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' J ill L. -L.--.J nf fan mm raouirod.
f1 t M iU. .A h imnratainn It ffrow-
iwing that the Guards would not kick- on a nine ior
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,ay ffordi convincing proof that both sides are
oanl to win.
Bl lie mnuuiiuu ifi 'vjiuiiv.
ong chance for glory when he failed to list Villa
ofimong ine oeaa. .
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With the tail-enders walloping the champions
over the field, bringing home the pennant is
ziaraiy worm ine cuun.
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fPW! ovei
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,r: Ine new untun juggernauts, mauu in in
eiU. S. A," prove equally efficient in provoking
levity at a wholesale funeral.
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JnoDile accident! in tour ttatei ia sunuay. rrom
ay to grave it a ihort jump for reckleu driven.
The nulsinff oeo of war inviatoratei the copper
'f...mr,a nf the weat. Ij'nlift in nricei makea a cod-
r mine aimoit at prontaoie ai railing nogs.
The cruel beating adminiatered to the pen
nant winnen goes to prove that Denver's un
blushing gall hat not been diluted by Cheyenne's
irrigation tyttem.
Food rettriction maket for public health, ac
cording to health authorities High pricei induce
food rettriction. Therefore, high pricet conserve
public health. Do ybu get It?
The Hughet punch hat reached a tender spot.
'he early jibes and scoff t of (lemocrats have
:hanged to tcreami of pain. A few more rounds
,nd . the enemy will take the count. , .
All work and little play on the Rio Grande.
If Uncle Sam pertiiti In the notion that the
uard needs the exercise, saving their soles be-
comes s herculean task for the chaplains.
Great Britain claims to have achieved com-
tnand of the air in France. The fact that French
brayiation fleets won the mattery of the air does
knot diiturb the nerve of London claimant!.
Talk of a minitteriaf thakeup in Germany
4 is at a It t i4 email a m n re eta ft that 4ttntnatt-ataeaa, Am-
iVwi vniauuTTt iiisiivi a inn uhiiiih tiiiii
(partmenti as well as in the military staff. The
hetreii of war demands leadership which produces
l' 'results, i
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U Republican! cast 423,361 votes in the Illinois
njprimary ana tne democrats votet. ine
lirdifference gaugct the aggressive enthutiaam of
Pveoublieani and forecasts the size of the Novrni-
ILW majority. ,
I. ! ' . TT td' nraf ilm In a aA-a n4 Vsv-
Iman Mack absents himself from the democratic
I "trenches. The task of explaining how the New
LYork commitsion spent $700,000 at the San
jiFrancisco exposition absorbs his time beyond
hthe eight-hour limit.
Ft . Tha fVnWa! a-nvrnmant tvanta 2faft man il.nna.
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1 J r " . .vw..a VAauimaiiwlIf Ull UUfllvuv
ttne country to secure tne needed number. These
'country-wide efforts indicate quite clearly how
I'Hvell the women have iwept the thorthand field.
rjjA, few men linger there, oppressed by their loneli-
mest.
The super-dreadnought Arizona has been com-
Mpleted at the New York navy yard In record time
I 'and at a saving of $1,000,000 under the estimated
fy:ost of construction at private yards. The record
vindicates unusual snctdini uo of tovernment em-
lilployes in violation of the time-honored rules of
Ithe job.
A Heartless Fraud
"ntledalpkia Latter.
Even the most extreme of oartitan onrmn-nta
It of the president, even in this year of accentuated
Ipartisanship, will, if honest with themselves and
xthe public acquit him of any part in the heartless
!:iraua mat nat oeen perpetrated upon the coun
I'try in the emasculation by the majority in the
JUnited States senate of the child labor law. That
I'measure was passed by the senate in the face of
I ttne strenuous opposition ot the southern senators
and only after the oersonal intervmtinn nf th.
Iitiresident in response to the nation-wide demand
,or legislation tor the protection of children from
nirutniess exploitation ty telhsh industrialism.
