat the young man sat down, while the
remainder of tha audience roared ta glee at the four
Philadelphia Ledger.
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Tfcasvlaa; aa ladersrawad PI ax.
GOTH ENBtTtCJ, Neb.. Feb. 10,-To the
Editor of The Bee: For the benefit of a
patron of your paper, could you not pub
lish In your columns a way to thaw Ice
oat of an underground lead pipe with
out digging It out of the ground.
DICK JENKINS.
Note: We doubt If It csn be done with
safety. An electric current might thaw
It. If you dig It out, be careful not to
get tha fire hot enough to melt tha lead.
Troth Not at Either Eatrease.
YORK, Neb.. Feb. lO.-JudKing front
what we read in the Latter Box. we are
all extremists. For the dove folka class
all that do not agree with them are mili
tarists, and they. In turn, call those not
In accord with their view pacifist at any
price.
But Itka all such queatione, right or
truth Is not found at either extreme. And
the extremea in this case are so very
far apart that surely there is room be
tween them for lota of gv. k reason, as
welt a a good patriotic people, who are
Just aa much for peace, yet with honor.
aa the extremists are. X believe a count
of nosea will show that the great bulk
of the sturdy sons of our beloved land
are In thla middle group. Then we ara
forced to think soma are undulyi alarmed.
while some are too much the other way.
The thing hardest to understand la
where the scared folks sea the ghost. If
they will compare the cost of this black
plague of war with tha resources ot the
people engaged In it. with the time It la
likely to continue, they will find a better
safeguard for peace for years than
armlea or navlca or forts. Some say, pre
pare for war, but cut out the profits;
others say, let the government make Ita
own munitions and so keep down the
cost. Yes, look at the pork barrels wa
have now; by the time they are filled the
strong box ia empty, and then aome.
Doea anyone think that If Uncle Sam did
hta own work It would bo different? The
same element that accepts bids for
armor plate-would have to do the aame
for the material to make it out of and
they would buy It from the same source.
They would also do the same In bids on
the material and construction of the
plants. Then remember the rivers and
harbors and public buildings Uncle Sam
has and you will have our reason.
F. POPE.
Defends Retara Gooda Privilege.
OMAHA. Feb. lO.-To the Editor of The
Bee: Will you kindly permit me apace to
reply to the article by J. W. MetcalCe,
on "The Return Goods Evil a Growing
Abuse." Every thinking person will ad
mit that thla privilege ia abuaed, mora
or less according to the moral princlplea
of the peraona concerned. Also every one
ahould appreciate tha fact that It la only
through tha courtesy of the merchants'
that this privilege Is premitted, but I
believe there ta something to be said in
defense of the customer as well.
Salesmanship may reach auch a point
of "efficiency" that It be cornea a boom
erang for the merchant and lit
erally return on hla own head. For In
stance, when a woman goea Into a store
for possible purchases, or for a glimpse
of what the season Is ahowlng In new
styles, or new goods, or for various
other reasons, she at once receives at
tention from . the polite salespeople In
the best stores goods are shoaro, she
may purchase or not as sha feels In
clined, but at once all tha persuasive
power of the salesman or saleswoman,
the psychology of the moment, every
thing is brought to bear to persuade her
to buy, whether she really wants the
article or not In fact. It la conaldered a
mark of expert salesmanship to sell
something to a person which they do not
want. Goods are displayed in the most
attractive, the moat, appealing manner
poaiilble; women are Induoed often to buy
against their better Judgment things they
cannot afford, or which are absolutely
unbecoming; then on sober reflection
after going home, they realise that al
though It la very humiliating for them
to do ao they must "take It back," with
the result that the merchant haa mussed
up and sometimes soiled goods back on
his 'hand.
I heard a lady say. not long ago. that
she took her shoea into a store to have
the buttons fixed, and while waiting alia
asked, merely out of curiosity. If they
had any blue shoes, as she waa wearing
a blue suit. The salesman a very accom
plished person Immediately got busy
with all persuasive power to msks her
buy the shoes, although this lady had
told them In the beginning that aha didn't
wrlsh to buy. But the clerk tnalsted on
trying them on for her. told her that
"Mrs. 8o-and-So bought a pair Just like
them yesterday," naming aome welt
known society woman, and asked It ha
couldn't aend them out. The lady told me
that she had, to summon all her will
power and aay "no" very positively or
aha would probably have been persuaded
to take something she didn't need and
really did not want.
