THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. JUNE 23. 1916.
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t Subscribers learin the dty temporarily
thoold have the B mailed to them. Ad-
draig will be changed at often at requeatsd. ':
; i Wonder if the famous A. B. C. commission
r could now recognize Carranza on tight?
1 Wonder! if the weather man it in on the
f Grocer' and Butchers' picnic this timet
:J. Seeing King AV-Sar-Ben prove hit tute of
S preparedness it a bargain at double ihe price.
; Advocate! of peace might accomplish retultt
by forwarding their argument to the Mexican. ,
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i A pallbearer' claim it unusual, but not amut
ing. Pallbearer invariably "deliver the goods."
. Tlie policy of "watchful waiting," begun with
sugared phrase, thowt signs of developing lead
poiton. . ' '' : ..-'.'--.: f
Having muddled the Mexican situation from
: the start, the administration will now proceed to
muddle through. , ;
Brown't boyt "roared and cheered for Char
ley." Now let Princeton' tiger cut loose for
Woodrow and equalize the college start ,
Dan Cupid it fully alive to hit opportunities.
i Mobilization of the National Guard precipitate a
j ruth to Dan't recruiting office and a large addi
tion to the rotter of June bridet.
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The distress of the local democratic organ
." about the doing of Editor Rotewater would be
pathetic only most of It it bated on fakes con
cocted in th World-Herald office.
"How would you, gentle reader, like to be
. the pretident Under thete circumstances?" folk
:.. are asked. Welt, at that, there promitet to be
; quite a brltk competition for the f lace.
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And don't forget that, at United State ten
( ator, the proprietor of the local democratic organ
is on record voting againat an increase in the
army demanded by the war office and the preti
;;, dent. ' . :: v V.
It it all over but the shouting in Kansas. Bull
mooters have cancelled their party nomination,
ditched the party machinery and returned to the
family fold. William AllenWhite headed the
: procestion into the big tent " .;
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What's this f The president and hit inner
. council already talking about bringing Mexico to
time by the starvation procett Then, cutting
off the food tupply from noncombatantt as
welt at combatant mutt be a legitimate method
of warfare
' The manager of the Flag day demonstration
; are to be congratulated for rendering a notable
patriotic aervica at an insignificant expente. Not
, the leatt creditable feature of the affair it that
. contribution to the expente fund far exceeded
the cott. , '
At a mobilization camp, the itate fair ground
at Lincoln are better than the rifle rang at Ath
land, but Fort Crook, with it barracks, officers'
quarter and drill grounds, all prepared and spe
cially adapted for th purpote, would be infi
nitely better. f
. The voiceless picture of the movie screens
cany to childish mind impression! beyond the
. grata of elder. Abience of adeauate nnliu.
' tiont deepen the impression, and outs tin to
' parent th need of shaping pictured impreiiion
;. m tne ngnt direction. rroper explanation make
lor tatety.
Thirty Years Ago
This Day in Omaha
Dr. S. D. Mercer ha pnrchaied lor $25,000
the house and lot of Captain Richardt, on the ele
vated northwest . corner of - Eighteenth and
rarnam. . .. ':-.,.i::v y. - " ' . V, 1 ..
. Messrs. Clarkson, Deuet and Sharp have gone
to Moline, III., to witness the (culling match of
Connor and Brown 'of this city. - , - f
Uiu Vnnlfla B Mvon n( Pa..I.-J r XI..
F. W. Munday and Milt Kate Bailey of Chi
cago are tne guests ?i Mr. ana Mrs. H. L.
Stanton. f ,- !:(, .
Adolph Meyer ha returned from Spirit Lake,
la,, whither he accompanied hi wife and child.
J. A. Lamar of New Orleans, cousin of the
secretary of the interior, ha accepted a potition
with Benniton Brother!.
Mr. and Mr. John A Horbach have left for
New York, where they will be joined by their
son, Paul Horbach, who hai jutt graduated from
. college at Troy. Mrs. Horbach and son, Mr.
'Caldwell and two tons and Mrs. Cumin wil
ot ex-Governor Cuming, will form an Omaha
parry which will sail lrom jew York for a
summer tour tnrougn turope.
