THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1916.
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Only fortv-six more days to Christmas. Do
your early shopping now.
As a sign of irrigation safety an unseasona
ble rain is t painful delusion. ,
Still, in election as close at; that is altogether
too nerve-racking for comfort
The wise stakeholder will keep the money in
his hands Until he is sure he knows to whom It
belongs. ' '. i
Subscribers leaving tha city temporarily
should have Tha Bag mailed to them. Ad
el race will b chanted aa often aa required.
It's all ovcr Do your shouting now.
Six months of wetness, then drouth. '
Nebraska heads -into the dry belt with a
cloud of dust that mocks the sprinkler.
Never mind, "Every cloud has a silver lining."
Let, the defeated remember, too, "After clouds,
sunshine."
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Anybody, anywhere, who is not more x in
clined to favor the short ballot movement than
ever before?
New Jersey returns to the republican column.
Such ingratitude to a schoolmaster wrecks edu
cational precedents.
, Nevertheless and notwithstanding, while the
Missouri flows by and railroads run hither and
I yon, a sufficient supply of wetness to lay the dust
is assured. ', '
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j It remains to be seen whether Omaha really
gets that army balloon station which the secre
tary of war has been holding up for political
purposes only. V :.
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If the primary in Nebraska had only given us
either two "dry" or two "wet" candidates to
oppose one another for governor, it would have
been different. J Y" "' " ,
' The east stood up loyally for Charles E.
Hughes, while some of the middle west wobbled.
Analyzing the moving cause promises an inter
esting study of political by-products.
It is not, King Corn's fault that the quan
tity of his output slumped a bit His intentions
were good. . Bat the price quality overcomes the
shrinkage in the profit column. The net re-
Hiirna la the. main thine.
With the Third ward returns staring allin the
face, "Hitchcock, 1,002; Kennedy, 441," our amia-
j bte democratic contemporary, the World-Herald,
j should forever after have none but kind words
i for that much-decried bailiwick.
Open drawbridge tragedies at Chicago and
Boston emphasize a gross degree of municipal
negligence. Automatic safety appliances for such
dangers are available, and their reported absence
throws a spotlight on city inefficiency. ,
Government officials threaten an investigation
of the rising cost of living. Some ' suspicious
deals in price juggling are worth looking into,
but the job is too wide and deep for formal In
quiry. Its size becomes federal grand juries.
Sudden Rise In Prices
WaehlnitM Peet-
The sudden and alarming rise in the price of
food, following a steady rise for many months
past, bears on its face evidence of manipulation.
There is no such shortage of production, no such
excessive exportation, as to justify the violent
increases. Many commodities are increasing in
price which are not affected directly or indirectly
by European war conditions. Commodities
which are not exported at all are increasing in
price at a rate more rapid than other commod
ities which arc shipped to Europe in enormous
quantities. '
The retailers now charge that wholesalers
have begun a widespread movement for boost
ing nrkes. havina discovered that the fiction "on
account of the war" is accepted by many people
11 I valid excuse for increased costs. The re
tailer receives the first kick from the ultimate
consumer, and. of course, he passes it along.
But there is evidently much truth in what the
retailer says.- He cannot mislead the public very,
long, for wholesale prices are accessible. The
wholesaler must clear his skirts, too. if he can.
In many cases it will be impossible for hint to
give a reasonable excuse for some of the out
rageous increases. -
It is well-nigh impossible to establish the fact
of conspiracy in price raising when the practice
covers the continent. Dealers may not conspire
at all. but merely ensaie in the same of follow
your leader, without knowing who the leader may
lie. Spontaneous price raising seems to be a
phenomenon of business as mysterious as spon
taneous combustion. No one is personally guilty,
and yet all combined are guilty. .
,., Nevertheless, the government .cannot fail to
make the most rigid inquiry into price raisins:.
