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it look more, like deluge thin a "leak."
Westward the star of business in Omaha takes
its'coufK.-, y- ' ...., :
Contrary tO first impression, . Tom Lawson
evidently started something-, t ,
fhe'wntion of Tumulty in connection with
the peace note leak appears t.nYe created t real
tumult. - " 'S'-' " ' :.l
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-A German-count1 hat relinquished his title to
nobility to .become' 'n Amerfcaa citizen. ' Fair
exchange,! no robbery 1 -,. i
: 1.1 , Lg. ' . I'
;''A i geuMemin, riot les than s represenutiw
ia'txmtTtu, .TJ)n If ifposaible, it ,it, (or one
and the. tame person. to be bpth? ,
Stock gambling revelations are useful now and
then in, showing up : Wall! street's .experts in the
act of ."atacldirrtHe specnlators' cards." ';t
' Wonder Jf the city officials erer thought to
match, up the .estimates on which were based the
July tax-levy and the actual allotment of the
funos th following January I ' . '
A seismic shakedown of 300 persons in For
mosa Is not' much of a record for that locality.
A shakeup in the nearby Philippines last year
dislodged a thousand jobholders. ,,,; ( . '
; T1ie ahntot seed appropriation controversy has
again been settled in favor of free seeds. : All
right, CongreosMan 'Lobeck, we will take oofs in
about the same varieties ihat yoo sent us hut year.
Of 'Nebraska'l eight presidential electors, all
but two harbored ambitions to serve as mes
senger.. A junket , to Waahrngton, with traveling
expenses' paid, is an awful temptation to deserv
ing democrat' v' '"' f," '
' Change becomes the order of the day. at the
state houses. ;,Nw. faces vary the scenery and
new brooms stir the dust in neglected corners.
Animation and renovation are tceonnted speci6cs
for political djy rot - ,v '
.
, As things line up with the new year in Mexico,
revolutionary music, promises some variations.
The projected .union of Villa,. ZapaU and Diax
insures . lively serenade for Senor Carranza,
with good prospects for a dirge at. the finish.
An increase of 16.28 per cent in the popula
tion of state institutions is an unpleasant reminder,
of misfortune' jfcxctedifl the census speed limit
In NebratM aseighWing states, shifting oft
the public: hardens which should be borne by
kindred has grown to suspicious proportions. -
'Nearly rh6le week of .the valuable time of
of the United States "senate has. been consumed
passing a motion -expressing approval of efforts
to secure -peace ipj Europe. This looks like
rather costly m&tion, but it may be economy for
the people after all, in thus absorbing time that
would otherwise have been used in pushing raids
on ihi .treaiiry." .... ll y . " ;
' Piling TJp War Debts.
, Estimates of war debts pded up by the fighting
nations to date, compiled by the Federal Reserve
board, lean strongly to conservatism and are con
siderably 'under calculations, based on less com
plete sources of information. They show 4 total
war debt for the five, principal .. belligerents of
$49,455,00b,toXVoi which the entente allies' share
is S9r0dr,)0p' ntf,ttt .fcronsak'emfrt $20,000,
000,00ft Th figures cover interest-bearing obliga
tions, .excluding the vast inflation 'of bank cir
culation in. all .warring, nations. Tat annual
review of. the New York Journal of-Commerce
enumerates In detail the. loans marketed by
the allied nations, including the colonial divisions
of the British empire, and Italy, Belgium, Japan
and Serbia, and shows an all-around total of $37,
365,000,000; or $8,000,000,000 more than the reserve
board estimate' With like detail the Journal' fig
ures the war-debt!-of "the central powers, Ger
many, AustHavHungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, at
$16,3S4,q(,000,: U7,000,000 under'the reserve
aboard (ptil.'.i i .'. i-'.v' 1 ' 't X '
A few billions either way ate of little conse
; quence in a war of epochal magnitude. 1 Where
millions are. Spent every hour, variations in the
footingi. are inevitable... , It is sufficient to know
