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4 B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 22, 1916. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATE. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. THE BEE PUBLISHING COM PAW Y. PBOPB1ETOB. tCntered at Omaha eostoMlce as aacona-cUes matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier , per month. ' Dally and" Sunday S.e Daily without Sunday 6 Eveninf and Sunday . .;..oe Evenine- without Sunday ...86e Sunday Bee only 0e. Send notice of chins, 'of addreaa or irrenUrlty In de- Hverr to Omaha Bee. Circulation ueparuaem. By Mail per year . ...oo ... 4.00 ... (.01) ... 4.00 ... t.00 In advance, $10.00, REMITTANCE. T Remit ny draft, exprece or po.taj order. Only I-eent aUmpa token In payment of email acoaunta. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchejure. not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bulldinf. South Omaha 2,18 N street Council Bluffs 14 North Main street. Lincoln 620 Little Buildlni. Chicago 81" People'a Oes Bulldinf. New York Room (OS. 88 Fifth avenue. St. Louis SOI New Bank of Commerce. Washington 725 Fourteenth street, N. W. . CORRESPONDENCE. Addreaa communicationa relating to newt and editorial matter to Omeha Bee, Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily Sunday 50,539 DwttM Wllllama, circulation manacet of The Bee Publishing company, being duly aworn, ears that the average circulation for the month of September, 1010, waa 64,507 dally, and iO.OSO Sunday. DWIOHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manafer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before Be this Id day at October, HIS. . ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers levying the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad dross will b changed as often as required. Now, Mr. Weather Man, ease up for a little while. ; - ' ' ' ; That certificate of good character from hit 'first wife's brother settles it. The south is waking up and shaking up. Col onel Roosevelt's invasion brought quick results. And now our democratic senator from Ne braska has to dig himself out of snow drifts. With that rocky record of his, It is rough riding for him from start to finish. " Parliament shunts the Irish question to the limbo of home rule until after the war. Howj ever, no objection will be raised if Irishmen do the debating on the Somme front Whafs" this? Fifty thousand registered vot ers in Omaha? Trie machinery of our "pure election law" seems to be working-overtime for the "wet" brigade. " What about it, Mr. Election Commissioner?- i That list of. 101 new Commercial club mem bers during three days is formidable, but we don't see the name of Charley Fanning, Senator Hitchcock's selection for the $6,000-a-year post mastership, in it anywhere. . ' , ; Incidentally, don't forget that Senator Hitch cock refused absolutely to champion Omaha's 'claim for one of the farm loan banks,': Why should Omaha stand up for a senator who won't stand up for his home town? . , ?: Word comes Out ' of Shadow Lawn that Thanksgiving day will occur on the last Thurs day : of November. The delicate pleadings of holiday trade interests for an advanced date failed to dent the walls of custom. No one has yet given a satisfactory explana tion why the wage-increase force bill was amended to except trainmen on railroads less than one hundred miles long and tfie operating employes of electric roada, Jikewise subject to interstate commerce jurisdiction. One South Platte town refuses to give its school teachers time to attend the Nebraska State Teachers' convention to be held at Omaha. Wonder If' it would pursue the same harrow pqlicy if the meeting were at Lincoln? What would be thought if Omaha acted that way? - What Constitutes Good CltUenship. This is "good citizenship day,", an occasion when Christian Endeavor societies and similar organisations are laying especial emphasis upon what they conceive to be the qualifications for good citizens. ' Without exact knowledge of just what these organizations specify as essential to coming within their -fixed definition, The Bee will venture that if fhe precepts taid down today at any or all of the gatherings held for the pur pose should be closely followed by all who hear, the average for citizenship will be generally raised. . '";... - , It is not difficult to outline what is funda mentally involved in good citizenship. To be a good citizen a man need only practice the homely virtues, sobriety,, industry, thrift, frugal ity, honesty, temperance in all things, and follow i the Golden Rule as closely as he may. 