Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, September 15, 1916, Page 4, Image 4
THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 15, 1916. ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE . FOUNDED IV EDWARD ROSEWATE VICTOR ROSg WATER. EDITOR THE BEC PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered St Omaha poetofflee. aa aaeonc-eleee Mtllf. ft TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. , i f , Br Carrier " Br Mill per month. . peryear tuny and Sunday tally without 8iiiist 460 i J! Evening and Sunday..,., JO F.iMnfln without ftundav 26a S.pS Sonday Bw snip 8e... f.M Daily ami Sunday Bee. Dim Teare rn advance, S10.ee. Sand notice of tosnre of sddrees ot irregularity la de livery te Omaha Baa, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit or draft, nrr of postal order. Onlyt-eent stamps Ukan n payment of amall accounts. Personal cheeks, except on Omaka and eastern exchange. ot accepted. OFFICES. Omaha Tho Baa Building. Sooth Omaha U N street. Cornell Wuffe 14 North Mala atraat. Ltneoln ! UKU Buildlaa. Chlaaaa HI Paopla'a Oa Bolldbif. Nn York Room HI, III Fifth avenue. 8L -Louie IM New Bank of Commerce. Washington 111 Fonrtaanth atraat. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address eowieieelestlune relating to nawa and odltorkU ' mattar to Omaha Baa.- Editorial Deportment, AUGUST CIRCULATION 65,755 Daily Sunday 51,048 Dwlahl Wllllame, circulation manager of Tha Boo PuMl.hlng company, balnt duly aworn, says that the average elmlatloa for tha month of August, lU, !S,7ii daily, and (1,1411 Sunday. . -DWIOHT WIIXIAMS. Clreulatlsvl Manager. Sukeerfeed ht my preeeneo and awore to before tills Id day of SantamW. till. ' . BOBBnT HUNTEB. Notary PuMla. - Saescriewn leaving tha city temporarily jhetiM have) The) Baa Mailed to tbam. A si dress will Im cheats aj often as rsojulr 1. , Any federal official in Nebraska who fail to "chip in" to th lenator'i campaign "lluih fund" will be a marked man. ; ' The totals of the primary vote of the reipective political paties in Illinois alio sho which way the political wind is blowing. '" ." h t ' .. ' Stilli if the Board of Education cannot secure " uniformity in school drciies, it might conierve the lurplui paint arfd cover the bare spots, y Sure, nothing but "lumhine" for the demo , cratic committee in Nebraska, but "rather slip : pery" roadi for the democratic candidate!. . ' The traction itrike in Gotham ii in some ways distinctly beneficial. A boom in walking makes for practical knowledge of the home town. ' Maine's reipome is the answer to the demo crat! and assistant democrats who have been de claring Mr. Hughei' methods of campaigning a failure. '' ' . - The moit disappointing feature of the fall down of Lortmer ii the diiappolntment inundat ing our democratic friends who hoped to have-la him a target to shoot at Note how the senator's speaking dates ar "played up" on the front page of that personally owned democratic organ, while Bryan'i ipesklng datei are carefully buried iniide. Nuf led. Fining a street car motorman for overspeed ' ing hii car is' a new one.; For our part, when we set the auto whit by we uiually feel like com plaining because the motorman is underspeeding. The Department of Agriculture makes a stir ring plea for the conservation of chestnuts. No more touching appeal for a continuance of the party In powv has yet appeared from a demo cratic source. .: The punitive expedition into Mexico and other ' army safeguards on the border has already cost the United States about $1001,000,000. A ma jority of the round figures picture the futility of the hunt for Villa. : Now that Tom Marshall has received official word of what is coming t.hira, party undertakers may proceed with tha funeral arrangements, knowing the number , of democrats booked for - the political boneyard. More winter wheat than ever before is re ported to have been planted in Nebraska this fall, i Farmers are looking ahead and giving due weight to the prediction of the Ruiiian general that the war will lait at leait another twelve 'months,'.