The dealers in most cases are engaged in inter
state commerce, and if tbey are in a conspiracy
they are criminals, for whom a penalty is pro
vided. If they are merely common victims of the
hard workings of the law of supply and demand.
the fact can be ascertained. The Department of
justice is fully equipped for an investigation into
this situation, and no work can be performed
which is of more importance to the people. Let
the lacts be ascertained at once.
Nebraska Goes Dry.
Out of complicated snd delayed returns the
one thing that stands out unquestioned is that
Nebraska has gone dry by adopting the prohibi
tion amendment to the state constitution.
For many the result on wet and dry has had
a more intense interest than the result on the
presidency and the campaign has been waged
on both sides with an energy and vehemence
even greater than the political contest between
the parties.
We have had a great deal of speculation and
prediction as to what would happen if the
amendment carried and we will soon have the
actual demonstration which- we take it -will fall
short of what was promised by either wets or
drys.
Nebraska is now turning its fiftieth year of
statehood with an unmatched record of progress
and development which must go on, regardless
of any change of policy as to the sale of intoxi
cating liquors.
War Debts snd Dear Money.
Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale university, writing
in The Annals of the American Academy of Politi
cal and Social Science, discusses the probable ef
fects of huge war debts on the world cost of
money when peace comes. The daily war bill of
Great Britain, France and Germany now approxi
mates, $60,000,000, equal to three-fourths of the
daily revenues of these nations in the year preced
ing the war. This is exclusive of the destruction
of property and loss of productivity. By the end
of the current year the five great powers of
Eurooe will have contracted debts asn-reKatinn
$88,000,000,000, four rffd one-half times greater
than the total of debts in 1913, and the end of
debt building is not in sight.
When war ends European financiers will be
confronted with the problem of converting short
time loans into long time bonds. At the same
time the rebuilders of shattered Europe will be
in the market for money. The demands of busi
ness checked or suspended by war will absorb
vast sums of borrowed money, and the prospect
of big returns from revived enterprise insure high
rates for quick accommodations. These, together
with mountainous taxes. Prof. Fisher regards as
forces which make for high interest rates in Eu
rope. To some extent, he points out, money cost
in the United States will be advanced, but not
as pronouncedly as In Europe.
Prof. Fisher emphasizes what other American
observers have heretofore pointed out the rea
sonable certainty of an exodus of tax-burdened
people to the United States. "If the war con
tinues much longer," he writes, "the government
bondholders will be virtual owners of Europe
for years to come. The income tax for the rich
may reach 50 per cent. The taxes on the poor
may be equally oppressive. Rather than pay
tribute for a lifetime to the-bondholders, the
taxpayers may, by the wholesale, emigrate to the
United States. Wealthy people, of more fore
sight than patriotism, after taking good care to
sell out any holdings of government bonds, may
change their residence to where taxes may not
seem to be confiscation, ; The fate of European
nations would then he similar to that so common
to 'assessment' insurance companies, which, after
gaily loading up with Obligations, lose their pays
ing membership and go into bankruptcy." -
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AgricuHurs in the Future.
Nations now at war will 'not forever engage
in fighting, and even with the armies in the field,
economists and politicians at home are planning
against the day when the noise and the gas and
all the elements of destruction will be hushed and
done away with. In Canada a genuine boom in
agriculture is anticipated after the war, and the
government of the Dominion, as well as of the
several provinces, is making plans against the
time. In New Brunswick, for example, the lands
that will be available for settlement are being
surveyed and diyided on an established plan, with
an eye to the needs of the farmers and the farm
communities of .the future. The general scheme
is one that will be found attractive, especially
by men of small means, who are seeking in agri
culture an opportunity for employment, and the
future of Canadian farming may be ki some way
affected by it.
Of more-immediate interest to the American
farmer, perhaps, is the future of Russia. The
wheat fields of lower Russia have long been the
principal rivals of the United States, even with
the restrictions forced on Russian commerce by
England and Germany, It is not improbable that
the more oppressive of these restrictions will be
removed as one result of the war. This, with
modern methods of farming, will bring Russia
into the European field on better terms than ever.