that the cost to . date is one-fourth greater than
the combined cost of the Napoleonic wars, and all
succeeding wars', up-.to 1914, " The immensity of;
$ju,iu,wm,uuu or war oeDts may ne grasped ny a
few simple' comparisons.'. It is six. times greater
than , 'the combined, debts of the United States
and all'lfs eivil'divwioBS' ifi' 1913, six times the
value' of the. agricultural and mineral products' of
this country in 191.6, and forty, times the total of
Umalia Mik clearings last year. ..Moreover, the
war1 debt's afe piling up at in increasing -ratio,
At the" rate "the money is flying "die Omaha bank
deposits totaling $96,700,000, would, barely keep
Training of an Actor. j (
. One of the most interesting interludes of the
day is afforded by Mrs. Minnie Madden,' Fiske
in her stand against the repertory theater as ,a
training school for actors. Mrs. Fiske impatiently
denounces the idea that actors, may be developed
and perfected in the knack' of '"holding the mirror
up to nature" through, the experience of appear
ing in a number of roles in qnick succession. Her
own plan at least the inference is drawn from
remarks accredited to her is that the actor should
study a role, play jt, master it completely, and,
wherl he has exhausted all its possibilities and
can find in it no new suggestion fop emotion or
expression, to discard it and take, up another. '
All of which suggests that Mrs. Fiske ihas beer
wise all the days of her greatness in declining to
submit to interviews for publication. In the pres
ent instance her views are given us through the
medium of a conversation at dinner "recorded"
by one of the table company and through him
published in a January 'magazine. -The eminence
of the lady entitles her opinion to respect, at
least but some who have watched "her career will
wonder what might have happened had her own
rule been applied t6 her own case. For it is
not always that her name has been associated
with that of Rebecca West, or Hedda Gabler, or
Leah Kleschna, or Becky Sharp, or Nell in the
Salvation Army play. For the matter, of that if
we were to call the roll of characters enacted by
Mrs. Fiske since she attained the real condition
of stardom, it would lead almost to the conclusion
that she has acquired a considerable repertory.
Yet it was long before she gave us Mary of Mag
dala that she was slowly climbing upward through
a maze of forgotten roles to the shining eminence
on which she is now fixed. .
.' Mrs. Fiske's dinner conversation is interesting
to read and must have been doubly interesting
to listen, to, but the actor of the .future will be
made is has the actor of the past. He will take
his course through a long line of small parts, just
as did every one of the great ones, and learn the
tricks Mrs. Fiike now seeks to cheapen (while she
is shaking her whole bag of them) and will use
them, just as did Booth; Barrett, Jefferson,. Ma
cauley, Raymond,. Dillon, Mansfield and all the
rest 1 The way to greatness is through hard work
and genius shines brightest when it is toiling
hardest. v !'.; , 'f . . i, '
An Acknowledgement of Onerousness. .
Before the event passes too "far into history
it is up, to us. for Omaha to acknowledge the
gracious spirit manifested bjv Lincoln over the
award to Omaha of the Farm Loan bank for which,
the Capital City had also put in a bid. Express
ing gratification that the bank should go to the
city "of our' second choice," the Lincoln Star
says: ;''t .i,,r..'-' ?. :,., , '; ; '
As a matter of fact it was an unequal con
test between' this city and Omaha in many
ways. Omaha's financial resources are so much
beyond those of this city that such an insti
tution, depending as a farm loan bank does to
some degree upon support from local capital,
would naturally seek the larger cijtjr.
More than that the logic of politics pointed
to Omaha, which city seems to have had more
potential friends, at court than had Lincoln. -
Therefore it may be said that Lincoln .hV,
not surprised, however much disappointed its
people may be,, at the announcement, that
Omaha has been "chosen.