-"- '''i: ' '-: : '.: ". Atrocity charges and countercharges are being -resumed by the belligerent!, but again serve only to prove that there is no luch thing as "civilized warfare" and that the difference in dia bolism, on one side or the other, is a difference merely in degree. , ' V No doubt the attitude and the distraction! of the scenery had something' to do with it, but Colorado Springs might have shown some mercy to innocent visitors. It ii doubtful if the pennant can bandage the gaping wound and asiuage the mountainous paini of the home team. The senator puts in $1,000 and the postmaster . $300, which, presumably, is intended to indicate their relative interest in the "Hitchcock, Fsnning & Co," firm. Heretofore, however, let it be con fessed, Colonel Fanning has never been known to subordinate himself to a three-to-one basis. Explaining Away Maine Jaatla Dtsaatch K- Star.- "How about Maine? What comment. have you to make on the result!?" Speaker Clark was asked. . "We got hell licked out of us got beat good ' and plenty. There's nothing to say. It reminds me of the country preacher who was called on for prayer unaware!. He turned to the congrega tion and said: 'Sing a sockdologer while I col lect my thoughts.' I'm collecting my thought!." . Vice President Marshall took a cheerful view of the results.' "If any republican can get any comfort out of such a small majority as they got in Maine -yesterday, I aay welcome," he ssid. "I expected the democrats to be beaten. I aid so publicly two weeks ago. Anything under fifteen thousand was favorable to the democrat! and it was under 15,000. ' . ; - "I did not go to Maine because I knew we Couldn't win and I didn't want to see democratic chancel ill staked -on Maine, It wasn't a real test and I didn't want to see it given the appear ance of luch. it showed some progressives have gone back tc the republicans, of course, but It alsoeshowed'that many had not. Why, on the ' basil of the lame vote that was nedeed. to win in "' Maine, the democrats would have to make up 140,000 votes iri Indiana to win. 4 And if I be lieved it was any luch proposition ai that I wouldn't be going back there to yell my lungs cut. On the basis of the way the Maine vote divided, we can wiu over the nation and we will win." - ;-: ..: ... Before Taking and After Taking. Democrats feigning to be satisfied and pleased with the result of the Maine election remind us strikingly of the contrast picture! in the patent medicine ads labelled "Before taking" and "After taking," only with the sequence reversed. The New York World, which is the most Valiant of all the democratic newspaper championa of Preiident Wil son and his adminiitration, on the day before the voting, blazoned on its front page as vouched for by most reliable and best known political corres pondent, after a personal survey- of the political battle field, this statement: ' The democats, supremely confident of the re-election of their governor, Senator Johnson, and two out of the four congressional candi dates.have good reason to believe that Hughes has helped their side of the government On the. day after the voting, which showed that Maine had elected a republican governor, two republican United States senators and four re publican members of congress, the World un burdened itself of this language: ' ' It was inevitable that Maine would go re publican. What was in question was the size of the majority, and the republican majority is anything but decisive. ' To hearten the democrats the World would have its readera now believe that the loss of a governor, a United States senator and a congress man, to say nothirfg of an additional senator and congressman, whom they counted on winning, is not discouraging, but encouraging. , , When a democrat pretendi to take comfort out of Maine, pnt it down that he it limply whistling to keep up hit courage. ' - Upheaval in "War Brides." A general scramble to buy has lent prlcei of Itocki in companies that have -to do with the munitions trade shooting upward again, and thui il the way opened for lome speculation ai to what baiii exists for this movement It is cer tain that the trade will not outlast the war; it is almost equally certain that a new and lower level of prices must be reached soon after the war. Indeed, wise investors are agreed that the first sign of approaching peace will be the signal for a break. If this is true, the present movement may be taken ,ai supporting the belief that the war is not to end this year, and that the present traffic in munitions will continue for mary months to come. ' ," ' .. , The extent to which the tradb has riien ii hardly understood, even by those who have watched