Still more significant is the fact that for at
least a decade western Siberia has been under
going a transformation that is not generally
understood1 by the world outside. For ten years
at least immigration to Siberia has been around
300,000 a year, the settlers for the most part tak
ing up agriculture. The Russian government has
quietly encouraged this movement, as well as
the establishing of the farmers on a basis of con
tent. Great expansion in this region is looked
for when peace comes. . . '
These and other similar movements affect
the American farmer in that, as production in-1
creases elsewhere, his market is cut off. In
general, the progress of agriculture in the remote
regions of the world is interesting, because it
meets the proposition that consumption has been
overtaking production at a rate that boded ill
for the future. It will be a long time before
the world' goes hungry because it cannot produce
enough to feed all. -
In recent years public indignation and strong
arm threats greeted the anthracite coal barons
on every side. Their' alleged cruelties to the in
dependent miner startled the country and pro
voked measures of defense, lest the big monop
oly strangle competition, throttle the tittle fellow
and gouge the consumer. In the light of pres
ent day conditions in the coal markets of New
York, Philadelphia and other Coast cities, the
sobs of yesteryear appear quite humorous. Offi
cial statements show that the trust has not
changed wholesale prices, while the independents,
the little fellows, have canceled contracts, boosted
prices and are taking all the traffic -will bear.
A modest fortune of $58,000 survives the good
deeds of a practical champion of down-and-out-
ers, the late Ben Hogan of Chicago. How much
of it originated in the prize ring cannot be stated,
Probably the greater part. In that comfortable
pile no doubt are some of the huge stock of dol
lars with which Omaha's bygone sports backed
Hogan in his bout with Allen at Hamburg, la.,
forty-five years ago. Tradition has it that the
event for twelve hours reduced the population of
Omaha to women and children.
From an American Woman
In a French Military Hospital
Madeleine Annunciata Davis
I've been here, the prettiest town in the world
Nevers, Nierre four hours from Paris, since
June 14 and now we are having a lull and I can
return to civil life for a day or two. However,
it may interest you my struggles in Paris.
Came down here 7une 14, again a victim of
errors.. They had not been informed by the
medicine chief of the place td expect me. Once
in I am well in. For a while I worked eighteen
hours every third day and twelve hours the other
days. I wrote to Paris headquarters. Now ex
pect few heart sobs. I began in Ware) L Salle
des Gravement Blesses. No man admitted who
has two legs, two arms and a head unless he is
as full of holes as a colander. Sounds sad? I
never laughed so much nor so often."- I begsn
by calling them "embusque's" and they demanded
what then was I if with two legs, two arms and
a head and not working on the firing line I
must be "la plus grande embusque'e." The Ger
mans can shoot away everything every or any
part of a man, but always there remains his
courage and his sense of humor if he be French.
A droll poilu a Parisian whom I called M. le
Comte de Paris and who addressed me as Mme.
la Marquise de Californe made his toilet with
only a tuny tin wash basin and always sang
Paris street songs. "Figure you, Madame le
Marquise, how idotic are those boches. Tiens!
They shoot off one of my legs I already had
two neither particularly symmetrical. France
will give me another latest style, perfect shape
but figure you what a catastrophe if those
awful Germans had shot away my beautiful
falsetto voice. Not even France would give me
another."
A huge Cdrsican told me to call him when
I went off duty at midnight he had a purge to
take. I called him and he said: "I only wanted
to be called to wish you goodnight for it is
sad for a lady to be out in the night alone." Can
you beat that for politeness?
Wrote a letter to New York Herald Paris
edition asking for things. I got a phonograph
and several associations are sending me bandages.
Wish you would print a plea for me. Are there
any doctors who would give us second-hand
instruments? I am now serving in the bandag
ing and operating room and our instruments are
so inadequate. For our poilus we need every
thing like shirts, night shirts, hose, dressing
gowns of canton flannel have not got the nerve
to ask for woolen. We need towels. The lads
need tobacco and cigarets checkers and any old
games, for the nights are so long and painful.