, The main thing is that Nebraska is to have
one of these banks, whereby the agriculture of
the state may receive such stimulus and sup- '
port as the farm loan system is calculated to
afford, and be at all times in close touch and
sympathy with its administration. , '
Lincoln harbors always the spirit of the
good sport and knovss how to lose .without
repining... . i,..; , :? ' .,' irj"
This should' go a long ways toward strength
ening the feeling of mutual interest between.. Lin
coln arid Omaha which,-we -most coirfess, was
strained somewhat by Lincoln's attitude toward
our effort to secure a Federal Reserve bans; when
it refused to concede the superiority of Omaha's
financial, resources, wilh the result that the bank
went to Kansas City. We are sure our Lincoln
neighbors would .prefer to have had the reserve
bank come to Omaha and thereby enhance the
prestige of Nebraska rather than to be located
in a rival city in. another state. , ; i ,? it, , . ;
' For both Ornaha and Lincoln, the moral of it
all is that pulling together can be mutually help
ful, while polling apart benefits neither, v -, ,
" '" Peace, Politics and PsJavtr. '
' The senate of the United States has adorted
a mo'dified 'and carefully dehorned endorsement
of the president's request that the belligerents
submit to him their peace terms, but only after
the republicans'-had pointed oat the hole, into
which, the president had thrust the country, by his
note. The resolution adopted is sufficiently mild
to be the expression of a sewing circle or a Chau
tauqua assembly, hut may serve at the White
House in-lieu of more enthusiastic commenda
tion. ., Thus another effort of administration sup
porters to. make a little more political capital out
of the war ends in the exposure of their insincer
ity. The remarkable outburst of Senator Lewis
in discussion of the resolution is noteworthy. Had
his statement on the floor of the senate been made
in October,- it would have cost Wilson the elec
tion. 'The country is no nearer to war today than
it has been for more than two years, and not so
near as it was" in May of 1915, nor does it require
any superhuman effort or preternatural ability to
keep us out of war into which no one cares to
see us enter. ,The palaver of the prophets of
democracy at Washington amounts only to a
studied effort to divert oublic attention from seri
ous home issues. .. -
; Hectic breathings of possible events involving
this ; country in the European "war mark ,Ihe
speech of Senator Lewis on the peace resolution,
Oratorical speculation is the senator's unfailing
standby. He is equally at home prophesying
gloom ai in chasing rainbows.. , Bnt he assumes
big risks in posing as the. megaphone -of the
administration..' "There, is the ever-present, danger
of being held to strict accountability"" v
,!"dirls go. wrong because they want to," is the
moral 'drawn in a lurid tale of the sensational
Philadelphia,' tragedy. ."played up", by a . yellow
journal which looks specially to ttplifters to spread
it broadcast. Such a doctrine taught in a book
would be barred" from the public .library and
excluded from every family fireside. Vet it passes
urirebuked under 'its more insidious" cover. ."'''
t "The retired government , of Roumania, from
the temporary security of Jassy, posts a "declara
tion of defiance" in the few sections of the coun
try omitted from the, Teutonic itinerary. Several"
good roads extend from Jassy into the interior of
Russia, a fact which lends considerable tonal push
to the defiance. , -; - i
By Victor Baaewatar
OMAHA will be justly proud of the beautiful
new home of the First National bank which,
as its name implies, has the longest continued
existence as a national bank of any in the city
and before that was a private bank, dating back
almost to the very beginnings. It is a part of
Omaha history that a bank was established De
cember 10, 1857, by the Kountze brothers and that
their first banking house consisted of a small one
story frame building of but a single room on the
north side of Farnam between Twelfth and Thir
teenth streets. Since its debut this is the bank's
fourth move, the first being to a larger building
to the eastward where the Nebraska National
bank now - stands, the second to the building
across the street but a block further west which
stood on the site of the structure now being
vacated and whose occupancy in 1886 marked the
third move, only to be discarded today after
thirty years for another jump to the new business
center. It is related that in the early days the
purchase and sale of gold mined in Colorado was
a considerable part of the business transacted by
the bank and that a long shelf extending around
the east side and north end of the room was fre
quently covered with tin pans filled with the
precious metal. - , I
When the national banking system was estab
lished! the Kountje bank took out a charter in
corporating with $50,000 capital, out of which has
grown the present gigantic financial institution
with its allied trust company. ,1 saw, this very
week, a letterhead of the bank carrying a docu
ment dated January 1, 1866, on which was printed
the directory of the bank at that time, just fifty
years ago, as follows: E. Creighton, president;
A. Saunders, vice president; A. Kountze, cashier;
H. W. Yates, assistant cashier; H. Kountze. As
we all know, Herman Kountz, whose name alone
appears on that stationery without ( official title,
later became the president of the bank and during
the rest of his lifetime was its central figure. '
V It in no way detract! from the ability, and
prestige of those who have1 succeeded him so