it closest, For the week ending Septem ber 9, 1916, the exports from the port of New York were $66,379,382. Of this $14,490,573 went to France; $15,916,497 went to Russia, while the United Kingdom ' took $19,030,737, and Italy's share wai $3,107,323, a total of nearly $53,000,000 to theie four belligerents alone. Nearly seventeen million dollar! of thii amount waS represented by exploiivei; another million was for empty shells, another for firearms, and another for picric acid, which is used in manufacturing high ex ploiivei. For the lingte week from the port of New York almost twenty million dollars worth of msterial for use on the battle line, while other item! of service to the armies will foot up quite as much more. . ; ' ; .' ''War brldei" are earning their keep in Amer ica just now, and form a magnificent basis for the "prosperity" of which tde democratic president and his admirers boast with such enthusiasm. . ?-jr - ,-i , , , , j Keeping It All In the Family. ' While the, democrats have spent over a billion dollars in the last four years more1 than the re publicans did in the preceding four years, they must be given credit for doing their utmost to keep it all in the family.. The rJccord of the ad miniitration so far, has not only been charac terised by an titter disregard of the civil service raw, and the crea .ion of many thousands of new positions to be rilled by "deserving democrats," but It ii notorioui for having placed on' the pay roll more relatives of cabinet officers, congress men and senators than ever .before were 10 recorded. The Cleveland dictum, "A public office ii a public trust," haa been amended to read, "A public office is a family graft," and the Jacksonian doctrine as to spoils has been enthusiastically ap plied along thii line. J. . ' This practice persistently pursued by the con spicuous higher-ups has been carefully imitated all down the line, until the pay roll is filled with soni and daughters, brothers and sisters, even wives assisting their husbands in. taking out the cash. Some deserving democrats, perhaps, were takes care of, but this must . have been because not enough relatives to fill the places could be found. The situation must be Inspiring to those faithful follower! of the donkey, who actually believed they were voting for a better form of govern ment, only on find they were merely providing meam for gratifying an inordinate appetite for "pie" and "pork." i : Nepotism was never so rampant as under the present democratic adminiitration, whole per formance! contrait strangely with its protesta tions of high purposes. Reforms for County Fairs. , A correspondent touches on an important point In luggeiting that certain forma of amusement be banished from county fain. The day hal long passed in America when rural patrons of the fairs are property described as bucotic. Entertainment at these exhibitions is not designed to "amase the gaping ruitics ranged around." Much progress has been made in the way of doing away with forms of amusement that were offensive to good taste and good morals, but room for improvement exists. The purpose of a county fair in its first sense educational, and it ahould be made to con form closely to thia ideal. Entertainment features provided should be of such a character ai will harmonize with the general idea of improvement Device! designed merely to lure stray nickels from idleri or the unwisely curious are unworthy of a place where the high achievements of modern agriculture are being shown for comparison. The county fair will not realise .its real service until its ii established on a plane with the industry it chiefly represents. ; ' - . , V. - :. .,'.' ,: fi A few years ago, when the Butgars were on their backs and Greeks, Serbs and Turks stripped them of the spoils of war, Roumania slipped over the line and squatted on a choice chunk of north ern Bulgaria. The operation developed a con tinuous sore spot, which lent peculiar lest to the recent victorious raid of the Bulgara into Roumanian territory.