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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1916. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED Bl CSlWARD KOSEWATEK VlCTORROSEWATER. EDITOR THS BEE PUBLISHING COM PAN Y, PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha postofflc. aa seondel.sa matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Br Carrier per month Dally and 8nndar . ,,..66e , Dell? without Sunday 5e Evening and Sunday 40c Kvenlne without Sunday 2e Sunday Bee only 20c... By MaO per year. ... .M 09 .... a.00 .... 6 00 4.00 J. 00 Dailr and Snnday Bee. three yeara in advance. l.uo. ftend notice of chancre of addre'e or irregularity in de livery to Omaha Bee. Circulation Department. I REMITTANCE., Remit by draft, eipraat or poetal order. Only J-eetlt atampa taken in payment of email aeeounte. Personal eneefcs. eicent on Omaha and eastern oichange. not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bnfldinr. South Omalu 231B N afreet. Council Bluffa 14 North Main atreet Lincoln 2 Little Building Chicago 818 People'a Gaa Bullions. New York Boom S0. 2X4 Fifth avenue. St Louie 60S New Bank of Commerce. " Washington 72i Fourteenth street. N. W. a CORRESPO DENCE. Address eommunlcationa relating to newa and editorial matter It Omaha Bee, EVitoria) Department. JULY CIRCULATION. 57,569 Daily Sunday 52,382 DeHght William,, circulation manager of WnhliBhine Mntuni. average circulation for the month The Baa being duly eworn, aaya that the OI duly, ivie, wae aq a&e rf.nM tA a? aae Rundv DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Clrenlattos Manager Saber ri bed in my pretence and awora to bef. , rae Mil, Id day of Auguat, !!. ROBFRT HfJrJTEll, Notary Pob'le. Subscrib.rs lafyinf th city Umporarilf IwaM bar Thai Bee mailed to th.an. A4 dreea will ba changed aa ofte aa i-.qu.st.cl In the interval, Omaha's nee for a new Union f passenger depot ia not growing any lest.. V Back and forth Russians and Turks struggle for possession of Mush. Both sides love a soft snap. J; , . It is again demonstrated that horse racing it just as exciting and stimulating as auto speeding and not nearly so deadly. ' j A niche in the hall of fame awaits the 'dealer j is human necessaries who defies the spirit of the j times and keeps prices on the ground floor. Sixteen Nebraska trust companies report re J sources of $3,459,000. Which goes to show that f trust companies do not operate wholly on trust. As we understand it, the pressure of the presi , dent on railroad managers is merely a revised , application of Wilson's selebrated "New Free I dom." V ' : The story of the Jap physician and Pancho Villa,' panoplied with the literary flourishes of Chihuahua, promises to rank as the best seller of the season.' r :,:i,.. Henry Ford is favored with a ' libel suit' for $1,000,000 damages. The size of the bill nicely fits in with the theory of reaching for all the traffic will bear. - .' Antoists properly appreciating ,the rights of others need not fear increased restrictions for public safety. No trouble will come to careful, competent drivers. -' "i;1 , v it -i W'T"?rr-. Ia Mi ; , The entrance of Sweden into the conversation fest with Great BritaM affords a timely1 break In the monotony of American notes. Swedish re prisals exhibit the right temper. ' ' ' An Answer That Doesn't Answer. Having evidently at last heard from his boss in Washington, the World-Herald man essays an answer to The Bee's article of week ago expos ing the dishonesty of Senator Hitchcock's pro posed special tax on foreign owned stocks and bonds sent here to be disposed of. The Bee showed plainly that this scheme is tantamount to a scaling or repudiation, in the percentage of the tax, of debts owed to foreign investors who loaned us money to develop our industries; that the stocks or bonds are merely the security for these debts, and that confiscating one per cent or two per cent of the investment, in the guise of a tax, is no different in essence from confiscat ing ten per cent, or twenty per cent or fifty per cent The answer of Senator Hitchcock's paper (we give it in full in another column of this page) is that when a foreigner sends his stocks and bonds back, he is selling his "property" just the same as if he sent merchandise, and is properly subject to an extra tax. But, this is not true, for the stocks and bonds are not property in the same