'He will thus realize his duty to his Creator, to his coun try, his neighbor, his family and himself. In discharging any of these fairly, he need not neg lect either of the others; for when he lets selfish ness creep in, or neglects-one for the other, he departs in that' degree from his whole duty. Created with the faculty of knowing right from wrong, .he good citizen needs no monitor other than his own conscience; he knows infallibly whether he is doing right or doing wrong. He may soothe his conscience by sophistry, or dull his perceptions by indulgence, but ; when .he reaches this stage he has compromised with wrong-doing, and loses that much of the title. It is not required of him that he establish him self as a monitor for others, save as he may be unconsciously an example to them. He will cheer fully assume his share of the burdens of govern ment, and discharge his duties to that govern ment without reluctance and in full measure. In rendering obedience and assistance to the lawful authorities of the government under which he lives, he is but showing a proper respect and appreciation of the privileges that are his as a citizen. And he owes it to himself and to those iround him to participate in the affairs of gov ernment at least to the extent of voting his ap proval or disapproval of persona and policies at the stated elections. No other duty required of a citizen transcends this. It is part of the defense of the country as a whole against misgovernment, which is just as important as its defense against an invading foe or armed domestic revolt. Finally: Pay your debts, be faithful to your , family, consider the rights of others, attend strictly to your own affairs, give assistance to those who need it, and you needn't worry much about the rest. - What is a "Doubtful" State? What does it mean when the "solid south" is put down as "certain" for Wilson while states like Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri are sched uled in the "doubtful" column? Why are all the former slave-holding states always checked off in advance as democratic and the presidential contest waged only in northern and border states? The significance of these questions is force fully dwelt on by the Chicago Tribune, which points Out the fact anew that in the states con stituting the "solid south" we do not have popu lar government at ail, that elections there, are pre-determined to go democratic because of something that happened fifty years ago and the systematic disfranchisement of almost ail the voters who might register a dissent. By contrast, a state like Nebraska is "doubt ful" because its electorate is made up of intelli gent thinking individuals, exercising their right to consider political issues on their merits and to reach conclusions by their own reasoning. Nebraska is a state which invites educational campaigns, whereas Mississippi or Georgia or Alabama is as impervious to argument as a rhin oceros hide. Four years ago Mississippi cast 64,319 votes for president, as against 249,48) polled in Nebraska, and yet Mississippi has ten electoral votes to Nebraska's eight. The very fact that the democratic party is responsible for continuance of a dark-age era in Mississippi and Georgia and Alabama, which is synonymous with autocracy and oligarchy, ought to be proof con clusive for voters in Nebraska that democratic ascendancy in the nation is subversive to free government. ' .In the light of these comparisons, the an swer to the question, "What is a 'doubtful'. State?" reaches to the very foundations of our institutions, and shows the danger whick men sees us when the democrats are in the saddle. 1 ' I ! 'v. Professor Muensterberg's Vision. Professor ljjiugo Muensterberg, who has given the American public occasion to sit up and take notice several times in recent years, comes for ward again with a prediction, pregnant for the world's future if realized. He has this time a vision "of ah alliance between Germany, Russia and Japan, S mighty combination of political and economic forces, the p'otentiality of which reaches into sublimity. In anticipation of this, Professor Muensterberg advises England to hasten the con clusion of an understanding with Germany be fore the greater combination be consummated. The professor does not disclose the source of his' information, beyond saying he considers it reliable, and on this the public must-rest its con clusions as to the value of the prediction. Events have, not always justified the prophetic foresight of the professor, but me combination he suggests as impending is one long considered possible, and of the utmost concern to philosophers and politicians alike. It might be of immense Id vantage to Germany now, but what of the years to come? i i , ' ' , t ' Promoting "Art" in Omaha. '-. Omaha admittedly lacks much from the stand point of the artist. It is a young community, bursting through the garments of its early days, showing the raw in many places, and utterly licking in the poise and gentle repose of settled life that comes with ge and solid respectability. Omaha knows this, not only from an awakening sense of self-consciouiness, but also because many acknowledged leaders of the higher cul ture have told us