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Omaha at a Manufacturing Center.
Omaha is not generally regarded as a mauu
facturing center. This it chiefly because its own
people are unaware of the extent and diversity of
factory operations carried on here. They know
of the city's supremacy at a wholesaling and job
bing point, itt lead at a live stock and grain mar
ket, its place in the front rank at a meat packing
and curing headquarters, and its wonderful growth
and solid strength at a financial and banking cen
ter, while its lead in retail business is admitted.
But they do not know that it hat reached a very
high place as the home of manufacturing plants,
whose product guet all over the world, and com
prise! all manner of things for the use of man
The Flag day parade, when 30,000 people marched
and other thousands stood on the sidewalks and
cheered, gave some notion of the industrial inv
portauce of the city, and the parade of yetterday
added to thit impression. The fact that Omaha
it really a manufacturing center of much import
ance it slowly coming home to itt citizens. The
output of the local factories runs into hundreds
of millioni annually, the factoriet are numbered
by the hundredi, and the operativet by the thou
lands. Thirty thousand wage earners are on the
pay roll in Omaha, and their earnings mount high
into the millioni each year. They are the solid
foundation on which the present prosperity and
future greatnen of the city rests. Our own peo
pie should make themselves more familiar with
the facts, and thus help the world outside to get
a better notion of what we are doing at home.
While King Ak holds court loyal tubjectt are
duty commissioned to work the glad hand.
No limit on the free coinage of campaign ora
tory to long as anyone can be induced to stay and
listen. f a
Please, Mr. Veather Man, do your very bett
tor us, for we know what you can do when you
do your bett, '...
! One of the omitted "don'tl" it "don't play the
paddle wheels or other gambling garnet unlett
willing to lose the money."
Speaking of the Newberry bill, isn't thii the
same railroad rate reduction bill that wat vetoed
by Nebraska's first democratic governor?
Now that the packert have fattened the pay
envelopei s bit, contumera will ttep up to the
counter with the price and look pleasant. ,
Oh, yet, the "tow line" will get the money all
right, but let it get it for' what it it; i. e., to re
plenish the tenator'i pertonal'campaign war-chest,
and not under false pretenses.
The boom in marriage licenses coupled with
a steady demand for hornet may be accepted at
pledget of loyal tupport of the movement to make
Omaha a city of a million people, '
The pretident of the Federation of Women's
Clubt outline! a large program of reform! which
will give the memben leverat busy yean. .Hasn't
the lady heard of the social and economic objec
tions to overtime work?
' Hit highness the quality hog itandt on all
tours, a thining example of immunity to nti-fat
treatment. Corpulency for him' it the outward
sign of right living, and the more he putt on the
handsomer hc lopks to the owner. - r'
Woodrow Wilson is a great leader of democ
racy, all right, but his "single-track mind" en
countered t bumping-post when he tried to get
"Jimmy" Hay and Claade Kitcliirl to consent to
an adequate program for' the defense of the United
States.
Remember how loud the democrats uted to
yell when tome luckiest republican postmaster
occasionally broke over the civil service rules
And here it the democratic campaign committee
trying now to mobilise the whole army of .post
masters in defiance of the civil service law.
. tTM Marshal VCiH UinHnk.i n AO In nn
lar estimation, overtops every figure in Germany
brought to the forefront by the war. Newspa
per comment inent his birthday anniversary un
doubtedly reflects national tentiment in hailing
the chief of stiff at the savior of the fatherland.
' What put the wage increase force bill through
congress wat not that the quettion is not "arbi
trable," but the fact that the pretident used the
strike club on congress, with the labor leaders
holding the stop-watch. It wat an abject sur
render of the principle of arbitration, pure 'and
"simple.