creditably to dwell upon the pre-eminent influence
which Herman Kountze as head of the bank exer
cised in Omaha's business community, where for
many years his approval or endorsement of a
project bridged the gap between hard sledding and
assured successi As a rule, however, as I dis
covered more than once, he was sparing with his
advice, not offering it unless asked for. He also
was possessed of an almost excessive modesty,
doing his charities anonymously, and an extreme
abhorrence of personal publicity, and particularly
averse to being pictured in the papers. When I
once sought his permission to use his1 portrait
in one of our special illustrated editions during
the Trans-Mississippi exposition, he nor only re
fused to furnish the photograph but insisted he
would be highly displeased if I procured one else
where. I argued With him that, aS one of the
exposition officers, he was in a semi-public posi
tion entitling people to know how he looked, and,
for that-occasion at least, I think I softened the
force of his objection. It is only too bad that
he could not have lived to see the palatial new
quarters in which the bank for which he laid the
foundation is to be housed for the next span of
its career. , . .-.. . .".. '
An interesting souvenir in trie form of an
annual pass over he Union Pacific, dated Decem-
'ber , leco, ana expiring isecemDcr oi oi tnc
same year, waj brought to me a few days ago. It
is of usual card size and is filled in and signed
in the handwriting of "W. F. Durant, Superin
tendent" from the name) I take it, a member of
the same family as Thomas C. Durant, the presi
dent of the company. The pass was' recently
found among some papers in the city engineer's
office and the reason it was brought to me was
because it is made out to the name of "Andrew
Rosewater, Engineer's Office," in a word, because
it is a pass issued to my uncle when he first came
to Omaha as a mere tad to go out with one of
the Union Pacific surveying parties for which my
father, who was then in the telegraph service
here; had assurance that an opening would be
forthcoming. The; inscription On the face of the
card says, "See other side," and on the reverse, in
addition to the usual conditions exculpating the
road from liability for accidents and warning
against presentation by any other person is this
notice:::"This ticket is not to be presented or
used by the holder to procure a pass oyer any
other, road," The question immediately arose in
my mind: What other use could be made of a
pass' over the Union Pacific in December, 1865?
The beat answer obtainable from data within my
reach is that it would enable the holder to travel,
presumably in work trains only, over a stretch of
track not exceeding forty miles, for the completed
construction in September, 1865, was eleven miles
and the boast is made that it reached all of forty
miles by the end of the year. .: ;
For retrospect into Omaha history there are
few. better authorities than John T. Bell, one
Of our pioneer court reporters now running a
little paper out in Newberg, Ore., from whom. I
have this fascinating : story of his first visit to
Beltevue. which he says he has written by sug
gestion of an inquiry from George G. Wallace for.
certain other information wnicn ne was unaoie
to furnish. He writes: ; ",
. "That letter reminded me of an incident
connected with my first visit to Bellevue. We
were living at Fontanelle. My brother, Will,
and I had traded a span of. horses for a span
pf mules. I, hitched -those mules to a buggy
and started to St. Joe, Mo to bring a sister
to Fontanelle.,; The distance to Omaha was
forty miles and, though the road was in splen
did order, it took me all day to make the
distance, for the off mule proved to be of no
earthly account . ' -' ' .,
"I stayed in Omaha that night and in the
morning when I drove down to the steam
ferry landing was told that the wipd was too
high to admit of running the boat but that I .
could cross on a rope ferry at Bellevue. I
managed to get that far along' on my journey
and tied, my team to a rack around the public
square. There I hung around all day. I was
only a boy and was like a strange cat in a
garret among the people of that bustling town
of , perhaps 100 inhabitants. I had driven down
to the ferry landing on arrival, but found that
I could not get across the river until the wind
went down at sundown. . ., , ,.. . .. 4 Vi: .
"Along in the afternoon a man drove, op
with an excellent span of horses and tied them
to the rack alongside of my team. I was sit
ting in the buggy waiting for Old Sol to
conclude his day s work. I wished I had a
team like that Just before sundown the man
came back and bantered me for a trade. He
k asked $25 to boot I told him I couldn't give
it. ' He gradually dropped down to $15 and
finally wanted to know my' name and where
I lived. Then he proposed that I give him my
- note for $15, payable in a year with 12 per cent
, 'interest I accepted the proposition and we
went into a store, be drew up the note. and I -signed
it Then he helped me to hitch up.
"I picked up the lines and the electricity
that reached my hands from the bits of that
. span of horses was in marked contrast to the
feelings experienced previously in efforts - to
t induce that off mule to mosey , along at the
' rate of about three miles an hour. I hurried
down to the river, was put across at once and
until away in the night I sped along the road
through the big Cottonwood forest on the Iowa
side -of the Missouri river, fearing the man
ould overtake me and make me trade back. ,
I never heard from the -holder of that note and
. forgot his name in a short time."