Irt As the bill oaased the hmia it mi a,lai t
I "professed to be, a measure to prohibit the ship
unent of the products of child labor in interstate
lacommerce: in the senate, however, a nrovisn mi
hlinserted limiting the operation of the act to goods
(tin the production of which the labor of children
tnaa oeen used within thirtv davt before the arnnHa
Hare offered for shipment At will be seen, this
i j"-1-1 awwiuKi iiumiica inc intent oi tne law
'ana makes ot the democratic Jubilation over its
enactment a shameless hvrwriav md a (r9..t ..
I Ithe people. The adoption of that amendment was
an insult to the humane sentiment of the Am-ri.
It can people, an insolent flouting of the national
conscience. How can decent demnerata i.tif,.
Ica course so despicable or expect the country to
'put any confidence in the party's good faith or
I'noncsiy oi intenuon in ine tace ot thil outrage?
Farmers and Democratic "Prosperity."
Our democratic senator is pursuing the ap
proved tactics of his party in his canvass for re
election. He is telling half-truths, deceiving by
indirection, and endeavoring through this means
to induce voters to give their support to his fail
ing cause. In Antelope county he exhibited a few
quotations of market prices for farm commodi
ties in 1912, and compared them with the prices
prevailing today, insinuating that the difference is
the result of. having elected Wilson president and
suggesting that the way to keep prices at their
pretent high level is to continue the democrats in
office.
Let us take a look at the facts. The card our
democratic senator exhibited gave the price of
wheat at 90 cents, and this he compared with the
present price of $1.46. Why did he not tell his
hearers that in August, 1913, five months after the
inauguration of President Wilson, the price of
wheat in Omaha was 80 cents, a drop of 10 cents
a Bushel? And on July 14, 1914, two weeks ybe
fore the war in Europe commenced, the same
grade of wheat was quoted in Omaha at 70 cents,
another dime lower. Hogs, according to our sen
ator, sold in 1912 at $9.S0; in 1913 these hogs were
priced at $8.17, a drop of $1.33 per hundred pounds
under the effect of the democratic administration.
In 1914, jusf before the war, the price had ad
vanced to $8.56, still below the level quoted under
republican rule. Beef cattle in August, 1912, were
selling around $9.75; a year later the price was
$9, and in July, 1914, it was still $9. No. 2 yellow
corn sold in 1913 at 72 cents in Omaha, and in
1914 at 68 cents. It is now quoted at 79 cents.
The price of oats has gone up from 35 cents in
July, J914, to 43 cents in 1916.
But does our democratic senator intend to
convey the impression that Mr. Wilson is re
sponsible for the war in Europe that has brought
about the unusual demand and consequent high
pricet for American farm products? Will he hold
that the Underwood tariff, which took the, duty
off everything the Nebraska farmer raises, and
retained it on the principal crops of the Georgia
farmer, had anything to do with the rise in prices
he boasts of?
The truth it, prices were on their way down
ward to the good old level of poverty alwayt at
tained under democratic rule, whenthe world
war tct inflated valuct on everything. None
knows better than the democratic leaders that
present fictitious prosperity ii not permanent,
that it depends on war altogether, and that dem
ocratic legislation has had no more influence on
the lituation in this regard than it has had on
the procession of the equinox. The farmers, too,
know thit, and will not be bamboozled by the
transparent attempt now being made to deceive
them.
New York Mooter! and Republicans.
The effort to secure a progressive nomination
for the democratic candidate for governor in
New York has been defeated by the progressives
themselves. In the primary election where Gov
ernor Whitman, the republican, was pitted against
Judge Seabury, the democrat, asking for endorse
ment of the progressives, the decision was in fa
vor of the republican candidate. The lize of the
vote cast is an Indication that most of the moos
ers have already returned to their original fealty
to the republican party, realizing the hopeless
ness of gaining any realty remedial or construc
tive legislation through the reactionariet who
dominate the council! of democracy. .Those who
till hold themtelvet to be members of an inde
pendent party also realize that more of real good
will be secured through retaining Governor Whit
man in office than to restore Tammany to power
In New York, and by placing Mr. Hughes in the
White House than by continuing the present in
effectual democratic administration. The vote of
the "mooters" in New York It an answer to the
efforts of the democrats to create dissension
among the progressive voters, and thus secure
some support for the cause of free trade and ad
ministrative incompetence.
Bank Directors and Bank Funds.