C S. Harrison has returned from a trip to
i lncago m the interest of Franklin academy, and
. ie institution it ahead several hundred dollari
Ly Hit visit
0a the Edge of War.
The United States is to close to the edge of
war that an hdur may tee the beginning of con
flict. Thil solemn thought hat been in the mindt
of Americani for many months, although all have
hoped that in tome way, through tome agency
or meat, it might be averted, and the nation be
spared the sorrow of another clash at arms with
a neighbor. Eventt have to developed that war
now can be avoided, apparently, only by the ac
complishment of what teems hopelessly impos
sible. That it, the rettoration of the blood-maddened
and teemingly irresponsible Mexican lead
en to a ttage where they will act with reaton.
President Wilton and his cabinet patiently
await full official report! on the Incident of
Wednetday before they can definitely announce a
course of action. Their countrymen look to them
in thil grave moment to abate no act that ii nec
essary for the upholding of the honor and dig
nity of the nation and the safety of all itt citizent,
wherever they may be. ' And the pretident and
hit adviser may be very certain of the patriotic
support of all the people, in whatever course is
decided upon at necessary to the effective et
tablithment of the peace and honor of the United
Statet. V'. -' . . ; -
Automobile Owners Can Help.
The Omaha Automobile club it planning to
put on a special traffic officer of ita own, who will
atsitt the regular police force in handling traffic,
and who will also give some attention to road
inspection. In both of thete purpote the general
public it deeply concerned. The street traffic in
Omaha require constant and intelligent direc
tion to prevent accident! and jamt. Even with
the belt of tupervision now attainable, mishaps,
are recorded, and jam are frequent. It i desir
able that both be avoided. Report on damaged
pavement are part of the regular policeman's duty,
no matter on what route hi beat may lie, but
the. tpeciat automobile officer may be of much
help in thil connection, too. Still greater oppor
tunity to be of assistance rettt with the automo
bile owner and driver. For the most part, they
are careful and icrupulously observe traffic laws
and regulation, but enough of the careless to
make up a considerable menace remain. These
thoughtless or heedless driver are an annoyance
to all but themaetvet, and tome plat thould be
devised to bring them to a realizing tense of their
obligation to others. If the automobile cluh or
ownert can do thitu they will be performing a
real service.'
Sooth Ameriot on Kexioo.
Comment of Bueno Aire paper on the Mexi
can (ituation indicate a clear conception, in Ar
gentina at least, of the trouble that hat arisen
between the United Statet and Mexico. The Ar
gentinian! understand fully that the United State!
ii not seeking war, that it doei not desire new
territory, and ii sincerely concerned only in bring
ing. peace and good government to the Mexican
people. Thit view it certain to be of help in
whatever steps mutt be taken to tettle the diffi
culty, for it will have itt effect on other South
American countriei. It ii in direct contratt to
the opinion that prevailed in Argentina in 1898,
when sympathy of people and government went
out to Spain, The course of the-United Statu
in that war, and iti treatment of Cuba after the
war did much to reaiiurc our neighbor! in the
New World of our disinterestedness and eager
ness to be helpful to them. It is not expected that
the people of the leveral South American coun
triei will fully underitand all that is involved in
our trouble with Mexico, but 'if they appreciate
that we are not aggressors, nor actuated By a
tpirit of conqueit, we are certain of retaining
their friendly feeling through the affair.
Cirouit Broken Somewhere.
' The prime purpote of the republican itate
committee meeting called for today at Lin
coln it to till the vacancy on the ttate ticket
to be caused by the expected withdrawal of
Henry Clarke of Omaha as candidate for rail
way commistioner. Lest than half a dozen
republican leaden, it is said, including Mr.
Clarke,, Chairman McNish and Victor Rote
water, are in on the secret. Thursday World
Herald, 'Page 4.
And then, to cinch thit startling information,
we have thit, under a Lincoln date line:
A rumor-here today that H. T. Clarke might
decline to make the railway commitsionenhip
. race was denied tonight. "You may say for
me," Commissioner H. G. Taylor declared,
"that Mr. "Clarke will make a vigorous fight
for the place." Mr: Clarke concurred in thil
when located later in the evening. Thursday
World-Herald, Page 9.
r To a man up a tree, it would appear that the,
circuit wat broken lomewhere. .