These are Just a few of the the evils
of "over-efficiency." Another thing n
vthls: Let the merchant be very careful
that his goods are Just exactly what they
ara represented to be and then Insist that
hla salespeople do not mlsrepreeent them
to customers. We women are a discrim
inating class, taken aa a whole and given
time to think, but not always ao as In
dividuals, and It Is no credit to a mer
chant to have hla gooes represented as
first class, when they are not first class,
and when merchandise Is delivered to a
woman's home, which hss been sold to
her for a perfect article and aha finds
that It ia a very inferior article, ah
should always return the goods and at
once. That la tha kind of merchant whose
tables will always be filled with returned
gooda to a much greater extent thnn
the absolutely honest merchant upon
whose word and that of hla salespeople
one can alwaya rely. MRS J. B. JONES,
boil Chicago etreet.
Leapiag- ta Lean) letr.
A leap year boom la oa In New York City. Jan't
ary'a licenses to wed show aa Increaee of Z2S over
the aame month last year.
Here and There
Probably no Indian word has attained
a greater connotation of polite distinction
than Tuxedo, derived from P'taukeeet
tough, "tha place of the bears, and con
juring, aa It doea. visions of collar adver
tisements. dinner-Jacketed young men
playing billiards and gayly clothed out
door bladea batting on blooded horaea
Chicago railroads apant t7B.we.O0S In
ellmlniating grade crossings. Arcldenta
have already diminished as a result, and
tha saving effected pays good Interest on
tha Investment. But the coroner baa not
loat any business, automobile alone scor
ing JM fatalities during the last year. On
a certain bouleard. It la ataled. there la
only one crossing In three mllea where
tha pedestrian ia protected from the coa
tinuous traffic.
Editorial Snapshots
Washington Poet: The preaent rumored
advance on Peking would seem to Indi
cate that China Is at lAt sufficiently
civilised to do Its own looting.
Louisville Courier-Journal: "Tha allies
are Juat starting." aaya Lloyd-George. So
It seem, and It looks ss if the all.ee have
needed a reliable starting and lighting
system.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Furniture
manufacturers announce a SO per cent
advance In prices. All tha table lega are
being used abroad for artificial limbs, no
doubt.'
Mann's objection to the high cost of trav
eling when It la done by departmental
officials la probably well founded, but
everybody knows that It la mighty hard
to get any kind of government official
to believe that government money costs
anything.
Springfield Republican: It was tha
biggest business and biggest profit tn
the history of the steel trust In that
last quarter of 116 and the bitterest as
pect of the case la that all thla hap
pened under no high protective tariff.
Our fiscal history is full of auch exaa
pe rating episodes for the high and low
tariff theorists to fume over.
New York Poat: There are still writers
who assert that Britons are born with a
genius for the sea which no amount of
German study and labor ran rival. Now
tha Germans can retort that If England
la today In control of the seas. It Is merely
because of a superiority ' of brute
strength, the result of preparation pre
cisely, but that In initiative. In daring,
and in skill the Kaiser's seamen have
fully Justified Germany's aspirations to
dominion on the waters as well as on
land.
Nebraska Editors
There Is a rumor afloat that R. J.
Dobell of Julesberg, Colo., will start a
dally paper at Gering.
Tha clttsena of Trenton are arranging
to entertain the meeting of the Repub
lican Valley Editorial association on
March (.
H. H. Pease, editor of the Bcemer
Times, haa filed for the republican
nomination for representative from
Cuming county.
A. E. Clark of the Gordon Democrat
has filed for the democratic nomination
for representative of the Seventy-third
district. Hla opponent la Lloyd Thomas
of the Alliance Herald.
The Nebraska Record, a monthly paper
published by George E. Benschotter at
Loup City, has suspended publication.
Mr. Benschotter has moved his plant to
Hay Springs, where he expects to pub
lish a paper.
Wakefield Republican: Our association
with editors after several years spent
with schoolmen has blven us the Imprea-
slan that the pencil pushers, taken In
groups, ahow noticeably greater familiar
ity with the Bible and mora readiness In
the use of Sunday school words than do
the pedagoguea.
8tanton Picket: Editor F. C. Marshall
of the Niobrara Tribune Is a clever cuss
on the "fldel" as shown by tha beautiful
selection. "Auf Bergeshoh," rendered
at the press meeting at Wayne last week.
It Is seldom that an editor acquires any
talent other than playing poker or rob
bing hen roosts.
GROTS AND GROANS.
'Are all branches of the army appro
priately armed?"
"Of course. Why do you askT"
"Because I am sure the cavalry hasn't
horse pistols." Baltimore Americans.
Her Father Can you srive my daughter
all the little luxuries to which she la
accustomed?
Her Lover Not much longer. I ve been
doing it for over a year now. you know!