sense as merchandise but, as we have said, are merely security for money already here which, in what ever form invested, is being taxed the same as domestic holdings by our property taxes and cor poration income taxes. The senator, in his explanation, is particularly careful to cite, as his example, American stocks snd bonds owned by "English investors" forced to exchange them for "British government bonds" to help finance the "British" war budget His reference to English investors and to British gov ernment methods is merely part of the game he has been playing for the German vote, which he needs so badly, but here he misses the target be cause his proposed tax would hit German inves tors and would confiscate German-owned invest ments in this country in the same degree that it would British investments. The truth is, large amounts of American industrial stocks and bonds are held abroad by people living in countries which are not at war at all In Holland, in Swit zerland, in Denmark, in Sweden and the pre tense that we are justified by the war, or by the way the British government treats its subjects, in confiscating part of the money loaned us from neutral countries with' whom we are on wholly friendly terms, will not go with any thinking per son.' ' ' V ' There is no danger that Senator Hitchcock's dishonest scheme Will be enacted into law, but, If it were, its chief effect would be to close the door on us for floating any more of our securities abroad. We repeat that this proposal differs only in a degree from that other famous demo cratic "cure-all" that was to enable us To pay off hundred-cent debts with depreciated fifty-cent silver dollars. , i ' . IIOI1AV Thought Nugget for the Day. ' To him who has been sated and disappointed by the actual and intelligible, there is a profound charm in the unattainable and inscrutable. Anon ymous. One Year Ago' Today in the War. Germans captured Russian fortress of Olita. Berlin announced the German occupation of the important Russian fortress of Brcst-Litovsk. Allied fleets of aeroplanes shelled munitions plants in Rhenish Prussia and raided Mt. Hulst forest in Belgium. This Day in Omaha Thirty Years ago. Court Carrier, the well-known Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul ticket agent, has received an : Nebraska's allotment of the federal good roads fund for 1916 amounts to $9,551 Legislative ac tion is required to get the pin money, but the promise .of more to .follow makes the effort worth while, - v , V ; The dancing masters, in national convention assembled, are trying to devise steps that will keep in tune with the music of the money taken in at the door. That's not the only business cor ner where catchy figures catch the coin I i V' , And now the senator proposes to reduce the price of print paper by a surtax bigger than the excess price over the stipulated figure. And it used to be a sacred democratic tenet that the use of the taxing power for any purpose but raising revenue was "robbery,"' to say nothing of being "unconstitutional." 1 , t, : ' Extending Our list ol "Dsys." A committee of eminent eastern gentlemen has succeeded in arousing interest to the end that Lafayette day" is to be observed more or less generally and with some ado throughout the United States. These promoters hope to make this a fixture, and that September 6 of each year will be added to our growing list of "days." With no Intention to review the motive behind this, nor to waver in recognition of the eminent services to freedom and America given bis Lafayette, we are moved to wonder where this wilt end. Other heroes of the revolution were quite as devoted as was this gallant Frenchman, and perhaps as de serving of the honor that Is to be paid him. After them comes a considerable list of men and women whose names are indissolubly connected with the history of their country, and for' whom the same distinction may be as reasonably required. Some time we may reach a point where the year will not contain enough of days to fittingly distinguish all who demand commemoration, and then the Choice may be awkward if we are to avoid dupli cation. It is not impossible that we may find our selves as did the jolly monks who drained St Witlaff's horn; when) the prior expired in the midst of their carousal, they drank to one saint more. Americans can well afford to honor their great leaders of thought and