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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1917. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE 4- FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDIT0R THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR Entered at Oiwaha poetafflce i teoond-glatBitter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Br Carrier By Mail Illr and Sunday Daily without Sandav... Evcntec and Snnday.... Evening without 8anday. bandar Bee only.. par month . . . .666 ,.:.4S fte 2(1 20a. par year It. 00 4.90 . ... 0.00 4.00 !.0 Daily and Sander three jreeri in advanre. 110.00. Hand notice or change of addrcaa or irrewuiemy lleery to Omaha Baa, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE Remit by draft, expree. or poetal order. Only 2-cent Jamw taken In payment of email eeeounte. Pernonal tttetu. except on Omaha and eaatern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES Omaha The Bee bunding. South Omaha ill t N. itreet. , Council Bluff a 14 North Mala etreet, I Lincoln 12 Little Building. Chlaago aH People'a Ga Building. New York Room 80S, 28 Fifth arenue. - St. Leula K0S New Bank of Commerce. Washington 7H Fourteenth atreet, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE Addreae communications relating to news and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. DECEMBER CIRCULATION 53,368 Daily Sunday 50,005 Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, soya that the average circulation for the month of December, 1910, was 61.868 daily and 80,005 Sunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 4th day of January, 1917. C. W. CARLSON, Notary Public. Subaeribers luring the city temporarily ohould have The Bag mailed to tham. Ad dress will be changed as often as requested. No one longer doubts that it pays to adver tise. So why not churches? For that vacant job, give the returned soldier boy the preference, if otherwise equally qualified. , Cheer upl The country is safe. Mr. Teeling will carry Nebraska's electoral message to Woodrow. , While boosting for new industries for Omaha, that pipe line from the Wyoming oil fields must not be overlooked. No doubt coal prices will be cut next sum mer, t but the consumer would be much more pleased to have the dealer "do it now." Still, the local coal dealers, as they view the Chicago price slump, might make allowance for the stock on hand when the boost hopped in. "Tom" Lawson is likely to regret that he in terrupted hit trip to Europe to spend tome of the money he made in the stock market killing. The! weather bureau reports an excess of 261 degrees of temperature tince March 1, 1916. Un fortunately the surplus it not available to "bear" the coal market. Eight hours' debate on the eight-hour law sat isfies the needs of the supreme court. No doubt the justices heard enough of last fall's debate to make up any deficiency. ' Judging by the outcome of the first round of the "leak" Inquiry, the committee members evi dently overlooked the pre-eminence of Tom Law son as a hot-air . broker. ' v ' ' . The quiz directed to Ambassador Gerard im plies that the administration takes the Overseas Newt agency seriously. Quite a compliment to a loyal dispenser of outside gayety. ' Every issue of municipal bonds plasters a mortgage on all the property in the city. That's why the taxpayers usually want their consent - asked before bonds are authorized. To vindicate the summons, our coming grand jury will have to do something to reduce the high cost of living, at least to the extent that its own expenta account adds to the high living cost " Church leaders are getting wise to the fact that modern progress require modern methods of publicity. Standing still spells stagnation. As a publicity agent in the day of newspaper adver tising, the church bell Is a back number. A current magazine article gives Cheyenne a great send-off for maintaining a system of mili tary training in its high school. Because Omaha hat had a high school cadet battalion for about twenty-five years, we have come to take it as a matter of course, as if it were part of the school system everywhere, ; ' The prospective debut of Miss Benson and Miss Florence in metropolitan society will mark the climax of the social season of 1917. Perhaps arrangements can be made to crown both queens of May. While the elder of the two inclines less to gayety, the occasion and the company insures a renewal of youth. 