so. - They concede we are not entirely without some quality of the picturesque, but insist our life is yet so crude we can not realize to the utmost our opportunities and re sponsibilities in and to art. If some of these visiting ministers from the temples of the Muses were not so cocksure of our utter unworthiness, and so equally certain of their own undimmed effulgence, perhaps they might accomplish more in the way of the uplift. Omaha has felt the im pulse, and is responding, but the response is not hastened when a visiting brother forgets that he came to lecture and remains to scold. Such, an one should let himself cool off a little, and learn that some of Omaha's rude and uncultivated resi dents have at least strolled through the great hills of the Metropolitan Museum, others have, wandered through the Vatican, have looked in at the Uffiizi gallery, beheld the glories of the Louvre, visited in Berlin and London, and even Petrograd and Tokio, not under the ciceronage of a Cook guide, nor wholly held to the dictation of Baedecker, and here and there may be discov ered one who really knows a hawk from a hand saw. In any event, the cause of culture would lose but little were the lecturer to realize that he can better serve those who do him the cour tesy to pay for hearing him talk by giving them a llttl information rather than much criticism. Art in Omaha is gaining, but not because of re cent contributions to the discussion thereof. - Democrats and the Ladies. The country has just had another illuminating example of what regard the hosts of the unterri tied followers of the democratic donkey hold for the gentler sex, A mob of chivalrous Chicagoans attacks and mistreats a band of women because, forsooth, the latter have been sufficiently temer arious to criticise the president. The sacred presence of the great preserver of peace must not be disturbed by any woman who doesn't agree with him, and who seeks by silence to show her disapproval of his conduct. These women have been too fresh, anyhow, in asking that they be given some recognition. Doesn't the demo cratic party permit them to cheer for the man who kept them out of war, and who rushed their sons off to spend a perfectly lovely summer in southern Texas? What more can they want? At any rate, the gallant democrats of Chicago saw to it that their president wasn't heckled by a lot of suffragists. ' . i: ' A grOup of statistics, compiled' by the Wall Street-Journal, shows the Union Pacific treasury in ah opulent condition. Its strong boxes are overflowing with cash and convertible securities totaling 5125,000,000. No doubt the company realizes the perils of hoarded weath, and would lend a willing ear to a suggestion for easing the strain by the passenger station treatment. The situation invites the test. Prayers for the courts are to be included with prayers for legislatures, congress and other pub lic officials in the revised Episcopal prayer book. Congress and legislatures usually make provision for prayers during sessions, but the courts grind along day after day in a humble worldy way without invoking divine guidance. Their inclu sion in public prayers strengthens hope of even tual salvation. ' "By Victor CAMPAIGNING by auto is pretty strenuous, but I doubt if it is as strenuous as special train campaigning. I went around with the Hughes party on the tour of Nebraska last week, and while it was not the first experience of the kind, jt emphasized the fact that without such an insight no one can have any adequate idea of what special train campaigning really . For the outsidef the candidate and his wife, who accompanied him, engrossed all attention, but there is a regular staff organization installed in the train which is a bee hive of workers, with no eight-hour day limit, either. With Mr. and Mrs. Hughes traveled not only the attendants necessary to their personal comfort and the household economy of the train, but also a regu lar office force, secretary, stenographers, publicity agents, train master and secret service men, of course not government secret service men, but men of experience in that sort of work. In ad dition to this, a large corps of press association and speciai newspaper correspondents are sticking close to Mr. Hughes and constantly pounding out their copy for the consumption of the respective newspapers which they serve. ... The stenographic work in connection with the Hughes tour is the best organized that I 'have ever seen in this connection, everything he says being taken down by relay and transcribed almost simultaneously, so that mimeograph copies are available within a very few minutes after the conclusion of the talk. Out at Hastings, for ex ample, I remember that a complete stenographic report of the address delivered there was ready for the local newspapers before the train pulled out and here at the Omaha Auditorium, the speech was furnished to the men at the