action by devoting themselves to keeping alive the principles they inculcated, and any who, really merits the peculiar honor of a special day on the calendar will achieve it without the artificial stimulus of s, committee's labors. f .' I nr .JUL w j ' Pros and Cons oj Prohibition Contributions on this subject so overrun our space that we give herewith briefest extracts from a few oi them. High license Is no solution for the problem of gutting rid of the liquor traffic. . When we began regulating the liquor business we were consum ing twelve and one-half gallons on an average to ea( h individual, hut now we consume on an average of twenty-four gallons to the individual. After thirty-five years of this kind of progress we have very little evi dence that the liquor business Is be ing closed out under a high license system. We propcse to pass an amendment to the state constitution that will prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drink in Ne braska. This is the only solution to the problem. H. F. CARSON, Super ntendent Antl-8aloon League. Lincoln. , TIPS ON HOME TOPICS. Import Tax on Securities Onus World-Herald To give, in fairness Senator Hitchcock's explana tion of what we have called his "Repudiation Scheme," we print the subjoined article in full. The Omaha Bee. in eritirtaino and ennr1emn,M .Senator Hitchcock's proposal o levy an import I 'tax on stocks and bonds imported into this country, denounces it as repudiation, It says: K "When the foreigner sends his stocks and , bonds back he merely asks repayment of the :f money he loaned us and he naturally expects if to get full value or at least to get the same price . . they would bring to any other holder." The Bee is entirely mistaken. When the for ; eigner "sends his stocks and bonds back" it is simply because he finds it desirable or necessary to sell them and he expects to get whatever he can. Sometimes he gets more than he paid, some times the same, and sometimes less. He is like , any other investor. He simply sells his property ' and it is just as proper to tax his transfer as to levy a stamp tax on a deed, a mortgage or a note ; as we have been doing with our own investors, 'i If.it Is proper to tax a suit of woolen clothes or a barrel of sugar or a horse or an automobile when 1 imported into this country, it is proper to tax a ,1 thousand-dollar bond or a hundred-dollar cer J tificate of stock in a railroad, ! Just now there are two unusual reasons for tins proposed import tax on stocks and bonds. ..' One is that we are raising an unusual revenue to pay for 'preparedness" and this tax would not be fait by the consumers-who already pay enough The other reason is that these stocks and bonds ' -l'" drlven over hre br the tion of the British government It has a well matured plan j by which it has already "mobilized" over a thou , sand different American stocks and bonds, it takes them from Enirliah tnvwciAr, ...u ;k gives British government bonds in exchange and sends the American securities to t e United States to be sold on the stock market or at private sale. In this way within two years about $1,500,000 000 worth of stocks and bonds have been sent from fcurope to America and sold here. An import tax of I per cent would have yielded $15,000,000. In order to compel English investors to con' vert their American securities into British gov ernment bonds more rapidly the British govern ment has now levied an extra income tax of 10 per cent on American securities.:: This is in addi tioit to the already enormous income taxes Eng lish investors pay. , . , It compels English investors to surrender their American securities and the British government thereupon sends them over here to be sold for what they will bring. Why should we not tax their admission? If the British government desires to use our market to raise money on whv should we not charge a small tax for the privilege? j In the Matter of Rate Malting. More obscuration is cast over the process of railroad rate making by the inability of the Ne braska lines to sgree as to just what tariffs they will promulgate under the order of the Interstate Commerce commission, which supersedes Order No. 19 of the Nebraska Railway commission. The whole transportation industry is under the maze built up by the rate "experts," who have erected a fabric at times beyond even their own compre hension. If the predicament of