Koreltr that it Hot So Hovel.
An Omaha man ha tiled with the probate
court a claim againtt an ettate for tervices at a
pallbearer. Thit it to distinctly out of line with
the general custom of the country a to occasion
tome wonderment at to whither it it terioutly
intended. Almost universally pallbearers are ic
lected because of their dose connection or asso
ciation with Jhe dead perton, sod terve as tuch
at an added mark of regard for one whom they
knew and loved in life. It it the last service that
can be rendered, and it given freely becaute of the
enie of lomething beyond explanation connected
with it. But to ask pay for service at a funeral
it not altogether unknown to the world. The
employment of hired mourner is a well estab
lished custom in eastern countries, and even
among tome western people it ha a foothold.
Funeral practices differ with localities, and while
the demand just made by the pallbearer that he be
compensated for hit tervicet is not entirely with
out precedent, it will hardly be accepted at es
tablishing a custom. ' '
Report put an excess of emphasis on the
alleged activitiei of German agent in stirring
up ill-will againtt the United Statet in South
and Central America for the purpose of jeop
ardizing improved trade relation. If the ttories
art well-founded it it certain that Germant do
not monopolize the job. From the outlet of the
war to the present time the allies overlooked no
chance for trade expansion and the United Statet
facet that competition now; Germany it on the
lookout for the future of No. 1, but it it unreason
able to suppose itt present trade interest! liei
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in aiuiug inc enemy. . . :
Yet, but It the Itate auditor going to apply
the tame rule of strict technicality 4o bondt
voted by other citiet or countiet in Nebraska that
he it uiing on our Douglas county road bonds?
No one can obiect to the auditor erriin .
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rightful prerogative in this respect, but he must
not single out uougiai county tor special re
quirementt not exacted generally.
Candidates in Comparison
Pa rid lawrenee. "
IT WAS four yean, ago but it teemt only yet
terday when I itarted out with Wilson at
Sea Girt. N. J.. and followed him every day
of hit campaign, every day of hie pre-inaugura-tion
period, and tubtcquently obterved him in the
White House. Many thingt have happened tince
1912. Some pledges have been fulfilled, other
have been broken.- Some hope have been dashed,
others have been realized. Some men will fight
to the very end, believing in Woodrow Wilson as
a figure in history comparable to that of Wash
ington and Lincoln, to posterity tney are in
clined to look for an honest verdict, not to the
ephemeral emotion! of prejudice and pasiion.
But the president has an abiding faith in the peo-
nlh ia rnnfiHent that even todav thev will
judge fairly and retain him in power.
As a camnaimer. Woodrow Wilson was one
thing, at pretident he became another. Whatever
may be the justification for it the stress of un
usual problemi or extraordinary eventt that re
quired seclusion the fact it that Mr. Wilton dur
ing hit administration did not keep alive that en
gaging democratic personality which he revealed
from the back platform of hit car in 1912. Only
rarely hat he gone forth among the people. When
he has, something of the old fire hai come back.
He could not help rekindling it becauie basically
it haa alwavi been there, no matter how much the
atmoiphere of the White House may have teemed
to obscure it. Wilson it a human being. At neart
he feel for the people with at deep a passion as
has any president of the United States, but he pre
fer the solitude ot hit study, the dictate ot nit
own conscience, and his own remarkable intui
tion to the open counsels of large groups of men
or that freedom of intercourse which is bound to
inspire and, yes. even teach the most infallible of
minds.
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- Let ui take a concrete example: In campaign
dayi, Wilion did not heiitate to mingle with the
newtpaper men, to think about them and their
work. Some of them even traveled in hit own
private car. When he became president, he with
drew himself from these, friends and foes alike,
forgetting that, ai a rule, the men who write tell
the country through their phraset'and their infer
ence! exactly what kind of a man the pretident it.