A decision from the, Douglas county district
court that Involves the responsibility of bank
director! and the safeguarding of their funds on
depotit will undoubtedly go to the supreme court
for final determination. In effect, the judge of
the dittrict court holdt that the deposit of a
bank director it no different from that' of an
other customer, wheh it comet to applying the
relief provided In the deposit guaranty law. On
the surface, this decision looks like good law.
It should not follow that because an individual
it on the official board of s failed bank he Is to
be deprived of the safeguard! of the law. If
he has been negligent in performance of hit
dutiet, or is otherwise responsible for the failure
of the bank, he may be reached through another
channel. But the money he hat placed in the
bank at s depositor ought to have the same full
protection as Is guaranteed to other patrons.
What is really more to the point, especially in
this particular instance, it that bank director!
be induced to give closer attention to the man
agement of the institutions under their charge,
and to contribute by their witdom and watchful
nest to the general safety of banking in Nebraska.
Such practice would relieve the guaranty fund
of much of itt burden.
Helping the School "Kiddles."
A captain of police was astonished when some
of the many thousand of Omaha school children
began to call him up to get tome detailed infor
mation about hit businesi. Moreover, he was
jutt a little .bit nonplussed at to now to answer
the many inquiries fired at him. The.youngstcrt
wanted more details about the police force than
the officer could give offhand. It is a good sign;
the teachers who set the youngster thus to find
ing out about the city they live in are doing a
good work. It not only informs the little folks,
but it causes their elders to brush up on some
facts that are good to keep in mind. But the
experience is not novel. Year after year, the
information editor of The Bee hat given over a
great deal of hit time to helping the boyt and
girlt get their lessons, by furnishing answers to
puzzling questions asked at school. This serv
ice is gladly performed, for it means that the
coming citizens are' getting potted in advance,
and when the time comet for them to take their
part in the big affairs of the world they will be
the better qualified because of their early famili
arity with tome of the "detail! of government.
The Bee ii alwayt ready to answer questions the
school children ask.
.Conscription raises its fearsome head once
more in the United Kingdom. To those who
are "doing their bit" it brings no terrors. If It
collars the slackers and the dodgers so much
the better for equality of national burdens.
Mr. Hughes His Own Boss
Hi. Laule Globe Democrat.
While Mr. Hughes was still in the west there
was a growing impression in the rest of the
country that he was not arousing as great enthu
siasm as had been anticipated. The Globe-Democrat
frankly admitted it. at the time, and set forth
some of the conditions responsible for readers get
ting such a mistaken impression. Alter nis speecn
of acceptance Mr. Hughes confined his attention
to his immediate work. Belief in certain myths
about him had been carefully fostered. He had to
dispel these. He did it in his 14,000-mile tour.
Correspondents of such papers as the New York
Times, editorially supporting Mr. Wilson, admit
that he convinced his hearers everywhere that he
was a red-blooded man, capable, intellectually
honest, courageous and bent on establishing ef
ficiency in the public service. When he said he
would veto extravagant appropriations, it was not
taken as an idle campaign promise. People knew
he meant every word of it. Some remembered
that he had vetoed items amounting to $5,000,000
the last year he was governor of New York and
that he had disapproved of over 200 bills that were
wrong in principle or deficient in other respects.
When he said he would serve the whole people,
his hearers believed him. They knew that he had
never been bossed, that he had never swapped pat
ronage for suppport of his measures and that he
was not under obligations to any machine, indi
vidual or set of individuals for his nomination. He
concluded his tour in Maine and the election last
Monday showed what Maine voters thought of
Hughes, after seeing and hearing him. They saw
that he was every inch a man and not a weather
vane, shifted by every vagrant breeze. They knew
that whatever emergency might arise, he could be
trusted to do what was right, without giving a
thought to the effect on his personal fortunes.
' Mr. Hughes, however, is no political novice.
He reserved the detailed discussion of recent leg
islation until congress adjourned and the president
had set his seal upon it. He has already shown
the flimty character of some of it and the iniqui
tous principles of other parts of it. He will not
waste all his ammunition at once, however, for
interest must be sustained until November. On
one subject he has remained discreetly reticent,
with high purpose. He expects to be elected presi
dent and to have to deal with our troubles with
certain European belligerents. He wants to be
able to do this without any handicap of prejudice,
and the opposition, which would make political
capital out of anything under heaven cannot
goad him into saying anything that might cause
any country to look upon him as its enemy. He
is running his own campaign, just as he will be his
own boss as president.