Last year imports of gems to this eonntrv
were valued at $51,000,000 equal to one day's
expense ot the shooting match m Europe. The
gems are assured a place on the son, also the
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I TOnANrl
HeaJih Hint for the Day. ,
Very email Infants should not be
taken out when the air la filled with
dust unless the face la well protected
by a veil.. . i ,
One Tea Ago Today in' the War.
Heavy French cannon Ore deatroyed
.German posts near Boiasona. ,
Russians repelled Austrian asaault
northeast of Csernowita and captured
town of Czarorysk .
Austriana reported Ruaslana broke
their lines In Volhynia and Gallcia,
but were thrown out
Von Bernstorff undertook no mer
chant ahip should be torpedoed in
Mediterranean till all on board were
aafe. '
In Omaha Thirty Tears Ago.
Mrs. Carter gave a reception at
which she waa assisted in receiving
by the following: Mrs. Harrison, Mrs.
Ramsey, Mrs. Oarneau, Mrs. Bier
bower, Misses Carrier, Boyd, Carr and
Shears. " '
Miss Bailey pleasantly entertained a
few of her friends at her home, cor
ner of Nineteenth and Grace. Pro
gressive euchre waa indulged in and
a spirited contest waa had. ; Those who
attended were Mr. and Mrs. Gannon,
Mr. Hicks, Mrs. Haskell, Mr. Ander
son, Mrs. MoKenna, Mr. Livesey, Miss
Bishop, Mr. Latey, Mr. Hodges, Miss
Long-, Mr. Tunica,- Miss Fearon, Mr.
Copley, Mr. Pickens,. Miss Roderfor,
Miss Col let te, Mr. and Mrs. - F. E.
Bailey and Mr. Roderfor. . ' .,
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Eddy enter
tained the following at . the club:
General and Mrs. Crook, Mrs. Reed
and Mrs. Colonel Stanton.
Mr, and Mrs; Samuel Burns gave a
reception to celebrate the coming out
of their daughter. Miss NeHie Burns.
The ladies who assisted in receiving
were Mrs. Dr. Coflman, Mrs. Hime
baugh, Mrs. Dorrance, Mrs. Howard
B. Smith, Mrs. Colpecser, Miss Lacy
and Mias Connelly .
J. M. Buchanan and W. L. Eastman
have opened an office at 1413 Farnam
where they will transact real estate
business under the firm name of J.
M. Buchanan A Co.
The Union Pacific band held its an
nual election of officers when the fol
lowing were elected: Director, F.
Ryhner: president H. Brewer: man
ager, Louis Leader ; treasurer, H.
Jackson. t
This Day In History.
1718 General Israel Putnam, rev
olutionary hero, born at Salem, Mass.
Died at Brooklyn, Conn., 'May 19,
1790.
1799 Daniel Tyler, who command
ed the first division of the union
army that advanced to defeat at Bull
Run, bora at Brooklyn, Conn. Died
In New York City, November 30, 1882.
1817 John Bassett Alley, million
aire shoe manufacturer and member
of congress, born at Lynn, Mass, Died
at West Newton, Mass., January 19,
18.
, 1861 Last territorial legislature of
Kansas met at ' Lecompton ans ad
journed to Lawrence. - - r',
1862 The French army landed at
Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1867 A movement to Impeach
President Johnson began in the house
of representatives.
' 1878 Strike of 70,000 miners and
Ironworkers in 8outh Wales.
- 1879 Marriage of King William
III of Holland to Princess Emma of
Waldeck-Pynnont .
, 1890 The German Dowager Em
press Augusta died at Berlin. Born
September to, 1811. '
- 1895 Korea proclaimed Its inde
pendence ot China.
The Day We Celebrate.
Abel V. Shotwell, one of the Shot
well brothers, has a birthday today.
He waa born in Marengo, 111., Jan
uary 7, 1883. .,:.
Thomas J. Mack-ay, rector of All
Saints, is today celebrating his seventy-third
birthday. .. He is a native
of Ireland, a veteran of the civil war
and had a church, in Council Bluffs
before he came to Omaha. .
. Dr., Frank M. Conlln is Just 34
years old today. : Ha waa born In
Madison, Wis, but set up his practice
In Omaha. :-. -. .
- Gordon Hewart, solicitor general in
the new British cabinet born at Bury,
England, forty-seven yeara ago today.