Nebraska Political Comment
, Fremont Tribune: The Bee tcoret s goof
point againtt Senator Hitchcock when it revives
his attitude toward the president's action in re
gional bank legislation. Senator Hitchcock then
resented the interference of the president in leg
islative matters as a usurpation of legislative
authority. Now the aenator it warmly approving
the president's action browbeating congress into
passing a law demanded by the railway brother
hoods. The senator's claim to "independence"
doesn't look so good when you get all the
slants of it. '
Grand Itland Independent: It ii noticeable
that the tatett issue of The Commoner leads
away wttn a very eulogistic editorial on tne
"eleven remedial' measures passed by congress;
that it hat highly commendatory comments on
President Wilson's address of acceptance: that
it warmly endorses the candidacy of Congress
man Jones of Virginia; that Senate Leader Kern
should be re-elected; that Speaker Clark should
be given a splendid endorsement; that Thomas
R. Marshall should be handsomely re-elected, and
that Nebraska so far as can be gleaned from
even the most painstaking perusal has no demo
cratic candidate for United States tenator or for
governor. ,
'i. Aurora Republican: It it not necessary to
juggle figuret to convict the Morehead adminis
tration of extravagance. Governor Sheldon and
a republican legislature collected in state taxes
for the 1907-8 biennium $4,754,240.56, from which
a substantial payment was made on the state's
floating debt. Governor Morehead and a demo
cratic legislature collected for the 1913-14 bien
nium $7,352,470.35, or almost twice as much, with
no netting debt to provide for. Simply because
. this amount has been reduced for the 1915-16
biennium to $634,063.62 indicates no permanent
change of democratic policy. In view of past
performances it is reasonable to assume that this
temporary spasm of comparative economy will be
followed' by a more reckless era of extravagance
than the state has ever known if the Morehead
administration should be given another vote o,
ax?l'l'ML .
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Under Wilson's Leadership.
Our esteemed but wobbly democratic contem
porary, the World-Herald, is just now frantically
boasting of the splendid qualifications of Wood-
row Wilson as head of the democratic party. The
owner of the World-Herald ought to know all
about this, for he was not only led to the trough,
but was made to drink. He started a. revolt to
force concessions to him on Nebraska federal pat
ronage. He not only failed to get the places .he
demanded, but was whipped into line and made to
vote for measures he had opposed through his
paper and on the floor of the tenate. No man in
hit party it better qualified to tpetk from per
tonal experience of the efficiency with which the
pretident hit dominated democracy and worked
hit will through congrett than it our democratic
tenator. He might alto tell how It feels to have
the part lath over hit back, and be compelled
to attent to legitlation and policiet which he pub
licly asserted were1 wrong. Of course, now that
he needs the votes, he it ardently professing un
diluted admiration for the man who lined him up
and made him swallow all the secret caucus edicts
framed to tuit twenty-nine touthern tenatort who
shaped every law passed under the Wilson regime.
ktin It Up 'to the Postmasters
Evidence of another violation of the civil serv
ice taw by the democrats hat been produced. The
bostet of that delectable party want votes, and
are not at all particular at to how they obtain
them. '
Thit it their tole excuse for undertaking to
dragoon the fourth-class postmasters of the courts
try Into service as "Wilson workers," and set
them trie task of securing tupport for the presi
dent in hit campaign for re-election. No more
shameless exhibition of partisan desperation hat
even been given in American politics.
Postmasters are public servants, and not parti
tan toolt. The fourth-class postmaster - were
placed by republican presidenti under the civil
tervice law tnd had that protection until Wood
row Wilson wat inaugurated. One of the .very
first executive drders issued by him, coming in
April, 1913, only a month after -he had been in
office, removed theses public servant! from the
classified list. And made them subject to political
whim. This wat primarily to get placet for "de
serving democrat!." The present raid of the dem
ocratic national committee is merely an extension
of the Wilson move. 11
Contrast this action with the platform dec
laration of the party, adopted by the St. .Louis
convention: "We reaffirm our declarations fo
the rigid enforcement of civil service laws." At
Baltimore in 1912 the democrats declared: "The
law pertaining to the civil service should be hon
estly and rightly enforced, to the end that merit
and ability shall be the standard of appointment
and promotion, rather than service rendered to a
political party."
In no other way have the democrats more
brazenly exhibited the hypocrisy of their pledget
than in their dealings with the civil service. Lawt
and platforms, merit and deserts, have little in
fluence with the donkey when it 'goes browsing
for votes. ,
End of the Coroner's Office.