At first, Mr. Wilton received newtpaper men
twice a week. He chatted amiably, answered
questioni good-naturedly. Later he became irri
tated, loat hit poise, and stopped the conferences
altogether a year ago. He didn't hurt the news
paper men. He simply deprived himself of the
greatest medium at his command through which
to reach the hearts and votes of the American peo
ple, tie took himselt out ot tne picture ana lett
everybody surmising as to bia habits of thought,
his plans, and his purpose!. If at times, an im
pression of chaos and indeciiion hai gone out to
the country from Washington concerning Wood
row Wilson! foreign policies, it can be traced
directly to the uncertainty of the correspondent!
themselves ai to the lines in which either the
president or hit administration was traveling.
Few correspondent! have talked with President
Wilson in the last year they might be numbered
on the fingers of the hand.
Taft, by the way, did somewhat the same thing.
He began holding open audiences with the corre
spondents, but shortly quit it. He was impatient
and irritable under the fire of questions, and be
tide that grew restive under the obligation to
meet the fixed engagement. He, too, lost the
human touch with the men who color the people's
impression of the man in the White House, and
thus threw away hfs best medium of access to
the minds and hearts of the people. .. . i
Now as to Hughes: he has begun with winning
frankness and cordiality. Thit thing it not new
to him. When he was counsel to the New York
insurance investigating committee, he was in close
touch with the newspaper men who reported the
hearings; after each day's tetsion he met with
them, explained the purport of the day's testi
mony, and painstakingly answered questions.
While governor at Albany, he met the reporter!
twice daily; alwayt punctually keeping the en
gagement' and not infrequently interrupting im
portant hearings and conferencei in order to do
to. Even while justice of the tuprerrte court, he
received the correspondents with unfailing cour
tesy. He observed scrupulously the proprieties
of hit office. He did not permit them to tend
out dispatches purporting to reflect his views. He
inspired no stories, but he was candid. He real
ized that in a tense the newspaper men but repre
sented a curious, inquisitive electorate.
Charles Evans Hughes made many friends in
the newtpaper fraternity while he waa on the su
preme court bench. You couldn't tit in hit library
5ve teconds without saying to yourself ''why, I
expected to find him cold, stiff, and dignified, awe
inspiring, and aloof." But after you heard that
contagious laugh, that wholesome good humor,
that aptness of phrase and irresistible logic, you
wanted to sit back in your chair and let him talk
on and on. Only you wished usually that some
one with a dictaphone was taking it all down.
"Here at last," I have heard many newspaper
men say, who have come to know him intimately
"here at last is a ttateiman of fearlessness and
auttained courage." : -
Yet there it something poisonous about the
atmosphere of the White House, lomething de
bilitating, lomething ill-fated that changet the
personality of itt occupants. Some of them change
early, othera later on in their respective adminis
tration. Woodrow Wilion rode triumphantly
into power, admired on all sides. Hit jaw wa
pointed to ai a symbol of determination, of mili
tancy, of aggressiveness. His contempt of parti
sans and political opportunists had been proved in
New Jersey.- He would not compromise' with
the selfish nor would he touch the tainted in
politic!. y
Hit end justifiei the mean it the argument
now of hit defenderi; the country it proiperout
and at peace, thejr say a constructive program of
domestic legislation hai been begun, and there
thould be an opportunity to complete it They
admit. Mr. Wilson has made mistakes, but thete
they argue are outweighed by hit achievement.
The experiences of Woodrow Wilton, the
difficulties he haa encountered in the White
Houte, the problemi of the most perplexing char
acter that have beset him on every side, and the
manner in which he has met or tried to meet
them, cannot-but shake one't faith after all in the
power of any one individual to conduct the Office
of president or himself in it to the satisfaction of
large numbers of his fellow-citizens. Hughes is
a man of wonderful ability, brilliant, penetrating
mind and blunt courage. He may be the luper-
m.n S-ftth?hour-.. H may not Hei o. muitit
fail. The White House might chill him, as It has
others. For curiosity's sake, it would be interest
ing to see how Charles E. Hughei would atand
the test as president of the United States.
Twice Told Tales.'
. To Suit All Taite.
k Juit as the train was moving from the station
two men were bundled into a carriage. Both
were of the sporting type and were evidently
particularly keen on racing. -.-. .
"Let'a 'ive a look at yer paper, Bill," said
Charlie.