reporters' table two sheets at a time as it progressed, and they scarcely had to wait at all for the finish. A. Mmniionr Mr MllD-h ifl in A clftSS by himself. He has a distinct personality of his own and never overlooks the dignity of the oc casion. He realizes that he is aspiring to the highest position within the gift of the, nation the greatest elective office in the world and that they expect him to appeal to their reason rather than to their risibilities. He uses apt illustra tions, but never tells a funny story. His language is precise and well chosen, direct and forceful. In all the speeches I heard during two days, the nearest he came to a colloquialism was when he used the phrase "They have another guess com ing." He speaks with earnestness and conviction and wholly extemporaneously, except that he has his treatment of different phases of his subject well thought out and doubtless from repetition uses the same words as the natural vehicle for his thought. At the conclusion of each speech he retires to his train apartment to make sure against colds from the perpiration with which he is cov ered, emerging at once with freshened appearance to wave from the rear platform to the lingering crowd as the train pulls out. Mrs. Hughes also often appears on the platform at this stage and frequently responds to the demand for buttons or souvenir cards, receiving them from her hand making them doubly prized. Her presence in the party gives Mr. Hughes a privacy which he would not otherwise enjoy and keeps people from breaking in on him when he is resting or study ing. Mrs. Hughes is a good traveler, too, always smiling and never a complaint and always ready and prompt on the dot for each move. f It is hardly necessary1 for me to repeat that the crowds out to greet and listen to Mr. Hughes at the different stopping points were uniformly tremendous, though varying in number with the size of the place, and that the people of these different communities did wonders in perfecting their local arrangements atd taking care of the visitors when consideration is had of their accom modations and resources for this purpose. In small towns, even more than, in large cities, dif ficulty x is invariably encountered in keeping the roadways open for the visiting party. A clear approach is, maintained at the outset and until Mr. and Mrs. Hughes with the local escort pass and then everyone in the sidelines seeks to break through and follow, with the consequence, fre quently, that the remainder of the train party have to literally fight their -way -to the platform or stand, and the same is true for the return to the train at the conclusion of the speaking. . I came in for no little good-natured chaffing over a mishap at York which has been duty ex ploited in some of the papers. The sum and sub stance of it is that when an inventory of train occupants was had, after departure there, it was found that National Committeeman Howell and myself1 had been left and were among the miss ing. The party had debarked from the train at the railway crossing nearest the court house square, where the speaking -was to take place. Our autos were a trifle behind, with the result that the closing in of the crowd left us on the outskirts and Mr. Howell suggested that for the, sake of exercise we walk back to the train. We retraced the- route to the crossing, only to find that the cars had gone on to the station, and .by the time we reached the station they had gone still farther. The only saving clause was that both of us were left. "Why did you choose such a dry town as York?" was the first question I met with after catching up at Lincoln. "If only one of. you had missed out, we would have thought the other put up the job," ventured an other member of the party. I admit that I ought to have known better than to separate from the rest of the company, for in political campaigning, as in military cam paigning, the price of safety is to keep up with the procession at all times, and always in, touch with the base of supplies. . People and Events A truly-for-sure fireproof building in New York, equipped with all modern appliances, went up in smoke and flame the other day, and six lives were lost on a floor sixteen feet from the ground. The contents did the business. ' A drive of the Housemaids' union menaces the domestic peace of Boston. Advance scouts of the union are reconnoitering the suburbs, pro claiming the coming of the new day when house work "Will be limited" to ten hours a day with a minimum wage of $7 a week. A Chicago benedict, only three days into his honeymoon, turned in his week's wage of $20. The loving bride immediately blew it for gay rai mant and then "beat it." A policeman found the young husband up a tree, whither he' climbed to escape the madding crowd and commune with his throbbing thoughts of happiness bereft. One of Nevada's divorce judges, His Honor T.