The supreme court of Nebraska has upheld
the law passed by the last legislature, intended to
abolish the useless office of coroner. Hereafter,
the feet that have gone to tupport that office will
remain in the treasury, w,hile the small tervice
performed by the functionary holding the title
will be looked after by the county attorney, to
whote office they rightfully belong. The Bee
feels a warranted tense of gratification in the out
come of this ease, having initiated the movement
for doing away with the needless duplication of
official machinery and consequent added expense
that was borne by the taxpayers. After January
1, WI7, the office of the coroner will be no more
in Nebraska, and none will miss it. save .those
who have found in it a reliable connecticn with
tr.e pub.'.c treasury. This it another real service
The Bee has performed for Nebraska,
The worst is yet to come for oil consumers.
With sighs of more or lest inward grief, the Na
tional Petroleum association announces that
higher pricet are, ture to come when war ends.
Europe will require vait quantities of oil and "the
price will startle consumers." Evidently the pro
ducers regard .this year's 10-ccnt raise as pre
liminary exercise for the main event.
By means of a federal inquiry into straw bond
makert and a local raid on tuipected clubt, the
Chicago lid has been lifted sufficiently to reveal
the system of trimming sporty gamesters and
fleecing the underworld. . Much of the testimony
dealt with the percentages of the diwy, but the
even fifty-fifty iplit obtained when the respectable
citiien stood in.
In browsing around the books of South Da
kota counties the state auditor materially shortens
the famous quest of Diogenes in that locality.
The shady chairwarmert who mocked the ancient
bearer of the flickering glim, blink uneasily in
the glare of the modern searchlight State audits
of the various units of public business fully re
oar the cost. ,-... !
Why Hughes Appeals So
Powerfully to Progressives
Frederick Davenport la Warld'l Work
Hughet is a liberal of liberals in his whole
outlook upon social and industrial progress. I
have been through the record of Justice Hughes
while he was on the bench at Washington with
a view to finding at first hand how his mind and
heart reacted to the claims of labor. And the
whote record is splendid in its human sympathy
and profound sense of justice.
1 Look us Truax against Raich, 239 U. S. Raich
wit an Austrian alien, admitted by the national
government, and the ttate of Ariiona tought
to deny him the right to work because he was
an alien. And Hughet flung the mantle of
national power over him and decided that the
right to work for a living in the common occu
pations of the community wat a fundamental
right protected by the conttitution of the United
States. This was the famous case which aroused
criticism of Mr. Gompers, particularly on the
f round that the injunction process was invoked
n s labor suit. As a matter of fact, the injunc
tion wat sought by a wage earner to protect
a wage earner, and not by an employer againtt
s wage earner. And although the point ot view
of organized labor it sound to the effect that
the American standard of living must not be
allowed to be lowered by alien hordes, it is
wrong to seek to uphold an unworthy state
law which violated fundamental rights protected
by the constitution of the United Slates. The
place to control the flow of immigration is at
the national source by national power. It is
the federal government which controls the ad
mission of aliens. And no state government has
a right to interfere bv subterfuge.
Or take Coppage against Kansas, 236 U. S.,
in which, joining in a minority opinion, Justice
Hughet repudiated the theory that an employer
hat any right directty or indirectly to coerce his
employe! againit joining labor unions, and
hence lupported the View that the itate could
intervene to protect employe! agamit such coer
cion. He ind Justice Holmes lupported the
principle ot tne tree organization ot labor pow
erfully by dissenting opinion.
Or look ud Bailev against Alabama. 219 U. S.
In this fundamental caie Hushes defended as the
essence of personal liberty the right of a black
peon to leave his job. No matter how the vic
tim had been inveigled into a contract which
made a peon of him because he could not pay
his debt, Hughes brushed away the preteme of
legality and let nothing stand in the way of
the right of the humblest toiler in the lowest
ranks ot labor.
It Is an illuminating record which Mr. Gom
peri and all who doubt would do well to ponder.
Hughes was always on the side of governmental
power which secured justice for the weak and
the defenseless. The California chambermaid,
the Alabama peon, the pupil nurse, the railway
employe, Hughes waa always right from the
standpoint ot broad justice to tne weak and the
defenseless, no matter whether he had to vote
with the minority or the majority of the court It
was tne working ot a just mind which knew the
whole range of American life and all its struggles.
For he himself has from hii early boyhood
Known what it was to work snd to struggle.