1 In the two and a half years of war Europe has piled up a debt of over $50,000,000,000 for posterity. During the last year forehanded peo ple of the United States invested in $5,000,000,000 of new life insurance. Thus while war mort gages the future indefinitely one of the protec tive arts of peace safeguards its votaries, The Time to Retreat -Mhuteapelis im Webb-Kenyon Act Upheld. J The decision of the United States supreme court upholding the Webb-Kenyon act, as against assaults upon its constitutionality, clears the way for "dry" states to' make their prohibition laws as effective as they may wish. The Webb-Kenyon act, as we understand it. nukes interstate liquor shipments come under the same regulations and penalties as may be pre scribed for shipments within the state, which means that by proper enactment any state can restrict or stop the bringing in of "packages" from outside, at least to the same extent that it can restrict or stop transportation of such articles within its own boundaries. We take it the program for prohibition en forcement legislation in Nebraska will not be par ticularly affected by the definite knowledge that the Webb-Kenyon act holds good because none of the proposals was predicated upon the pos sibility of that taw being set aside as unconstitu tional. The decision may, however, be a factor in the movement for national prohibition as it weakens, if it does not destroy, the force of the argument for national prohibition as necessary to make prohibition effective in "dry" states that want to keep intoxicants out altogether. On the other hand, it is rightly hailed by the prohibi tionists as giving them the moral support of the highest judicial tribunal of the land. Japan Victorious at Washington. While watching the progress of events that are more spectacular, do not overlook the fact that Japan has won a notable victory at Washing ton. The new immigration bill is just now sus pended between' house and senate conferees ovtr the amendments adopted by the senate, one of which is the omission of the Japanese from the list of excluded classes. This is the result of a protest lodged by the Japanese government at the White House. Many months ago Baron Chinda visited the president and strenuously objected to his countrymen being listed with Asiatics, who were to be refused entry to the United States. This visit finds its reflex in the senate amendment and a serious controversy is likely to be re opened. The Hay-Takahira "gentleman's agree ment," while it has been given something of the force of a modus vivendi, exists at the pleasure of Japan alone and leaves the United States without voice at to its termination. It now remains to be seen if the democrats will pass a law containing the literacy test provision, which has thrice brought a veto to the bill, and at the same time keeping the doors open to the Japanese, against whose coming such violent prejudice exists in certain sections of the country. Whisperings begin to come out of Washington that a new about-face on the Mexican policy is imminent. Likely enough. The present policy has just about worn itself out. We took Vera Cruz and in due time evacuated the port without moiiik aKujiiiuiiMicu nyinmg. we sent rershing auct uia, itis or aiive, ana nis expedition is lying uoggo precisely wnere it was when Wash mgton said "Charge, J-idol" It it time to pull out, and arrange our forces on the border where tney Deiong, unless we really meditate interven tion. The difficulty is that Carranza has demnniierl Pershing's withdrawal, and has even gone to the length of refusing to sign the labored protocol drawn by the joint commission, unless withdrawal is ordered unconditionally. Imagine the pro claimings of the first chief, if he is able to tell his follower! that he has forced Washington to yield to his will. The new policy, according to Washington ad vices, involves even greater concessions than that the formal recognition pf the Carranza gov ernment as not only de facto but legitimate, the dispatch to the Mexican capital of Ambassador Fletcher and the official receiving of C'arranza's rtnresentative in Washington. With Villa challenging Carranza'o rule in northern Mexico in so effective a fashion, this would seem to be scarcely the moment for com plete submission to the demands of the first chief and for hit official cxaltatioi ay our diplomacy. What Did Gerard Say to Germany? Fragmentary reports of the speech made by Ambassador Gerard at the Berlin dinner justify the desire of the president that he be furnished with an unexpurgated copy of hit representative'! remarks, that it may be known just how far Mr. Gerard went in committing this country to the German policy. Excerpts published in London distinctly differ from the bits that reached the United States and suggest that the American am bassador got very close to the outer edge of dip lomatic privilege in tome of his utterances. Lon don professes to see t solemn warning to Ger many in tome of the words accredited to Mr. Gerard, while the original, word from Berlin "hailed him as a,. dove of peace. A speech that permits oi tucn wiue range or interpretation must have been