New Chemical Supplies
New York Timet.
We have been compelled by the war to utilize
many natural products which formerly were neg
lected or thrown away. This is especially no
ticeable in the manufacture of what are commonly
called chemicals. For many of these we relied
upon Germany, but before the war our own
output was growing. Public attention has been
drawn to the shortage of dyestuffs, and there has
been no general appreciation of a really remark
able increase of the production here of many sub
stances which must be used in our manufactur
ing industries.
What was lost in the old beehive coke oven
is now saved. From the smoke and the liquids
that formerly were wasted benzol and ammonia
are now taken and gas is produced that is sold.
Thousands of new by-product ovens have sup
planted the old ones. The saving of benzol hat
been due mainly, it is true, to the demand from
makers of explosives for the allies, but there is
a market for this substance in peaceful times. Be
fore the war we made only about one-quarter1 of
the bleaching powder consumed here; now our
own output is so large that some expect to see
an export surplus after the war. In the production
of nitratet from nitrogen in the air there has been
a beginning, and a large factory or plant is to
be built by the government. There is conserva
tion, instead of waste, now in the production of
sulphuric acid at mining and smelting works, and
the cost is low. A great increase of the output
of carbolic acid is shown. Those who are quali
fied to express an opinion say that in many
branches of the chemical industry we shall be
able after the war not only to supply our own
wants but also to make sales abroad.
While developments and production have been
powerfully stimulated by the foreign demand for
war supplies, the needs of our own industries will
probably keep the new factories at work and the
new processes in use. We shall not go back to
the old wasteful practices. If our producers in
the new fields should be menaced by unfair
competition from abroad, by offers of goods at
prices below the cost of making them, their in
terests will be guarded by the national Trade and
Tariff commission, and by the anti-dumping law
recently enacted.
People and Events
The oldest active head of any of the large
American railroads is Milton H. Smith, president
of the' Louisville & Nashville, who has just cele
brated his eightieth birthday.
Mr. Duke, the new secretary for Ireland, is
known as one of England's most successful law
yers. For a number of years his annual income
from his profession is estimated to have exceeded
$100,000.
H, G. Wells, the successful English novelist,
who is to visit the United States next spring, did
his first literary work while employed as a school
teacher. In earlier lite he was a shop clerk at
the munificent wage of $4 a week.
President Poincare of France attributes to hit
mother's training his present tremendous capacity
for work. From early childhood he was taught
to be up and about by 5 a. m. and that habit of
early rising he has maintained throughout his life.
Ebenezer J. Hill, who has been renominated by
the republicans of the Fourth Connecticut dis
trict, is one of the veterans of the national house
of representatives, having represented his district
continuously for more than twenty years.
The Archduke Frederick, who appears to have
been dropped from the chief command of the Aus
trian armies, is a direct descendant of the cele
brated Archduke Charles, who fought Napoleon.
Archduke Frederick is reputed to be one of the
wealthiest of the Hapsburgs.
Regis Henri Post, who has become private sec
retary to Colonel Roosevelt, served as governor of
Porto Rico during the Roosevelt administration.
He is a member of the old and wealthy Post fam
ily which has heen prominent socially and po
litically m the affairs of Long Island since before
revolutionary times. '
H. Elwood Haynes, prohibition candidate for
United States senator from Indiana and a gener
ous contributor to the prohibition national cam
paign fund, built one of the first "horseless car
riages" in this country. This car, which made its
initial trip in 1894, is the oldest automobile in
existence, and is now on exhibition at the Smith
sonian Institution in Washington.
General Haig, the commander of the British
forces in France, was a special favorite of the late
King Edward, and it was, so it is said, Queen
Alexandra, with whom he was an equal favorite,
who played match-maker in the romance which
had its climax when General Haig led to the altar
the prettiest of her maids-of-honor, one of the
beautiful twin daughters of Lord Vivian.