Philadelphia BulteUn.
'Was your husband cool when tha bur-
rlar broke in the other night?" aaked
Mrs. Jsy.
"Cool?1 aald Mre. Bee. -wny ne was
perfectly arctic. Ha ahivered all over."
Kew York Timea.
"Doea be pay h's alimony promptly?"
"No; I have aa much trouble in getting
money out of him aa If 1 were married
to him." Judge.
"Soeakina of The Hacue. Ita a city
that wo haven't aome special place for
promoting peace In this country."
Guess you've forgotten Reno, haven't
you?" Boston Transcript.
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"How Is Dr. Wombat as a phyalelan?"
"Beat ever. When you get exhausted
over bridge he prescribes dancing as a
rest cure." Pittsburgh Post.
A couple of little boys were discussing
matters personal to themselves. One of
them asked:
"Do you say your prayers In the morn
ing or at night?"
' At night, of course," said the other.
"Anybody can take rare of himself In
the daytime!" New York Times.
"It's hsrder than the old fifteean Pus
xle." said Senator Sorghum, as ha pushed
aside the manuscript of a speech. "I
have rearranged tny ideas a dosen
times."
"What are you trying to do?"
"I'm trying to fix up a consistent argu
ment that mill arrange for safnty first
and preparedness laat." Washington
star.
A BACHELOR'S WAIL.
SL Louis Globe-Democrat
There are glrla who are dark
And girls who are fair.
And girls who have all aorta of looks;
There are glrla who ara serious.
Utrls debonair.
But where are tha girla who are cooks?
There are glrla who ara gay.
And glrla who ara pretty.
And glrla who know much about book a.
There are girla who ara bright.
There are glrla who are witty.
But how ecarce are girls who are cooks?
It's true there ara many
Accomplished with art;
In musks, espreselon, and auch.
They know everything
But the way to a man'a heart
Now doesn't It Juat beat the Dutch?
I dread to go hungry.
For my appetite
Would scarce thrive on Ibsen and Shaw,
For of all tha good things
The garden provides.
Too few ara to bo eaten raw.
Po. glrla take a tip
From a masculine friend.
And learn that tha old-faabioned art
Of good homemade cooking
la surest to wta
Tha way to a bachelor's heart.
Look and Feel
Clean, Sweet and
Fresh Every Day
Drink a glass of real hot water
before breakfast to wash
out poisons.
Llfs Is not merely to live, but to live
well, eat well, digest well, work wall,
sleep well, look well. What a gloriona
condition to attain, and yet how very
easy It Is if one wilt only adept the
morning inside bath.
Folka who are accustomed to feel dull
and heavy when they arise, splitting
headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue,
nasty breath, acid stomach, can. Instead,
feel as fresh aa a daisy by opening the
sluices of the system each morning and
flushing out the whole of the internal
poisonous stagnant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, alck or well,
should, each morning, before breakfast,
drink a glass of real hot water with a
teaspoonfut of limestone phosphate In It
to wash from tha atomach. liver, kid
neys and bowels the previous day'a In
digestible waste, aottr bile and poisonous
toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and
purifying the entire alimentary canal
before putting more food Into the atom
ach. The action of hot water and lime
stone phosphate on an empty stomach is
wonderfully Invigorating. It cleans out
all the sour fermentations, gases, waste
and acidity and gives one a splsndld ap
petite for breakfast. While you ara en
Joying your breakfast the water and
phosphate la quietly extracting a large
volume of water from the blood and
getting ready for a thorough flushing
of all the Inalde organs.
The millions of people who are bothered
with constipation, bilious spells, stomach
trouble, rheumatism; othere who have
sallow skins, blood disorders and sickly
complexions are urged to get a quarter
pound of limestone phosphate from tha
drug store which will cost very little,
but Is sufficient to make anyona a pro
nounced crank on the subject ef Internal
sanitation. Advertisement.
Be Careful in Using
Soap on Your Hair
Most soaps and prepared ahampnoa
contain, too much alkali, which ta very
injurious, as It dries tha acalp and makes
the hair brittle.
Tha best thing to use la Just plain mul
tried cocoanut oil. for It la Dure and
entirely arreaseless. It's very Cheap, and
thing else all to pieces. You can get
this at any drug store, and a few ounces
will last the whole family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub it in, about a teaspoonfut la all
that la required. It makea an abundance
of rich, creamy lather, cleansea thor
oughly and rinses out easily. Tha hair
dries quickly and evenly, and la soft,
fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy, and
easy to handle. Besides It loosens and
takea out every particle of dust, dirt and
dandruff. Advertisement.
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They keep their blood pure, their
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