most diplomatic in its phrasing and this makes it all the more desirable that the home government be given opportunity to study its sentences, that its exact meaning, if any, be known by those who are most concerned. High Cost of Battle Cruisers. Uncle Sam's Navy department is feeling the pinch that has so indiscriminately touched all citizent. Bidt tubmitted for the construction of battle cruisers authorized by the congress exceed the cost limit fixed by the appropriation and the program may have to be postponed. One com pany bidding on the work offers to make a reduc tion in its figures "in the interest of patrioitsm." and itt example may encourage tome of the others to follow suit, so that the cost will be brought with in the price fixed by congress. The phenomenal advance in the selling price of all material that enters into a ship Is responsible for the situation. It may be doubted If any general reduction is made so long as every shipyard in the United States is booked up to its capacity with orders for a year or more in advance. This situation is affecting building operations generally. One of tbe peculiar effects of the advance in prices on this side of the water is noted in responses to the government's request for tenders on large caliber projectiles for the navy. Hadfields, Ltd., of England, have underbid American firms by $200 apiece on both sixteen and fourteen-inch shells and may get the contract The high cost of steel is based on something beyond patriotism and is likely to come down a little to meet the consumer's ability to pay. The quality of business efficiency in the Post office department supplies its own measure, in the proposed abolition of tube service in the large cities. Tube service is expeditious, but expen sive. Wagon service .makes for economy and loss of time. In some cities truck service be tween stations now connected by tubes means additional congestion of streets and serious de lays. But time is no object, if a few dollars can be saved. This is a good example of saving at the spigot and knocking in the head. Foreign newspaper critics persist in flinging the charge of mercenaries at Americans. Habit and envy encourage the practice. Besides, such fulminations never put the scribes "in had" with the censors. Of course, it is no more true of Americans than of Britishers, Frenchmen or Teutons. Every American who has circulated abroad knows by practical experience that the European reach for the coin has the home-grown reach beaten forty ways. The president of the American Automobile association renews his plea for drastic regulation of pedestrians on city streets. "What right," he exclaims, "has the pedestrian to jeopardize with his own life, the life and the liberty of those op erating vehicles?" That's a live question im properly put. It should be phrased in this form: "Why is a pedestrian?" Life Insurance in 1916 Coeducational squints at the salary or bank account as a preliminary to matrimonial team work supplies conclusive proof of the value of college training. Much of human trouble springs from lack of foresight in spotting the wherewith. Higher education provides the needful" range of vision isuiance Praaa.- For the first time in the history of American life insurance, the new business written in one year has exceeded four billion dollars! Estimators of the insurance yield of 1916, based upon preliminary reports from companies, have figured that the gain in new insurance written will be approximately 25 per cent over the preceding year. The new insurance written in 1915 aggregated $.l,62.i,000,000. To raise this figure to four billion dollars would require an inn-ease of only 10 per cent. Accordingly, the statement may be safely made, in advance of the tabulated official figures, that considerably over four billlion dollars prob ably nearer four and one-half billion dollars of new insurance was purchased last year by the American people, the greatest buyers of life in surance in the world. Inasmuch as the European war has practically confined the operation of American company to American territory, the stupendous increase in insurance written indicates that the per capita purchase of life insurance in 1916 maintained a favorable ratio with the per capita purchase of any other commodity, the greatest buying year in the annals of American business. Any effort to determine the amount of per capita insurance purchased among eligible lives in 1916 would be at best only an approximation, but a seemingly conservative estimate places the amount of new insurance taken by eligible lives last year at $70 per capita. The population of the United States is slightly over 100,000,000. Eliminating from this number all those who are disqualified for insurance by reason of age, impairments or occupation, the residue