-G. Hart, rose above the reputation and busi ness needs of Reno and gave the divorce colony a hard slam. . In denying one application for separation the judge characterized the fair plain tiff as an adulteress and named the man. The shock almost killed Reno's imported society. Johnny McBride, a son of the "ould sod"' one degree removed, blew into the New York fair for the benefit of victims of the Dublin rebellion. His heart grieved for the cause and his lips fashioned his feelings into words. His touching eloquence enthralled the crowd in a booth and cdncealed his touch of the treasury for $30. When haled into the night court he had $24 of the, touch left. Now comes A. L. Price, statistician of the University of California, with a mass of data proving how absurd is the assertion that college women grab the swatter when Dan Cupid in vades their quarters. Nothing doing? Guess again. Mr. Price shows that 58.6 per cent of the girl graduates of the university arc married, and two-thirds of them did not bother about college men for husbands. Thought Nugget for (tie Day. The greatest of faults, I should say, la to be conscloua of none. Thomas Carlyle. One Year Ago Today In the War. - King George appealed to men of all classes to enlist. Bulgarians occupied TJskub and Iso lated Serbian army In the north, nermann made violent but unsuc cessful assault on the lines east of Rhelms. Russians assumed offensive south east of Baronowttacht, captured four German positions and took 3,600 pris oners. Allies threatened Greece with re prisals unless It gave assurance that In any case it would not side with the central powers. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Mrs. Wakeley entertained a few friends to meet Mrs. Hough of Chi cago. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Annin, Mr. and Mrs. Will Redick, Miss Greenhoe and Mrs. Valll. The Park Avenue club, composed of residents of the Park avenue set tlement and vicinity, met at the home of M. H. Bliss and had a .siege of progressive euchre. Mrs. Bean, formerly a resident of this city, has arrived from California, where she has spent the last year, and is the guest of Mrs. Bauserman on Dodge. The following took part In the pro gram of the Ladles' Musical society: Misses Knight, Merkel, Minnie Roths child, Officer and Mr. Franko Mem bership books were given to everyone present and will be preserved as sou venirs. The officers for the season are as follows: Miss Poppleton, pres ident; Miss KnlRht, vice president; Miss May, secretary; Alice Rogers, treasurer, and Miss Almy, auditor. Miss Ida Porter of Bloomington, 111., has been engaged to sing In the choir of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dexter L. Thomas has laid out an addition to the city of Omaha named "Mascotta," the streets of which are properly named Rocco. Lorenzo, Bet tin a, Beppo and Frederick. This ad dition is at the point where the Belt railway and Omaha & Northern rail way promises fairly to make a Junc tion. 3- R. Bait & Co. is the name of a new Arm in the real estate business at 115 South Fifteenth, composed of B. It. Ball and W. A. Spencer. This Day i In History. , 1740 Sir Philip Francis, reputed author of the "Letters of Junius," born In Dublin; died In London, De cember 22, 1818. 1777 Americans under Colonel Greene repulsed a force of Hessians in battle at Fort Mercer, New Jersey. 1811 Frani Liszt, -one of the world's most famous musicians, born In Hungary; died at Baireuth, Ba varia, Jul 31, 1866. 1868 The ill-fated Emperor Maxi milian left the City of Mexico for ever, enreute for Vera Cruz. - 1 1867 Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria visited Napoleon III m Paris. 1878 Northwestern farmers' con vention, with delegates from Michi gan, New York, Iowa, Indiana and Illinois, met at Chicago. 1891 The Transmlsslsslppt 'Com mercial congress began. Its annual meeting In Omaha. 18915 Oliver Ames, former gover nor of Massachusetts, died at North Baston, Mass; born there, February 4, 1881. 1 1901 The Pan-American congress was opened in the City of Mexico. 1902 The Danish Upper House re jected the treaty to cede the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States. 1904 The Russian Baltic fleet at tacked a British fishing fleet in the North Sea, sinking the vessel. The Day We Celebrate. Fred D. Wead, real estate and loans. is 64 years old today. He was born In Sturgeon Bay, Wis,, and has been in the real estate business in Omaha continuously since 1887. Archibald J. Love, insurance man, is 62 years old, although he does not look It He was born in Pittston, Pa., tnd earns to Omaha in 1885 to go into the insurance and real estate business, Of which he has made a great success. Leander L. French, vice president and treasurer of the Omaha Wall Paper company, was born October 22, 1859, at Urban a, O. He was once in the banking business In Kansas and has been manufacturing and jobbing wall paper in Des Moines and Omaha for