the Nebraska lines at this time argues anything, it iV in favor of a single central control for the formulation and promulgation of rates. With an established basis for calculation, a standard for classification and a determination that uniformity must prevail, the fixing of reasonable tariffs ought to be a aim pie matter of arithmetic. It may come to a point in time where even a shipper can understand a railroad tariff sheet, and then the day of the rate specialist will be over. In the meantime the pub lic pays the freight As to the Recognition of Huerta. Secretary of War Baker, who has been requisi tioned as a special pleader for the, administration, undertakes to defend the Mexicah policy of President Wilson by stating that President Taft had refused to recognize Huerta. This ingenuous evasion looks like a deliberate attempt to deceive. Huerta succeeded to the presidency of Mexico but' ten days before the end of Taft's administra tion. t The assassination of Francisco Madero occurred after Huerta had taken office. The re publican president was then busy with winding' up the affairs of his office, and he left the Mexican matter open that his democratic successor might not be embarrassed in dealing with the situation. It is idle for the democrats to undertake to excuse the blunder of the president, if they are now ready to admit it to be a blunder, by at tempting to put the blame on his republican pre accessor. What excuse can be found for Mr, Wilson's really vital blunder in removing the embargo on arms? Herein he not onlv d-line,ri to follow the course of his predecessor, but ig nored the sdvice of O'Shaughnessey, our official representative, who knew and took counael with John Llnd, who could only guess. Professing to xeep nanus on, the president has from the very first meddled and muddled in Mexican affairs, and the whole ghastly mess is the result of in! competence in handling a serious situation.; - elegant sleigh robe made from the pelt of an ibex or mountain goat, a rare species oi animal found principally in Idaho. It was a present from Su- permtenaent Johnston ot the Vienna (Idaho) mine. Mr. and Mrs. Adotph Meyer and baby have returned from Spirit Lake and are quartered at the Millard hotel. John Schindler, a popular employe of the union racinc railway, ana Miss Mora Lininger, were united In marriage. After the ceremony was over a reception was given at which were displayed numerous costly presents from well wishing friends. Weeks & Millard, commission merchants and dealers in fruit, have purchased the commission business of Westerfield Bros. Hereafter they will give their attention to the handling of country produce of all sorts as well as of fruits. Brown's park, containing ninety seres or about J00 large lots, lying alongside the Union Pacific railway tracks and adjoining, the South Omaha depot and stock yards, is a most desirable and acceptable location , for homes in South Omaha. This plat is now being surveyed and laid put in extra large sized lots and will be of.'ered for sale soon at very low prices. The management of the exposition have leased the restaurant privileges for same to C. S. Hig gins. The ladies in charge of the Childs' hospital have relinquished the same because they raised sufficient by contributions to pay the debt on their institution. Workmen have commenced to tear down the bank surrounding the court house to enable them to lay the foundation for the retaining wall. Today in History. ' 1816 A fleet of British and Dutch warships, under Lord Exmouth, arrived off Algiers, and the following day began a bombardment of the city. 1818 Illinois adopted a state constitution. 1819 Prince Albert husband of Queen Vic tria, born. Died December 14. 1861. - lo9 Hayti was proclaimed an empire under uuc rrciiacm oouiouque, witn title of raustin I ibju Louis fhilippe, former king of the French, died in exile in England. D, 13. 1859 Czar granted an extension of political rights among Russian serfs. 