of eligible lives is arbitrarily estimated to be 65,000,000. Four and one-half billions of dollars of new insurance was distributed among these 65,000,000 eligible lives. Accordingly, the per capita purchase of new insurance in 1916 by every man, woman and child was approximately $70. Likewise for the first time in the history of American life insurance, the total insurance in force hovers closely around the twenty-five bil lion mark I For nearly a decade the gain in outstanding insurance has averaged a billion dollars a year. It has been estimated that the increase in out standing insurance in 1916 may possibly reach two billion dollars, thus bringing the colossal aggre gate to the bewilderingly inconceivable total of nearly twenty-five billion dollars. This represents a per capita insurance on every life in the United States of approximately $230. The per capita insurance of the United States is nearly double that of any other nation in the world. England's latest published figure is $162; Germany's $60; France's, $31; Italy's, $7. ' The total resources of all the' national banks in the United States amounted last week to $15, 520,000,000. Assuming that the resources of the trust companies in the United States aggregated another $1000,000,000, the total resources of all national banks and trust companies in the country is' $25,000,000,000. I Accordingly, it would require the wealth of all the banking interests of the United States, excluding the savings banks, to pay the prospec tive obligations now outstanding under present life insurance contracts I The total assets of American life insurance companies at the close of 1916 was approximately five and one-half billion dollars, sufficient to dis tribute $55 to every individual in the nation. The total payments to policyholders in 1916 Aggregated over six hundred million dollars at the rate of nearly $2,000,000 each working day in the year a golden stream of practical benefi cence to humanity. The year was featured by a widespread devel opment of group insurance, which is no longer regarded as an experiment or a philanthropic fad, but which has won a solid and lasting recog nition among employers as one of the most prac tical measures of industrial welfare. ' , Its appeal to the sentimental as well as to the firactical nature of employers is illustrated by the iberal adoption of the plan as a Christmas gift to employes. From imperfect lists at hand, it is known that over $10,000,000 of group insurance was distributed at Christmas, and if complete data were obtainable, the supposition is reasonable that Santa Claus in 1916 stuffed probably $25, 000,000 of insurance into the stocking of the American workingman. Another evidence of the economic trend of life insurance was the increased sale in 1916 of income-payment forms of insurance. Life in surance companies are assuming the character of fiduciary institutions, and have expanded their function to a broader protection of the interests of dependents. Contrary to popular impression, the income payment plan is not an innovation, for the rec ords of the Presbyterian Ministers' fund show that the first policies isued in the United States were in the nature of an income insurance, pro viding for an annuity to the beneficiary. In colossal aggregates "of accomplishment in production, in development and in public service rendered American life insurance took its tradi tional and accustomed pre-eminence in the great est, the busiest and the most important year in the history of the world, 1916. People and Events Governor Samuel W. McCall of Massachu setts has declared himself in favor of abolishing capital punishment. Probably the oldest city executive in the coun try in point of service is Charles S. Ashley, who has just entered upon his eighteenth consecutive term as mayor of New Bedford. Wong Bock Yue, editor of a Chinese news paper in San Francisco, has been nominated by a referendum vote of the Chinese in America, as a candidate for senator in the parliament of China. Ignacio Bonillas, who has been selected as the next Mexican ambassador to the United States, is an engineer by training and until recently was in charge of the department of communications in the Carranza government. "He was nice to me and gave me all his money, but how is a girl going to love a man who is bald headed?" Mrs. Anna Oskowich shot the question at the court in Chicago. It was her second venture with hairless elders. The judge heard the query, but it wasn't his day on the witness stand. Lord Derby, who has come into prominence as "Britain's boss recruiter," belongs to one of England's oldest families. There have been earls of Derby for more than 500 years, the first of the line being Thomas Stanley, who placed the crown on the head of King Henry VII, bis stepson, at Bosworth