nearly twenty-one years. Earl H. Ward, office manager for the Midland Glass and Paint com pany, is 31 years old. He was born in Mount Vernon, 111., removing to Omaha in 1895. George W. Redick is 33 years old today. He is an Omaha-born boy and a rustling real estate man. Augusta Victoria, German empress, born at Schloss, Dolsig. fifty-eight years ago today. -n Dr. Karl Muck,, leader of the Bos ton Symphony orchestra, born at Darmstadt, Germany, fifty-seven years ago today. General James A. Gary, former postmaster general, corn at Uncas ville, Conn., eighty-three years ago today. Raymond Hitchcock, well known musical comedy star, born at Auburn, N, Y., fifty-one years ago today. Rt. Rev. Frederic W. Keator, Epis copal bishop of Otympia, Wash., born at Honesdale, Pa., sixty-one years ago today. Dr. Richard H. Crossfleld, president of Transylvania university, born at Lawrenceburg, Ky., forty-eight years ago today. James A. Galltvan, Massachusetts congressman who wanted this country to sever diplomatic relations with Great Britain because of the letter's Irish policy, born in Boston fifty years ajfb today. William Cam Kan. manager of the world's champion Boston American league base ball team, born at Lewis ton, Me., thirty-three years ago today. " Storyette of the Day. They were sitting close together in the parlor. He I gave you that parrot as a birthday present, did I not, Matilda? She Yes, but surely, Albert, you are not going to speak of your gifts as if f- He It was young and could not speak at the time? She Yes, and It has never been out of this parlor. He There are no other young ladies in this house? She No, there are not. ' " He Then, why why, when I kissed your photograph In the album while waiting for you did that wretched bird Imitate your voice and say: "Don't do that, Charlie; please don't?" Baltimore American. AROUND THE CITIES. Denver -require! biker to stamp their loaves with the net weight, Cleveland experftfneed a soap shortage, recently, which put the time-honored Sat urday night tub on short rations. Boston is threatened with a milk famine unlets distributors and consumers corns across with an extra 60 eents for each eight ind onehalf quart can. Unity among milk producer is an effective way of shaking down townspeople. - Local transit lines In Greater New' York carried 1,899,786,616 passenger during the fiscal year ending June (0, last. This in an increase of 91,000,000 passengers over the preceding fifseai year. Gothamites are a moving multitude. For the first time In the operation of the Sioux City High school lunch room the manager reported a loss instead of ax profit. As the losa Is only 1 per cant, the aboard of Education feels, In view of the price boom, that it Is getting off cheap. Minneapolis sports went Into a speedway project a few years ago and put the greater part of $500,001 into a concrete track and 843 acres of land. Now the company is is the hands of a receiver and each stock holder is booked for an asBetament of 100 per eent on sris stock. Bad luck, poor man agement and divided eounsela are aaid to have caused the collapse. Bakers in Salt Lake City explain why the weight tags on loaves of bread disagree with the actual weight They say they buy tags by the million for economical reasons and cannot adjust the printed figures to the varying prices of. flour. The state food commissioner was not impressed and ordered bakers to make a working agree ment between the tag and the loaf. A projected roundup of pennies for a Lincoln monument at Topeka brought to . the city banks 8,000 newly-minted Lincoln ' pennies. The bsnks put the coins in cir culation and monument boosters anticipated packed contribution boxes. When the con tents of the glass jars were counted new pennies were as soaree as icicles in mid summer. The pretty pennies failed to roll in the direction intended. A survey of Ban Francisco conducted by experts and financed by the Real Estate board at a eost of 810,000, revealed count less leaka in the city treasury and waste running into hundreds' f thousands of dol lars. The surveyors spent four months on the Job, They found inefficiency the rule in all departments, chair-warmers glued to jobs requiring hardly more labor than drawing the pay check, and extravagant salaries paid incompetent help. According to the report a saving of 81,000,000 can be effected If ordinary business prudence is applied to the city's affairs and political ; pulls eliminated. There's the rub. 1 DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Willie, what did you tell the trunkmaker yesterday when I sent you around there to tea 1 mm- to hurry up the trunk I had or dered?" "I told him to send the trunk." "But I mast have a strap with It. He own't send the strap." "No. father," said Willie sweetly, "1 told him Z thought you hadn't better have any sirap." wew Yorx Times. v "We have 'standardised our office sta tlonery. W , have a different color for every form. "Ho ?" "Tea. yellow for letter-heads, pink for COBl SUPS "I see. Dm for bills.' Baltimore Ameri can, ! "What did you say youY business was?" 