- Reciprocity in land-grabbing approaches a fine art abroad. ... ' Of course, good democrats' must chip in to help re-elect Wilson and the use of the money to finance the campaign to save the senator will give them no right to complaint That's what that "tow-line" is fo-- . . ' - Yes, He Kept Us Out of War Adaraaa of Censtrenna JuHua Caha. It has often been asserted that President Wil son has kept us out of war. I deny the assertion. We had war with Mexico for the second time in our history when we invaded iti territory at Vera Cruz. We again had war with Mexico when we invaded iti territory after the raid on Columbus, N.'M. One might just as well say that Belgium is not engaged in war. ha territory, too. was invaded. Unlike the Mexicans, the Belgians fought back. The Mexicans only made sporadic attempt! to fight back. In these attempts they killed and' wounded American soldiers. If the Mexican people had been imbued with the spirit of the Belgians, we would not have escaped so easily. .'-.;.,' : .. A '..' ,'-... ' If anyone doubts that we made war on Mexico when our marines snd sailors landed at Vera Cruz, ask the mothers and fathers of the boys in blue who were killed on the streets of that Mexican seaport whether they believe we were at war with Mexico. Ask the boyi who were wounded on that occa sion and for many weeks suffered intense pain as they lay groaning upon their cots in impover ished hospital! whether the president kept us out of war. . - - Ask the wivei and mothers and the sisters ot the Mexicans who were killed at Vera Cruz whether we were at war with Mexico. Ask the wife of brave Captain Boyd, who was killed at Carrizal, whether we were at war with Mexico. . i, - Ask the mother of brave Lieutenant Adair, who wai also killed at Carrizal, whether we were at war with Mexico. Ask the relatives of the United States soldiers who were treacherously stain at Carrizal whether we were at war with Mexico. Ask the relative! of the eighteen American civiliana who were butchered at Santa Ysabel in Mexico whether we were at war with Mexico. Aik the mother! and the liiteri of those who were slaughtered in the raid on Columbus, N. M., whether we were at war with Mexico. Ask the citizens of Brownsville, Red House Ferry and Progreso postoffice and Las Peladaa whether, in the attacks of Carranzista adherents and the looting, burning and killing of the peace ful inhabitants of those places, the president has kept us out of war. Aik the women and children who were threat ened with death at Tampico by an infuriated Mexican mob whether the president has kept us out of wtr. ' . i ' Ask the thousands of American citizens who. were called upon to abandon their property in Mexico and to return forthwith to the United States whether the president has kept us out of war. And, finally, ask the wives and the children, the dependent mothers and fathers and sisters of the 150,000 National Guardsmen who have been called from their usual peaceful avocations and who will be encamped on the Mexican border for the Lord knows how long whether the president has kept ua out of war with Mexico.. . ' In 1912 the democratic platform proclaimed thia high-sounding doctrine: . "The constitutional rights of American citi zens should protect them on our borders, and 50 with them throughout the world, and every merican citizen residing or having property in any foreign country ii entitled to and must be given the full protection Of I the United States government, both for himself and his property." In the campaign of 1912 the president was very insistent in saying that .. ."The democratic platform means what it says. It is not molasses to catch Hies." Surely tne way tnis pianx nas Deen executec by the present administration ia proof poiitive that not a word of it wai intended to be carried into effect, but that it waa only "molasses to cstrh flies. i How the lives and property of American citi zens have been safeguarded on the border I will leave for Mr. Lansing, the secretary of state of this administration, to describe. After several yean of "watchful waiting" the lecretary of itate lent a letter to the head of the de facto govern ment in Mexico in which occurs this remarkable language: ..!.., ' "The progreu of the revolution in Mexico: .Continuous bloodshed and disorders have marked its progress. For three years the Mexi can republic hai been torn with civil strife; the lives of Americans and other aliens have been sacrificed; vast properties deyeloped by Ameri can capital and enterprise have been destroyed or rendered nonproductive; bandits have been permitted to roam at will through the terri tory contiguous to the United Statea and to seize, without punishment or without effective attempt at punishment, the