But it is as easy for him to be just' to the
man of wealth and power. When he was gover
nor ot New York on two notable occasions he
faced the danger of momentary Dooular obliauv
in order to do right by the railway corporations
ot tne state, it is easy tor him because he has
inherited a powerful sense of right, and he -has a
mind superbly fitted to analyze facts, just plain
facts and nothing more. ,
. It is a mind of the sort that can be truited
to act in time and with firmness and justice
in international relations. Certain great coun
tries ot tne world nave learned at awful cost
the lesson of peril which lies in vacillating snd
uninformed public leadership. In foreign affairs
the whole difference between war snd peace
frequently lies here. A really safe and atrong na
tional executive must know thoroughly and in
stinctively the psychology of the Mexican bandit,
the French politician, the German bureaucrat
and many other types of world characters. And
in foreign relations he must have the capacity
to act decisively and with knowledge:. Hughes
is that kind of man. His twift and happy transi
tion from the cloitter of the tupreme court to
hobnobbing with Ty Cobb and the cowboyt snd
the Butte miners and the vast crowds which
met him when he first crotted the country only
indicates the versatility of his nature and his
knowledge of humanity. He trusts the exoert
and what he does not know himself he knowt
where to find out in time. And when he finds
ottt he knowt how to and will set at the earliest
moment. I
One of the most fatal defects of recent n-ov.
ernment at Washington he will quickly remedy.
Hughes would enforce to the letter the demo
cratic platform of 1912, which declared that the
constitutional rights of American citizens should
protect them on the, border and go with them
throughout the world, and that everv American
citizen residing or having property in any foreign
country is entitled to and must obtain the full
protection of the United States government, both
for himself snd his property. The present ad
ministration has altered the ingrained habit of
every nation in its want of respect for American
property rights in Mexico. And without the
slightest resemblance to adequate notice. I can
conceive of a country altering the national habit
of mankind for good cause, and giving adequate
notice against future property investments within
certain circumscribed spheres; but once men have
entered the open door and once wealth invest
ments ire honorably embarked upon traditional
national protection, I cannot conceive how a
government can command the respect of its citi
zens or of the world and fail in its duty either
to life or property. Hughet is committed to and
will undoubtedly tee to the fulfilment of thit
primary function of government.
Democratic apologistt are covering the fatu
ous and inefficient foreign policy of their party
by playing upon the beautiful and sentimental
instinct of the people in, favor of peace.' Hughes
is calling the American people back to the
thought of dutv. He is meeting the sentimental
enthusiasm which is deeper and truer. The
democratic party has considered every grave for
eign question from the standpoint of what would
be the consequences. Hughes is considering the
tame questions from the standpoint of what is
right. ,
People and Events
Southern employers of labor view with in
creasing alarm the exodus of negroes to the
north. The demand for plain labor in the north
is making serious inroads in the colored ranks.
Some 20,000 negroes have left Alabama alone in
the past four months. Georgia and Mississippi
have lost a tike number.
Epiicopal clergymen of Chicago divide about
equally on the question of striking out the word
damn from the prayerbook and substituting
"condemn," as recommended by the revision com
mittee. Opponents of the change iniist that the
old word carries s punch that cannot be im
proved in reach or fearsome power. As Harry
Lauder would say: "Ye canna bate it"
The purchase of Treasure Island by John T.
McCutcheon, Chicago Tribune cartoonist, ia fol
lowed by the announcement of his engagement
to Mist Evelyn Shaw of Lake Forest, 111. Mc
Cutcheon has long been esteemed a pillar of
bachelordom, but stouter pillars have been shaken
before this, and John falls for it. The honey
moon, planned for the holiday teason, will be
spent on the newly acquired dry spot m the
Bahamas. - '
I iaS W
Thought Nugget for the Day.
Absence of occupation Is not rest,
A mind quite Vacant It a mind dis
tressed. ' ' William Cowper.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Time limit expired on allies' ulti
matum to Bulgaria.
Petrograd reported further galnt
for the Russian In Gallcia.
German offensive In east alackened
aa result of withdrawal of troops for
the western front.
French aviators dropped bomb! on
German emperor'l headquarters and
railway station at Luxemburg.
In Omaha Thirty Yean Ago.