, " 'Ere we are, Charlie," aid Bill, handing hi
friend an evening paper. : . ,
After a few minute of tilence Charlie re
marked sententiously: "Wonderful things, newa
papera, aren't they. Bill? They've got to many
different tortt of thingt in 'em stories, cookery,
murdert, suicides, racin' tomethln' for every
body, in fact." : .
"You're right they are, Charlie."
- '"But what't thit ere blank apace, Bill?" point
ing tp the blank space reserved for stop-press
news.
"Oh," replied Bill, "that' for people wot can't
read." London Answers.
Looks Llkt Bit Grab.
Waihlneton. Junt 26. To th Editor of
Tht Bm: Ob May 17 o-called flood con
trol bill puled thu houM Mirying 146,000,-
000 for the lowtr MlHUtippl rivor una
16,000,000 for the SMrantnto river, or
161,600,000 in A ttronf propaganda
managed by a veil financed lobby having
hundrede o f million- at ateke, operating
through tht HUeUeippl River Levee aaeo
elatton, ha) appealed to public empathy
and hypnotized etatc legislatures and na
tional convention with tho cry of national
responsibility for Mississippi floods, whereas
these steadily increasing floods are directly
attributed, by well informed people, to tho
dangerous lower river levee system.
Behind polities! lavs boards, a gigantic
private land reclamation scheme - reaching
10,000,000 acres is discussed In the eommit
teo report all under th attractive slogan of
"flood control.". "Local interests" art re
quired under tho house hill to contribute only
116.000,000 toward reclaiming this 1B.0UW,
000 acres of flooded land which eventually
Is to bo worth between one and two billion
dollars. Congressional Record, page 8616.
Major West of the Mississippi River com
mission, has testified HNriU cost the gov
ernment 9228,000,000 to levet and revet tht
river banks. Congressional Record, page
80S?. Tht army engineers propose to har
ness a river which naturally overflowed
10,000,000 acres of land and was sixty or
seventy miles wide and seventy fet deep in
the channel at Vicktburg during flood time
and confine the flood waters between levees
to be built and protected by the government
at a nexpense of over $200,000,000, in order
to reclaim this J 0,006,000 acres of private
land. At this time of treasury deficit, with
great pending emergency expenditures and
increased war taxes laid upon our people,
what can be offered to justify a 941,000,000
wasteful river and harbor bill and a $61,60,
000 private land reclamation bill, both of
which are now pending f Very truly yours,
JAMES A. FREAR.
WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES.
Four Mexicans were convicted of highway,
robbery in the superior court of San Diego,
Caj., by a jury composed of twelve women.
The next council meeting of tht General
Federation of Women's Clubs will be held
in 1917, In New Orleans. This Is always
held in the off year of the big convention,
and has been called the 'little biennial."
Presidents of clubs and state officers are
eligible for membership.
Mrs. Henry Ollechelmer of New York was
re-elected president of the National League
of Women Workers- at the biennial meeting
tn Pittsfleld, Mats. The league now has
17,006 members and Is composed of seven
eastern associations. It is expected that
within a year the middle western state
associations will be admitted. '
Indiana is having a third campaign for
a mothers pension law, and It Is hoped to
get the Vll through, the legislature that
meets next January. Judge Nell, who la
conducting the campaign, tried to obtain a
state pension law in 1018 and in 1015 and
failed. Twenty-seven states now have such
pension laws, Maryland being the latest to
adopt it.
Springfield, Mass., teachers have made
plans to conduct an organising campaign
to form a branch of tht American Federa
tion of Teachers. Miss Margaret Haley of
Chicago, will go to Springfield to take up the
matter with 'the teachers. , The American
Federation of Teachers was organised In the
courts and has been given a legal status
b the courts of Chicago.
Not until recently has any effort .been
made to provide employment bureaus for
women. Channels have been open to men,
for many- years, by which they could be
informed of better, fields of employment
The tide of male employes has followed in
the wake of the demand, and the federal
government, through the Department of
Labor,., has aided this adjustment. -
SIGNPOSTS OF PE0QEESS.
Eleven grains of radium were produced
in the United Statet last year.
Thirty years ago the average length of
life in western Europe and America waa
about thirty-six years; now it Is fifty-ont
plus.