"The world's finest" tags the plans for the
Illinois Central's new station at Chicago. It will
he built on the site of the present station at
Twelfth street and Grant park, with frontage
of 700 feit on the park. The building and train
sheds for twenty passenger tracks will stretch
away 1,400 feet. According to Chicago papers,
the Illinois Central plan, architecturally and
otherwise, puts the Northwestern and the new
union station in the back number class.
. eaaaaati mmm mmm as J"
Thought Nugget for the Day.
To treat a poor wretch to a bottle
of Burgundy and fill his anufT box, Is
like giving a pair of laeed ruffles to a
man that haa never a shirt to his
back. Tom Brown.
One Y'ear Ago Today In the War.
Petrograd reported success of the
Russian retreat from Vllna.
French cannonade damaged Teuton
lines at the elbow of the battlefront
north of Paris,
British government ordered biggest
war budget ever known, and pro
posed extensive tax scheme, sweep
ing away free trade theory.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The funeral of Aaron Dreyer took
place at Masonic temple. The re
mains were enclosed in a rosewood
coffin, which vis covered with rare
and costly flowers, the gifts of the
fallow workers of the deceased. The
funeral services were conducted by
Rev. C. W. Havage of the Seward
street Methodist Episcopal church,
and the remains were Interred In
Prospect If 1 11 cemetery.
Little Harmon McKenna, son of
Hugh J. McKenna of the United
States Express company, while play
ing with Willie McHugh, son of .Vil
11am McHugh, the contractor, had a
lead pencil held by the latter driven
three and a half Inches Into his arm.
Dr. Darrow attended the young suf
ferer and extracted the pencil.
Brifndt's Stadt theater ha been
closed and the place has been aban
doned aa the home of the German
Thespian muse. The theater will be
destroyed, the front stores on Tenth
street deepened, the Howard street
front broken Into store fronts, and
the entire place given up to business
of all kinds, which. It is expected,
will bring a greater revenue to the
owner than did tho theater for some
years.
A. W. 8axe, who formerly resided
In Walnut Hill, has abandoned that
place and taken up his residence at
211 South Twenty-fifth street.
The Union Pacific headquarters,
division headquarters, shops and de
pots are now connected by means of
a pony express driven by a young man
formerly in Mr. Dorrance's office He
makes hourly trips carrying all the
mall between the points mentioned.
This relieves the delivery wagon
driven by Joseph Prltohard of a great
deal of the lighter work, and leaves
It free to attend to small parcels
which are continually passing be
tween the various departments
throughout the city.
Mr. Wilson, the owner of the old
Davis Brothers' mill, is engaged in
removing the mill to tho corner of
Twentieth and Pierce, where he will
thoroughly refit and enlargo It.
This Day in History.
1784 Francis Hopkinson, one of
the New Jersey signers of the Decla
ration of Independence, born In
Philadelphia. Died .there, May 9,
mi.
1777 Massacre of General An
thony Wayne's troops by a force of
British and Hessians near Paoli, Pa.
1832 Sir Waiter Scott, the famous
author of tho Waveny novels, died at
Abbotsford. Borm in Rainburgh,
August 15, 1771.
1983 Direct telegraph!) communi
cation between tne united States and
Brazil, by way of Central America,
was inaugurated with a message of
greeting from President Annur to the
emperor.
loul The United States, Great
Britain, France ana Germany agreed
tu entorce tne protection of foreign
ers in China.
1804 King Peter of Serbia was
crowned at Belgrade.
lull Keuipruuity with the United
States was ueieuieu in tne C'anaumn
parliamentary elections..
The Day We Celebrate.
Thomaa W. Mills, conductor, Is cel
ebrating hit seventy-aixtn birtnuay.
He was burn in .bumana anu was
brougnt to this cuuuuy by ms par
ents wuen t years u.u. iie has been
in nis present posiuun for twenty
eignt years.
rl. u wells, England's famous nov
elist, who is to tour tne Ututeu guiies
next spring, burn at Druiiuoy, ivcni,
liny yeaia ugu today.
Brigauier uenerai Sir Philip Chet
woue, tne timi Britisn otneer to be
mentioned for aiBiinguisneu service in
tne present war, burn lorty-seven
years ago touay.
bir tumunu Qrosse, distinguished
writer, unu librarian of tne i-iuuae ot
Lorus, burn in L,onUun sixty-seven
years ago loauy.