M. A. Upton ft Co., aucceasort to
Hatcher, Gadd & 'Co., have moved
their office from the Millard Hotel
block to 1609 Farnam street, oppo
site the Merchants hotel, where they
have elegant quarters on the ground
floor, and where they will negotiate
transfers In "Omaha dirt."
Charlea Moran of the Arm of Moran
& Quinn, saloonkeepers on Sixteenth
and Cuming, laid $115 on the back of
the bar while he stepped to the end
of the bar for a moment and while
hie back was turned a sneak thief
stepped In at the back door and
nabbed the roll, making good his
escape.
The Durant Fire company held a
meeting for the purpose of electing
officers for the ensuing term of one
year. The following were chosen:
Foreman, Charles Fisher: first insist
ent John Carnaby; second assistant,
John Reed; president, .Ed Taylor;
treasurer, Thomas Clirr, and secre
tary,, William H. Mulcahy.
Colonel Llllls, the great cable line
contractor, has gone to Kansas City,
taking with him Thomas F. Urennan,
who Is a. college mate of his son's.
Tne store of John Llnderholm. on
South Tenth, was completely gutted
by nre. As Mr. Llnderhoim was clos
ing out his stock at auction he will
not make an effort to resume busi
ness.
The following Omahans have gone
to St. Louis to visit the exposition
there: George Jnslyn, Henry I'hllbln,
Richard Withnell, Will Brown. John
D. Creighton, Charles Crelghton,
James McShane, Euclid Martin, Cap
tain Broach, Colonel Floyd, Joseph
Teahon and E. H. Davis.
The congregation of Isreal. at lta
annual meeting, elected the following
omcers: Isaac UDerieiaer, president;
S. Relchenberger, vice president; M.
Hellman, treasurer; J. Jaakalek, sec
retary.
This Day in History. 1
1716 Samuel Shute arrived at Bos
ton as governor. s
1814 William OIlDin. bodyguard to
President Lincoln, and first governor
of Colorado, born In Newcastle coun
ty, Delaware; died In Denver January
v, iss.-
18.8 Rutherford B. Haves, nine
teenth president of the United Staes,
born st Delaware, O.; died at Fre-'
mont, O., January 13, 1898.
1880 Provisional government de
clared the Independence of Belgium.
1863 Nadar's balloon, the largest
made ud to that time, made an ascent
at Paris with fourteen persona.
1878 Captain Buddlngton and ten
other survivors of the Polaris expedi
tion arrived in New York on the
steamship City of Antwerp. i
I8s Tne battleship Illinois waa
launched at Newport News. I
1901 The Shamrock II was de
feated in the third race for the Amer
ica's cup by the Columbia, retaining
the trophy In the United States.
1804 Frederic Augusts Bertholdi.
the sculptor, designer ot the Statue of
Liberty, died in Paris; born In Alsace
In 1834.
1908 Proclamation of Bulgaria as
an Independent kingdom made at
Tirnovo.
The Day We Celebrate.
J. H. Boonstra was born October 4.
1861. In Holland. He was in the earlv
'80s chief clerk to the car accountant
of the Union Pacific and was later
conneoted with various other commer
cial Institutions here, esablishlng his
present cleaning and dyeing business
about eight years ago.
K. J. Dinning, candy manufacturer,
Is 68 today. He was born in Janea-
vllle, Wis), but has long been In busi
ness nere.
James W. Holmautst of the Holm-
qulst Elevator' company, 1b 50 years
old today. He is of Swedish descent
and came to Omaha from Burt county.
Arnold Daly, well known actor,
manager and producer, born in Brook
lyn forty-one years ago today.
Prof. Michael 1. Pupln of Columbia
university, noted as scientist and in
ventor, born In Hungary fifty-eight
years ago today.
Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, noted
Baptist clergyman of Boston, born at
McMlnnvllle, Ore., fifty years ago to
day. -
Dr. Albert Ross Hill, president of
the University of Missouri, born In
Nova Scotia, forty-seven years ago today.
Dr. Thomas C. Mendenhall. former
president of Rose Polytechnic Insti
tute and Worcester Polytechnic lnstl-
tute, and one-time superlntenden of
the United States coasf and geodetic
survey, born at Hanoverton, O., seventy-five
years ago today.