field. Arthur Henderson, one of the "big five" en trusted by England with the responsibility for directing the great war, began his career as an assistant in a butcher's shop: at the age of 12. He afterwards became an ironmolder, at which trade he worked steadily until his election to parlia ment in 1903, Most people think of Bonar Law, one of the leading men in the new British war cabinet) as being a Scotsman. - As a matter of fact he is a Canadian, having been born in New Brunswick fifty-eight years ago. While he was still a child, however, hit parents migrated to Glasgow, where he was educated and brought up. Count Albert Apponyi, who is mentioned at likelv to succeed to the leadership of public affairs in Hungary during the present crisis, is one of the most distinguished of the European states men of today. An eloquent orator, with a singu larly striking command of English, he has won the respect of the many Americans who have heard him speak during his visits to the United States. Hniih Hint for the Day. A stiff brush is a great aid in keep ing the akin in good condition, as it kvope the pores open and free and also draws the hlood to the surface, thereby rellevlnu the (Treat vewiels and addlnu nourishment to the skin. The brush should be used night and morning. One Year Aro Today In the War. Herbert Hamuel appointed home secretary In the British cabinet. French artillery destroyed German trenches on heights of the Meuse. Germans by great assault took sev eral hundred yards of French trenches in Champagne. Allies reported alarmed by Austrian victories in Montenegro and Bulgarian advance in Albania. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Miss Mary Alexander, a resident of the Sandwich Islands and daughter of one of the early missionaries of that country, Is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dickey. A burst water pipe In front of Dr. Amelia Burroughs residence on Dodge flooded that thoroughfare as far as Sixteenth and In the ditch near est Leslie & Leslie's drug store there Is three feet of ice and a heavy coat ing of the same upon the walk. George Leslie is looking (or a city official to avert the danger that Is threatened as soon as a thaw sets in. W. L. Helphrey, one of the best known traveling men in the city, has accepted a position with the new firm of Penrose A Hardin. B. A. Houghton, member of the wholesale firm of M. K. Smith & Co., gave a complimentary dinner to the traveling men at his residence, 706 North Nineteenth. Among those pres ent were George M. Tracy, Charles H. O'Brien, Frank H. Daniels, John P. Beall, Charles H. Morris, H. H. Lodor and M. W. Rayley. The residents of Park Vale, a ham let beyond the city in the neighbor hood of Harris & Fisher's packing house, have petitioned to have a post office established at the place. A meeting of the directors of the fair and exposition association was held In Secretary Wheeler's office. Churchill Parker was elected presi dent, Richard Kitchen vice president and Hugh G. Clark secretary. Mrs. Guy C. Barton and family have returned from an extended tour of the Pacific coast This Day In History. 1709 Marshal Ney, who was shot for high treason in joining Napoleon upon his return from Alba, born in Germany. Executed at Parts, Decem ber 7, 1815. 1804 Oakes Ames, builder of the Union Pacific railroad, born at Gaston, Mass. Died there, May 5, 1873. 1810 Jeremiah S. Black, attorney general and secretary of state in Bu chanan's cabinet, born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania. Died at York, Pa., August 19, 1883. 1840 Penny postage was Inaugur ated In England. 1847 The Americans regained Los Angeles from the Mexicans. 1860 More than 100 persons per ished in the collapse of a mill build ing at Lawrence, Mass. 1870 Convention met at Nashville to frame a new constitution for Ten- 1889 Clifton suspension bridge at Niagara Falls destroyed in a wind storm. 1892 Main building of the Univer sity of Missouri, at Columbia, de stroyed by Are. 1893 Princess Marie of Edinburgh and Prince Ferdinand of Houmania were married. 1900 Lord Roberts arrived at Cape Town to take command of British forces operating against the Boera The Day We Celebrate. Frank F. Drexel, manager of the Drexel Shoe company, is Just 42 years old today. He was born and raised In Omaha. Charles F. Harrison of Harrison Morton, Is 69. He was born In Mount Pleasant la, and educated in the Iowa State university. He bas been president of the' Omaha Real Estate excange and active In our local af fairs. L. V. Nicholas, president of the L. V. Nicholas Oil company, is today cele brating his thirty-eighth birthday. He was born in Franklin. Pa., which is In the heart of the oil company and therefore comes by It naturally. Carroll S. Page, United States sena tor from Vermont born at