We can use anything, new or old. We are
not asking for diamonds nor automobiles. We
have what we call an automobile. I sent up a
cry for help and Mr, Williams, secretary of the
American Ambulance at Neuilly took up a collec
tion and bought me a wheel table to roll my
lads into the dressing room. I put an American
flag on it and call it Bill." Bill works overtime.
We had thirty-two German wounded. I was
called to care for them and assist Madame le
Comte Lufumiere .to do the dressings. They
don't stand pain like the French. A French lad
on the operating table is a scream. I have
learned all the slang ot the streets trom lads on
the table. They like me because I am what is
called "rigoleuse" (lover of laughter).
We may move out of our present quarters,
the normal school, into the old Hotel de France.
Hone we do. for there are little stoves here and
there is steam heat there. As to the war, you
probably know more than I do. French papers
are not filling, but it looks like another year. :
There was one wounded German prisoner
rather more intelligent than the rest, who, in
speaking 'of the captured towns, related that
immediately boarding schools are opened up to
which German children over 4 are sent, with
short vacations. These children even at play
must speak German. The idea is to make good
ucrman citizens 91 ,tnem ana to alienate tnem
from their parents. He could see nothing cruel
in this. i
Took a half day's vacation Sunday and
worked at the railway station at the Cantone. I
don't know how many soldiers from passing
trains we fed soup, stew, salad and cider. Some
of us took up collections from civilians on the
train. The German wounded were fed exactly
as our own wounded, coffee and bread in the
morning, soun. meat, vegetable, and one-half liter
fit wine at noon, the same at night, with the ad
dition ot salad. 1 he best surgeons operated on
them. When necessary they were sent over to
another hospital for radiographs of their
wounds. They had a beautiful garden to' walk
1 hey were allowed to write home twice a
month letters sent through the Swiss consul,
of course. There were ten sentinels at the door.
They were a peaceful lot, not anxious to leave.
Address: Hospital lemporame, No. 14,
Nevers, France.
, People and Events
A potato grower on Long Island is credited
with iiaving cleaned up $30,000 from his crop
this year. Spuds crowd munitions as dividend
makers this year.
Honor among thieves in .Chicago suffered
from a hammer knock. One disreputable merii
bcr swiped the gang's roll of $1,800 while the
gang was busy cracking a safe.
Charles A. Filipiak, a Chicago resident, indig
nantly resented a bombardment of political mail
and "resigned his citizenship" with the remark,
"I will always remain an anarchist."
Joy pervades the household of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Manzke of Milwaukee; also a girl baby.
Well, what's strange about that? A proper hap
pening, you say? Sure. But the mother is 62
and the husband 25.
Authorities in New York and New Jersey
threaten to pull coal dealers before grand juries
and yank out of their inner consciousness the
working model of a conspiracy to boost prices.
Meanwhile, prices are aviating and the prosecu
tors talking tor puDiic consumption.
The alumni of the Shortridge High school,
Indianapolis, after canvassing the names of men
and women who contributed to the upbuilding of
the school, finally picked upon" the janitor, James
Biddy, who had served the institution twenty-five
years. Biddy is to be honored with a tablet
telling how the boys and girls of other days
admire his fidelity and helpfulness. -
In explaining how some of the taxpayers'
money produced certain harmonious votes in
street improvement in San Francisco the Chron
icle relates that a strip of basalt black pavement
in the center of Haiglit street was torn out and
replaced with paving brick. The charm of the
change is that the shade of the brick harmonizes
with the brick and stucco manions of Fred Stuhr,
a city supervisor. Property owners will con
tribute $5,152 toward this work of art
A clip of a girl in Philadelphia, tomboy by
inclination and only 15, led juvenile court officers
a lively chase and staged hair-raising stunts on
roofs. As nimbly as a squirrel she leaped from
roof to roof, across alleyways which hatted the
hunters, and shinned up and down rain spouts,
occasionally turning handsprings. Reinforce
ments surrounding the buildings, caught the
frisky kid and closed a scene that, in a reel,
would fill a movie artist's soul with joy.