Samuel nea, president of the Penn
sylvania raiuuau, burn at Hoiuuays
buig, t'o., sixty-one years agu tuuay.
riciiry Li. Bumbun, secretary ot war
In tne iatl caoiuel, OuiU in iNew xorK
cay turty-niiie years ago tuuay.
i rea jataaun, auiiiur ot ine suc
cessful laice, "A run House," burn
in iiiLsuui6ii thirty yearn ugu tuuay.
OaiK xiuwen, 'AuuiiuL newspaper
euiiur auu uemuurauu teauei, bu.u in
i'uwau couiuy, o. C, buy-iiu'ee
years ago tuuay.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The consecration ot ftev. pnilip R.
Muueviu us bianup oi tne Uauiuiic
Qiucese uf Harribtiui'g is tu taae piae
tuuay in tne catueurai in pnuauei
pnm. for the third time, a special con
vention uf tne Kansas fe.U4Bcopai uiu
ccse is to meet in Tuueaa Louay tu try
anu agree on a cuaujuiur tu Bisnup
riwiK K. iviiiispaugn.
Tne annual rouuuup at Pendleton,
Ore., one ot the must notable caim
vais given In the west, win open to
day and continue until the end of
tho week.
Charles E- Hughes is scheduled to
leave Chicago eany this morning on
a speechmaking tour that will ctrry
him across northern Indiana, enuing
tho day at Richmond.
Justice Brandeis of the supreme
court of the united states has, ac
cepted an Invitation to attend a ban
quet to be given In his honor tonight
by the Zion association of Boston.
Former Governor Allen M. Fletcher
cf Vermont and Horace Fletcher, "the
father of Fletcherism," are among
the notable guests expected in Bos
ton today for the annual reunion of
the Fletcher Family Association of
America.
Storyette of the Day.
A beautiful young lady interviewed
a fortune teller on the usual sub
jects. "Lady," said the clairvoyant,
"you will visit foreign lands and the
courts of kings and queens. You will
conquer all rivals and marry the man
of your choice. He will be tall and
dark and aristocratic-looking."
"And young?" Interrupted the lady.
"Tes, and very rich."
The beautiful lady grasped the for
tune teller's hands and pressed them
hard.
"Thank you," she said. "Now tell
me one thing more. How shall X get
rid of my present husband?" New
York Times.
Democratic Objections to Criticism.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 20. To the
Editor of The Bee: There seems to be
a great deal of objection on the part
of democrats to the criticism of the
Wilson administration by the repub
lican candidate for president, Charles
E. Hughes, and In fact to criticism by
anybody else.
' They Beem to think that It Is sac
rilege for anybody to express disap
proval to any of the numerous acts of
the administration that are subject to
criticism. Not one president ever
elected by the republican party has
been free from democratic criticism
and none will ever be elected who will
not be subject to their criticism. They
even to this day talk of the McKlnley
administration being controlled by
Mark Hanna. The McKinley adminis
tration will go down in history as one
of the best this country ever had,
for there was one of the greatest
revivals of industry ever seen in the
history of the world, after the disas
trous last administration of Grover
Cleveland. There has not been a more
vacillating administration in the his
tory of this republic than the Wilson
administration, for there has been a
change of front on every great ques
tion that has come before It for solu
tion. Yet every movement made by Wil
son has indicated his keen desire to
inlllot his administra. on upon us for
another four years. The supreme ef
forts of Wilson to force his re-election
should make the movement for a
change to one term of six years for
one man as president, all the stronger.
He Is the most adroit politician who
has held the presidency since the time
of Martin Van Buren, and It is to be
hoped that his defeat for a second
term will be aa signal as was that of
Van Buren In 1840. We need a states
man for president und not a political
schemer whose every movement shows
an intense and crazy desire to be
elected again. I cannot but believe
that when the sober thinking people
of this republic conslde: the failures
of the Wilson administration as com
pared with the great successes of the
republican party under Lincoln, Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, Mc
Klnley, Roosevelt and Taft, that they
will consider that wo need a change
back to the old order of things under
a republican administration, and get
rid of southern democratic rule.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
EDITORIAL SIFTINOS.