1871 Twenty lives lost n a collision on the ar. rmlan1 railroad, at Revere, Mass. 1890 British East Africa Equatorial railway iiwuKuiaicu i mumuasa. ..1HitorP Hoadly, former governor of umo, uteo ai watKins, m. v. Born at New Haven Conn., July 31, 1826. .1905 The Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth, N.H., reached an agreement on all points of the treaty of peace. : 1911 The reciprocity treaty with Canada was signed by the United "States; later defeated in mc v-anaaian elections. This Is the Day We Celebrate. ' V x,yr0-nc ?i ?u.rbank '? Just 56. He was born t , "n" na taugnt school at Byron, in., oeiore ne came to Umaha, where he has been practicing law since 1885. . E. W. Gunther banker- and merchant, was born August 26, 1853, in Cologne, Germany, and came to this country in 1869. He was formerly lfl rMICinsaalaB aaea A It.,, XTL " ... ""111.00 ass niuiuil, eWCV. "Bil!! By.rne' manrjer of the Orpheum, is over 21 today. He almost, like Topsy, just growed up" with the theatrical business. Lee De Forest, noted electrical inventor and pne of the perfecters of the wireless telegraph. toda"1 Clf Bluffs' U'' forty-free years ago Lieutenant General John C. Bajes, former chief At flreaM Ad SVIaiea, a - - L f . . " "orn in ot. inaries county. Missouri, seventy-four years ago today Major Robert R. Motonvthe successor of the late Booker Washington as president of Tuskegee v... , vuKinw, lony-nine years ago ui LMostfT: Jamc? Ka"e. Catholic arch year.' Today. ' " lu mty-mne Dr. Frank E. Mossman, president of South- f. .. .i. " ' Vlnnem' born at-Urbana, la., forty-three years aa-o rorlav lea.,;.Li,.leK,if0i!ch" tr ,he Bo5ton National league base balf team, born at Newbern, Ala twentv-six veara dsn tnj, ' . Joe Jeannette. well.lrnmn t j l weight pugilist, born at Homestead, N. J. thirtv aeven veara aim ' """y- Timely Jottings and Reminders. It. fel,an H" today bein8' "lebration of ih. VI CobJ mde,his major league debut with the Detroit team eleven years ago today.. Boston s historic Faneuil Hall m,ri,.. j. ou reer of ninety years today. , The National Federation of Postoffice clerks is ten years old today, having been o gantzed in Chicago, August 26, 1906. " M m The. fourteenth nm..l ... : . .. . bank, family oj : America" will ' be' held Way X old Fairbanks homestead at Dedham, Mass arr?r;-fc rnGr!ndf Ay""1"" ni,ina' .Ant'S Charles E. Hughes, republican nominee fnr rE nt'nS 'Chcduit1 ,b eIiv" " add"', to- E?.e. Pne,?rnver' Fro,m Denver h to go to Estes Park for a rest of several days tastham, Mass., is to hold a celebration of Founders' dav todav i h. .i" "on '. the seven men who! with "their' famine.Tsfab liahed the first white settlement the, in 1644 litt nf tk. M.i Iic, V p'tcu on tne retired of age. SUt" army ,odlr on "t .H-Tue rm lorn ?0lrd' nich ' ' decide uoon t K'ZJ'L ,he. P'oPO'ed frm loan bks ",,bl.,sned "l the rural credits law? wili hold a hearing today at Madison, Wis. Storyette of the Day. , The fussy old gentleman asked the chance tr,velingcomp.nion, "Have you any children! "yes, sir, a son.n-"'y- ' J : ' ' Ah, indeed! Does he smoke?" J ' No. sir. he never an mn.l, i , 1 ette" . mutneu a cigar- . "So much the better, ;sir; the use of tobacco" Poisonous habit , Does he fremien Tel ,hc aY "ever put hsi foot ia one." . Alow me to eonfframlate. u. ' n . t. - come home late?" " ' Bey? Never. He goes to bed directly after dinner." HowTdiselhy?"n!im,n' ,,r- rdel ?rt mn - "Just 6 months." " ,":', ... : v ... . The people of Nebraska are deep ly Interested In arriving at the facts and I would suggest that a commit tee be appointed to go to Kansas and that the expenses of the com mittee be borne half by the Pros perity league and half by the Dry federation to make a thorough in vestigation and report 1 would sug gest that the wet member be Mayor Dahlman; that the dry member be Will Owen Jones of the Lincoln Jour nal and that the third member be Charles W. Bryan, who in his cam paign for governor was charged with being perfectly neutral on that ques tion. JOHN G. MAHEK, Lincoln. The licensed salocn Is a menace to manhood and womanhood It la the foster mother of bootleggers, houses of til fame, gambling dens, liars and sometimes ah, too bad Prosperity leagues, rjname on the men who are at the head of our atate in a finan cial way a political way that will lend their support to the breweries and licensed saloons. I say lend their support it Is not, a gift and ,lf it were not In some way in the future to mi tneir corrers, many of them would refrain from such disgraceful h.idnua 111 . t, T ma I r l-T-.,-i ..n ' Guide Rock, Neb, Any sane person can see prohibi tion uoes more narm man any law ever passed. Taxes are going up on everything; the poor workingman has to pay more rent and he gets less wages under prohibtlon and we have no protection