property of Ameri cans, while the lives of citizens of the United i Statea, who ventured to remain in Mexican ter ritory or to return there to protect their in terests have been taken, and in aome cases bar barously taken, and the murderers have neither been apprehended nor brought to justice. It would be difficult to find in the annals of the history of Mexico conditions more deplorable than those which have exiited , there during these recent yean of civil war. "It would be tedioui to recount instance after instance, outrage after outrage, atrocity after atrocity, to illustrate the true, naure and extent of the widespread conditions of lawless ness and violence which have prevailed. During the last nine months in particular, the frontier of the United States along the lower Rio Grande has been thrown into a state of con stant apprehension and turmoil because of fre quent and sudden incursions into American territory and depredations and murders on' American soil by Mexican bandits who have takei the lives and destroyed the property of American citizens, sometimes carrying Ameri can citizens across the international boundary with, the booty seized. American garrisons have been attacked at night, American soldiers killed and their e.quipment and horses stolen; America., ranches have been raided, property stolen and i d itrovid, and American trains wrecked .and plundered. The attacks on Brownsville, Red House Ferry, Progreso. post office an-i Lai Peladas, ill occuring during September last, are typical. In these attacks on American territory, Carranzista adherents, and even Carranzista soldiers took part in the looting, burning and killing. Not only were these murders characterized by ruthless bru-" tality, but uncivilized acts of mutilation were .- perpetrated. ' "Representations were made to General Car ranza, and he was emphatically requested to stop these reprehensible acts in a section which he has long claimed to be under the complete domination of hil authority. Notwithstanding these representations and the promise of Gen eral Nafarrete to prevent attacks along the in ternational boundary, in the following month of October a passenger train was wrecked by bandits and several persons killed seVen miles north of Brownsville, snd an attack was made upon United Statea troops at the same place several ds11' ! Since .these attacks leaden of the bandits well known both to Mexican civil and military aunioruiea as well as to American officer have been enjoying with impunity the liberty of the towns of northern Mexico. So far haa the indifference ol the de facto govern ment to these atrocities gone that some of these leaders have received not only the protec tion of that government, but encouragement and aid as well. ' "Depredations upon American penons. and property within Mexican jurisdiction have been still more numerous." , (.' That is the indictment of the Wilson adminis tration in Mexico by its own "secretary of State. . .And yet our democratic colleagues have tl.e effrontery "to tell the people bf'the United States that President Wilson has kept us out of war. Thought XuKCet for the Day. How happy I" he born or taught, That aervoth not another' will; Wtwae arm Is hla honeat thought And almple truth ht utmost skill! Anonymous. One Year Ago Today In the Wart British House of Commons voted $1,260,000 war credit" Germans under General von Mack enaen occupied Plnsk. Austrian aanaulu with strong rein forcements repulsed by Italians. Russians checked Von Hlndenburg'a drive toward Hlga and drove Aus trian farther back In Qalicla. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. ' Omaha people will be Interested in knowing- that Thomas J. Lipton, who Is building packing houses In this city, has received from a .cheese firm In Aurora, N. Y., fifteen cheeses weigh ing from S.500 to 4,000 pounds each. Each cheese la seventy times the sisa of the ordinary grocer's article. William Begelke, living at Tenth and Pierce streets, heard a noise out side his bedroom window and, rllng to nd out what it was, discovered a burglar attempting to enter. The burglar showed an alibi to two bul lets which were sent after him.' The stone piers on either side of the Sixteenth street viaduct are completed and the work of raising the frame work will be commenced In a few days. The Arlon club gave the first pnrty of the season at Oermania