Westfleld, Vt, seventy-four years ago today. Heed Smoot United States senator from Utah, born in Salt Lake City, fifty-five years ago today. Colonel Kdwln F. Glenn, 'command ing the Eighteenth infantry at Doug las, Ariz., born at Greensboro, N. C., sixty years ago today. Dr. David B. Johnson, president of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college of South Carolina and head of the Southern Chautauqua circuit born at La Orange, Tenn., sixty-one years ago today. Dr. K. Benjamin Andrews, chancel lor emeritus of the University o( Ne braska and former president of Brown university, born at Hinsdale, N. H., seventy-three years ago today. Derrill B. Pratt Intielder of the St Louis American league base ball team, born at Walhalla, S. C, twenty-nine years ago today. Timely Joltings and Bcmlndcrs. The full extent of the loss in mem bership by the Royal Arcanum as a result of the Increase in certain classes of its insurance rates Is expected to be made known today, which is the date fixed by the supreme council of the order for totaling the cancellations throughout the country. The Harvard university regiment is to celebrate Its first anniversary with a dinner in Cambridge tonight at which Major General Leonard Wood and other men of prominence are to speak. State legislatures will begin their sessions today In West Virginia and Wisconsin. Edward N. Hurley, who has Just re- signed the chairmanship of of the Fed eral Trade commission, is to addresa the annual banquet of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce tonight on "Some of Our Business Problems." StorveUe of the Day. It was a Pike county woman who Indited a note to the teacher con cerning the punishment of her young hopeful. The note ran thus: "Dear Miss : You rite me about whlppin' Sammy. I hereby give you permission to beat him up any time It is necessary to learn his lesson. He Is Just like his father you have to learn him with a club. Pound nolege Into him. I want him to get It and don't pay no attention what his father says I'll handle him." St Louis Republic. Street Railway Situation. Omaha, Jan. 9. To the Editor of The Bee: Transportation by street railway is one of the great requisites of urban growth and prosperity. The present situation in Omaha demands immediate and careful attention, for it is such as will be a serious drawback if long continued. Under the circum stances no extensions and no import ant Improvements can be expected, although several outlying districts need extensions. Some questions greatly concerning the city's future call for prompt so lution. I suggest that the following questions be discuiised through the newspapers, and also be considered and answered by a committee chosen by the city council and the Commer cial club: 1. Is it advisable for the city to undertake to get possession of the street railway plant in the near future, and, if so, by what method? 2. If the first question should be answered in the negative Is it advis able for the city to plan immediately for ultimate municipal ownership, and order its dealings with the railway company in accordance with such an aim, and If so, what method should be adopted? 3. Is an act of the state legislature or of congress necessary to enable the city to carry out a suitable plan, and if so, in what form? I speak of con gress because this company does an interstate business. 4. If municipal ownership should not be undertaken, what plan Is best to secure proper extensions and good service at reasonable rates? BERIAH F. COCHRAN. SMILING LINES. Why Wilson Won Out. Fremont, , Neb., Jan. 8. To the Editor of, The Bee: In looking over The Bee I find an article by Mr. Ag new who, in terms not to be misun derstood, criticises the people for al lowing a man like Wilson to be elect ed to a second term of presidency. He advises that If It hadn't have been for the "hysterical voting of the women voters of the mountain states and of Kansas Wilson would not have been elected." "Where and how were Wilson's ma jorities secured?" was another ques tion asked. I think that may be an swered without difficulty If you look at the laboring man. Mr. Wilson has done all he possibly could for the poor man and they recognized it by re-electing him. Another expression I did not fancy at all was this: "Even the fraud called the Adamson eight-hour law, etc." Well, now, that fraud came Just In the niche of time to keep the whole United States from being tied up, for that brotherhood meant business with a big "B" and I do not believe the railroad corporations would have come across without they did strike. It would have taken a pretty good man, lots better than Hughes has the credit of being, to keep out of that war, as our president has done. Quoting again: "It is time the old loyal north was aroused as it was in 1861 and