Back in dear, dirty Pittsburgh a social survey
reveals astounding lack of patriotic, not tol say
chivalrous, spirit among eligible young men.
For five long, hopeful years the membership of
the Josephine club have been preparing them
selves for life's duties by taking lessons in wife
hood, domestic science, first aid to husbands,
gymnastics and literature. Still, nary a wedding
thrills the records of the club. One member ex
plains: "We do not wish to take lessons in
courting until we have made ourselves efficiently
acceptable to husbands."
Thought Nugget for the Day.
Why thus longing, thus forever sigh
ing For far off unftttaln'd and dim
While the beautiful all round thee ly
ing Offers up Its low perpetual hymn?
Harriet W. Bewell.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
News received that Italian liner An
cona had been torpedoed by Austrian
submarine in Mediterranean, with
loss of 278 lives. Including twenty
seven Americans.
Bulgarians captured Jrfskovac,
south of Nlah, and their main army
Joined German lines.
Paris announced infantry fighting
In region of Loon and heavy artillery
battles at many points.
Russians penetrated German lines
at four points on the Rlga-Dvlnsk
front, capturing villages and fortifications.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
A petition was filed In the county
court asking for the probating of the
will of the late John B. FolBom of
Wyoming county, New York. Be
longing to the estate Is a large amount
of Omaha city property valued at
$150,000. The heirs of this property
are Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Alice K.,
Emma C, Alice 8. and B. F. Folsom.
Articles of incorporation were filed
of the Walnut Hill Savings and In
vestment company with a capital
stock of $49,500. The incorporators
are Henry Bolln. E. A. Kyley, S. D.
Mercer, Maggie Truland, Annie Tru
land, J. N. Phillips and H. D. Neely.
Marshal Cummlngs went in the pa
trol wagon to the depot to meet Of
ficer Turnbull, Chief of Police Betfch
and DagKett, the man who admitted
having caused the burning of the Bar
ker block.
Elder N. C- McClure of San Fran
cisco and his wife are visiting John
M. McClure, agent of the Chicago,
Minneapolis & St. Paul road.
C. Jj. Erickson has returned from
New York, having purchased a fine
stock of goods.
A meeting of the Dodge street prop
erty holders was held at the office
of Scott & Scott, there being present
City Engineer A. Rosewater, C. R.
Scott, ,G. H. Boggs, S. R. Johnson,
George it. Lake, T. M. Phillips, N.
Kuhn, Dr. A. A. Parkes, N. Shelton,
T. H. Grigor, P. L. Perrine, H. Deuel,
L. Kennard, W. F. Sweesey, Dr. J. C.
Denise, M. Goldsmith, George Steb
blns, H. W. Yates, G. M. Hitchcock, J.
J. Monell, L. P. and M. F. Funk
houser, Charles Huntington and W. J.
Broatch.
Misses May and Luna Dundy were
guests of, Mrs. L. C. Burr ot Lincoln.
This Day in History.
1809 Town of St. Louis (Mo.) in
corporated. 1813 General Jackson defeated the
Indians at battle of Talladega, Ala,
1814 The Delaware river was
blockaded by a fleet of British ves
sels. 1839 Liberty party, In convention
at Warsaw, N. Y., nominated James
G. Blrney of Alabama for president
and Thomas Earle of Pennsylvania
for vice president.
1862 St Mary's, Fla., shelled and
burned by the federal gunboat Mo
hawk. 1864 Oeneral McClellan resigned
his command In - the United States
army.
1870 The Bavarian, army was de
feated by the French at Coulmiors, a
village of central France.
1872 Beginning of the great Are
in. Boston, which burned over 800
buildings and caused a loss of $80,
000,000. 1899 Admiral Dewey was mafrled
to Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen In Wash
ington, D. C.
1903 Congress met in extraordi
nary session to consider the Cuban
reciprocity treaty.