Louisville Courier- Journal I Have you
noticed that the atream line body it the cor
rect thins tor tha ffirla aa we!l as for auto
mobiles thit rearT
Wathinsrton Poet: Prom all appearances
part of the tteel ueed In the Q"ebet bridge
waa deaianed by nature for a aubmarine.
Boaton Transcript: Mob rule vindicates
Itaelf in Georgia by an overwhelming ma
jority, but the aouth manages to split fifty
fifty by the defeat in South Carolina of Cole
Blease.
Baltimore American: With tha necetBitiei
of life going up in price an expensive win
ter it ahead of the consumer; and perhaps
he will give a passing thought to the prom
itt of Mr. Wilson and deserving democrats
to reduce the cost of living.
Chicago Herald: Tha Mexican eonferett
argue that if they can get a big loan some
where peace will be assured in Mexico. They
forget that the division of the money might
give rise to a new and even bitterer interne
cine conflict.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Many a middle-aged
man who hetrt the tinkle of a
tchool bell winces as he forgeta for the mo
ment that it doet not call him to books. But
he will tell a schoolboy that achool daya are
tha happiest.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
Mr. Dobbs I we ihere 1 tulk of atan-1-ardlaing
loavM of bread.
Mrs Dodda I wonder how tt it golns
to laste with thfm doctors puttlnf any
more of that food itiitT In our food. Bam
more American.
Farmer Say, Rtramrer, there aren't any
ttah In that pond; not a one.
Angl-arWhat the deue did you tell me
that for? You've apoDed my whole after
noon's pleasure. Boston TranucritVt.
"Has your boy Josh learned much at
school?" . .
"I ahould say ao," replleu Farmer corn
tosiel. "He known so much about runnliV
the farm that mc an' the hired men pit
so Interested listen thai nobody does any
work." Was hinv ton Btar.
Blacksmiths seem to havsj a reputa
tion for honesty."
"Deservedly so, but due partly, perhaps.
o the nature of the business. Nobody
encumbers a blacksmith with trust funds.
There Is nothing to adulterate In his tin.
Compared with some of us, a blacksmith
has few temptations to resist.' Louisville
Courier Journal.
t)EAR MR. KIBBLE,
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evrr VAcwr Ndum.
QUEtR CARRYING OWM
Haughty Mistress Why did you leave
your last place?
Belligarent Applicant Because I couldn t
git no money. Why did your last cook leave
hers? Baltimore American.
"Flubdub, why don't you marry T"
"I'm a timid chap and you know th
adage saya that faint heart never won
fair lady."
"Try to win a dark lady. Atn't there
plenty of beautiful brunettes?" Cincinnati
Enquirer.
"I'd go to Europe If it wasn't (or this
Wl" understand perfectly, old chap. I'd
go to California if It wasn't for this pos
sible strike, and my ashman would go to
Palm Beach If It wasn't for tho price. '
Baltimore American.
"He Tour parents seem to have got over
their dislike for me.
She Oh, j-es. At first, yoo know, they
were afraid our acquaintance might lead
to something. Boston Transcript.
Portly Woman (pushing her way Into a
police Btatlon) I see you hav arrested a
man whose mind Is a blank.
Officer We have, madam.
Portly Woman Then please bring him out
so I may have a look at him. My Henry
didn't come home last night, and that's)
a fairly good description of him. Puck.
THE HOME TOWN.
Edgar A. Ouert In Detroit Free Press
Some folks leave "home for money
And some leave home for fame,
Some seek skies always sunny,
And some depart in shame.
I care not what the reason
Men travel east or west,
Or what the month or season.
The home town Is the beat.
The home town Is the glad town
Where something real abides.
'Tie not the monej nad town
That all Its spirits hides.
Though strangers scoff and flout tt
And even Jeer its name,
It has a charm about It
No other town can claim.
The home-town tklea seem bluer
Than skies that stretch away.
The home-town friends aeem truer
And kinder through the day.
And whether glum or cheery.
Light hearted or depressed.
Or struggle-fit or weary,
I Ilk the home town best.
Let him who will go wander
To distant towns to live.
Of some things I am fonder
Than all they have to give
The gold of distant places
Could not repay me quit
For those familiar facet
That keep the home town bright.
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