, George . Bronaon Howard, , author
and-playwright born in Howard coun
ty, Maryland, thirty-three years ago
today. . '.
Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich,
TJ. & N retired, bora in Philadelphia,
seventy years ago today. . - ,, -.
Dr. Meiancthan W. Stryker, late
president of Hamilton college, born
at Vernon, N. T sixty-five years ago
today. ' - I . ' - ;
i Maurice " K. McLoughlln, former
world'a champion lawn tennis player,
born at Carson-' City, Nev., twenty
seven years ago today. -
William E. (Kitty) Bransfleld, for
mer base ball player, just appointed
an umpire In the National league, born
at Worcester, Mass., forty-two years
ago today. . . ,
Storyette of the Day. '
As he dislikes motor cars, a country
squire always kept good horses. Re
cently he bought a handsome mare,
and a few days later asked his groom
what he thought ot the new arrival.
"She's a line looking animal, sir,"
replied the man, "but I'm afraid she's
a bit touchy." ' 1
"Why do you think so?" questioned
the squire. -
; "She doesn't seem to take to no
One, sir. She can't bear me to go
into her box to groom her." .'
"Oh, she'll settle down in a . few
days," the squire reaaurred him.
"Everything's strange ' to her, youlj
know., I don e think there a much
wrong with her temper."
"Nor did I at first sir," replied
the groom. "But, yoo . see, she's
kicked ma out o' that there box twice
already, and, when you come to think
of It, that's very convincin'." San
Francisco Argonaut
; . HERE AND THERE '
v Giity million doihve is the eathnatea total
paid by Americans for chewing sura every
year. ,' , - y 7
Colorado raaks ant and California airn4
anions the Stains of the Union prodseinc
beet lugmr. , ... . . . ;..;
- Thirteen' pairs of twina are hleradecl ta
the preeent student body at the Unieanitr
af Neoraaka. ' ;','.." f -,! , ,,,. .
Meraphla la arransins for a his festival
next Mar to eelehmU the completion of tno
new bridge across the Mississippi Blear,
Emperor William's Chrlatasaa sift ta Pope
Benediat was a Bible asacntfieeothr llhani
aatad and bound at the royal pristine works
la Berlin,-, ,
AROUND THE CITIES V
Greater New York apent S187.lZt.S0S in
building operations last year. .
The ehaapioa policewoman of Minnea
polis, Minnie A. Madlsoa, unable to reform
her husband with stick and star, haa gone
into court for assistance ta ehaahux him over
the divorce route.
During the year ISIS Broektao. Mass., re
tained its supremacy as the world'a lea&ng
center for. men's shoe manufacturing by
shipping lS,tS8,lSt pairs of shoes, with av to
tal Taluatioa estimated at 6.80,8S5.
SionVcitr proposes to hrre.it $20 in a
legislative bureau at Dee Moines and tn re
turn reewsve a diagram of legialative iokera
which may interest the city. The quality of
tno Jokes of atataaaonnablp frequently are
worth the price. :
New York talks of launching a moeameat
to raise by popular subscription the where
with to buy Madiaan Samara Garden and
present It to the city. Mortgagees took over
the snu-dea a few weeks ago and are ready
to let- it go at aoat. V -
St, Joe's Commerce crab celebrated the
new year by changing its name to "the
Chamber of Commerce." New officers were
installed and a live commissioner from
Iowa appointed to extend Its aetivitiaa
and pot the "dig" la the dignity of the title.
, San Diego's oj aimed over exposition gave
Its farewell rasp at midnight Now Year's
night. A huge erowd sang, "Anld Lang
'Syne." aa the midnight hoar struck. Ks ti
ro ates place, the attendance for the year at
S.tst.tot.' Slightly under the record for
1915. -. s V . '-
Dee Moines police report substantial pro
gress in boose gnsaling daring the peat year.
Arreata for intoxication numbered t.47t
againat 2,960 In 1915. Last year waa "dry"
from atart to ftniah, while ltlft was hah wet
half dry. Despite vtha- absence of saloons,
getting, a tank full ia a Question of digging
op the price. . , , -,t
' Chicago has succeeded after yeara of liti
gation tn ending abstractions to the exten
sion of Michigan boulevard north of the
river along the lake front to Lincoln park
and beyond. - The extension will, make the
f amoue boulevard the longeat and ' finest in
the world. -The railroad smoke smudge at
Grant park ia to bo banished also. This
will make Chicago'a front the finest aver. '
A TALK TP THE BOY".