1914 The German cruiser Emden
was destroyed by the Australian
cruiser Sydney.
The Day We Celebrate.
James II. Macomber, lawyer in the
Keeline building, Is celebrating his
sixty-fifth birthday. He waa born at
Mllo, Me., and waa admitted to prac
tice forty-one years ago. Before lo
cating In Omaha he was district Judge
in Iowa.
Major General Frederick Funston,
In command of the military opera
tions along the Mexican border, born
at New Carlisle, O., fifty-one years
ago today.
fit. Rev. Lewis W. Burton, Eplscp
pal btshop of Lexington, Ky., born in
Cleveland, O., sixty-four years ago to
day, t
Mae Marsh, one of the most promi
nent of the younger photoplay stars,
born at Madrid, N. M., twenty-one
years ago today.
James A. Reed, United States sena
tor from Missouri, born near Mans
field, O., flfty-flve years ago today.
Marie Dressier, widely known co
medienne of the American stage, born
at Cobourg, Ontario, forty-three years
ago today.
Dr. Charles F. Thwlng, president of
Western Reserve university, born at
New Sharon, Me., sixty-three years
ago today.
John Temple Graves, rioted Journal
ist and orator, born in Abbeville
county, South Carolina, sixty years
ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Under the auspices of the Young
Men's Christian association and kin
dred organizations, today Is to be ob
served in many cities as "Father and
Son" day.
Following a week's recess because
ot the election the Mexican-American
Joint commission Is to resume ltjS ses
sions today at Atlantic City.
President Wilson plans to go to
Wllllamstown, Mass., today to attend
the christening of the second child of
his daughter, Mrs, Francis B. Sayre.
The National Industrial Traffic
league, the organization of shippers,
meets in Chicago today to outline
the position the commercial interests
will take before the Newlands com
mittee in' the railroad Investigation.
The Mississippi River commission
is to begin its annual fall Inspection
trip today, starting from Rock Isl
and, 111., and proceeding down the
river to New Orleans, holding a series
of important hearings at cities along
the route. . .
SMILING LINES. -
"Well, dareitt, I have Juat asked your
father for your hand."
"What did he Bay?"
"He ashed me If I felt capable of uium-'
bis a heavy burden."
"And what did you tell him?"
"I told him t would take care of all he
would give us."-LBovton Transcript.
"roee your husband subscribe to the
theory that kissing Irensmlts germs?"
"No, he thinks that germs are mostly
trsnsmltted by money and Is very careful
not to hand me any." Kansas City Journal.
"Why, where 1 George's auto which hss
been standing here? I thought ho would
give us a little run In with the car."
"Oh. the traffic cop has attended to the
running In." Baltimore American.
K faOmEMAN CAU-tH; ON
ME IS fclWWS CHBeJIMW
HOW CAN X BREKKWrAOF WE
WANT?
t(p I UNCeRSTAVIp W0U To
5W"renMAr."?
"Pom yonr hv-hnd love you aa well aa ha
did whn you were first married?"
"He claims to, but he doesn't make auch a
fuss about it." ruck. .
"I hear you want a chaperon for your
daughter."
"Tt-a. Are you a musician?"
"Why should your daughter' chaperon be
a musician ?"
"80 that you can accompany her on the
piano." Louisville Courier-Journal,
"Has the line been busy?" asked the man
with a nickel poised between his thumb and
forefinger.
"No," answered the precise operator. "The
line wasn't busy, I was." Washington Star,
Mrs. Parvenu fan an eager ye over the
Tatler's report of the dinner party. Pres
ently ahe came to this; "Mrs. Parvenu at-
erlca so charactertftlc of the noveau rtrhe. t
"My! Ain't that u lovely compliment,
she exclaim .statically. Boatou Tran
script. AT BREAKFAST TIME.
Tom raly.
My pa he eats his breakfast In a funny sort
of way,
We hardly ever see him at the first meal of
the day. a
Ma puts his food before him and he settles
in his place,
An' then he props the paper up and wa can't
see his face;
We hear him blow his coffee and we hear
him rhew his toast.