hall. The officers in charge of the affair were Julius Peycke, ' president; George B. Tzchuck, secretary and Max Lenta, treasurerj The resignation of Rev. J. W. Har ris of thei First Baptist church was regretfully accepted on account of hla falling health. M. F. Martin, who has - been en gaged In the furniture bnslness, Is ad vertising his stock for sale and will open a private bank in the spring. - A caucus of the Third ward repub licans was held at 110 North Eleventh street presided over by A. H. Willis. Th following were chosen to act as delegates to the county convention: Ie Helsley, Charles R. ' Graves, Robert Ltvesey, W. B. Peyton, A. H. Willis, H. J. Davis and James A. Knight. ' r This Day In History. 1796 Zacharlah Allen, Inventor of the first furnace for heating dwellings, horn at Providence, R. I. Died there, March 17, 1882. 1830 General Porflrlo Diaz, fa mous Mexican patriot and president born In the city of Oaxaca. Died In Paris, July , 1816. 1934 Prof, von Treltschke, famous German historian and poet born. Died April 28. 1886. 1842 British force under Sir George Pollock captured Kabul and released Lady Sale and other pris oners. 1846 General Santa Ana arrived at the city of Mexico and assumed com mand of the military forces to op pose the American Invasion. IP 6 4 First newspapen In Kansas, pro-slavery, printed under an elm tree on the levee at Leavenworth. 1862 General Buell, leaving Nash ville strongly garrisoned, marched toward Louisville. i 1866 Karakozow, a wealthy Rus sian landowner, was executed for at tempting to assassinate Czar Alex ander XX ' 1884 German and Austrian em perors received by czar of Russia at Skternivlce. -Ie36 Ai Bwlneford arrived at Sitka as first American governor of Alaska. 1894 Japanese defeated the Chinese in a great battle at .Ping Yang. ' " i . j The Day We Celebrate, . Mrs. Clara Roeder ia 86 years of age today.- She was one of the ori ginal founders of a church organiza tion here fifty-eight years ago, which grew Into the present Kountze Me morial ehurch. She now reside at Thirty-third and Franklin street. William Howard Taft, former presi dent of the United States, was born September 16, 1867, in Cincinnati. As secretary of war and presidential can didate and later as president he visited In Omaha several times. I. 8. Hunter, broker, was born Sep tember 16, 1866, In Somerset county, Pennsylvania. He served on the Iowa legislature In 1888. Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey, curator of the American Museum of Natural History, now engaged In explorations In Greenland, born at New Haven, Conn., fifty-four years ago today. Richard Olney, secretary of state in President Cleveland's cabinet born at Oxford, Mass., eighty-one years ago today. Nevil Monroe Hopkins, a noted electrical engineer who also has a con siderable reputation as a writer of fiction, born at Portland, Me., forty three years ago today. Timely Jottings and ReminOjprs. This Is the date fixed by the Navy department for commissioning the new superdreadnought Arizona at the Now York navy yard. Chile's first large Industrial exposi tion for the display of home and for eign products Is to be opened today at Santiago. - r The famous trotting park at Read vllle, Mass., for many years a link in the Grand Circuit is to be sold at public auction today. As a memorial to the late James J. Hill, the Great Northern railroad Is to Inaugurate a pension system for the benefit of It employes today, which Is the anniversary of his birth. A national congress of Mexican women, the second gathering of its kind in the history of the republic, is to be opened in the city of Mexico to day for the consideration ,of educa tional, sociological and other prob lems of general Importance. ' Economic problems arising from the decline of New England .agricul ture and the steady increase in the manufacturing population are to be considered at a "farm and business conference" which is to begin its ses sions today at Springfield,' Mass. Leading men of all the New England states- are actively interested in the movement. v Storyette of the Day. " One Saturday evening . Mrs. Fla herty said to her husband, who is a successful contractor: "Mik, Father Burke Is to preach tomorrow at St. Patrick's church, and you've often told me you wanted to hoar him." , "Yes, Jane, I do want to hear him. They say he's a fine speaker." "Cut, for pity's