Charles t. Conklin, former national
amateur billiard champion, born at
East Troy, wis., fifty years ago today.
Ray G. Fisher. Ditcher of the New
York American league base ball team,
born at Middlebury, Vt, twenty-nine
years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The Mississippi Valley Conference
on Tuberculosis begins Its annual ses
sion today at Louisville-
Prominent laymen of the Episcopal
church throughout' the country will
assemble in Cleveland today for the
thlrty-nrst annual convention of the
Brotherhood of St Andrew.
The public review of the twelfth
provisional division of the army In
San Antonio today will be tHfe first
occasion that an army division. In
cluding about 16,000 men and all
equipment and wagon trains, has pa
raded on review through a city street
since the civil war.
The annual oonventlon of the Fire
Underwriters' Association ot the
Northwest will meet at Chicago to
day for a session of three days
A nation-wide organisation of col
ored Americans to oppose race and
color prejudice and discrimination it
to be formed at a conference to be
opened in Washington today under
the auspices of the National Equal
Rights league.
The Northwest Iowa Conference of
the Methodlstf Episcopal church is to
begin Its annual session at Spenoer,
la., today, with Bishop Stunts presiding.
Wlthia tha city vromr tha lord maror of
London ranks naxt to too king. Ha ia aran
taobnioallr bafore tha qnaen conaort, not to
anaok of aneh dirnltarlca aa the pramtar
(who has no haraMla rank), tha lore Chan-
eellor and tha arebbiahop of Canterbury.
Editorial Hits the Target.
Omaha, Oct . To the Editor of
The Beei I like your editorial on
"Republican Victory and War" and
the raking of what the editi.r of the
World-Herald says about what the
demos have done. Now I would like
to tell you the kind of an honest man
he, Is. X felt sorry for him begging
money to help elect Wilson again, so
I sent him the last cent I had and he
has not even thanked me tor my do
nation'. What do you think of an edl
tor that would fall to thank.
O. B. SMITH.,
882 South Twenty-fourth. ,
6tlU Confetti Safer Than Paddles.
Omaha, Oct. 3. To the Editor of
The Bee: Cut out that conretti agi-
talon. No one wants it except some
grafter that expects to fill his pockets
with coin.
People Must Regain Control.
Sliver Creek, Neb., Oct. 8. To the
Editor of The Bee. In his speech at
Long Branch, President Wilson is
quoted as saying that tne "program
of the democratio party is to continue
the liberalisation of American business
and to place the -people In control of
their government." '
The above Is a fair sample of Wil
son's hlghfalutln, rhetorical deliver
ances that impress some people as be
ing a mark - of greatness. Passing
"liberalisation of business, what about
the people controlling their govern
ment? There never was a time In the his
tory of our government when the peo
ple had so little control of it as they
have since Wilson became president.
He, himself, Is the government, both
as to the executive and legislative
parts of it and if he should be elected
for another four years we may expect
him to undertake to dominate the
Judiciary also. We elect men to con
gress and, whether democrats or re
publicans, with a very few honorable
exceptions they either bow down to
this great autocratic personification of
inordinate self-conceit like a lot of
weak-kneed nincompoops or keep still.
Electing men to congress has come to
be a vain and useless thing. We don't
need them we have something bet
ter; they are barnacles on the keel
of the ship ot state and should be
scraped off.
If Wilson should be re-elected he
should emulate the example of Oliver
Cromwell in dispersing of the long
parliament, and send a body of sol
diers to toss them out of the windows
with their bayonets.
If the democrats of the United
States wish to do something by way
of "placing the people in control of
their government," they should drop
Wilson like a hot potato.
If by reason of the above meander
lngs Wilson should be of the opinion
that I am "disloyal," he may spare
himself the trouble of telling me not
to vote for him, for 1 surely shall not
come within 14,000, miles of it.
CHARLES WOOSTER.
GRINS AND GROANS.
"Daaria," a.k.d hi. wlfa at tha
same, -Vhat ia that man running Ion
"Ha Jual hit tha ball."
"I know, but la ha raoulred to chaaa-Ut
too?" Detroit Free Freaa.