insist that the disloyal sec tion of this union shall not control the destinies of our republic by tramp ling under their feet the rights of millions of Its citizens and holding control of the republic by fraud and force." iBn't that a pretty thing for an American to say? Because in this Instance the democratic party won and with the exception of last It has been some time since the republicans have lost a campaign, so don't say there was any crooked or underhanded work going on. I'll tell just exactly why Mr. Wilson was re-elected: It was because the people were not voting in parties as they generally do, but were voting for the man, and that is the main thing we want My father fought in the civil war on the union side and I believe I am as good an American patriot as Mr. Agnew Is, but I would not try to pub lish any near-slander, as that last paragraph looked to me. No, Mr. Agnew, don't take this election too much to heart, for there will be an other one in four yeans and you may get to remove Wilson and put in a bet ter man. C. M. BREAZEALE. A Volunteered Testimonial. Lincoln, Jan. 9. To the Editor of The Bee: As one of the state exam iners from 1901 to 1914 It was my duty to periodically check the ac counts of the treasurers of Dougia county, and while thus engaged be came familiar with the auditing sys tem as introduced by Mr, Frank Dewey, your county clerk. It is a very comprehensive and efficient sys tem, one which not only safeguards the Interests of the taxpayer but lightens the work of the examiner. I am writing this to the public of Omaha because I understand that a recount has been asked on this office, having for its objective the removal of Mr. Dewey from office. Should the movement be successful, It would re move from office a tried and experi enced official and one who has proven his value to the county. E. J. ROBINSON. Standard Drug and j si l it at--jf-i- . ! nousenoia iveeaiuii ai I the Lowest of Cut Prices Satisfaction in quality satisfaction in price II around satisfaction that's what yon fret at the Rexall Drag Starts, Buying for four progres sive stores means quantity, hence price concessions from manufaetur rt, which we pass on to our patrons. Kver ehangit.fr stocks assort the freshest of drug's and snndrits. Sherman & McConnell flnifr flnmnanv I " r ' I I , Four Good Druf Storea. I eaaeeaae mmmm eaaaaasa) a enaaeea aa Wantads for Best Results "Ho you think holding; whisky In the mouth will stop the toothache? "Dunno. However, it's an excellent rem edy to ry You can swallow the whisky ftven If 'i. doean't stop your toothache." bouisTvlue Courier-Journal. Flatbuah So the ion's through college? Banaonhurnt Oh, yrs. "Wll, do you think the money you spent on hlit education was well Invested 7" "Oh, my, yes. You ought to see him chop wood." Yonkars Hut nam an. Man f rasing at the fashions in the win dows) Are thoee bathing suits, my dear? Woman Dar no, do yon think any one would go bathing clothed like that! They're evening gowns. PHIcan. "t see that Twlokham bas become a real estate dealer and broker." "I don't know about tbe real estate end of It; but the rest of It Is true. He deals poker hands all night and is broke ail day." Puck. DEAR. MR. kAB-bttUs, I AM EHAQb to A VoUftr MAN AQ MINT?a - &H0UI& X THE MARRIAGE. T.U. no- he mu kwow BETtst "Do you know that our - bookkeeper is short in his accounts?" "Tea, a few hundred bones. Consequently he works every night and never wants a vacation. Let him alone. We're ahead of the game." Pittsburgh Post. "Shall I teach you to make doughnuts? asked grandma. "Yea, I am terribly interested. I can't understand how you arrange the inner tubes," Lonisvtlle Conrier-JournaL She lm sorry yon aeked me to marry you. It pains me to refuse. He (cheerfully) Oh, well, don't worry. Perhaps you know best what I'm escap ing. Boston Transcript. Since your uncle left you that ltgacy, Urs. Caaey, you must find your life much easier." "Shore, I dunno, ma'am. I found that the more ye have to ate, the more dlsboa there are to wash. Louisville Courtar Journal. '1 hear Miss Gladys Is doeidedly pro-Ally. "I should say she la. She went so far ss to take French leave at the bail when they started to dance the gerroan." Judge. I DONT CARE. I troit Free Press. Ma says I got a dirty neck, I don't care. Says my clothing is a wreck, I don't cars. I don't holler till I'm hurt. An1 my neck don't feel the dirt. What If I have torn my shirt? I don't care. Ua says I've got dirty ears I don't care. Till with them she rater fares, I don't care. Girls can primp an make a fuss. Dirt Is good for boys tike us. Give us clothes that we can muai I don't care. But when ma gets after me, Then I care. Gets me in between each knee. Then I care. When she scrubs my cellarband. 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