sake, Mike, If you do come with me, keep awake! You know you're always falling asleep during the sermons." ,, "I'll do my best Jane." ' Next day, when Father Burke be gan to preach, Mike watched him for five minutes and then dropped off to sleep. When they were back home Jane gave Mike a tcngue lashing. "Well, Jane," said alike. In self-defense, "If just this way. When I engage a new hand I watch him to see' if he' on the Job. As soon as I find he's efficient and hard working I don't bother about him any more. Now, as soon as Father Burke began I saw he was right on to his job, and so I didn't worry about him. And then, In spite of myself, I let go." Everybody's Magasine. , Boetea Traaeerlnt: Judrin by the "for rant" an "for tele" alrna that alaater Waah. insten S deiaoeratle admlnlatrstton haa s mora etimnlatinc Influence upon real estate in the Weat Inuieo than anairhere else. , NEBRASKA EDITORS. F. D. Coaler, formerly of VeTier, Neb., haa auaeaadad Arehl K. Donovan, aa edi tor and owner of the llsdieoa Star Mali. Mr n R. Shrader haa aald tha Bteinauer Star to C. L. Peekham, proprietor of the Lewiitoa Poet, who will operate both papers in tha future. Mr. Shrader has reeumed hii work aa teacher la the Pawnee City achoola. Editor L. J. Cooper of the Central Cltr Nonpareil last week laauad an illuitrsted historical, boo tar and opportunity edition, which ia one ot tha seat of Ha elaaa ever produced in a similar Said In Nebraska. It ,.. fnytv.divht iua of cmrfullv erath- ared stories of the early history of centra' Nebraska, eompilld from sll available sources and Is illustrated by hundreds of hlsh-clasa half-tone ensravlnss, many oi which ara made from photographs taker many rears ago. As s contribution to local history It Is well worth preserving. BRIEF BITS 01 SCIENCE . A Salt Lake City man is tha Inventor of an undershot water wheal that will run, when wholly submerged. In s stream, tha blades folding on the upward stroke. A German scientist haa Invented S Pro cess using superheated steam for treating sewage Sludge to remove Its fatty aclda snd Increase Us value as fertiliser. ' . Banning nickel by a new process Is i re ported aa having been discovered in Can ada. Tha assertion ia that 101 pounds of matte can be converted Into flfty pounds of metal In forty-eight hours, and that the low grade Iron ore of the Lnurentian hills near Ottawa can be used. The best conductors of lighting, placed In the order of conductivity, are metals, acids and water. The best nonconductors, ending With the most perfect Insulation, are Indus rubber, guttapercha, dry sir snd gases, wool, ebonite, silk, glass, was, sul phur, resins snd paraffin. The ratio of color-blind people to those of normal sight la about 5 to 1,11.4. This does not mean that all of tha sixty-live are absolutely eolor-hlind. but that that ie tha ratio of those who are mora or less affected EDITORIAL SIFTINGS. Boston Transcript I Tha democratic slogan, "Do H for Wilson," la singularly like the re publican slogan, the only difference being the substitution of "to" for "for." Washington Post: Mora attention won 16 he paid to boy prodigies reported from the leading universities It tha lowbrows weren't so busy making the world go. Philadelphia Ledger l Accepting the golden rule policy of the administration at its face value, the Mexican eotnmissioners are ready to ask ua for s little trifle of a few hun dred millions loan aa s proof that we really love them. Baltimore American: The parley between American and Mexican commissions for Bat tlement of border troubles began with s luncheon. This is sound philosophy snd wise poller. No loan and hungry Cassiua on tha Job could aver take an optlmistie look at depressing conditions of any kind. Louisville Courier-Journal t Practical Jokers took the painter of s email launch occupied by several persons, struck out at full spaed with their powerful, motor boat snd dragged the launch m s Pennsylvania river ao fast that it turned turtle and two glrle ware drowned. Why do we yell "mad dog," snd kill s comparatively harmless animal Instead of yelling "practical Joker," and killing the more dangerous brute on alghtf ' LINES TO A LAUGH. "Heard about her eaeer" . ,K '. ... . h. naae at -"" i - II turna US lovot- peopie BO lauva - .. ... ' fc uTtirlly and she can t make any rich menaa. s,w - " "Gee. rd like a equare meal Juat once." What's the matter? Aren't you getting enough to eat at hornet" Sn" Ton see, the doctor's put Ps tin s diet" arid tie rest ot the family has to starve to keep Pa out of temptatlon."