"So old Wllltame la looking for a 4"rT
from hl youns wlfa. On what rounda7
"On tha. srounda of economy, I guaaa.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Jack Hang It I Whan I think of the fool
lah way 1 loat that ISO today. It makes
me furloui. I feel a If I would Ilka to
have aomebotiy kick me.
Ethel Hy the way, dear, don't you think
you'd better speak to papa thia evening?
Chicago Poet
"We girls had hardahlpe when we ritmpad
out only one drinking glaee Anions' five
flrls."
"Horrors!"
"And only one mirror."
"Oood night!" Kansas City Journal.
PEAR MR. KMNBBIJE,,
I'W IN UAEVJITri ONE OF THE
TB.AMTS -HOW CAN I KEE? IT
A SKRET FROM THE RBJTOr"
THE TENMtrs?
A JANfTW
, ' sew
$IVE Ay. THE NEIGHBORS
HOT!
"Wonwn teem successful In business."
"They nave advantages. A woman can
keep a set of books and a card Index iu
her head." Kansas City Journal.
"1 understand. Mrs. Comeuo. that your
daughter made a faux pa &i the cook Ins;
show." ,
Tel and I was told there wam t nobody
there who could make one like It," Balti
more American.
Patient Oh. doctor, dodtor. no tongue
can tell how I suffer!
Physician An n in i L,et mo see your
tongue, please. Judge,
Floorwalkai-Oood mornlnaV Tou wish t
do Bom shopping. I prenumu.
Bride (witti huooyi yen.
Floorwalker Step tup to the smoking
room and tha boy there will give you
check (or your husband. Boston Traneortpt.
Mrs. A I'va planned such a delightful
urprtsa for my husband.
airs. D v. nai is ur
Mrs. A he'll be getting his fall suit out
shortly and I've, put a quarter in one of
the pockets. Boston Transcript.
Grandma Woman has the one suprem
privilege which Is hers, and hers alone,
N man may share It wlttv her.
Bessie i know, dear our alimony.
Judge.
EVERYBODY STRIKES, BUT
MOTHER.
John O'Keefe In New York World.
Our daddy left his job today,
Up whero the masons climb.
The men are out for higher pay
And shorter working-time.
They've sworn to stick,
Nor lift brick
That comes from off a truck,
But mother, patient mother, hasn't struck.
Our sister Kate Is borne from her
Nice stenographic place.
The striking typist girls concur
; . The wages need s brace.
She does not please
To pound the keys ,
For pay she doesn't like.
But mother In the kitchen doesn't strike!
And brother BUI has left his job
At motoring a car. '
He says .the managerial nob
Pushed tyranny too far.
No move he'll make
To turn a brake.
He thinks he's showing pluck.
But mother, weary mother, hasn't atruokl
And Uncle BUI, who up to date
Has been a dry goods clerk, r
This morning at the hour of I '
Refused to go to work.
He said, "It's wrong
To toll so long
Where women shopper hike.".
But mother In the kitchen doesn't strike!
- Her working day has hour sixteen,
Outside the union ranks.
No salary she's ever seen;
Her pay's a careless "Thanks."
Tat night and day
She slaves away
For Ned and Mame and Mike,
And mother In the kitchen doesn't strike 1
FOUR WEEKS
IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Brown Finally Restored to
Health by Lydia ELPinkham'
Vegetable Compound.
Cleveland, Ohio. "For years I snfr
fered so sometimes it seemed ss though
I could not stand
it any longer. It
was all in my lower
ortrans. At times I
could hardly walk,
for If I stepped on
little stone I would
almost faint On
day I did faint and
my husband was
sent for and the doc
tor came. I was ta
ken to the hospital
and stayed four weeks but when I came
home I would faint just the same and
had the same pains.
A friend who is s nurse said for ms to
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I began taking it that very day
for I was suffering a great deal It
has already dona ma mors good
than the hospital. To anyone who is
suffering as I wss my advice is to stop
In the first drug-store and get a bottle
of Lydia Ig. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound before you go home." Mrs. W.
C. Brown, 1109 Auburn Avenue.Cleve
land, Ohio. ,
Why not take Mrs. Brown's advice T
Write for free and helpful
advice to Lydia E. Plnkham
Medicine CoconfidentialLynn,
Mass.
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