V
Strickland W. Oilman. ' '
Coma boy, to your dad, let me tail you soma
things
' Of the man 'who loved' ma' aa I'm loving
yon.
For the heart Is a pendulum heavy . that
swings -. ,
Aye forward and hack as all pendulurna
- do. j '
And tonight mine haa swung far away to
: the time
When your, dad Bad a dad, Jnat as yoa
have my eon .' '
A djut to whose anna I was welcome to
- climb 1 - ' - ',: - '.- - - s
When hla day In the eorneld or meadow
was dona. '
I crept Into als arms that were stronger.
my lad;
And hla hands O so tender -were harder
than mine. ...
For the world had been harsh with the dad
of your dad v
Tet I wish that my soul wars aa gentle
and fine.
As the one roughly clad in that body of his,
. That ao lavlahly gave of his strength for
the one
Who now shelters yon. And my prayer's
' burden Is
That yoa may think so of your father, my
son. . , :
What I've gained I have gained hia the
heavier ooat;
He In embryo held all things I have done;
Tet X fear gravely fear there are tuinga I
have loat
, That eadly diminish the triumph. . my
son.
go lie close, little man there's ao little
know. , . ,
Except that I leva yoa and yon can love
me. , -
And I emlle with content that you're loving
me ao, -
- And am glad In that love, aa my Sad used
to be.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"How did tier friend break It to bee
gently that she had suddenly become a
wldowf
"Told her ahe looked ao atunntng tn
mourning that It waa lucky aha had a
chance to wear it" Baltimore American.
"Co yoa knew that our bookkeeper ta
abort In hla accounts?"
"Tee. a tew hundred bones. Conse
quently Bo works every night and.-oever
wanta a vacation. Let him alone. We're
ahead of the game." Pittsburgh Foot
Blackly I'm going to give, a doctor ana
Wbltely Why don't yoa take aa enve
lope and save it yourself T Judge. '
"So you bought that car from Baxter.
What did It coot your'
- "A thousand and all the respect I bad
for Baxter as . a truth-teller." Boston
Transcript, .
Widow (weeping) Tea, poor Tom mot
with a horrible death. He fell from the
ftth-story window and waa Inatnntly killed.
Friend (sympathlaingly) Dear, dear! la
It possible It waa m bad aa that? Why.
I understood that he only fell from a third
story window. St. Louis Post-Dlepatch. ,
bEAR MR. KAB.mE,
LtYYBt UIVtH A HWOSALOF
mSMfr -WHAT SHAU.X to?
, - -rALpettn ,
. . jAMa
HAVE VIM found Aim MAKE ;
mi 3t rrt
Booker, the Agent Whit rave yoo the
sudden Ideal that 70a oould play Shylock?
MuKffer, the Comedian I Juwt . heard
about tt an I says that a the part tbr me,
'causa I got a dialect that's a riot.-Puck.
. "Is he henpecked ?" v
"I think he must be. Hia wife Is a
very sweet, delicate. uooffens1vv tactful
woman, who never says Boo to an out
sider." -Life. . ,
oUBS. jUUIDU, A SUlItej WUCS.S. IVUI Uaa,UtU-
ler nu a arypuc way 01 csiKins;.
"She can't help tt, poor thing. She was
awfully tongue-tied when she waa little.'
Louisville Courler-aTournaL ,
Miss B. What ft frightful nlht for a
nance i uut, 01 course, you ve a vm.
Prng-al Suitor Welt not exactly but
I'm brought "your rubbers. Puck.
On the menu card of a bis hotel in
New York the following notice 'I printed:
"Articles brotiirht Into the hotel and used
at the table will be charged for s though
furnished by 'the house."
On ,. reading this one guest Inquired:
Ttnmi f hla annlv to falsa teeth?" New
York Times. v
In Buying
Rubber Goods '
Don't take chances. If you Med
a hot water bag, a fountain syringe
or rubber gloves, get something
that 1b guaranteed; then if they
prove faulty yon can have them
replaced. The rubber goods we sell
are all guaranteed, and many are
made especially for us and have
our name , stamped on them m
sort of quality insurance.
OWL FIRE 4
We are Just about half open at
the "Owl." The work of adjust
ment ia proceeding rapidly. Pre
scription files are at the 19th and
Farnam streets store.
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