-Detrolt IToe Press. j t.rBiii'-5, SfftS IF HE COUtf Ef MMWEfc HIS BOSS WW m ,A '. BIS RAISE IMSALAW-SrttUI, JUtE ft fftuMiiESA titR, Wh & A CX "TIME fl ttltHfpi AOiaff VAIIO ''Pill !ADklErM "I'm going home an-I tell my eonatltn. nta a few thlnas." remarked Senator tor- Jhum. ' ' . 'rou tain iney neeo instru.t Oh. no. I'm looklna for information on my own account. 1 want to try 'em out . . , . . - - u..nu,peri anil willing to .Helen to me as uaal." Waah- lnglon star. Minister Yourg man, do you know the price of the pursuit of pleasure T blacksheep, Jr. Yea, olrl Thirty eanta the first mile and 10 cente for every half mile after that Lampoon. He (reading a sign) No tips allowed In thia place. - . m She Dear me, Isn't that provoking! I waa Juat going to order soma asparagus tips. Baltimore American. ' TOO PROUD TO LOAF. r We're camping on the Rio Grande With nothing mucn to ao But wash our shirts and dam our socks. And darn the Insects, too. We want the world to unde atand i We're not too proud to fight, . But draw the line at loafing here With things that sting and bite. The rattlers are s friendly lot . And visit us by scores, . Tarantulas prefer our tents To sleeping out or aoore. I We've learned the horned toad Is but A ha mless little oaf, We're not a bit too proud to fight But how we hate to loafl In napping In our ehoes and hats The scorpion persists, .. . And we did Sot enlist to be Ahtmrh of naturalists. We're not too proud to fight tho foe No matter when he comes. But are ashamed to wait around And loaf and twirl our thumbs. While we are valeting for mulea And hulldlne feneea here. Some other feliewo have tha Jobs . We held for many s year. j We're not too proud to fight in faot But we're too busy Just to sit '' And loaf our time away. Ol thia la net s soldier's life, ,. Thia alusafng sand and Bun, Mosquitoes, flsaa, and all the peats , That crawl snd fly and run We're not too proud for Freedom's sake To fight and bleed and die, Hill loaiina win hbi . j Old Glory In tha aky. OMAHA SOLDIER AT THE FRONT. A Famous Physician's Wonderful Discovery Alter a series of careful experi ments and tests at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., covering many years Dr. Pierce, the medical director of that hospital, made announcement that he could prove that a medicine which he call ed "ANURIC" was the best uric acid solvent now to be had. As a remedy for those easily recognized symptoms of inflammation as scalding urine, backache and frequent urination, at well as sediment in the urine, or if uric acid in .the blood has caused rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, gout, it is simply wonderful, how quickly "Anuric" acts; causing the pains and stiffness rapidly to disappear.' Swollen hands, ankles, feet are due to a dropsical condition, often aaueed by die ordered kidneys. Naturally when the kid neys are deranged the blood is filled with poisonous waste matter, which aettlea in the feet, ankles and wrists; or under the eyes in bag-like formations. It fa Just as necessary to keep the kldneya acting properly as to keep the bowels active. Tha very beat poesible way to take care of yourself k to take s glass of hot water before meals and an "Annrle" tablet. In . this way it la readily dissolved with the food, picked up by the blood and finally reaches the kidneys, where It haa a tonic effect 'In rebuilding those organa. a Step into the drug store and ask for s RO-cent package of "Anuric" or eend Dr. Pierce lOe for trial pkg "Anuric" many timea more potent than Ilthia, eliminates uric acid aa hot water melts sugar, A short trial will eonvinee yon. Advertisement- Ford SALES AND SERVICE STATION - IIOLMES-ADKIIIS CO., "sat." Chassis, $325.00 Touring Car, $360.00 5 Runabout, $345.00 Sedan, $645.00 Coupelet, $505.00 Town Car, $595.00 v F. O. B. DETROIT : V ONLY $32.50 To Galif ornia September 24th to October 8th via Rock Island Lines Tourist Sleeping Cars daily via Colorado the scenic route and via , El Paso the" direct route of lowest alti . tudes. ( ; ' . . , ', Choice of Three Routes . Via Colorado Scenic Route to Salt Lake City . thence Western Pacific thfo" Feather River . . Canyon, v. 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