But It's for the morning paper that he
seems to tare the' most.
Mb says that mighty grateful llttls chil
dren ought to be
To the folks that fixed the evening as ths
proper time for tea,
Sha saya if meals were only served U
people once a day.
An that was In the morhlng just before
pa goes away,
We'd never know how father looked when
he was In his place,
C01 he'd always have j.h morning paper
stuck before his face.
He drinks his coffee stcamtn' hot, an
passes ma his cup
To have It filled a second time, an never
once looks up.
He never has a word to say. but Just sit
there and reads.
An' when ahe sees his hand stuck out ma
gives him what he needs.
She guesses what it Is he wants, cos it's
no use to ask.
Pa's got to read his paper, an' sometimes
that's quite a task.
One morning we had breakfast an' his fea
tures we could see.
But his face waa long an' solemn, an' he
didn't apeak to me,
An' we couldn't get him laughln an' we
couldn't make htm smil,e,
An' he said the toast was soggy, an' the
coffee simply vile.
Then ma said, "what's the matter? Why
are you cross and glum?"
An pa almost took hor head off cox the
paper didn't come.
RtsTirvrttaA nf t.li Dav.
Mrs. Jones, down In Maine, wtu
much perturbed by a missive she re
ceived from her sister In Boston.
"Jacob," said she to her husband,
as she read, "I call this downright
cruel." -
"What's the matter?" asked Jacob.
"Why. In this letter, Mary tells me
she gets help In raisin her children
from a Mothers' club. Ido believe
In a slipper sometime, an a good
birchin' don't do a child any harm,
but I never used any club on my off
spring." New York Times.
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. Constipation in women is increasing to
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ii the one dependable remedy for bed
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1513-15 Douglas.
Standard Drugs and Toilet Ar
ticles at Sharply Reduced Prices
' - '
We buy our goods in almost all instances direct from manufac
turers and importers, and thus are in position to make the lowest price,
as well as to guarantee genuineness and purity.
BOc Pape's Diapepsin for...,.29e
$1.00 Pinkham's Compound .. 64c
25c Packer's Tar Soap for. . . ,14c
Sal Hepatica 19c, 34c, 69c
BOc Syrup of Figs. 34c
Aspirin Tablets, 2 doz. for 35c
Alcock's Porous Plasters 12e
Bromo Seltzer. .10e, 19c, 39e, 79c
BOc Bourjeois Java Rice Powder
for 29c
BOc Charles Flesh Food 34c
26c Carter's Little Liver Pills, 12c
We have just received a
nice line of Wooi and Ve
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10c to 35c
3Bc Castoria, genuine, for. . . .21c
26c Cuticura Soap for 17c
BOc Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.. 29c
BOc Canthrox for 29o
BOc Doan's Kidney Pills for. .34c
Fellow's Syrup. . . .84c and $1.14
25c Holmes' Frostilla 17c
$1.25 Gude's Peptomangan. . .98e
25c Hays' Hair Health 14c
76c Jad Salts for , 64e
25c Kennedy's Laxative Cough
Syrup for 14e
25c Lazell's Massatta Talcum, 12c
25c Mentholatum for.. 14c
26c Mennen's Talcum, four kinds,
each '. 12c
$1.50 Oriental Cream $1.09
Ask it for the thing in
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We are agents in Oma
ha for the Vivadou line of
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S. S. S 64c and $1.24
25c Sloan's Liniment for 14c
BOc Sempre Giovine for 29c
Rexall Kidney Remedy, 45c, 89c
25c Woodbury's Facial Soap. .17e
BOc Williams' Pink Pills 34c
$1.00 Wine of Cardui 59c
Homeopathic Medicine
We carry a most com
plete line of Homeopath
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Mother Tinctures, Dilu
tions, Globules, Tablets
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Corner 16th and Dodge
Corner 16th and Harney
(The Owl)
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