at all. If the voters win only make up this fall prohibition preachers will have to hunt other jobs. It is all wrong and the poor people have to pay for ice cream for a lot of lazy highbrows. Prohibition is a good thing for moonshine and bootleggers. L. C PETERSEN. Lincoln, Neb. The question of .absolutely prohib iting has nothing to do with the case. The question is whether a state Uk made better, healthier, happier, safer, more nrosoerous bv Drohbition than by saloons? If thd fact that prohibi tion does not absolutely prohibit is an argument against outlawing the sa loon, why Isn't the fact that regula tion utterly fails to regulate a stronger argument in favor of prohibition? -R. H. JONES. Plattsmouth, Ned. United Statea Inspector, are chasing a bad egg acent in Hiotix City. It la reported the odor ia unmlatakable, but the gooda man age to keep out of aight. Washington Poat: New light on the habite of the E aimo la alwaya intereiting. But what we'd like to know ia what sort of excuse one of the tribe makes when he stays out all night Chicago Herald : The proposed bond issue to cover expenses in connection with the Mexican aituatioa again reminds us that Mexican diaorder is one of our most cxpen aive national laxuriea. ' ' Brooklyn Eagle i The threatened fam'ne in parer may have caused the cjunterfeiteu to hurry their plans for the making of that $1,000,000 worth of small bills. The time to build Is when raw material ia cheap. Louisville Cour er-Journal : "The raini trout's natural habitat ia deep, cool lakes in mountain valleys." Oh, lucky tout, to live where heat is not, derpite humi'd.ty. He is broiled only when he's guilty of stupidity. Baltimore American : Bryan is now plead, ing for peace witl( the railroad brotherhoods. The dove of peace has had most of her tan leatners pulled out, and is gener lly bedraggled, but in spite of her uilap.d ed condition, the plucky bird is still in the ring. no p'tltlral arguments with full ot Rummer buu d a " a front porch shington star. First Thinker There s one way I it over Washington. Second Thinker I'm your friend, lietrn to It. First Thinker Ha couldn't toll I can. Kansas City S:.ir. "I wonder what tunc Ni fldilii when Rome vtr bur ".' ue.ia It w: a a. - l ii for .ere Are Hot Tim a ToninUt." Ilttlllimore Allu re played on hie .I v. ?" as .il equivalent i.) ..0 Old Town ik aa. "You remember that jou so:d me a horaj laatvweek?" said the cabman .ngrlly to the horse dealer. "Yes What about him?" "He foil dead yee1 'd i." "Well, I npvert" unld il." d nler. "I told you he had soma : i:ty lit:: .: s. but upon my word I nev... k:iew .. tp do that before" New York Tlmra. CHEERY CHAFF. kittle Charlie had been spanlfpd by his ..uvvr lor stealing conKlcs lie cousin. j frcB.n. wisning to comfort him, im. i-gor v.narue, you nave i;athy." . uiuuni up tnrougn ms teare. he nro. !f . no,! 1 4"'1 ""Kb It." . my sym. a Mfc.KMIoBtE, V EM(WER,V.H0 ft AffMNST MMtRIB EMrWEES,pCS MOT KNOW I AM MARRta HOWCAN X kBS1 W.jBXtTftiDM HIM? -Mil ALBERT! KEEP THE INSlAlMBU ou&rtfci RDM COMINtfTD THE" ona. Undocfored figures are about as useful to a prohibitionist as a chair Is to a monkey. They've got to be doctored; it's the nature of the beast. In Kansas they have-now doctored their figures until the average Kan san lives to be 106 yeara old; no one will doubt this, of course. Now we know that the brewery workers thrown out of work are only a small portion; there are men of practically every vocation thrown out of work. Sometimes the least suspecting is the hardest hit and sometimes a man ac tually reaps what he sows and some one Voted out takes a dry voter's job. t Omaha. WILLIAM WRAOE. When the prohibition argument is examined it can be seen that it is directed agalnBt wine and beer aa well aa whiskey, but there are constant charges made that the prohibtionlsts are fighting "the liquor trade" and "righting whisky," when, as a matter of fact, this is not true; they are fighting th customs of temperate people, who have nothing to do with the liquor traffic; this is a species of dishonesty attd is the same coming into a court of equity with dirty hands. If the prohibtionlsts would conduct an honest campaign for the elimination of strong alcoholic drinks and drop the campaign against sdeh wholesome and non-Injurious drinks like wine and beer they would make more progress, but they gain nothing by misstatements. GEORGE