Of Swiss Invention is a storage battery
electric switching locomotive in which pow
erful electric magnets are used Instead of
couplings for drawing cars. f
American moving picture films are be
ing told in Increasing quantities in France
owing to the curtailment of the French and
Italian film output due to the war.
Preliminary experiments are being con
ducted by the United Statet byraau of fish
eries in the preparation of shark meat as
food. Fisheries' experts say there is good
ground for the belief that a demand for the
article will be created.
In order to avoid scrapping one of Its
great powder plants after the demand for
munitions ceases, the Du Pont company
hat itt staff of chemists and experts busy
experimenting with dye and other products
for manufacture whtn the war is over.
The latest available figures of the Penn
sylvania Bureau of Industrial Statistics give
the labor cost of more than $10,060,600
worth of electrical tupplitt manufactured in
the ttate In 1918 at 88 per cent of the total
value. Next to mining and preparation of
coal, this is the largest labor cost in per
centage of all industries in the state of
Pennsylvania.
"In spite of tho high price of gasoline, It
really does not sect us any more a mile to
run the average 1616 car than It did the
cars of 1960 or 1906." !s the statement
recently made at a meeting vl the Society
of Automobile Engineers, and the speaker
further said: "The increased efficiency of
engines and decreased weight of tar have
certainly enabled ua to go more miles on a
gallon of gasoline; in fact, I think almost
double what wat possible ten years ago,
or even five years ago in thit country." .
ESUOBIAX SIFTINGS.
Detroit Free Press l That the suffragists
are very much In earnest wat demonstrated
when the women in St. Louis remained silent
for two hours in the interest of their cause.
; 8t. Louts Globe-Democrat : Democratic
grief over the passing of the progressive
party Is genuine, although we may soon ex
pect some confident claims as to democratic
recruits from the remnants.
Pittsburgh Dispatch t The enforced simple
living brought by the war haa resulted in a
generally better state of health among Euro
peans, says a dispatch. There are a great
many, however, past thought of any sort of
diet. . ,.
Houston Post: It U estimated that 100.
000,066 pairs of hosiery are wasted annually
In the United Statet for the lack of a little
darning. Lord give us more sock-darners,
baby-spankers and chicken-fryers, and fewer
suffrage-seekers, hammock -swingers and
fum-chtwtrs.
Springfield Republican I If the big banks
forced the abandonment of the latest pro
posed automobile merger, with itt antici
pated issue of watered stock for promoters
profits, we have a demonstration that the
big banks have learned something in the
last fifteen years. -
Boston Transcripts' "And if we Invaded
Mexico," orated Mr. Bryan, "these tame men
would say i 'On to Panama, " As wa recall
it, tht man who first sounded the bold
anthem "On to Panama wat that great
democratic statotmaiv publicist and leader,
Marae Henry Wattarei of LoutivUlt, fc.
Chicago Heraldi Never before have women
played such a part hi oooneetioa with the
national conventions of the two great parties.
Never before have the delegatea been so in
clined to recognise their political Importance
as fact accomplished and to hasten to
make concession to it. Never before have
deliberations over the nature of a declara
tion on this issue so occupied tht ttmt and
attention of tht members of tho resolutions
committees of both the republican and demo
cratic parties. j
SmiNG LINES.
"Where are the enow of yesterday, 7" In
quired the man who quotes poetry.
"Never mind about that," rejoined his
wife. "The important quettion Is. 'Where
Is tht let that was due to arrive thit morn
ing ?' "Washington Star.
Tommy," said the fond nfflther, "Isn't it
rather an extravagance to eat both butter
and Jam on your broad at the same Urns?"
"No, mamma. It's economy," Tommy an
swered. "Th same piece of bread does for
both." Th Christian Herald.
The recruit was being sworn in.' Every
thing went swimmingly until the question
was asked. "Have you. even been in
prison?" - i
"No efr," was the reply. "I've never
been In Jail, but I don't mind doing a few
daya If you think It necessary. -Boston
Transcript.
Win. Wnit-ro you have a hard time
getting money out of your husband?