'fl am a critic." 1 "You criticise people?" I' "You might say so, yea,' "And do you mean to tell me you get paid for that?" Kansas City Journal. The 4-year-old had just been reproved at the table. He oontlnued to talk cheerfully, though unanswered, to father. After some minutes of soliloquy he turned to mother and remarked: "Your husband doesn't talk very much this noon does he, mother?" Harper's Magaalne. NEBRASKA. In my fancy there's a picture that will never fade away. . 'Tls of waving green alfalfa 'way out west. And hills, and woeda, and fields, and groves, so peaceful and so dear. Oh, a longing for It all, throbs in my breast, Chorus Oh, Nebraska, Nebraska, the dear east spot on earth. We may wander over land and over sea, But our heartstrings keep their anchor in the state we love so well. And there's nowhere else on earth we want to be. I can almost hear the ryhthm of the mower In the grass. I can almost smell the fragrant new mown hay, And 1 feel again the old-time thrill of joy each morning brought. And the strength and courage naught could take away. , Chorus. - Tbare'e-muslc In the rustling of its waving fields of grain. There's glory in the yellow corn fields tall. There's a glow of magic beauty In its hills, and streams, and woods, With the blessed warm glad sunshine over all. y Chorus. When a restfulness stealf over us at clotty g of the day, As the golden sun sinks slowly In the west, We can feel the broodiug watchfulness of God around us all, j And we go with glad contentment to our rest. Chorus. mere a com wnicn aiways a raws us Daca, no matter -where we are. To Nebraska, dear old home state of our birth, And our hearts will always tingle with the thrill of pride and love Which we have for it, the dearest place on earth. . Chorus. Norfolk. Neb. ROMA HUNTINOTON. PIANOS At a Saving to You of $68.50 VA MARWO THIS VR.vy f tQHTUtt-HOV. LCWlLLTrili KEEPUP? v A WIFE hlVtRCE COMES ARB SMN NEftK IN I90 - Hokua Have you ever noticed that a fel low always admires a clever girl, even If she Is plain? Pokua Tee; and I have also noticed that the same fellow Is Just as likely to marry a silly one If sh Is pretty.- Life. "You know," remarked the genially ven erable Mr. Jinks, "I always enjoy attending a vaudeville theater." "Yes?" queried his grandson. "Yee, you see, the witticisms always arouse In me fond memories and tender reminiscences of long ago." Buffalo Ex press. Louts Mother, how did father get to know you? Mother Why, one day at the seashore I fell from a pier Into the water and your father jumped In ahd saved me. Loula Isn't that funny Why, he won't let me learn how to swim. Puck. FOR THE SICK ROOM We have everything needed ruhber gloves, batteries, fever ihermometers, hot water bags, ouche pans, syringes, etc, and are able to make immediate de livery of any article ordered of us. We know the necessity of quality in such articles, es pecially in- rubber goods, and we can guarantee anything you buy from us. Our prices will save you money. No Prescription Too "Hard" For Us. SHERMAN & MeCONNELL DRUG COMPANY Four Good Drug Stores. Hospe'5 Piano Club Plan Offers You the Chance of a Lifetime $450 Per Week II 3 Years to Pay If vou want a PIANO, now or in the future buy it NOW at Hospe's Combination Piano Club Sale. Never before in the history of piano selling in Omaha (and Hospe s has made most of that history) has such a lib eral piano - offer been made. Ask anyone who knows pianos about the Kimball, Henderson, Cable-Nelson, Healy and Hospe pianos. There are none better. . See this magnificent, mahogany piano lamp, the bench to match the piano and the beautiful silk scarf then ask any piano man to duplicate the offer. And if you really want a piano yon will come back to Hospe's. Not only are we making a great reduction in price, but we are selling these pianos on easy terms of $1.50 per week. Your Choice of Piano. . . .$275 Lamp 18 Bench ..... .1 ... 1 10 Bench .. 3 Regular telling price. . .$306 ' $ Club i Price 237.50 A. Hospe Co. 1513-15 Douglas. FLORIDA ' 7 VIA ILLIIiOIS CENTRAL R. R. The SEMINOLE LIMITED Train, consisting of Exquisite Sun Parlor Obaarration and up-to-date Steal Pullman Cars, runs daily throughout the year. Direct service to the south and southeast. ' Tickets on sal daily on and after October 15th, good return ing until June 1st, 1917. S1TCS TO PRINrfPAT DTtlMT, Ad ml T fkUTC. Jacksonville j Tampa ...... Daytona St Petersburg , . .$54.56 ..$66.16 ..$61.26 .. .$66.16 Palm Beach Miami ...... Key West . . Havana, Cuba. ...$73.06 ,.$76.66 , .$87.66 j $92.15 1 $94.80 Tickets to other points at same proportional rates. For descriptive literature, ticket., ate, call at City Ticket Office, or writs, S. NORTH District Paasemgar Agent v 407 S. 18th St. Phono Douglas 264.