A. GRAHAM. Valentine, Neb. There is not a law In existence that Is not broken by someone-everv dav. There la a law against treating In sa loons in mis state, yet l will waea-r that not one saloon keeper out of 100 In Nebraska follows that law. Nearly all of them sell liquors to mi nors and to drunken people. Many of them keep open practically all night and after hours. They are themselves to blame for the high tide of prohibition In the country today, for they do not obey the laws and their announced Intention to disobey the law in case prohibition carries in this state Instead of making votes against prohibition only makes the certainty of the prohibition amend ment carrying in Nebraska this fall all the more certain. Omaha. F. A. AGNEW. hot" ?" 'U mn t0 """ K"nmm "Never heard of auch a cuaiom. Why ahould we?" "It would be popular. 1 don't Ilka to hurdle a line of trunks aa I nan u,.ii,h vvunnwournsi. the halla." Loulevllle "So you think the campaign will be alow In atartlng this year?" "Yea." replied Farmer' Corntoaael. "It will be aa far 'aa I'm concerned. Along about October I may take hand, but I don't propose to take a chance on startln' Dill I see the works of Charles Dickens contain 1 425 characters Jill Su) pose they did; he wasn't in It with the othor Charles. Dill What other Charles? Jiil Chaplin, Yonke.s . tatesman. A black storm had come up, auddenly. Oreat craahea of thunder were followed by a rattling shower of hatlstonea as big ax. ' marblea Little Edna clung to her nurae In affright. 'Never mind, dear," said the nurse, "Ood i will take care of us." ' i'Then why Is he frowlng lings down at us like this?" asked the child, soberly. Boston Tranacrlpt Mrs. Platbuah I don't like your hair like that. dear. Mr. Platbush Well, I'm not like a woman. I can't have a different kind of hair every day. Yonkera Statesman. AUTUMN HINTS. The Vanished Roll Edyar A. Quest, In Detroit Free Press. When you come to the end of a perfect roll Aid you sit alone with your thought And you b In the bank but the empty hole That your two-weeks' trip haa wrought. Do you think of the 'fives" and the "tens" you had And wish for their sight onoe more? Do your vanished greenbacks leave yon sad When you're glad vacation's o'er? Well, this Is the end of a perfect roll At the end of a Journey, too. And It leaves a thought that to big and strong For the coin that so autckhr flew. Now mem'ry has painted this perfect roll In colon that never fade. And we And at the end that we need that dough For the bills that we left unpaid. Golden John Russell McCarthy. Hefgh-ho, the proud battalions . That tread the gleaming hill, ' That muster for the sun, their king; To do his flaming will. With golden pennants streaming, - With myriad braien .spears, They drive the fleeing summer Over the fallen years. Cet the Round Paciags Used for Century. fjA CAUTION 7, NaBJ MU.K t Hwl,.ILfJ. 111 II Ask For and GET , aKlORUClim THE QnUSMU. MALTED MILK Made from clean, rich milk with the ex tract of select malted grain, malted in our own Malt House under sanitary conditions.! Wanto and ehSdrtn tAmx on It Agnmt with thu wtakul rtomach of tht imaLJ or th UfmU. imdm w cooking nor mddition of milk. Nouruhes and auitaina mors than tea, coffee, etc. Should be kept at boms or whan traveling. Ana muou. food-drink may be prepand m a tnoment. A glassful hot befor. retirint reduces nfrtauing Sleep. Also in lunch tablet form for hminsss naa. Substitutes) Coat YOU Smm lTte Tako a Paokago Homo - i 1 - While not all prohibitionists are Christians and all Christians are not prohibitionists, it is yet true that the prohibition movement Is essentially church affair. Church people meaning particularly the preachers lock upon the saloon as the rival of the church. They are jealous; they are cov etous. It hurts their feelings that the great ' mats of men And more pleasure and profit in the spirits dis pensed by the whlte-aproned gentle men behind the bar than they find in the spirits they themselves some times try to dispense from their pul pits. CHARLES WOOSTEH. Silver Creek, Neb. BRIEF BITS OF SCIENCE. Waste water la ourtfl! br a vroeess em ploying colloidal eiajr and miftt of lime that has been Invented bjr a French scientist The average weight of the Greenland whale 100 tons 824,00 pounds eouel to that of eighty elephants or that of 400 bears. 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