Mrs. Oillis Tes, Indeed. He makes It a
rule never to retire without first putting a
couple of mice In hie trousers pocket-Judge,
Hm MR.kABttOE, ,
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VDUMfi MAM A'CtCV&ttk' AKfc
WWLEr HIM CAU.Xr'IHE Housa
BUT W WR DOBSKT OBJECT
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UP ON IHE Plbli-VAtfrCAN
tf MPMIS twTOUrMAN IS
lEUSHteD EVERY TIMS TWCWIn
MAN IS PDRCPTP cffWP A Ha-TOl.
put
"Only a human paradox can
west ner sign on a steeple.
, "Why so?" ' ,
"Because hs Is the only kind of man who
can be successful In a vans attempt. Balti
more American.
Interviewer What Is your wife's favorite
dish? 1
Husband of the Famous Movie Aotrese
In the magaslne It la peachbloom fudge-
cake with orange w lap salad, but at home
it is tripe and cabbage. Puck,
"What makes you think your husband Is
coming back, MandyT Have you heard from
him?''
"No'm, but Ah jea' knows tomethln'e
gwlne to happen. Ah broke a mirror dls .
mawnin I" Browning's Magaslne.
"What excuse have you for not supporting
your family?" asked tho Judge In stentorian
"1 have to support a motor car," pleaded 7
the culprit And the judge, knowing how It
was himself, dlcharged the cast. Philadel
phia Inquirer. , .- :
Naval Commander Did you succeed In In
tercepting that wireless message to the en-
eiOperator Yes, sir. It was sddressed to '
Lieutenant Smith, and read, "It s a boy.
Life, ... . ... :l;
"Why wouldn't they allow the singer
you recommended to give a. solo at that
prohibition meeting?" .
"Somebody went and told thm that she -had
liquid notes in her voice. Baitlmors
American, " v... ':. ' ,; .
STILL WATEBS.
In the runniest of rivers " . -
. If you follow them you will ,
Some time or other find a place
Where the water's clear and tilL.
And if you have a ftshtn' pole ,
And line, and pin that's bent, .? k
And a little worm attached thereto.
You will be glad you went. ,
For In tho clear, calm waters ;
of the rushlest of streams
Are the whopplest of whoppers
Of which the sportsman dreamt.
In the talk lent of Sople,
If you're with them day by day.
You'll find that there are moment
When they've nothing at all to aayi
When the flow of chatter slackens
And subsides Into a pool;
That reflects the lights and shadow
Of a spirit calm and coot , '
And In those rare, rare silences
Of the talklest of men
If you fish for wisdom you may land
A whopper, now and then.
Omaha. BAYOLL NIC TRELTS
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AUCTION SALE
OF FINE KOUNTZE PLACE HOMES
The Old Peoples Home Association, finding it neces
sary to raise money to build on the new site for their
home, near Fontenelle Park, will sell at public auction, '
to the highest hjdders for cashi.on Saturday, June 24th,
at 10 a. m., the following described properties: 1
; ; 2018 Wirt Street
8-roo'm frame house, all modern, with good barn (or garage) in
rear. The house could not be duplicated for $4,000. Lot 60x124 is
easily worth f 1,60. Beautiful shade trees in front.
v 2016 Wirt Street
' A 9-room, all modern, brick residence, together with brick barn
(or garage) and frame garage with quarters above- for chauffeur.
Fine cement driveway up to garage. House is finished in the finest '
hardwood obtainable. Rooms are large, sunny and well arranged.
Improvement cost at least $26,000 and lot is 75x124, on paved
street; paving all paid.
Lot 50x124 Feet v
Just east of the above described brick house and covered with
all kinds of shrubbery and beautiful trees; easily worth $1,600.
Terms: $260 cash at date of sale; remainder on delivery of ab
stract showing good, merchantable title, and warranty deed. For
further information call' , : (
OLD PEOPLES HOME ASSOCIATION,
MRS. E. R. HUME, Chairman Building ComraitU. Walnut 3307.
After a Chase on the Golf Links
You Will Find a Cold Bottle of
vor . '
rIHE Kara JUKI
Most refreshing and satisfying. Save cou
pons and get premiums. '
Phone Douglas 1889 and have a case sent home.
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Distributors .:-:-.
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